Choreographer Florence Peake creates a performance using the old Celtic practice of ‘keening’ to lament the state of modern culture
Album review: Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes
New album by East London duo Ultimate Painting is enjoyable DIY fare, though limited in scope
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor break bread in Spitalfields for refugees
Museum of immigration and diversity makes ‘symbolic gesture’ during the artists’ march through London
Kansas Smitty’s – bar review: ‘like a big living room but with live jazz and kickass drinks’
Jazz and juleps the perfect combination at Broadway Market’s new basement bar Kansas Smitty’s
Food review: Sourdough Saloon at the Lord Morpeth
The Lord Morpeth pub gets on the sourdough pizza bandwagon
Radical play Brenda reflects on nature of being human
Brenda, which kicks off the Yard’s autumn season, is an experimental play that questions the very nature of selfhood
Turning the spotlight on Hackney’s botanical and textile history
Light projections, music and an interactive trail celebrate borough’s little known roots as a haven for exotic plant life and textiles
Nosh Hashanah! Food for the Jewish New Year
Food historian Gillian Riley looks at how new establishments are carrying on long-standing kosher traditions
Film night to screen moo-ving tale of dairy farmer
For Organic September, Growing Communities is showing documentary The Moo Man, about a ‘maverick farmer and his unruly cows’ navigating the dairy crisis
Stop the Blocks: an East London guided tour with a difference
Community campaign group aims to highlight the “devastating effects” overdevelopment is having on East End residents