Union Chapel Project is a unique organisation based in a Grade 11 listed building in North London which comprises a 1000 seater octagonal auditorium and a fully equiped 200 seater Studio Theatre and adjacent halls. It houses an active and innovative arts project, a refugee nursery and a homelessness project. The Union Chapel Project is committed to an innovative and ground-breaking multi-discipline arts programme where marginalised communities and dissident voices rub shoulders with key players from commercial and mainstream practice.
The project employs an arts development worker, an administrator, 2 refugee play workers and an events manager as core staff. In addition technicians and stewards are hired in for events. The small but closely integrated team aims to create a unique multi-use environment where front-line social projects share space with front-line arts activity, providing the opportunity for overlap and integration.
The Union Chapel itself is historically associated with dissidence, providing sanctuary to the independent voice. The Union Chapel Project interprets this Sanctuary in many ways, providing much needed resources to homeless people and refugees. The arts programme welcomes the work of artists who challenge traditional modes of practice, who come from ethnic minorities and the cultural expression of homeless and refugee communities, so bringing many marginalised voices under the same roof.