Luton Carnival in the 2000s listens across screen, street, and sound system, delving into personal collections of music, records and online footage and audio related to Luton Carnival. It situates these materials within wider Caribbean traditions of carnival as a space of protest, resistance, and collective imagination.

Dub Epistemology proposes active, critical listening as a way of knowing – an approach for mapping place differently, connecting time periods and geographies, and re-inscribing histories that are felt, as much as they are heard.

This event is presented in collaboration with Special Collections, a live event series and podcast that rethinks how we understand the archival.

The project is initiated by longtime Berwicker Kathryn Elkin, and recent incomer Lauren Velvick, with funding from @createberwick, and support from Jackal, a new cultural space on Hide Hill. We want to invite locals and visitors alike to question, enact and provoke ‘the archival’ from within our historic walls, at events that will offer a proposition from somewhere else, but will also create space for thinking, talking, conspiring and scheming.