GREENWICH+DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL across east and south-east London
The theme of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival was Common Ground, a concept given the greatest possible poignancy...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 11
- 4 min
GREENWICH+DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL across east and south-east London
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival has always prided itself on responding to contemporary events as well as staging timeless...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 14
- 3 min
SUMMER PROGRAMME at Trinity Laban
An amazing array of public performances is on offer in this year’s Trinity Laban summer programme - legendary names in dance, beloved...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 28
- 3 min
COLAB 2022 at St Alfege’s, Old Royal Naval College and Blackheath Halls
One of the most beguiling aspects of CoLab, the annual festival of musical exploration driven and performed by Trinity Laban students, is...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Old Royal Naval College
We all know A Christmas Carol – indeed, most people are likely to have enjoyed dozens of versions of Charles Dickens’ matchless tale of...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
THE 12 DAYS (AND NIGHTS) OF CHRISTMAS in and around Greenwich
1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
GREENWICH & DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2021
The true psychological cost of lockdown may not be known for years. But we do know it’ll be high and we’ll need all the help we can get...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 17, 2021
- 5 min
GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2021
The annual delight that is the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival pulled off an amazing coup in its 25th outing last summer. It...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
COLAB 2021 online at Trinity Laban
Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 13, 2020
- 4 min
GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2020
Considering the country was in deep lockdown only a few weeks ago, it’s amazing that the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
COLAB 2020 in Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford, New Cross and Southwark
Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 8, 2019
- 3 min
GREENWICH & DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The divisions in British society today are as wide and bitter as they have been in decades, which is why events that celebrate...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 17, 2019
- 3 min
GREENWICH BOOK FESTIVAL at University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College & Greenwich Theatre
This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
PAINTED HALL at the Old Royal Naval College
One of the greatest moments in cinema history comes when Dorothy steps out of her monochrome Kansas farmhouse into The Wizard Of Oz’s...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 6, 2019
- 2 min
VALENTINA CIARDELLI at the ORNC chapel
I’ve been to hundreds of Trinity Laban recitals over the years and I can say with my hand on my heart that I’ve never seen one that...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
COLAB 2019 across south-east London
A drag queen outSummering Donna Summer, a Dutch jazz trio jamming with Donald Trump, a Brahms’ hymn and an anti-Brexit rant set to Handel...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
PATRICIA AUCHTERLONIE at Old Royal Naval College
You should always expect the unexpected at one of Trinity Laban’s free lunchtime recitals. And that was never truer than when soprano...
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Miles Hedley
- May 15, 2018
- 1 min
BURY THE CHEESE at Old Royal Naval College
The great diarist Samuel Pepys famously buried his block of Parmesan before alerting his family when flames threatened to engulf his...
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