The community-focused artist cooperative need to raise £200,000 to remain in their former Truman’s pub home.
South London artist cooperative and community venue The Rising Sun are launching a new fundraiser to keep them in their Peckham home.
Situated in the building of a former Truman’s pub, the collective have been battling eviction since 2021, when their landlord put the building up for sale and served them with eviction notices. After raising enough money to purchase the building outright, £1.2 million, the landlord has now increased the sale price to £1.4 million.
Since a group of artists and musicians originally moved into the building in 2016, the building has been transformed into a live music events space, arts studio, local community hub and home for local creatives and performers.
Artist Chloe Curry, a member of The Rising Sun collective, said: “It’s getting ever more impossible [to live in London], you can see how much Peckham is getting gentrified by the minute – we really need to keep the community alive there.
“Low income creatives are able to use the facilities and The Rising Sun as a platform for their endeavours,” she continues. “Just to have that gone from the community, it would leave such a gaping hole.”
As part of the fundraising effort, a selection of members and friends have created a downloadable mixtape, The Rising Sun Mixtape vol 2, responding to the theme of “emo songs”.
Revisit our 2021 documentary profiling The Rising Sun below, and donate to their fundraiser here.
