Brixton Culture Capital 16.04.2026
Beyond Brix & Mortar documentary
Who Is Brixton For?
Two stories this week that read like chapters of the same Brixton book.
On Tuesday, 27 independent traders at Brixton Plaza — jerk spots, tailors, barbers, record stalls — secured a High Court injunction blocking their eviction to make way for an Aldi. A temporary reprieve. Negotiations with the landlord continue. But for now, the shutters stay up.
Two miles away, a team is crowdfunding Beyond Brix & Mortar, a documentary asking exactly that question: who is Brixton for? It traces Windrush roots, Caribbean sound-system culture and the 1,700% property-price leap since the 1980s — the slow-motion churn that turned the Market and the Rec into contested ground.
The irony writes itself. A film about a community being priced out is being made in the same week that same community walks into the High Court and wins.
👉 Back Beyond Brix & Mortar on the crowdfunder — fund the film documenting the history in real time.
📖 Read: Brixton Plaza traders win High Court reprieve — Brixton Buzz 🎬 More on the film: Huck • Resident Advisor
🎟️ What’s On – Events in Brixton (Thu 16 → Wed 22 April 2026)
🎶 Music & Nightlife
✨ Fri, 17 Apr — Nickodemus + Souleance + Tigerbalm @hootanannybrixton 🕒 9:00 PM–late | NYC selector Nickodemus fuses Latin percussion, African grooves and reggae swing with Souleance and Tigerbalm riding shotgun. Beer garden open, soundsystem up, dancefloor lateral. Bring loose shoes and an appetite — Hootananny’s kitchen runs late. 🎟️ Grab tickets
✨ Sat, 18 Apr – Music For Lebanon @windmillbrixton
🕒 7:30 PM | A fundraiser with real purpose, not vague good intentions. Expect avant-pop, Lebanese alt-pop and heavy rhythms, with proceeds going to emergency relief and food support in Lebanon: intimate, urgent and outward-looking. 🎟️ Event info
✨ Sat, 18 Apr — Quantic (All Day Long) @phonox_london
🕒 4:00 PM–10:00 PM | Will Holland takes over Phonox for six hours of Latin, Afro, reggae and house filtered through his globe-trotting crates. Twenty years of festival credibility distilled into one room. Arrive early, pace yourself. 🎟️ Grab tickets
✨ Sun, 19 Apr — Brixton Got Soul @theblueskitchen
🕒 8:00PM | Live soul and funk lands at The Blues Kitchen for an unhurried Sunday session. bands, deep grooves, the kind of room where ive ended up dancing with the group next to me. Eat, drink, settle in. 🎟️ Grab tickets
✨ Wed, 22 Apr — Brixton Performs: Jim Sharp @ Chip Shop Brixton 🕒 7:00 PM–late | Brixton BID’s festival kicks off with Jim Sharp (ex-J.Bold), whose Transatlantic Accent EP earned DJ Mag’s Hip Hop Single of the Month and whose remix CV runs from Talib Kweli to Wiley. Hip-hop roots, club-facing selection, intimate room.
🎟️ See the programme
🔭 Coming Up (submitted by readers)
🌬️ Fri 24 Apr — Gong Bath Fundraiser @ Brixton Buddhist Community, 7:30–9:30 PM. 🎟️Book
🪡 Thu 7 May — Black Girl Sewing Circle: Waist Bead Workshop @ upCYCLE LDN, Brixton, 6:40–8:15 PM. 🎟️ Book
🌻 Mon 4 May — Mayfest @ Brixton Windmill, Windmill Gardens, 1–5 PM.
