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Liz West on the Spice Girls, Massive Attack and making art

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DANCE | Dancing City The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival returns to the Wharf for a weekend of dramatic movement. A highlight of the summer.

Sept 4-5, 1pm-5pm, free, festival.org Where?

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STAGE | The Ugly Duckling Let’s All Dance returns to Canary Wharf with a new 45-minute ballet to captivate the whole family.

Ideal for kids aged two-12 and their companions.

Aug 22, 2pm, free, canarywharf.com

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08 The summer concerts run from 7pm on Tuesdays at the heart of the Wharf Remember when we could all go and listen to live music in the open air?

Well, it’s happening again.

Canary Wharf Group has lined up a month of free Tuesday night performances starting with four singers performing as Epic Queen for rock extravaganza A Kind Of Magic on August 3. Then it’s classic soul grooves (Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner) on August 10 with Can’t Stop The Feeling, the sounds of the 1970s with Lost In Music on August 17 and dance classics with Candy Apple Blue on August 24. Capacity is limited, attendance costs nothing and will be first-come, first-served.

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Above, Candy Apple Blue and, below, Lost In Music on stage

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Aphra Shemza on plastic, art and the plight of the oceans

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’ve been roaming the local area in search of clothes for children. It is my daughter’s second birthday in August and the rate she’s growing at is pretty alarming. With summer here, she’s in need of some weather-appropriate lighter clothing that fits and, of course, that all important party dress.

My first stop is The White Company, which has a store at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Place. This season it’s offering a range of versatile dresses and layering pieces in soft block colours, stripes and pretty florals.

I love the Tassel-Detail Dress (£34), featuring blue and white nautical inspired stripes and the brand currently has a summer sale on with up to 60% off.

A little further afield, Fish Island-base Petit Pli promises “clothes that grow with your child”. Founded in 2017 by aeronautical engineer, Ryan Mario Yasin, the company invents and applies material technologies to produce outfits designed to remove the need to keep buying new clothes as a child grows with all the environmental and financial benefits that entails.

The Clothes That Grow Pullover (£79) comes in two sizes, newborn to 12 months, or nine months to four years, and is sold as water-repellent and super durable due to the Pullover (patent pending) Ripstop fabPetit Pli, £79 ric used in their manufacture.

The cost can be lower if you buy multiple items too.

Sadie Lane’s Boutique is a Greenwich-based retailer that’s still trading online despite the closure of its physical store. It stocks several beautiful brands including Rosalita, Mayoral, Oilily, and Phi Clothing and is worth checking out given its 50% off summer sale.

For that party dress though, I had to pay a visit to Monsoon in Canada Water. Sequins, embroidery and bright floral prints abound in the store and the new season autumn/winter collection has dropped, with beautiful fur trimmed coats and sparkly knitwear.

Again, it’s the perfect time to bargain hunt as they have an up to 50% off summer styles sale. I’m a sucker for lemon prints (they remind me of Italian summer holidays), so I love the brand’s Baby Lemon Print Dress (on sale at £12-£13).

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Plays will be performed in rotation at The Greenhouse Theatre in Jubilee Park

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by Martin Gettings

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t’s a beautiful day on the Wharf as I write this column – the sun is out, and it looks like summer has finally arrived. With the last of the restrictions easing this week, we’re so excited to take full advantage of the weather with a range of outdoor activities.

One of the events we’re most excited about this summer is The Greenhouse Theatre. Opening on July 23, the venue will be hosting a range of plays and performances in its award-winning zero waste space, which has been built in Jubilee Park.

Every aspect of The Greenhouse Theatre has been designed with the planet in mind – from the costumes to the performances, to the theatre itself, which is made from entirely recycled and found materials.

Visitors to the theatre can expect vibrant, engaging performances that will encourage them to think more deeply about their relationships to the environment and their role in combating the climate crisis.

A reimagining of Shakespeare’s As You Like It focuses on a young girl’s connection with the natural world.

Hjem, a visual tale of two singers, focuses on a pair of friends who connect through their mutual love of nature.

And we’re very excited to host the debut of 12, a romance that takes place over the remaining 12 years we have to combat the worst of the climate crisis.

You can find the full range of performances and schedules on our website at canarywharf.com.

We are also continuing our Summer Lights exhibition at Canary Wharf, following on from our extremely popular Winter Lights event that normally takes place in January.

The exhibition features 11 exciting new art pieces designed to dazzle in the natural light, giving visitors an opportunity to walk through our parks and green spaces in the sunshine and take in the art. Summer Lights is free to attend and will be on until August 12.

We’re so excited to welcome you back to the estate this summer.

Whether you’re attending a perfor-

play Under construction: Volunteers build The Greenhouse Theatre in Canary Wharf. The venue is entirely made from recycled and found materials

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mance at The Greenhouse Theatre, taking in some of our Summer Lights pieces, or just sitting for a quiet moment of reflection in our award-winning Crossrail Place Roof Garden, we hope you’ll be able to take some time outdoors and reconnect with nature.

If you want to find out more about any of our events or want to get in touch with us about our sustainability journey, please email us at sustainability@canarywharf.com

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Every aspect of The Greenhouse Theatre has been designed with the planet in mind – from the costumes to the performances Martin Gettings, Canary Wharf Group

Find out more about The Greenhouse Theatre from co-founder Oli Savage in our recent interview

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how Liz West’s Hymn To The Big Wheel taps into the sounds of Cabot Square by coincidence as she continues her quest to brighten up the world for Canary Wharf’s Summer Lights Liz, seen with another of her works – Hundreds And Thousands at The Tide on Greenwich Peninsula, says all her pieces are to some extent self portraits

by Jon Massey

Round And Round Martin Richman, Jubilee Park Circles turn in the sunshine and the wind to create moving shapes that illuminate everything around them

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Circle Of Light: Spectrum ToyStudio, Cabot Square Find the hues of the spectrum mapped out in the Sun’s path throwing coloured shadows as time passes

Out Of The Cocoon Amberlights, Wood Wharf Giant butterfly wings symbolising new life emerging from the dark are caught in the blistering rays of the Sun

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ou’d struggle to find a more appropriately placed artwork in London than Liz West’s Hymn To The Big Wheel. Installed in Canary Wharf as part of its Summer Lights festival, featuring 11 works placed across the estate until August 21, the walk-in structure at Wren Landing is composed of vertical, deeply coloured panels for visitors to interact with.

