OG Youth Collective
Upcoming Session
Monday 14th July 2025
4:30pm - 6:30pm
October Gallery
Cloth and Collaboration
Join us as we start the month with an exciting and fun workshop! We will focus on finishing our collaborative tablecloth artwork and thinking about how it will be displayed in the exhibition. We will also discuss how it will be displayed in the exhibition, working as a group to explore the curatorial aspects of exhibition displays.
Hope you can join us for some playful creation, chat, and snacks!
Additional Dates
Monday, 21st July
4:30pm - 6:00pm
October Gallery
Sculptural Self-Portraits
This will be an exciting workshop exploring self-portraits! We’ll be building sculptural self-portraits using various types of wrapped materials. The work we produce during this session will also contribute to our upcoming exhibition.
Saturday, 26th July
10:00am - 12:00pm
October Gallery
Maypole Workshop and Interactive Installation
Our final workshop for the academic year will explore co-creating an interactive structure inspired by a maypole using recycled fabrics and collective making.
About The OG Youth Collective
This is a FREE drop-in art group for young people living in London aged 14 - 24. We usually meet on the first and last Monday of every month. We welcome everyone and do all sorts. We make art, film, create exhibitions and discuss current events, as well as visiting other local museums and galleries to further our understanding of contemporary art and exhibitions.
The OG Youth Collective sessions offer opportunities to develop traditional and contemporary art skills. The sessions are led by artists, designers, and OG youth leaders. Covering a range of creative industries including art, design, craft, fashion, digital media, and performance.
Youth Collective members are offered work experience opportunities and youth leadership roles, including programme planning and curatorial input. We support young people in gaining GCSE/AS Level and A Level arts qualifications and CV development and have a yearly exhibition at October Gallery.
If you would like to find out more about the group; other work experience and volunteering opportunities within our education programme, please email Esther Adesigbin, Esther@octobergallery.co.uk
What is October Youth Collective?
Human Rights
National Gallery Trip
What Represents Your Identity
What Youth Collective Members say:
‘Through the Youth Collective I have visited galleries and exhibitions that I wouldn’t have visited alone, and had amazing in-depth conversations about art with others in the group. Being a part of the Youth Collective helps me to see art in a different way.’
‘The OG youth collective has helped me become much more confident within the world of art, it has opened up so many different networks and opportunities that I wouldn’t be able to get elsewhere.’
‘The OG education team have helped me so much and given me the space where I can express myself freely and creatively and even just talk about something that has been on my mind. Whenever I have been having a bad week the YC is always a place I can detach from everything going around and just have a fun time.’
The October Gallery Education Youth Programme is kindly supported by Camden Council

