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If you’ve contributed to Beyond Luton Carnival 50 or are interested in finding out more about the processes and themes explored during the project, join us at our Closing Event. We’ll be joined by sociologist and author @drjoywhite to talk carnival, memory, and the changing cultural landscape of Luton. Join us for an evening of conversation, reflection, and community exchange - reserve your free ticket at the link on our profile. 📸 Ghana Society at Luton Carnival 2026 by @nadinescarlett About Dr Joy White Dr Joy White is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during Covid’ and ‘Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City’. Her previous work includes ‘Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise’, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. 👋🏾 Beyond Luton Carnival 50: Reflection & Closing Event ⭐ Moderated by @drjoywhite, with @gabriellesmith.co, @byjade_txt and @karisbeau 🗓️ Thursday 22 October 2026, 7-9.30pm 📍 Luton Central Library, LU1 2NG This project is part of the Luton Create Fund. #bhm #blackhistory #luton
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🎶 BLACK MUSIC, POPULAR CULTURE & EVERYDAY LIFE 🎶 Join us for a special evening with Dr Joy White as we explore the sounds, stories and cultural influences of Black music, and how they shape our everyday lives. 🖤✊🏾 From the music that moves us to the cultures that connect us, come ready for conversation, reflection and community. 📅 Wednesday 28th October 2026 📍 Ridley Road Market Bar 49 Ridley Road, London, E8 2NP Bring your curiosity, bring your people, and be part of the conversation! 🔥 ✨ Save the date and spread the word! #BlackMusic #PopularCulture #EverydayLife #DrJoyWhite #BlackCulture @drjoywhite @blackkingsuk
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Tickets now live! 🙌🏾 To wrap up the Beyond Luton Carnival 50 exhibition, we’re hosting an evening of conversation, reflection, and community exchange at Luton Central Library. The Beyond Luton Carnival 50 team (@gabriellesmith.co, @byjade_txt and @karisbeau) will be joined by sociologist and author @drjoywhite to talk carnival, memory, and the changing cultural landscape of Luton — and we’d love to hear what you think. Reserve your spot for free at the link in our bio 👀 ✨ About Dr Joy White Dr Joy White is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during Covid’ and ‘Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City’. Her previous work includes ‘Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise’, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. 👋🏾 BLC50: Reflection & Closing Event ⭐ Moderated by @drjoywhite 🎟️ Free, link in bio 🗓️ Thursday 22 October 2026, 7-9.30pm 📍 Luton Central Library, LU1 2NG This project is part of the Luton Create Fund. #blackhistorymonth #blackbritish #blackart
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The sexiest place on… (5 marks) You get extra marks for showing your working out 🫡 Over the weekend we @oneroomlive were part of the biggest Emerge East festival yet at @barking_riverside. The festival is curated by the dope team @curatedbyhemingway and year on year it keeps growing and evolving. This is just a snippet of the energy. For the second year, we hosted and co-curated the Riverside Block Party stage and honestly, seeing the generations come together, the team grow, and local groups collaborate and remind us how wavey things can be in your local area has been amazing. Meeting more and more amazing residents and local talent is genuinely the best feeling, and I’m gassed for the future. Step by step! Let’s get it. See you guys soon 🙏🏾 Big up all the DJs, the team and yourselves. And if you want to catch us in more intimate settings, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday we take over the VC in the station, full of arts and culture. Come through, play some chess, meet wavey people 🔊 #thingstoinlondon #barking #emergeeast
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✦🗯️ WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK 💭✦ ★ 𝓣𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂: 6-2𝖆𝖒 ★ D’LULU presents an all vinyl night of manic 80’s bangers and 70’s floor fillers. An eclectic mix of songs that are made for dancing. We’ll swing from hi-NRG 80’s, to post-punk, to pure Disco, to synth-pop, to funk, and sometimes we’ll even land on northern soul. It’s a night dedicated to the era of hair and makeup, and D’LULU will be dressed accordingly. ⇨ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 
