A year-round multi-arts programme at Brixton House, curated by Gabriela Román González, offering a space for experimentation and transnational exchange rooted in Latinx and Caribbean diasporic perspectives.

Nov 2025, London, UK - As discussions around climate, migration, inequality and technology intensify, it is becoming clear that rigid answers can no longer account for the complexity of our times. Responding to this growing urgency within the UK’s cultural landscape, CASA Festival launches Lines of Flight: For Another World of Possibilities, an ambitious year-long programme bringing together more than 40 artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and their diasporas. Hosted at Brixton House - where CASA is an Associate Company—the programme marks the beginning of CASA’s new multi-year artistic cycle, expanding the organisation’s commitment to interdisciplinary creation, experimentation and transnational exchange.

Curated by Gabriela Román González, Head of Programmes at CASA, Lines of Flight unfolds through exhibitions, performances, film screenings, workshops and public events, turning Brixton House into a space where new ways of sensing, imagining and relating can take shape.

A curatorial framework for a shifting world

The programme draws from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of “lines of flight” - ruptures that open pathways away from fixed structures and into new modes of becoming. At a moment defined by climate crisis, technological acceleration, migration and deepening inequality, Lines of Flight asks what artistic practice can offer when certainty is no longer sufficient.

Structured around four guiding questions, the programme invites artists and audiences to enter a terrain shaped by ambiguity, contradiction and the unfinished:

Sensory Worlds -How might art unsettle our habits of perception and expand how we feel, touch, smell or imagine the world?

Acts of Looking -What becomes visible - politically, emotionally, historically - when we choose what to show and what to withhold?

Transnational Encounters -How do exchanges across languages, geographies and cultural traditions create new artistic and social possibilities?

Systems in Question - How can artistic practice reveal, bend or break the structures that shape cultural and social life?

“Lines of Flight marks another step in CASA’s evolution. It brings our communities, artists and audiences into a shared space of experimentation, while strengthening our partnership with Brixton House and our long-term vision for interdisciplinary creation”
- Cordelia Grierson, Artistic Director, CASA

“Facing crises of climate, migration, inequality and technology, rigid answers fail us. What we need are practices of imagination - ways of living with complexity, welcoming paradox and creating the conditions for new forms of relation.”
- Gabriela Román González, Curator / Head of Programmes, CASA

FIRST CHAPTER — NOVEMBER 2025

Exhibition

What do we risk by coming closer?

20–5 December, Brixton House
A solo exhibition by Emilia González Salgado
Curated by Gabriela Román González
Presented by CASA Festival, in collaboration with Brixton House & Not The Owners
Opening: 20 November, 6-9pm

Through scent, clay, vapour and memory, González Salgado assembles works that approach proximity as a method -an intimate, precise and sometimes unsettling form of attention. The exhibition invites audiences to remain within the nearness of things before language fixes meaning, foregrounding contact, presence and perception.

Not The Owners contributes a series of interviews, essays and reflective texts expanding on the exhibition’s themes and offering a wider discursive frame.

Moving Image Programme

Arrivals / Departures / 21 & 27 November, 7pm

Curated by Miguel Rey, PhD Researcher in Film Studies, Brunel University London
Presented by CASA & Brixton House

Two evenings of film and conversation tracing the circular movements of migration, memory and belonging across Latin America, the Caribbean and the UK. The selected films explore displacement, survival, intimacy and the tensions between departure and return.

21 November - Screening + Q&A

Elephant Families - Elena Escalante (UK, 2025)
In a Whisper — Heidi Hassan & Patricia Pérez (Spain–France–Switzerland–Cuba, 2019)

Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Elena Escalante and protagonists Julia Reyes and Hellen Castro.

27 November - Screening + Industry Conversation

Santi - Harry Richards (UK–Colombia, 2021)
The Fever - Maya Da-Rin (Brazil–France, 2019)

Followed by a conversation with Latin American filmmakers and film professionals based in the UK, exploring transnational production, practice and circulation.

A YEAR-LONG PROGRAMME UNFOLDING ACROSS 2026

Lines of Flight will continue throughout 2026 with further exhibitions, performances, residencies, workshops and artist commissions to be announced in early spring. This first chapter offers the conceptual and sensorial entry point into a programme designed to grow, shift and respond to the multiple trajectories of diasporic imagination.

DATES & INFORMATION

Lines of Flight runs from November 2025 to November 2026Venue: Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8GLProgramme details:www.casafestival.org.uk/lines-of-flight-programme

CASA launches ‘Lines of Flight: For Another World of Possibilities’