Pavilion Hive

Pavilion Hive A community-led participatory art and design cooperative We facilitate art and doing across a range of different creative practices.

Following the RBKC's unilateral decision to terminate InTRANSIT in 2017, which was founded by a resident in 2007, and had received Arts Council Funding to build resilience in North Kensington since 2015, Pavilion Hive was formed. We are a collective of creative practitioners responsible for supporting the local arts and culture ecology by humanising the landscape of North Kensington which is negle

cted by the Royal Borough. We aim to be a year round hub of free Inclusive art practice, we use a community development – cultural brokerage strategy to enable artists to express their lived experience, widen participation for all irrespective of identity and/protected characteristics. Our work challenges, transforms and redefines notions of identity, social history and hierarchical structures by giving everyone a chance to take part. Activities are co designed and delivered with a wide network of other community practitioners including disability and mental health projects, children, young and elderly people and workshops which focus on arts for health and well-being. We employ, reach out to, and unite diverse audiences and communities and deliver a key part of RBKCs’ arts strategy.

TUNE IN to the SPEAK YOUR TRUTH SHOW, 4 - 6pm [uk 🕓 ⏭️ 🕕], Saturday 8 June when I will be joined by my fantastic Brotha ...
07/06/2024

TUNE IN to the SPEAK YOUR TRUTH SHOW, 4 - 6pm [uk 🕓 ⏭️ 🕕], Saturday 8 June when I will be joined by my fantastic Brotha Sibanji Job-Daniels Zibusiso Cholwe, calling in live & direct from Lusaka, Zambia. He is an accomplished, multi-talented Zambian, Pan-Afrikanist, Teacher, Trauma Therapist, Spoken Word Poet & Recording Artist.

Co-founder of Zambia’s Zambezi Elite Dynasty (ZED) NGO, Brotha Sibanji brings over 10 years of experience to helping communities heal from grief & trauma. He’s not just local – his expertise extends across borders, having trained NGOs, pastors, teachers & refugees in Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. Brotha Sibanji doesn’t stop there! He’s also a Young African Thinker (YAT), a movement dedicated to empowering young people to shape a brighter future for Afrika.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

Playin Music the way Music should be played!

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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10/05/2024
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As a neurodivergent, dyslexic woman of Afrikan heritage and a poet, traditional postgraduate courses held little appeal. I craved something that resonated with my identity and creative passion. The MA in Black British Literature did exactly that.

This course wasn't just intellectually stimulating, it was revelatory. Because of the ingrained racism in the publishing world, my knowledge of "Black British" writers was limited by what's readily available. The MA opened my eyes to a wealth of incredible talent I never knew existed. It's a form of educational reparations, righting the wrongs of a curriculum that has silenced Afrikan voices for far too long.

This program is much more than just a course; it's a necessary step towards reframing the narrative around literature, creative writing, and their history. It's a beacon for aspiring "Black British" writers and scholars, providing a platform for their voices to be heard and celebrated.

Losing this program wouldn't just be a financial misstep for Goldsmiths, it would be a moral failing. This unique MA is a brand-maker, attracting exceptional students and staff who enrich the entire university. It's not just about prestige; it's about creating a space where Afrikan voices can thrive in academia.

My story is just one example of the transformative power of this program. Goldsmiths College must recognize its importance and ensure its survival. Let's join forces to save this lifeline for aspiring Afrikan writers and scholars, and for the future of a truly inclusive literary landscape.

02/03/2024

TUNE IN to the SPEAK YOUR TRUTH SHOW, 4 - 6pm [uk ⏰], Saturday 2 March for the 1st of my International Women’s Month Specials featuring the phenomenal Mama D, live n direct in the studio. Mama D listens with care to the human and more than human to discern and to deeply learn and share that wisdom. She is a plant whisperer.

Mama D specialises in innovative learning methods for partnerships, rooted in her diverse background in agriculture, horticulture, and human development globally. As co-founder of Community Centred Knowledge, she investigates power dynamics within modernity/coloniality, employing reparative techniques such as art and nature-based methods. Through embodied research, she addresses cognitive justice and community rebuilding, including initiatives like The Food Journey.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

Playin Music the way Music should be played!