While the work is visual in nature, it’s sound that links it by coincidence to Cabot Square, just south of its location – where restaurant and live music venue Boisdale Of Canary Wharf has played host to both pop sensation Mel C and, more regularly, reggae powerhouse Horace Andy.

“If you Google me you’ll find out I’m the Guinness World Record holder for the biggest collection of Spice Girls memorabilia in existence,” said Liz. “I hired out my collection to museums when I graduated and that’s how I managed to become an artist full-time, so every piece of my work owes something to that.

“There’s also the idea of every piece being a self portrait, that the colours are borrowed from my obsession with music videos in the 1990s, that garish, Britpop palette.

“I’d always liked strong female artists and, in 1996, I was 11 – the target age. I remember watching Top Of The Pops one day – they came on and I was like: ‘These are for me’. I heard the first few lines of Wannabe and I thought, this is exactly representing me – they were all individuals, loud, girls-next-door and not necessarily wealthy.

“To a girl from Barnsley who wanted to strive for more, when seeing that I felt that if I worked hard enough and was passionate enough, I could achieve what I wanted to.”

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There’s also the idea of every piece being a self portrait, that the colours are borrowed from my obsession with music videos in the 1990s Liz West, Artist

Before cueing up a Spotify playlist packed with Spice Girls hits for your visit to Summer Lights, Liz’s contribution actually takes inspiration from another 1990s source.

“I love music and dancing, and I grew up with music around me,” she said. “I always try to find a bit of a double meaning to give more substance to my titles, so this one is a reference to Massive Attack’s Hymn Of The Big Wheel from Blue Lines, and if you listen to the lyrics in that song, it talks about the Earth spinning on its axis and how we all go by, day by day.

“I thought that was a wonderful sentiment, because this is a piece of work aiming to be a sundial, and

Liz recommends listening to Massive Attack’s Hymn Of The Big Wheel while viewing her work at Wren Landing in Canary Wharf Scan this code to play on YouTube

Summer Cloud: We Dream Of You Tine Bech Studio, Cabot Square Discover this shape-shifting work that reflects and distorts evoking childlike wonder in those who stop to look

that’s caused by the Earth revolving, and the ‘Big Wheel’ being the planetary system, with our planet going round its star – ‘hymn’ shows this work is also an homage to the Sun. “I would love people to walk into the work with the sound of Massive Attack playing – they might start dancing and become performers within it as they move around it.”

And that’s especially appropriate for its location as fellow trip-hop nerds will know the lead voice on that track is Horace Andy, whose quavering, high-pitched tones, as mentioned, have regularly blasted out from Boisdale’s stage, prompting audience members to get to their feet, just a few hundred metres away.

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s for the work itself, Hymn To The Big Wheel has been a long time coming – an opportunity for Liz to revisit an idea originally conceived for a completely different place.

“It’s two concentric octagons – a piece I’ve had in the back of my head for a long, long time,” she said.

“When I was first invited to submit a proposal for Spinningfields, Allied London’s property in Manchester in 2015, I had this drawing for an octagon pavilion which had coloured clear walls, just transparent block colours, not stripy in the way that it is now. That drawing was proposed and developed into something that was affordable at the time. It was my first piece of outdoor, public art, and, working with fabricators for the first time in my life, it was a big milestone for me in terms of my practice.

“The piece ended up going from being an octagon, to a tunnel to a prism structure, and that was due mainly to structural issues, like snow-loading and wind-loading in a Manchester winter.

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Installations to track down across the Canary Wharf estate for its Summer Lights festival know what I was going to do so went through all my drawings and stumbled across one I’d made six years ago.

“I asked myself how I could bring that up to date and I was listening to that Massive Attack track at the time and it all kind of slotted into place in a really nice way.

“Then it was about placing one colour overlapping another to get visible colour mixing happening in front of people’s eyes.

“All my work is about the theory of how light behaves – in this case a sundial – and how colour behaves.

“I get lots of samples of the exact material, and I layer them over each other in a very methodical way – starting with the reds and putting every single colour over them, then the oranges and so on.

“At the back of my head is the thought that there are a number of panels in the installation, so I need that number of colour mixes. Then it becomes a matter of detraction – taking away colours that I don’t feel are working together. There’s an element of instinct within that as well.

“This world is full of grey granite, silver metal and re ective glass – that’s how most buildings are being made. I guess I have Seasonal Affective isorder, that’s important to say, and randomly – choosing to live in grey, northern cities and towns – Barnsley, where I grew up, Manchester, where I live now and Glasgow, where I studied – my antidote to living in these wet, grey, northern cities is to self-remedy by creating these really vivid works.

“The feeling I want people to have when they encounter my work is meditative, for it to be about them. I don’t want to describe to people how they should feel. Everyone speaks the language of colour, no matter what your race, sex, age or background – it’s universal.”

Visitors to Hymn To The Big Wheel are encouraged to enter the octagonal artwork and explore

Canary Wharf Meet artist Aphra Shemza as she takes us through Ocean Rise 2021 - P8

Shine Your Colours Tine Bech Studio, Riverside This multifaceted work allows visitors to see themselves and the world around them through six panels

Kaleidoscopic Prisms Fiona Grady, Jubilee Place Vinyl panels dance across the glass surfaces of the Jubilee Place atrium as a reference to the rainbow Pride flag

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Kilpi ToyStudio, Wood Wharf Inspired by the huts of the Nordic Sami people, this shelter’s perforations are also a nod to celestial maps

Hidden Garden Hugh Turvey, Crossrail Place Roof Garden See flowers rendered as x-ray images covering a range of themes including sustainability and habitat

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by Kirsty Tufrey

how artist Aphra Shemza has used plastic, wood and natural light to highlight the plight of the world’s oceans, complete with a seaside soundtrack created with her partner Mowgli

by Jon Massey

Kirsty says the actual cost of processing an application is £372 in contrast to a fee of £1,012 British Citizenship fees for children have been declared unlawful

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hildren entitled to British citizenship who do not automatically acquire it at birth can apply for registration as a British Citizen. It requires a formal application with a fee of £1,012.

