Tag: Windrush Square
Petition to locate new memorial in Windrush Square
A Memorial to the Windrush Generation announced recently (22 June) by government to be sited at Waterloo is in the wrong place says Cllr...
Councillor launches petition to site Windrush memorial in Brixton
A senior Lambeth council member has launched a petition opposing plans to site the official Windrush generation memorial at Waterloo.
Councillor Sonia Winifred, cabinet member...
Brixton at centre of Windrush Day events
Windrush Day on Saturday (22 June) will be marked in Brixton and all over Britain by many events, performances and commemorations.
Locally, there will be a...
Brixton’s Windrush Square Veg Invasion
Brixton is braced for a vegetable invasion of Windrush Square and the market on 6 April. A family fun day running from 11am to...
BCA’s new head Arike Oke says archives are a world to...
Arike Oke, head of the Black Cultural Archives on Brixton's Windrush Square talks to Leslie Manasseh about her new job
The Black Cultural Archives is...
Brixton kids join worldwide climate campaign
Brixton was today (15 March) part of the worldwide movement of young people demanding immediate and radical action on climate change.
https://youtu.be/HzM47Ntisx0
School pupils, mainly from...
Young and old join to mark 100th Armistice Day in Brixton
Some of the youngest and the oldest people present featured at today’s (11 November) Armistice Day ceremony in front of the African Caribbean war...
Festival flamingos flock to Brixton
Organisers of the Neverworld Festival this morning (19 July) filled Windrush Square with flamingos, saying: “Festivals are full of life-changing experiences and Neverworld want...
Guardian angel for Brixton’s African Caribbean war memorial
As Brixton geared up for the Windrush anniversary, the African Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square got a new caretaker.
Stafford Geoghagen owner of Caribbean...
VE Day ceremony in Windrush Square
Brixton’s African Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square will be the scene of a VE (Victory in Europe) Day celebration tomorrow (8 May) that...
Brixton event to aid local young people
Twelve hours of music, street art and food, and workshops will come to Windrush Square on Saturday 12 May to celebrate Brixton diversity.
Three organisations,...
Brixton Disco Festival – it’s a family affair
(sponsored blogpost) It’s coming this Saturday 28 April! The first ever Brixton Disco Festival celebrating 40 years of disco - and celebrating Brixton...
Diane Abbott: Glad to be in the heart of Brixton for...
“I’m very glad to be here in the heart of Brixton, one of the centres for the Windrush generation,” shadow home secretary Diane Abbott...
Destroyed Windrush generation landing cards ‘should have come to Brixton’
Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives (BCA) have demanded to know why crucial evidence about the immigration status of the Windrush Generation was destroyed instead of...
Green Party launch “Breathing Cities” campaign in Brixton
The Green Party launched their clean air campaign, Breathing Cities, in Windrush Square last Saturday.
Caroline Russell, Green Party London Assembly Member, said that Brixton...
Brixton’s new Santander cycles
Brixton's first cycle hire docking stations are due to open today (12 February).
A total of seven are opening in an expansion of the scheme...