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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.