‘For us, by us’: City Splash is the UK’s premier Afro-Caribbean festival

Dalston, described by City Splash founder Ben Ryan as a “staunch” neighbourhood to grow up in, was home to the Caribbean-led cultural infrastructure that helped to shape his understanding of community. He speaks fondly of the record shops spilling sound onto Ridley Road Market on a Saturday; the café inside Centerprise, the Black bookshop his mum worked at part-time, and the Hackney Downs “all-dayers” that brought heavy sound systems andhellip; read more raquo;