Some may argue British Citizenship is a valuable status and comes at a price. However, the fee seems substantial given the actual cost of processing an application is £372.

And, unlike certain applications for leave to remain in the UK, there is no option to apply for a fee waiver. Nor are there are exemptions or reductions. Consequently, those unable to afford the fee are forced to go without.

After years of campaigning against the unlawfulness of these costs, action was brought by the Project for the Registration of Children As British Citizens.

We would hope that, at In December 2019, the High Court ruled the very least, the fee is that the fee was reduced or a fee waiver unlawful.

The case resulted in a scheme is introduced declaratory judgment, for children registering requiring the Secretary Of State to reconsider as British Citizens how the fees for child Kirsty Tufrey, Kidd Rapinet applications had been set. The Government appealed this decision but failed to have it overturned. Instead, on February 18, the Court Of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision.

While this result is very welcome, recognising that a child’s access to citizenship should not be determined by wealth, it’s still yet to be known how the Government will react.

It has been said that child registration fees will be reviewed “in due course” but the exact timeframe is unknown.

We would hope that, at the very least, the fee is reduced or a fee waiver scheme is introduced, for those currently prevented from applying because they cannot afford to.

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n 2018 I was given a grant by the Arts Council England to think more sustainably about the work and the materials I use to create my work,” said artist Aphra Shemza, whose creation Ocean Rise is on show in the Riverside area of Canary Wharf as part of Summer Lights.

“At that time I looked at different materials – plastic and wood predominantly – and I learnt new skills for working with more sustainable materials. So that meant I recycled my own plastic waste into sheet materials to use to make artworks.

“I also learnt how to work with hardwood, which I hadn’t worked with before – planing and finishing reclaimed timber and using it to create new pieces.”

Aphra is best known for her work with electric light installations, including her contribution to Winter Lights 2017 on the estate. But it was this more recent journey of discovery that equipped her with the tools she needed when Canary Wharf Group came calling with a commission to harness the power of natural light.

“This piece really comes from that exploration of how to create sustainably, but also from thinking more about the climate and ecological crisis we’re facing,” said Aphra.

“This piece is called Ocean Rise and it’s meant to highlight the rise in sea levels due to global warming.

“We’re using sustainable materials including recycled plastic made by the Good Plastic Company, which recycles waste and creates those beautiful sheet materials that interact really beautifully with the light behind them. Unfortunately this time I couldn’t make the plastic as I needed too much.

“This is the first time I’ve worked with natural light and it’s the first in

Ocean Rise really comes from that exploration of how to create sustainably, but also from thinking more about the climate and ecological crisis Aphra Shemza, Artist

what I hope will be a whole series of works under this name. I still wanted to retain a little bit of mixed reality and technology in the artwork so it actually has a QR code next to the piece. People can scan with their phones and it will play a soundscape created by my partner and me.

“He is an artist called Mowgli and we’ve recently moved out of London, and we’re now in Broadstairs in Kent. Just before Christmas we found it really tough in the lockdown, as many, many people did, so we took the leap to relocate.

“That has inspired me to do work more about the ocean, because I’m 100m from the sea and we’ve been field recording sounds from the waves we can hear on the beach here for the piece. We wanted to bring the seaside to the city. The idea is to offer a moment of calm so, while people are rushing around, they can just take a moment to plug in, look at the sculpture and maybe contemplate their role in the climate crisis, or meditate on nature and get out of that city vibe.”

Also informing the work, which features translucent, turquoise panels ecked with bits of opaque plastic, is the impact our waste is having on marine environments.

Aphra said: “There are huge issues with microplastics and pollution. We found out recently from an article

Aphra’s work Ocean Rise can be seen at Riverside until August 21 as part of Canary Wharf’s Summer Lights festival

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about the UK’s recycling ending up in Turkey and getting burned. So even when you think you’re doing a good job, sometimes things end up in the wrong place.

“As well as showing the di culties and the darker side of the climate crisis, the work also offers a solution in the sense that, in my practice, I’m using sustainable materials.

“That plastic is not in the ocean, it’s been made into this artwork, and hopefully it will find a permanent home. It’s also made so that it can come apart and I can make smaller works from it, if I can’t find a home for it. It’s about design solutions as well, so we can learn to work with materials in a more sustainable way.”

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phra, who is set to travel to Norway in as sustainable a way as possible to install an artwork at a new swimming pool later in the year, grew up with art all around her thanks to her grandparents.

“They were both artists,” she said.

“My grandfather was quite a famous painter called Anwar Shemza. He was Pakistani and moved to London in the 1950s – I manage his estate on the side. Becoming an artist was an acceptable thing to do in my family and I followed a very traditional fine art route, graduating from Middlesex University about 10 years ago.

“I’m very lucky to be a professional artist, making my work for clients, commissions public and private and doing community-based projects with the Arts Council, some to do with being more sustainable as an artist, and others are to do with my grandfather’s practice – there’s a whole cultural heritage project called Shemza Digital.

“I’ve loved the educational side of things that comes with talking about sustainability and I was doing a lot of plastic recycling workshops and things like that before the pandemic hit. In November I’ll be doing an event called Radical Ecology for National Gallery X, which opened a couple of years ago, to investigate how technology might be used to create the museum of the future, called Radical Ecology.

“That will be centred around these themes with other artists speaking about their work and thinking about how we can be sustainable.”

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Whirl Helena Doyle x Tom Cherry and Temple, Cubitt Steps This artwork transforms the wind into a dance of colour and light with visitors invited to sit beneath it, soak up the show overhead and imagine a future powered by renewable energy

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Businesses featured in Feeding Black at Museum Of London Docklands

how creating Feeding Black at the Museum Of London Docklands is as vital as what goes on the gallery wall

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alk over the oating green bridge from Canary Wharf to West India uay, turn left and, just behind a now vacant pedestal, you’ll find the Museum Of London ocklands. Head up to its London Sugar And Slavery gallery and, provided you visit before uly 1 next year, you’ll find a bright orange corner dedicated to Feeding Black.

The display, which opened to the public this month, examines the role played by food in black entrepreneurship and identity in south-east London. ocusing on four businesses – Livity lant Based Cuisine in Croydon, eret itchen in Camberwell and two unior’s Caribbean Stall and African Cash And Carry both in Woolwich – it explores how they act as much more than suppliers of goods and services to their customers, acting as spaces to talk and express politics, culture and heritage.

Community history curator Aleema Gray said: “One of the things I’m really interested in is looking at alternative knowledge – what it means to represent in terms of curatorial displays, and that was the motivation behind this exhibition.

“It’s about alternative ways of knowing. or instance, we’ve recently had an upswell of looking at black British history. But, when you go into the community, there’s oral history, the things that are left outside academic textbooks.

Curators are typically seen as people who conserve this kind of academic knowledge.

“What’s interesting about this project is looking at the ways alternative knowledge can be used to make certain interventions in the role of curator – it sounds wishy-washy, but it is essentially asking how we can include multiple different perspectives and narrative experiences in our displays I put a call out, basically asking: ‘What are contemporary black experiences ’. Some people said, ‘my kitchen’ or ‘the barber shop’ and one person put forward an idea she had, which she referred to as the ‘black economy’.

“She’d been looking at blackowned food businesses as part of her research, focussed on African Cash And Carry – interviewing people that came in – and discovered these spaces were about more than just commercial gain. They

were for politics, culture, sending money back home and buying food. There was even a little restaurant – a multi-dimensional space.

“I wanted to explore that a little bit further, so I took that and thought about what the next step was for this kind of research and put forward a proposal for Feeding Black – which takes the element of looking at not only community spaces, but also interrogating power, because a lot of the conversations when we did the initial oral histories were talking about what it means to be in London today, to survive and thrive, to start a business, the challenges, the setbacks, but also stories about being part of a diaspora.

“Apart from one, all the people featured in the displays were born outside London – one in Ethiopia, one in amaica, one in the Congo, one in the Cameroons, so a lot of this is entangled with questions of migration and so on.

“That’s how the initial idea came about, but the area I work in, Curating London is very much a participatory project – we place a particular emphasis on being on the ground – visible outside the museum – and asking what a museum wall is.

“We had to re-jig things a bit because of the restrictions around the pandemic, but essentially the main exhibition deals with four black-owned food businesses, their oral histories and the objects that they put forward re ecting their place. It also looks at different themes of food including health, the different objects you find in kitchens as a place of work but also the nutritional value of ingredients and dishes and we’ve got a recipe wall as well.”

In her role, Aleema has a particular responsibility for the London Sugar And Slavery Gallery in which the exhibition sits.

She said: “Since the gallery opened it has been shelved a little bit, so my responsibility is to try to

I put a call out, basically asking: ‘What are contemporary black experiences?’ Some people said ‘my kitchen’ or ‘the barber’ Aleema Gray, Museum Of London

Part of Museum Of London Docklands’ Feeding Black display with commissioned photography by Jonas Martinez

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One of the businesses featured in the exhibition

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re-mobilise certain conversations, make some interventions to think about how we develop, and take that gallery a little bit further.

“Feeding Black sits in the wider gallery, because I wanted to do something in response to the ways in which Docklands has been developed as a direct result of the plantation economy.

“For me, food acted as a perfect segue to think about London, Sugar And Slavery, not only in terms of the content of the exhibition, but also the visual design.

“This exhibition is very much about the process as well as the content as is the wider gallery.

“Feeding Black was about using that space as a vehicle for community engagement.

“It’s also not necessarily a chronological history – it draws on certain themes and it puts forward not necessarily answers, but asks questions about the legacy of this history and how we are all implicated in it. Feeding Black tries to speak to that.

“In the crates under the wall display, for example, you have certain questions, such as: ‘Where does our food come from?’

“It’s very subtle, but it helps people to think about the legacies of migration, enforced or otherwise.”

Aleema, who is currently finishing a h on the documentation of a community engaged in the Rastafarian movement in Britain, said it was weird to talk about herself as a curator.

She said: “I didn’t go to museums as a young person because I didn’t see myself or my history re ected in these spaces but something I’m really passionate about is curating history from below – the silent histories, the hidden archives – I’m a historian.

“There’s this idea of what history is in schools – the Romans and the Tudors, for example. I feel there’s a need to show that history is dynamic, it’s a verb, and that started my work to see how we can bridge this gap. This is what I’m doing as a curator and an academic – situating myself as the outsider within.

“The Museum Of London and museums in general are making a strong effort. There’s a lot more work to do but we’re definitely on the right path.”

The museum is free to visit and is currently open from 10am-5pm Wednesday to Sunday.

Go to musuemoflondon.org.uk for more information or scan the code below for more about Feeding Black

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Months the Feeding Black display will be up at the London, Sugar And Slavery gallery

Aleema Gray works as community history curator at the Museum Of London with a particular responsibility for the London Sugar And Slavery gallery in Docklands

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Emilia’s Crafted Pasta Wood Wharf While there’s no opening date yet, Wharfers can look forward to a branch of this micro chain, born in St Katherine Docks and growing steadily emiliaspasta.com

with unlocking complete and Canary Wharf packed with openings, both recent and forthcoming, there are plenty of new places to sample over the summer months and beyond. Here are a few ideas to start with super food

Cojean, Cabot Place - Yogi Ready Salad, £5.75 (£6.90 eat-in)

Cojean is a bright, welcoming space German Doner Kebab Cabot Place Set to arrive in early August atop the escalators in Cabot Place, this chain will prepare kebabs freshly in front of its customers germandonerkebab.com

Yole Canada Place Did someone say frozen yoghurt and ice cream?

