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heavy plant crossing

Preview: Chelsea Fringe Festival

New three-week festival guaranteed to get you into gardening.

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Circusfest Review: Backgammon for Beginners @ Jacksons Lane

The hard-to-grab-hold-of tale is told through low key but impressive acrobatics

living walls

Mayoral Elections: Nature, Food And Fresh Air

Can London be transformed into a more productive, wildlife friendly place?

The East Reservoir in Hackney at dawn.  Photo by Helen Babbs

The New Nature: Want To Write About London’s Wild Side?

There’s a new online home for writing about wild London.

The Metropollen planter and seat, with bee hive and bat box in the background

InMidtown’s Habitats Exhibition @ Central Saint Giles

New housing for London’s bats, bees and other bugs.

The Barber of Seville.  Photo by Richard Hubert Smith

Opera Review: Barber of Seville @ Hackney Empire

Saturday night. Mare Street. Bus engine drum rolls and taxi cab brass.

Tendre Suie by Toron Blues

Review: London International Mime Festival

Actions speak louder than words

No Fit State Circus

Preview: London International Mime Fest 2012

Few words but much visual wizardry

Make like a monster with Forkbeard Fantasy

Review – The Colour of Nonsense by Forkbeard Fantasy

Saved by a parrot and a fly.

Photo by Little Angel Theatre

Review: Two Enormous Christmas Shows For Families

The world has been sad since Tuesday and the turnips are growing big.