REFORM
- Celebrate a leading voice fighting for racial justice today.
- Find out more about the sound of Black Britain in 1981. READ MORE
- Share a thought, a picture or pour out a little liquor.
- Walk the history on a Brixton Society walk. READ MORE
- Add names to the People of the Uprising list so they are present in future commemorations. ADD HERE
- Celebrate someone you know who fuels and nurtures Brixton by posting on social #BrixtonHeroes.
- Search for “The presence of voices in the absence of justice” Jay Bernard. READ MORE
- Support local campaigns or add your own.
- Reject The Race Report. READ MORE
- Visit the Mending Room. READ MORE
- Create a chain of change.
- Add your message for the future of Brixton.
- Dance! Listen and move to the Uprising Playlist by Dave Randall. LISTEN ON SPOTIFY
- Plot an Act of Exuberant Defiance – connect with other Brixtonites at a Patty and Ting Chat. READ MORE
- Rename your street! What would you call it? Stick up a paper sign below your street sign. Take a photo and post @81acts
- Vex and Flex – join in difficult conversations. Link to the Vex and Flex Act
- Take Lambeth Libraries’ Black Writers Challenge. READ MORE
- Listen to or read poems that take you to new places:
– Poet Jay Bernard with a mesmerising performance of a piece inspired by the New Cross house fire of 1981. LISTEN
– OPEN ACCESS: JAY BERNARD ON SURGE READ
– Linton Kwesi Johnson: The Great Insurrection LISTEN
– For Rashan Charles by Raymond Antrobus READ
– Vanessa Kisuule: The Skies Are Grey with Remorse. LISTEN
– Ranking Ann – Kill The Police Bill 1984 LISTEN
– Jay Bernard – Why I Wrote ‘England Street’ LISTEN
