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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - Embers of Light
DESCRIPTION:Explore transformation\, trust and impermanance through lumen printing—an alternative photographic technique – with artist Xinyue Tao\n\n\nAbout the workshop \nAs part of Brent Biennial 2025: Bones\, Stones and Calling the Four Elements\, we gather in a Fire Ritual to explore transformation through the lumen print process—an alternative photographic technique where objects are placed on light-sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight\, leaving ephemeral traces shaped by light and heat. \nBeginning with a meditation on fire as warmth\, energy\, and renewal\, we choose intuitively from materials connected to the four elements. Placed on the paper and exposed to sunlight\, these materials mark their fleeting presence. \nTogether we witness images appear\, shift\, and slowly fade. This impermanence becomes the essence of our ritual: a cycle of ignition\, manifestation\, disappearance\, and renewal. What remains is not permanence\, but resonance—an inner fire carried forward. We take our prints with us\, allowing them to keep transforming\, and continue the practice of presence\, trust\, and impermanence beyond the workshop. \n \nAbout the artist \nXinyue Tao (b.1998\, Kunming\, China) is a London-based artist whose practice explores the subjective perception of time and space through self-identity\, memory\, and the unconscious. Guided by intuition\, her work is primarily rooted in photography\, while also extending into performance\, installation\, and experimental forms. She engages deeply with darkroom printing and alternative photographic processes\, integrating light-sensitive materials and slow\, embodied methods into her image-making. Tao also embraces collaboration as a working method\, co-creating interdisciplinary works and initiating community-based workshops that foster dialogue\, shared experiences\, and connections. She is dedicated to creating fields of resonance where deep connections can emerge through artistic engagement. \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-embers-of-light/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250928T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250928T160000
DTSTAMP:20250928T155900Z
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - Deheat Mudmud workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us to get your hands dirty\, to deheat (or restore heat) with medicinal plants and to make your body feel new!\n\n\nAbout the event: \nArtist Yarli Allison and botanical designer Orin Chung invites you to craft in “Deheat Mudmud”\, a hands-on workshop that revives ancient plant-based healing methods in thinking about modern medicine approaches with future biotechnologies. \nDrawing from practices of ‘Deep Medicine’ (Raj Patel and Rupa Marya) alongside Sino-botanical wisdom on addressing imbalances in the inner body like ‘heat toxins’ (Cantonese: 熱毒 Jit6 Duk6) and ‘damp-heat’ (濕熱 Sap1 Jit6)\, the artists invite you to restore the harmony of your full being: to connect symptoms as part of an interwoven web of identities\, stories\, people\, non-humans\, land\, and environments while biotech advances. You are invited to craft wearable talismans\, brew your restorative tea\, sip to reset your nervous system. \n \nAbout the artists: \nYarli Allison is a Canadian-born\, Hong Kongese art-worker based in London with an interdisciplinary approach traversing sculpture\, XR\, film\, drawings\, tattooing\, and performances. Yarli graduated with an MFA first-class honour from The Slade School of Fine Art. Yarli’s works have been exhibited at Tai Kwun Contemporary Museum\, Barbican Centre\, Institute of Contemporary Arts: ICA London\, and the V&A Museum. Recent project grants were awarded to Yarli by Arts Council England\, the Canadian Council for the Arts\, and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Through their work\, Yarli explores themes of digital humanity along with belongings\, decolonisation\, feminist futures\, biotech ethics and queer solar punk scenarios. \nOrin Chung is a London-based floral and botanical designer and the founder of Oxygen Flower Studio. Known for his transformative installations\, Orin reimagines spaces through carefully curated floral compositions that often feel like spatial teleportation\, turning environments into ethereal\, immersive experiences. Orin’s background in fashion design informs his practice in floral artistry\, bringing meticulous craftsmanship\, conceptual thinking\, and a hands-on experimentation approach to colour\, form\, material\, and texture. This experience has also refined his eye for composition and structure\, enabling him to explore new techniques and creative possibilities in his floral work. In 2023\, Orin relocated to the UK from Hong Kong\, where his East Asian identity and diasporic experiences in urban cityscapes inspired his exploration of new themes. His diasporic perspective informs a critical engagement with nature’s role in cultural identity and spatial storytelling\, expanding the discourse on the human-plant relationship. \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-deheat-mudmud-workshop/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250927T143000
