A white working class Hoxton boy who converts to Islam and East End arts organisation ACME feature in films to be shown at this year’s London Film Festival
After years of playing in other people’s bands, jazz bassist Alison Rayner now has her own quintet – and a new album, August
Italian rock outfit found inspiration in East London for their latest record Banks Of The Lea
With a new book out, poet Michael Rosen talks about his teaching strategies for parents
Whitechapel’s Idea Store gallery is holding an exhibition by award-winning painters Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill
This weekend Dalston venues have an Oxjam-packed programme of live music and gigs for annual Oxjam festival
A programme about education or tear-jerking soap opera? We speak to the stars of Channel 4’s Educating the East End
Theatre makers from across South America will be descending on East London for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival
Portraits of the first black people to be photographed in Britain, unseen for 120 years, feature in a new exhibition
Work from more than 100 international artists is displayed in miniature at London Fields-based gallery
Philip Ridley play has lost none of its sinister brilliance in the twenty years since its first production
Sudanese artist Anwar Elsamani tells his story in photographs for an exhibition that sheds light on the experiences of East London’s migrant residents
