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Essential information on what to bring to gain entry to the festival and how to act when you’re there.

Tom they/them is a brilliant and most valued part of the Brainchild family – a cornerstone of Steez, which was the home of so many artists we love and admire today (and the notorious Steez café at Brainchild), they are an extraordinary poet, performer, theatre makers and facilitator. Their previous work includes the theatre show…

This is a very important announcement, so put on your seatbelts & please read it all. We’re asking you to come on a journey with us to make the best possible Brainchild Festival happen this year, and it will only work if you’re all on board.   New Dates: 6-8 August 2021 After a lot of…

Through a bold curiosity and creativity, Haseeb Iqbal and has already contributed so much in the creation of and uncovering of culture, past and present. He is a poet, DJ, host of a monthly Worldwide FM show; presenter of DIY podcast platform, Mare Street Records; author of Noting Voices: Contemplating London’s Culture. Recent ventures also…

Last year we formed a group within our wider team to discuss how we can make Brainchild a more inclusive, diverse & anti-racist organisation. As part of this, we opened a dedicated channel for feedback with the Black people & People of Colour in our community about their experiences of Brainchild spaces. We want to…

There’s nobody quite like Deji. Incendiary saxophonist, bandleader of Hypernova (an eccentric and explosive meeting of jazz and philosophy), member of Levitation Orchestra, student of Neuroscience and pioneer of Jazz Drill with his solo project Xvngo. We touched base with Deji to get his take on Essential Remedies and his suggestions didn’t disappoint: we are…

Any WOOM fan will know that loving them is an exercise in patience: since playing their very first set at Brainchild Festival 2017, we have waited 4 long years for any WOOM recordings that we can hear from home. That is, until now… as they have just released their debut EP ~ Into the Rest.…

Our next instalment in the Essential Remedies series comes from our favourite fire starters In Flames AKA Ruby Kwasiba Savage and Josephine Chime. Together, the two are an unstoppable duo of the dance! Their post-punk disco DJ sets are the stuff of legend, and we’ve been lucky enough to have them tear up the dancefloor at the…

  Back in the simpler times of 2019 we invited artist Peach Doble and her colourful tools to our festival to make an artistic response to our talks sessions. We have a larger project on the way soon, but as that was taking shape, we noticed some particularly powerful words and messages emerging and felt…

Allysha Joy is nothing short of a hero of ours. She’s a total cornerstone of the music coming out of (so-called) Australia*, both as a solo artist and as part of the band and collective 30/70. There is an undeniable resonance going on between Melbourne and South East London: so when we found out that…