- Venue
Stuart Hall Library
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Date
Wednesday 24 June 2026
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Time
5:30pm - 7:30pm
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Admission
Free, but booking is required!
- Artists
Join us for an evening of reading, listening and conversation responding to Dancehall Riddim Queens!
Facilitated by Becca Dudley and Linett Kamala, this session explores Linett’s work and archive with a particular focus on colourism, beauty standards, body politics, and women’s representation within dancehall culture.
Don’t miss this opportunity to listen to music from the era as we reflect on the complex intersections of desireability, sexuality, race, and visibility across dancehall and broader visual culture.
About the Facilitators
Becca Dudley
Becca D is an international DJ known for her electrifying blend of reggae, dancehall, and London sounds. Her sets journey through eras and energies, from old-school dancehall and reggae classics to dub, roots, mash-ups, edits, and the freshest new artists rising out of Jamaica. With over a decade behind the decks, Becca has taken her sound across the globe – from Barbados to Kingston, Lisbon to Colombia, Malta to France, Spain, and Germany. She’s lit up some of the most iconic festivals in her field, including Glastonbury, Summerjam, Notting Hill Carnival, City Splash, Rototom, Boomtown, and the main stage at Europe’s biggest reggae festival, Reggaeland.
In 2016, Becca founded her own music platform, DEADLY, to champion Jamaican culture and artists through live sessions, interviews, documentaries, and events. The platform has since amassed millions of views, filming with over 100 artists in Jamaica.
In London, Becca curates and hosts DEADLY live events, collaborating with some of the most exciting DJs and artists from around the world.
Linett Kamala
Linett Kamala @linett_kamala is an interdisciplinary creative polymath whose practice centres on amplifying wellness through a range of roles including DJ, artist, academic, community organiser, creative producer and Founding Director of @lin_kam_art.
Widely recognised as the ‘Sound System Queen’, Kamala is credited as one of the first female DJs to perform on a sound system at Notting Hill Carnival in the mid-1980s. She has since come full circle in her relationship with the iconic event, now serving as a Board Director and key organiser.
Spanning over four decades, her expansive body of work encompasses installations, painting, public art, DJ-led soundscapes and live performance. Drawing deeply from oral histories, music and Jamaican sound system culture, Kamala’s practice is rooted in a socially engaged ethos that foregrounds community empowerment and collective experience.
Her work reaches thousands annually through participatory and public-facing projects. Notable initiatives include her role as Founder and Artistic Director of South Kilburn CarniVale an annual community-led festival, alongside making innovative light and sound-based installations such as @basstoneregeneration and Basstone Maypole, which reimagine our relationship to the environment and each other.