🎟️ Windmill site
🎨 Art & Heritage
✨ Thu 16 Apr onwards — Bardo Loops by Gabriel Abrantes @gasworkslondon
🕒 Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM | Lisbon-based Abrantes debuts his first UK solo show: a four-channel video installation tracking animated ghosts through a dystopian future. Climate dread meets autobiography, played for strange humour. Free entry, a short walk from Oval. 🎟️ Visit the show
✨ Tue–Sat — Race Today: Black History is British History @bcaheritage
🕒 10 AM–6 PM | BCA reopens its archive of the Race Today journal (1973–88) through Wayne G. Saunders’ documentary, collage and film. Tracks how Darcus Howe and the collective positioned strikes, housing and policing as core British history. 🎟️ Plan a visit
✨ Fri, 17 Apr – Brixton Act of Remembrance @nationalhcaw
🕒 6:00 PM–7:00 PM | Quiet, necessary and rooted in place. This annual gathering marks the 27th anniversary of the Brixton Market nail bomb attack on Electric Avenue. Not a spectacle — a civic memory check, and a reminder of what solidarity in Brixton has had to mean. 🎟️ Register here
✨ Sat, 18 Apr – Latin x Brixton Festival @brxhousetheatre
🕒 12:00 PM–7:00 PM | Brixton House hands the building over to a full day of Latinx workshops, talks, poetry, dance and live performance. It feels community-first rather than box-ticking, which is exactly why we will be there. Free, but book if you can. 🎟️ Event info
🧩 Everything Else (community, food, workshops, markets, talks)
✨ Sat, 18 Apr — Carnegie Library: 10 Years On @carnegielibraryhub
🕒 Afternoon (see listing) | A decade since residents occupied the building for nine days to block closure. Campaigners reunite to share photos, stories and souvenirs. Equal parts memory lane and live lesson in how Lambeth keeps its civic estate.
🎟️ Event info
✨ Mon, 20 Apr — Quiz Night for Home-Start Lambeth @effra.social
🕒 7:00 PM–10:30 PM | Pub quiz raising funds for Home-Start Lambeth, which supports local families with young children. Free entry, all proceeds to the charity, Effra’s kitchen running. Bring a team of four and a competitive streak. 🎟️ Book
✨ Sat, 18 Apr — Meditation Day Retreat @brixtonbuddhistcommunity
🕒 10:30 AM–4:30 PM | Brixton Buddhist Community opens a full day of practice around the earth-touching mudra and what it evokes. Welcoming for first-timers, depth for regulars. 21 Effra Road, places limited, by donation. 🎟️ Book a place
✨ Sat, 18 Apr — Marcy’s Mixes: Revival Supper Club @marcysmixes
🕒 3:00 PM–6:30 PM | Afro-fusion founder Marcy Ecoue runs a three-course West African tasting menu, two non-alcoholic cocktails, a hands-on fufu-pounding workshop and a quiz. Held at Restaurant M’d, Battersea — a short hop from SW9.
🎟️ Book a seat
✨ Wed, 22 Apr – Brixton Performs Comedy: Upstairs at The Ritzy @brixtonbid
🕒 7:30 PM–10:00 PM | Brixton Performs opens with Frankie Thompson, Pear, Freddie Meredith and MC duo Roger & Roger. The line-up is strong, the room is intimate, and it feels like the kind of festival night people talk about afterwards rather than during. 🎟️ Book tickets
👉 Got an event we should list next week? Drop the link + organiser IG handle and we’ll slot it in.
Stop working from home, work from Brixton's most loved coworking. £200/m. Business address @ £12.50/m and Private office @ £400/person @ Impact Brixton.
TheBccList Film & Theatre Guide
🍿 Thu–Wed — Project Hail Mary @ Ritzy A lone astronaut wakes aboard a failing mission with fragmented memories and one job: figure out why the sun is dying before Earth runs out of time. Ryan Gosling anchors a sci-fi odyssey that swings between cerebral and genuinely moving. 🧪 Rotten Tomatoes: 95% 🎟️ Book Now
🎭 Now Showing (until 3 May) — My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar @ Brixton House A part-telenovela, part-heist story following four Latinx women from South London who uncover a money-laundering link between a high-street bank and a cartel. Glitter-coated political theatre, already extended by popular demand. 🎟️ Book Tickets
Got a Brixton event, launch or screening worth shouting about? Send it to us — we’ll feature the best of the borough. 👉 Email: bcc@brixtonalchemist.com
Brixton Discounts
Impact Brixton- Free £35 coworking trial day pass for new readers of TheBcclist who have never visited IB . One time application Promocode is “bcclist”
Nuvola Pizza- Half-price pizza deal on Tuesdays at Nuvolapizza in Market Row, Brixton. Nuvolapizza is offering 50% off all pizzas on Tuesday.
Have a story or an event to share? Get in touch.
Until next Thursday, 11.11am
The BCC list