You, Me, The World and Tower Hamlets

We’re looking to speak to people who run groups in Tower Hamlets. If you would like to be involved, or think you have a group that we should definitely speak to, please get in touch with Katherine (see contact us).

take stock exchange is made up of two artists: Nick Cassenbaum and Olly Hawes.

take stock exchange collect stories.

take stock exchange share stories.

take stock exchange enable people to tell stories, and to listen to stories.

People feel increasingly disconnected from the places they live, and the people they live and work with. take stock exchange’s single aim is to address this issue by encouraging empathy and developing civic pride by creating a dialogue through difference. Through the power of storytelling we can all create, contribute to and live in a healthier, happier and more progressive world.

Their work enables people to express, connect, imagine, empathise and see everyday surroundings in a new light, creating a dialogue through difference – whatever that difference might be: age, body, economic, ethnic, political, religious.

They enable people to explore, celebrate and question commonality and differences; the past, present and future of themselves and the places they live and work.