Pollenarium was commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham alongside Barking Riverside Limited, with co-commissioning ...

But the music really communicated, that was the point.” Rayner and Cartwright founded Blow The Fuse in 1989 The Guest Stars disbanded in 1988 after a final gig at the Hackney Empire. It was a trip to ...

Henry Say's memoir of a 1950s Shadwell childhood captures a docker's street in loving detail — just as containerisation was about to sweep it away ...

Julia Pascal is a British playwright, director and scholar. Growing up in Blackpool and Manchester, she trained as an actor ...

Sophya, an experimental jazz singer living near Stratford, has just released her new EP Fate – a four-track project that explores family lineage, migration and a sense of destiny. After moving to ...

"It has the charge that really good poetry ought to have." This is how writer-director Tony Graham describes the language in a series of oral histories that captured his imagination. They were ...

On 22 September 1999, Scottish painter and decorator Harry Stanley stopped off for a lemonade on his way home at his local Hackney pub, The Alexandria (now The Lauriston). He put a plastic bag on the ...

Flo Barbour is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Homerton, who found a love of film-making in her mid-20s. Originally from Newcastle, she is also a DJ and sound-system builder with an MA in ...

New Art Projects has put on a beguiling exhibition of work by painters Jo Chate and Janet Sainsbury. A theme running through the dozen-and-a half canvases on show is the representation of famous faces ...

“Beautiful face”, Rocío Romera González says of her daughter Isabel. “Heart warming smile” she adds, and then “My gorgeous girl. Love of my life”. These are words any parent may use to describe their ...

“It’s such a treat to visit an artist’s studio. Not only do you get to speak directly to artists and learn more about their process and approach – but the spaces themselves are fascinating,” says ...

Barbara Pym is a writer whose popularity has shifted like... well… the seasons. From her six marvellous, natty social-commentary novels in the 50s, to her 70s ...