Brixton Culture Capital 18.06.2026
"Buy Back Brixton" Can the community actually buy Brixton Market.
Every so often, a town gets a choice it didn’t expect. Brixton has a choice now, and only days to make it.
Brixton Village and Market Row are back on the market, and there’s a community move to buy them.
Most people think this is about stopping a private equity firm from raising rents. I think it’s bigger than that.
I am part of the team daring to dream. Get involved here.
🎟️ What’s On – Events in Brixton (Thu 18 → Wed 24 June 2026)
🎶 Music & Nightlife
✨ Thu, 18 Jun – EDBL: Soul of the South @freightbrixton
🕒 6:00 PM–11:00 PM | Free rooftop live music at Freight, with EDBL bringing soul, jazz and groove-heavy warmth to Brixton Station Road. A strong Thursday opener that gives the week a live-music lift without defaulting to the usual circuit. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Fri, 19 Jun – Hyzteria Presents: FREEDOM @bricks.london
🕒 10:00 PM–3:00 AM | Bricks gets a deep, melodic house and indie-dance takeover from Hyzteria, Milk & Honey, Get Together and Freedom. Intimate, late and built around atmosphere rather than big-room noise. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Fri, 19 Jun & Sat, 20 Jun – Summer Session @pergolabrixton
🕒 Evening | Pergola brings summertime rooftop energy to Brixton Village across Friday and Saturday. Use this as the lighter nightlife pick: food, drinks, DJs and a softer landing for anyone not chasing a 3am finish. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Sat, 20 Jun – Slow Jamm: Day Party Special @brixtonjamm
🕒 4:00 PM–10:00 PM | Slow jams, R&B edits and terrace energy at Jamm. The key is restraint: one Jamm pick, chosen because it is daytime, social and summer-facing, not because we are defaulting back to the same venues. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Mon, 22 Jun – Kobo Town @ Hootananny Brixton
🕒 8:00 PM | Calypso reinvented. Trinidadian-Canadian outfit Kobo Town fold soca, dub and spoken word into songs that swing and bite. A Monday-night antidote to the start-of-week slump. £13.35. 🎟️ Event info
🎨 Art & Heritage
✨ Thu, 18 Jun – Upcoming Debut Artists @photofusionuk
🕒 Until 6:00 PM | Final chance to catch Photofusion’s debut exhibition of Bath Spa University fashion photography graduates. New image-makers, fresh editorial language and a useful reminder that Brixton’s photography infrastructure still matters. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Sat, 20 Jun – Windrush 26: Bringing the Vibez @brxhousetheatre
🕒 Check venue times | Brixton House and Just Vibez mark Windrush weekend with DJs, games, karaoke, Carnival headpiece-making, dance workshops and family activity. Less formal tribute, more living-room energy scaled up for the whole community. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Mon, 22 Jun – UPRISING: Bringing Brixton Inside for Windrush @brxhousetheatre
🕒 11:00 AM–4:30 PM | A Windrush Day takeover built around community, creativity and intergenerational memory. Expect music, workshops, dominoes, performances and local traders — Brixton House turned into a civic front room. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Thu, 25 Jun – Fireside Chat with Attorney Ben Crump @bcaheritage
🕒 6:00–8:00 PM | A legend of the civil rights movement comes to Windrush Square. Ben Crump — “Black America’s attorney general,” counsel to the families of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd — talks his new book Worse Than a Lie, then signs copies. Free for Black Card members; £25 standard, £50 with book. Livestream available.🎟️ Event Event Info
🧩 Everything Else (community, food, workshops, markets, talks)
✨ Sat, 20 Jun – Windrush 26: Saturday Soup @ Brixton House
🕒 Daytime | Stories. Soup. Shoobz. A warm, low-key Windrush commemoration built on the Caribbean ritual of sitting down to eat and remember together. Bring an appetite and an open ear. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Sun, 21 Jun – Gig at the Greenhouses: Mambista with Youthsayers @brockwell_greenhouses
🕒 6:30 PM–10:30 PM | Reggae, dub, Afrobeat, funk and jazz in the greenhouse setting. Youthsayers bring the local youth-music energy; Mambista bring the grown-up outdoor-session curation. One of the week’s best community culture picks.
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✨ **Fri 26 Jun – Make Your Own Rum & a Caribbean Feast @brixtonculture
🕒 12:00 PM · ~3.5 hrs | Walk Brixton’s history from Windrush Square to the Frontline, taste five rums, then charge a copper still and distil your own 200ml bottle at our Black-owned distillery. A sit-down Jamaican feast while it works. You leave with rum you made. 18+. 🎟️ Event info
The BccList Film & Theatre Guide
🍿 Thu, 18 Jun–Wed, 24 Jun – Backrooms @ritzycinema
Kane Parsons turns the internet’s favourite liminal nightmare into a full A24 horror feature. In 1990, a strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, pulling Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Clark into a dimension of endless, ordinary rooms that feel anything but safe. Renate Reinsve plays the therapist who follows him in. Viral folklore, eerie architecture and psychological dread — a strong late-night Ritzy pick.
🧪 Rotten Tomatoes: 88% 🎟️ Book Now
🎭 Tue, 23 Jun – Minor Black Figures: Brandon Taylor in Conversation @brxhousetheatre
🕒 7:00 PM | Booker Prize-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor comes to Brixton House for the only London date on his UK tour, discussing Minor Black Figures with Joshua Rivers. A sharp literary pick for the week: Black queer creativity, the art world, desire, faith and what it means to make work inside messy systems. 🎟️ Book Tickets
Brixton Discounts
Reader-only deals across Brixton, updated weekly.
This week’s picks:
Impact Brixton → Free £35 coworking day pass for first-time visitors. New BCC readers only, one per person. Use code bcclist.
Nuvola Pizza → 50% off all pizzas on Tuesdays at Market Row.
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