Community spirit shines through this year’s Christmas light displays
We sent local photographer Phil Verney to capture the best Christmas lights around the Roman Road area.
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Arts & artists
A window into life on the canal [photoessay]
I wanted to capture intimate scenes of people’s autumn evenings on the boats.
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Harry and the Chicks’ new single ‘Bow Church’ captures the beauty of Bow
‘I come from a typically working-class, East End family,’ she says. So when I was young, I remember going with my mum to the market on a Saturday. And I distinctly remember what a social atmosphere it was here. How people on the streets would talk to each other.’
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Iftikhar Latif on swapping his Oxford law degree for East End poetry slams
‘When I first started I was mainly writing about how sad I was. Now I’m also thinking there are also these other things going on, like how I’m British Bangladeshi and how I come from East London but went to a really posh university.’
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Album Review: E3 AF by Dizzee Rascal
Dizzee Rascal’s E3 AF (homage to his roots) is the follow up to Raskit, the hard hitting, banger filled album where Dizzee shows those who thought otherwise that he can still bar with the elite.
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New photo exhibition encourages people to discover their high street
‘There has been, rightfully, a lot of focus on supporting local businesses during the pandemic. And I realised that more people were discovering what’s in their local area over lockdown as well as they were exploring their neighbourhoods more now.’
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Piers Gough CBE: the Bow architect who designed Mile End’s Green Bridge
‘Even though you’re only about seven metres from the ground, you feel like you’re on top of the world. You can see Canary Wharf, you can see the park – there’s a great feeling of ownership of the East End. You think this is where I belong, this is my place’.
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New mural of Clara Grant pays tribute to Bow’s history of social pioneers
‘I picked the inside of the Mary le Bow church because the Bow Bells are the iconic association with this area. And when I started researching historical people that we could include, I wanted to find someone who helped alleviate poverty because that’s what so much of the local history of this area is about.’
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Local artist’s ‘anthotype’ prints are made using plants from local parks
Flipping through those pages, he shares a realisation he had recently. ‘Actually, these prints ended up being a strange lockdown diary of sorts. Because I can remember little things I did the day I made each print.’
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Through the window: Quarantacinque’s lockdown photo essay
If you’ve been down to Roman Road’s café Quarantacinque recently, you may have noticed a photography display stuck humbly to
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Art and architecture: Terence Williams Retrospective at Stour Gallery, Old Baths
When approaching 80 Eastway, you would be forgiven for mistaking the graphic 1930s Art Deco façade for a municipal building. Upon closer inspection of the brass plaque on the front, you will learn that in its former life, the listed building was indeed operated by the council, housing the Gainsborough Road Public Baths.
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First statue of black woman by black artist at Three Mills Green
The circular patch of Three Mills Green by the historic Clock Mill is the site of a public art installation that is historic in its own right. It is one of the first few sculptures of a black woman in the UK and the first such statue by a black artist.
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