About this Event
Hold that Thought — A One‑Day Creative Workshop Festival
✨ Save this for Sunday 31 May 2026 ✨
How on earth did we get here?
A day of moving, making, and messing about together.
Hold That Thought invites you to a full day of creative disruption — exploring social clocks, reclaiming consent, and finding rhythm in the absurd through movement, drawing, writing, sound, collage, play, craft and tarot.
What You Might Experience
🫧 YES/NO/MAYBE through embodied consent
🖌️ Life drawing and personal timeline mapping
🥾 Collage, sound, collective play and joyful mistakes
👀 Tarot + drawing to sit with truth
🍜 Hot dinner included
Come get lost. Come make mess. Come find us.
Accessibility
Step‑free venue · No experience required · Flexible participation & pacing · Quiet / rest space available all day
Hosted by: @translocation.research
Supported by: Hypha Studios, Camden Council, and Civic Action Lab
Facilitators: Jo · Spencer · Miki · Yulin · Hiten · Zen · Kiera
This festival is part of the three‑month peer‑learning programme In · Practice Lab.
Want to hear more about it? Follow our Instagram @translocation.research💖
Agenda
🕑: 12:30 PM
Programme Lauch
Host: Translocation Research
🕑: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
The Rainbow of Consent
Host: Jo
Info: We will play, draw and reflect on how we experience the spectrum between ‘YES’ and ‘NOOOOO’—— experiencing boundaries like a porous membrane that allows generative exchanges rather than borders of defense.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Life Drawing²
Host: Hiten
Info: A guided life drawing session for all skill levels. Materials provided— feel free to bring your own.
🕑: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Beyond the Default
Host: Spencer Yu
Info: A Collective Behavioural Exploration of the Social Clock through Collage
🕑: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Noise To My Ears
Host: Yulin Huang
Info: An experimental workshop where we explore language through sound, voice, and automatic writing. Gather, distort, and reassemble words into a playful written or visual piece!
🕑: 06:00 PM
Dinner
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Ninja
Host: Miki
Info: Explore hidden cultural stereotypes through movement in this interactive workshop using the iconic “Ninja” as a creative starting point. Led by a doctoral researcher at SOAS, it blends guided physical exercises and reflection in an inclusive, welcoming environment open to all.
🕑: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
What's Perserved isn't Sacred
Host: zen McKenzie & Kiera Harmer
Info: Deciphering spirit and truth through drawing & tarot
🕑: 09:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Festival Closing Ceremony
Host: Translocation Research
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hypha Gallery Kentish Town, 2 Prince of Wales Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 12.50 to GBP 35.00












