Grow is part of Open House London 2025 this September!

Grow has participated in Open House Festival and always enjoys being part of this London wide festival run by Open City, a charity empowering communities to learn about, feel connected to, and have a role in shaping places where they live.

This year, we’re spotlighting our live music and DJ sets on Sat 20 and Sun 21 September, aligning with this year’s focus on East London’s creative energy and Hackney Wick’s cultural space

Join us on Saturday during the day (1- 4pm Free Entry) for live music for Canalside Sessions and for Volta 45’s Saturday evening event, which is free before 9pm.

These events supports the representation of historically under-represented communties by showcasing Afro-Latin musical traditions led by Williams Cumberbache, a master percussionist whose practice is rooted in the diasporic musical heritage of the Global Majority.

The Saturday night event on the 21 September, also contributes to this through Volta45’s curation of PlantFood, a diverse Leeds-based future jazz ensemble, followed by a DJ set by by this Ghanaian-born, London-based archivist and selector, as he explore rare African and Latin records, to add to a weekend of global musical histories and diasporic narratives.

Come down to see live music at this formerly industrial, now contested urban space in action!

And remember, we operate as a non-profit experiment in ethical and sustainable business which also aligns with the Open House Festival’s focus on sustainable forms of architecture and use of spaces that might otherwise be inaccessible to the public.