Local Heroes Craft-Connections Banner

Thu 2^nd Sept 6pm, in-person at Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, SW2 1JQ

Inspired by the Local Heroes initiative, the 17 individually made textile squares of the Local Heroes  banner were made during Covid lockdowns by the Brixton Library craft group. For this event, hosted by Friends of Tate Library Brixton, Marilyn Rogers, Annick Alet, Rachel Heywood and Cecilia Washburn will present the making and meaning of the banner, which will then go on to be displayed in local venues.

This event is hosted by Friends of Tate Brixton Library. Book here

• Kennington Park walk at 10:30am

A walk led by Marietta Crichton Stuart of the Friends of Kennington Park around Kennington Park, looking at the area's transformation from public nuisance to much loved park. Meet in St Mark's church yard.

• Postcard Collecting at 11:30am

Bill Linskey's talk on postcards as a local history source will use his own rich collection of images of Brixton to demonstrate the potential value of postcards. Illustrated talk in St Mark's church.

Open afternoon at the museum

Sat 4^th Sept 10:15 – 4:30, in-person at Florence  Nightingale museum, 2 Lambeth Palace Rd, SE1 7EW

The Florence Nightingale museum is offering discounted entrance for Lambeth Heritage Festival. Tickets must be booked in advance online using the code ‘Lambeth21’ for 50% off adult entry for Lambeth residents (please bring proof of residence, ie: utility bill or equivalent). Code is valid for 4^th and 5^th September only.

This paid event is hosted by the Florence Nightingale museum Book here

Open day at Conyers Rd pumping Station

Sat 4^th Sept 11.00 am - 2.00 pm, in-person at 68 Conyers Rd, SW16 6LT

The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company erected the first pumping station here in 1881 and this was in a corrugated iron shed. The tall pumping station we see today was built in 1894 and it was a condition of the freeholder, Mr Thompson that the buildings should be of an ornamental character. In 1980 it was selected to be adapted as one of 11 pumping stations serving the Thames water ring main supplying half the capital’s water supply.

This event is hosted by Thames Water and the Streatham Society. Book here

Open afternoon at the museum

Sun 5^th Sept 10:15 am – 4:30 pm, in-person at Florence  Nightingale museum, 2 Lambeth Palace Rd, SE1 7EW

The Florence Nightingale museum is offering discounted entrance for Lambeth Heritage Festival. Tickets must be booked in advance online using the code ‘Lambeth21’ for 50% off adult entry for Lambeth residents (please bring proof of residence, ie: utility bill or equivalent). Code is valid for 4^th and 5^th September only. 

This paid event is hosted by the Florence Nightingale museum Book here

History of Clapham Common

Sun 5^th Sept at 2:30 pm in-person

Tom Jansz leads this walk, tracing the history of Clapham Common from medieval grazing ground through place of recreation for eighteenth century incomers who built villas around it, associations with The Clapham Sect, witness to transformation from rural village to Victorian suburb, home of some notable residents, to its important community role in WW2, and finally to today's green recreation at the heart of our thriving and multi-cultural area.

This event is hosted by the Clapham Society. Book here

ON THESE STREETS, an interactive audio  journey

Any day in September, 10.00 am - 10.00 pm, in-person, walk starts from Brixton tube station, Brixton Rd SW9 8HE

ON THESE STREETS is a self-guided walk using a  web-app created as a response to the 1981 Uprising. It offers a journey through the streets of Brixton that invites you to bear witness, to interact and to personally respond. Concept and interactive experience by non zero one, with verbatim testimony, new writing from Somalia Nonyé Seaton and new music from Xana that form an immersive audio world. 

Event hosted by Brixton House & 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

Life and its most trivial particulars

Weds - Sunday, Midday -  6.00 pm, in-person at Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Rd, SW9 0RE

To celebrate Lambeth Heritage Festival, Lambeth residents can visit Van Gogh House and see Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent's exhibition created for and installed throughout the house where Van Gogh lived from 1873 - 74.  Please pre-book and bring proof that you are a Lambeth resident (utility bill or equivalent) to get entrance at reduced rate of £2.50. To purchase special reduced price ticket, click on the full price adult ticket and enter the discount code LAMBETH87 at the checkout.

