SAT 18TH MARCH
Our Pre-MOTHER’s Day feast will be THAI-STYLE FRIED CHICKEN!
Fried crispy SEXINESS accompanied with sticky rice, coconut kari sauce, and sweet chilli pickle.
The ultimate form of MOTHER’s love 💗 💗💗
Veg/vegan/GF options available obvs!
SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER
10am - 3pm
We will be celebrating DIWALI this year with food, fun, workshops and a fair showcasing works by South Asian Artists and Makers in our lovely courtyard!
We welcome back an amazing bunch of makers of East Asian descent alongside CLASSIC zongzi dumplings, stuffed with meat, peanuts, chestnuts, sticky rice and FLAVOUR!
Join 2 Gospel Oak ‘Mothers’ in the ICONIC setting of St. Martin’s Church again for an evening of food, fun and FABULOUS banter! Learn more about how to spice up our food, kitchen and LIFE with another fun filled evening with MOTHER Carol and Chris from MOTHER :)
Tickets here
We will be celebrating Japanese Children’s day again this year with special ‘MOTHER’ BENTO boxes and sweet treats for our youngest customers on the Saturday!
We welcome Claudia from Cafe Cloudywaaa will be teaching and making Dango with us!
Sweet Japanese dumplings made with Glutinous rice flour. They are round in shape and are usually served with 3 to 5 on a skewer. They are remarkably versatile and are used to mark special occasions with different flavours and colours.
In our workshop we will make many types of dango together; Hanami Dango to celebrate Cherry Blossom season, Kinako Dango made with Toasted Soy bean Powder, Anko Dango with red or white bean paste and fresh spring fruits, and Mitarashi Dango made with tofu dumplings and sweet soy sauce glaze.
At the end of the workshop we will have collectively made many beautiful skewers of Dango to enjoy together with green tea.
Cafe Cloudywaaa is a micro confectionery business run by Claudia Capocci in Totnes, UK.
Claudia is a trained pastry chef and a self taught, eternal apprentice of Wagashi Japanese Sweets. She also holds a Fine Arts Degree from Central Saint Martins.
She specialises in favourite foods, childhood happiness, and alchemy as a box of miniaturised worlds.
After 2 YEARS of begging, I’ve finally had to cave in for this special day…as the OG ‘Mother’ is welcomed into the kitchen for the FIRST time to cook a very special SRI LANKAN Pittu feast for us all. (Don’t worry she won’t be cooking on the Sunday :P )
Join us for a special lunch to welcome in the Spring, as we welcome back our friend Leila to cook a traditional Iranian New Year FEAST! Complete with herb rice, tahdig, and fried fish plus much more!
Bokhor Joon Begiri!!! (Eat to become alive!)
For this Year’s Lunar New Year celebrations we will be serving you a Taiwanese Taste fest! With homemade BAO buns, complete with juicy pork or aubergine, in a sweet sticky sauce, crispy veg and roasted peanut crumb! All served with smacked pickles and a hearty daikon soup!
Mother is getting spooky for an afternoon of Pumpkin Carving followed by a performance from the brilliant Story Beast. Who’s ready to hear some silly ghoulish tales?
It’s time to get your cackle on and get crafty. We’re here for all your kid’s costume needs.
Sign up for our costume-making afternoon with the wonderful ‘Little Hands Design’. We’ll be upcycling old garments and recycled fabric to create your very own spooky outfit in time for Halloween.
Finish your outfit and take a photo in front of Mother’s witches cat photo booth.
The workshop will be followed by a spooky fashion performance by Rosemary Jane Cronin.
Who’s ready to be the best-dressed ghost on the block?
Sign up for our costume workshop on Eventbrite here: https://bit.ly/3g5dE2P
Come down and watch some of London's best up-and-coming poets for an afternoon of spoken word.
The clowns are in town and have we got a show for you!
Book your seat for our first ever Mother clown show in our urban amphitheatre.
Three brilliant, big-headed idiots try to make history and win a Nobel Prize with some totally stupid homemade inventions. Meet live comedy’s anarchic answer to Wallace and Gromit!
Award-winning idiots Privates reinvent the wheel, ignoring the past and ruining the future along the way. This show will eureka you out of the bath, drop an apple on your head and invent the chair you’re sitting on. Oh man, you have got to try one of these chairs!
Sell Out – SOHO Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
“Highly enjoyable… Absolute magic” ★★★★ (Mumble Comedy)
“Absurd and hilarious” (The Wee Review)
https://www.instagram.com/privatescomedy/
Two festivals that have SORELY been missed in the London calendar were Pride and Carnival this year SO we will be combining the two in our celebration TRIBUTE
Jerk Chicken/Aubergine will be on the BBQ plus some GORGEOUS drinks and cakes
PERFORMANCES from community theatre to soul, clowning to drag king AMAZINGNESS…
12-4pm: Lunch served (drinks till 5pm)
12-2pm: Free facepainting by Poppy & Perle
12-1pm :Soulmates
1pm: HVH Arts
3pm : Ella the Great
3:30pm: Georgeous Michael
4pm: Line Dancing led by the MOTHER Team
We’ll be putting on a cream tea social for Queen's Crescent Community Association over 65’s and spending the afternoon making a giant pride flag out of paper chains.
