The Urban Doctor's Surgery: Pop-Up and Creative Workshop

We invite you to join a pop-up/ creative workshop exploring the value of continuity of care in GP practices at Mount Pleasant Health Centre. Sixty years ago, it might have been easier to see one family doctor, often for a whole lifetime. Or so we remember it; the history is more tangled than that. Today it might be a phone queue at 8am. For one day, Mount Pleasant Health Centre hosts a pop-up time machine: a recreated 1960s consulting room alongside the consulting room of today. We also invite attendees to contribute to a creative workshop where they can reflect on their own experience of waiting and care, using artistic and creative practice. Everything you choose to share, written or recorded, feeds into a public exhibition opening in the city two days later. This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 5–14 November 2026. Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.