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Markfield Rd Festival 2025

Bringing the art of creative resistance to the heart of Tottenham, a one-street festival with a full programme.

Markfield Rd Festival 2025
Location
Markfield Road, Tottenham
Year
2025
Discipline
Festival · Community

The Markfield Rd Festival 2025 closed a working street for a day and filled it with music, planting workshops, food and a stage for the people who live either side of it.

Wild City Alchemy programme projected on the wall: the day's running order at Markfield Rd Festival 2025.

The day ran on a full programme: Forgotten Corners, Rebel Gardening, a Taste of Tottenham with Crucible, Snooze Fabric's Creative Resistance panel, and a garden party to close it out.

Audience gathered around the Creative Resistance panel with the Snooze Fabric slide projected behind.
Panellist speaking into a microphone during Creative Resistance.
Two panellists seated during the Creative Resistance session.

Snooze Fabric's Creative Resistance panel pulled together voices from across Tottenham (Flowers, Charlie Bones, Neequaye Dreph Dsane, Downside DIY and Wayne Snooze), talking about the work of making culture from the ground up.

Small group on a garden tour at dusk, gathered among the concrete and planting.

Between sessions the festival spilled out into the garden, tours through the beds, conversations under the trees, and a slow drift toward the stage as the light dropped.

Group laughing together in the garden at dusk.
Drummer in a patterned jacket playing against a graffitied wall.
Live band performing against the graffiti wall as the sun sets on Markfield Rd Festival 2025.

The garden party closed the day, live band, fire, drinks by Crucible, and the street holding onto its people until the party carried on at Unit 3.