Stella Dadzie

SATURDAY OCT 4, 12pm – 6pm
CASHBLACK MARKET
Venue: Market Place, Hawley Wharf, Camden Market NW1 8QH

Cashblack is a multi-award-winning platform that rewards members with cashback when they shop online with black-owned businesses.

This live event on October 4 will feature over 40 stalls celebrating the first Cashblack live IRL event which will utilise Open Banking technology to reward purchases from physical locations of Black-owned businesses, in turn driving economic growth for the Black community offline in the same way we currently do online.

Expect a thriving and vibrant open air Black History Season market place. Fashion, Health and Beauty, Arts and Craft, Toys and Games, Food and Drink.

THURSDAY OCT 9, 6.30pm – 9.00pm
A Whole Heap of Mix Up – Book launch event with author Stella Dadzie
In partnership with Lawrence Wishart Publishing
Venue : Camden Market, (Stables) The Pantry, Atrium, Stables Market NW1
Free entry: Limited places, book your ticket on Eventbrite. This event will be filmed and shared after the event

Stella Dadzie is a black feminist activist, artist and writer. She is co-author of The Heart of the Race (1985) and author of A Kick in the Belly (2020). Her archive is housed in the Black Cultural Archives.

This event will include conversation with Stella Dadzie; readings; and guest performances from poet Sandra Agard, spoken word performer Cherie Taylor Battiste and Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith.

‘The way I see it, I am one of many. My life and its ephemera are part of a rich and complex tapestry of parallel or overlapping lives – a kaleidoscope of lived experiences that, viewed together, will define my generation of Black and brown women, warts and all.’

Stella Dadzie is a leading figure in the Black women’s movement in Britain, and this book brings together a rich treasury of reflections on a life lived in the struggle, showcasing both her political commitment and her creativity. As well as critical writing on race and gender in Britain, the collection includes short stories, poems, speeches, travel writings and a curated selection of artwork.

All take their inspiration from the wide range of Dadzie’s life and work – her personal biography, her decades of political activism and critical thinking, and her extensive travel in Africa and the Caribbean.

Taken together, they constitute a major contribution to the literature on black women’s lives in Britain, offering new insights into the issues that have defined a generation. The book will be an instant classic in the black British feminist canon.

This is the fifth title in LW’s Radical Black Women Series, in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives.

‘Stella reminds us that the personal is always political in a boldly-lived, socially aware life. With a highly engaged political lens, the variety of pieces and treatment takes us on a journey of experience that will connect with many other women on the way. This is a singular life but with collective resonance.’ – Beverley Bryant

‘A feast of colour, words, emotions, realism – hopes as well as fears. With love at the centre of everything’ – Sandra Agard

THURSDAY  OCT  16, 6pm–10pm
‘UNAPOLOGETICALLY ME’
In partnership with Kaye Sotomi and Chop Chop Hair
Venue: Chop Chop, 4 Castlehaven Rd NW1 8QU, 020 3488 1492, Free event

Streaming a powerful and thought-provoking film produced by Kaye Sotomi that dives deep into the complex relationship with have with our hair, exposing the bias of beauty standard’s and their professional impact on self-identity.

The event will include music, networking and a panel discussion  linking the 2025 Black History Season theme ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride ‘

THURSDAY OCT 30, 4-8pm
The Big Draw Festival – ‘Drawing with Light’
Free event, celebrating the street and waterside with dance, movement and light in the heart of Camden Camden Council in partnership with Labtech / Camden Market

Internationally acclaimed dancers will be celebrating Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation scheme and the canalside at Camden Market’s Hawley Wharf with extraordinary wearable lighting, projections, sounds and voices. Directed by leading choreographer David Blake, dancers and participants will respond to the populated street and canalside architecture as day turns to dusk.

Light offers the potential for expressive, fluid and dramatic mark-making – scribing space and place, leaving permanent or temporary impressions. Lighting technologies, coordinated with sounds, music and voices drawn from Camden’s recent and past histories, will follow body movement and dance through street levels, steps, and canalside terraces.

The performances, which will be programmed as part of Camden’s Black History Season, will follow presentations and master class workshops with young people in local venues led by David Blake.