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Following a week of committed and energetic rehearsals at our home at The Fellowship Inn, Bellingham, we were delighted to bring Our Street to the stage at the iconic Broadway Theatre, Catford. This brand new people’s opera by Gwyneth Herbert, was created and brought to life by a wealth of professionals and our community for…

Maudie Wotherspoon, a Level 3 Art Foundation student at Brighton Met College has designed a new animation and poster art for MTFA to promote our upcoming flagship urban opera, Our Street – Lewisham’s Urban Opera. We’re thrilled to have been able to employ Maudie in her first paid role in the industry following here success…

In collaboration with the Razumovsky Trust, we’re thrilled to be hosting a special celebration and fundraising event for our Schubert 200 project at the Razumovsky Academy on Tuesday 9th July 2024. This will be the only open performance in London this summer and therefore a wonderful chance to hear an acclaimed arrangement of Schubert’s first…

We’re delighted to announce that tickets for Our Street on 20th July 2024 at Catford’s iconic Broadway Theatre are now on sale. Our Street is Lewisham’s very own Urban Opera, co-created by the community and world-class artists. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, the national development agency for creativity and culture, and a highly…

Thanks to your incredibly generous support, The Big Give’s match funding and a big team effort we’re delighted to have raised over £28,000 for Our Street – our Lewisham Urban Opera project. This incredible fundraising effort, alongside funding from Arts Council England and other generous sponsors, means we can finally bring this borough-uniting extravaganza to…

We were delighted to read writer Rhik Samadder’s column in The Observer on Sunday 24th March which spoke about his inspirational mother, Apu, a member of our Lewisham Creative Chorus. Click here to read Rhik’s wonderful piece in full: My 80-year-old mother lives an avant-garde life “There’s something about performers who do it for connection…

Donations to MTFA’s Our Street to be doubled We’re delighted to have been selected to take part in the Big Give’s Arts for Impact campaign. Save the date 19th – 26th March Give what you can in that week via our campaign page on the Big Give website and it will be DOUBLED thanks to…

Would you like to join our board and be part of our growing movement empowering change through the Arts? Together we’ll make life-changing, creative experiences accessible to those in our home borough of Lewisham and across the country. We are looking for up to three dynamic and motivated individuals with an affinity for our approach…

with Barokksolistene, Thomas Guthrie and the Lewisham Creative Chorus, at the Balham Bowls Club, November 23rd 2023. See here for more details, or to go straight to the ticket page and get your hot tickets, go here.

A new song cycle by Lewisham Creative Chorus, intertwined with Schubert200 songs featuring a host of incredible artists and groups.