Two people dancing at the Message We Bring event A woman playing guitar at the Message We Bring event

The Message We Bring

EVENT

The Message We Bring is a celebration of community through sound and is an experience from year one of our Tilting the Mirror project.

Details

This event has now finished.

Peckham Palm Arcade, SE15

6 – 24 July 2021

The sound-based artwork is composed of voices, sounds and stories collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2021.

Sound artist, DJ and producer A.G. ran workshops with young people and elders from Peckham to gather this material, including members of Leaders of Tomorrow, Golden Oldies, Black Heroes Foundation and Peckham Park Baptist Church. Together the group shared memories of togetherness, personal histories and hopes for the future.

The resulting soundscape, titled The Message We Bring weaves audio from the online sessions into a playlist of music selected by the group along with experimental recordings and beats.  

Over the course of four weeks from 3 – 24 July 2021, Peckham Palms hosted The Message We Bring, forming a space for celebration, performance and workshops with local artists and creators.

The Message We Bring poster from Tilting the Mirror x Peckham Palms

Artist Birungi Kawooya ran workshops in the technique of making simple but impactful collages with African print fabric. Peckham and Madrid based artist Chisara performed an acoustic set with dub-inspired, jazz, hip-hop and indie rock elements and the Resolve Collective created a Pop-Up Library celebrating memories of togetherness and hopes for the future with passers-by. Material focused on peoples’ stories and recollections of Peckham and was generated through story-recording activities such as ‘emotional mapping’ which uses our emotional connections to our neighbourhoods as a way of understanding the city, and ‘DIY phonographing’ using readily available materials from the home to create makeshift, physical recording devices.

More Events

Events

An image of sunlight through red curly hair. The light is refracting through the curls, making it look like they are glowing from within.

Zuleika Lebow: Creative Approaches workshop

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (Recording now online)

Now available as a recording is Peckham Platform’s Youth Platform zoom workshop with Zuleika Lebow, an artist, writer and educator born and raised in London.

Welcome to Sites of Play at Festival of Community

Thursday 17 August 2023

Peckham Platform is thrilled to present you Sites of Play, a free workshop guided by artists Birungi Kawooya and Lesley Asare at Staffordshire St, an independent project space in Peckham. The workshop is for people aged over 16 years old and aims to promote a safe space for play, self-discovery, as well as individual and […]

Two people dancing at the Message we bring event

The Message We Bring

6 – 24 July 2021

Tilting the Mirror x The Palms was a three-week experience bringing together a soundscape and performance programme titled The Message We Bring with a focus on community representation.

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

All Artists