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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

Cityread 2018 – Bringing the capital together

Alongside all our own events for May's Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival, Lambeth Libraries is hosting artistic, historical and reading events to share the story and the themes of...

Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival May 2018 – Events for young readers and writers

Whether you enjoy reading, writing, discussion or simply sitting back and listening, there’s something for you happening in May’s Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival. Be part of the story...

Welcome to this year’s Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival – Week One (1 May-6 May 2018)

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

The lost words - a book about the names of birds, animals and wild flowers in the UK and how they are disappearing from children's vocabularies

Crowdfunder campaign to get wildlife words in Lambeth schools

All over the UK there have already been successful crowdfunded campaigns to buy nature book ‘the Lost Words’ for Primary schools. Now a Lambeth resident and a Wandsworth teacher...

Audience watching black & white silent film in the open air at Herne Hill railway station

Herne Hill free film festival 2018

The sixth year of Herne Hill's free film festival features critically acclaimed movies from the past year, films with a local flavour, including documentaries, and a 48 hour film...

Group of teenage boys and girls looking around the red chairs and bright lights of the stalls on a visit to the Rotal Opera House, Covent Garden

“Hip Hop to Opera”

As part of preparing for their sixth form exams, students from a Lambeth school worked with Opera Holland Park to discover opera for the first time. The life-changing results...

sepia tint/muted colour photo of crowd in Victorian costume on Kennington Common 1848 ready to deliver petition for right to vote to Parliament

Commemorate 1848’s Chartist rally on Kennington Common

On 10 April 1848, thousands of Londoners planned to march from Kennington to Parliament to deliver a petition with 2 million signatures asking for the right to vote. The...

One of three dancers representing Mariana, the heroine of a new film 'La Escuela' made by Gasworks not-for-profit arts space in Vauxhall about, and in partnership with, Latin American Women's groups

La Escuela tells Latin American women’s story

Women of all ages from local community groups such as Latin America Women’s Rights Service and language school Escuela Gabriel Garcia Marquez have worked with artist-in-residence Seth Pimlott to...

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