Chronicles of Kilburn
February 2024 - December 2024
Chronicles of Kilburn is a series of workshops which aims to support local communities and organisations to explore the intangible heritage and histories of Kilburn through various art forms. We will partner with a different organisation for each workshop. All sessions will be delivered by artists and a team of practitioners who will support and encourage participants to share their own stories through different methods of gathering oral histories. Across the year, art forms will include animation, music, playwriting, poetry and photography.
Chronicles of Kilburn Exhibition
8 January - 12 February
Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Chronicles of Kilburn exhibition!
This exhibition features work from 10 local organisations. For the last year, participants from these groups have worked with artists to explore the heritage and hidden stories of Kilburn. They have shared their stories using animation, music, dance, audio drama, photography and more.
Drop in to see the exhibition, meet the artists and contributors, and hear more about this brilliant project. At the opening event, there will be free refreshments and a dry bar.
Kilburn Older Voice Exchange/Filmscope
Filmscope led a stop animation workshop with Kilburn Older Voices Exchange members. Participants used objects that represented their untold stories of Kilburn, connected to places such as a jewellery shop on Kilburn High Road, a local hairdressers, and many of the pubs and live music venues.
Ashford Place/Kilburn State of Mind
Kilburn State Of Mind delivered a music workshop for members at Ashford Place. During this workshop participants discussed the music from their youth, the Irish influence in Brent and how attending live performance in the local area was how many friendships and relationships were born. The two Irish musicians from KSOM were able to play some of the groups favorite songs while they sang along and danced together.
Asian Women's Resource Centre/Khadija Raza
Theatre designer Khadija Raza delivered a costume design workshop for a group at the Asian Women’s Resource Centre. Discussions took place around the blending of cultures and raising the next generation, sharing cultural traditions in modern day society. Each member of the group was inspired by the heritage discussion, to design a costume that spoke to their roots and represented who they are in the world.
Pepper Pot/Tanya Campbell
Movement Practitioner Tanya Campbell led a practical workshop with members at the Pepper Pot Centre. The group engaged in discussions about heritage, bringing their stories of migration and reflecting on the influence of Caribbean culture on London. They used music from their heritage to create movement sequences of traditional dances.
OK Club/Roy Mehta
Photographer Roy Mehta worked with a group of young people at the OK Club in South Kilburn, exploring themes of representation and community. Using three different methods of photography the group experimented with photographing each other and their surroundings in a way that they felt captured the stories they want to share about Kilburn.
Kilburn Grange Primary/Maryam Shaharuddin
Theatre Facilitator Maryam Shaharuddin delivered a practical drama workshop with Year 3 and 4 students at Kilburn Grange Primary School. The children discussed Kilburn and how they imagined it to have evolved over the last 100 years, and what they thought it might look like 100 years from now. Using their favourite places and outdoor spaces as inspiration, they created scenes depicting how the future would look. There were a lot of robots and Creams was still thriving!
Rumi's Cave/Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw, a Writer from Brent, worked with a group of adults from Rumi’s Cave and Rumi’s Kitchen, to share stories of the organisation, how it has evolved and their personal connection with it. Each of them wrote a version of their story of Rumi’s, as a two-minute monologue, and recorded these with support from the team.
Sport at the Heart/Rachel Lum
Artist Rachel Lum ran an art workshop with a youth group at Sport At The Heart. Using drawing and different line techniques group members collaborated on a piece of art showing how attending sessions made them feel, and the people and places they feel connected to in the local area.
SUFRA NW/Zhaolin Zhou
Zhaolin Zhou, artist and previous Kilburn resident worked with a group of adults at SUFRA NW. The group mapped out their daily experiences in the local area, then used puppetry techniques to create an object with pop up mechanisms, to represent a place in Kilburn that was personal to them.
Sidings Youth Club/Kinga Markus
Local artist Kinga Markus worked with Sidings Community Centre Youth Club. They used charcoal and pastels to create self portraits. Through discussion participants learnt about the history of the building and stories of staff who had been part of its development.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND WITH THANKS TO NATIONAL LOTTERY PLAYERS.
