Kilburn Museum Lab - Museum Pop-up: Contribute
Community Workshop
Open to all. Free to attend with refreshments provided.
2PM SATURDAY | November 25th 2023
Location: Kilburn Camden Library, 12-22 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5UH
Join us to share your thoughts on what Kilburn Museum Lab is… and could be.
Community members — including residents, social workers, public health practitioners, institutions, organisations, local businesses, creatives, and individuals — are invited to contribute by sharing personal stories that reflect the diverse culture and history of the area. Please bring your stories and physical objects of personal significance. We will document everything for future use in the museum.
The project is supported by The British Academy and is a collaboration between Francesca Murialdo (director of interior architecture and design programmes at Middlesex University), KilburnCamden Library and the PAPRIKA Collective.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Performance Walk Along the Lost River - River Kilburn
You are invited to a walking performance led by artists Amanda Camenisch, Therese Westin & PAPRIKA Collective, for a participatory ritual blessing the Westbourne river which ran along nowadays Kilburn High Road. The walk will retrace the river pathways, travelling through hidden urban landscapes, with pre-arranged meeting points on the route.
- To start the walk: We will meet at 12 pm in front of Metroland Studios, 91 Kilburn Square, NW6 6PS (Behind Argos on Kilburn High Road) to start the performance walk.
- No previous experience in performance needed.
- Refreshments, snacks and light lunch will be provided.
- Participation is free but there is a deposit fee of £5 to secure your booking. This will be refunded when you arrive on the day. We understand some might be struggling with the cost of living and on a low/no income. If that is the case you can book using the no deposit option during check out.
This is a FREE event, with a light lunch provided.
RSVP via this Eventbrite Page is essential.
06. From Architecture to Community
@ Kilburn Library Centre
12-22 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5UH
FRIDAY 2-4PM JUNE 23RD 2023
Event booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middlesex-university-from-architecture-to-community-lfa-event-tickets-609524934487?aff=eand
All Welcome.
🔴 How do we imagine the future of the disused Kingsgate Community Centre? How to activate historical sites for the benefit of culture and community?
🔴 This workshop aims to explore the adaptive use of space for the benefit of culture and local community, particularly in relation to the ideas put forth by Doreen Massey, a renowned geographer, social theorist, and co-editor of Kilburn Manifesto (2013), known for her work on space, place, and power dynamics.
🔴 In this workshop, we will be playing with REBEL (Recognising Experience Based Education and Learning) - an educational toolkit developed by a team of academic practitioners and community-based education activists.
🔴 This workshop is part of London Festival of Architecture 2023, and is facilitated by students and tutors from Middlesex University|Interiors and PAPRIKA Collective.
🔴 Fresh pakora, samosa, rolls, and refreshments will be provided by Kingsgate Cafe, a family-run Indian cafe located a few street away from the disused community centre.
🔴 Through the workshop, we will develop a draft proposal for the disused Kingsgate Community Centre, which will be further discussed and developed with Middlesex University|Interiors students, local residents, community activists, and local government officers.
🔴 You can read more information about the research process done by Middlesex University Architecture|Interior here: Kilburn Lab - focusing on the disused Kingsgate Community Centre, the projects on display at the Kilburn Library Centre, present ideas on the potential future use and inhabitation of the building. These projects, part of the KilburnLab initiative, are led by BA Interior Architecture and MA Interiors students and staff at Middlesex University. They aim to explore how communities are formed and how adaptive reuse can be approached as a social practice.
SOUND OUT
SATURDAY MAY 20TH 2023
Kilburn Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, London NW6 5BA
You are invited to listen and experience a unique performance for voices and bells at the Tin Tabernacle in Kilburn.
SOUND OUT is a participatory and collaborative performance taking place in the afternoon, on the 20th of May at The Tin Tabernacle in Kilburn.
The piece is directed by Sharon Gal and offers a democratic space for creative exchange.
It will be developed together with the performers, earlier that day, through a process of playful explorations and collaborative composition, as players respond to the space's architecture and resonance, breathing life into this 160 years old historic building, evoking its memories and spirit.
