The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s
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David Bailey: For Real review – ‘A palimpsest of post-war London life’
Selection of David Bailey photographs at Daniel Blau gallery offer a glimpse into a rarely seen side of the photographer’s work
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Walthamstow’s E17 Art Trail gets underway
Public are invited to get on the E17 Art Trail which this year celebrates its tenth year
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East London Painting Prize winner announced
Nathan Eastwood scoops first annual award, but with such a strong shortlist East London was the real winner
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Turfed: the play that uses football to tackle homelessness
Hackney Downs Studios to stage football-focused play recounting the experiences of street children in dance, poetry and music
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Between Us – review: a bold confrontation of class inequality
What price does society pay to allow the middle classes to feel good about themselves? asks Sarah Daniels’ play showing at the Arcola
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Iain Sinclair looks back at 70×70 birthday film project
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
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Waiting for Godot review – ‘not total tomfoolery’
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Arcola is given a youthful focus with the casting of comic duo Totally Tom
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Graduate Fashion Week review
Graduate Fashion Week saw a budding generation of designers and fashion graduates present their wares to the fashion loving public in the heart of the East End
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Still Angry? John Barker on the Angry Brigade and his new novel Futures
John Barker found notoriety as a member of the Angry Brigade, an urban guerilla group based in Stoke Newington which undertook a bombing campaign during the 1970s. Having served his time, he is now an author with a new book about drugs and 1980s capitalism