Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
Beach House, Deerhunter and Four Tet also set to perform at festival’s tenth anniversary in Victoria Park
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression
Street artist furious over ‘destruction and commercial exploitation’ of mural painted with local children in Polish city of Gdansk
Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom
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
A Hackney three-piece were so amazed by the recording of a recent gig at Oslo that they made it their debut LP
Painter’s latest collection uses a highly layered style resembling early cameraless photography
Life drawing group Nude for Thought wants the male nude to regain its stature in contemporary art
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