Slow Walk - Gentle Sonic Movement Workshop
KINGSGATE PROJECT SPACE
SATURDAY 3-5PM APRIL 15TH 2023
No prior experience needed.
Join the free experience workshop to meet new people who many be interested in joining PAPRIKA Collective for future walks. Attending this workshop is a first stage in finding out more about joining the collective, and all are welcome to take part. We are interested in people who love to walk, no matter their background, health or experience.
The joyful feeling of moving freely is often appreciated when one's movement is interrupted or unavailable. This experimental sonic movement workshop draws from Feldenkrais method to explore ways of walking - the use of gentle walk, the rediscovery of the range of motion, and the innate capacity for movement. Participants will use motion-activated and gesture-controlled sonic devices to create sonification of their slow walk in the workshop.
Free workshop. Booking essential.
Email paprikacollective@gmail.com or call 07949625584 to book.
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Dilapidated Dwelling - Kilburn Grange Park
110 years ago, Kilburn Grange Park opened for the public for the first time. Originally as part of The Grange, the last of Kilburn’s large houses located in the centre of on Kilburn High Road, it was opened to the public on May 1st, 1911 after the last occupant Mrs Ada Peters (of a wealthy family of coachbuilders for Queen Victoria) passed away on Feb 5th, 1910. At the time, it is estimated that 4000 children under age 15 were living in Kilburn, without an open space to roam free than the streets or playgrounds of council schools. Kilburn Grange Park was purchased by London County Council (previous local government of London 1889-1965) to become the park you can roam free in today. In addition to the areas of park you can visit today, it used to have an ornamental garden, children’s playground, model yachting pond, bandstand, a fountain, and fancy dress party…
🔴You can watch filmmaker Anna Bowman’s documentary film, https://vimeo.com/72027110 to know more stories about the becoming of the park in the past 100 years.
🔴To be part of the change, and see what’s changing: Currently, there’s a ‘’masterplan’’ that refreshes the design of Kilburn Grange Park. It takes about 5 minutes to share our opinion about the use of the part, what need to be changed, what doesn’t need to be changed. The survey is available to view and fill here: https://kilburngrangepark.commonplace.is/ (Deadline April 2nd)
The writing above is written in reference to historians: Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms.
Image Copyright:
1. PAPRIKA Collective
2-4. ‘The Centenary of Grange Park, Kilburn’, West Hampstead Life (May 1st, 2013)
5. London Metropolitan Archives (City of London Corporation)
Stories of Kilburn – Here, Hear
SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH, 1-3PM
@METROLAND STUDIOS (BEHIND KILBURN MARKET)
Walking down Kilburn High Road, what do you hear... What make you stop and listen...
2023 marks the 10 years anniversary of the launch of Kilburn Manifesto, introduced by Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall and Michael Rustin from Soundings. Kilburn Manifesto is an ambitious 12-month project that looked to map out alternatives for the post-08 world, to recognize the depth of the crisis, and to question our states of imagination.
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall claimed that ‘people have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.’
'Stories of Kilburn' is supported by One Kilburn, London Bourough of Camden, Metroland Studios, Kingsgate Workshop, & Kilburn Library of Things.
Meeting at the Launderette - Remember Doreen Massey
SATURDAY, MARCH 11TH, 9-11AM
@ LAUNDERETTE, 345 KILBURN HIGH ROAD, NW6 7QB
Take a walk on Kilburn High Road is inspired by the life and work of British geographer Doreen Massey. Massey used to not own a washing machine. Because she wants to support this local launderette on Kilburn High Road. Launderettes were part of the newly automated life of post war Britain. Once a fixture on every high street, the humble launderette is a sentimental space for many.
With or without your washing, let's meet to revisit geographer Doreen Massey’s influential essay ‘A global sense of place’ (1991).
"It is (or ought to be) impossible even to begin thinking about Kilburn High Road without bringing into play half the world, and a considerable amount of British imperialist history". (Massey, 1991)