Producer Oli Bayston is looking forward to the year ahead with his project Boxed In
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Macs from way back – East London’s museum of all things Apple
The ‘Mac-smith’ Paul Marc Davis uses collection of rare computers and other Apple-related curios to create a museum on Hackney Road
Posted inART
Driven to abstraction – Roxy Walsh and Wilhemina Barns-Graham prints
Watercolours and screen prints by two abstract artists form two parallel shows at the Leyden gallery
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Columbia Road: A Strange Kind of Paradise – review
Linda Wilkinson’s book is a cornucopia of delights about history of Columbia Road and its inhabitants
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Jeremy Deller’s English Magic brought to William Morris Gallery
Iconoclastic artist rails against oligarchs, tax havens and war in latest exhibition at Walthamstow gallery
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Platterform’s Sea Adventure Series – review
Pop-up perennials Platterform lift anchor on their Sea Adventure Series in London Fields
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Practical matters – Walthamstow’s new public building the Blackhorse Workshop
The Blackhorse Workshop offers tools, tuition and bench space in a bid to encourage people to rediscover lost manual skills
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Transgender roles as Jacobean tragedy brought into modern era in Cover Her Face
Performance artist La JohnJoseph stars in fifties take on John Webster’s revenge tragedy
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Balkan folk group Dunav celebrate 50 years of music making together
Walthamstow-based band Dunav have been together for half a century and put their longevity down to being good friends
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Advice for the Young at Heart – Theatre Centre commissioned play looks at 1958 and 2011 riots in London
Much has been said and written about the riots which swept London in 2011. Everyone from politicians to social workers have voiced their opinions on the state of our youth and their future. Attempting to get to grips with these issues, Advice for the Young at Heart sets out to examine both contemporaneous teenage experiences […]