✴︎ Wednesday, 10 June ✴︎
Creative Encounters at Southbank Centre marks Refugee Week 2026 on 10th June with a free evening of lino printmaking, live music and conversation exploring courage, displacement, belonging and shared experience.
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GMA’s Community Kitchen hosts Meet Up, Eat Up at Studio Z, Brixton, on 11th June, with a free Ethiopian feast, music, games and activities to begin Refugee Week celebrations.
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Club Commons and the Feminist Library host a book launch on 26th June, bringing together intergenerational queer conversation, London nightlife history, archival flyers and the Naked Souls oracle.
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Baobab: IRL hosts a free Pride Month creative workshop on 28th June for LGBTQIA+ people who have had abortions, offering space to craft, share stories and connect through care.
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Dalston Solidarity Cafe hosts a fundraiser supper club at Gleaners Café on 23rd June, serving a three or four-course vegan meal with veggie add-ons and BYOB tickets from £25.
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And finally, our own event! shado launches its Liberated Media training school with Pitching 101 on 17th June, a beginner-friendly workshop led by senior editor Erin Cobby covering story angles, approaching editors, structuring pieces and getting published.
Reserve a free ticket HERE
✴︎ Friday, 05 June ✴︎
A night of cumbia, salsa and Latin grooves at The Kilburn Bridge tonight celebrates a birthday while raising funds for Baobab Survivors’ music therapy and lessons for refugees.
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A screening and discussion of the Assata Shakur documentary Eyes of the Rainbow takes place at Halkevi, Dalston, on 13th June, exploring Black liberation, Cuba, anti-communism and racism.
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Join Tina Makereti and Saraid de Silva in conversation with Tagore’s Salon and Footnote Press at Multi-Story Peckham on 18th June for a discussion on fiction, resistance, Indigeneity, diaspora, settler colonialism and migration.
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Analog Africa Records brings its tropical, funky sound to the Fox on 12th June, with label boss Samy Ben Redjeb joined by DJ Magrão and John Stapleton for rare Afro and Latin sounds from the 70s and 80s.
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Catch the final weekends of Peckham Fringe as its fifth edition wraps up at Theatre Peckham and Canada, showcasing inventive local theatre on everything from Filipino migration and radicalisation to AI therapy and protest.
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Lost Music Venues at V&A South Kensington celebrates around 50 former performance spaces from the 1980s to the 2010s, exploring their role as creative hubs and the pressures facing grassroots music venues. Until 30th October 2027.
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