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, today, Saturday  27 August @ 4-6pm (uk time) I will be joined by my splendid co ho...
27/08/2022

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, today, Saturday 27 August @ 4-6pm (uk time) I will be joined by my splendid co host Brotha Royston John, his BIG, BIG love of music is varied, join us as he “lics a likkle tune pon de radio with me” at 5pm.

Brotha Royston is a multi talented Business Coach, Equality Diversity & Inclusion Facilitator, Mediator, Relationship Adviser, Family & Community Activist. He sits on Boards advising organisations how to perform better with people, operations, relationships & more. He has an incredible sense of humour “the only instrument I can play is the fool”, It has 10 strings and makes a nice nice melodic sound…

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, Saturday  23 April when I will be joined by my wonderful Sista Musfing, who is a m...
23/04/2022

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, Saturday 23 April when I will be joined by my wonderful Sista Musfing, who is a multitalented Leeds based cultural curator, DJ, poet, writer, radio presenter and producer & voice actor.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, Saturday 16 April when I will be joined by my  fabulous co – hosts the dynamic mot...
15/04/2022

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, Saturday 16 April when I will be joined by my fabulous co – hosts the dynamic mother & daughter duo Amber & Ebun. Amber is a gifted photographer & Ebun is going to share her insight into being a 12 year old girl living in Ladbroke Grove, her interests, music tastes & plans for the future.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 5 March, for the 1st of my International Women’s Month S...
02/03/2022

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 5 March, for the 1st of my International Women’s Month Specials when I will be in conversation with my splendid Sista Zakiya Gill, a poetry & spoken word maestro, live n direct from T n T, where she works to implement, preserve & transform the twin-island’s rich cultural heritage.
Sista Zakiya’s vision for the T n T Arts n Cultural landscape is one without boundaries where creatives are respected. She offers a wealth of hands-on experience & understanding, having worked with the Prime Minister's Village Competition for 6 years, bringing the same passion & transformative energy she displays on stage to T n T’s Youth Government in the capacity of Governor for Culture.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

http://www.feferitylondon.co.uk/feferity-radio/

https://m.mixcloud.com/Feferityradio/

Download Feferityradio App on iPhone
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On android
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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 12 February, with my first guest of 2022, my most esteem...
09/02/2022

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 12 February, with my first guest of 2022, my most esteemed Elder, Brotha Rootz Doctor, who will be co-hosting with me. This is a part 2 special with Brotha Rootz Doctor, naturopathic healer, community activist and community
radio broadcaster. He is guided by the healing wisdom of the ancestors.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

http://www.feferitylondon.co.uk/feferity-radio/

https://m.mixcloud.com/Feferityradio/

Download Feferityradio App on iPhone
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On android
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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), today, Saturday 18 December, when I will be in conversation with ...
18/12/2021

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), today, Saturday 18 December, when I will be in conversation with my splendid Sista Zakiya Gill, a poetry & spoken word maestro, live n direct from T n T, where she works to implement, preserve & transform the twin-island’s rich cultural heritage. Sista Zakiya’s vision for the T n T Arts n Cultural landscape is one without boundaries where creatives are respected. She offers a wealth of hands-on experience & understanding, having worked with the Prime Minister's Village Competition for 6 years, bringing the same passion & transformative energy she displays on stage to T n T’s Youth Government in the capacity of Governor for Culture.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

http://www.feferitylondon.co.uk/feferity-radio/

https://m.mixcloud.com/Feferityradio/

Download Feferity radio App on iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/feferity-radio-app/id1574339890

On android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ibitway.feferity

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), today, Saturday 11 December. At 5pm I will be talking the healing...
11/12/2021

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), today, Saturday 11 December. At 5pm I will be talking the healing properties & myriad of other uses of Shungite with my superb Brotha Tyrone Eastman of Shungite Healing Stones. As well as being one of the most grounding healing stones to use in therapy work, Shungite holds many other properties - including EMF protection & a way to purify our water.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

http://www.feferitylondon.co.uk/feferity-radio/

https://m.mixcloud.com/Feferityradio/

Download Feferityradio App on iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/feferity-radio-app/id1574339890

