Battersea Town Hall was once known as a site for radical politics, including infamous speeches and debates on religion, suffrage, social housing and art.
In March 2026, we’ll present A Public Address, a takeover of Battersea’s former Town Hall – now Battersea Arts Centre – using this historic site of debate to ask: who gets heard in a place like this today?
Part of Wandsworth’s London Borough of Culture year, A Public Address will bring people together across Lavender Hill, the wider borough and beyond to create a programme of events that shifts between intimate encounter to grand-scale durational performance.
Drawing on Quarantine’s 27-year history of dismantling conventions and collaborating with all kinds of people, A Public Address dances around the edges of theatre and civic art to produce a fortnight-long takeover giving voice to those we live and work beside, but may not yet know.
A Public Address is part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.