Events

I Shine Like the Sun is a collection of nature-inspired affirmations for little ones.

Join Dee for a conversation, a discussion about family memory and identity. His poetry collection, 3000 Miles from Home: Stories My Father and Mother Never Told Me, is a poetic journey between Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

This event will be hybrid, and an online link will be sent with your booking.

Join Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+ book club to discuss The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Woulden.

A market celebrating independent football books, magazines, fanzines, kits, art and other independent football-related projects.

Everyone Everywhere is a powerful exploration of Britain’s mixed race identity, tracing its hidden past, vivid present, and hopeful future.

Flow is a group exhibition by artists, working across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, collage, photography, and film and video.

Tayari Jones returns with a luminous, deeply moving novel about mothers and daughters, and two lifelong friends whose worlds collide after years apart. Vernice and Annie are born within days of each other in Honeysuckle, Louisiana.

Join Julia to discuss her book and discover how to overcome isolation and enjoy solitude.

When Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report on the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself. 

Zines are small self-published magazines, and our annual zine fair celebrates our local and wider community of creative zinesters! A day of zines, small press and grassroots publications with over 25 stalls over two floors of Brixton Library.

As part of our Kanopy Film Screenings we’ll be showing two film shorts from The Youth and Gender Media Project: I’m Just Anneke (2010, 11min English subtitles) and Becoming Johanna: The Journey of a Transgender Teen 

In her memoir, Beulah ‘Guess’ Smith-Coombs chronicles her early childhood in 1950s rural Jamaica, narrating her upbringing and student years in ‘swinging 60s’ England and the decades beyond.

From 1968 to 1978; from ‘Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud’ to Off The Wall; from the Third Harlem Cultural Festival to the P-Funk Earth Tour: Funk Is Its Own Reward plots the journey of an African American cultural

A reminiscence workshop dedicated to the memory of Girleyvine - a Windrush Pioneer - showcasing some of her beautiful dresses and photographs, documenting her arrival from Jamaica to West Norwood in 1958.