On android
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*******UPDATE*******Tonight, 8-midnight, the 1st of the 2 Heritage DJ Sessions, live on Portobello Radio’s MixCloud - ww...
21/10/2021

*******UPDATE*******
Tonight, 8-midnight, the 1st of the 2 Heritage DJ Sessions, live on Portobello Radio’s MixCloud - www.mixcloud.com/Portobello_Radio

Feat. DJ Ade (Nzinga Sound) DJ Eclectic Goddess - A Pavilion Hive BHM Special: Celebrating & Claiming Our Music Heritage - DJs of Afrikan Heritage playing Music of Afrikan Heritage

As residents and practitioners in the UKs most engaged Arts and Culture space Pavilion HIVE members are committed to emb...
27/09/2021

As residents and practitioners in the UKs most engaged Arts and Culture space Pavilion HIVE members are committed to embedding the decolonisation and reparatory justice agenda into RBKC’s Creative Conversation series. We urge you to join us, and catch up with colleagues around the world who are proactively supporting and actually doing decolonising and reparations work, rather than leaving it only to those from Afrikan Heritage Communities.

Aim: to engage in conversation, share ideas and experiences and begin the process of looking at the world through a different lens, one that communicates different cultural narratives and applies critical thinking to how art has accrued value, is valued and funded in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This exercise will provide an opportunity for creatives to enter a discussion about the decolonising process and begin to develop strategic plans to create the space in which Afrikans can claim space, change the narrative, the language and have agency to shift the discussion.

Decolonisation requires that institutions, arts and cultural organisations and practitioners are transparent, honest and take accountability for their unmerited benefits, monetary and otherwise. Confronting colonial structures and practises in arts and culture is not lip service, and it is more than tokenism. It is a long-term process that requires that we illuminate the inherent bias of white privilege and eurocentrism in the arts and cultural realm; it requires systemic change in how we speak, think and act, it requires shifting the power of decision makers.
If arts and culture is to be truly decolonised and if there is to be tangible racial justice for Afrikan heritage communities, including reparations, then senior managers, curators and others in decision making positions must reappraise our institutions and their histories as part of a larger process that acknowledges the role of empire and the harm caused in terms of violence, theft, exploitation and erasure.

There are a number of institutions beginning the process of decolonising. For example, in Scotland a number of museums have begun work to research their involvement in and profit from the enslavement and trading of Afrikans, colonialism and continuing racial injustice. V&A Dundee, Glasgow Life and museums of the University of Aberdeen and University of Dundee have all recently begun researching and expanding how they use their collections to properly communicate Scotland's part in enslavement and colonial history.

By learning more about the transformative projects and processes that are happening beyond the RBKC and Exhibition Road we hope cultural colleagues would be inspired to take action themselves.
The Local and the Global Context: In 1833 the United Kingdom spent 40% of its national budget, £20 million, to compensate enslavers (captors) for the freedom of enslaved Afrikans freedom, it was essentially reparations paid for the loss of ‘human property’. In addition the captors ‘won another concession, the euphemistically titled “apprenticeship” system. What this meant was that the slaves themselves were forced to work the fields for a further six years after the supposed abolition of slavery – 45 hours a week for no pay’ . On February 9 2015 following a tweet from the treasury department which read “Millions of you helped end the slave trade through your taxes” it was discovered in a perverse turn of events that Britain’s taxpayers who included those whose ancestors were subjected to the horrors of enslavement, had contributed to the very compensation debt paid to the captors nearly 200 years earlier.

It is an indisputable fact that Britain was built on the proceeds of enslavement and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has substantial links to these criminal endeavours. For example, research undertaken by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL identified that sizable amounts of compensation were paid to residents in the borough for emancipation of former enslaved people across the Caribbean. The so called éminence grise Hans Sloane benefitted from the proceeds of enslavement through his wife: Sloane Square, Sloane Avenue, Sloane Street and the Chelsea Physic Garden are all connected to their legacies. The Cadogan estate belonged to the family of Hans Sloane’s son-in-law. Brompton Oratory is built on a site bought from Robert Blemell Pollard, a school-proprietor who was a judgement creditor on ‘slave-property.’ Of course the museums in the South of the borough are full of stolen items related to the colonial era, their collections bequeathed from wealthy European donors who benefited from empire, including the foundation of the Natural History Museum, as part of the British Museum via a large donation from Hans Sloane.

