Posts Tagged as ‘community’

June 6, 2008

Lift festival lands in Stratford

After my whinge about the lack of decent public art in Stratford, here comes a whole new festival of art, with a giant moving tent, no less! Lift comes from the same people that brought us the Sultan’s Elephant, apparently, and that was fabulous.
Festival events are running from the 12 June to the 6 July, [...]

April 21, 2008

The ‘Olympic gold rush’

“Urgent action must be taken to prevent the communities of east London being trampled in the Olympic gold rush,” according to Josh Ryan-Collins, co-author of a new report, as quoted in The Guardian (isn’t it a surpriseĀ  that I’m a Guardian reader! who’da thunk it? ;))
The report, Fools Gold, was published today by the New [...]

April 9, 2008

I heart the Newham Mag

Because otherwise how would I find out about things like this?

Soft-hearted easter biker angels? Woohoo!
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Newham, we get our free magazine, the Newham Mag, every fortnight and it never fails to provide something entirely random in its local news section. I love it, brazenly [...]