★ 𝓦𝓮𝓭𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂: 6-2𝖆𝖒 ★ Cherry Jamz is a community-led club night bringing together DJs from across London’s underground scene. Expect vocal-led UK garage, house and global rhythms that keep the dancefloor moving. ⇨ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 ★ 𝓣𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂: 6-3𝖆𝖒 ★ 6-9pm ✨ Join Dr Joy White for an evening of learning, connection and exploration through When Community Talks, an interactive lecture and social discussing themes of belonging and community through the lens of music, with a focus on contemporary Black British genres. 9pm-3am 🎶 Channel your inner 90s BABY with @trudy.jpg - a celebration of the throwback bangers we all grew up on. Expect disco, pop, dance and so much more. This nostalgiafilled party is certain to get you singing along 🎤 ⇨ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 ★ 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂: 6-3𝖆𝖒 ★ Fridays at Ridley are always a vibe with ICONS ONLY 💅🏽 A night dedicated to the icons of the dancefloor, playing Disco, 90’s RnB, House and Pop 💖 🌟 with @faye_shapc0tt @cy.an ⇨ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 before 10 pm ♥ £6 after ★ 𝓢𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓪𝔂: 6-3𝖆𝖒 ★ CLUB MIX 💿 Groove to @faye_shapc0tt spinning nothing but HEAT all night long – golden era bangers that still go off, 90s classics that defined a generation, and everything in between. No skips, all timeless vibes. ⇨ 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 before 10 pm ♥ £6 after #ual #studentslife #timeout #london #dalston
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Interviewed @lancey for @nmemagazine - talking about his new album, his label and the UK underground at large 🌐 He’s mad cool. What he said when I asked him how he stays so tapped into the underground and wider musical circles. Also, I had the honour of interviewing @theinternet’s lead vocalist @syd right before she dropped her new album Beard. We spoke for hours face to face about all things music. A favourite of mine. Syd got real about the price of fame and how difficult it can get as an artist. #realjournalism Shoutout to @bfixedit_ / @toomanyfishb for her exhibition. Super honoured for myself and @theculturecrypt to be featured alongside legends. MONEYSPREAD. Thank you to @sofiaakel, @th5wra + @freebookscampaign for letting me host the 20th anniversary kidulthood movie discussion alongside @candicec_w @drjoywhite and film stars @amlameenbaby and @femioyeniran 🍿 !!!!
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@christiancassiel @drjoywhite @mrhaast and I had a great conversation at Who Shapes Our Cities? at the Barbican back in July. Facilitated by @mrhaast the discussion moved through four ways of thinking about the city: the recorded city, the imagined city, the built city and the future city. Thank you to everyone that pulled up! It left me thinking about some big questions: Who gets to document our cities? Whose ideas are given space? Who has the power to shape the places we live in? And how can architecture, culture and collective action help us imagine different futures? One of the reasons I started writing, and more recently making videos and other content, is to create more space for a wider range of voices to shape the canon of architecture and the built environment. It’s not just about who gets to do the work, but who gets to speak about it, interpret it and shape the conversation around it. Shoutout to @tobikyere and the wider team for the powerful programme. Image credit: Esther Oluade #barbican #architecture #whoshapesourcities We @christiancassiel @drjoywhite and @mrhaast had a great conversation at Who Shapes Our Cities? at the Barbican back in July. Facilitated by @mrhaast the discussion moved through four ways of thinking about the city: the recorded city, the imagined city, the built city and the future city. It left me thinking about some big questions: Who gets to document our cities? Whose ideas are given space? Who has the power to shape the places we live in? And how can architecture, culture and collective action help us imagine different futures? One of the reasons I started writing, and more recently making videos and other content, is to create more space for a wider range of voices to shape the canon of architecture and the built environment. It’s not just about who gets to do the work, but who gets to speak about it, interpret it and shape the conversation around it. Shoutout to @tobikyere and the wider team for the powerful programme. Image credit: Esther Oluade #barbican #architecture #whoshapesourcities We @christiancassiel @drjoywhite and @mrhaast had a great conversation at Who Shapes Our Cities? at the Barbican back in
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When I’m not pulling on Bars I try to pull on threads that lets us reimagine the places and cities we call home. Truly grateful to facilitated this conversation with legends @christiancassiel @drjoywhite @_shawn_adams_ Who shapes our cities @barbicancentre as part of A project a Black Planet programme curated by @tobikyere We spoke about the cites of sites of imagination and what allows does sites to grow and what barriers may exist and so much more. I am constantly noticing the now and our contemporary times magic is being made everyday across the content. It’s a special time and I am excited how we can gather around this provocations and build on the legendary thoughts that came before us Picture 1 captured by one and only @awm.photo
