Meat maestros Whole Beast have announced via Instragram that they are opening a restaurant at 336 Coldharbour Lane – former home of Shrub and Shutter – in November. With a Peckham Rye pub residency favourably reviewed by local resident and food critic Jay Rayner last year, and a National Burger Award, owners Sam Bryant and Alicja Specjalna are taking the next step.

Summer Nights at Kennington’s Durning Library is the new show by local artist Olympia Alsawi. Now based in London, Olympia grew up in Barcelona with Palestinian-Lebanese and Congolese roots. Her work reflects her experiences of racial and gender stereotypes. There are twelve oil and mixed media works in the exhibition which showcase Olympia’s use of strong but muted colours and her confident technique.

Lambeth Fringe runs in venues from Waterloo to Camberwell till 25 October. For full details and tickets go to Here are this week’s most local highlights. Pictured: Super Dropper (Diane Bernier) The Wolves of Saint Matthew’s 13 October, Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham Manor St, SW4 6DZ, 9pm. Tickets £12, £10 concs. This "sharp, darkly funny and blisteringly contemporary" one-man play brings to life the story of a West London priest after he wins a £21 million lottery jackpot.

Atlantic Road Lambeth council today (9 October) announced that is has appointed architects to develop a “community led” strategy for “public spaces and community life” in Brixton town centre. The move comes after years of increasing concern about anti-social behaviour and worse in the town centre, as well as complaints from businesses about the effects of a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) preventing through traffic along Railton and part of Atlantic Road.

Representatives from Brockwell Live meet local community groups and residents Brockwell Live community meeting, Tuesday, 7 October 2025 The Blog was present at the first of two community meetings held yesterday, when Brockwell Live – the promoters of five music events in Brockwell Park – met local residents and community interest groups. About 30 people were at the 4.30pm meeting, including representatives from Brockwell Live.

Tulse Hill’s South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) becomes Mushroom University for seven Mondays in October and November. You can learn how to identify fungi at sessions with local gardener Fabrice Boltho. Fabrice has worked with Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses and Myatt’s Fields Park. Bring your specimens and photos and he and his friends will teach you how to identify local fungi.

Could you play a key role in Brixton’s Remembrance Sunday event this year? One of the big moments of the local calendar, it will celebrate all those who fought and died for Britain in two world wars and others, with an emphasis on the tens of thousands of Empire and Commonwealth troops who, until recently, were overlooked and forgotten. Volunteers will help with welcoming guests, stewarding and setting up the major event which takes place at the African Caribbean war memorial in Windrush Square beginning at 2pm on Sunday 9 November. For more details and to sign up go to The support of volunteers makes this community event possible, say the organisers.

Brixton People’s Kitchen (BPK) has been dishing up good food to the Lambeth community in carparks, schools, and parks since its founding in 2011. After losing its previous premises in 2021, followed by years of determination and planning, BPK was finally able to launch the opening of its new permanent home on Lambeth Walk on Saturday (4 October). The event saw a free BBQ lunch, drumming from…

CreativeCommons/SecretLondon123 The strange, Cold War-style construction known as the Camberwell Submarine that stands in Akerman Road between Brixton Road and Myatt’s Fields, is representing SW9 in a fascinating new book, out now.  Adventurous Vents was co-written by three Lambeth women who make up the architecture in education charity Our Hut. Since 2004, Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman have led primary and secondary pupils as well as community groups through numerous creative, fun and informative workshops and projects about the built environment, including Stockwell Bus Garage, Brixton's Electric Avenue (see artwork below), Peckham town centre and Crystal Palace Park. 

Wondering why queues for the Post Office have been snaking down Ferndale Road all week? It seems that new franchise owners Universal Office Equipment (UOE) have decided to close all the automated machines in this store pending a possible refit. The row of checkouts, pictured below, has been cordoned off all week, with no member of staff available under the Let's Talk sign.

Lambeth Fringe runs in venues from Waterloo to Camberwell till 25 October. For full details and tickets go to Here are this week’s most local highlights. Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater 6 and 7 October, Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham Manor St, SW4 6DZ, 9pm. Tickets £12, £10 concs. Production company Brava Guava bring their show…

‘I was so relaxed I didn’t reach for my phone all day!’ Local parents took part in a lively wellbeing and creativity event at Brixton’s Ark Evelyn Grace Academy, yesterday (1 October). The free event, organised jointly by Evelyn Grace and Brixton Learning Collaborative, was designed to help parents relax and recharge. Parents from Lambeth primary schools including Loughborough, John Keats and Hill Mead, enjoyed pampering sessions including chair massages and manicures, guided meditation and self-care workshops.