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - Tarot & Transformation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Annie Kwan and Sun Park for a tarot workshop\n\n\nAbout the event \n”Anger is a source of inspiration and motivation\, an immense power that must be trained and constrained lest its fires become self destructive from the inside-out.” – Audre Lorde \nFire is an ancient teacher. It warms the hearth\, feeds the body\, and lights the path forward. It is the ember that sustains\, the beacon that shines the way\, the blaze that transforms\, and the wild force that both destroys and clears space for what is yet to come. \nThis gathering responds to the FIRE Ritual of Brent Biennial 2025 by calling on participants who feel the fires within and around us. We hold a space where you are invited to enter into conversation with the archetypes of flame—rage and grief\, renewal and creation—and allow them to move through our bodies\, our stories\, and our collective imagination. \nWe will approach tarot as a spiritual technology and storytelling to spark new associations and collective insights. Working with archetypes from the major arcana\, we will light up connections to ancestors and deities\, and scribe new visions with free/collective writing. \nThis is a circle for those who feel the rising heat—within the body\, within the world—and long to transmute it. We gather not to extinguish the fire\, but to learn how to tend it\, honor it\, and let it illuminate the path ahead. \nThe workshop will take place inside the Metroland Studios Social Space. \nImage: Tarot Deck by Jia Sung\, photo by Sun Park \n \nMaterials to bring: \n– Tarot cards (if you have a deck\, please bring them) \n– An object you use for spiritual or creative associations \n \nAbout the artists \nSun Park makes\, writes and works as a cultural worker in London. She is currently interested in gossip\, friendship\, and risk while studying topics like Cosmotechnics\, Asian Futurism\, and feminist remembering with positive obsession. Lately\, the Hanged Man card has been returning to her\, and she hopes to write about it in relation to Fred Moten’s idea of nonperformance. She is learning and resting with the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR) and Carefuffle Working Group. \nAnnie Jael Kwan centres diasporic feminist/queer lived experiences and practices\, collective knowledge and radical spirituality as part of her PhD research. She instigates and curates the Radical Spiritual Collective\, an intersectional multi-cosmological gathering of alternative knowledge and belief systems\, intended towards nurturing middle-aged sisterhood and spiritual justice. Her alt-personas of Raving Auntie\, High Priestess and oneiromancer are sometimes glimpsed at pasar malams\, tiny coastal towns and dimly lit rooftops. \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-tarot-transformation-workshop/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250927T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250927T140000
DTSTAMP:20250927T155715Z
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - Growler’s Kilburn Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Join Growler – a shamanic singing vulva – on a theatrical journey through grief\, loss\, exile and displacement in Kilburn’s streets\n\n\nAbout the event \nGrowler is Dee Mulrooney’s alter-ego and performance piece. She is an 85-year-old drum-banging shamanic vulva living in exile. Through storytelling\, song\, spoken word and comedy Growler takes audiences on a ritualistic\, theatrical journey through grief\, loss\, exile and displacement. No stone is left unturned and no one is left behind on Growler’s quest to heal the past and help people to love the “eejit” out of themselves. With a tongue like a lash and a heart of gold\, Growler is at the coal face\, blazing the streets with her trolley and staff\, remembering the everyday sacred. Growler will be coming to Kilburn to connect with the Holywell and remember the thousands of Irish ancestors who settled in the area. Beneath the concrete and cement the memory is held. \n \nDee Mulrooney \nDee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting\, drawing\, film\, storytelling\, and performance. Her work is profoundly shaped by her lived experience as a woman\, with recurring themes of identity\, exile\, class\, and displacement. Dee addresses complex subjects such as abuse\, loss\, and trauma\, employing art as a medium for transformation and reclamation. By highlighting underrepresented female experiences\, her projects foster collective reflection and healing within the context of intersectional feminist discourse. \nDee’s alter ego\, Growler\, is an 85-year-old vulva and liminal space holder who navigates themes of sexuality\, religion\, and sexual violence. Drawing on elemental intuitive practices\, Growler embodies the archetype of the sacred clown\, using her arresting theatrical rituals to challenge societal norms and articulate truths that are often left unspoken. Dee won the Lustrum award at Edinburgh Fringe 2023 for “Most unforgettable performance”. Since October 2022\, Dee has collaborated with Heart of Glass\, a community arts organisation in Liverpool\, on a public commission concerning themes of displacement and grief. \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-growlers-kilburn-stroll/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial: FIRE Ritual Launch Party + K2K Radio Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate FIRE Ritual\, with an evening of local DJs\, food\, drink and an exploration of grief rememberance and renegeration\n\n\nAbout the event \nJoin us at Metroland Cultures for an evening of rhythms and connection\, as we celebrate the launch of the FIRE Ritual programme\, co-hosted by Brent Biennial 2025 and K2K Radio.  \nExperience the world premiere of In Petri Dishes We Sing《 於培養皿內唱歌 》\, a new moving image work and installation by artist Yarli Allison\, and join us for opening speeches\, food and drink. Then step inside the K2K Radio studio for a live show exploring grief\, remembrance\, and music as medicine. Local DJs will bring the heat to Kilburn Square for an outdoor music party. This evening is a special fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support. \nAbout K2K Radio \nK2K Radio is a community-powered station and creative platform based at Metroland Studios in Kilburn. Founded in 2012\, it has grown into an inclusive\, volunteer-led hub where people of all ages and backgrounds can connect\, create\, and share their voices. \nFrom live radio shows and DJ sets to hands-on training and community events\, K2K offers space and support for anyone curious about broadcasting\, music\, and media as well as people looking to giveback and connect. Relocating to Metroland and Kilburn Square in 2024 has deepened K2K’s roots\, placing it at the heart of a network of residents\, artists\, and grassroots changemakers. Today\, the station continues to champion hidden voices\, amplify culture and creativity\, and use radio as a joyful tool for confidence\, wellbeing\, and collective connection. \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/ \nImages:Still from Yarli Allison\, In Petri Dishes We Sing\, 2025 (Moving Image\, 4K 28:30)K2K Radio\, photo by Thomas Coles
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-fire-ritual-launch-party-k2k-radio-celebration/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T160000
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - Grieving Kilburn
DESCRIPTION:Join creative producer and interfaith minister Caren Owen for a ceremony for connection\, healing and grief\n\n\nAbout the event \nFollowing the autumn equinox\, and in these times of personal\, collective and land grief\, this open-hearted participatory session centres ritual and fire as allies for death\, grief and transformation. \nLed by local interfaith minister Caren Wynn-Owen\, participants will be held in simple practices that honour the elements and invite connection\, release and renewal. \nBridging the gardens of Kilburn Square and Metroland Studios\, the session flows into space for conversation\, rest and music. \n \nAbout the artist: \nCaren Wynn-Owen is a producer\, OneSpirit interfaith minister and DJ rooted in community\, ceremony and creative practice. She is committed to creating inclusive spaces of connection\, care and celebration — from public rituals to intimate circles\, rites of passage and spiritual counselling. \nHer journey weaves together leadership in arts and community programmes — including founding K2K Radio\, managing South Kilburn Studios and Kilburn Festival\, and work with Brent 2020 London Borough of Culture\, Camden Council\, The Arrigo Programme and SEED Network. \nBased in Kilburn\, London\, Caren lives with her two teenagers and brings warmth\, creativity and presence to all she holds. \n \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-grieving-kilburn/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T160000
DTSTAMP:20250926T153717Z
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual - O: LADLE ME
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Sue Man & Capri Jiang for a workshop to transform ladles into protective talismans inspired by Chinese folk practices\n\n\nAbout the event: \nThe ladle\, often a quiet presence in the domestic sphere\, is a vessel of nourishment and care—a simple tool that bridges hands\, hearts\, and histories. Inspired by the Shehuo 社火 (Community Fire) traditions of Northwest China\, this ceremony transforms the ladle into a mask of meaning\, a talisman imbued with protection\, memory\, and connection. \nPresented by Sue Man and Capri Jiang\, artists rooted in hospitality and food heritage\, this event explores food as both medium and language in artistic expression. Through their practice\, fire\, food\, and storytelling merge—transforming the simple act of feeding into a shared ritual of remembrance\, care\, and healing. \nThrough it\, we gather to honour what sustains us and to share the warmth of being together\, creating a moment where everyday objects and gestures become symbols of community and healing. This event becomes an alchemical exchange\, where the act of sharing food evolves into a ritual of protection and transformation. Talismans emerge through storytelling\, nourishment\, and the shared experience of connection. \n \nAbout the artists: \nSue Man (b. Stockholm\, Sweden) is a London-based artist of Chinese heritage. Through a participatory\, multidisciplinary approach\, she investigates cultural heritage\, memory\, and the intricate weave of belonging and identity. Working across mixed media—including ephemera\, textiles\, clay\, sculpture\, and food—she creates spaces where stories are shared\, resilience is nurtured\, and futures are imagined. \nAs an artist\, cultural programmer\, and community builder\, Sue mobilises intergenerational narratives through materiality and conversation\, repurposing her family trade in hospitality to connect communities and amplify voices and stories often overlooked. Since 2009\, she has led creative projects with institutions such as the Southbank Centre and Museum of the Home\, alongside grassroots organisations. \nAlongside her collaborative work\, Sue continues her studio practice\, exploring domestic rituals\, memory\, and food as a site of cultural expression and community activism\, creating work that reflects both personal and collective histories in immersive\, engaging experiences. \n \nCapri Jiang is a participatory artist\, community event coordinator\, and researcher who leverages art and design as transformative tools to communicate\, support communities\, and challenge prevailing narratives. Her practice focuses on creative interventions in social justice issues\, particularly the right to food and