Plane Spotting

Event Information

There is a great story lining many of our busy streets, our local parks and perhaps even right outside your front door. A story about style, cross-cultural creativity and resilience. It’s the story of one of London’s most iconic, yet invisible figures - the London Plane tree.

Plane Spotting is a guided interactive walking tour which takes people on a journey around the Kilburn Park area using London Plane trees as significant cultural landmarks. Through Linett Kamala’s local storytelling and Sam Furness’ guided creative activities, you will learn why the London Plane is one of London’s most important (yet unrecognised) icons.

Kilburn Park is an area with ongoing heavy regeneration and its mature trees are falling victim to this changing urban landscape.

Come and enjoy a couple of hours of appreciation and conversation with these long-standing residents (the London Planes!).

Contributors

Sam Furness

A cultural producer, experience designer and Quester, Sam Furness unlocks creativity and curiosity through adventurous, collaborative experiences. With a background in artist management, social impact campaigns and participatory art projects, he creates digital and physical spaces for experimentation and connection.

He is the founder of Channel Twelve, a creative impact studio that partners with organisations and communities to design playful, thought-provoking learning experiences. Clients include M&C Saatchi, London Design Festival, and Youth Beyond Borders.

His passion project, Creative Quests, is a global community for the curious. Since 2021, he has led month-long themed Quests that inspire exploration and meaning-making. 2025 marks the launch of their first book and a new edition based in Margate.

Instagram: @saaamfurness
LinkedIn: /sam-furness-75b39740/

Linett Kamala

A DJ, Interdisciplinary Artist, Cultural Expert, Academic, Creative Producer & Founding Director of Lin Kam Art.

She works across various disciplines including mixed media calligraffiti paintings, street art, DJ soundscapes and performance. Linett is known as the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Sound System Queen’, being credited as one of the first female DJs to perform on a sound system in the mid 1980s at the event. Today she continues to champion inclusion within sound system culture, advocating for underrepresented groups, including her two initiatives; Lin Kam Art Sound System Futures Programme developing the next generation and Original Sounds Collective (supported by GuinnessGB) amplifying the presence of women. Her ongoing research project celebrates sound system and Jamaican dancehall culture.

Instagram: @linett_kamala
Instagram @lin_kam_art

Location of event

Location: Cambridge Gardens, Kilburn Park, London NW6 5AE

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Meeting Point: By the fountain next to Kilburn Park Station