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If you have missed the last 70 years of Britain’s cultural and economic history, this exhibition should bring you up to date. Taking a post-world war two exhibition from the V&A as its springboard, the Hayward’s spring show examines the cultural history of the UK through the work of seven artists.…
(Reuters) At the Experimental Burger Society in central London, diners put on lab coats and safety goggles to create their own dinner from meats as ordinary as beef or as exotic as zebra, kangaroo or ostrich. The Society is a cooking class with a side order of fun and socialising…
Peckham in 2015 is a far cry from the ends I reluctantly called home during my uni days in the late 90s. It’s younger, hipper and more culturally diverse than ever, attracting entrepreneurs who are setting up restaurants and hotspots perfectly aimed at the district’s influx of creative and city types. At least…
As London prepares to welcome the usual fashion victims to Somerset House, West London is preparing its own Africa-focused fashion event. Giving space to the wealth of designers currently working across the continent, the Afro-polis event on Portobello Road places a selection of the best African-made labels next to London’s…
The Vault Festival celebrates all that’s weird, wonderful and experimental in London’s creative underground with an incredible offering of music and entertainment that has seen it go strong for the last three years. Last week, TCé passed through to check out The Dog and The Elephant – a brooding one-man show which tells the story of a…
If you are feeling well and truly over the ultra commericalised, forced love of Valentines day, then why not celebrate via the museum to all things similarly consumerist, aka The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in West London? By some strange twist of fate, the preclude to the ‘teddy bears…