This brand is all set for a July 23 opening just in time to cool Wharfers down with its icy delights yole.com

Gallic chain Cojean recently arrived in Canary Wharf promising a range of juices and nutritionally potent hot and cold dishes from its Cabot Place base to eat-in or takeaway.

Bright and welcoming, with plenty of chrome and stick-on greenery, it’s menu reads like a who’s who of superfood from the last decade with plenty of acai berries, chia seed and quinoa. It also sells things like lasagna, toasties and pastries (this is a French brand, after all), but there’s a healthful undercurrent to the whole place – an

unspoken certainty that you can be smug after eating.

Take the Yogi Ready Salad, for example. Forget the self-aggrandising name, this is a bowl packed with organic chickpeas and pine nuts in something called an “Organic Hemp Yogi Sauce” and it tastes great. The 316-calorie portion isn’t large, however, and those in need of a feed should head for Leon instead.

Go to cojean.co.uk Jon Massey

getting outdoors

Plateau, Canada Square - Wild Summer Terrace, The Botanist Gin Cocktails, £12.50

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ine, it’s hard to argue that Plateau really deserves a place on this page dedicated to new things. That said, the well-established venue that sits high over Canada Square has brought something fresh to the table.

Partnering up with The Botanist Gin, its decked one of its two terrace spaces out with planters and vegetation for its Wild Summer Terrace – set to operate throughout the warm season.

Now the sun has finally broken through the clouds, prompting fresh demand for outdoor drinking and dining, it’s a prime spot if you fancy lauding it vertically over those gracing The Ivy In The Park two storeys below.

Chief among the space’s attractions is a specially created menu of five cocktails each using the sponsoring spirit as their base.

The Botanist Spritz is a lean, sharp drink that tastes like a Mojito in training for a big fight. Its flavours are clean, mean

Scan this code to find out more about Plateau or to book a space on its Wild Summer Terrace and bold with just enough sweetness to make it palatable.

In contrast the Rocking Tree is all unashamed sweetness – so much so it comes in a glass frosted with sugar, making for a sticky situation. Suck the stuff up through a sustainable straw, however, and it rewards with a knockout blow of big, pungent flavour as the Amaretto and fruit gang up on the tastebuds to the exclusion of all else.

A pleasant, breezy place to hang out, the full-cloth tables of the terrace deliver a little refinement, complementing the slick cooking on offer. Roast pollack with jersey royals and baby gem lettuce is an unexpectedly hearty support act to the drinks, albeit a pricey one at £24. Better value is the set menu at £27 for two courses.

Go to plateau-restaurant.co.uk

THE COCKTAIL LIST Plateau has partnered with The Botanist Gin for these drinks The Botanist Spritz The Botanist Gin, elderflower cordial, Prosecco, peach liqueur, lemon juice, fresh mint Rocking Tree The Botanist Gin, Amaretto, pineapple juice, passionfruit puree, lemon juice The Forager The Botanist Gin, tonic water, elderflower, lime juice, cucumber and fresh mint Into the Wild The Botanist Gin, Pisco ABA, basil syrup, pineapple juice and lemon juice Earth, Wind & Fire The Botanist Gin, Grand Marnier, coconut syrup, apple juice and fresh chilli (£12.50 each)

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£12.50

Cost of the Bearnaise Burger at Pergola On The Wharf - add bacon for an extra £1.50

Top notch: Food and drink at Pergola On The Wharf is packed with flavour

why Pergola is both remembrance of things past and something new

by Jon Massey

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ollowing the demise of Giant Robot as the Street Feast organisation fell foul to the economic ravages of the pandemic, Incipio Group swept in to take over its vast space at the eastern end of Crossrail Place Roof Garden.

Opened to much hype and anticipation in June, Pergola On The Wharf – a sister venue to the enormous and leafy Pergola Paddington, promised a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere, plenty of foliage and a food and drink menu inspired by wide-ranging platitude “land, sea and earth”.

First impressions count and the entrance to Pergola is unashamedly and near-totally planted up. But walk inside and the space, while decorated with some flora isn’t exactly the riot of botanical specimens it might be.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the

speed of the build and opening, the interior structure owes a lot to Giant Robot – the bars are in the same place, but the food stalls have been converted into an open kitchen.

Tall barrels have replaced the beaten up oil drums too and the whole thing feels more coherent aesthetically, with black-stained timber, exposed filaments and soft glowing LED strips the order of the day. Long wooden tables at different heights break up the space, as staff flit between groups more or less efficiently.

Where Pergola really stands out is the quality of its flavours. Its menu is filled with exactly the kin d of options you’d expect – padron peppers, crispy squid, a burger, a steak, a fish curry and charred cauliflower and chopped salad for the vegans.

Nothing much feels like an outlier until plates start arriving at the table.

Then, the hot, exquisite little peppers in their creamy Caesar dip shine. Bite While the entrance is a triumph of planting, Pergola’s interior could have a little more greenery to mute its industrial ceiling

into one and it’s impossible to stop until the little bowl is cleared. Sharp, hot and beguiling. Similarly, the squid vanishes in a matter of minutes.

Next up, the burger hasn’t heard that improbable vertical stacks are as unfashionable as flares, and towers over its branded paper backdrop – a not-so-sneaky Instagram photobomb.

Despite the difficulty of fitting it between what I modestly consider my normally spaced jaws, it’s a riot, packed with enough well-cooked meat, cheese, pickles and relishes for my brain to have to call ahead to my digestive system and order up extra staff to deal with it.

Equally impressive, on the drinks side, is a cocktail list filled with the unexpected, including a Breakfast Bourbon made with bacon fat.

Most enjoyable is the Orchard Sangria, a bouncy and potent blend of Tinpot Hut Sauvignon Blanc and Creme De Poire that comes with plentiful slices of fruit to refresh the senses.

