Brixton area guide

Near Brixton in Ferndale road, there is also the Chocolate Museum, it's free and you taste the chocolatier products, really nice. You can also try workshops but you will have to book it. http://thechocolatemuseum.co.uk/

There is a really exciting new gallery just opened on Atlantic Road, it's called the'Knight Webb Gallery' and they have a show which features artists from across the world!

It is a shame you really don't know the area, there are way better places than the very obvious ones you have mentioned. Brixton is the best town south of the river bar none

I didn't make it to Brixton on my last London visit, but this fall (post-Olympix-craze), I plan to go back and check this out: http://www.smart-urban-stage.com/blog/post/brixton-pound/ The Brixton pound, the neighborhood's very own currency. Had heard about the Dutch doing something along these lines, very arty sort of thing, but I am interested to see it in action, as a way to stimulate the local economy. Pretty cool.

On the 4th May Joe Le Groove and Mark Dale get together to launch this free exciting brand new night Shatter Proof, at southwest London freshest new venue Electric Social. Both Mark Dale and Joe Le Groove have been involved in London’s underground scene for over 15 years, playing in clubs such as Egg, Pacha, Ministry of Sound, The Cross, Aquarium to name a few. On this night expect all kinds of audio and visual trickery, beginning at 8pm with electronic disco funk and taking a journey all the way thought to the freshest Tech House dance floor essentials. Joining them on the night for a guest set will be superstar producer and Dj Asad Rizvi, Reverberations label front man, playing his own very special blend of House. The bank holiday weekend starts here with Shatter Proof @ Electric Social on the 4th May. Remember it’s free admission, so please arrive early because we have special surprise, electronic disco DJs to start the night with and soon to be announced.

The EXPLODING CINEMA 20th Birthday Party SHOW! Saturday October 29th The Dogstar, Brixton // 8pm till late • Membership £5 // Tube & Rail: Brixton // Before “Pop-Up”cinema, before Vimeo, before even YouTube, there was a place where independent filmmakers could screen their work to a popular audience without selection, censorship or submission fee. A place free from the ‘broadcast quality’ of commercial media and the elite cliques of the Art academy. A convivial democracy which first revealed the utopian secret : a short film made by an amateur with no budget and domestic technology could be better than a Hollywood feature or an Art gallery masterpiece. Twenty years after the first show in a squatted sun tan oil factory in Brixton, after hundreds of regular screenings, spectacular events in an outdoor swimming pool, a circus tent, a deconsecrated church, rooftops, pubs, squats, clubs and railway arches, after tours of Europe, after spin off groups in Brighton, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, after screening thousands of short films to thousands of people, it’s time to celebrate twenty years of the Exploding Cinema ! // Featuring: HALLOWEEN revels, short films, psychedelic visuals, performance, soundtracks... and, on two screens, classics from the Exploding vault // Special guest : the Man from Uranus www.explodingcinema.org www.facebook.com/explodingcinema http://www.antic-ltd.com/dogstar/ NO STARS NO FUNDING NO TASTE

this friday the Disco houstlers will be atthe Music Bar 144hill play thebest of electro house tech plus mc:s and live pa its a must see a event as the soundsystem it one of the best to apear in the notting hill carnival 2011

Brixton Village market arcades are now open Thurs-Sat evenings and also on Sundays.