Sanctuary & Sustenance – Southwark Culture Together Project Sanctuary and Sustenance Project (July 2025-March 2026) Sanctuary and Sustenance offers three unique walking events celebrating the rich contributions of migrant communities within Southwark. Expect to be surprised, engaged and entertained! These unique walks are supported by Southwark Council’s Culture Together Fund. Launched at the end of October, free for Southwark Residents, the season of walks starts with Small Traces… “Small Traces” meeting at 11 am on Sat 25 October at London Bridge BOOK HERE An urban exploration that retells the colonial history between Britain and South Asia as we pay attention to place names, ghost signs and historical figures that populated Southwark. Starting near the river we follow the traces of the first Indian temple dancers brought to London, who stepped off their boat at London Bridge, as we weave our way to Elephant & Castle. “Living Legacies” meet at 3pm on Wed 29 Oct Peckham Peckham Rye Station Exit BOOK HERE Natalie Worgs the Mother of gIRLS aBOUT pECKHAM, creates a cultural walk from hidden stories and living legacies of Peckham. The walk will map around murals, markets and more, things that keep Peckham alive, highlighting the stories of Black and underrepresented Women and elders. Expect an opportunity to make your own mini zine of the experience along the way! “Tracing Peckham” meet at 2pm on Sun 26 Oct Peckham Rye Station exit BOOK HERE Join artist and Peckham resident Tara Fatehi for a sensorial walk through the streets (and backstreets) of Peckham. Together we’ll explore the neighbourhood’s multicultural life, exchange songs and poetry, and through change, demolitions, and what remains. Along the way, we’ll connect the histories of North Peckham with the rhythms of Rye Lane, recall a demolished mural, and reflect on the Five Estates. Through words, songs, and listening, we’ll feel the sensations of the neighbourhood. Please visit inspiral events for updated info: https://www.inspirallondon.com/events/ or subscribe to our newsletter here Tickets available from the end of September 2025. InspiralLondon is delighted to have been supported by Southwark Council’s Culture Together Fund to continue developing and researching a new set of walk events for October 2025. These walks will celebrate the contribution of Global Majority communities, to Southwark’s unique diversity, to its evolving history and culture. Working with local artists Tara Fatei, Ranjini Nair and Natalie Worgs, theatre artist Frances Calliste will co-curate this mini-festival of new public walks centred around Peckham and other areas of Southwark linked to the artists’ research. For this extended project InspiralLondon builds from recent walks made for Songlines for Greenwich project (January 2025-July 2025) and the exciting collaborations with new associate artists: Frances Calliste, Bonita Charles and Remiiya Badru. Including showcasing walks that explore known and hidden histories of black presence with a connection to Southwark. Mishandled Archive by Tara Fatehi at Peckham Rye Park, photo by Jemima Yong. Sanctuary and Sustenance is supported by Southwark Council Southwark Together grant, with additional support of tfl WCGL 2025/26, InspiralLondon Associate Artists and local partners:
