Bethlem Gallery’s Bethlem Live Lounge podcast, a series of six episodes
presented by The Artist Taxi Driver, also known as Mark MacGowan, gets underway next week, exploring the intersection of art, music and mental health.
MacGowan’s podcast guests include Professor Sally Marlow of King’s College London, dancer and choreographer Jules Cunningham, and artists and musicians from the Bethlem community.
Episodes will be released weekly throughout the exhibition, which runs at Bethlem Gallery from next Wednesday, May 8, until July 13.
Guests explore the vast subjects of mental health, art and music often from the perspective of their own experiences. Continue reading
Join Inside Croydon later this month for an exclusive guided tour around one of the oldest buildings in the borough, and discover more about the history and craftsmanship that went into making the stained glass windows in Croydon Minster.
At the 11th hour, and after some wavering in the final days before tomorrow’s London elections, the Evening Standard has said it supports Labour’s Sadiq Khan to be elected as Mayor of London for a third time.
With the London elections just days away, Labour has sent begging letters to members appealling for tens of thousands of pounds in last-minute cash donations, while in Croydon, the party has been left with thousands of leaflets on its hands, undelivered because a lack of activists and volunteers.
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Researching the history of Croydon’s part in the wars fought across Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries has taken DAVID MORGAN, right, in another, somewhat unexpected direction
With London elections, and a couple of Croydon by-elections (in Woodside and Park Hill and Whitgift wards) being held this Thursday, May 2, the council has (belatedly) issued its own guide to how you can take part in the democratic process – including how to get a vote even if you missed the ID application deadline.
But when they are visited by the security services, they are informed that their best friends and neighbours, the Canadian Krogers, may not be all they seem.
All Of Us Strangers is the acclaimed movie from director Andrew Haigh, which was named as the British Film of the Year – and with much of it filmed on location in Haigh’s boyhood hometown of Croydon.
The police have made its first arrests under the National Security Act, as part of a counter-terrorism investigation into Russian spies’ part in an arson attack on a warehouse in east London last month.
