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Now On: Brixton Village Space Station Festival

Seems one of the themes for 2010 is going to be reappropriating empty spaces and putting them to good alternative use. It’s not just artistic squatters, city farms and allotments getting in on the act. Back in October 09 The Space Makers Agency made the …

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Barbican Arts Centre To Close Cinemas

Photo / dot-dot-dot Via Time Out’s print edition, we learn that the Barbican is planning to close Cinemas Two and Three in March. The plan is to replace the two screens, which are located a fair distance from the larger Cinema One, with state-of-the-art auditoriums …

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Interview: Hackney Transient Arts Project

Hackney Transient Arts Project is a research-based arts initiative that investigates Hackney’s cultural identity. Their recent in/flux exhibition on Kingsland Road was the brainchild of Lucy Tomlins and Marnie Baumer, and curated by Marsha Bradfield and Miriam King. It took inspiration from Hackney as a …

The Arts Activists of Barking and Dagenham

Reminder: LIFT Molten Festival Starts Today

The Arts Activists of Barking and Dagenham The best reason to go to Barking we’ve ever had bursts into life today. Let’s hope the weather holds as it’s outdoors aerialistics to put a spring in the first steps of this performance festival tonight. Transe Expresse …

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Preview: London 2012 Open Weekend

By Richard Parmiter via the Londonist Flickrpool London 2012 Open Weekend is upon us and, as expected, is ram full of things to do between Friday and Sunday. Celebrating the 3 years to go milestone, events range from the athletic to the historic, artistic to …

A sneak preview of LIFT's Shoreditch Festival Parade plans

More Summer Of Local Love

A sneak preview of LIFT’s Shoreditch Festival Parade plans Last week we highlighted some of the brilliant local festivals going on around the boroughs this summer and we got some great tip offs in response, telling us about even more great happenings that hadn’t yet …

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Festival Preview: Camden Fringe 2009

Taking a staycation? No holiday at all? Locked in London for the rest of the sweltering summer? Hooray! You can come to the Camden Fringe. Bigger, better and more pigeony than ever before, the sparky young pretender to the deranged and sprawling Ed Fest throne …

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The Summer Of Local Love

Crowd at Lambeth Country Fair 2007 by doodledub, with thanks Local festivals are big news this summer. Wandsworth had a heritage festival throughout June, Camberwell Arts Festival started with a park party and finishes today and we’ll be bringing you some spectacular photos of Greenwich …

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Save The Date: London Bridge Festival, 10-15 July

Image by M@ Has London finally grown tired of Edinburgh wearing the UK’s Crown when it comes to Fringe? The London Bridge Festival runs for two weeks in July, and seems to be giving the great Scottish knees-up a run for its money. And where …

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Art Preview: Two Degrees @ Artsadmin

‘Double jeopardy’ weather image by SallyB2 Two Degrees is a short season of live art, installation, activity and activism all rolled into one glorious blur of getting hot under the collar about climate change. Never an organisation to do things in straightforward or ‘normal’ way, …

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London Word Festival Breaks Through

Brilliant news: The London Word Festival is a fixture for a few years more. At just a tottering two years old they’ve won a pot of gold that will see them able to develop the festival over the next three years. As one of only …