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✨ TONIGHT — Cocktails w/ NAFS ✨ SWANA House Party • Free Entry • Allies Welcome Join NAFS & Studio 12 for an evening of community, music, and homemade SWANA-flavoured cocktails 🍸🌹 No DJ this time — we’re building the night together. Bring your song requests and let’s make a communal playlist 🫂 🕰️ 7PM—11PM 📍 Studio 12, 1 Addington Square, SE5 7JZ A space to chat, laugh, cry, dance, connect, and just be. Come with your people, your allies, or come solo — you’ll be held either way ❤️ Free RSVP link in bio✨ cocktailswithnafs.eventbrite.co.uk @nafs.space x @thestudiotwelve_

Spring sun and flower fields are starting to appear again… it’s time to get outside! Our RIKR range fits all you need for those post-winter catch-ups in the outdoors. Come rain or shine, our packs hybrid functionality helps you balance the demands of city socials and a wild life. For those that Explore and Protect. . Pics from @laaglace 📸 Modelled by @drew.demetry 🙌 . . . #spring #explore #protect #citylife #backpacking

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends” - Francis Bacon @saraasfour 📸

Together with our friends @salwainternational & @geomassoud , we raised £15k for Lebanon in 10 days. Our community did that. Thank you to everyone who donated their skills, their time and their work. Funds have gone directly to @havenforartists Lebanon Emergency Relief @juliettejabra @tanseqeye_shaabeye_Libanon theflowersofcarnage - Mutual Aid for Lebanon @buzurunajuzuruna -people doing real, immediate work. We urge you to donate if you can. In times like these we need to come together more than ever; so we are. 📅 April 24th 6pm-11pm 📍 @thestudiotwelve_ 🚪 Free entry , for our community, for our allies, our friends, and everyone who stands with us to come together and just be. If you’re running a fundraiser for Lebanon right now, drop it in the comments. Let’s make sure everyone knows where to give. We will be getting back to all the winners these week regarding your prizes- thank you for your patience Thanks to @cubitt_gallery for offering their space

We’re grateful to everyone who has helped us build Saturday’s raffle, and we’re moved to see so many artists, organisers and makers from our community come together in solidarity. 📆 28th March 2026 🕣5pm - 9pm 📍Cubitt 8 Angel Mews London N1 9HH Contributions include prints and artworks, rare zines and books, beautiful ceramics, fashion designs, mentorships, press‑ons, workshops, trainings, cooking class by a trained chef plus more! If you’d like to help us build the raffle please get in touch with your submission; we’re accepting entries until 10 am on Saturday. A huge thanks to our contributors: Saliah, Alvaro Samuel Castro, Vincent J, Amixiel collective, Marcus MacDonald, Marcus MacDonald, Jacob V Joyce, Issi Nanabeyin, Summer Islam, Meera Shakti Osborne, Nadine Mos, Maya Bayyoud, Mohamad Ali, Gabrielle Bejani, El yellow House, Tarrine Khanom, Rehana Zaman, Alaia de Santis Odabash, Zeid, Eshteshad, Saousane / snailedittt_, Tala Sammur, Beirut Baker Boy, Raha Farazmand, Sahra Hersi, Emii Alrai, Muslim Social Justice Initiative, Golchehr Hamidi-Manesh, Alex Booker, Albondi, Helene Kazan, Feminists for Palestine, electra Simon, Ayesha Starkey, Huma Mahmood, Elias Jahshan, Sean Elder. Please also keep buying raffle tickets [/en-GB/ticketing/lebanon-fundraiser-raffle] to raise funds for grassroots aid initiatives supporting the displaced on the ground in Lebanon.The situation is only getting worse with more people displaced every day as the bombing continues. All we have is each other

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Drew’s coming out story🌈

Drew Demetry, founder of NAFS, on building spaces that actually support SWANA queer creatives and why creating your own community matters. He also opens up about navigating culture, religion and sexuality, from being outed and facing family rejection to finding a real sense of belonging🇪🇬🇩🇰 Watch / listen on Spotify, YouTube & Apple Podcasts🎧

We are organising an emergency fundraiser to support displaced families in Lebanon with food shelter and medical care. As of 13 March over 830,000 people are displaced. The situation on the ground is extremely dire and resources are scarce. LEBANON FUNDRAISER RAFFLE Saturday 28 March, 4pm-8pm Location: Cubitt 8 Angel Mews London N1 9HH Ways you can take part HELP BUILD THE RAFFLE We’re calling on our wider community to mobilise with us and help build the raffle by contributing or redistributing something. If you are an artist, designer, maker, or have a business or any skill you can share please reach out to add your contribution(s) to the raffle. The more contributions we have the bigger the impact. Due to limited capacity, the first 60 raffle purchases will receive automatic entry to the event.This is a fundraiser, and every ticket helps us support those on the ground continue the work being done. All raffle ticket holders will still have a chance to win a prize, regardless of event entry. YOU COULD CONTRIBUTE: •⁠ ⁠⁠Artworks and designs (clothes, prints, jewellery) •⁠ ⁠⁠Are you a business? can you contribute some products? •⁠ ⁠⁠Skills or your time: can you give a palm reading? are you a gardener and can you offer to teach someone some gardening skills? Are you a photographer and can you offer to shoot professional portraits? Or anything your heart leads you to share We are open to all submissions 10am Saturday 28 March JOIN OUR RAFFLE £5 per raffle ticket; buy 1, 2, 10, 20 or as many as you can. If you can’t attend, you can still support this fundraising push by donating or buying raffle tickets remotely. Please DM for any further questions.

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Much love to the team at @imprint.works 🫶🏽 /collections/nafs