Peckham Festival

11th – 20th June 2027

Dedicated to celebrating and growing Peckham’s creative community by providing a platform for local artists and enabling the neighbourhood’s creative ambition.

A letter from our Director…

It’s so nice to be back in touch – we promise not to leave it this long again. After a vital pause for breath in 2026 we are truly excited to tell you all about Peckham Festival’s return to the world! Since we last saw each other we’ve had our heads down, we’ve been busy and bursting to tell you what we’ve been up to.

You know us as a festival that happens for one weekend a year. We’ve loved doing that with you for ten years. But here’s the thing we couldn’t stop thinking about: Peckham doesn’t stop being a festival when we pack the stages away. Every single day the artists and activists and chefs and bartenders and shopkeepers and movers and shakers of SE15 are making it one of the most exciting places for arts and culture in the world all the time. So after a decade of producing an annual weekend festival – we’ve decided we want to join in all year round.

Performer singing into a microphone in front of a crowd at an indoor gigPerformer in a patterned dress and orange headwrap singing on stageSteel pan players in white feathered costumes and visorsPerformer in a light-up headdress and sequinned outfit at a night-time eventDancer in denim performing outdoors at night beside a metal framePeople browsing market stalls in a warehouse
Singer performing into a microphone in front of a bright pink backdropSinger in a tasselled costume raising an arm on a lit stageSmiling drummer in a yellow shirt playing a djembe
Audience gathered around a drumming circle in a gallery hung with colourful paintingsVisitors mingling in a bright gallery spaceVisitor looking at a wall of portrait photographs in a gallery

Strands

Our mission is to help our community celebrate and grow the arts and culture of Peckham, enabling our neighbourhood’s creative ambition. We’ve laid out everything we’re trying to build together.

A pot of money to partner with Peckham’s venues and commission new work.

Peckham is full of cultural organisations doing remarkable work under intense financial pressure. Venues, collectives, promoters, producers – people with extraordinary vision and taste who are so stretched running their daily operations that they can almost never do the thing they want most.

A pot of money to partner with Peckham’s venues and commission new work.

Peckham is full of cultural organisations doing remarkable work under intense financial pressure. Venues, collectives, promoters, producers – people with extraordinary vision and taste who are so stretched running their daily operations that they can almost never do the thing they want most.

A pot of money to partner with Peckham’s venues and commission new work.

Peckham is full of cultural organisations doing remarkable work under intense financial pressure. Venues, collectives, promoters, producers – people with extraordinary vision and taste who are so stretched running their daily operations that they can almost never do the thing they want most.

A pot of money to partner with Peckham’s venues and commission new work.

Peckham is full of cultural organisations doing remarkable work under intense financial pressure. Venues, collectives, promoters, producers – people with extraordinary vision and taste who are so stretched running their daily operations that they can almost never do the thing they want most.

Crowd relaxing on deckchairs and the grass at an outdoor festival stageBand playing on an outdoor stage to a crowd sitting on the grassBand playing drums and guitar in a brick courtyard

Get Involved

We need your help to develop the new work, the new artists and the community connections in Peckham. Check out how you can get involved as a supporter, participant or partner.

Performer in a light-up headdress and sequinned outfit at a night-time eventCrowd relaxing on deckchairs and the grass at an outdoor festival stageBand playing drums and guitar in a brick courtyard