Christ Church by Matt From London Spitalfields Music started as a small classical music festival in Christ Church, east London, 1976. In the following three decades, the festival became an annual Winter and Summer Festival covering other genres, including events, workshops and participation across Tower …
Photography by Buckaroo Kid A Taste of Spain returns to Regent Street this Sunday the 6th of June. Expect Spanish cuisine, flamenco dancers, live music and more at this free showcase of the different regions of Spain. This year’s fiesta will also feature an interactive …
New theatre, live art, dance and visual art doesn’t get any newer than this… The fifth annual Accidental Festival is upon us, starting tomorrow afternoon and running right through until the last partygoer drops on Sunday evening. The Accidental Festival is a student-led affair, presenting …
The community-organised Crystal Palace Festival is returning to The Triangle on Saturday for its fourth year and was to be an extra-special cause for celebration. Having long been dubbed the “Underground Festival”, the date was supposed to coincide with the arrival of Crystal Palace on …
Clerkenwell is the little spot on the design / creative Venn diagram of London where showrooms, studios, seminars, workshops, designers, architects, magazine and book publishers all overlap. For the next three days, all of this will be celebrated and explored in Clerkenwell Design Week with …
Dainty (and delicious) Yauatcha dim sum photography by Chris Osburn Summer’s in the air. People are filling the parks. The tourists are coming. And London is hankering for some al fresco nibbles. Yep, it’s time for Taste of London. From fish and chips from Bentley’s …
Celebrating not only its 10th year of existence but also the 200th anniversary of curry being served in the UK, 2010’s Brick Lane Curry Festival looks set to be hotter than ever. Running from today until 4th June, the festival will provide a colourful programme …
It’s always refreshing when something does what it says on the tin, especially when that tin is wearing a fedora, strumming a double bass and sipping a cool pint of beer. The Greenwich Beer and Jazz festival is, quite simply, a 5 day celebration of …
Dan Wade This weekend, Tate Modern celebrates a decade of existence at Bankside Powerstation by throwing a free arts festival party with extra special late opening to chime with the ace Museums at Night line up. If you’re already in a quandary about which late …
Dalston gets the royal treatment on Friday 23rd April, as Land of Kings returns to bring alternative music and mayhem to the masses. Well, perhaps not the masses – but certainly the lucky few people who can still get tickets. Land of Kings is Dalston’s …
King’s Cross has to be one of the more interesting parts of town at the moment. Following the recent arrival of Eurostar, the once seedy area is already looking up. Next year, London’s art students arrive en masse, when Central St Martin’s moves in to …
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