Culture Weekend has been postponed for 2024 but join us in 2025 as Culture Weekend gets hands-on, up close & inside what makes our lives so rich, vibrant & playful.
Culture Weekend is a celebration of arts, culture, heritage & legacy of the Global South - Caribbean, African, Afro-Latin & Creole Speaking communities in UK.
Launched in 2023, thousands of people attended the weekend to enjoy culture & community through food, drink, dance, music, language & art. Creating these spaces for expressing cultural identity in & around our city, means we get to unpack all our roots in a colourful, joyful & authentic way.
2025 ticket launching soon
Culture Weekend is simply a series of events which allow attendees an opportunity to sample various elements of culture.
On both days there will be events that are celebrating Windrush and exploring Black Culture.
Some of the events scheduled do have an age restriction applied, this is to ensure the correct audience attends & has the best experience.
Passes are priced affordably and cover access to a variety of events.
For those that love the low key community festival vibe, hanging out with family, on your own or with a group. The Windrush Festival gives you low cost access to a day out with some music, food and the chance to get involved in an actvity.
Thinking About Performing?
We have both seasoned pros and also newbies who join us so don't think this isn't for you too! If you're a local established act who would just love to support one of our festivals or if you are simply wanting a bit more stage experience to perform in public, please fill in your details below.
Since 2018, our festivals and events have been run by volunteers, with local people and small businesses working hard to make it a growing success. Being a Radiate Festival performer is really the perfect way to be on stage, be seen to increase your festival exposure and invite your friends to enjoy an open-air performance by you. We all know that booking gigs as an independent artist is not always easy or a fun experience. However when you join us we want to give you the good treatment as a show of our thanks, create a space for you to connect, have a lot of fun and at the same time do something really feel-good and positive for the local community.
We always love giving artists the space to bring their talent to share with an appreciative crowd. Our festival days are a nice vibe and very down to earth. So whatever time and talent you can spare, we’d love to hear from you!
Yes the are opportunities for trading! Find out more on the trading page with a link to the new market booking portal for Culture Weekend.
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Become a micro-sponsor and support independent festivals just like ours.
Even though we ourselves are a small Black owned business, we understand that support and giving has to be at the core of how we operate.
Help us to do more & help more people across our community
Corporate Sponsorships also available - contact us to discuss
So you may be asking - well what & where is the Global South?
Phew we're so glad you asked (hehe!). The phrase “Global South” refers broadly to the regions of Latin America, Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. It's one of a family of terms, which includes “Third World” denoting the regions outside Europe and North America, mostly (though not all) low-income and often politically or culturally marginalised.
The Global South has given so much to the identity of the North, enabling our cities in the North to develop their own vibrant offerings largely stemming from the inclusion of the culture of hotter climates.
In the north we are no doubt better off for the enrichment of cultural imports.
The reason we have some mission statements is because we are a little (or maybe a lot) different to other festivals. We recognise that if we want to build something for the future which is community centred + culturally authentic, we have to be unafraid try alternatives to the big clunky expensive models that have developed over the last 50 years in the industry.
