Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
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Rootdown, Lower Clapton – review: California dreaminess
Cosy family-run restaurant offering ‘Californian cuisine’ boasts an inventive menu of seasonal, small-scale dishes
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Stik’s missing ‘community mural’ discovered on sale in West London
Street artist furious over ‘destruction and commercial exploitation’ of mural painted with local children in Polish city of Gdansk
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‘Totally rock ‘n’ roll’ play’ about depression to open in Hackney
Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom
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Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot tackles refugee crisis at Stoke Newington gallery opening
Political activist premieres video for Pussy Riot single ‘Refugees In’ at Connor Brothers exhibition
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Was R.D. Laing a mental health pioneer or a dangerous maverick?
A new play at the Arcola looks at the legacy of the ‘anti-psychiatrist’ whose mental illness centre in Bow became notorious for its controversial methods
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Mercury Heart bid to revive the live album
A Hackney three-piece were so amazed by the recording of a recent gig at Oslo that they made it their debut LP
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Rediscovering a classic: Sparrows Can’t Sing
Joan Littlewood’s only foray into film, this knotty East End romance starring Barbara Windsor – with a cameo from The Krays – has been newly restored
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London Sex Worker Film Festival seeks to challenge ‘whorephobic’ society
Films about sex work and related issues such as migration, race, gender and violence to be screened this weekend at the Rio Cinema
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The author following in the footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft
Bee Rowlatt embarked on a full-blown love affair by tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s journey across Scandinavia