About the event:
Please join us for the FIRE Ritual launch party, co-hosted by Brent Biennial and K2K Radio, for an evening of rhythms, food, drink, and connection in Kilburn, after a day of art, workshops and events. Step inside the K2K Radio studio for a live show exploring grief, remembrance, and music as medicine. Local DJs will bring the heat – come for the energy, stay for the connection. This evening is a special fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support.
About K2K Radio:
K2K Radio is a community-powered station and creative platform based at Metroland Studios in Kilburn. Founded in 2012, it has grown into an inclusive, volunteer-led hub where people of all ages and backgrounds can connect, create, and share their voices.
From live radio shows and DJ sets to hands-on training and community events, K2K offers space and support for anyone curious about broadcasting, music, and media as well as people looking to giveback and connect. Relocating to Metroland and Kilburn Square in 2024 has deepened K2K’s roots, placing it at the heart of a network of residents, artists, and grassroots changemakers. Today, the station continues to champion hidden voices, amplify culture and creativity, and use radio as a joyful tool for confidence, wellbeing, and collective connection.
Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual
FIRE Ritual takes place from 26 September to 12 October 2025.
Fire is a tool, both revered and feared. A glowing hearth calls us home, to safety and sustenance. Gentle embers create warmth, while a blazing flame provides illumination and a force for change. Its power is exponential, and the insurgencies and profligacies of fire threaten destruction. Fire symbolises the potential for creation and destruction. It challenges the notion that structures should last forever, and instead speaks to transferences of im/materiality across dimensions.
FIRE Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled Bones, stones, and calling the four elements, the Biennial is curated by Annie Jael Kwan, and unfolds across a series of four elemental rituals – WATER, EARTH, FIRE and AIR – at four Brent sites - a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough— Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.
FIRE Ritual is presented by the Brent Biennial 2025, with the support of Arts Council England, Brent Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Granville Community Kitchen, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, K2K Radio, Kilburn Square Housing Co-op, Something Human, University of Westminster, and Wing Yip.
For more information visit : https://metrolandcultures.com/events/brent-biennial-2025/
