27 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
This Week: Sound, Streets, Memory
A live weekly selection of listings that read London through sound archives, night walking, colonial memory, hidden infrastructure and Caribbean social life.
27 Jul 2026 – 2 Aug 2026
This week's selection connects a griot's own sound archive to how oral tradition survives outside institutions, a night walk through Whitechapel to how the city reads differently after dark, a British Library talk on colonial-era archives to who gets remembered at all, dominoes and plantain rum at Brixton House to Caribbean life as everyday culture rather than staged performance, a walk through hidden Victorian infrastructure to the city beneath the one Londoners already know, and a multi-voice poetry reading to whose voice ends up recorded.
6 events
Kadialy Kouyate's Sound Archive
Thu 30 Jul · Green Note
A kora player and griot historian opens his own sound archive: West African oral tradition performed, not just explained.
View event →walkwalkwalk, a night walk with Clare Qualmann and Gail Burton
Thu 30 Jul · Whitechapel Gallery
Two walking artists lead a night walk from Whitechapel Gallery: performance as much as tour, the city read on foot after dark.
View event →Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks
Tue 28 Jul · British Library
A British Library research talk on colonial-era archives: the kind of source work that decides whose history gets remembered at all.
Join us for two lunchtime talks.Jumbie Dance – Writings of ResistanceIn researching the slave history of Montserrat, it is not surprising to note that the African spiritual practic…
View event →Kromanti: Dominoes + Plantain Rum
Thu 30 Jul · Brixton House
Dominoes, plantain rum and Caribbean social life at Brixton House: culture as gathering, not staged performance.
Come for the dominoes. Stay for the rum. Let's build community—one sip at a time.
View event →The London Tunnels: Exploring London’s Hidden Infrastructure
Thu 30 Jul · The London Society
The London Society opens up the tunnels beneath the city most Londoners never think about.
View event →An evening of readings with Rashed Aqrabawi, Eva Gold, Bhanu Kapil, Mantra Mukim and Michiko Oki
Wed 29 Jul · Studio Voltaire
Five poets read together at Studio Voltaire: an evening built on multiple voices, not one headline name.
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