Flagship projects

Music Heritage Trail Development project Lead: Museum of Croydon

• Trail of 25-30 locations highlighting venues, events and artists from our musical heritage
• Focus on 5 music genres: Bass music including Reggae, Dubstep and Grime, Indie/Rock/Punk, Asian music from Classical to Bollywood, Soul/Jazz and Classical
• To include our own version of the blue plaque with some sites also having murals and VR/AR activations

This is Our Croydon Fairer Society Lead: Talawa

• Stories of our cultural and community and cultural elders, past and present, who have led the way in Croydon told by the younger generation through individual commissions in a variety of art forms including film, spoken word, art and theatre.
• Funded by NLHF with additional funding from National Portrait Gallery and ACE
• Stories released in April and May 2023

Oratorio of Hope Young People Lead: LMP

• Orchestrating the hopes and aspirations of our young people with spoken word, movement and music
• Every school in the borough to be invited to participate
• Opening live event for LBoC with a series of performances at Fairfield

Reuse Recycle Fashion Show A Greener Cultural sector Lead: FMM

• Highlighting the need for sustainability and the move to a circular economy
• Led by FMM involving local designers and designer makers re—purposing unwanted clothes and furniture donated by the general public for re-sale
• Includes satellite events in neighbourhoods taking over empty high street shops and talks and debates on the circular economy

Croydon EXPO A Fairer Society Lead: Turf Projects

• Involving artists in the debate around the re-designing of town centres and re-imagining of our High Streets
• Re-purposing empty retail units for borough wide visual arts exhibition
• Includes plans for a ‘Lates’ style programme with cultural venues open during evenings and at night to encourage new audiences

The Croydon Carnival Active Communities Lead: Think Events

• Main LBoC celebratory event
• Large scale participatory dance carnival involving arts and community groups from across the borough finishing with a street party on London Rd
• Developed in partnership with London Road Carnival, Dance Umbrella, Beeja, Birdgang, Scanners Inc, The BRIT School’s Khronos and See our 7

Croydon Pride Active Communities Lead: Think Events

• Croydon Pride will return
• Showcasing emerging artists and arts groups supported by the Ignite Fund
• Developed by Croydon Pride and Produced by Think Events

Croydon Mela Active Communities Lead: Think Events

• Croydon Mela will return
• Developed in partnership with Beeja and Apsara Arts
• Produced by Think Events

Liberty Festival Fairer Society Lead: Liberty Festival

• Subject to additional funding from GLA
• National festival hosted previously by Waltham Forrest and in 2022 by Lewisham
• Developed in partnership with the THRIVE network, SAVVY, Turf Projects, Club Soda, SLiDE and Drunken Chorus