This paid event is hosted by Van Gogh House. Book here

Brookwood Necropolis Railway

Tue 7^th Sept at 7:30pm, in-person at St Leonard's church, Streatham High Rd, SW16 1HS

Most people travelling by train expect to return to their original station, but the majority of travellers on the Necropolis Train never came back. John Clarke presents an account of how railway funerals were conducted and how the London Necropolis Company,  based at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, (literally) sold one-way tickets for the deceased.

This event is hosted by the Streatham Society. No booking required

A history of Tulse Hill

Thu 9^th Sept at 6:30 pm, in-person at Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, SW2 1JQ

An illustrated talk by Alan Piper exploring the extensive area between Brockwell Park and Brixton Hill where some landmarks from the early 19th century estate can still be found among later developments.

This event is hosted by the Brixton Society. Book here

Seeing the Woods for the Trees - a Secret History of Lambeth's Parks and Open Spaces

Fri 10^th Sept at 7.00 pm online

Lambeth's parks are home to a rich diversity of buildings, horticulture, wildlife and landscapes. But there are other buildings and features, often hidden from view or not publicly accessible, that have an astonishing history as to how they came to be built or what they were used for. Iain Boulton's talk uncovers some of have their secrets: what they were used for,  how they were constructed and who built them.

This event is hosted by Lambeth Archives. Book here 

Lambeth, a Muslim History walk

Sat 11^th Sept at 10:30am in-person

Starting from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, AbdulMaalik Taylor's walking tour explores some of the Muslim connections relating to Lambeth. From artistic mosques, Turkish Baths to individuals such as Duse Mohammad Ali and Leila Hassan who have largely been forgotten now,  but were once instrumental in their era . The walk includes a visit to a mosque.

This paid event is hosted by Halal Tourism. Book here

Tour of West Norwood cemetery

Sat 11^th Sept 11.00 am, in-person

Explore the many graves and monuments of former Streatham residents that are buried at West Norwood cemetery with Bob Flanagan, Chair of the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery. The tour will include Sir Henry Tate, Sir Henry Doulton John Tredwell and Sit Hiram Maxim plus many more well-known individuals. West Norwood was one of the first private landscaped cemeteries, one of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries of London, and is a site of major historical, architectural and ecological interest.

      This event is hosted by the Streatham Society.  Book here                           

Open afternoon

Sat 11^th Sept 1.00 - 5.00 pm in-person at Brixton Windmill, Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA

On this free guided tour of Brixton Windmill you will see two sets of millstones – the original wind-powered machinery, and the smaller stones installed by the Ashby family in 1902 that were driven by steam. Now they run on electricity and are used by our volunteer millers to produce Brixton Windmill flour.

This event is hosted by Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Parties and Protests in Brixton - an exhibition

From Sat 11^th Sept until  October 16th,  in-person                 at San Mei Gallery, 39a Loughborough Rd, SW9 7TB

Open Weds- Saturdays until October , Midday - 6.00 pm

An exhibition of art and photography incorporating images and content from Lambeth Archives, Black Cultural Archives and elsewhere. For further details check gallery website.

This event is hosted by the San Mei Gallery. No booking required.

Open afternoon

Sun 12^th Sept 1.00 - 5.00 pm in-person at Brixton Windmill, Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA

On this free guided tour of Brixton Windmill you will see two sets of millstones – the original wind-powered machinery, and the smaller stones installed by the Ashby family in 1902 that were driven by steam. Now they run on electricity and are used by our volunteer millers to produce Brixton Windmill flour.

         This event is hosted by Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Harvest Festival

Sun 12^th Sept 1.00 - 5.00 pm in-person at Brixton Windmill

A mini food festival celebrating harvest time and how wheat and flour are a staple of food around the world and food as a universal language. Families and local residents from different backgrounds and generations will be encouraged to share their experience and traditions of preparing wheat-based food stuffs. They will be invited to create a mini food festival celebrating harvest time and flour. Windmill open for pre-booked tours. Milling demonstrations will take place with the hand querns outside the mill. There will also be arts and crafts activities for children and families to depict their food stories. 

