Ita at Van Gogh House’s Festival of ENCOUNTERS
Delighted to be featured at the Festival of ENCOUNTERS | Ideas, art and conversations in Brixton spaces, from @vangoghlondon
WHEN: 16th September 2025
WHERE: GoHubStudio, 222 Brixton Rd SW9 6AH
TIME: 6:30pm
BOOK: Tickets are free but need to be booked via Van Gogh House’s website
A conversation between movement director and intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien and artist Ajamu X on intimacy from their individual perspectives and how we navigate or rethink the topic in our personal lives as well as more widely in society.
Ita recently shared her excitement about working with Ajamu X on Instagram: “I am really looking forward to our upcoming in-conversation event. His fearless work centring Black queer bodies, pleasure, and desire, promises a dialogue full of depth and provocation. I left our initial chat energised and know there is much more to uncover together. This is going to be a conversation worth joining.”
Between Saturday 13 September and Sunday 5 October, our inaugural Festival of ENCOUNTERS, a free-to-attend, large-scale series of events, featuring up to 40 talks and other kinds of encounters, by artists, writers, activists, musicians and thinkers, will take place in venues across the northern end of Brixton.
Alongside Van Gogh House, many other exciting locations including galleries, parks and community centres are hosting events. The Festival is inspired by serendipitous encounters with interesting people in unexpected places, bringing together exciting voices, thoughts and ideas to and from Brixton.