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To get you in the mood for today’s 08.08.08 8pm Beijing Olympics opening ceremony here are some pictures taken on the first day of the Trafalgar Square Festival yesterday, featuring Yellow Earth Theatre and the Flying Dragon Circus setting the Square alight. Catch them again, …

Under 19? Want to go to the Underage Festival for us on Friday? We’re offering two of you the chance to get your hands on some press passes and review the whole bloody thing for us? Sound wicked, check out how to enter and get …

If hearing the best of the rest is more appealing than a night on the sofa in front of the X-Factor, you need to make your way to Victoria Park on Saturday for the left-field music event of the summer. Teaming with big names on …

Next Friday Victoria Park is host to the 2nd Underage Festival and we’re looking for 2 readers to go down and cover it for us. After last year’s sell out event, the Underage Festival has returned continuing it’s belief of no adults allowed! Instead the …

The End of the Road festival in Dorset has made some firm fans for itself over the last couple of years. As a final teaser before the festival proper, the curators are hosting a gig right here in London at the intimate Bush Hall on …

As mad as it sounds, tomorrow is Bonkersfest, a one-day free celebration of all things creative, eccentric and crazy. Held in Camberwell, expect live music, theatre, comedy, a ‘guided our of the local loonie bin’ and whatever it takes to remove the stigma from mental …

Long a feature of the New York summer, yesterday saw crowds estimated at 45,000 turn out for London’s first Salute to Israel, held to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state / tragedy of the Palestinian people / bungling British withdrawal …

Once a year, Canary Wharf is transformed by Dancing City. There’s nothing quite like seeing aerialistes descending from the glass and steel powerhouses of corporate finance or parkour artists dashing effortlessly through the artificial garden of Cabot Square to make you look at this blue …

As we mentioned briefly before, Thursday brings the East 2008 Festival. For six days, a cornucopia of performances, exhibitions, workshops, food and other events ensures entertainment with emphasis on promotion of the best of East London. Here’s our pick of the mix: 6th March: F-EAST …

There are moments where London can be proud of its diversity. This is just one of them. The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – the annual feast of the best gay cinema – is shortly upon us. This year’s gathering in the capital will …