Event hosted by the Friends of Windmill Gardens No Booking Required

ON THESE STREETS, an interactive audio  journey

Any day in September, 10.00 am - 10.00 pm, in-person, walk starts from Brixton tube station, Brixton Rd SW9 8HE

ON THESE STREETS is a self-guided walk using a  web-app created as a response to the 1981 Uprising. It offers a journey through the streets of Brixton that invites you to bear witness, to interact and to personally respond. Concept and interactive experience by non zero one, with verbatim testimony, new writing from Somalia Nonyé Seaton and new music from Xana that form an immersive audio world. 

Event hosted by Brixton House & 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

Life and its most trivial particulars

Weds - Sunday, Midday -  6.00 pm, in-person at Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Rd, SW9 0RE

To celebrate Lambeth Heritage Festival, Lambeth residents can visit Van Gogh House and see Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent's exhibition created for and installed throughout the house where Van Gogh lived from 1873 -4. Please pre-book and bring proof that you are a Lambeth resident (utility bill or equivalent) to get entrance at reduced rate of £2.50. To purchase special reduced price ticket, click on the full price adult ticket and enter the discount code LAMBETH87 at the checkout.

This paid event is hosted by Van Gogh House. Book here

Crypt and churchyard tour

Mon 13th Sept, 2.30 pm, in-person at St Leonard's church, Streatham High Rd, SW16 1HS

Explore the “dead-centre” of Streatham with resident local historian and writer, John Brown. Despite the rebuilds, St Leonard’s church is Streatham’s oldest building and its well-preserved medieval crypt and its churchyard provide a rich history of many of its long-departed residents. Possibly not for the squeamish.

This event is hosted by the Streatham Society. Book here.

Music and Lambeth: a historical review 

Mon 13th Sept, 7.00 pm, online

Music plays an important part in many people's lives, whether as listeners or players, or as singers or dancers. It has been a feature of organised social life though bands, orchestras, organisations's events and commercial activities, as well as in private homes. Sean Creighton's talk will present Lambeth's rich history of music activity, its associations with composers, performers, singers and dancers, and compositions expressly written about it. With extracts from music recordings.

This event is hosted by Lambeth Archives. Book here

How do you move a library?

Tue 14^th Sept  1.00 pm online

An online discussion between Giles Mandelbrote (Librarian & Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library), Lara Artemis (Senior Conservator) and Declan Kelly (Director of Information Management for the Church of England). Marking the move of Lambeth Palace Library into a brand-new purpose-built building (opening shortly on Lambeth Palace Road), this event will explore some of the practicalities and challenges of moving some 20km of manuscripts, archives and rare books, with a preview of the new public building and the opportunities it offers for the future.

This event is hosted by Lambeth Palace Library. Book here

Ruskinland 

Tue 14^th Sept 7.00 pm in-person at Carnegie Library, Herne Hill Road, SE24 0AG

John Ruskin, the best-known and most controversial intellectual of the Victorian age, was an art critic, a social activist, an early environmentalist. He was also a painter, writer, and a determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture and design. By championing JMW Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, he ensured that their flame continued to burn long beyond his death in 1900, even as his own reputation faded. Research for his award-winning book Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World took Financial Times columnist Andrew Hill from Herne Hill to the Lake District, from Venice to Florida's Gulf Coast, as he traced the influence of Ruskin and his ideas. He will discuss the relevance of Ruskin’s radical ideas today for how we live, work, and see the world.

This in-person event may have to change and take place online;  either way, once you book, you will be notified.

A Friends of Carnegie Library event hosted by Lambeth Libraries. Book Here

Self-publishing your history book

Wed 15^th Sept at 7.00 pm online

Naomi Clifford, author of two self-published nonfiction history books with Lambeth connections, shares self-publishing experiences, covering research, preparation of the manuscript, print platforms, crowdfunding, ebooks, marketing and sales.Naomi Clifford's latest self-published book, Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver, is to be published in September 2021. In 2010 she wrote and published These Were Our Sons: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial. Pen&Sword have published three of her titles. She is a co-editor of VauxhallHistory.org and a podcaster for The Door History Podcast.

