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 h...
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 ...
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 inclusivit...
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 somethin...
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 mag...
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 wasn’...
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...
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 Pat...
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 hous...