The Africa Centre

Whether you're looking to hire a venue for a one-off private event, regular community activities, or somewhere fully equipped to get some work done, The Africa Centre offers several affordable options.

Located in Southwark, home to the city’s largest Black African community, The Africa Centre's new flagship building showcases the best of Africa-inspired designs and fosters a sense of pride in African heritage.

The new Africa Centre is a world apart from the dull 1960s former office building that architects Freehaus and interior designer Tola Ojuolape have beautifully transformed into the new home for contemporary African culture and heritage in London.

The ground floor houses the highly popular Pan-African restaurant operated by Tatale, the Centre's food and beverage contractor. Available for hire are the first, second, and third floors, a bar and lounge space, an art gallery, and a multi-purpose event space respectively.

Malangatana

A neatly decorated and contemporary Afrocentric bar and lounge space suitable for various activities such as live music, networking, and social events.

This welcoming and compact but versatile event space boasts some of the most vivid and authentic African design elements, thanks to architects Freehaus and interior designer Tola Ojuolape. The decor, as Ojuolape explains, is “rooted in the continent’s sense of place through craftsmanship, materiality, tactility, and the warmth it evokes.” Textiles, patterns, tropical plants, wood furniture, and art have been carefully utilized to express the vastness and creativity of Africa.

This space is suitable for events such as live DJ/band, product launches, award ceremonies, receptions, networking, and other work or social interactions.

Features:

• Wifi
• Air Conditioning
• Lift
• Front and rear terraces
• Toilets
• Natural light
• AV system

Mandela

A multi-purpose gallery and exhibition space, primarily for art exhibitions but also available for talks, presentations, and other social events.

A perfect space for creative expression. With expandable display panels that can be retracted to expand the venue's capacity, Mandela Space is a uniquely designed space that is available for a range of activities. Talk to us if you have an art exhibition in mind or if you don't mind holding your event during an ongoing exhibition. The cosy and accessible space provides a fluid customer journey and can be adapted for multiple purposes outside of our major exhibitions.

Mandela Space is ideal as an entry-level exhibition space for curators hoping to refine their content and adopt a boutique, non-traditional exhibition style for their event.

It is most suitable for activities such as exhibitions, media production, talks, and networking events.

Features:

• Wifi
• Air Conditioning
• Lift
• Kitchenette
• Toilets
• Natural Light
• Av (Inc Display Screen/Projector)
• Chairs

Feeny

A fully customisable general-purpose space that is available for a diverse range of activities.

Feeny has the largest capacity out of all our spaces. It's a cool dry-hire venue for you to put your stamp on and curate your corporate event, party, conference, or panel discussion as you wish. Whether you’re looking for a large conference event space, retail pop-up space, corporate seminar venue, or convention room hire, Feeny Space will most likely meet your unique needs.

Features:

• Wifi
• Air Conditioning
• Lift
• Toilets
• Natural Light
• Av System (86" Display Screen)
• Chairs

Co-working (The Hub)

Across from the main building in Arch 28, is The Hub, a co-working space open Monday to Friday from 10 am - 5 pm and offering access to WiFi, photocopying, printing favourable member benefits such as discounts on food and drink from the restaurant, and venue hire.

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