A Vauxhall History and Friends of Tate South Lambeth event                      hosted by Lambeth libraries.  Book here

Loughborough Road histories

Thu 16^th Sept at 7.00 pm, in-person at San Mei Gallery, 39a Loughborough Rd, SW9 7TB

Scratch beneath the surface of any street and a fascinating history of people and events will be uncovered. Loughborough Road is no exception. Join Tracey Gregory, for a glimpse into Loughborough Road’s past, through this illustrated talk. Tracey will also be launching her first book, Loughborough Road Histories, published by The Brixton Society, featuring short histories of the emergence of the street, some of its shops, pubs and people. The book will be on sale at the talk.

This event is hosted by the San Mei Gallery. Book here

Penny Lecture: the Waterloo Shot Tower – a biography

Fri 17^th Sept 6.00 pm, in-person, at Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd., SE1 7HT

The Shot Tower stood nearly 200 ft tall on the river front by Waterloo Bridge for nearly 140 years until the early 1960s, an unmistakeable and important landmark which featured in the everyday life of Londoners. Yet today it is barely remembered.  In this illustrated talk, Nick Rampley traces the history of this all but forgotten building and of the industries that characterised Lambeth’s riverside, giving particular focus – on the 70th anniversary of the Festival of Britain - to the role the Tower played in the South Bank exhibition. This is one of Morley College's Penny Lecture series, part of the college's history, offering a monthly specialist talk to inspire and entertain for just one penny!

This event is hosted by Morley College. Book here

Clapham, 1807

Sat 18^th Sept 2:30 pm, in-person. Meet at the clock tower by Clapham Common station.

Join S.I. Martin on a walk around Clapham Common exploring the area's important links with Black history in the 18th & 19th centuries. You can expect to encounter African royalty, members of the Clapham Sect, school children from the African Academy and the Black poor along the route. 

This is an in person event. No booking required.

Stockwell Green

Sun 19^th Sept 2,30 pm, in-person. Meet at Costcutter store,The Quadrant, Stockwell Green, SW9 9JF

A walk led by Bill Linskey around the Stockwell Green area which once had two places of worship, two schools, two breweries and – of course – a village green.

This event is hosted by the Brixton Society. No booking required.

Sowing Roots

Sun 19^th Sept 3.00 pm, in-person at Loughborough Farm, Loughborough Rd, opposite Wyck Gardens, SW9 7EL

This workshop will introduce a first of its kind oral history project and exhibition based at the Garden Museum that explores the history and culture of Caribbean gardening in South London. How are breadfruit and prickly pear connected to Lambeth? How and why has gardening been important for people who moved here from the Caribbean? Come hear from the project team, as well as taste some fruit and veg!

This event is hosted by the Garden Museum. Book here

ON THESE STREETS, an interactive audio  journey

Any day in September, 10.00 am - 10.00 pm, in-person, walk starts from Brixton tube station, Brixton Rd SW9 8HE

ON THESE STREETS is a self-guided walk using a  web-app created as a response to the 1981 Uprising. It offers a journey through the streets of Brixton that invites you to bear witness, to interact and to personally respond. Concept and interactive experience by non zero one, with verbatim testimony, new writing from Somalia Nonyé Seaton and new music from Xana that form an immersive audio world. 

Event hosted by Brixton House & 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

Life and its most trivial particulars

Weds - Sunday, Midday -  6.00 pm, in-person at Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Rd, SW9 0RE

To celebrate Lambeth Heritage Festival, Lambeth residents can visit Van Gogh House and see Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent's exhibition created for and installed throughout the house where Van Gogh lived from 1873 -4. Please pre-book and bring proof that you are a Lambeth resident (utility bill or equivalent) to get entrance at reduced rate of £2.50.To purchase special reduced price ticket, click on the full price adult ticket and enter the discount code LAMBETH87 at the checkout.

