A new music venue for Lewisham designed and built, danced in, performed in, run, and owned by YOU,” read bold billboards in Deptford, near Goldsmiths, and up around Forest Hill. The show illustrated people with various skin shades of red, white and blue — some playing instruments or dancing, others in wheelchairs, all happy and belonging.
The venue will be the latest home for Lewisham music co-operative Sister Midnight, which aims to prove people can take control of their neighbourhoods together. The borough saw the highest jump in London rent between 2022 and 2023, and the quickest and steepest rise in house prices in the last decade — a staggering 74.78 per cent.
