What’s On?

Showcasing all things sporty in the borough….brought to you by the Lambeth Sport and Physical Activity Team in partnership with BETTER leisure centres in Lambeth.

Both days: 12 noon – 6pm

★ BETTER Leisure Centres in Lambeth

A wide range of activities for the family for all ages and abilities including soft play for the under 5’s, gymnastics taster sessions and multiple games and challenges.

★ Carers4Carers

Offering a range of low impact classes and dance sessions with massage and advice on services available for carers in Lambeth.

★ Surrey County Cricket Club

An opportunity to speak to Surrey Cricket coaches to learn more about the game and learn skills and techniques in a fun environment.

★ Tennis Zone

Mini tennis and family tennis throughout the day.

★ Football Zone

Showcase of football skills and mini games to provide children and young people a chance to show off their skills delivered by St Matthew’s Project.

★ Little Giants Volleyball Club

Learn how to play volleyball with qualified coaches from Little Giants Volleyball Club.

★ King’s College Hospital RFC

King’s College Hospital RFC is an open rugby union club founded in the 19th century as a football club whose representatives were made up of medics from King’s College Hospital.

Lambeth Sustainable Travel Team is again hosting a wide range of cycling elements at this year’s show. Find their cycle village next to the cycle parking by the Herne Hill entrance to the park.

Both days: All day

★ Cycle Confident – Cycle Skills

Suitable for adults and children – come and cycle round a course on the Bowling Green – practise your skills and learn new ones.

★ Dr. Bike

A special biker’s valet service will be available to cyclists who ride to the event via Herne Hill entrance (Gate 5).

★ Sustainable Travel Stall

Come and have a chat to us about some of our projects such as Try Before You Bike and free cycle training.

★ Bike Marking

Our friendly Safer Transport Team and the Policewill join us to security mark bikes and add them to the BikeRegister.

★ Lambeth Bike Market – Peddle My Wheels

Sell your old bikes and pick up a quality assured second hand bike for a reasonable cost. You can even pre-order a bike. More info soon.

★ Cycle Parking

There will be 2 convenient cycle parking areas this year. They are located at:

– Herne Hill Station (Entrance B / Gate 5)
– Tulse Hill (Entrance D / Gates 8, 9 and 10)

★ The Chocolate Museum

Both days: All day

The Chocolate Museum is an independent museum established by Isabelle Alaya, artisan french chocolatier. Her exhibition covers a range of objects, memorabilia and a quiz game app ChocoTale: Following the history of the cacao bean from the Mayans all the way to current day chocolateering. Activities on the day will consist in making chocolates and creating a wrapper for it!

★ Grooveschool

Both days: All day

Offering a range of music workshops that allow access to the basics of music technology and DJ skills, regardless of age, ability or background. Relish the opportunity to gain skills and confidence in handling the building blocks of modern music technology, giving participants the satisfaction of creating a tangible end product, be it a loop, file or entire performance. Express your creativity  through play, practice and performance.

★ The Illusioneer – Theatre of Magic & Illusion

Both days: All day

Discover a world of magic and illusion from this unique little theatre in Herne Hill. Performances will be throughout the day on both days, along with magic workshops and the opportunity to become a magician yourself!

★ The Rig

Both days: All day

Welcome to The Rig, an interactive installation combining percussion, musical exploration, creativity and adventure. Designed by professional musicians and artists, The Rig is a unique musical soundscape with an exciting visual impact aimed at kids from 1 to 100 years old!

★ This Is Book Love

Both days: All day

This is Book Love is an award winning collective of Educators, Artists, Musicians, Creatives, Aunties, Uncles, Parents and Grandparents working together to make multicultural matter.

★ MAMA.codes (Kids Coding Workshop – Ages 3 to 11)

Saturday: 12:30pm to 2:45pm

Sunday: 12:30pm to 2pm

Learning to code doesn’t have to be complicated. Using songs, jokes, stories and games aligned with the National Curriculum, MAMA.codes equip 3–11 year-olds with the skills they need to thrive in a world ruled by technology.

