Night Studio started as a scheduling problem. Members kept asking for time after work, and the club kept saying the room was closed. So we stopped closing it. One evening a week, the lights stay on, a model sits, and whoever shows up draws.

We built the format around the people, not the room. Quick warm ups, long poses, and a hard stop at eleven. No teaching, no theme, no crit unless someone asks for one. The point was to make the barrier to entry so low that turning up became the easiest thing in the week.

It rolled out across three floors, a shared supply cabinet, and a wall the club repaints every month. Night Studio became less of a programme and more of a habit the membership keeps for itself.