From Granville Community Kitchen
The hidden stories and voices behind South Kilburn’s regeneration programmes, exploring themes of displacement, resilience, and community activism.
VENUE:
Exhibition 22– 26 January 2025 12-5pm
Events:
Wednesday | 22 January 2025
Launch 6-8pm
Echoes of South Kilburn – Opening Performance: 6:30pm
Saturday |
25 January 2025
Community Soup Session: 1-5pm
Talk: Regeneration History of South Kilburn: 12-3pm
Sunday | 26
January 2025
Workshop: Weaving Our South Kilburn: 2-3:30pm
MetrolandCultures is pleased to host our neighbour and artist Capri Jiang to present
work featuring a visual timeline of archives and an installation uncovering
narratives of loss and resistance while inviting visitors to envision South
Kilburn’s future together.
Communal spaces are essential for fostering connections and building a sense of
community. Accessible and versatile community spaces play a crucial role in
nurturing solidarity and resilience within neighbourhoods. However, over the
past few decades, regeneration programs have resulted in the widespread loss of
multipurpose spaces. This, coupled with rising rent, poor construction quality,
and the uncertainty of future costs, has created a precarious environment for
residents, forcing many to relocate and destabilising community life.
In response to these challenges, residents and organisations have mobilised to protest and resist the master plans driving this upheaval. This exhibition emerges from that context, shedding light on the untold stories of the community impacted by these regeneration programs. It highlights how individuals, organisations, and the collective community have been stripped of their voices, their right to adequate living spaces, and their ability to sustain a vibrant community spirit. At the same time, it showcases their resilience and efforts to fight back against these injustices.
Through this exhibition, you will explore the realities of the regeneration programme from the perspectives of individuals, organisations, and the urban landscape. The narrative unfolds through a visualised timeline of community archives and a woven cityscape installation. Visitors are invited to actively participate by contributing to the co-creation of a blueprint for the future of South Kilburn.
About Capri Jiang
Capri Jiang is a London based designer and researcher using design as a language to co-create with people. Capri is also the Project coordinator of Granville Community Kitchen – at the heart of its community in South Kilburn the kitchen is a place of repair, resilience, resistance and safety. GCK works within a healing justice framework with activities promoting the holistic repair and wellbeing of community. GCK’s activities respond to the needs of a diverse South Kilburn community, building resilience by building the capacity of people from marginalised groups, and challenges oppression, power and privilege.
