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 - artists Wiebke and Nicholas Morgan cook a meal from 12 recipes from a Nigel Slater cookbook, and serve it for visitors as an exploration into ownership and the......

Friday 13th; unlucky for some. Still, there’s no better day to try out some "compelling and startling" dance made and performed by "maverick performers" than superstitious Friday 13th. It’s always a gamble, going to this kind of do, because you never know which way it’ll go. But if it’s utter, impenetrable tripe then curse that inauspicious day. If it’s surprisingly, marvellously great then that Friday 13th nonsense is just a load of tosh. Hooray!......

The Spill festival continues to pour out around us with performances in the Barbican, Shunt Vaults, Toynbee Studios and Soho Theatre. We've mentioned one piece in the programme so far, Raimond Hoghe's Sacre - The Rite of Spring and there's more coverage of the pieces we missed on the SpillOverSpill blog - click through for reviews and interviews and more musing about this festival of experimental theatre. It's been challenging, difficult, invigorating and exciting:......

Fancy entering Spring in weird and strange mode? Looking for a different way to spend the glorious Easter weekend? Like the idea of a browsing round a live tattooing, exploring unseen parts of the London Bridge vaults and witnessing a live video installation unroll on a naked body? Maybe you’ve got spring fever and, frankly, need help or maybe you’re due a visit to SPILL, a brand new festival of experimental theatre and performance......

Fresh this Week: Catch the end of the http://www.alternativearts.co.uk/events/spit%5Flit%5Ffestival/" target="blank">Split Lit Festival (Celebrating Women's Writing) on Saturday with Movies and Money which asks the question "What does a movie producer actually do for a living?". Producer Alison Owen talks to Helen de Winter, author of What I really want to do is produce who seems qualified enough to tell us. 4pm, £6/£4, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, Information and bookings 020 7247 2584. Givin’......