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Dancehall Riddim Queens Linett Kamala

Reading Group Reading & Listening Session with Becca Dudley and Linett Kamala

24 Jun 2026
  • Venue

    Stuart Hall Library

  • Date

    Wednesday 24 June 2026

  • Time

    5:30pm - 7:30pm

  • Admission

    Free, but booking is required!

  • Artists

    Linett Kamala

    Becca Dudley

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 Dudley is a successful DJ, broadcaster and music curator.   

In 2012 Becca was signed up to front MTV UK’s daily news programme, she rose through the ranks hosting a multitude of shows,interviewing the world’s biggest music artists and celebrities and became their longest serving lead presenter. For the network she covered worldwide music events and festivals including Isle Of Malta, the MTV MIAWS in Mexico City and Tomorrowland in Belgium and co-presented the prestigious EMA’s Red Carpet show for MTV International for 8 years.    

Becca co-hosts the TV coverage of the Red Bull Soap Box Races which are broadcast internationally on Discovery and on Dave in the UK. She travels across the globe to race locations from London to Toulouse, Sao Paolo to Hyderabad and San Marino to Salt Lake City for filming.  She has also presented the live stream of Red Bulls’s international breakdancing championship, the BC One World Final, from Paris for Channel 4.   

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.