A word of warning though. All of this comes at a cost. A burger plus the (admittedly excellent) East India Fries, weighs in at a hefty £18. My companion’s Masala South Coast Monkfish curry costs £17 on its own. For a no-frills vibe, that could be considered a deal-breaker. But then those padron peppers are a bit special even at £5.50.

Scan this code to find out more about Pergola On The Wharf at Crossrail Place

Farmer J Jubilee Place Again, there’s no firm date, but this field tray favourite is set to get a second branch over the other side of the estae – it’s ideal for lunches farmerj.com

Kaleido One Canada Square Salads, but in rolls – this establishment has just opened its doors offering tons of healthy chopped produce in rice paper for ease of consumption kaleidorolls.com

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£43

The cost of the food for Roka’s Han Setto Brunch – £59 for alcohol throughout the meal and a Bellini on arrival

The sashimi may not look like a big portion, but diners can order as many free refills as they like

bottomless the true joy of

how the Han Setto Brunch at Roka is pitch perfect, delivered with skill and accuracy

by Jon Massey

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nquestionably, Roka offers the best bottomless deal on the Wharf. The ark avillion restaurant – all soothing wood and Japanese refinement – offers its Han Setto Brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 11. 0am.

Costing per person for the food alone, it seems expensive, but the quality of the cooking and unexpected generosity has to be experienced to be believed. orget the booze, this is all about what’s on the plate with no fewer than 10 small dishes arriving as a starter.

These include sushi, sashimi, salads, fried chicken and prawn dumplings.

The best bit is that as soon as you’ve polished them off, as many refills as you like can be requested in the run-up to the serving of the main course.

Salmon fillet teriyaki with sansho salt and plentiful fruit to finish things off Each on its own would be an acceptable way to start a meal. The kitchen is packed with skilled individuals who must, over the course of a weekend, perfectly reproduce hundreds of iterations of each dish.

It’s a feat that deserves no small measure of recognition for the exacting consistency of delivery and the explosion of taste in the mouth.

There’s a great temptation to simply continue ordering the fried chicken until fatigue and unconsciousness

inevitably descend. That’s not to say, of course that the main courses aren’t equally excellent.

Wisely the venue errs on the side of small, perfectly cooked options – especially good is the salmon teriyaki –

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because quantity has already been dealt with in the first round.

Then it’s on to a massive bottomless bowl of fruit and desserts to round matters off. or 59 diners can choose an alcohol package with drinks delivered throughout the meal plus a Bellini on arrival, which may suit some.

But the smart move here is to order by the glass and focus on the delicious small plates – a move that both offers the best value and makes you feel less guilty when arriving at 11. 0am and opting for a virgin rather than a bloody mary.

Roka has been around for a few years now, but it remains the most consistent, high-end dining experience in Canary Wharf, offering the perfect blend of refined cookery and expert service.

Its staff, even through masks, manage miracles without seeming overbearing or ever-present. Book it now.

Go to rokarestaurant.com

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Years since Tim Berners-Lee proposed a hypertext system – starting the modern internet Chris says monitoring tech only gets you so far when looking after a baby

technology beyond the

virtual viewpoint

by Chris Ezekiel

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y wife Kristina and I recently had a beautiful baby boy. Being a lifelong Islander, it was great to experience the Royal London Hospital for a positive reason for a change. The midwives, doctors, nurses, and support staff both there and at the Barkantine Birth Centre are truly amazing and I pay tribute to them all in this column.

A baby’s first gadget, which is sadly a sign of the times, is an electronic tag, which is immediately fitted to their ankle and alerts security if that baby leaves the ward.

With such a tiny bundle of joy, one can’t help being concerned over every burp and frown. I’ve lost count how many times we’ve consulted Doctor Google – which, as we all know, can be reassuring and worrying in equal measure.

A friend bought us an amazing baby monitor. It streams real-time video to smartphones, lets you talk to your baby, sends baby movement alerts and even allows you to remotely play your baby’s favourite lullaby.

But it relies on good connectivity, so you need to be careful. New babies can make some funny noises, as they breathe through their nose

Chris and Kristina’s son was born at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel

for the first six months and on one restless night I found myself using my Apple Watch to measure his blood oxygen level. I’m sure baby monitor wearables will be a big market.

The crossover point of medicine, science and technology is truly where miracles happen – saving countless lives during pregnancy and birth.

Once at home, the baby’s instincts and parents’ intuition, together with advice from family, friends and the community midwives and health visitors are what matter most.

Tech has come a long way since I was born, but it still needs to be balanced by human experience.

Chris Ezekiel is founder and CEO of customer engagement solutions specialist Creative Virtual based at West India Quay’s Cannon Workshops Follow @creativevirtual and @chrisezekiel on Twitter Scan this code for more information about Creative Virtual

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Minutes the performance of Opera Della Luna’s curtain raisers will last at Wilton’s Music Hall

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The Grapes Limehouse

TRIVIA | Pub Quiz The much-loved contest returns to this ancient boozer with a £50 top prize for the winning team and a bottle of house wine for the second to last.

Mondays, 8pm, £1.50pp, thegrapes.co.uk Where?

Troxy Limehouse

The auditorium at Wilton’s Music Hall is ready and waiting to welcome Curtain Raisers

deception the sweet sound of

see a pair of con-based operettas by Arthur Sullivan and Jacques Offenbach at Wilton’s Music Hall in Wapping

by Jon Massey

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ilton’s Music Hall is set to serve up a double helping of operettas for those who prefer their comic musical treats short and sweet. Running from August 31 until September 4, Opera Della Luna’s Curtain Raisers will take over the stage at the Wapping venue, presenting works by Arthur Sullivan and acques Offenbach.

Predating his partnership with WS Gilbert, which produced 14 works including The Pirates Of Penzance and The Mikado, Cox And Box was the composer’s first stage success.