This paid event is hosted by Van Gogh House. Book here

Clapham South: the making of an Edwardian suburb

Mon 20^th Sept at 8.00 pm online and in-person at Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0QW

In the 1880s the mansions around Clapham Common were being demolished and new roads laid out. Local resident Mike Tuffrey will recount how the neighbourhood around Abbeville Road came to be built - and reveal the decisive part played by an elusive land agent – a linen draper from Tottenham and sometime felon. No Booking required for in person attendance; please book below to view online.

This event is hosted by the Clapham Society. Book here

The Wood that Built London

Mon 20^th Sept 7.00 pm, online

Local author C. J. Schüler previews his latest book, The Wood that Built London, out this October.  Drawing on historic documents, maps and environmental evidence, he charts the fortunes of the Great North Wood that once covered much of what is now South London:  ecology, ownership and management, the gradual encroachment by the metropolis, and the battles fought by locals and the London Wildlife Trust to save what remained.

A Friends of Durning Library event hosted by Lambeth Libraries.                                                                                                               Book here

Radical Lambeth

Tue 21st Sept, 19.00, online

In the 1980s Lambeth was derided as a ‘loony left’ borough. From another perspective it was defined the struggle against the Conservative government’ agenda, standing for municipal socialism, solidarity with causes both at home and abroad, and against the crisis of inner-city urban life caused by ‘greed is good’ capitalism. Based on first-hand accounts of those involved, Simon Hannah’s newly published book tells the story of Radical Lambeth, an inner London community that fought back. 

This event is hosted by Lambeth Archives. Book here

Nuclear Dawn Rising

Thu 23^rd Sept 5:30pm, in- person, Ritzy Cinema 26 Brixton Rd., SW2 1JG

Premiere of Nuclear Dawn Rising - a new short documentary about the creation and restoration of Brian Barnes mural, first painted in 1981. Plus Q&A with director and artists. Selected films from "Animate at Home" made  during Lockdown. Other short films by Clapham Film Unit and friends.

This event is hosted by the Clapham Film Unit. Book here

Super Sam

Fri 24^th Sept 7.00 pm, online

Filmmaker Sandi Hudson-Francis invites us on a journey to explore the life of a Windrush Generation immigrant through her intimate portrait of 92 year old Clovis Salmon, who left Jamaica in 1945 to work on sugar plantations in America before settling in Brixton in 1954 where he purchased a Super 8 film Camera and began documenting life around him. 

This event is hosted by 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. Book here

No place like home. Tracing the history of your Lambeth neighbourhood

Sat 25^th Sept 10.00 am - midday, in-person at Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY

Are homes just bricks and mortar or do they have hidden stories to tell? Join Lambeth Archivist, Zoe Darani, for this in-person workshop, exploring original documents that trace the history of Lambeth's neighbourhoods, using the sites of Myatt's Field North and South Estates, as examples. With opportunity to have a go yourself. 

This event is hosted by Lambeth Archives. Book here

Open afternoon

Sat 25^th Sept 1.00 - 5.00 pm, in-person at Brixton Windmill, Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA

On this free guided tour of Brixton Windmill you will see two sets of millstones – the original wind-powered machinery, and the smaller stones installed by the Ashby family in 1902 that were driven by steam. Now they run on electricity and are used by our volunteer millers to produce Brixton Windmill flour.

This event is hosted by the Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Secret Polish Places in South London Sat 25^th

Sept 9.00 -12.00, in-person

Join the outdoor city game, Secret Polish Places in South London, and discover forgotten corners of the “Polish” London around Clapham & Balham. Together with your family or friends explore the  local history, meet the mysterious heroes of the past, follow the clues, solve   the riddles and undertake special tasks.  Age 12+, 

 A Polish language event hosted by the Polish Heritage Project. Book here

Coldharbour East

Sun 26^th July at 2:30 in-person

A walk led by Alan Piper exploring Coldharbour Lan and the streets off it eastward from Loughborough Junction.

