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17/09/2026

What can the Brent Young People’s Law Centre (1982) archive tell us about young people's rights then and now? Over the summer we have been working with a group of young people in partnership with to think about this question.

Found in the archive: The Trouble With the Law, is a handbook for and about the rights of people under the age of 17, in relation to the police and the courts. It states exactly what their rights are when being stopped, definitions for legal terms, who will be present in a court room and more.

Do you know what to do when interfacing with the police? Do you know your rights?

Justice & Change is an ongoing research programme exploring how the law shapes our lives, and how communities create forms of justice beyond the limits of the legal system.

09/09/2026

Central to our work at Metroland Cultures is our studio building at 91 Kilburn Square and the ways we co-produce it as a space of interdependence — built and shaped together with the artistic community around it and our neighbours in Kilburn 🏢🎨

At a time when spaces for artists and communities to gather and create are increasingly under threat, we’re committed to maintaining a studio resource that puts collectivity over profit.

Through our free studio programme, we prioritise those nurturing cultural and community infrastructure — artists creating resources for others and ensuring cultural production stays embedded in and accountable to the communities it comes from.

Read more about who we share our building with and the programmes on offer link in bio 🔝

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29/07/2026

🔈Were you, or someone you know, involved with the Brent Community Law Centre or the Brent Young People’s Law Centre? 🖤

As part of Justice & Change, we’re turning to the archives of Brent Community Law Centre and the Young People’s Law Centre to understand how the law has shaped our lives — then and now.

We’re recording intergenerational oral histories and commissioning new artistic work in response to the archive, exploring what law, safety, justice and community care mean to us today.

If you have any knowledge or involvement to share? Please get in touch to help us grow this important archive together.

Contact: [email protected] or DM us here

22/07/2026

the first in a series of posts on our new research and commissioning programme Justice & Change ✨

Over the coming months we’ll be sharing more updates on Instagram about our research into the Brent Community Law Centre archive.

Brent Community Law Centre was one of the first community law centres in the UK — a lifeline for local people for five decades before it closed in 2019. Since 2012, 99% of social welfare legal aid has been cut.

Justice & Change began at the start of this year, and is a process of collective research activating the archives of the Brent Community Law Centre and the Young People’s Law Centre.

In May we opened ‘For No Reason of My Own’ the first archive display sharing this work. More public moments are planned for this Autumn. As research continues through the summer looking at local histories of community action, we ask: what does justice look like when communities care for one another?

Thank you to our collaborators and

Justice & Change archive research is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with additional support from Arts Council England.

✨ OPENING NEXT WEEK ✨Thurs 16 July, 6-8pm — all welcome‘Between Here and the Rest of the World’ brings together new work...
09/07/2026

✨ OPENING NEXT WEEK ✨
Thurs 16 July, 6-8pm — all welcome

‘Between Here and the Rest of the World’ brings together new work by Heiba Lamara, Nathaniel Télémaque and Francesca Telling, developed through Voices of Places — a research collaboration with the Open University thinking with geographer Doreen Massey (1944–2016), radical thinker, feminist, activist and long-standing Kilburn resident.

Across print, audio and video, Francesca Telling’s work centres on a building archive of recorded conversations that extend Massey’s attempts to challenge the flatness and limitations of cartography, instead presenting a version of space that is a ‘story-so-far’.

Working across photography, film and sound, Nathaniel responds to Massey’s archive through a sketchbook-based photography series shot on Kilburn High Road, alongside a short Super 8 film. Inspired by Massey’s A Global Sense of Place and her years living locally, the film pays homage to the beautiful chaos and order of the high road

Drawing on Doreen Massey’s seminal essay A Global Sense of Place Heiba Lamara has created an alternative archive box, an addendum to the institutional activity of processing Massey’s archive. Asking where does Kilburn High Road exist in the archive? How does it speak through all the people who know it best?

📍 Metroland Cultures, 91 Kilburn Square
🗓️ Continues until 15 August, Thurs-Sat 12-5pm or by appointment
Link in bio for more ✨

Image credits:
1.Nathaniel Télémaque
3. Heiba Lamara
3. Francesca Telling,

✨ Opening: Thurs 16 July 6-8pm all welcomeBetween Here and the Rest of the WorldWith work from Heiba Lamara, Nathaniel T...
26/06/2026

✨ Opening: Thurs 16 July 6-8pm all welcome

Between Here and the Rest of the World
With work from Heiba Lamara, Nathaniel Télémaque, Francesca Telling

Between Here and the Rest of the World is a new exhibition bringing together new work by Heiba Lamara, Nathaniel Télémaque and Francesca Telling, developed through Voices of Places — a research collaboration with the Open University thinking with the ideas of geographer Doreen Massey (1944–2016)

As a radical geographer, feminist, theorist, political activist and long-standing Kilburn resident, Massey developed influential ideas on space, place, and power. Doreen Massey’s work was interdisciplinary, public-facing and politically engaged. She co-founded the journal Soundings with Stuart Hall and Michael Rustin, which published The Kilburn Manifesto (2013), a set of essays interpreting the turbulence of the moment and pointing towards urgently needed cultural and political alternatives.

