More than 400 people contributed to an outline scheme which we was revealed at our feedback event in Windrush Square on Thursday 2 May between 4pm and 8pm.
Somerleyton Road feedback event on Windrush Square
There were performances around the square by Ovalhouse between 4.30pm and 6.30pm, including two monologues, a dance drama and a spoken word poet (see below for more information).
Visitors were able to people from Brixton Green, Ovalhouse and Lambeth Council about how the scheme has been developed and what happens next.
Feeding back on Windrush Square
A report on the outline scheme will be considered by the Council’s Cabinet in the summer.
Ovalhouse performances between 4.30pm and 6.30pm
- An excerpt from On Dis Ting - A hybrid of dance & drama, set on the backdrop of Hackney after the London Riots of 2011. Written by Reuben Massiah who was a member of Ovalhouses’ Truth about youth programme in 2012.
- I wanted to tell you… in 1958 - A monologue from The Street, written and performed by Sam Samuel Petherbridge, a 2013 Truth About Youth Young Associate - 1958, Elvis and Chuck Berry dominated the charts, people danced into the night rocking around the clock. One young man shares his experience of love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in England. Men found guilty of homosexual acts between two men would be imprisoned.
- Grass is Greener – A duologue written by Keyah Wade. 1996. Tony Blair’s big push in election speeches; ‘Education, Education, Education’ and ‘Things can only get better’. Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ hit the charts and Girl Power was the word on everyone’s lips.
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Reality in you - perspective, my perspective based on young women of my generation and also, mistakes and choices that young women make and what the consequences and outcome is .. of the choices that we make. And urm, yeah .. It’s also a story. Written and performed by Rae Levine, a young spoken word.