This event is hosted by the Brixton Society. Book here

The grounds of Park Hill, a guided tour

Sun 26^th Sept 2.00 pm and 3.00 pm in-person at Henry Tate Mews, Streatham common North, SW16 3HA

Park Hill on Streatham Common, was built ca.1830 by William Leaf, a banker and silk merchant. Henry Tate, the sugar magnate (Tate and Lyle), lived here from 1885. A philanthropist and art collector, he opened his gallery here to the public once a year and later donated most of his collection to the Tate Gallery, which he established in London. St Michael's Convent later occupied the site which is now a private residential site.

This event is hosted by the Streatham Society. Book here

Brixton Windmill Walk

Sun 26^th Sept 1.00 pm, in-person

The walk follows a once-rural street pattern and traces the 19th-century development of the area’s farmland for housing, prison and clean water supply. You will hear tales of prisoners, discover how trams scaled Brixton Hill and learn why the Telegraph pub was so named. You can spot a Tuscan oil jar shop sign, a rare pillar box and one of London’s oldest cinemas.

This paid event is hosted by the Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Open afternoon

Sun 26^th Sept 1.00 - 5.00 pm, in-person at Brixton Windmill, Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA

On this free guided tour of Brixton Windmill you will see two sets of millstones – the original wind-powered machinery, and the smaller stones installed by the Ashby family in 1902 that were driven by steam. Now they run on electricity and are used by our volunteer millers to produce Brixton Windmill flour.

This event is hosted by the Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Sowing Roots

Sun 26^th Sept, 3.00 pm, in-person at Ruskin Park Community Gardens, Denmark Hill, SE5 8EL

This workshop will introduce a first of its kind oral history project and exhibition based at the Garden Museum that explores the history and culture of Caribbean gardening in South London. How are breadfruit and prickly pear are connected to Lambeth? How and why has gardening been important for people who moved here from the Caribbean? Come hear from the project team, as well as taste fruit and veg!

This event is hosted by the Garden Museum. Book here

ON THESE STREETS, an interactive audio  journey

Any day in September, 10.00 am - 10.00 pm, in-person, walk starts from Brixton tube station, Brixton Rd SW9 8HE

ON THESE STREETS is a self-guided walk using a  web-app created as a response to the 1981 Uprising. It offers a journey through the streets of Brixton that invites you to bear witness, to interact and to personally respond. Concept and interactive experience by non zero one, with verbatim testimony, new writing from Somalia Nonyé Seaton and new music from Xana that form an immersive audio world. 

Event hosted by Brixton House & 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

Life and its most Trivial Particulars

Weds - Sunday, Midday -  6.00 pm, in-person at Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Rd, SW9 0RE

To celebrate Lambeth Heritage Festival, Lambeth residents can visit Van Gogh House and see Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent's exhibition created for and installed throughout the house where Van Gogh lived from 1873 -4.   Please pre-book and bring proof that you are a Lambeth resident (utility bill or equivalent) to get entrance at reduced rate of £2.50. To purchase special reduced price ticket, click on the full price adult ticket and enter the discount code LAMBETH87 at the checkout. 

This paid event is hosted by Van Gogh House. Book here

Crime and Punishment in Herne Hill, 1750 - 1900

Mon 27^th Sept at 7.00 pm, online

Was the nine-year-old John Ruskin aware of the dreadful murder of a servant in the house opposite his family’s home on Herne Hill? This is just one of the many stories uncovered by research into the murkier history of Herne Hill and its neighbourhood. The talk starts at a time when there were more than 150 “capital” crimes – crimes where the death penalty could be imposed. It ends with the theft of billiard balls from a house on Denmark Hill and the very first use in evidence of fingerprints in an English courtroom. The talk will be presented by Laurence Marsh and Rebecca Tee from the Herne Hill Society.

This Herne Hill Society event is hosted by Lambeth Archives. Book here

Beyond the Lens: The Polish Community from South London

Tue 28^th Sept at 7.00 pm, online

Meet South London based photographer Urszula Sołtys who has been recording stories and taking portraits of her local Polish community. It’s going to be a unique opportunity to discover personal stories, places of memory and cultural heritage from the long history of the Polish settlement in the UK. 