Hosted by Isis Amlak, JC Kamau, Junior Tomlin, Lynda Rosenior Patten, Toby Laurent Belson and Harry Ross Eanraig Ros

13/09/2021

Nursing The Nation by Alexander D Great, celebrates the contributions of Afrikan heritage and Caribbean nurses and midwives to the building and success of the NHS. On Saturday 11 September the Nubian Jak Community Trust (NJCT), in collaboration with Islington Council and the Whittington Health NHS Trust, unveiled a monument to commemorate the efforts of Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives. This book is a massive addition to the available literature on the contribution of the African diaspora to medical practice and the provision of health services in Britain and it fills a huge gap in British historians’ recording of that contribution.Nursing A Nation: An Anthology of African and Caribbean Contributions to Britain's Health Services is a major addition to the available literature on the contribution of the African diaspora to medical practice and the provision of health services in Britain and fills a huge gap in British historians’ recording of that contribution.

06/08/2021
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15/07/2021

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The Portobello Pavilion is a temporary architectural hub offering free art-and-doing activities to all ages. Popping up each summer in Powis Square with an exciting new experimental build, people gather here to learn new skills, share ideas and spend time with family and friends. We stand for: Suppo...

We stand for:Supporting the LOCAL ARTS ecologyEMPOWERING PEOPLE through SHARING KNOWLEDGEDEMOCRATISING ARCHITECTURE thro...
09/07/2021

We stand for:

Supporting the LOCAL ARTS ecology

EMPOWERING PEOPLE through SHARING KNOWLEDGE

DEMOCRATISING ARCHITECTURE through Youth and Community Build projects

Combating the Marginalisation and Expense of arts education by GIVING EVERYONE A CHANCE TO DO ART

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER by offering shared experiences in a neutral environment

Tuition-free art school popping up in Powis Square this July! 🎨Contact Ron Best 07496611991info@nottinghillvisualarts.co...
08/07/2021

Tuition-free art school popping up in Powis Square this July! 🎨
Contact Ron Best 07496611991
[email protected]

Portobello Painting & Drawing School is back at out summery Pavilion pop-up in Powis Square W11 - tuition free art school!!🎨
Contact Ron Best 07496611991
[email protected]

Clay workshop in our Pavilion!💚
08/07/2021

Clay workshop in our Pavilion!💚

Therapeutic clay workshop in our summery Pavilion pop-up!💚

19/05/2021
TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 24 April 2021, when I will be in conversation with my ma...
21/04/2021

TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 24 April 2021, when I will be in conversation with my magnificent Sista, Ugandan born, Evelyn Sozi, mother, artist, fashion & apparel technologist.

Sista Evelyn’s focus is on fit, wearability and design aesthetic. She has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, New York and Bologna, Italy for luxury fashion labels and high street brands. Evelyn believes that experiencing the day to day life on different continents has been phenomenal, inspiring and a positive influence on her career and outlook on life. In January 2020 her artwork was shown at the Willesden Gallery as part of the Identity and Self Group Exhibition. She is preparing for her first solo show.

Engaging Conversation
Eclectic Music
A Pan Afrikan Perspective

We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.

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First produced in 2015 by curator Tim Burke as part of the InTRANSIT Festival, the Portobello Pavilion, an architecturally designed temporary cultural space has been a regular summer fixture in Powis Square W11. It is a unique collaborative social engagement project between architect, artist, and public, delivering free art and design projects and cultural talks. This year the Portobello Pavilion partners with LDF to celebrate North Kensington’s art and design practice. The Museum of Architecture join members of the North Kensington creative community to judge a design competition with a diverse selection of architects, announcing July 25th 2018

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