Help City Hall celebrate Black culture in London

It would be wonderful to have more than one performance area, so that established creatives, emerging artists and cultural commentators involved in interdisciplinary, cross-arts practice could share the platforms/stages and offer audiences true variety from across a spectrum of artistic genres - instead of only offering one schedule of headline music acts. I would hope there was space for showcasing published writers/poets, spoken word artists and exponents of dub poetics giving readings and delivering new work set to music. Importantly, there must be diversity of representation within Britain's Black and Brown communities so that LGBTQiA+ and disabled artists and other creatives are given equal prominence - e.g. Raymond Antrobus as an award-winning deaf poet with Jamaican-British heritage reading alongside Jacob Sam-La Rose, Belinda Zawi, Jackie Kay, etc. I would like visual artists to be commissioned to contribute new installation pieces - including dynamic, kinaesthetic light-themed art installations and archival image-based pictorial narratives - that could be projected on the facades and exterior wall spaces of prominent buildings such as the National Gallery, NPG, and the nearby embassies. Black/Brown women artists must be given prominence at this festival - including some of our most celebrated creatives, such as Sonia Boyce RA, and less well-known emerging talent. Black British actors as well as DJs could be invited to serve as announcers/comperes and event continuity facilitators. Please also consider having more temporary seating and public WCs so that elders and other less mobile members of the community get to enjoy the event activities in comfort. And finally, please consider inviting specialist African and African and Caribbean diaspora booksellers and small press publishing houses to set up stalls alongside fashion designers and retailers, street food sellers, rum punch marquees, etc.