The Southbank Centre has announced the programme for Africa Utopia 2018, featuring four days of music, comedy, film, theatre, dance, literature, fashion, workshops, market stalls, talks, debates and free activity
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BY TOBY PORTER toby@slpmedia.co.uk Donald Trump was nice to the host of his last major international visit, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau – then slammed him as soon as he left. The
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Squeeze played an exclusive acoustic set at the Street Food Union in Rupert Street, Soho, to raise awareness and funds for the charity For Jimmy, set up after the tragic
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Columbian music group Piso 21, pictured, and Cuban singer-songwriter Descemer Bueno have been announced as the final acts for Hola! London on Saturday, July 21. They join Carlos Vives and
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Sofia Sosa del Valle works at a safari camp, called Serian, in the heart of Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve. Below she tells the story of saving a trapped baby elephant.
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Global Fusion Music & Arts are supporting African Music in Passey Place, Eltham, on Saturday as part of the Greenwich Music Festival programme. The day will run from 10am until
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I must tell you right away that I find it very difficult to consume the five portions of fruit which dietitians want us to eat daily. Pears and peaches are
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We are now in the last 100 days of the Painted Hall Ceiling tours at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. This once-in-a-lifetime chance to get within touching distance of
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BY DANNY THORPE Festivals in the borough are in full swing and, like hundreds of other residents, I have already enjoyed some spectacular crowd-pulling events. There is still a chance
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Brixton Prison is London’s oldest jail and celebrates its bi-centenary next year. Chris Impey is writing about its history from the time when it was the Surrey House of Correction,
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Tennis fanatics have travelled from across the country – and further afield – to South London and queued for days to get their hands on a Wimbledon ticket. The South
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London’s largest free cutting edge arts festival will take over Europe’s biggest development, a regenerated power station and the country’s largest meat and flower market tomorrow – for 10 hours
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Village Vinyl sees three resident DJs hit the decks on the second Friday of every month, celebrating the superior sound quality of vinyl in Village East’s Manhattan-inspired space in Bermondsey.
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Archie Fisher is one of Scotland’s foremost folk singer/songwriters and he is coming to Croydon on July 9. His gentle singing is complemented by his masterful playing of acoustic guitar.
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World Cup fever has taken over the summer, but have you been inspired to take up the sport? Powerchair football is for anyone who uses a powered wheelchair or has
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The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in May won the Time Out Love London Award – best LGBTQ venue. Since February it has won five industry awards for Best Cabaret Venue, Best
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A steel band who have toured all over Europe will be among the performers at one of London’s biggest creative festivals. Melodians Steel Orchestra last month performed three concerts organised
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July is a very eventful month with plenty to see in the night sky. The standout astronomical event of the month is the total lunar eclipse which occurs on July
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England fans are finally enjoying a World Cup, none more so than those who have squeezed themselves into venues across South London. Videos of wild celebrations in Brixton, Croydon and
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Silver-Screen Science Fiction: Tron (1982) (PG) Saturday July 7 – 6.30pm– 8.30pm Price: £10.30 adult; £9.30 student or senior; £8.20 child Members receive 10 per cent off all ticket prices.
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The Great North Wood is a new atmospheric, mythical history of South-East London’s long-lost ancient woodland stunningly brought to life by award-winning artist Tim Bird. Tracing the history of The
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My number two son, John, who has spent the past 20 years working on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, decided to retire and buy a house close to
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It is a celebration of music, art, craft and community, which attracts more than 25,000 visitors. At the 34th People’s Day in Catford’s Mountsfield Park, you can expect hundreds of
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Park-goers turned a dramatic colour in Bexley last week. But it was not because of the scorching sun burning sensitive British skin. Instead it was the Greenwich and Bexley Community
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A South London museum gallery which cost more than £3million to redevelop, opens to the public today. The 600sqm World Gallery at the Horniman museum opens exactly 117 years after
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Historic Ladywell Baths and the recollections of people who have passed through its doors over the past century will be commemorated in a new film Memories of Ladywell Baths, to
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Nile Rodgers & CHIC are the final headline act for this week’s Greenwich Music Time concert series, which returns to the world heritage listed Old Royal Naval College. Rodgers &
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BY CALUM FRASER calum@slpmedia.co.uk Theatre chiefs are looking for the next Broadway star to play the Genie in a blockbuster panto and it could be you. Pantomime is returning to
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Stephen Bourne tells the story of jazz singer Adelaide Hall – and the time she performed at Lewisham Hippodrome during an air raid In 1984 I was aware of the
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Plaza Latina, the largest Latin American festival in the UK run by Carnaval del Pueblo, will be part of this year’s Bermondsey Carnival in Southwark Park tomorrow. Carnaval del Pueblo
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