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Windrush celebrations in pictures
Two events celebrated Windrush Day in the Brixton Square named after the ship that docked in London in 1948 with many passengers from the Caribbean.
On Saturday the Brixton Project staged an afternoon of recollection, storytelling and improvised drama around the recollections of members of the first Windrush Generation and...
Caribbean film festival brings open air cinema to Windrush Square
The Windrush Caribbean Film Festival (WCFF) is working in partnership with Friends of Windrush Square to provide what it says is the first ever outdoor cinema screening in Brixton’s Windrush Square on Sunday 23 June, as part of the Big Caribbean Lunch.
The event, running from noon to 7pm, will...
Grants for ‘opera flash mob’ and Windrush procession
Two locally based organisations – the Brixton Project and Pegasus Opera – are among 28 to get government funding this year for events around Windrush Day – 22 June.
Announcement of the funds came after the second annual Windrush Scandal vigil in Windrush Square on Saturday (6 April) when speakers...
Brixton’s Windrush Square marks Remembrance Sunday
West Indian Association of Service Personnel event
Earlier, the Clapham-based West Indian Association of Service Personnel (WASP) conducted a Remembrance Sunday service in Windrush Square.
Donatus Anyanwu, Lambeth council cabinet member for stronger communities, leisure and sports, said: “Let's look at each other and say, you and I will remember together,...
Brixton’s Windrush Square hosts Remembrance Sunday event
Brixton’s Windrush Square on Sunday (12 November) will once again see a wide-ranging event marking Remembrance Sunday, including senior representatives of the Jewish, Muslim, Christian and other faiths as well as two Commonwealth high commissioners and Second World War RAF veteran Neil Flanigan MBE.
Commencing at the African and Caribbean War Memorial at...
Windrush Day grant scheme open for applications
Applications are now open for the sixth Windrush Day Grant Scheme run by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Civil society groups, charities, and councils can bid for a share of up to £500,000 for educational, arts and sporting projects in the build-up to Windrush Day on 22...
Windrush Square flashmob to promote organ donation
A group of organ donors will gather in Brixton’s Windrush Square on Saturday (23 September) as part of the grand finale to Organ Donation Week.
Their aim is to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation and to boost organ donation rates in the UK’s Black community.
Gift of Living...
All welcome for the Windrush Aquathlon in Brockwell Park
Windrush Triathlon Club will host its annual Aquathlon at Brockwell Park on Sunday 16 July – and is inviting everyone in the community to join in.
The Aquathlon includes a swim in Brockwell Lido followed by a run around the park. This provides a safe, traffic-free environment for adults and...
More Brixton Windrush events
Brixton’s Windrush 75 celebrations continue in Windrush Square today (24 June) with the Immortals domino club hosting Domino Mania until 6pm and tomorrow with the Big Caribbean Lunch.
The carnival-style procession down Railton and Atlantic Roads on Windrush Day itself passed historic sites central to the story of the Windrush...
Windrush 75 in Brixton
Brixton and Lambeth are central to the events marking the 75thanniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush which has come to symbolise the arrival of Caribbean people in Britain after the Second World War
Brixton Windrush procession
Inspired by the major gallery installation The Procession by local artist Hew Locke – who...
Big Caribbean Lunch in Windrush Square
The Big Caribbean Lunch in Windrush Square on Sunday 25 June is an initiative developed by the Friends of Windrush Square (FOWS) and the Brixton Society.
Working with Metropolitan Thames Valley housing association and Lambeth council, the organisers plan to give lunch to 100 members of the Windrush Generation in...
Competition to ‘re-imagine’ Atlantic Road and Windrush Square
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA), Lambeth council and the Brixton Business Improvement District (BID) have launched a design competition inviting architects, designers and artists to submit a proposal for “interventions” at Atlantic Road and Windrush Square.
The competition, “People at the Centre of Brixton”, asks applicants to “re-imagine” the two sites and test “alternative scenarios” that wouldimprove the...
New Images of Windrush Pioneers
Bugle readers will not only be familiar with the Windrush story, some of them will have been part of it.
Autograph, a Hackney-based visual arts charity, presents a new outdoor display and online gallery of photographs which record and share the journey of the Windrush generation before, during and after arriving...
Windrush performance project
The Windrush Playback Performance Project (WPPP) is looking for people to take part in three or four Windrush community engagement performance events on the autumn and winter of this year.
Rehearsals start of Tuesday 5 July at Brixton Road Youth Club – 143 145 Brixton Road, SW9 6LZ.
The six rehearsal...
Home: Remembering the Windrush Generation
HOME: Remembering the Windrush Generation, is a new exhibition at the Black Cultural Archives (BCA), Windrush Square.
The homes of the Windrush generation from the 1950s and 1960s have been painstakingly and lovingly recreated using carefully chosen furniture, artefacts, and styles of the of the time. It is a nostalgic...
Windrush celebrations in Brixton
Brixton and South London will be at the centre of celebrations for Windrush Day tomorrow (22 June). This is our round-up of local events …
Pop Brixton and Brixton Station Road
The annual Elders’ Lunch brings together the Windrush Generation and their descendants with school children and young people to share...
Windrush Scandal: ‘Trauma doesn’t just go away’
Mental health consequences of the Windrush scandal on Caribbean and Black African families in the UK are to be explored in a new project.
Launched by academic Dr Rochelle Burgess and social commentator and historian Professor Patrick Vernon OBE, The Ties That Bind is the first study of its kind...
Windrush – what happened to those young people?
Tony Fairweather launches his new book, Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings – A Windrush Story, in Brixton library on Thursday 16 June. Camille Addis Alem talked to him about it
After a long career in the publishing industry, the founder of the Windrush Collection and Exhibition Tony Fairweather has written his debut book. On...
Windrush Triathlon Club – getting fitter and more diverse
The Windrush TriFit is back. From 23 May, Windrush Triathlon Club will once again be putting on its training programme designed with the Brixton community in mind.
“Triathlon is a mixture of swimming, cycling and biking all in one race,” Louise Newman, the club’s TriFit officer, told me.
The training programme...
Windrush Square climate rally
Local climate campaigners plan to rally in Windrush Square tomorrow (17 March) “to remind Lambeth council of the climate emergency they declared in 2019”.
Lambeth Extinction Rebellion (XR) will join other local campaign groups at the rally.
“It's been three years since Lambeth council declared a climate emergency,” said XR.
“The Citizens’...