The events taking place during week four of the festival are listed below. All events are free to attend and take place online. Follow the book here links to confirm your place.
Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020: week 5
Brixton memories – virtual reality:
Mon 28th Sept at 19:00
Making heritage engaging and accessible for young people is one of the final projects in the Brixton Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Lambeth Council. Working with architectural heritage experts, Our Hut and the Independent Film Trust seven young people have created Virtual Reality films about Brixton’s built environment through a series of workshops.
This event is hosted by the Brixton Project.
Pandemic, famine and war – how millers respond in times of crisis:
Mon 28th Sept at 19:00
Join us for Brixton Windmill’s response to the flour shortages and food poverty in the local community in 2020. Taking the history of Brixton’s own windmill, we look at the way that mills have traditionally kept us baking bread through difficult times.
This Friends of Windmill Gardens event is hosted by Lambeth Archives.
South London and the 19th Century cycling boom:
Mon 28th Sept at 19:00
At the back-end of the 19th century, cycling was the craze sweeping the nation. Whether as a commuter, sports fan or entertainer; socialite, middle or working class; man or woman – in the 1890s the bike had something for everyone and everyone wanted in. Join Balham Cycling Club’s Paul Darby for a look at the South London cycling scene during this period.
This event is hosted by the Streatham Society.
Draw Lambeth Creative History Workshop 2:
Tue 29th Sept at 19:00
Illustrator Nina Carter with history writer Naomi Clifford will lead this 90-minute online workshop exploring Lambeth’s rich heritage. They will guide your journey to some well-known – and not so well-known – landmarks, chosen by people in the community. You will hear about their remarkable histories and then make some quick-fire sketches. Afterwards, your drawings will be compiled into a narrated animation – a lasting souvenir of your virtual trip. Suitable for all ages and all drawing abilities. Requirements: Paper, pencil, internet connection.
This Draw Lambeth event is hosted by Lambeth Archives.
‘Mapping lives’:
Wed 30th Sept at 19:00
Join a live interactive performance and community debate about the Windrush Generation. We have been creatively working over the summer to explore all the issues around the Windrush Generation and their kin. We are living in a historic moment, join the 492 Korna Klub on the global stage for a virtual performance so that we can connect and dialogue about how we can move forwards celebrating and commemorating the Windrush generation.
This event is hosted by 492 Korna Klub.
International Music Hall:
Wed 30th Sept at 19:00
For the final event in Music Hall Wednesdays, a panel discussion on how music hall linked Brixton to the world and how performance names and personas disguised true identify. Featuring Alison Young (British Music Hall Society); Steve Martin, (Brixton based historian and author specialising in Black British history); Amy Matthewson, (Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).
This event is hosted by the Brixton Music Hall project.