Choreographer Florence Peake creates a performance using the old Celtic practice of ‘keening’ to lament the state of modern culture
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Album review: Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes
New album by East London duo Ultimate Painting is enjoyable DIY fare, though limited in scope
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Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor break bread in Spitalfields for refugees
Museum of immigration and diversity makes ‘symbolic gesture’ during the artists’ march through London
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Kansas Smitty’s – bar review: ‘like a big living room but with live jazz and kickass drinks’
Jazz and juleps the perfect combination at Broadway Market’s new basement bar Kansas Smitty’s
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Food review: Sourdough Saloon at the Lord Morpeth
The Lord Morpeth pub gets on the sourdough pizza bandwagon
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Radical play Brenda reflects on nature of being human
Brenda, which kicks off the Yard’s autumn season, is an experimental play that questions the very nature of selfhood
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Turning the spotlight on Hackney’s botanical and textile history
Light projections, music and an interactive trail celebrate borough’s little known roots as a haven for exotic plant life and textiles
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Nosh Hashanah! Food for the Jewish New Year
Food historian Gillian Riley looks at how new establishments are carrying on long-standing kosher traditions
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Film night to screen moo-ving tale of dairy farmer
For Organic September, Growing Communities is showing documentary The Moo Man, about a ‘maverick farmer and his unruly cows’ navigating the dairy crisis
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Stop the Blocks: an East London guided tour with a difference
Community campaign group aims to highlight the “devastating effects” overdevelopment is having on East End residents