Brixton’s creative spirit takes centre stage with UPRISING, a months-long festival at Brixton House theatre marking 40 years since the 1985 Brixton Uprising. Curated by Danny Bailey and Tobi Kyeremateng, UPRISING honours Brixton’s activist legacy and Black British culture by amplifying local stories from the Windrush Generation to the 80s. The festival runs from June to October, kicking off with a Windrush celebration and closing with a finale honouring 1980s Brixton icon Pearl Alcock.
This Saturday 12 July, Brixton House invites you to a free Your Memories of ’70s/’80s Brixton scanning social. If you danced at Brixton’s reggae parties or browsed its record shops, bring your old photos and memorabilia to be digitised by the Museum of Youth Culture – your snapshots might even feature in a future exhibition. Hosted by rock singer Lorna Gee, it’s a chance to reminisce and celebrate the people who shaped that era’s buzzing youth scene, especially the women.