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Brockley Max launches fundraising campaign
Brockley Max has launched a fundraising campaign aimed at securing the well-loved festival’s future. Since forming 19 years ago the Brockley Max Festival has taken a corner of south-east London each June for a nine-day run. Brockley Max, run mostly by volunteers, started with just 12 events in 2001, and has expanded each year. In…
Read MoreSpooky tales launch festival fundraising drive
On a dark and gloomy night around 50 hardy souls assembled to help ward off the threat of a nightmare yet to come: Frightful Yarns, held on Hallowe’en, was the first in a planned series of fundraising events aimed at staving off the wolves and steering our collectively cherished community festival back towards calmer shores.…
Read MoreHelp save Brockley Max!
Brockley Max is at serious risk of not running next year – or again – unless we can raise enough money to keep it going. Over the 18 years of its existence Brockley Max’s ethos has stayed the same: to celebrate our community’s creative talent, to stay accessible to everyone by keeping most of the events…
Read MoreSubmit your short film to the Brockley Max film night
Brockley Max is delighted to announce that one of our most popular events, Brockleywood Nights, is making a return at this year’s festival. Brockleywood Nights is an evening of short films screened on Hilly Fields. Film curator Declan McGill is currently looking for films to show on the night – Friday 3rd June. Declan says “The…
Read MoreThanks for a wonderful festival
Brockley Max 2015 is over for another year and what a great festival it was! We were blessed with the weather and the Art In The Park family day was the icing on the cake of our best ever festival. Thank you to all of you who came to events. Please let us know what you enjoyed…
Read MoreAl fresco films and masses of music
Friday night at Brockley Max is the perfect way to let your hair down. Get stuck in to the festival-themed Music Geek Monthly at The Ladywell Gallery from 7.30pm and share your thoughts about the latest albums and bands. Tell your fellow music aficionados why your favourite summer album is the best – and be prepared…
Read MoreArt and craft at Brockley Max
As you’d imagine, being a community arts festival, Brockley Max has plenty of arts and crafts events for you to get stuck into. There are several exhibitions running throughout the festival period including one at Beecroft Garden Primary School. The Beecroft Garden Art Show is a delightful retrospective of children’s art exploring colour, texture and light.…
Read MoreOpening Night kicks off weekend of music
The Brockley Max festival opened with a bang last night with hundreds of people enjoying the fantastic live performances organised by Ben Swan and Richard Swan and introduced by our inimitable MC Dre – who even took a turn on the keyboards when guitarist and singer Yasu invited other musicians to jam along with him. Other…
Read MoreTake part in our photo exhibition
Going to Brockley Max events and want to take part in a collective, digital and interactive photography exhibition to record the festival history in images? Here’s how… Brockley Max is staging an interactive exhibition of images taken Brockley Max events over the years. We’ve called it Look Back and Interact. We’d love you to submit your…
Read MoreFeast your eyes on these tasty raffle prizes
Feast your eyes on this year’s Brockley Max raffle prize list: there are 37 prizes up for grabs and no fewer than 19 of them are edible. Our amazing local businesses have once again come up trumps with vouchers for nights out, lazy lunches and tasty cook-at-home foodie morsels courtesy of our local delis, restaurants, pubs,…
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