★ Shamha Drumming For Wellbeing (Drumming Workshop – All ages)

Saturday: 3pm to 5pm

Sunday: 6pm to 7:30pm

Shamha Vibration is a Community Interest Company based in Brixton, South London. They use funding from organisations including The National Lottery Community Fund and The London Community Foundation along with profits from our commercial activities to provide free African drumming workshops and free Moroccan food workshops in Communities throughout London, particularly the South East.

★ Joy of Sound (Accessible Music Workshop – All ages)

Sunday: 2:15pm to 3:45pm

Joy of Sound promote and advocate for social equity and inclusion through music and combined art activities, public events and research in established and new community settings across Greater London, UK wide and internationally. Come and join in on their annual Country Show musical jam.

★ Gozart Mask Making (All ages)

Saturday: 5:15pm to 7:15pm

Sunday: 4pm to 5:45pm

All are welcome to join in an afternoon of mask making. Suitable for all ages and take your creation home with you or join the mask parade around Brockwell Park.

SATURDAY

★ 12:45pm: Aim High Dance Academy (Dance Performance)

★ 1:30pm: E Squad (Dance Performance)

★ 2pm: Endurance Steel Orchestra

★ 3:45pm: South London Community Choir

★ 4:30pm: African Heritage UK (African Dance Performance)

★ 5pm: Mr. Wonderful presents The Lambeth Tea Dance

SUNDAY

★ 12:45pm: The Rose Arts London (Performing Arts)

★ 1:15pm: Moving Into Age (MIA) (Over 60’s Dance Troupe Performance)

★ 2pm: Bolivia FEFOBOL (Folkloric dances from Bolivia)

★ 4:45pm: UK China Performing Arts (Chinese classical and folk-dance Performance)

★ 5:30pm: Mr. Wonderful presents The Lambeth Tea Dance

★ Immersive Experiences

Both days: All day

Boasting the world’s largest fleet of planetariums, domes and geodesics, Immersive Experiences® is the multi-award winning, multi-functional, digital VR, planetariums & immersive projection service provider.

Their state-of-the-art mobile planetariums, sensory 360° domes and outdoor geodesic marquees cover curriculum, cross curricular, and Common Entrance 13+ learning, with subjects including:

Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, History, Paleontology, Geology, Geography, Mathematics, Art, Music, Dance, Culture, Photography and Film/Design/VR.

Come down and enjoy a full weekend of science, space and fun including:

– 360° immersive planetarium dome

– VR Zone with over 20 headsets

– Augmented Reality gaming

– Space props for meteorite handling

– 360° immersive dinosaur dome

– Real dinosaur bones

★ Sustainability – Make It In Brixton

Both days: All day

Make It in Brixton presents their sustainability programme in collaboration with local creative Alice Holloway. You will be able to learn about garment creation; from growing, spinning, and natural dyes to making a sweatshirt through peddle power, seeing the energy and skill that goes into the garment making process.

★ BMC Radio

Both days: All day

A small, friendly Brixton community internet radio station. They will be bringing their studio to Brockwell Park and broadcasting live all weekend.

Collaboration is the key to everything they do. BMC are proudly a free space for artists to broadcast from and a welcoming place to facilitate work experience, training and workshops for young people and the local community. All genres and people are welcome. If you are interested in getting involved or collaborating with them, please get in touch.

★ Paws & Pause – Dog Day Care

Featuring organisations and activities based around the environment and sustainability, this is the place to sign up to new initiatives and learn about how you can care more for our environment and be more sustainable in life.

★ Greenpeace UK

Greenpeace is a movement made up of people like you. Find out all the things that people can do to help the planet. BE PART OF IT.

★ BeeUrban

BeeUrban is a honeybee-centric social enterprise based in Kennington, South London, which aims to positively influence the urban environment through supporting local people and promoting positive, ecologically sound practice around urban greening, building, farming and particularly bee-keeping.

★ No Time To Waste

No Time to Waste is an environmental arts project aimed at 5-11 year olds which seeks to inform and empower young people about issues, such as single use plastic, climate change, and sea life protection so they can make choices to care for and protect our planet. It is centred around Gusita their 5 meter turtle sculpture made from tyres and other interactive recycled sculptures.