gentrification\, expressed through multidisciplinary mediums such as zine creation\, short films\, art workshops and curatorial projects. \nIn collaboration with Granville Community Kitchen\, Capri developed a series of participatory research projects to respond to local food insecurity and celebrate diverse food heritage in South Kilburn while nurturing collective action around the right to food. For Capri\, food serves as a universal and inclusive medium\, deeply tied to culture\, land\, human rights\, and self-expression\, that grounds and shapes her socially engaged artistic practice. \n \nBrent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual \nFIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025. \nFire is a tool\, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home\, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth\, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential\, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever\, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions. \nFIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements\, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan\, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER\, EARTH\, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition. \nFIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025\, with the support of Arts Council England\, Brent Council\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Granville Community Kitchen\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, K2K Radio\, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op\, Something Human\, University of Westminster\, and Wing Yip. \nFor more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-fire-ritual-o-ladle-me/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Francesca Telling: Emergency
DESCRIPTION:A study of education\, linguistics and colonialism through educational and family archives.\n\n\nJoin us for the preview of Emergency\, an exhibition by Peer-to-Peer artist Francesca Telling. \nFrancesca Telling is an artist\, facilitator and learning practitioner. Her practice investigates how the social histories of displaced communities are seen in objects and images. \nIn this exhibition\, Francesca offers a study of education\, linguistics and colonialism from the archives of a 1950s British-Malayan teaching experiment in Kirkby\, Merseyside\, to the fragmented records of learning found in a family archive. Composed of collages\, photography\, prints and analogue time-based media\, the exhibition draws on the materials and aesthetic languages of educational environments. \nThe exhibition will open with a preview on Thursday 9 January\, 6-8pm. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nThis exhibition platforms the work of an artist on our Peer-To-Peer studio and associates programme. Peer-to-Peer artists use the Metroland Cultures gallery to test new work\, or as a site of further production. \nMetroland Cultures is an arts charity that works in\, and for\, the London Borough of Brent. Our mission is to build\, share and support art and culture in the borough. \nmetrolandcultures.com \n\n\n\nAbout Francesca Telling \nFrancesca Telling is an artist\, facilitator and learning practitioner. Francesca’s practice investigates how the social histories of displaced communities are seen in objects and images. She uses sculpture\, photography\, writing and time-based media to explore the grief embedded in migration narratives – asking what it means to collect things in the context of survival and assimilation\, and how this is recorded. \nAs a facilitator Francesca explores structural inequalities in education\, collaborating with children and young people to reimagine learning environments and their authority. Her work is informed by anti-racist approaches and activated by locality\, usually emerging through combining dialogue with participatory documentation. Francesca is currently supported by Grand Plan Fund to develop research into oral history and diasporic labour across London’s archive sector. \nFrancesca is part of Metroland Culture’s 2024 Peer-to-Peer cohort. \nfrancescatelling.com
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/francesca-telling-emergency/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Ngo Chun Tse: Through a Glass Darkly
DESCRIPTION:A new exhibition by a Metroland Cultures Peer-to-Peer artist. An exploration of displacement\, existential uncertainty\, and hauntology.\n\n\nJoin us for the preview of Through a Glass Darklu\, an exhibition by Peer-to-Peer artist Ngo Chun Tse.  \nThrough a Glass Darkly explores themes of displacement and existential uncertainty will pull viewers into the disquiet of diaspora. Carrying the weight of silenced histories\, the muted environment is also layered with shifting imagery that mirrors the inner landscape of dislocation and resilience. \nThe exhibition will open with a preview on Thursday 5 December\, 6-8pm. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\nThis exhibition platforms the work of an artist on our Peer-To-Peer studio and associates programme. Peer-to-Peer artists use the Metroland Cultures gallery to test new work\, or as a site of further production. \n\n\n\nAbout Ngo Chun Tse\n \nNgo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong-born\, London-based artist. He works across the mediums of moving image\, text\, installation and lecture performance to address three principal subjects: historiography of decolonisation\, the production of images and hauntology of diasporic experience. ⁠His recent work Séance (2023 – ongoing) is a video essay exploring the micro-histories of Asian cinema and media. In Sekaikei (2022 – ongoing)\, he focuses on the intersection between technology and philosophy in digital image production. ⁠He received his BA(Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2016 and an MFA Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art\, University College London in 2022.⁠
