Kickstarter for 2017 MyLondon calendar is launched!
We are again raising money through a Kickstarter campaign to help us print the calendar: The printing bill this year is £12,000 and we need to pay 1/3 up front in October. We got off to a great start:...
View Article941 entries + 34 countries = 1 Amadeus!
‘Sleeping Rough’ (aka Affordable Social Housing 2015) by Amadeus shortlisted in this year’s prestigious Art Gemini Prize. Our heartfelt congratulations to Amadeus Xavier, a winning photographer from...
View ArticleMyLondon 2017 calendar: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Read all about it …..
Here are just some of the many online blogs on the Cafe Art MyLondon 2017 calendar. Thank you so much for the support everyone. Cafe Art is a very tiny organisation with no dedicated marketing or PR...
View ArticleWhat’s the ONE event you need to go to in 2016?
Opening day of the ONE Festival. What else, but the ONE Festival! Held at the Diorama Arts Studios located at 201 Drummond Street, NW1 (just a short stroll from either Euston or Warren Street tube),...
View ArticleCafe Art welcomes 42beans …..!
Dave (Head Barista) in front of some of the art drawn by artists from Arlington One Housing. There’s a great crowd of tourists and they’re coming down the street Pleased as punch with brand new Doctor...
View ArticleRaw beauty in Budapest
The most striking difference between the MyBudapest exhibition, which opened last night, and MyLondon, is the content: the photographers show their lives in a personal way. One hundred one-time-use...
View ArticleHow is the Cafe Art MyLondon money spent?
Goska and Mo checking out the new cameras donated by FujiFilm for the mentoring group. After paying the contest winners and production costs, calendar money goes towards expanding the project to...
View ArticleWhat calendar buyers really thought…
We asked hundreds of calendar buyers to give us feedback on the 2016 calendar. A few months ago we did a survey of the 2016 MyLondon calendar buyers. As we approach the final four days of the current...
View ArticleWhat do you call artists who can also brew a mean cup of coffee at the same...
Our top team of bartistas – James Gray, ROL and Frances Whitehouse. Bartistas, of course! (Barista + artist). The Christie’s Staff Summer Exhibition is back in town, and we were really humbled to be...
View ArticleBe arty or be square ….
ROL with Allison Scott, of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, in front of his award-winning photo of Mr Bond. So says Square Mile Coffee Roasters! The award winning coffee roasters based in East London...
View ArticleCafe Art Australia – MySydney Photography Competition!
Michael Allwright and Ruth Goodwin of Cafe Art Australia! [this article is from www.cafeartaustralia.com] Sydney is a rich, vibrant, bubbling city which we all live, work and explore in every single...
View ArticleHomeless arts market to open on World Homeless Day
More than 20 artists will be selling their paintings in Spitalfields Arts Market between Monday 10 October and Sunday 16 October. From Monday 10 October, World Homeless Day, for seven days, the entire...
View ArticleA visitor from Auckland
A visitor from New Zealand. From left to right: Paul Ryan, Cafe Art, Sarah Caldwell-Watson, Clare Caldwell and Ray of Light, Cafe Art. Cafe Art had a special visitor today when we met Clare Caldwell...
View ArticleAnd the Outstanding Individual Learner Award goes to ….
Geraldine presented with some flowers from Cafe Art for her amazing achievement! …. Geraldine Crimmins! The Festival of Learning is a national celebration of lifelong learning. Special awards are...
View ArticleJoining the dots …
Dotdot (with Saffron) helping to join the dots with happy calendar buyers at our Spitalfields stall this week. That’s what we try to do here at Cafe Art. Connecting the positivity of homelessness with...
View ArticleChris Cheesman, Journalist
Chris Cheesman (right) helped Cafe Art by volunteering for the judging panel in 2015 and 2016. His articles as News Editor for Amateur Photographer magazine were widely read and helped the project gain...
View ArticleThe meeting of heARTS @ Ezo Bistro
Philip, Farah, James and Ina (L-R) with James’s wonderful painting (Three Trees) in the middle. Painted by one heart, bought by another ….. When Farrah popped into her local cafe at Barking station –...
View ArticleFrom Bethnal Green with Love
Erica Porter meeting ROL - the photographer behind the winning cover shot for the 2016 calendar. Despite replacing the bar-tender with a barista, and a martini (shaken and not stirred, of course!) with...
View ArticleRetrospective exhibition opens
The largest exhibition of Cafe Art's MyLondon photographs, from 2013-2016, opened in King's College London (KCL) last night when a group of photographers from the project were hosted by students from...
View ArticleHi-Yo, Silver! Away!
A very happy Maria with an even happier John .....! He may not draw a gun as fast as the Lone Ranger, but John Sheehy can easily beat the Ranger hands down if it's with a paint brush. John is a...
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