Entertainment

WHAT’S ON down at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park? There’s the usual range of events focussing on flora and fauna and just being outdoors. Here’s a selection of events. •Sunday 2nd September Sound Journey – listening to nature, chimes and musical ...

THE CAMPAIGN to open London’s first every community-run LGBTQI pub on the site of the legendary Joiners Arms on Hackney Road continues – celebrating the end of August with a fundraising party night. And what a party is promises to ...

Emdad Rahman Here To Stay is an exhibition by documentary photographer Inès Elsa Dalal which highlights the impact of nurses from the Windrush generation, who helped shape the NHS since its birth 70 years ago. Inès is a documentarian, who ...

Emdad Rahman interviews Abrar Hussain One Day in the Haram is the extraordinary story of the Haram in Makkah. It reflects on life around the Ka’bah in Makkah – the building at the epicentre of Islam’s most sacred location. For ...

Purple Moon Drama is once more running summer holiday drama activities for young residents aged eight to twelve. Clubs based in Bow and Shadwell are free – but hurry to sign up, as they start today. Purple Moon will also ...

A NEW INITIATIVE has been set up to encourage London residents to use their parks. Working with the slogan #GoParksLondon, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the London Friends of Greenspaces Network have come together to popularise parks. The ...

WITH EID HAVING been celebrated last week and the summer weather beckoning everyone outdoors, it’s fortunate that at least two major cities will be holding outdoor Eid Festivals this weekend. The Eid Festival at Old Trafford in Manchester is also ...

Emdad Rahman MCM Comic Con, the UK’s largest organiser of pop culture events, returned to London for a scorching weekend of sun, cosplay battles, a blockbuster guest line up and a new revamped look.  The first MCM Comic Con London of 2018 attracted thousands of sci-fi fans, gamers, ...

THE FORMER director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford, Kerry Kyricos Michael, has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. The award was made in recognition of Mr Michael’s contribution to diversity in the arts and in particular for ...

You work hard for to enjoy an idyllic lifestyle – a quirky one, living on a houseboat, but a comfortable lifestyle centred on fun nonetheless. Then the biological clock kicks in: will there be children? This is the central dilemma ...