Help City Hall celebrate Black culture in London

Look at the ska events of the eighties, the raves of the nineties and the popularity of rap music today. Black culture has for decades and centuries brought communities and people together.

Imagine if we took some of the best of London's Black creatives and social groups to make a celebration that brings old and new, today and tomorrow into the spotlight. Queer Bruk, a dancehall clubnight interrupts notions around homophobia in Black culture, Leon Jean-Marie, artist and composer interrupts notions of Blackness being seen as a monoculture with his project Supervene. And who inspired today's creatives ? Can we get some of the big names from before to celebrate their careers today ?

An Autumn event on Trafalgar Square provides the opportunity to powerfully share with Londoners and its visitors the wealth and diversity of Black creativity and commerce, food, fashion and photography. Imagine if we brought some of the stars of yesterday from poetry, music and art to inspire and work with the stars of tomorrow. We're proposing an idea that is both inter-generational and inter-genre. 

Such a big event will bring varying communities and people together. This can't be seen as an event for one part of a certain community. Instead this should be viewed as an opportunity for Trafalgar Square to be transformed into a safe space where all can come together. Young and old, nostalgia and the new. Sharing cultures allows us to recognise what's unique amongst us, but is really also a chance to understand and recognise how much our humanity binds us together.