New events series: Finsbury Park After Dark
our autumn events programme
About the programme
Today we launch Finsbury Park after Dark, a three part talks series that is tied directly into the Museum of Homelessness’s exhibition Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival. This evening panel series brings together different speakers to explore the themes of the exhibition in conversation.
Hosted by Lewis Brown, the creative mind behind the Enough About Me Podcast, the Finsbury Park After Dark series traces unlikely links between state enforcement, institutional dehumanisation, and community resistance by looking at the Past the Present, and the Future. See what Lewis has in store for us with his description of each talk below:
Wednesday: 30th September, 6:30-8:30pm
The Past: 400 Years of Criminalising Poverty
A deep dive into the "Homelessness Big Bang" - exploring the origins of criminalisation as state policy (land enclosures, vagrancy laws, penal transportation) alongside the thread of cross-cultural resistance and solidarity between bonded servants, enslaved people, and displaced communities.
Panelists
Dani C. is an Applied Theatre practitioner, educator, and researcher who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Goldsmiths, and the University of Cumbria.
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.
Hosted by Lewis Brown
Thursday 22nd October, 6:30-8:30pm
The Present: Machinery of Dehumanisation
An examination of the modern mechanisms used to criminalise homeless people today — dissecting local enforcement tools (PSPOs, aggressive policing operations, Vagrancy Act legacies) alongside media tropes and political agendas that manufacture public consent for exclusion.
Panelists
Shon Faye is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice (2021) and Love in Exile (2025).
Mulugeta Asgedom is a resettlement support officer for Haringey Council.
Hosted by Lewis Brown
Thursday 29th October, 6:30-8:30pm
The Future: The World We Make
Shifting from critique to construction. A forward-looking conversation on institutional distrust, autonomous solutions, global solidarity, and mutual aid — interrogating how community-led infrastructure operates alongside or beyond municipal state power.
Panelists
Zoë Garbett is the Mayor of Hackney, former London Assembly member, and public health advocate specializing in housing justice, community safety, and local governance reform.
Sharon Heal is the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Homelessness and the Director of the Museums Association.
Hosted by Lewis Brown
Essential Information
Tickets are available free of charge via our ticketing partner OutSavvy.
All talks take place at Museum of Homelessness, which is located at:
The Manor House Lodge
Inside Finsbury Park by Manor House Gate (Manor House Station)
Seven Sisters Road
London
N4 2DE
The nearest tube is Manor House on the Picadilly Line and we’re sited at Manor House Lodge, just inside the Manor House Gate to Finsbury Park, opposite Park View Cafe.
We’re an accessible museum and you can find out more about access here (scroll to “Access Information”).