The flag will be showcased centre stage at our main Pride event on the 11th two days later.
Come down and get crafty for a day of meeting new people and creating something special for our Pride event.
Join us for our tribute to the Notting Hill Carnival. We’ll be keeping the magic alive with a day full of food, music, and family-friendly fun!
HVH Arts’s talented young performers will be showcasing their BRAVE NEW WORLD performance piece as part of Camden Together 21.
We’ll have carnival-themed face painting and live music from the talented jazz duo ‘Soulmates’.
Mother will be serving up jerk chicken (jerk aubergine for the veggies!), rum cocktails and coconut ice cream alongside sunshine (fingers crossed), and good vibes!
What’s not to like? We’ll see you there!
12 - 4pm - Barbecue
11:15am - 12pm - Soulmates Jazz Duo
12pm - HVH Brave New World Performance
12:30 - 3:30pm - Facepainting
12:45 - 1:30pm - Soulmates Jazz Duo
2:30 - 5pm - Music, drinks and dancing
Bring the kids down to Mother for a crafty afternoon with our lovely neighbours ‘Little Hands Design’.
We’ll be upcycling the humble plastic bag and transforming it into fabulous pompoms to get our courtyard carnival-ready for our big weekend event.
Start collecting those bags and bring them down to Mother ready to be transformed.
Register for the workshop on Eventbrite here: https://bit.ly/3yZBpAI
It's Doggy Day at Mother, and we're celebrating all the paws and pooches!
Bring your furry friend down for the chance to win a rosette in our dog show that will be hosted by the fabulous PORTIA, drag queen extraordinaire!
Don't forget to get a picture of your pooch in our colourful dog photo booth, pick up a bag of delicious homemade dog treats and take part in our raffle to support charity - 'Candy Cane Dog Rescue’
The Dog Show will start at 2pm. Lunch is served from 12pm.
Mother will be serving up Korean-style corn dogs, a popular Korean street food made from skewered hot dogs, coated in a sweet flour batter and rolled in a layer of fun toppings such as potato cubes or ramen noodles - served with honey mustard, chilli ketchup and pickles.
Our neighbours ‘Little Hands Design’ will be launching the crowd funder for their new book - ‘Look Good & Feel Good Without Harming the Environment!’
‘Little Hand Design’ runs ethical fashion workshops for kids and adults.
Come down for their series of sustainability talks, a clothes swap and up-cycling workshops, book and games stall and check out their sustainable fashion show.
10-4pm - Talks from Sustainability Educators and Practitioners
10-3.30pm - We Care Project- Clothes Swap, Mending and Up-cycling Workshop
10-3.30pm - ‘Waste as a Resource’ Workshop- making items from single-use plastic
10-4pm - Book and Games Stall
4-5pm LHD Book Launch and Fashion Presentation
Mother will be serving up our delicious food between 10am - 3pm and coffee and cake 10am - 4pm
We’ll be celebrating our lovely Vancouver born Nina, chef extraordinaire and dance artist with a barbecue, music and a Canadian barn dance. Come down, grab a burger and learn some new moves!
Come on down for our Sri Lankan twist on the Summer Solstice!
We’ll be making Kiribath, a Sri Lankan celebratory dish that you eat for luck at the beginning of a new journey. It is the first solid food that a newborn tastes and is the first meal served for newlyweds. Our Kiribath will be served with eggs, sambal, and spicy meat or vegetable kari.
We’ll be making mead cocktails to sip whilst you take part in our flower headdress workshop and summer solstice blessing.
We’ll be showcasing five talented EAST ASIAN designer-makers in our mosaic courtyard. Come down for a chance to buy unique handmade prints, ceramics, and textiles.
Vanessa Chen will be selling her beautiful hand thrown porcelain vessels.
Chi-Chun Chang will be selling prints and greetings cards of her joy-filled illustrations, influenced by Disney animations, Japanese comedy cartoons, and East-Asia’s mascot-loving culture.
Aki Tominaga-Watkins will be selling her handmade incense cones, scented candles & room fragrances alongside some fashion pieces from her fashion brand ‘The Golden Needle’.
Midori Stoyle will be selling handmade masks and accessories sewn from beautiful quilting quality fabrics.
The Pink Bureau - is a newly launched all pink boutique by fashion, textiles, and graphics designer Louise McCormack, who will be bringing us a curated pink explosion of homeware and prints.
It wouldn’t be a Dragon Boat Festival without ZONGZI! We’ll be serving up these DECADENT pyramids of sticky rice, which are stuffed with sweet pork, chestnuts, salted egg yolks, mushrooms, and peanuts. All wrapped in bamboo leaves and simmered to produce the ULTIMATE rice dumpling!!!
