Feel the community beat at a free outdoor event bringing together emerging and established DJs with young refugee DJs, in collaboration with DJ Kensaye.

Our HeartBeats is a community club night produced in collaboration with DJ Kensaye, with a focus on art, heart and community – and dancing!

Emerging and established DJs and performers take to the stage alongside a group of young refugees perfecting their DJing skills. Five of the Our HeartBeats project DJs are performing along Kensaye and Cal Jader.

Kensaye is a Paris-born, London-based music producer, percussionist and DJ, with Haitian and American roots. He has a broad musical style, ranging from Afrobeats, pop, dancehall, reggaeton, global bass, hip-hop and neo soul, and blends those influences to create unique pieces that are both progressive and radio-friendly.

Kensaye produces for major and independent artists around the world, creating originals and remixes for acclaimed musicians such as Falz, M.anifest, Speech Debelle and Homeboy Sandman.

He also composes music for cinema and TV, with placements in a BAFTA-winning feature film, documentaries, adverts and a Netflix series.

Counterpoints is producing Our Heartbeats in collaboration with a number of artists and organisations in our network, including Compass Collective, Mahnoor Hussain, Gabriella D’Annunzio, also Roundhouse, Play for Progress and Babylon Project. We have been holding regular workshops with a group of six young DJs, exploring DJing as an artform, as well as reflecting on the ideas of collaboration and wellbeing.

This summer, Southbank Centre is collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Stage in response to the theme of our season, You Belong Here, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong at the Southbank Centre.