Village Underground is an evolving project building an international platform for creativity and culture. Physical bases and virtual networks will link artists, designers, filmmakers, VJ's, musicians and all other cultural practitioners across European cities and beyond. Village Underground is a stage facilitating a vibrant and diverse cross-section of creative endeavour, cultural hybrid and artistic collaboration.
Village Underground London is the first in a string of such bases; a new cultural space located in Shoreditch. An amalgamation of two intrinsic elements – a collection of ex London Underground tube train carriages recycled to form creative studios, coupled with the expansive raw space of a restored Victorian warehouse which can be transformed into a flexible and multi-functional arena for a wide range of creative activity.
The project hosts a mixed-discipline community of organisations, businesses and practices; both those working permanently from on-site spaces, as well as those affiliated through a wider network of creative working, playing and collaborating within the project's facilities.