Nick Toner

arts, culture, heritage & community producer & manager

I produce and manage arts and culture performances, exhibitions, lectures and community events. I do this in places of local significance and with radical & revolutionary histories – including New Unity’s Newington Green Meeting House and Abney Park Chapel.

I know how to get things going from the ground up without compromising on quality or richness. I work across genres, formats, disciplines and audiences; and with curiosity, care and a sense of humour.

My programming has featured in national UK media outlets like i news (paywall), BBC News, Literary Review and Museums Journal (paywalled link here); international outlets like Associated Press, NPR Radio and Die Tageszeitung; and local outlets like Hackney Citizen and Ham & High.

Selected programming I’ve produced, managed and/or commissioned:

VISUAL & PERFORMANCE ART
- Split Britches co-founder and Guggenheim Fellow Lois Weaver performing “Faith and dancing, a reading from the diary of domestic terrorist”, April 2025
- In partnership with 3236rls: Merlin Carpenter, Emanuel Almborg and Turner Prize nominee Ghislaine Leung exhibiting alongside others, February 2025 | photo archive
- Late Turkish artist Kağan Güner, exhibited retrospectively, June 2023
- RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series 1 star Crystal presenting the drag stories of the Gay Liberation Front, October 2021 | listen

MUSIC AND FILM
- Artist Vida Vojić performing her drumming ritual TIMING IS DIVINE, May 2025
- BBC Jazz Awards winner Ian Shaw singing and playing piano by candlelight, February 2025
- In partnership with Colchester Arts Centre: performance community Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir presenting their show in London on their UK tour, October 2024 | social media
- A sharing of short films on housing justice from the Goldsmiths, University of London’s London Community Video Archive, October 2023 | archive listing

LITERATURE, MEDIA & POLITICS
- London School of Economics Professor Lea Ypi discussing her new book “INDIGNITY: A Life Reimagined”, November 2025
- Former Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn MP giving the Richard Price Memorial Lecture, June 2025 | watch
- Mother of the House of Commons Diane Abbott MP launching the paperback of her memoir “A Woman Like Me”, May 2025
- Writers Iain Sinclair & Chris McCabe in conversation and performing live poetry, March 2025
- BBC Radio 4’s Colin Sell showing his Music Hall documentary “Your Own, Your Very Own” plus a Q&A, September 2020 | watch

…plus numerous screenings, exhibitions, walking tours, gatherings, small group meetings, classes, workshops, community celebrations, residencies and more over 5+ years.

I’m experienced in… grant-funded programming // surplus-generating & box office-based programming // Q&A/panel chairing // audience & concept development // operations & logistics management (AV/front of house/hospitality) // monitoring & evaluation // marketing (copywriting/photography/digital design) // financial, governance & personnel management including migrant worker sponsorship // & more.

writing + curation

community publishing // co-creation // creative non-fiction // landscapes and cityscapes // layout and image-making


N-ZINE
Words, photography, curation | co-creator of a zine series launched in 2021 | archive | coming in 2026: special queer issue, funded by Grand Camp Maisie

SUBSTACK
Words, photography | Fixing my eye on the pole-star – offcuts on landscapes and the unsound minds that inhabit them

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Words | “On Placedreaming, Community Publishing and Arthur Machen”, published in Indie Novella’s “The Local Voices Project”, winter 2023 |
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Panellist |
Spineless Wonders symposium at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, February 2022

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I live and work in London (N16).