SURGE at the Albany
Close to the Albany stands a house where, in 1981, a fire killed 13 black youngsters and injured many more during a 16th birthday party....
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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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BIRTH ENSEMBLE at St Alfege’s Church
There are free lunchtime recitals at St Alfege’s pretty much every week of the year and the range of programmes on offer is...
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WORLD OCEANS DAY at the National Maritime Museum
There were some terrifying statistics highlighted at World Oceans Day at the National Maritime Museum. For example, without radical...
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THE HUNTERS GRIMM at Catford Broadway
If I walked down a busy shopping street and saw a talking wolf on the pavement, a bevy of dancing princesses in red capes or a pack of...
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TRANSITIONS Dance triple bill at Laban
If you ever wanted an example of the diversity dance is capable of providing you’d struggle to find a better one than Transitions’ triple...
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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS in the Royal Observatory Garden
Is there a story in the English language that’s better known or more loved than The Wind In The Willows? I doubt it – but that makes it a...
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SECRET RIVERS at the Museum of London Docklands
We’re rather spoilt for enjoying rivers in Greenwich because not only do we have the Thames but a stone’s throw away is Deptford Creek...
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CHURCHFITTERS at Mycenae House
Pound for pound, folk music has more than its fair share of virtuosi - but can sometimes come across as rather worthy, a strange...
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SALOMÉ at Greenwich Theatre
You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...
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THE SIGN OF FOUR at Greenwich Theatre
I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead, finally laid to rest by the definitive interpretations of Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Benedict...
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WILDFLOWER WALKS at Creekside Discovery Centre
May sees an explosion of colour as spring is properly sprung – and that’s as true in the concrete canyons of our streets as in our parks...
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NINE BELOW ZERO at Mycenae House
Dennis Greaves is a stunningly good guitarist and his Nine Below Zero bandmate Mark Feltham is surely one of the world’s greatest...
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THE LONG WALK BACK at Greenwich Theatre
We Brits love to put our sporting heroes on pedestals – but we also love to see them fall off. And few have done it quite so...
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CONSTRUCTION OF AN ICON from the Queen’s House to the National Portrait Gallery
Greenwich is one of the world’s great cultural hotspots thanks to its matchless array of architecture, art and music, a concentration of...
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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT at The Albany
Personal tragedy, particularly one involving the death of a child, is all-consuming. So how do we cope with having to watch other...
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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Camden People’s Theatre
Mental health may no longer bear the stigma it once did but it’s still widely and horribly misunderstood, as Lanre Malaolu’s astonishing...
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BUDAPEST CAFÉ ORCHESTRA at Blackheath Halls
If you want a quick-fire guide to world music the Budapest Café Orchestra is just the ticket. In a 90-minute set at Blackheath Halls the...
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ART THEMEN QUINTET at Mycenae House
It’s a measure of the status of Art Themen in the pantheon of British jazz musicians that fellow artists will turn out to watch him at...
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THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE at Greenwich Theatre
Britain today finds itself horribly divided over Brexit. A century ago the country was also horribly divided - but the reason then was...
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