A farcical account of an unscrupulous landlord – Sergeant

Bouncer – who secretly rents out the same room to two tenants, it follows Cox, who works by day, and Box, who works by night.

The deception is successful until Cox is given a day off and the two meet, much to the horror of the property’s owner.

While short, the operetta went on to be a huge hit for Sullivan and librettist FC Burnand, running for 264 performances from its professional debut in 1869.

Also dipping into the murky world of deceptive criminality, Offenbach’s Les Deux Aveugles tells the story of two separate con artists who are both pretending to be blind beggars and what happens when they arrive at the same patch on a Parisian bridge one day.

A brisk 25 minutes, the piece was similarly popular and made its

composer enough cash to build his first theatre, the Bouffes arisiens.

The two operettas are performed in one sitting of 90 minutes. Tickets are currently being sold for a socially distanced performance.

Should this change to full capacity, ticketholders will be informed and entitled to a refund should they prefer not to attend.

Evening performances generally start at 7.30pm with 2.30pm matinees on Thursday and Saturday.

The Tuesday shows will start at 5pm and 7.45pm. Tickets range in price from £22 to £30.

Go to wiltons.org.uk

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GIG | Fleetmac Wood: Wild Heart Disco Celebrate the extensive back catalogue of one of the world’s biggest bands with fresh mixes, outfits and theatre as this dance-based event arrives.

Sept 10, 9pm-2am, £26.50, troxy.co.uk Where?

Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

FILM | Nosferatu See FW Murnau’s 1922 black and white classic with atmosphere added by the thrill of a live performance by pianist Sam Watts in accompaniment.

Aug 10-11, 7.30pm, £11.50, witons.org.uk

ride out

Check out the Electro Ride and other bikes on sale at Stirling Eco in Wapping – a company that combines sustainable travel with art in a bid to solve commuting issues for Londoners who need to get around town stirlingeco.com Scan this code to visit the company’s website and find out more about its range of electric vehicles want more? @wharflifelive

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by Jon Massey

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y grandparents were exceptionally good storytellers,” said Nithya Sridharan. “I grew up in a joint house in Bangalore, where they lived with me and my parents. Every night me and my sister would be packed off to them for a while and they would tell us stories.

“My grandmother was a mathematician and they would weave complex topics such as algebra and geometry into the stories, which were often about the village where they grew up. As city-bred girls, me and my sister were completely enchanted by them.”

The Isle Of ogs-based writer recently published her first book – The Magic Box – a story that similarly seeks to educate as well as entertain, although drawing on ithya’s wealth of experience working in the financial services industry in Canary Wharf, rather than maths.

“The story, which is aimed at children aged seven to 11, came from starting to think about how I could weave some key financial concepts into a fun, magical tale, which is also south Asian, because I wanted to bring that avour into books,” she said.

“A lot of it comes from living and learning in that part of the world. The story is set in a tropical town called Lokpuram and it follows three children who are trying to solve a problem that involves money. There’s a magical character in the mix as well.

“Within the story there are a lot of concepts that are blended together, which makes it easier for kids intuitively to understand key financial ideas, such as how a bank works, what one is and how it has money.

“There’s one part of the book which I personally enjoyed writing, that is about central reserve banking. I don’t use the words, but the concept is there and it’s woven into the story.

“We start with the idea of a bank and how borrowers and lenders can come to such an institution – a place that connects them – and shows how the basic business of banking works.

“I also talk about interest rates as a fee, which you pay on top of what you borrow. If you think about the origins of banking, the idea has been around a long time, but not in the forms we see today.

“The word ‘bank’ comes from the word ‘panca’ in Italian, which means ‘bench’.

It started with people sitting down and trying to put borrowers and lenders together.

“They used to have IOU notes, which later evolved into the money and currency that we know today.

“So these concepts have been around a long time and people intuitively understand them, even if they haven’t heard of the terms before.”

Writing under the name ecuniArt – a portmanteau of the Latin word for money and art – ithya was driven to write her book to help boost people’s knowledge of the financial world.

“I wrote the book because financial literacy is key to the world we live

Years since Nithya, who works for an investment bank in Canary Wharf, moved to the Isle Of Dogs

CONCEPTS ADDRESSED IN THE MAGIC BOX ● Basic Banking ● Saving ● Borrowing ● Interest Rates ● Compound Interest

interest generating

how Isle Of Dogs-based PecuniArt is using fiction to educate and inform young readers about the banking system with its first book

“

The story, which is aimed at children aged seven to 11, came from thinking about how I could weave some key financial concepts into a fun, magical tale Nithya Sridharan, PecuniArt

in – everybody uses money,” she said.

“Recently there was a study which was done by the Pensions Institute, where they found that, if you look at the population of young adults, one third of them did not understand concepts like interest rates and in ation.

“I suspect lots of adults don’t understand either, even though these terms are constantly in the news.

“Research has shown children and young adults who are basically financially literate have an easier time in their lives – they’re better able to access low-cost loans, have better credit scores and less debt delinquency.

“I feel that with the world that we live in, if you know how to interact with money, what these concepts mean and what the economy is, then you’ll engage with it better, not just in terms of borrowing and

lending, but also in terms of your own personal wealth and wellbeing. You’ll know what to do and what it means when the interest rates go down – you won’t get caught out by high interest payday lenders.

“The book is meant to be read as an introductory view of what a bank is, rather than as a detailed analysis of what the world is today.

“There is a section in the book – titled the concept check – where I talk about whether what happens in the story is real.

I didn’t want to go into greater detail in terms of what you get from banks, or the stock market today, because I think that’s more advanced.

“The whole point of the book is to introduce these concepts and, obviously, it’s a magical story, so it’s not intended to be taken literally.” ithya, who has lived on the Island for six years, said she hoped to foster a sense of inquisitiveness about the financial system in the minds of her young readers.

“I want them to understand the concepts, but also for them to be something kids are curious about,” she said.

“I’ve had some feedback from children who have read the book, and it’s interesting that some hadn’t thought about these ideas previously – they asked a lot of questions about how it all works.

