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The Big Meet  ✕  Candler Creative

Let's Build
Together

Community Fest

📍 Vauxhall Arches 🗓️ Thu 22 Oct 2026 · 5–10pm 🎟️ 18+

Sixteen communities. Fifteen spaces. One night. Roller skating, a runway show, tango, retro gaming, live poetry and craft workshops — every corner run by the people who love it. Wander between all of them, and find your people.

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What's on

Fifteen spaces across the arches, the garden and the rooftop — each one run by a different community, doing the thing they do best. No single stage and nothing to book: drift between them all evening.

Mirror Arch — a wide brick railway arch with bar and open floor

🛼 Roller skating activationMirror Arch

Empowr Skating turn an arch into a rink — disco ball, disco DJ, skates on.

FIRE Main Room — warmly lit arch with seating facing a stage

👗 Fashion is artFIRE Main Room

Frame Perfect bring a runway show and a living exhibition — fashion, film, poetry and dance in one room.

Lightbox — a vast blue LED light wall behind a DJ booth

🎭 Diaspora & memoryLightbox

Olivia Community Curates × Super Stara Store — an immersive fashion and performance piece about how culture travels with us.

Open-air rooftop terrace with long benches against a brick wall

🕹️ Retro gamingRooftop Terrace

Reztron take the rooftop with retro consoles, big screens and a watch-party corner.

Zebra — an open arch with LED spots and a clear dance floor

💃 Argentine tangoZebra

House of Tango teaching, dancing and sharing it — from 7pm.

The rooftop terrace — long benches on grass under festoon lights against a brick wall

🎤 Spoken wordRooftop Terrace

Dare to Speak headline a poetry showcase, with names pulled out of a hat for the open mic.

The rooftop terrace — open-air benches with the city skyline behind

✂️ Craft workshopsRooftop Terrace

Bunch of Creatives and Queer Craft Club set up on the rooftop terrace through the evening — just turn up and make something.

Temple — an open arch with coloured lighting

🎨 Creative playgroundTemple

Obsessed Cr3ative run three zones at once for connecting, discovering and making.

The rooftop terrace — bench tables under festoon lights

🧠 Thought experiments in publicRooftop Terrace

Thought Experiments in Public take the bench tables all evening — big questions, low volume, anyone welcome to pull up a seat and argue.

Mirror Arch Lounge — a private room with velvet seating and its own bar

🤝 Networking NightsMirror Arch Lounge

House Ov Green run a one-stop-shop hub — members showing and selling what they make, plus hosted networking slots for entrepreneurs through the evening.

Plus, through the night:

Line-up grows right up to the night — follow @buildtogethercic for who's confirmed.

Why come

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Find your people

Twenty communities in one room, all actively looking for new faces. Turn up alone and you won't stay that way.

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Try six things in one night

One ticket, the whole venue. Dance, play, watch, make — without committing a Saturday to any of it.

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See London do it properly

Communities lifting each other rather than competing. It's a good night out, and it's also the point.

“Everyone has the right to belonging & being part of something greater than the individual.”

The venue

Vauxhall Arches — seven railway arches on the Thames, twenty seconds from Vauxhall station. Inside: a covered garden the length of the venue, an open-air terrace, food traders, two bars and a coffee shop.

Covered walkway hung with blossom, lined with benches and food traders
The Garden — covered, colourful, benches the length of it
Open-air terrace with long benches against a brick railway arch wall
Open-air terrace, for when you need a breather
An arch laid out with rows of seating facing a large LED screen
Arches set up for talks, screenings and showcases
Warmly lit brick arch with rows of chairs facing a stage
Each arch has its own character and its own sound
Brick booths with curved seating under fairy lights and a disco ball
Booths and corners to actually sit and talk
A DJ booth in front of a huge blue LED light wall
And the loud end, when you want it
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Who's behind it

The Big Meet and Candler Creative put this on because community is growing — but how do we make it sustainable, long-lasting and capable of wider impact? Let's Build Together is the platform figuring that out, in public, one night at a time.

The Big Meet

Supporting communities to become sustainable ecosystems

  • Connecting people, communities & businesses
  • Supporting community collaborations
  • Providing communities with spaces that fit their unique vision

Candler Creative

Community ecosystem for creatives to build together

  • Brand building & strategy
  • Community events & meet-ups
  • Media production & creative agency

Want to be part of it?

Not just coming — building. If you run a community, make things, represent a brand, or simply want to help on the night, there's room for you. Tell us what you'd bring and we'll come back to you.

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