Notting Hill Carnival This weekend – Sun 25th, and Mon 26th Aug 2019 – around one million people will attend one of the world’s biggest street carnivals. Notting Hill Carnival is now in it’s 35th
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Category: Arts in East End
Visual arts, theatre and music in and around the East End of London.
Geezers attend Secrets of the Homefront Girls book launch
Last Thursday some of the Geezers made it to the launch of Kate Thompson’s 10th non-fiction book: Secrets of the Homefront Girls. It was held in a room packed with people at Canning Town library
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East End photos by Edith Tudor-Hart in Tate exhibition
Photos from the 1930s to 50s by Edith Tudor-Hart and her brother Wolfgang Suschitzky are on free display in the Spotlight Gallery at Tate Britain until 17th Nov 2019. It’s a big square room, and
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Road Closures, HACKNEY WICK, Victoria park Bandstand,
Road closures Sat & Sun 27-28th July 2019 This weekend the London Triathlon 2019 will be running across Tower Hamlets from near the Excel Centre to Westminster. I’ve cropped out our local section of the
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Events in East London late July 2019
TALK AT BOW CHURCH THURS 25TH JULY What do church buildings tell us? Tony Tucker and Oliver Leigh Wood are giving a FREE talk on City of London churches, ancient buildings and why we should
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Geezers collaborate with Bow School on Active Energy Turbines
Active Energy started twelve years ago when artist Loraine Leeson was commissioned to work with The Geezers to ask why the life experience of older people was failing to inform new developments in technology. Answering
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Bach concert, Canary Wharf walk, Suffragette Garden party
Bach Concert Sat 29th June West Ham On Saturday 29th June, All Saints Chorus and Orchestra will be performing J S Bach’s Mass in b minor. The concert takes place at West Ham Parish Church,
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Music and Dance in QE Olympic Park, Mela at Bethnal Green, Summer concert, Meet John Biggs
Great Get Together QE Olympic Park Sun 23rd June 2019 Next Sunday between 12-6pm there will music and dance on the main stage, plus storytelling, arts and crafts and much more on in The Queen
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