On the first of each month until the end of the summer, six Goldsmiths MA students will open the doors to their flat in Ewen Henderson Court halls for art. Flat 34, the number of their flat and the name of the project, is “a way for the space to…
Brit award-nominated Rita Ora was announced as a headliner of As One In The Park this week. It will be the largest gay festival to take place in London in over a decade. On the bank holiday on May 26, Victoria Park in Hackney will host the first As One…
Local shops joined forces this weekend to celebrate fashion and design for a successful first Forest Hill Fashion Week. The event was organised by the local Town Team SEE3, a “Portas Pilot Town” as part of Mary Portas’ high street regeneration project, covering Forest Hill, Sydenham and Kirkdale. As part…
Warhol-esque prints of Jackie, Marilyn and Audrey adorn the walls. Their blackened tears flood out of the frames and onto the floor. Lilliputian prostitutes hide in corners as their overlord steps down to survey the room. This dark master is Pure Evil, also known as Charley Uzzell Edwards, a street-artist-cum-gallerist…
After 132 years of service, the Conservatoire community arts centre is facing closure due to lack of funding. The multi-arts complex, in Blackheath, has been struggling to stay open since the recession hit in 2008. Founded in 1881 by William Webster, who also founded the Blackheath Halls, the Conservatoire was…
Dipping into a hot tub, snuggling under a blanket on a rooftop, shuffling through a prison whilst being berated by a guard – is this how you would describe a typical night at the cinema? Well perhaps it is now. Recent film screenings in east London have seen…
This past Sunday, February 3, the UK’s very first book arts centre, the London Centre for Book Arts, officially opened its doors in Hackney. Simon Goode, the centre’s brainchild studied the creative format at university and wanted to fill a gap in Britain’s art world. [...]
A new £10,000 literary prize rewarding ‘boldly original fiction’ was launched yesterday by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with The New Statesman, the current affairs and politics magazine. The Goldsmiths prize celebrates creative innovation within the college and will be awarded to: “The book that is deemed genuinely novel…
HMV may be on the brink of collapse, but there’s no shortage of lively independent record stores in the ELL boroughs. Motivated by a renewed interest in vinyl, local businesses are defying the trend and not only surviving, but thriving. Kristina Records in Dalston was opened in 2011 by a…
Edouard Burgeat, a 24-year-old artist based in Tower Hamlets, will open his first solo show ‘Primae Noctis’ in a gallery next to Green Park tonight, January 17. The exhibition will be held in one of the several galleries around the park displaying fine arts, from Renaissance pieces to Andy Warhol…
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