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Read about the latest opportunities to watch, perform or support Lambeth’s world-class arts, culture and events. We are home to hundreds of brilliant venues, creative spaces and the thousands of people who work in them.

OvalHouse Brixton City festival - the Flo Show singer

Steel band at Lambeth Festival, 1961

A Snapshot of Brixton: Harry Jacobs and the Empire Windrush

An exhibition of iconic 1960s photographs depicting members of the Windrush generation are going on display as part of the Empire Windrush 70th anniversary celebrations.

Lambeth Readers and writers festival 2018 Week : (l) Author Ben Okri in beret and white shirt (r) wide-eyed woman's face with 'freedom' on sticky tape covering her mouth in an X symnolising women who do not have the right to speak

Welcome to this year’s Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival – Week Four (21-27 May)

The 2018 Readers and Writers Festival is here again with a month-long programme of inspirational literary events - readings by writers (including Booker Prizewinner Ben Okri), Clapham's book festival,...

Man in wooly hat holding compost bin lid open with one hand while putting cut tree branch in with the other

Get composting! It’s easy and it’s good for the Earth

You can make compost with garden waste and/or with food waste. Even if you don’t have a garden to make (or need) compost, you will still be doing good...

Welcome to this year’s Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival – Week Three (14 -20 May)

The 2018 Readers and Writers Festival is here again with a month-long programme of inspirational literary events - readings by writers (including Booker Prizewinner Ben Okri), Clapham's book festival,...

Four piles of jumbo-sized teapots, cups, saucers etc in shades of blue, grey, white & brown over the front door to Clapham hop 'North Street Potters'

North Street Potters – a handcrafted Lambeth tradition

North Street Potters opened on Mayday 1978 as a women’s collective and still operates as a collective business selling fair-priced plates to celebrity chefs (and anyone else). They also...

Dying matters: what can you do? - promotional campaign for 2018 awareness week 14-18 May on end of life care, making wills, etc

Dying Matters comes to Lambeth

Dying Matters Awareness Week will create hundreds of friendly spaces in the UK for questions and answers about end of life care, planning a funeral, coping with bereavement, and...

Photo of Empire Windrush passengers reading newspaper on board the ship - poster for 'Windrush Generation' event at Lambeth Town Hall 16 May 2018

The Windrush Generation

Join the Windrush Foundation and the Black Police Association in Brixton’s Assembly Hall on May 16 to celebrate the Windrush Generation.

Javelin thrower representing Lambeth in one of more than 30 sports

Represent Team Lambeth for London’s Youth Games

Aged 11 – 17 and want to represent your sport and borough against the whole of London at the London Youth Games?

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