There’s a few female performers – not giant stars, just female songstresses building up their careers – who can occupy a stage with an engaging sassiness as they deliver a catchy melody and a steady beat. It’s that flick of ...
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Hang-Up Gallery: “Anthropology” makes way for “Wondrous Obsessions”
Don’t miss Mark Powell’s solo exhibition “Anthropology” – now in its final week. His new collection of biro drawings on vintage documents (see above) can be viewed up to and including Sunday. The next exhibition at Hang-Up will be “Wondrous Obsessions”, ...
Read More »Anyone for a round?
The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, once one of Tower Hamlets’ largest employers, is responsible for lubricating the leisure hours of literally millions of people over the years. Now the building is turning its attention to providing another kind ...
Read More »Frontera! Latin America comes to London
The Frontera Festival was born in 2013 in Santiago, Chile. Audiences of up to 60,000 people enjoyed all that Latin music had to offer – in all its different styles, trends and genres. The Festival grew fast, and it is ...
Read More »What’s on down at the Cemetery Park?
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a graveyard situated in Mile End. No longer used for burials, it is now a wildlife haven for flora and fauna alike. It is open to visitors who want to enjoy a little bit of ...
Read More »Rebels with a cause
Baaghi is a new action story from UTV Motion Pictures and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment which will be released at the end of the month. But movie-goers don’t have to wait for weeks to get a glimpse of the action – ...
Read More »Get ready for Rebels in Love
Actors Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor have just finished shooting Sajid Nadaidwala’s forthcoming production Baaghi: Rebels in Love. It’s the first time the two have worked together. Tiger had an action packed shoot, as he was taking on the lion’s ...
Read More »Boris sends out a search party
In the old days, when you had a festival or a fun-day, your Council told you when and where it was and what was going on and you went their and did it. Now, under Boris Johnson’s free-market London, you ...
Read More »Grassroots Shakespeare tops the O2
Easter is usually associated with birth and awakening, and 2016 is actually the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – so his plays have all been with us slightly longer than 400 years. Nonetheless, the O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) is ...
Read More »Asian films premiere in Tower Hamlets
Two exciting Asian films are having their UK premieres in Tower Hamlets next week as part of the 18th Asian Film Festival. Chauranga (Four Colours), pictured above, is the debut feature from critic turned director Bikas Ranjan Mishra, takes its inspiration ...
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