Building Our Common Future

The Brixton Project is pleased to announce a new programme of There Are Many Alternatives (TAMA) activity for 2025. TAMA launched in 2024 with a series of talks bringing together internationally-renowned and locally-grown initiatives to explore alternative ways of living and being. From sustainability and food to housing and cooperatives, conversation with community began to surface how we might take collective action towards a more equitable, sustainable, future.

TAMA 2025 picks up where we left off, offering a progressive journey from shared frameworks to place-based solutions for social and climate justice based around co-operation and common-ing. We will begin by hearing from community-wealth building initiatives up and down the country rooted in doughnut economics and principles of mutual-aid. We will then turn our attention inward, to map existing community assets and explore how they might be scaled, collectivised or reimagined through the varifocal lens of ‘the commons’. Finally, we will look forward by inviting critical reflections on how a ‘commons’ might land here in Brixton; what and who it must serve, and how we will get there together. Each TAMA will build a clear vision towards how community-led development, participatory democracy and place-based justice can converge to transform the lives of local people.

🗓️ 11/09/2025 - 25/09/2025 - 09/10/2025

⏰ 6 - 8.30pm

📍 The Brixton Project Space, International House, 6 Canterbury Crescent, SW9 7QE

🍕 Free food and drink

💌 Tickets free, all welcome!

The Series:

"Global Goals, Local Action: A Conversation Between Brixton and Birmingham”

11/09/2025, 6 - 8.30pm @ The Brixton Project Space

The first TAMA event of 2025 will present a conversation between Brixton and Birmingham. We will set the scene by exploring what doughnut economics is, and how it can provide a values-based framework for local transformation where social justice meets ecological boundaries. We will hear from Civic Square, who put these principles into practice to transform an area in Ladywood, Birmingham. A local community partner will present a Brixton-based context, and together with Josh Falconer-Roberts, we will explore how similar approaches might land locally. It will be an opportunity for listening, learning, questioning and connecting the dots between planetary crises and neighbourhood solutions.

“A Portrait of Brixton”

25/09/2025, 6 - 8.30pm @ The Brixton Project Space

TAMA 2 will begin to build a portrait of Brixton, spotlighting existing initiatives working to address social and climate justice within the borough and beyond. From mental health to whole foods, circular economies to community-owned energy, we all know that ‘the work’ has long-been happening. However, as austerity and displacement drive us further apart from each other, competing over diminishing funding pots and a never-ending cycle of ‘pilot’ projects, we will argue that now is the time to draw rank. How can these efforts be collectivised, co-operatised, or scaled for impact through shared governance models? Let’s discuss what ‘commoning’ looks like in practice.

Our panel won’t capture everyone, but young people at Advocacy Academy will. Working with The Brixton Project and a local designer to create a community portrait of Brixton, they will be talking to everyone and anyone working towards social and climate justice in the borough and beyond. Want to be part of it, or know someone who should? Find them at our events and have a chat!

“Brixton Commons”

09/10/2025, 6 - 8.30pm @ The Brixton Project Space

Coinciding with the Community Research Exchange’s (CRX) second day of inquiry into ‘Place’ through the lenses of Climate, Community Wealth and Culture, our final TAMA will serve as a call to action for individuals and organisations wanting to work better together to address hyper-local issues. We will hear from global experts in the co-operative and common-ing field to explore how we might land a local, place-based, solution towards social and climate justice. Challenges and opportunities will be examined with funders and decision makers; what infrastructure(s) and commitment(s) might we need for scalable, long-term impact? Join us to decide how we can land an inclusive, accessible, and whole-heartedly Brixton-based ‘commons’.

Join us on the 11 October to see Advocacy Academy’s ongoing ‘Brixton Portrait’ along with other expressions of common-joy across the borough.