Capital Odyssey: A Flâneur’s Bloomsbury Wanderings Editor Eddie Saint-Jean turns the clock back a century to trace the flâneur footsteps of novelist Virginia Woolf. The article’s diary style pays homage to her diaries and works written as streams of consciousness. In our busy, buzzing capital city, destination and purpose lie at the heart of every […]
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From pop-up galleries in Peckham to podcast studios in Hackney, freelancing in London offers endless creative opportunities, and just as many challenges. Whether you’re a graphic designer working from a café in Camden or a self-taught filmmaker balancing shoots and edits, life as a freelancer in the capital is full of movement, freedom, and unpredictability. […]
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Five Fun Things to Do in Battersea Battersea Power Station’s iconic brick tower still proudly stands as a totemic landmark to its industrial past, but the smoke-spewing heart of this south London district has long since been gutted, to make way for the shopping, dining and leisure attractions that make this lively and whimsical cultural […]
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Born in Horsham, Sussex and educated at Eton, poet Percy Shelley’s links with London inevitably involved his tangled love life. And if you ever go boating on The Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park you’ll notice no heritage signs warning you of a tragic death in those watery depths. It happened two hundred years ago and is […]
London Film Studios Academy CEO Shantelle Rochester-Henry (centre of photo) headed the organisation’s launch at Stratford Circus Arts Centre on Thursday 30th June. Also in attendance was Nick Moran, star of Guy Ritchie’s East End gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (right of photo). With Moran also promoting his latest movie London Heist, the […]
The Prince of Wales officially opened Tower Bridge on June 30th 1864, 122 years ago on this very date. This photo series by Eddie Saint-Jean commemorates the event where the bridge was raised to allow the first ships through its bascules and along the Thames.
In a historic first, Stratford Centre and Watford Palace Theatre have co-produced the only Hamlet featuring an all-black cast. Directed by Jeffrey Kisson and adapted by playwright Mark Norfolk the Kingdom of Denmark in the original play is now a black empire in modern England. Stratford Circus is one of the founding partners of Black […]
Organised by the London Chinatown Chinese Association and the Hong Kong Executives Club, the London Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival brought much needed diversion following the Brexit brouhaha. The festival, a sporting charity event held at the The London Regatta Centre on Sunday attracted thousands of spectators and provided a perfect family day out with […]
An annual LGBT led event, Pride in London 2016 made for a colourful picturesque parade at Trafalgar square. Besides, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism and Brexit were major themes with distinct rainbow colours dominating the parade as it marched through central London amidst heavy police presence and cheers from thousands of spectators. Pride in London is a […]
Earlier in the week, Space Studios Hackney’s summer party saw live music in the courtyard as well as complimentary food and drink. Attendees were invited by 40 in-studio artists to engage in the processes of their art creation. Live demonstrations of screen-printing and the opportunity to print an illustration were also on offer. An arty […]
If the European Football Championships is a celebration of Euro sporting excellence then the Harlequin Euro Festival running concurrently celebrates European culture and language in a very different way. The soccer hooliganism happening in host nation France though is at odds with this five week programme of events in Devonshire Square, Liverpool Street which embraces […]
Distinguished broadcaster Zinovy Zinik combined a sound installation, graphic art exhibition and lengthy audience chat at his book launch for ‘Sounds Familiar or the Beast of Artek’ at The Horse Hospital, Russell Square. His offbeat horror novel draws its inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Notably, Mary Shelley also wrote Frankenstein on this day in 1816 […]
Tourists and London sightseers flocked to St Paul’s Cathedral on the anniversary of a date etched in history. It was on June 21st 1675 that construction began on one of Britain’s most renowned places of worship, built by the nation’s most famous architect Sir Christopher Wren.
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
