South London’s busiest DJ & founder of L.A.B Collective and much loved Brainchild family DJ; whether it’s his Croydon FM show, beat-maker meet-up Beat Meet or Beats & Liquor show – Chris (BusyFingers) has kept us stocked up with brilliant mixes, energy and new tunes throughout this pandemic and we are so excited to have…
As part of their takeover, Touching Bass presents Brother Portrait and Maxwell Owin, showcasing a new project they’re working on together. Both Brainchild mainstays and pillars of London’s music ecology in their own right, we are very excited to find out what material they’ve created! A little bit more about them each: Brother Portrait is…
Life Works Out… Usually is the fruit of Demae’s years spent absorbing London’s culture and musical identity, as well as singing with Fatima or as part of hiphop trio Hawk House. It’s a coolly assured debut from an artist with an incredible voice and flow. Demae sings of joyous experiences, growth and empowerment as a…
As we move into the “after times”, T A P E Collective have curated a programme of short films which explore elements of ‘TOUCH’ – lust, desire, isolation, self-love, self-care and self-loathing, in all their various forms of expression. Join them on a sensory journey through the lows of anxiety & distance, to the curiosity…
Feel welcome. Come as you are. Trust yourself. Trust your body. Trust this. This year Amarnah Ufuoma Cleopatra (the A in DAL) aka Queen Cleopatra (Scrapbook Mixtape) will be leading a morning movement workshop with the accompaniment of a live musician. In this hour and 15 minutes, Amarnah invites you enter the space with an…
Daytimers, the UK-based South Asian arts collective, take you through the story behind their namesake. This talk will trace the history of secret daytime raves run by British Asians throughout the 1980s and 1990s. From fostering an environment for communities to express themselves freely, to breeding ground-breaking & scene-defining fusions of musical genres. These spaces…
Conflict with those we love can be some of the most painful experiences of life. In working with conflict inside Extinction Rebellion we have learnt that if we confront conflict with a belief that it has something to teach us it can also lead to some of the most transformative, beautiful moments of life. We…
Bukky Bakray is Shola, AKA Rocks – a force-of-nature 15-year-old east Londoner with a talent for makeup artistry, who returns home from school one day to discover that her depression-prone mother has abandoned her and her young brother Emmanuel, and is left with no choice but to live by her wits. A vibrant, insightful and…
Jay jay’s Voguing Workshop has become the stuff of Brainchild legend – once a year, Father of the UK House of Revlon, founder of the Kiki House of Tea and leading authority of Ballroom in the UK, Jay Jay Revlon, will ask you to dip, duck and dive like never before. For the very first…
Through this workshop we’ll discuss how you can become an active anti-racist and what current campaigns you can be part of to tackle institutional racism in the light of the Black Lives Matter movement. To give some context for the current movement we will look at the history of racist ideas and racialisation as well…