​Through storytelling, puppetry, team games, petition signing and hands on workshops such as tyre furniture skills and plastic bag jellyfish, they provide a playful sensory learning experience children can integrate into their everyday lives.

★ Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly Conservation is a UK-wide nonprofit environmentalist organization and charity dedicated to conserving butterflies, moths, and the environment.

★ Friends of Brockwell Park

Friends of Brockwell Park is a charity made up of members, our committee  and other volunteers who want to preserve and protect the park for the whole community.

★ The London Bat Group

The London Bat Group is a voluntary group working throughout the Greater London area to protect and enhance London’s bat populations.

★ Serco Environmental Services

Serco provide a diverse range of sustainable waste management services to residents in Lambeth. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have. They will also be showcasing their fully upcycled and 100% electric waste disposal truck, which is one of the many actions being taken to reduce their and Lambeth’s carbon footprint.

★ The Home of Charles Darwin – Down House

With its unique place in the history of science and evolution Down House was Charles Darwin’s family home and is a site of outstanding international significance. Find out more about the house and its grounds as part of English Heritage.

★ WWF

The World Wildlife Fund Inc. is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

★ Vauxhall City Farm

Both days: All day

Our good friends at Vauxhall City Farm have been attending the show for many years and they will bringing everything except the kitchen sink with them. Their whole family of sheep, donkeys, alpacas, rabbits and more will be in attendence for their annual weekend trip, as well as various arts & craft workshops and the infamous ‘cuddle corner’.

★ The Sheep Show

Saturday: 12:45pm, 2:45pm and 5pm

Sunday: 12:45pm, 2:45pm and 4:30pm

‘Nobby’ the Norfolk Horn stands centre stage while others are introduced to their podiums. Learn about each breeds attributes and how wool from the sheep’s back becomes a jumper to wear. The 30 minute show is cleverly devised and is highly entertaining and extremely informative, a rare combination. The highlight of the show is the “The Sheep Show Hustle – look out for the dancing sheep!

★ Brymills Livestock – Lambeth Best in Show 2022

Both days: All day

It just wouldn’t be a Country Show without a Best in Show. Farmers from all around the UK will be entering their best breeds of sheep to Lambeth. With 35 classes to enter livestock in to, you can expect to see over 100 sheep across 25 different breeds on display… all competing for Lambeth Best in Show 2022.

ombination. The highlight of the show is the “The Sheep Show Hustle – look out for the dancing sheep!

★ CJ’s Birds of Prey

Static Display – Both days: All Day

Bird Handling & Commentary – Both Days: 3:30pm and 6pm

CJ’s pride themselves on always giving informative and educational commentaries from their vast experience, yet manage to retain a light hearted and often humorous approach to the antics of their birds, who may not always work to their scripts.

★ Diggerland

Both days: All day

…in partnership with the Lambeth Horticultural Society.

There are over 80 different classes to see, including the coveted Vegetable Sculpture Competition.

Flower and pot plant exhibits – Cacti and succulents exhibits – Bonsai exhibits – Fruit and vegetables exhibits – Floral art exhibits – Children’s exhibits – Domestic exhibits – Handicraft exhibits.

LCS 2022 Flower Show Schedule (.pdf)

Family competitions, such as the Scarecrow and Recycled Garden, will also be making a return and you can vote for your favourite on the day.

Both days: All day

★ Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses

★ Brockwell Park Community Partners

★ Incredible Edible Lambeth

★ Dingle Fingle – The Clown Town Crime Watch

Saturday: 2:30pm and 6:15pm

Sunday: 2:30pm and 4:45pm

Dingle Fingle is an undercover policeman who is on the relentless pursuit of Slippery Sid the classic car thief. Slippery Sid has been selling classic cars, having rigged them up to break down so he can steal them from underneath their owner’s noses. You are the Clown Town Crime Watch – Dingle Fingle needs your help…

★ Cavalry of Heroes

Both days: 3:15pm and 7pm

Join The Golden Knight and Lady Lancelot as they battle against our Dark Night Lord Pendragon in an action packed jousting tournament. With galloping horses, trick riding, sword fighting and big jousting, the courageous knights will entertain you on their beautiful horses in this exciting family adventure. After the shows you can meet the knights at their Medieval Tent.