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/ngo-chun-tse-through-a-glass-darkly/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Choreography for the Hundred Thousand
DESCRIPTION:A performance by Krysa.\n\n\nChoreography for the Hundred Thousand\nby Krysa @krysa__co\n\nJoin us at Metroland Studios on Friday 11 October for an evening featuring a brand new performance art piece from movement/performance/choreography collective: Krysa. \n \nIn their new piece\, Choreography for the Hundred Thousand\, Krysa will stage a performance featuring a large group of dancers\, asking the audience to observe how a large\, clustered mass moves together or against each other\, as individuals\, and as a collective. \nThrough their performance\, they will observe what unfolds when a large number of dancers navigate a small\, confined space\, especially when things don’t go as planned. \nCan so many people even move together in such an enclosed space? \n\n\n\nKrysa\nKrysa are Kasia Kuzka\, Mateusz Piekarski and Arsalan Isa. \nIn their individual practices and collective work\, Krysa have recently been exploring how demographics are visualised and populations are measured\, particularly through mapping tools that track population densities\, migrations\, and displacements. More specifically\, their focus is on the space a single body occupies and inhabits—both physically and within broader cultural and political contexts. \n\n\n\nCREDITS\n \nConcept: Arsalan Isa @arsalanek_ \nChoreography: Kasia Kuzka @malakuzka \nChoreography assisting: Mateusz Piekarski @piekarski.mateusz \nPhotos from R&D by Ruby Harris @rubyrubyharris \nStudio space: Chisenhale Dance @chisenhaledance \n \nDancers: \nVivian Gyurá @theweirdbird \nSpike King @spikeking \nElisabeth Mulenga @elisabeth.mulenga \nNell Weatherby @nell.weatherby \nNatnael Dawit @foetus \nNadine Muncey @nadinemuncey \nManon Servage @manon_srvg \nFi Chinner @sophiechinner \nDakota Rodgers @dakota.rodgers_ \nCoralie Calfond @coraliecalfond
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/choreography-for-the-hundred-thousand/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: Sharp Eyes for the Invisible - Rose Nordin
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition presenting new and existing works by Rose Nordin.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the preview of Sharp Eyes for the Invisible\, an exhibition presenting new and existing works by Rose Nordin. \nThe exhibition is a collection of divine tangents as part of Rose’s on-going exploration of Southeast Asian ritual practices and the language and materials that ground them. Through animistic and Islamic melting of myth found in Southeast Asian invocations and rituals that centre paper\, tin and limestone; Rose works to produce matter that communes in a space between language\, technology and magic. \nThe exhibition will open with a preview on Thursday 10 October\, 6-8pm. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\nThis is the third exhibition platforming the work of our 2024-25 Peer-To-Peer artist cohort\, where the gallery is used to test new work or as a site of further production. \n\n\n\nRose Nordin\n \nRose Nordin is an artist and graphic designer working with expanded notions of publishing. Through type design\, flag making\, installation and metalwork\, Rose is interested in printed and material language for governance and devotion. \nRose was previously Artist in Residence at Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL) Research Associate at iniva (UK)\, Social Practice Fellow at the University of Chicago (USA) and is an associate lecturer at the University of Arts London.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/exhibition-opening-sharp-eyes-for-the-invisible-rose-nordin/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Opening Event: "Dae of Harlesden"  Amanda Colares Silva
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Metroland Studios for the opening of this brand new exhibition from artist Amanda Colares Silva.\n\n\n\nJoin us at Metroland Studios on the 12 September to celebrate the opening of this exciting new exhibition. \nThis mixed media immersive exhibition includes brand new works from artist Amanda Colares Silva. Also featuring works from collaborators Poker and Mike Da Gringa. The exhibition examines growing up as part of the Brazilian community in Harlesden. Exploring themes of gentrification and working class tensions within third space communities and family dynamics.  \n\n\n\nAmanda Colares Silva\n \nAmanda Colares Silva is an artist and maker born and based in London. Her body of work focuses on portraying emotional experiences and story telling through sculpture and printed costume for the body. \n Through her practice she explores motifs which trigger universal emotions and personal nostalgia accompanying her physical projects with written work. This practice is an ongoing journey in universe and character creation manifested through hand painted fabrics\, constructed dolls and eccentric silhouettes for the body\, which are usually playful\, colourful\, and tactile; “exploring my own child-like curiosity towards adult-like concepts”.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/opening-event-dae-of-harlesden-amanda-colares-silva/
LOCATION:Metroland Studio\, 91 Kilburn Square\, (access via walking through Kilburn Market)\, London\, NW6 6PS\, United Kingdom
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