Samra Mayanja’s CALL CENTRE is a monthly performance programme dedicated to the unspeakable (the voice). It is for those of us who freeze in crisis and a gentle reminder to get unstuck.

Newington Green Meeting House has partnered with Live Art Development Agency to present this special edition of THE CALL CENTRE, inviting Samra to step out of her 21 seater studio and join the long-line of dissenting voices that have spoken out in the chapel at Newington Green Meeting House.

Curated and hosted by Samra Mayanja, THE CALL CENTRE has become a monthly must-see in London’s Live Art calendar. Initiated in and usually taking place in her studio, Samra has created a framework not only about, but in service to, that difficult task that we engage with every day, which is to speak. To say ourselves and to speak ourselves, and to make the decision with every word and every breath not to hide.

For each CALL CENTRE, Samra invites cross-disciplinary artists and writers to share live work with and alongside her. This framework comes from her impulse to contextualise her own work through the artists whose work she loves.

Joining her will be guest artist Riot who will present ‘the impossible big’.

This event is part of a programme curated by independent producer Nikki Tomlinson and New Unity’s General Manager Nick Toner, supported by The Grand Camp Maisie Fund. This fund was created by the will of the late LGBTQIA+ leading gay rights campaigner activist and journalist Andrew Lumsden.

Image: Samra Mayanja in conversation with Riot, THE CALL CENTRE (2026), photo Jemima Yong

Commissioned by the Museum of London and launched in 2003, Graeme Miller’s LINKED is a radio installation installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London. It broadcasts the stories and voices of people affected by the creation of the M11 Link Rd in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 buildings amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Now fully technically restored, LINKED is an audio trail which can be walked or wheeled. To hear the work, pick up a radio receiver & map on one of our open days hosted in local libraries.

Wanstead LIbrary
Spratt Hall Rd,
London
E11 2RQ

The full route is 3 miles long and can take several hours to complete. We can offer guidance on shorter routes and recommend having one hour minimun to spare to experience the work.
Toilets and refreshments are available en route.

Recommended age: 12+

FREE
Book in advance here or feel welcome to drop in on the day
Please come to the library any time between 11am and 4pm

More about LINKED here

Commissioned by the Museum of London and launched in 2003, Graeme Miller’s LINKED is a radio installation installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London. It broadcasts the stories and voices of people affected by the creation of the M11 Link Rd in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 buildings amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Now fully technically restored, LINKED is an audio trail which can be walked or wheeled. To hear the work, pick up a radio receiver & map on one of our open days hosted in local libraries.

Leytonstone LIbrary
Church Rd
London
E11 1HG

The full route is 3 miles long and can take several hours to complete. We can offer guidance on shorter routes and recommend having one hour minimun to spare to experience the work.
Toilets and refreshments are available en route.

Recommended age: 8+

FREE, no advance booking
Please come to the library any time between 11am and 4pm

More about LINKED here

Join artist Stacy Makishi for a performance experiment that is part ritual, part workshop, part story and part party.

With generous scoops of her characteristic aloha, Stacy will share intimate stories that will move us into our hearts, that move into sacred rituals, that move into stupid games, that move into reclaiming our true selves, that move into some very awkward, uncool, “moves” known to some as dancing.

Together we investigate what happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears. This event welcomes you just as you are - and to take part as much or as little as you like, and to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as you wish.

Presented by Home Live Art as part of their Giddy Up programme 2025.

The Stables Theatre, Hastings
Saturday 7 June
2pm - 4pm
£14 - £17
Age: 16+
Book here

Creative Encounters at the Southbank Centre is a creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for live performance, making and conversation.

With generous scoops of her characteristic aloha, Stacy Makishi leads this edition with stories, games and playful exercises from her participatory project Walking Each Other Home. She shares stories from her (long) life to help you find connection to your own story, lead you through ritual-making to open your heart and finally help you to reclaim your true self through stupid games with top-quality* prizes.

Together we investigate what happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears. This event welcomes you just as you are – especially the imperfect, messy, awkward, shy, ‘not good enough’ parts of you. You are welcome to take part as much or as little as you like, and to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as you wish. It’s all allowed!

Southbank Centre, London
Clore Ballroom (in Festival Hall)
5.30pm - 8.30pm
FREE, no booking
Age: 12+

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest. Launched in 2003, LINKED was originally commissioned by Museum of London and produced by Artsadmin.

LINKED has endured as perhaps the largest sonic installation and sculptural entity in London for 20 years. Since 2003 its transmitters have broadcast over a million times the voices of people who lived or worked in the area impacted by the road.

Along a 3-mile route between Hackney Marshes and Redbridge Roundabout, 20 analogue radio transmitters can be heard by anyone with a special receiver, revealing 60+ voices of people who once lived and worked in the area – resident families, road protestors, railway-workers, teachers, disco-goers, and artists from the substantial community living in houses destroyed by the road including several who are better known now – Cornelia Parker, John Smith, Jocelyn Pook, Gary Stevens, Christine Binnie. Together the assembly of voices evokes a cross-section of ordinary East London life.

FREE. No booking.
Pick-up point for radio receiver, headphones and map:
Leytonstone Library, 6 Church Lane, London E11 1HG
Pick-up available any time between 11am and 4pm

The full sound walk can take several hours to complete. You are more than welcome to listen to it in parts, and to return to it at your leisure. Headsets and receivers can be returned by freepost after doing the walk. Age recommendation 8+

CREDITS
The making of LINKED was generously supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, London Boroughs Grants Committee part of the Association of London Government, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The restoration of LINKED (2022 – 2024) is supported by Arts Council England.

With thanks to all the many interviewees, production teams and friends involved in developing LINKED.
Researchers who developed the interview content for LINKED (2003): Lucy Cash, Myra Heller, Dan Saul, Michael Sherin, Helen Statman.

Production (2023/24): Steve Wald, Mike Harrison, Lydia Newman, Nikki Tomlinson, Lou Doyle, Dan Saul
Images: Graeme Miller

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest. Launched in 2003, LINKED was originally commissioned by Museum of London and produced by Artsadmin.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest. Launched in 2003, LINKED was originally commissioned by Museum of London and produced by Artsadmin.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Graeme Miller’s LINKED is an artistic response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in East London in the 90s which involved the demolition of 400 homes, including Miller’s own, amid dramatic and passionate protest.

Florence Peake presents a durational version of FACTUAL ACTUAL as part of her major solo show across Southwark Park Galleries, London. All further information here

Florence Peake presents a durational version of FACTUAL ACTUAL as part of her major solo show across Southwark Park Galleries, London. All further information here

Florence Peake presents a durational version of FACTUAL ACTUAL as part of her major solo show across Southwark Park Galleries, London. All further information here

Florence Peake presents a durational version of FACTUAL ACTUAL as part of her major solo show across Southwark Park Galleries, London. All further information here