Kio Briggs

Introducing: the GIFTED team!

‘King Richard’ is an inspirational true story. Expect to be affirmed on many lessons for success, and messages of humility, patience and honesty, which are bountifully woven throughout this story…

RCRDSHOP recently held the first of a promising season of intimate ‘jam sessions’, at the atmospheric Tea Building on Shoreditch High Street - an underground studio a part of Soho House, London.

On what turned out to be a long night covering events during London Fashion Week, our final event brought us to the heart of Shoreditch, to the pop-up shop doors of CITY STATES, a clothing line launched in London in early 2020, with a sole focus on artist collaborations.

Last week Soho Live Jazz Week welcomed over 100 artists and acts, performing 17 shows across 10 venues. Needless to say, it was a bustling occasion for producers of an engaging 3 day Jazz music festival, highlighting both seasoned performers and rising artists alike.

On Thursday 9th September, POCC, a creative network driving cultural impact, and RCRDSHOP, a live music platform dedicated to promoting rising musicians and artists, took over the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens to host ‘The Sauce’ - an evening of live music, creativity and connectivity.

There are many challenges that come with running a business, the greatest of which, in my experience, is the challenge of honesty - especially honesty with oneself about our abilities and limitations.

With all that’s currently being reported on in the United States, as extremist supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol last Wednesday afternoon, in such a fashion that has been described as an act of domestic terrorism

As we begin this new year, we recognise that the start of a new decade has also given us many opportunities to slow down, to look inwards and to recognise the power of our time, our dreams and our individual agency.

Let us imagine, together if you will, a community in which every individual is always encouraged to overcome their fears and to push past the thoughts and ‘reasons’ as to why there is an impediment to them achieving anything.

Ugandan officials took presidential candidate, Bobi Wine, into custody.

Protesters gathered in the streets of Brazil on Friday evening, after a black man was beaten to death outside of Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre, on what was the eve of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day.