Vision for Brixton: are creatives and politicians on the same page
Brixton’s creative community slugs it out with the ‘establishment’ as they pitch their vision for Brixton against that of politicians, planners, construction and finance....
Sign up for the next Brixton Syrian supper club
Enjoy a delicious dinner, live music, and support a good cause at the same time. The next Syrian Supper Club takes place in Brixton...
Tips to make yourself heard workshop at Community Base
Make Some Noise! Getting people's attention and keeping it is a workshop at Brixton Community Base on Saturday 15 September run by Project Dirt...
Brixton talent prepares to go on show
Brixton Design Trail will once again bring local people, creatives and organisations together from 15 to 23 September. The theme of this year’s trail...
BDT: Bringing the Belonging to Brixton
Brixton Design Trail (BDT) launches on 15 September as part of the London Design Festival. This year’s theme – We Belong – explores and...
Brixton’s News Club kicks off with expert panel and hot topics
News Club is a fortnightly discussion event that combines a panel of experts with an audience of local news-hounds to dissect the week’s stories...
Rock Against Racism 40 years on – an echo that must get louder
Forty years ago this month the biggest party ever held in Brockwell Park took place under the banner Rock Against Racism. On 24 September...
Bite-sized food waste workshops
The Brixton Pound Café will be one of the venues for free “bite-sized” workshops on food waste for Lambeth residents organised by the charity...
Brixton Chamber Orchestra at Cressingham Gardens
The Cressingham Gardens Rotunda – one of the many things that makes the demolition-threatened estate special – hosted a concert by the Brixton Chamber...
Protests hit Network Rail arches sell-off
Network Rail’s attempts to sell its railway arches and other property is being hit by the campaign group Guardians of the Arches.
As we reported...
Picturehouse seeks to vary planning condition for new Lambeth cinema
Picturehouse cinemas, the owner of Brixton’s Ritzy, is seeking to vary the terms of Lambeth council’s planning conditions for its new cinema in West...
Ritzy union reps were unfairly dismissed
Union representatives at Brixton’s Ritzy Cinema were unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Workers at the Ritzy have been campaigning over several years to...
Brixton event will discuss Windrush Generation and ‘hostile environment’
Local Labour party activists are organising an educational event in Brixton to explore Home Office policies in the light of what has been happening...
Protest demands democracy in Lambeth
Campaigners against Lambeth council policies on estate demolition, libraries, local parks and more put the local into National Democracy Week yesterday (3 July) with a...
Brixton Windmill sails past funding target
Brixton Windmill’s Crowdfunder appeal for its new education centre raised more than £15,000 from nearly 200 supporters – comfortably passing its original target of...
Brixton Road fags promote Car Free Day plan
Students from Brixton’s School of Communications Arts created another striking and memorable campaign yesterday (3 July) when they distributed packs of “Brixton Road” cigarettes...
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School Ground Sounds young artists make and record music from scratch
Brixton based School Ground Sounds has produced an eight-track album working with ten young people who wrote, performed and created the music.
The charity works...
Help Ruskin Park friends celebrate bicentenary
The Friends of Ruskin Park are crowdfunding to raise the money for a programme of events and celebrations this summer in to mark the...
Be a green volunteer
Volunteers are already at work in Brixton’s Slade Gardens after it became one of a handful of local city greening projects to get significant funding...
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS
Brixton marks 20th anniversary of nail bombing
Campaigners against hate crime and a representative of the mayor of Lambeth last night joined others on Electric Avenue to mark the 20th anniversary of...
Local activists to the fore in Extinction Rebellion protest
Lambeth and Brixton members of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaign took part in the recent protests in London that closed roads and led to...
Help crowdfund for children’s Believe in Tomorrow garden
A Brixton gardener will be presenting her ideas to get more children outdoors at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show in July writes Emma...