🗓️ Exhibition continues until 15 August open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm or by appointment.

For more information follow the link in our bio ✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of [sic] a solo show by Jess Heritage ✨The exhibition is n...
17/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of [sic] a solo show by Jess Heritage ✨

The exhibition is now open Thurs–Sat, 12–5pm or by appointment until June 27th.

Jess Heritage works predominantly with speech and performance, building scripted dialogues that falter, defer, or fail to wholly arrive. [sic] restages a live performance originally staged through a phone call, now as an audio installation.

Jess Heritage is the recipient of The Perimeter Studio Award 2025/26. The Perimeter Studio Award is a scholarship programme for emerging artists after the completion of their degree at the Slade, University College of London.

Coming soon 👀 Metroland Cultures is pleased to announce [sic] an exhibition which marks the culmination of Jess Heritage...
19/05/2026

Coming soon 👀

Metroland Cultures is pleased to announce [sic] an exhibition which marks the culmination of Jess Heritage’s year-long residency at Metroland Studios, supported by The Perimeter.

✨ Opening: Tues 9 June 6-8pm all welcome

Revisiting a live performance originally staged through a phone call, [sic] restages the work as an audio installation. Fractured signals, interruptions, and moments of disconnection are relayed through a singular screen in the gallery which acts as a prompter, or a guide to a conversation perpetually on the verge of dropping out of earshot.

🗓️ Exhibition continues until 28 June open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm or by appointment.

Jess Heritage () is the recipient of The Perimeter Studio Award 2025/26. The Perimeter Studio Award is a scholarship programme for emerging artists after the completion of their degree at the Slade, University College of London, in partnership with Metroland Cultures.




Open call for the 2026/27 studio residency is live now, see link in bio ✨

✨Last chance to catch ‘For no reason of my own’ This is the final week, open Wed–Sun 12–5pm until 24th May✨An archive ex...
19/05/2026

✨Last chance to catch ‘For no reason of my own’ This is the final week, open Wed–Sun 12–5pm until 24th May✨

An archive exhibition drawing on the Brent Community Law Centre, tracing how working-class communities built their own infrastructures of legal support, mutual aid and resistance. Bringing together materials from the Brent Community Law Centre and the Young People’s Law Centre alongside films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive and photographic materials from the North Paddington Community Darkroom.

‘For no reason of my own’ takes its title from a text by the YPLC, ‘If we can’t get our points across… we ought to have a spokesperson for ourselves’ (1981), which outlines the need for a specialised legal service for young people. These archival fragments speak to both legal histories and broader struggles around housing, racism, migration, labour and policing that shaped — and continue to shape — everyday life in Brent and beyond. By placing these materials in dialogue, we ask: what can we learn from collective and community action as a form of justice that extends beyond the limits of legal systems?

More info in our bio 🔝

✨We’re committed to being open and accessible to all. Here’s some key access information to help you plan your visit to ...
08/05/2026

✨We’re committed to being open and accessible to all. Here’s some key access information to help you plan your visit to Metroland:

🐾 Assistance and hearing dogs are welcome throughout the space.
🚪The gallery entrance is 160 cm wide and located on the ground floor.
🧾 Printed exhibition materials are available, as well as large print formats.
🚘 Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available on Victoria Road in the pay-and-display bays for an unlimited period.

Invitation to take care: There are materials in our current exhibition that document experiences of injustice against Black and other racialised communities. It may awaken your own needs for care in the context of journeys you have experienced, navigated, or witnessed. We encourage you to honour these needs as we share this work together. This could look like: taking a deep breath; pausing to drink water; stepping outside to walk around the Kilburn Square and market.

📩 If you need any further assistance or have any questions please feel free to reach out via email: [email protected]

Our current exhibition, ‘For no reason of my own’ runs until May 24th. We are open Wednesday - Saturday from 12pm - 5pm. The exhibition is free and open to all.

📎For more information on this exhibition, please visit the link in our bio.

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