5-Week Experimental Listening Space, Festival, Community Project 2026 in London – The Crypt Gallery London

What is 5-Week Experimental Listening Space, Festival, Community Project?

Sense Ability is a 5-week project conceived as a listening space, community cafe, apothecary, and gallery. By day, a freely accessible space for taking a pause and connecting with yourself and your senses, experienced through enveloping soundscapes, scentscapes of locally gathered herbs, foraged herbal brews, selected literature, and local material craft. In the evenings and on weekends, the space shifts into an active programme of live music, meditations, workshops, immersive walks, screenings, talks, and more. The project works alongside local and international practitioners, artists, educators, and celebrated change-makers to forge deeper awareness and relationships with the living wisdom of the body and the land, engaging with foundational subjects that sustain life as we know it. Designed to hold space for intentional pausing, recreation, and embodied learning. *** You are able to book each session separately or get a 5-week pass that grants you unlimited access to over 70 events as well as free offerings (drinks, journals and more). The 5-week pass is an invitation to step into a rare, time-bounded environment intentionally created for pause, reflection, and meaningful encounter, something increasingly difficult to find within the pace of city life. Investing in the all-access ticket is not only practical value across more than 70 events, but also an investment in sustained presence: the ability to return repeatedly, deepen experiences over time, and engage with a living programme rather than a single moment. Sense Ability is designed as a cumulative journey rather than a one-off event. The pass allows you to witness how conversations, artworks, workshops, and sensory elements evolve across five weeks, creating continuity, familiarity, and a stronger sense of belonging. It also supports independent artists, educators, and ecological practitioners whose work centres on culture, well-being, and relationship with the land, making the purchase both a personal enrichment and a contribution to a wider cultural ecosystem. All the events can be found on our website while the five-week programme progresses through the following narrative: Weeks 1-2 (26.02 - 08.03):  The Voice of the Land Oral traditions: folklore, mythology, and storytelling Foraging, herbalism, and land-based knowledge Week 3 (09.03 - 15.03): The Body & Environment Returning to the foundations that sustain life and honouring relationality through exploring: Food, soil, nutrition, natural materials, seasonality, and ancestry Week 4 (16.03 - 22.03) The Body & Its Extensions Expanding perception through sense-oriented practices: Bodywork and somatic exploration Week 5 (23.03 -  29.03): Community & Integration Exploring organic ways of building and sustaining community. Applying shared learning within the urban landscape. Collective reflection and integration. If you purchase the pass and wish to attend specific workshops or other limited-capacity sessions, please confirm your attendance in advance by emailing mashasegale@gmail.com

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