Deptford

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Hot Tap Theatre, New Cross, get festive on the two Fridays left before Christmas.

As a trailer to the excellently quirky Deptford X arts festival local businesses and residents are being challenged to create an X for their front window. Part guerilla art activity, part viral advertising and part community outreach the Xs will raise awareness of Deptford X …

Ferris Bueller Though it may conjure up images of Buster Keaton films and amusing sequences of spiffily-dressed fin de siècle types rushing around at double speed, Silent Cinema is nothing of the sort: it’s a “beautifully simple” concept in which viewers don headphones whilst watching …

That howling you can hear is the furore created by the news that Tidemill Primary School headteacher Mark Elms is paid ‘over £200k a year’. Brockley Kate does a nice dissection of that figure (briefly: his actual annual salary is £82k; the rest of his …

Poetry and football might not seem the easiest of bedfellows, but The Albany in Deptford and ARC in Stockton commissioned four poets to make short spoken word films for the World Cup. Scroobius Pip made an elegy for Millwall’s Old Den, Polarbear honoured Maradona, Charlie …