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The Oubliette Collective have moved into Interim Base 7 on Shaftesbury Avenue at Cambridge Circus, in the building formerly home to the Limelight nightclub and until last year, a Walkabout.

Big names and high profile collaborations announced for the Cultural Olympiad’s London Festival 2012.

The Johannesburg-born 51-year-old artist Neville Gabie has been appointed the artist-in-residence to the London 2012 Olympics. For the next 16 months, Gabie will be documenting the changing landscape of the Olympic Park and the lives of the communities and workforce living inside it. Gabie, a …

Launched on 25 October, the Inside Out festival is a one-week cultural extravaganza, with events across the capital. Organised by the London Centre for Arts and Exchange, the festival aims to promote the sharing of knowledge and expertise, whilst also celebrating the significant contributions made …

Or, to be more specific-ish: …images that reveal the everyday of ordinary citizens, such as wedding photos, front rooms, tea parties, family life, school photos, portraits in uniform and Sunday best, personal records of demonstrations, politics, happenings and communities, to name but a few. The …

Image by Tristram Kenton La bohème may be one of the most frequently performed operas in the world but it remains deceptively difficult to stage. This is because the story of Parisian artists glimpsing love amidst cold and hunger requires human frailty to be reconciled …

A new campaign to save arts funding gained momentum today with this Banksy-like image from Mark Wallinger. The artist, famous for his 1999 fourth plinth commission Ecco Homo and the giant white horse set to go up in Kent, has spent ten minutes in Photoshop …

The Turner Prize is as synonymous with Tate Britain as it is with soiled beds, formaldehyde sharks and media sneering. From 2011, however, the annual show will alternate between the Millbank gallery and venues outside London, beginning with the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. The Prize …

There’s been a lot of fringe theatre on Londonist of late and while we’ve been seeing and reviewing a lot, there must also be time for London Theatre Talks 2010. And so, the London Festival Fringe (which had us a bit baffled at their launch) …

London Fields by D1v1d via the Londonist Flickrpool Disgruntled that your mates are buggering off to the Big Chill this weekend? Get a dose of festival spirit closer to home without breaking the bank or having to camp with the launch of independent free festival, …