The LSO Tottenham Warehouse: bought in 2013, it's since become home to our LSO touring truck and all sorts of Orchestra paraphernalia. But in lockdown and beyond, the space has been evolving! On 26 and 27 September – for the first time – the warehouse becomes our latest performance venue in the LSO Beavertown Taproom Sessions, an exciting weekend of events in partnership with our neighbours on the industrial park, Beavertown Brewery.

Every month, adults with learning disabilities, their supporters and carers come together as LSO Create 'Monday Club'. United by a love of music, they are joined by LSO players for sessions which see them become composers, improvisers, performers and audience members. However, that all changed in March. 

In March 2020, LSO Discovery, the Orchestra's learning and participation programme, found themselves facing a new challenge: how to bring people together to create music during lockdown. Head of Discovery, Andra East, tells us how they rose to the challenge, and shares some highlights from an extraordinary summer. 

It’s ridiculous o’clock but I’m still buzzing in a way I haven’t for months. I’m on a post-concert high, the feeling of a drug pulsing in my blood that my body had long forgotten about.