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This guide from the Green Party's Sian Berry is for all Londoners, including local renters’ groups, who want to take action to improve renting in our city. It will help you better understand the current rules for letting agents, including the Mayor’s own London Rental Standard, and help you do a ‘secret shopping’ exercise to find out if letting agents in your area are doing their jobs properly.
After a tempestuous few years for London’s night time economy, it seems the climate could finally be changing for music venues.
As Village Underground revealed on Monday that it had been granted a new 15 year lease on its premises, iconic Islington music venue The Garage also announced it would be relaunching in February.
Thousands marched on Saturday, one day after Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th President. Actress, marcher, and daughter of Honduran immigrants America Ferrera took to the stage in Washington to speak about what a Trump presidency means for her.
As the entire world looks on to the run-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, we thought we’d share this suitably prophetic video from Pussy Riot released back in October 2016.
Writer, cultural theorist and music critic Mark Fisher has died. His long-running blog, k-punk, examined pop culture with theoretical rigour, an entertaining and illuminating look at the world we live in.
He wrote beautifully on sound, underground culture, mental health, and radical politics, and was a contributor to Wire, Sight & Sound, The Guardian, as well as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths.
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are waiting.
Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
"A true crime story, meticulous and thrilling“
- Hamburg Morning Post
"A shocking story of love and betrayal"
- Taz
There’s nothing lashings of rain and darkened afternoons are more suited to than a true crime thriller. Especially one as compelling as this.
From Friday 13th January, Bertha Dochouse will be screening The Promise, a film focused on unravelling the international media storm created when Elizabeth Haysom and her boyfriend Jens Soering were convicted of murdering Elizabeth’s parents.
An opportunity for a curator beginning their career in the visual arts to work with one of the UK’s most adored cultural venues.
Barbican and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are launching a joint curatorial traineeship programme, which is an excellent opportunity to gain an insight into working for two arts organisations of different scale with separate programmes, where you will acquire practical skills to support your qualifications and inform future career choices.
The 2016 winner of the London Short Film Festival was a truly European bringing together of filmmaking talent - a Russian, British and Czech co-production, seeing a collaboration between the London Film School, Prague’s FAMU and the SiberiaDOC development scheme, helmed by LFS grad Sofia Safonova and filmed in her hometown of Krasnoyarsk in Southern Siberia.
Tegan and Sara, the Canadian sisters, artists and LGBTQ activists, have announced they will launch their own foundation for women and girls.
According to its mission statement, The Tegan and Sara Foundation will work with similar groups to support “economic justice, health, and representation for LGBTQ girls and women,” based on principles of “feminism and racial, social and gender justice”.
