Music & Soul: a special Kentish Town performance
A one-off double bill of musical theatre from arts company NW Live explores the challenges experienced by homecoming soldiers
A one-off double bill of musical theatre from arts company NW Live explores the challenges experienced by homecoming soldiers
Come with us on a wander round the diverse shows hitting neighbourhood galleries this season
Melissa Hardwick is curator of the Free Space Gallery at Kentish Town Health Centre. She tells us about their surprisingly wide range of work, and why it is under threat
A unique new show on the power of “art therapy” opens tonight at Free Space Gallery on Bartholomew Road – but will it be the last?
1. Bank holiday shenanigans start here You could probably do worse than kickstart the bank holiday with a few beers and a croak at slightly unloveable Mornington Crescent venue the Purple Turtle. Why? It’s the Camden Singalong Ball, of course. And it’s for a good cause too, as new ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ new mayor Jonathan …
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Back in September our writer Tim Sowula launched his petition to get the Barclays Bike scheme extended through Kentish Town to the Heath. He has now had a response from Boris Johnson, who says: “I view the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme as an expanding programme subject to topography, operational considerations and available funding. As part …
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1. Watch The Fireworks. Well, how could anything else be #1 this week? Yet sadly there’s very little opportunity for anything professionally organized in the borough of Camden these days. Your only choice is Coram’s Fields Fireworks, aimed at families with young children, which takes place on Friday 2 November from 5pm (admission free but …
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1. Tell People What You Want From Kentish Town Got an opinion or two about the manor? A bunch of folk are trying to create a Neighbourhood Forum, the aim being to set out how Kentish Town should develop over the next 10 years. We attended the first event outside Co-op yesterday, which quizzed passers-by …
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The Free Space Gallery project is a toddler now; at two years old we feel ready to utter some of our first fully formed sentences. And like many precocious children, we think what we do is important – and I’m here to tell you why. The Kentish Town Health Centre, nestled behind the High Street, …