Child rearing anxiety, the meltdown of an obsessive Kate Bush fan, and a teacher who turns into a troll, all feature in Brave New Work season of one act plays
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Exhibition review: Empty Streets – Noel Gibson’s East London (1967–1975)
Noel Gibson’s paintings of East London have no people in them but record with affection its old buildings and streets
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London Fashion Week to spring into action
Always looking ahead, East London designers are set to unveil next year’s Spring-Summer collections
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Bring food – not a ticket – to see Rainbow Collective’s documentary about Bangladesh
Whitechapel production company to run Food for Film initiative at screening of Mass E Bhat, a story about growing up in the slums of Bangladesh
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Sam Lee and the Unthanks to play lost and found folk music of First World War
Collaboration between Sam Lee and The Unthanks is inspired by lives and stories of generation that witnessed World War I
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Exhibition review: Tell Me Again at Invisible Line gallery
Group exhibition at Dalston gallery focuses on the ubiquity of patterns
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Spoiling review: a post-apocalyptic look at Scottish ‘independence’
An imagined ‘yes’ vote to Scottish Independence is the backdrop to darkly humorous two-hander at Stratford East
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Sir Charlie Darwin Film Festival’s ‘natural selection’
Audiences get to decide whether films are worth watching at the Sir Charlie Darwin Film Festival
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Win tickets to Richard Sides: Don’t blow it in the Vector at the ICA
Tweet or share this post to win tickets to a live music event curated by artist Richard Sides at the ICA this weekend
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Crime is of the essence: Where now for the East End gangster flick?
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?