Lambeth
Wednesday 25 August - Saturday 9 October 2021
Rockets and Blue Lights
On the set of a new film about Victorian artist JMW Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by…
2021 LISTINGS
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Sunday 26 September 2021
Visions of the Future
Tade Thompson, the award-winning Rosewater author, and Temi Oh, the artist and writer of Do You Dream Of…
Lambeth
Tuesday 28 September 2021
Wole Soyinka in Conversation – Live Stream
The Nobel Prize-winning writer introduces Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, his first novel…
Lambeth
Friday 1 October - Saturday 30 October 2021
Jordan’s Demeanours Exhibition
Throughout October Durning Library will be hosting an exhibition of the history of UK Gospel music since Windrush,…
Lambeth
Friday 1 October – Sat, 2 Oct 2021
Nigerian Independence Day TAKEOVER
The UK’s biggest Afrobeats N Brunch is BACK, this time at night as we celebrate Nigerian Independence Day…
Lambeth
Saturday 2 October 2021
Black Book for Kids
Zoey Dixon (Lambeth Libraries) is back again, this time along with and Liz Chapman (Sheffield Libraries) to talk…
Brixton
Saturday 2 October and Sunday 3 October 2021
Black Culture Market
Black Culture Market will be taking over Downstairs at the Department Store Brixton, supporting emerging entrepreneurs & new…
Brixton
Saturday 2 October 2021
Alex Wheatle – Cane Warriors live reading with music
Join Lambeth Libraries for the live launch of the new paperback from Award-winning author Alex Wheatle. Cane Warriors…
Brixton
Saturday 2 October - Sunday 3 October 2021
Black Culture Market
Black Culture Market will be taking over Downstairs at the Department Store, supporting emerging entrepreneurs and new black businesses with…
Brixton
Saturday 2 October 2021
Afruika Bantu Saturday School Memorial Lecture: The 40th Anniversary Of The Brixton Uprisngs (1981 – 2021): Where Are We Now?
In 1981, outrage, blood, fire, turbulence, resistance, grief and defiance were the explosive responses to decades of micro/macro…
Lambeth
Sunday 3 October 2021
Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto On Never Giving Up
Join Bernardine Evaristo for an unmissable live event at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, where she’ll be in…
Brixton
3 October 2021
Asa – Lucid Album Tour
Lucid is the fourth studio album by French-Nigerian singer Aṣa. It was released on October 11, 2019, through…
Brixton
Sunday 3 October 2021
ASA
After a four-year break, Asa returns— but she needs no reintroduction. Her fourth studio album, Lucid chronicles the…
Lambeth
Monday 4 October 2021
When Mr Mandela Came to Town
In her debut Children’s book, When Mr Mandela Came to Town, Kemi Bamgbose retells her story as an…
Lambeth
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Mike Scott-Harding – Album launch: ‘In Other Words: Tales of a 21st Century Griot’
*Griot: noun – a storyteller in West Africa: perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village …
Brixton
Wednesday 16 October 2021
Rejjie Snow
Alexander Anyaegbunam better known by his stage name Rejjie Snow, is an Irish rapper and songwriter from Drumcondra,…
Lambeth
Thursday 7 October - Sunday 7 November 2021
Kimathi Donkor: The Notebook Series: Celebrating young women in South London
‘Donkor’s work show a keen intellect and poignant sense of history…’ Chris Spring, former curator of the British…
Brixton
Friday 8 October 2021
Jocelyn Brown
R&B legend Jocelyn Brown returns to her spiritual home for an intimate show of hits from across her…
Brixton
Friday 8 October 2021
The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara – Brixton Radical Readers book group special
Join the reading group to discuss A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas…
Lambeth
Saturday 9 October 2021
Kennington walk: ‘The Black man and his party’: William Cuffay, Kennington and the Chartists
William Cuffay was born in 1788, a man of African heritage, his father, Chatham Cuffay, had previously been…