Image Credit: Photograph of London Fetish Film Festival Directors, Venus Raven (left) and Tainted Saint (right), taken by Caroline Bonarde. Fetish culture has long shaped contemporary art, fashion, popular culture and cinema – from underground performance and body art to…
Image Credit: Photo of Ted Hodgkinson by Pete Woodhead. Image courtesy the Southbank Centre. Ted is Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre. Celebrating independent publishers and books that defy the ordinary, Indie Night arrives at the…
Image Credit: Daphna Attias (left) and Terry O’Donovan (right), Co-Artistic Directors of Dante or Die. For two decades, Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan have been reshaping how theatre lives in the world. Their paths into performance began far apart –…
Image Credit: Meltdown curator Nile Rodgers receives standing ovation during 2019’s Meltdown. Photo by Pete Woodhead. From her teenage years discovering live music in Manchester and Liverpool, Jane Beese has been drawn to the singular, electric communion that only a…
Image Credit: Photo of Leyla Nazli by Olivia Harris. From the moment a five-minute piece of political visual theatre stopped her in her tracks at the age of ten, Leyla Nazli’s path was set. That early spark – later intensified…
Image Credit: Still from ‘VPL – Visible Panty Line’ (Dir. Ka! Ka! Studios / 1993). Screened as part of Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema (+ extended intro). Sun, 25 Jan 18:20. BFI Southbank. From late-night screenings…
Image credit: Louise Mothersole (left) and Becca Biscuit (right) photographed by Christa Holka. For more than a decade, Becca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole have stood side-by-side as Sh!t Theatre: best friends, artistic conspirators, political excavators, and proud devotees of The…
Image credit: Owen (left) and Tom (right), the early years. From a makeshift “TV studio” in the back room of a village pantomime to the controlled-chaos brilliance of The Christmas Thing, Tom Clarkson and Owen Visser have spent a lifetime…
Image Credit: Gemma Barnett, photographed by Nina Maria Allmoslechner. Actor, writer and poet Gemma Barnett heads to Soho Theatre with Revenge: After The Levoyah – a sharply funny, steadily escalating two-hander about fear, manipulation and the frightening ease with which…
Image Credit: Photo of Arthur Newman. Producer, songwriter and lecturer Arthur Newman releases his new EP ‘In Your City’ – a vivid, one-take recording that captures the immediacy and emotion of London life. The accompanying Super 8 music film, directed…