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It’s the centenary of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. In a break with tradition, the ban on garden gnomes in gardens has been lifted, however there were not many to be found (or else they were hiding) and despite the unseasonably miserable weather, the gardens deliver a wonderful display of the best of [...]
Future Cinema are once again taking over Limehouse’s Troxy for three weeks of ’70s disco, as they present Saturday Night Fever! Running from 15 June until 7 July, the Troxy will be transformed into a Studio 54-like space, with glitter balls, and bright lights (and maybe an illuminated dance floor? We haven’t seen one of [...]
Last Saturday I was invited along to the TEDx Newham conference, held over at the Crystal building on Royal Victoria Dock. It’s theme? ‘Where Resilience Lives‘, emphasising the fact that Newham is an area of London which continues to undergo massive change and that this requires residents to respond in different ways. Organised by Margaret [...]
Taking place in Malmo, Sweden this Saturday, 18 May, Eurovision 2013 is the 58th incarnation of this celebration of Europe through music. Although we stopped taking Eurovision seriously in the UK decades ago (you can probably blame Terry Wogan for this change in attitude, as his famously disparaging commentary featured almost every year from 1971 [...]
Last year, it seemed that not a day went by when there wasn’t something for Londoners to watch or participate in. However with the Olympics now seeming like a distant memory, we’re now looking forward to the summer of 2013 with some excitement. Here’s a list of events that we think you should be planning [...]
Hosted at the British Library and held in association with the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), European Literature Night returns to London for its fifth year. This celebration of the best of European fiction and non-fiction on the evening of 15 May will be chaired by Rosie Goldsmith (the presenter of BBC Radio’s [...]
If this weekend’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a little too mainstream for you, then the associated Chelsea Fringe might be right up your garden path… Taking place from 18 May to 9 June and now in its second year, the Chelsea Fringe spreads its branches far wider than the formal events in the grounds [...]
