past workshops at the hundred club 🚀️
past workshops at the hundred club 🚀️
The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues. Free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.
The club was initiated by Ruth Beale and is produced by TACO!
A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay and get involved.
The club was initiated by Ruth Beale and is produced by TACO!
A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay and get involved.
Register your free place here.
Over the last 4 years, The Hundred Club has worked with amazing artists and creative practioners, including:
Alex Tuckwood, Benedite Wanya, Caleb Watson Rensch, Chloe Cooper, Curtis Donovan, Debo Adegoke, Dominika Kieruzel, Emily Rees-Haynes, Gail Egbeson, Hadi Bastani, Holly Graham, Jenny Pengilly, Liam Bratchford, Liina Lember, Lisa Cheung, Lorelle Aboagye, Lorelle Aboegye, MUF architecture/art,Mary Martins, Nathalie Coste, Nina Scott, Queer as Funghi, RESOLVE Collective, Randy Amoakohene, Ruth Beale, Sadie St Hilaire, Shortwave Collective, Sian Newlove-Drew, Stuti Bansal, Tommy Brentnall, Walter Stabb, Winnie Hall, Zareen Islam
Check out our ever-growing archive below, or visit our
Projects and Artworks page.
Alex Tuckwood, Benedite Wanya, Caleb Watson Rensch, Chloe Cooper, Curtis Donovan, Debo Adegoke, Dominika Kieruzel, Emily Rees-Haynes, Gail Egbeson, Hadi Bastani, Holly Graham, Jenny Pengilly, Liam Bratchford, Liina Lember, Lisa Cheung, Lorelle Aboagye, Lorelle Aboegye, MUF architecture/art,Mary Martins, Nathalie Coste, Nina Scott, Queer as Funghi, RESOLVE Collective, Randy Amoakohene, Ruth Beale, Sadie St Hilaire, Shortwave Collective, Sian Newlove-Drew, Stuti Bansal, Tommy Brentnall, Walter Stabb, Winnie Hall, Zareen Islam
Check out our ever-growing archive below, or visit our
Projects and Artworks page.
Thamesmead Illuminations
April 2025
TACO!, Cygnet Square
The Hundred Club and artist Siân Newlove-Drew collaborated on for an afternoon of constructing, layering, printing and illuminating. Thinking about the way we move around Thamesmead change how you feel about your surroundings. We looked at Siân‘s exhibition at TACO!, before members added their own sculptures to the space for a pop-up exhibition. Session made possible by Celebrating Bexley.
Finding Wonder in the Corner Shop
April 2025
TACO! Print Studio The club and Winnie Hall, supported by Chloe Cooper, spent the afternoon drawing, risograph printing and collaging our own Hundred Club corner shop, while talking about small business and community!
Design your own country's textile!April 2025
TACO! Print StudioThe club spent the morning with Lorelle Aboagye, supported by Chloe Cooper, imagining what a newly formed country might look like, and how it might be run. Flag-making, symbolism, coats of arms - explored through collage and materials experimentation. This session was produced by Caleb Watson Rensch, The Hundred Club’s Young Producer.
Community, Connection, Collage!
February 2025
TACO! Print Studio The club and artist Sadie St Hilaire, supported by Tommy Brentnall spent the morning exploring how and where we connect as communities. Using a risograph printer, collage and material experimentation, they dre inspiration for their our own dream ‘third spaces’, public living rooms, libraries and community spaces. As well as models of community spaces, the club made a collaboative sheet of stickers with their needs for these spaces.
WAAAH in a day!TACO! Print Studio The club designs and prints their own giant collaborative newspaper in a session at these quarterly workshops. Faciliated by Ruth Beale and Tommy Brentnall, recent guests include Sadie St Hilaire and Chloe Cooper.
Breaking News - Top TrumpsJan 2025
TACO! Print StudioThe club collaborated with Chloe Cooper, supported by Tommy Brentnall to make a set of top trump cards inspired by the goodies and baddies in the news thatweek. The club drew, collaged and scored their designs before duplicating them on a risograph printer, taking their own set home. The club named their pack Tip Top Upside Down Trump Cards, and also debated how the proceeds of selling the packs should be spent - with the vote split on ‘to the club’ and ‘to the kids’.
RiskyPlay and BelongingMay 2024
TACO! Cygnet Square
"You’re on the edge of a ravine filled with lava. You need to jump across. What are you thinking?”The club joined artist Ruth Beale, supported by Dominika Kieruzel, to think about unstructured play and taking risks - from wobbly logs to swinging high - and how simple objects and structures can enable play. We created new games, and draw fantastical play structures, inspired by Ruth’s publication Drawing Risky Play, made with children at a democratic school and an adventure playground.
We also used the book Belonging by Jeannie Baker - a picture book for all ages about urban greening - thinking about our own neighbourhoods and who and what they are for.
Audio Playscapes
March 2024
Moorings Sociable Club, and Bathway Theatre, Woolwich.
5-12 year olds and their families joined Walter Stabb and Hadi Bastani from University of Greenwich, to explore the playscapes of Thamesmead through sound and moving images. In a second session, we visited a 360 immersive space in Woolwich to experience and play with our sound and visuals.
The Right to Leisure, Play and Culture
February 2024
Moorings Sociable Club A family workshop exploring the rights of children to leisure, play and culture in relation to the current situation in Gaza, where many children are affected. The club looked at at Palestinian embroidery, and worked with collage, pattern and print, using craft as a starting point for our own play.
We discussed, how do we play? What rights do we sometimes take for granted? How are children's rights affected in times of conflict? Why are leisure, play and culture so important? How can we express our empathy and support for the things we care about?
The session was facilitated by playworker Zareen Islam and artist Ruth Beale. This family centred session was an inclusive, safe space for creativity and to express feelings about how current events are affecting the rights of children. The workshop considered how we might feel about the news, conflict in Gaza and resulting protests, with families given the opportunity to discuss these issues in an age-appropriate way.
Fabulous FunghiNovember 2023
Moorings Sociable ClubThe club joined theatre maker and mushroom enthusiast Nina Scott, and costume designer Emily Rees-Haynes in a creative exploration of all things fungi: mushrooms, moulds and mycelium! We asked ourselves what fungi can teach us about what is ‘natural’ and what is ‘normal’, and spent the morning making costumes, playing games & thinking about issues of identity, gender and equality.
The Hundred Club Afterschool
2023-2024
Moorings Sociable Club
An afterschool club funded by the London Community Foundation. Artists collaborated with children on ongoing projects - from printing to sculpture, from making banners to making zines. The children experiment and play through art, discussion and games, using these as inspiration to imagine a more fair, just and
equal society. The afterschool club was facilitated and developed by Ruth Beale and Dominika Kieruzel in 2023, and by Natasha Bird and Dominika Kieruzel in 2024. The afterschool is currently on hiatus.