Honour your ancestors, confront the unknown, seek spiritual inspiration and ward off evil spirits that can cross into the world of the living at Halloween – Samhain if you are a Celt. The festival once marked a point in the year when the veil between the living and the passed was at its thinnest and also the end of harvest – so there are few more appropriate places to celebrate it in Brixton than our Windmill that will mark Halloween on Sunday 26 October from 1 to 4pm with a free family event in Windmill Gardens.

Paws what you’re doing, readers, it’s time for… Blog Dog of the Week! We’re unleashing a new weekly feature to celebrate the ultimutt locals – our beloved Brixton doggos!  First to wag into the spotlight is Niu Niu. This three year old Biewer Terrier was recently spotted strutting her stuff in Brockwell Park, looking pawsitively fabulous! She’s got style, sass, and a tail-wagging love for the great outdoors, just like so many four-legged Brixtonians.

Lambeth Open is a unique opportunity for you to sample the range and depth of creative talent which exists in your neighbourhood. This coming weekend, artists and craftspeople from across the borough will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Doors will be open from 10am to 6pm, on 4 and 5 October and admission will be free. Look here for a map showing the various venues. You can meet your local artists, learn about their work and buy artworks directly.

Lambeth Fringe runs in venues from Waterloo to Camberwell till 25 October. For full details and tickets go to  Here are this week’s most local highlights. Gut Feelings 30 September, Club Silly, Arch 555, Arch 18 Valentia Place, SW9 8PJ, 7pm. Tickets £6, £5 concs. Individual Hot Pot, a Sheffield-based duo formed of researcher Nam Huh and composer Ewan Knight, bring…

Velenzia and Rebecca of Bread & Roses Theatre co-direct the Lambeth Fringe Festival The local festival that "amplifies underrepresented voices" and began life in 2015 as Clapham Fringe increased its reach last year to include numerous small venues in and around Brixton. The brainchild of the team behind the Bread & Roses Theatre (pictured), the Lambeth Fringe this year runs from 25 September to 25 October.

At 9.45am today (21 September) a mature pedestrian was knocked to the ground on the busiest stretch of Brixton Road by a man riding a Lime bike on the pavement. A doctor and a member of staff from a local shop both sat with the stunned victim, who hit her head on the ground as she fell, urging her not to move until paramedics had checked her over.

A meeting of Lambeth council’s licensing sub-committee deferred a decision on a licence for Brockwell Hall in Brockwell Park. It considered 39 comments on the application for a licence – 37 objecting to the application on the grounds of noise, public safety and “public nuisance”. The application had sought permission for activities, including plays, films, indoor sporting events, live and recorded music, performances of dance, and the sale of alcohol.

Playing in the Golden Goose Theatre on 3 and 4 October as part of the Lambeth Fringe, Shoulders written by South London-based playwright Fintan Dineen is described as “a play which asks questions about what men show and hide, about the changing nature of friendship over time and how we let go in the stickiness of the digital age….It’s  a comedic, tender and razor sharp look at masculinity, loss and friendship”

Pupils at a Brixton school today (16 September) met a South London schoolgirl who is the star of a new book about sickle cell disease. My Blood, Your Blood is inspired by Sydenham youngster Angel Salami, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disorder as a four-year-old – the same age as the reception pupils at Van Gogh school by the Cowley estate who will receive the book.

Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting local organisations and businesses to hire a stall at the event’s market and cultural exhibition for just £30 per table. The deadline for booking is Thursday 25 September.

This Sunday, 14 September, from 12 noon to 9pm, the newly refurbished Brockwell House will be playing host to a free festival of music and stalls showcasing the impressive talents of our local youth. Two voluntary organisations – Junior Open Mic (JOM) and the Herne Hill Music Festival – have joined forces to put the Stable Yard to good use for a day of great live music and stalls, with a licensed bar, pizza and hot dogs on offer.

Members of the family of Cherry Groce gathered at the memorial to her on Brixton’s Windrush Square to express concern after it was vandalised recently. The attack, in which large amounts of white paint were tipped over the dedication on the memorial, follows the damage inflicted on the Windrush Untold Stories exhibition in early July. © Brixton Media Lambeth council cleaned the paint from the memorial following the attack.

If you like bold, vibrant, energetic images drop into Photofusion to check out Rewind - the debut exhibition of Brixton-based photographer, Soulla Petrou. The works are a mix of portraits and performance from her early years working with artists and a range of publications in the music industry. Geri Halliwell, Travis, Sophie Ellis-Bextor Damon Albarn are just a few of the famous faces you will see on the walls.