★ SMJ Falconry

Saturday: 1pm and 4:45pm

Sunday: 1pm and 4pm

SMJ have been involved with birds of prey for more than a decade. Having two displays each day means they can fly more birds. They usually fly different birds in each demonstration from the amazing speed of Peregrines Falcons to the fantastic flying ability of a Red Kite. Theywill have something to amaze and entertain your audience.

★ Dog & Sheep Show

Saturday: 1:45pm and 4pm

Sunday: 1:45pm and 5:30pm

Stuart Barnes has travelled to over 100 countries working with wildlife and his passion for the canine species has enabled him to gain an incredible understanding of everything about dogs. Come down and see a very amusing display of sheep dogs and the skill of sheep herding.

Lambeth Best In Show Parade

Saturday only: 5:30pm

It just wouldn’t be a Country Show without a Best in Show. Farmers from all around the UK will be entering their best breeds of sheep to Lambeth. With 35 classes to enter livestock in to, you can expect to see over 100 sheep across 25 different breeds on display… all competing for Lambeth Best in Show 2022. Don’t miss the main parade and showcase in the Main Arena @ 5:30pm on Saturday only.

★ 1:30pm: Brixton Chamber Orchestra

Brixton Chamber Orchestra is a versatile group of instrumentalists which provides thrilling live orchestral experiences for wide-ranging audiences in Brixton and beyond. They champion orchestral music, presenting it to new audiences in unexpected venues. They revel in innovative collaborations with all sorts of artists and genres – Grime to Gospel, Disco to Drum and Bass, Classical to Jazz, and everything inbetween.

Their performance at this year’s show would not have been made possible without generous sponsorship from Barserve Co., an industry leading event & festivals bar company, experienced at delivering the bar operations at some of the most prestigious events and projects in the UK – including Lambeth Country Show.

★ 3:30pm: Soothsayers feat. Akin Soul & Youthsayers

Brixton’s Afrobeat mash up features Afro Soul alumni Akin with members of Southsayers and celebrated local music education project Youthsayers; a south London based music performance and education group.

★ 5pm: FLOetic Lara AKA Lara Lee

Local resident Lara and her band focus on ‘wellbeing in music’. An accomplished singer, spoken word artist and entrepreneur, FLO seeks to mobilise and significantly edutain her audience, reminding them of the possibilities life holds and the power of love.

★ 6:30pm: Heatwave

Original 70’s funk disco known for hits like ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘The Groove Line’ and ‘Always and Forever’. Dust down your flares and bring your best dancing shoes. It’s Saturday Night Fever in Brockwell Park.

★ 2pm: The Trojans

Specialising in ska and reggae with a dash of soul, funk, R&B and world roots, The Trojans were formed in late 1986 and still touring today with Lambeth next on their busy schedule.

★ 3:30pm: Empresses of Roots, Soul & Reggae: Teshay Makeda, Aysha Loren, Dionne Reid and Roots Souljah’s Band

A powerful all female line-up celebrating the very best in roots, soul and reggae.

★ 5pm: Cleveland Watkiss MBE

Multi award-winning vocalist, actor and composer Cleveland Watkiss MBE joins us for the first time to explore Jamaica’s long history of pioneering musical sounds, including mento, reggae, ska and more. With classic tracks from legendary artists including Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and Delroy Wilson, The Great Jamaican Songbook tells poignant stories about the times and the culture, with a deep and infectious rhythm.

★ 6:30pm: Horace Andy & Dub Asante Band feat. Matic Horns

Original ‘ skylarkin ‘ reggae legend and sweet voice of Massive Attack, live from Jamaica, singing his hits and celebrating his new album ‘ Midnight Rockers’ (On-U-Sound). A magnificent finale to the weekend.

