Pelican House is a countercultural space for worker organising, movement building and experimental arts in London.

Pelican House is a social centre for worker organising, movement building, experimental arts & culture.

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Wednesday 12 March

5:00pm – 11:00pm

Event Space

Tower Hamlets Community Iftar

Socials & Meals

ANNOUNCEMENT

Friday 25 April

We’re excited to announce our Spring Party on April 25th, featuring a very special guest – one of London’s leading club selectors par excellence – so be sure to save the date!

Friday 28 March

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Event Space

Feminist Fightback Film Club: I Am Not A Witch

Films & Performances

Feminist Fightback

Saturday 5 April

Various

From Resistance to Rebellion: South Asian Internationalism Then & Now

Trainings & Workshops

Tuesday 18 March

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pelican House

Tower Hamlets London Renters Union – March Renters’ Rights Training

Rights & Advice

London Renters Union

Mailing List

Thursday 20 March

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Events Space

Boycott Indonesia for a Free West Papua Campaign launch

Talks & Debates

Sunday 4 May

12:00pm – 12:00pm

Community Organising Support in Tower Hamlets

Rights & Advice

Tower Hamlets CVS

Every Saturday 2024

3:00pm – 5:30pm

TRANS LEGAL CLINIC RESIDENCY

Rights & Advice

Trans Legal Clinic

Past events

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Friday 14 March

4:00pm – 5:30pm

The Event Space

Unlearning Architecture: Weaving Knowledge from Colombia to the UK

Talks & Debates

Tuesday 11 March

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

FDWA Karaoke Night

Fundraisers & Parties

Friday 14 March

6:30pm – 11:00pm

Event Space

Notes from Below Issue 23: Infrastructure – Launch Party!

Talks & Debates

Notes From Below

Thursday 19 December 2024

10:30am – 1:30pm

Events Space

Migrants Rights Network Community Coffee Mornings

Socials & Meals

Migrant Rights Network

Friday 21 February

Event Space

14 July: Prison Resistance & the Kurdish Freedom Struggle

Films & Performances

Sunday 9 March

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Event Space

Identity Unbound: An International Women’s Day Celebration with SEEAWA

Talks & Debates

Wednesday 19 February

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Event Space

WINTER YOUTH FUN DAY

Socials & Meals

Bancroft Tenant Management Co-operative

Sunday 16 February

3:00pm – 11:00pm

Event Space

IWGB FUNDRAISER PARTY

Fundraisers & Parties

Thursday 6 February

6:00pm – 10:00pm

The Event Space

We Are Seeds fundraiser

Fundraisers & Parties

Our Diaspora Futures

Friday 7 February

7:00pm – 11:00am

Event Space

Fundraiser: Fight Casualisation at SOAS!

Fundraisers & Parties

SOAS Tutors 4 Change

Friday 24 January

7:00pm – 11:00pm

The Events Space

BURNS NIGHT CÈILIDH – STRIKE SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISER!

Fundraisers & Parties

Notes from Below

Sunday 19 January

12:00pm – 6:00pm

The Event Space

HAYMARKET LONDON RADICAL BOOK FAIR

Festivals & ConferencesTalks & Debates

Haymarket Books

Friday 17 January

7:00pm – 9:00pm

The Common Room

Rhythms of Resistance: Workshop Protest Rhythms and Chants

Films & PerformancesTrainings & Workshops

Dyarr Collective

Saturday 14 December 2024

11:00am – 6:00pm

Events Space Workshop

Placard Workshop

Trainings & Workshops

Tuesday 26 November 2024

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Events Space

What Work is Not

Talks & Debates

Future Narratives Lab

Friday 13 December 2024

7:00pm – 4:00am

Pelican House

The Pelican House Christmas Party!

Fundraisers & Parties

Wednesday 4 December 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

Party Time? New Popular Fronts

Talks & Debates

Monday 25 November 2024

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

Karaoke Fundraiser for Reina’s Visa!

Fundraisers & Parties

Sunday 10 November 2024

6:00pm – 10:00pm

Book Launch: A World Without Racism – Building Antiracist Futures

Talks & Debates

Thursday 5 December 2024

10:30am – 1:30pm

Events Space

Migrants Rights Network Community Coffee Mornings

Socials & Meals

Migrant Rights Network

Tuesday 19 November 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Event Space

Party Time? The Workers’ Party of Belgium

Talks & Debates

Monday 4 November 2024

6:15pm – 7:15pm

Events Space

PELICAN FITNESS CLUB: VINYASA YOGA

Wellbeing

Aparigraha & Underdog Red Gym

Friday 4 October 2024

5:00pm – 10:00pm

Events Space, Yard, Workshop

October Community Meal

Socials & Meals

Thursday 23 May 2024

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Events Space

Mixing Pop and Politics: Music and Marxism with Toby Manning

Talks & Debates

Sunday 28 April 2024

3:00pm – 10:00pm

Events Space

IWGB Fundraiser: Kasai Masa

Fundraisers & Parties

Independent Workers Union of Great Britain

Friday 8 December 2023

6:00pm – 3:00am

Events Space

Pelican House Xmas Party

Fundraisers & Parties

Friday 24 May 2024

10:00am – 5:00pm

Events Space

Tech Transformed

Festivals & Conferences

The World Transformed

Friday 19 July 2024

7:00pm – 3:00am

Events Space

Fidida: Pelican House Summer Party!

