The Big Meet ✕ Candler Creative
Community Fest
Eighteen communities. Fifteen spaces. One night. A roller disco, a runway show, tango, retro gaming, live poetry, craft workshops and free headshots — every corner run by the people who love it. Wander between all of them, and find your people.
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.
Empowr Skating turn an arch into a rink — disco ball, disco DJ, skates on.
Frame Perfect bring a runway show and a living exhibition — fashion, film, poetry and dance in one room.
Olivia Community Curates × Super Stara Store — an immersive fashion and performance piece about how culture travels with us.
Reztron take the rooftop with retro consoles, big screens and a watch-party corner.
House of Tango teaching, dancing and sharing it — from 7pm.
Dare to Speak headline a poetry showcase, with names pulled out of a hat for the open mic.
FORE — The Studio run a full photo set-up, a booth, and portfolio reviews with industry folk.
Bunch of Creatives, PurryGood and Queer Craft Club rotate through the evening — just turn up and make something.
Obsessed Cr3ative run three zones at once for connecting, discovering and making.
Plus, through the night:
Line-up grows right up to the night — follow @buildtogethercic for who's confirmed.
Twenty communities in one room, all actively looking for new faces. Turn up alone and you won't stay that way.
One ticket, the whole venue. Dance, play, watch, make — without committing a Saturday to any of it.
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.”
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.
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.
Supporting communities to become sustainable ecosystems
Community ecosystem for creatives to build together
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.