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☀️ The Summer Reading Challenge is HERE! 📚 Six weeks of summer! Six weeks to make memories. Six weeks to build stronger relationships. Six weeks to grow together. What will your children see you doing? Scrolling... or reading? As part of my Parenting as Leadership Book Tour, I’m inviting you to join our Summer Reading Challenge. My Amazon bestselling book, Parenting as Leadership, is helping parents raise confident, connected children through a trauma-informed approach. Already spotted in Greece, Portugal and the USA, I’d love to see where it goes next! 📖 Grab your copy. Comment Book for deets. 📚 What are YOU reading this summer? Show me your current read in the comments or your Stories. If you’re reading Parenting as Leadership, share a photo, tag me and use #ParentingAsLeadershipBookTour. Let’s show our children that Readers are Leaders and that learning doesn’t stop when school closes. ❤️ Buy it. 🎁 Gift it. 📸 Share it. 🌍 Help us take the book tour around the world. #ParentingAsLeadership #SummerReadingChallenge #ReadersAreLeaders #BookTour
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Project a Black Planet public programme - dun. Wow wow wow. How do I begin to try to explain the whirlwind of these last 7 months? 15 events across 6 weeks, 70+ artists, doers, cultural workers, knowledge producers and heritage custodians, gatherings on futures and grief and love and reckoning and responsibility and collectivity, returning audiences that became friends, countless hugs and belly laughs and thank you’s. It’s been the honour of a lifetime to work and think and create alongside these incredible artists and to hold and be held by audiences through this experience. Thank you to everyone who came to 1 or 2 or 3 of these events. Words can’t explain the gratitude I feel in the trust people put into creating this space with us. Reena, Blair, Grace, Usher, George, Jo - the dreamiest of teams any institution should bend over backwards for. My co-curator Scully, chief of ideas and debates. And these makers of all things great and good: anaiis, Auclair, Shawn Adams, Garden of Afruika, Nate Agbetu, Toyin Agbetu, Nubia Assata, Arda Awaiis, Rohan Ayinde, Sara Berkai, Bonita, Moses Boyd, Jerry Brown, Christian Cassiel, cktrl, douniah, Lynnée Denise, Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne, Anjelo Disons, Steam Down, Elijah, Aniefiok Ekpoudom, Haja Fanta, Lex Fefegha, FUZIA, Amina Gichinga, Dr Aleema Gray, AJ Haastrup, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Jjess, Tianna Johnson, Jacob V Joyce, Jay Kayser, Bint Mbareh, Jennifer Lauren Martin, June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive, Yewande YoYo Odunubi, Ragz Originale, ORii, Tayo Rapoport, Zarina Rossheart, Kareem Samara, Sistah Sheeba, Saige Sounds, SlicknBobby, Jamz Supernova, Tawiah, THABO, Roxanne Tataei, Earth Tenders, Busayo Twins, Dr Joy White My heart is truly full 💗
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Elsa Monteith was in the room - she couldn’t be in all of them. One day. four floors. fifteen-plus sessions. her route through it. What stayed with her: @trenchtrenchtrench on who decides what music matters. @eli1ah on deep feedback loops. @complex_uk on when both cultures collide. @hyperfrank on the archive. @riskyroadz on family business and legacy. The case for going outside again ↓ read on the UD blog, link in bio 🧡 Words: Elsa Monteith @elsa__yeah Photography: Condry Calvin Mlilo · Garms + Sets @condrycalvinmlilo @garmsandsets @richmixlondon #IT2026
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SGUF WAS THERE. 🦅🔴🏁 We always talk about showing up and giving you FOMO because we want you to be where the foundations have been laid. We attended UD’s Industry Takeover 2026 not only to help motivate you to get involved in the constantly growing world of London’s underground music scene, but to also expose ourselves to the opportunities available to help preserve, protect, and promote the skill, education, talent, and passion here. SGUF Media left this moment ready to push the boundaries of what capturing the essence of the underground means and looks like. We will continue to take pride in being a part of this essence. Thank you to @udmusicldn , @trenchtrenchtrench , and all the amazing teachers/speakers for staying true to your passion, being devoted in music, and owning your authenticity. SGUF follows in your footsteps to do the exact same. SGUF XX
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