Workshops
We intend to have classes in the mornings from 11am – 12pm and workshops in the afternoon on weekdays from 1pm – 5pm. The workshop space is curtained off from our café space, which remains open when workshops take place.
FULL WORKSHOP SPACE
Upcoming Workshops
Life Drawing Class by ‘North London Life Drawing’ – EVERY WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY – 11am – 1pm
Join us for a life drawing class every Wednesday and Saturday. Board, paper and chalk is provided, and there will be a new model every week, with Wednesdays featuring long poses. Beginners are welcome as well as experienced artists. If you don’t know much or anything about drawing, come along. This is a relaxed place to try. Professional artist Piero Pierini will be present. From Argentina, Piero studied art at the University of Buenos Aires, (BA hon in Fine Art and Drawing). He has been working as a professional illustrator in UK for the last seventeen years as well as being involved in working with different art charity projects. Piero is passionate about helping individuals to find they way of expressing their own artistic ‘voice’. He has a rather strong sense of humour and an easy way of being.
Entry: £15 at the door
Swing Dance Taster Class With Lesta Woo – EVERY THURSDAY – 6.30pm – 7.15pm
Lesta Woo brings her fun and friendly swing dance taster class to Jamboree, taking place before The Cable Street Rag Band play their weekly Thursday set. This is a drop in open level class and no prior experience is required. It is an inclusive class, and everyone is welcome! No pre-booking is required – just turn up, put £5 in the hat, and have a go! With 15+ years on the swing scene, dancing, teaching, performing and competing, and a lifetime love of dance, Lesta Woo will be sharing a unique blend of both her lived and professional dance experience. The class will be a combination of partnered and solo, with a distinct flavour of swing sprinkled with a little dancehall, hip-hop, and a hell of a lot of groove. Then, if you wish, you can have a boogie and try out your new moves when the band play!
Entry: £5 at the door
Life Drawing / Body Love Sketch Club – MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 – 7pm – 10pm
Body Love Sketch Club is a life drawing class with a twist, in which you can choose to pose as well as draw, whilst we explore ways of accepting ourselves more unconditionally, and expressing ourselves more freely. The workshops are an artistic adventure in body positivity and creative empowerment, a joyful and tender tonic to feeling disconnected from each other and ourselves, a celebration of bodies in all their (optionally naked) glory, and a place for creative play without shame or judgment. All bodies, artistic capabilities and confidence levels welcome.
Entry: £15. Find advance tickets HERE
The Cigar Box Social / Guitar-Making Workshop – FRIDAY DECEMBER 6TH – 4pm – 6pm
Guitar maestro Howlin’ Mat brings his Cigar Box Guitar workshop to Jamboree! Come along and build your own electric Cigar Box Guitar under his expert tutelage. No prior skill is required, and all materials and tools are provided. The Cigar Box Social is the brainchild of blues guitar maestro Howlin’ Mat. A nomadic solo blues artist, Mat has played everywhere from The Sahara to the North Pole, receiving credits from legendary artists such as John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and Mud Morganfield (son of Muddy Waters). Having been introduced to the Cigar Box Guitar very early on in his playing career, he fell in love instantly, and it wasn’t long before he started to make his own cigar box guitars. Coming from a teaching background, this naturally led to the occasional workshop. In 2023, the Cigar Box Social was born with the intention of introducing these amazing instruments to the wider population. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength. In this workshop you will learn about the origins of the Cigar Box Guitar, build your own electric CBG, and receive a demonstration of how to make a slide from an old wine bottle.
Entry: £36. Find advance tickets HERE!