★ 12:30pm: ELEVATE

Join young people from local cultural organisations The Boury Academy, Kinetika Bloco, Unicap and The Angell Town Estate Residents Group as they explore a co produced performance all about ‘Home.’ Dance, music, drama and 50 of our future Lambeth Stars show us what community and partnerships can do.

Produced in partnership with ELEVATE, Lambeth’s mission to open up the creative and cultural sector to every young person in the Borough

★ 1:30pm: Sing Out Streatham & Peckham Rye Sings

A friendly community choir that meets every Thursday evening in Streatham. No experience needed. Voices of all shapes and sizes required. Come and find your voice at Sing Out Streatham.

★ 2:45pm: Lambeth Wind Orchestra

Lambeth Wind Orchestra is a community concert band based in Herne Hill. The orchestra was founded in 2008 and has around 40 members who come from across London and beyond, though they are always keen to hear from people who would like to join.

★ 4pm: Raw Material Jam

Nurturing raw talent, catalysing creative development, and supporting mental health through industry-standard music and media pathways for diverse communities at our creative South London Community Hub and via our vibrant online community.

Raw Material Music and Media is a creative nucleus for the communities of South London. Our purpose-built 3-storey building boasts 2 recording studios, a computer suite, DJ and music, and video production software and hardware, and a live room for performance, workshops, and ensemble work.

★ 5pm: Sarah L. King Quintet

Sarah L. King is gaining recognition on the London jazz scene as a silky voiced vocalist with a warm stage presence, and a repertoire that includes accomplished original songs as well as beautifully interpreted standards & some funk & soul influence.

★ 6pm: Brasstermind

10 piece brass band from Brixton playing New Orleans soul, funk, afrobeat and grunge brass style party tunes.

★ 7pm: NKomba

Nkomba are a contemporary African folk band who play an energetic mixture of Malawian folk songs and African roots music.

★ 12:30pm: Real Voices

Real Voices celebrates the fact that all voices are unique: some are trained, others are not; some boldly project, others are soft and haunting; some are clear, others are husky. With all these weird and wonderful combinations, the possibilities of what Real Voices can create when singing together are endless. Their choirs are based in Balham, Battersea, Brixton, Clapham, Crytal Palace, Tooting and Vauxhall.

★ 1:30pm: Rolling Brook

Heathbrook Primary School’s in-house band have been working hard on creating sounds together all year and we look forward to welcoming them on our Village Green stage. Come down and show your support to local Lambeth students.

★ 2:15pm: SWeet! Recorder Consort CIC

SWeet!’s repertoire is hugely varied: from the music of the Renaissance and Baroque, with which the recorder is most commonly associated, through Classical, jazz, minimalist music, and folk music from around the World, to rock, pop, rap, Bollywood and music using electronics and extended temporary techniques, there really is something for everyone on each SWeet! concert programme.

★ 3pm: Cats From Japan

★ 4pm: Unity Inspire Collective

Unity Inspire Collective are a group of professional musicians inspired by an Afro-Brazilian percussion genre called Samba-Reggae which combines the rich cultures of Brazil and Jamaica, and their mix of different musical backgrounds.

★ 5pm: Soul Grenades

A veritable tornado of funk, the band boasts a super-tight rhythm section, a wall of brass and a burgeoning song book of original music. Fusing their many influences, encompassing crate-digging rarities to contemporary dance floor fillers, Soul Grenades deliver no-nonsense, hard-hitting funk and soul music.

★ 6pm: Otto & The Mutapa Calling

Otto & The Mutapa Calling is a colourful London based marimba band playing energetic, joyful music from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, including folk songs, original songs and popular southern African covers. The band’s set-up includes soprano, tenor and baritone marimbas, hosho, drumming and singing, with both traditional and contemporary dances. The marimba band’s sound is full of energy and pulsating rhythms – and the band’s music shares the rich cultures, histories and stories of the people of southern Africa.

★ 7pm: Ceilidh Tree

The perfect way to finish the weekend off is with Ceilidh Tree who will be leading you through a mass participatory ceilidh at the Village Green stage. Ceilidh Tree’s ace fiddles and amazing caller are guaranteed to get you dancing, whether you’re virgins or veterans.