Fundraisers & Parties

Saturday 22 June 2024

10:00am – 11:45pm

Events Space

Games Transformed 2024

Festivals & Conferences

The World Transformed

Thursday 17 October 2024

6:30pm – 9:30pm

Events Space

Pluto Press Book Launch: Border Abolition Now

Talks & Debates

Wednesday 16 October 2024

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Events Space

Launch Event: The Shape of Safety

Talks & Debates

NSUN, Act Build Change

Wednesday 17 July 2024

7:00pm – 10:30pm

Events Space

Free Party – A Folk History!

Films & Performances

Tuesday 12 November 2024

9:30am – 5:30pm

Events Space

3 day Training for Social Movements and Change-makers

Trainings & Workshops

Movement Ecology Collective

Thursday 7 November 2024

5:00pm – 9:00pm

Events Space

For Sama: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Films & Performances

Action For Sama

Tuesday 5 November 2024

6:00pm – 10:00pm

Events Space

Notes From Below Issue 22 Launch: Worker Centres

Talks & Debates

Notes from Below

Wednesday 23 October 2024

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Events Space

Sarah Jaffe Book Launch

Talks & Debates

Friday 23 August 2024

7:00pm – 4:00am

Events Space

Unit 38’s Summer Party

Fundraisers & Parties

Friday 13 September 2024

7:00pm – 4:00am

Events Space

AUTUMN EQUINOX PARTY

Fundraisers & Parties

Thursday 24 October 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

Party Time? What Next?

Talks & Debates

Pelican House Social Centre

Thursday 10 October 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

Party Time? What is to be Done?

Talks & Debates

Pelican House Social Centre

Thursday 26 September 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

Party Time? What’s Left?

Talks & Debates

Pelican House Social Centre

Wednesday 1 May 2024

6:00pm – 12:00am

Events Space

MAYDAY AT PELICAN HOUSE

Fundraisers & Parties

Friday 4 October 2024

9:00pm – 4:00am

Events Space

BISBASS – AUTUMN PARTY

Fundraisers & Parties

Saturday 13 July 2024

10:00am – 8:00pm

Friends House, Euston

FESTIVAL OF COLLECTIVE LIBERATION!

Festivals & Conferences

Black Lives Matter UK

Sunday 23 June 2024

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Events Space

FEMINISE POLITICS NOW! SUMMER GATHERING

Festivals & Conferences

Feminise Politics Now!

Wednesday 21 February 2024

6:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

BOOK LAUNCH – RESISTING BORDERS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE

Talks & Debates

Haymarket Books

Friday 5 April 2024

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

STRIKE FUNDRAISER FOR MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS

Fundraisers & Parties

UNISON Young Members

Thursday 28 March 2024

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Common Room

GRAN PIE PODRIDO

Talks & Debates

Guillermo Canek García

Monday 23 September 2024

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Online

MIGRANTS IN CULTURE SUNDAY SCHOOL: AUTUMN TALKS

Talks & Debates

Migrants in Culture

Friday 26 April 2024

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Events Space

MEDACT LAUNCH EVENT: CRIMINALISING DISTRESS

Talks & Debates

Friday 2 August 2024

8:00pm – 12:00am

Events Space

AUTONOMY’S 7th BIRTHDAY

Fundraisers & Parties

Thursday 22 August 2024

6:00pm – 10:00pm

Events Space

NOTES FROM BELOW: ISSUE 21 LAUNCH

Talks & Debates

Notes From Below

Friday 3 November 2023

6:00pm – 4:00am

Events Space

BONFIRE NIGHT

Fundraisers & Parties

Thursday 14 March 2024

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Events Space

THE RENTIER CITY BOOK LAUNCH

Talks & Debates

Friday 29 March 2024

7:00pm – 4:00am

Events Space

SPRING PARTY

Fundraisers & Parties

Sunday 31 March 2024

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

COMMUNITY IFTARS

Socials & Meals

Tuesday 29 October 2024

7:30pm – 8:30pm

PELICAN FITNESS CLUB: MUAY THAI

Wellbeing

Underdog Sports Club

Monday 4 December 2023

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Common Room

DREAMING MOVEMENTS: NADA ACUPUNCTURE

Wellbeing

Little Prick Acupuncture

Friday 15 December 2023

7:00pm – 10:30pm

Events Space

WHEREVER LIFE WAS NOT: BRECHT SONGS

Films & Performances

The Commission for New and Old Art

Tuesday 5 December 2023

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Events Space

LEFT BOOK CLUB: W/ DAN EVANS & GARGI BHATTACHARYYA

Talks & Debates

Thursday 2 November 2023

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Common Room

HOUSING CO-OPS: HOW TO FINANCE

Trainings & Workshops

Friday 18 August 2023

5:00pm – 3:00am

UNIT 38’s SUMMER PARTY

Fundraisers & Parties

Sunday 11 June 2023

1:00pm – 9:00am

Events Space

SUMMER FETE

Festivals & Conferences

Saturday 13 May 2023

6:00am – 3:00am

Events Space

A SALUTE TO WEATHERALL

Fundraisers & Parties

Wednesday 1 February 2023

5:00pm – 12:00am

Events Space

S.T.R.I.K.E NITE

Fundraisers & Parties

Residents

Created by and for the movement, we are a cooperative run by the organisations in the building, including: