Talkaoke is popping up at Community Sparks Open Day – a lively day of community discovery! Explore local services in Poplar and beyond, with health services and community groups hosting information stalls.

The Community Sparks funding programme is supporting the community in Poplar to identify local solutions to local questions. Through a process of co-production with local residents we have identified priorities for grant funding and now we are inviting applications by local people and groups to fund projects supporting the local community in Poplar. All decisions on funding will be made by local people voting on their preferred projects. To find out more about Community Sparks work and funding available, please followw this link.

Talkaoke is The People Speak‘s flagship live, television-style talk show and a creative communication format. Talkaoke is non-hierarchical – it is up to the participants to decide on the topics. The conversation is a creative medium and a journey from one unexpected subject to another. It can be topical, funny, deep, surreal, or something else. The participants generate the subjects and the host in the middle keeps everybody engaged. The format is simple: the host sits in the middle of an illuminated round table, and you sit around the outside and talk about whatever comes up. Just grab the microphone and air your views.