An English language event hosted by the Polish Heritage Project  Book here

Human Library Windrush Performance

Tue 28^th Sept at 6.00 pm, in-person at Brixton Road Youth Centre 143 - 145 Brixton Road SW9 6LZ

www.492kornaklub.com presents their free live in person Human Library Windrush Performance. This community event showcases Windrush elders & their kin (as human books) sharing their stories of Windrush to audiences (human readers) in one-on-one.

This event is hosted by 492 Korna Club. Book here

Mending Room - Jury Event

Wed 29^th Sept at 6:30pm, online

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton Uprisings. As part of 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, the Mending Room invites you to join The Menders to consider and re-imagine creative ways to elevate Brixton. We will explore themes including: Regeneration, Youth Trauma, Heritage & Intergeneration; and Collective Opportunities. This is a free online event held on Zoom.

Event hosted by Mending Room by 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

The man who built an Edwardian neighbourhood

Wed 29^th Sept at 6:30pm, in-person

Mike Tuffrey will lead a walk round the streets between Cavendish Road and Narbonne Avenue exploring how the neighbourhood came to be built, and revealing the identity of the elusive land agent – a linen draper from Tottenham and sometime felon – who made it all happen.

This event is hosted by the Clapham Society. Book here

Brixton Windmill 2011-2021

Wed 29^th Sept at 7.00 pm  in-person at Brixton Windmill Centre, Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5DA (in Windmill Gardens park)

This year's annual Windmill Lecture is a celebration of the 10 years since the Grade II* listed windmill was fully restored and re-opened to the public in 2011.

This event is hosted by the Friends of Windmill Gardens. Book here

Re/Naming: anti-racism and anti-colonialism on Lambeth's streets

Thu 30^th Sept,  7.00 pm online

 Kelly Foster's online talk will investigate how the re/naming and reinterpretation of public space became a tool to fight for equality and justice: at how and why Bob Marley Way, Olive Morris House, Bhopal House, the Angela Davis Industrial Estate, and others, got their names; at the work of Black women, such as Lambeth councillors Sharon Aitken and Linda Bellos, Cecile Nobrega; and the way that re/naming spaces in Lambeth has been shaped by resistance to racism and oppression.

This is a virtual event. Book here

ON THESE STREETS, an interactive audio  journey

Any day in September, 10.00 am - 10.00 pm, in-person, walk starts from Brixton tube station, Brixton Rd SW9 8HE

ON THESE STREETS is a self-guided walk using a  web-app created as a response to the 1981 Uprising. It offers a journey through the streets of Brixton that invites you to bear witness, to interact and to personally respond. Concept and interactive experience by non zero one, with verbatim testimony, new writing from Somalia Nonyé Seaton and new music from Xana that form an immersive audio world. 

Event hosted by Brixton House & 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance. Book here

Life and its most trivial particulars

Weds - Sunday, Midday -  6.00 pm, in-person at Van Gogh House, 87 Hackford Rd, SW9 0RE

To celebrate Lambeth Heritage Festival, Lambeth residents can visit Van Gogh House and see Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent's exhibition created for and installed throughout the house where Van Gogh lived from 1873 -4.   Please pre-book and bring proof that you are a Lambeth resident (utility bill or equivalent) to get entrance at reduced rate of £2.50. To purchase special reduced price ticket, click on the full price adult ticket and enter the discount code LAMBETH87 at the checkout.

This paid event is hosted by Van Gogh House. Book here

A tour of St John's Waterloo

September date still to be agreed, in-person

St John’s Waterloo, one of London’s landmark churches and cultural venues, and a beacon of hope for the homeless, is undergoing a major £5 million restoration. Work started in July 2021 and the church will re-open in Spring 2022. For Lambeth Heritage Festival, St John’s is offering a tour of the site, including the atmospheric crypt. Be prepared to don a hard hat and join us to hear about the careful restoration of the church’s Georgian and Festival of Britain features and its fascinating social history. We cannot set a date yet as it will depend on the progress of the works going on but please register your interest via the link below. Once the date is known, we will contact you.

This event is hosted by St John's Church. Book here