Featuring sculptures, photographs, illustrations by Cat Miranda, Jennifer Hale, Sami Hammoudan, Hugo Sterk; live performance dance and music, DJ’s, poets, visuals; and Illustrations by Jennifer Hale, Contemporary Dance by Briar Adams, live music from Danbob Clarke with vocals from Shannon McNab, Poetry by Tim Wells, Cat Catalyst, David J, Funlola, Ramshackle Event, Salina Saliva, Baden, [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Director | DJ | East London | Humanist | Illustration | Music | Performance | Photography | Poetry | Spiritual | WriterTate has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005. The artists are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. Darren Almond’s work addresses the themes of time, geography and memory. He uses a wide range of media including film, photography and sculpture to explore the passing of [...]
Art | Artist | Culture | Director | Exhibition | Film | Gallery | Installation | Modern | Music | Painting | Photography | SocialThe opening night sees an evening of classical opera extracts performed, including Carmen, Nessun Dorma, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and many others at The Hackney Empire. East London Metropolitan Opera continues to bring together top professional musicians with members of the local community and children from Hackney schools accompanied by a [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Classical | Drama | East London | Editor | Events | Festival | Magic | Movie | Music | Musician | Opera | Painting | Performance | Poetry | Punk | Songwriter | Theatre | WriterTwo artists dismayed by the Millennium Dome’s corporate presentation of Britain have created their own snapshot of British artistic creativity. Five years after the Dome presented its shiny, clean vision of Britain, there is now a smaller, cheaper and more democratic snapshot of the UK on show at the Barbican Gallery. A life-size mechanical elephant [...]
Art | Artist | Drama | Exhibition | Gallery | Modern | PaintingEast London is in for a treat. September sees the launch of a design exhibition that plans to give anything experimental, conceptual and vibrant a shot at showing themselves. 100% East, presented by 100%Design and Undu Graduates will be an exhibition showcasing international and emerging design. Jimmy McDonald, Director of Undu Graduates is eager to [...]
Art | Designer | East London | Events | ExhibitionThe 7th black film magazine International Film Festival [bfm IFF] hosts an amazing line up of films from the finest the African Diaspora has to offer: films made in Hollywood, the Caribbean, Africa, Canada, Europe and our own UK talent will compete for prizes and awards. The bfm IFF is a six day event – [...]
Actor | Art | Events | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | HollywoodThe Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres. There are six awards in total – five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) and, from these, [...]
Art | BBC | Biographer | Critic | Editor | Film | Modern | Novelist | Performer | Poetry | Theatre | WriterBernard Kops was born in the East End of London. Since The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1959), he has written over 40 plays, nine novels, and seven volumes of poetry including Grandchildren and Other Poems (Hearing Eye, 2000). This poem on Whitechapel Library is reprinted here by kind permission of the poet and publisher. Bernard [...]
Art | PoetryWhitechapel Library – that great library of the East End – finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use. To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From [...]
Art | Gallery | History | Poetry | WarThe Royal National Theatre eagerly and protectively awaits the title and production of Mike Leigh’s new play, as do we, excited by the mystery and fascination of it all. Will it cause a tempest, flooding the South Bank venue with honour or derision? “I want you to get an interview with Mike Leigh!” The assertion [...]
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