After years of playing in other people’s bands, jazz bassist Alison Rayner now has her own quintet – and a new album, August
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Album review: Banks of the Lea by Stiv Cantarelli and the Silent Strangers
Italian rock outfit found inspiration in East London for their latest record Banks Of The Lea
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Michael Rosen: How parents can be a child’s best teacher
With a new book out, poet Michael Rosen talks about his teaching strategies for parents
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Two painters join forces for Whitechapel exhibition
Whitechapel’s Idea Store gallery is holding an exhibition by award-winning painters Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill
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Oxjam to ‘take over’ Dalston and Shoreditch this month
This weekend Dalston venues have an Oxjam-packed programme of live music and gigs for annual Oxjam festival
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Educating the East End – top class drama
A programme about education or tear-jerking soap opera? We speak to the stars of Channel 4’s Educating the East End
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Festival of Latin American theatre to go ahead this month in East London
Theatre makers from across South America will be descending on East London for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival
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Black Chronicles II exhibition review: Excavating black history
Portraits of the first black people to be photographed in Britain, unseen for 120 years, feature in a new exhibition
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Exhibition review – (detail) at Transition Gallery
Work from more than 100 international artists is displayed in miniature at London Fields-based gallery
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Ghost from a Perfect Place – review: ‘Just the right level of dystopian horror’
Philip Ridley play has lost none of its sinister brilliance in the twenty years since its first production