“I also hope the story gives them enough information on what these concepts are, so that they can ask and engage with

The Magic Box is priced £9.99 on Amazon

adults on all those questions, and find out more about them – that it makes them curious. The feedback I’ve had has been that the kids are very engaged with the magical aspects of The Magic Box. The very young ones are disappointed that this part isn’t real. What was very encouraging though, was that even young readers were interested in the subject after they had read the book. You might think that banking, economics and finance sound very technical and not easily accessible, but I’m pleasantly surprised people actually find them interesting – I was hoping for that outcome.

“This is definitely an area schools should be focusing more on. An element of financial literacy should be open to all.

“There are a lot of resources out there already – the Bank Of England, for example, has a financial education portal.

While some schools are doing good work, I certainly believe there should be greater involvement from them in providing financial education.

“A study by the Organisation For Economic Co-operation And evelopment looked at financial literacy for kids across the globe in 22 countries and found that, in certain states, policy intervention was needed to increase those levels.”

While The Magic Box – available in paperback via Amazon priced at £9.99 and at selected bookshops in London – is ecuniArt’s first title, ithya is already thinking about another book.

“For the next one I will think about how to break down a very complex concept, like the economy,” she said.

In the meantime Nithya will continue sharing posts about money and art for both adults and kids via her Instagram account – pecuniart.

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Isle Of Dogs - Poplar - Blackwall

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London City Island Leamouth

EAT | Street Food Market Urban Food Fest and Ace Events return to Hopewell Square with live music and stalls selling a wide variety of dishes. Check socials for timings.

Aug 13, 27, Sept 3, 10, free to visit, londoncityisland.com Where?

Poplar Union Poplar

GIG | Liam Phillips And Jai Blue Soul Cafe returns with some free outdoor sounds in Bartlett Park. Expect Britpop-tinged songs from Liam and soulful folk numbers from Jai. Aug 13, 6.30pm, free, poplarunion.com Where?

The Space Isle Of Dogs

STAGE | Hop! Comedically misleading this show promises a wild adventure as we meet Gina on the eve of her daughter’s birthday, hands covered in blood. But whose?

Aug 10-14, 7.30pm,, £15, space.org.uk

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Nithya uses stories as a way of introducing complex ideas to young readers’ minds Image by Matt Grayson – find more of his work at graysonphotos.co.uk or @mattgrayson_photo on Insta

Beth Cardy has opened Sweet Nothing Bakehouse at Republic in Blackwall offering a wealth of sugary treats alongside Lomond coffee and ice cream from Dappa – easy to access via the East India DLR footbridge sweetnothingbakehouse.co.uk Scan this code to find out more about Sweet Nothing Bakehouse at Republic and all of its services want more? @wharflifelive

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we've teamed up with Made In Greenwich – a shop stocking pieces by artists and makers from the borough – to give readers a creative colouring-in challenge Scan this code to visit Ellen's Instagram THE ARTIST Ellen Strachan is a Greenwich-based printmaker and surface designer developing a range of ecofriendly homeware based on her prints She is inspired by nature and human curiosities and has created We Love The Sunshine especially for Wharf Life's Creative Space You can find our more about her work by following her on Insta @pigeonloftprints

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Anyone taking a fully coloured-in version of We Love The Sunshine to Made In Greenwich at 324 Creek Road, Greenwich, London, SE10 9SW, 11am-5pm, Wednesday to Saturday, will receive a FREE gift of five of Ellen's You Are Loved colouring-in cards, which come with a pack of mini coloured pencils to finish them off ● Also, we'd love to see your efforts – tag @wharflifelive and @migreenwich in any you post on Insta Made in Greenwich is part of Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency (gcda.coop), which has been supporting communities to be healthy and sustainable since 1982 Scan this code for more on Made In Greenwich

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Minutes of play for £10 per person. Up to 16 can share a shuffleboard An artist’s impression of how Electric Shuffle in

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Amersham Arms Deptford

GIG | Kick Out The Jams London trio Cruel Hearts Club top the bill, promising cheerleader chants and girl power with support from Cat SFX, Kin and Blab in this Deptford mix up.

Aug 12, 6pm, £7.50 (advance), theamershamarms.net Where?

Deptford Lounge Deptford

FILM | Do The Right Thing Spike Lee’s 1989 subtle and delicate exploration of racial politics, complete with the sounds of Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, gets a fresh screening.

Aug 21, 6.30pm, £5, deptfordcinema.org Where?

The Albany Garden Deptford

STAGE | Go With The Flow UK Poetry Slam champion Tyrone Lewis presents poet, writer and director Kayla Feldman to the stage for an hour of banter and Buffy references.

Aug 19, pay as you decide, 7pm, thealbany.org.uk

secret pleasures

Visit The Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe to find out all about the first tunnel under a navigable river in the world and Marc and Isambard’s part in its creation. Open from 11am-5pm at weekends thebrunelmuseum.com Scan this code to find out more about the museum and the Thames Tunnel tours it runs want more? @wharflifelive

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how Electric Shuffle is set to put down roots at its latest location in Bermondsey Street, beneath the railway arches

by Jon Massey

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ed Engine trundles on.

The company that came up with electronic darts theme bar brand Flight Club and, more recently, digitally souped-up shu eboard venue Electric Shu e in Canary Wharf, is set to expand with a site on Bermondsey Street.

Strongly avoured with the aesthetic of the E14 establishment – think Tesla blueprints above the urinals in the gents and tons of neon and ickering buttons to press – the new opening is set to build on its successful hospitality offering and also throw entertainment into the mix. Alongside the 10 shu eboards – each accommodating up to 16 players – the venue promises to host singers, DJs, bands and comedians as additional draws to those indulging in its food and drink.

Located close to London Bridge

station under a series of arches, the latest Electric Shu e will offer 90-minute game slots at a cost of £10 per person. Also expected will be brunch sessions – noon-2pm and 2.30pm-4.30pm running Thursday to Sunday – featuring bottles of Prosecco and bottomless pizza.

Electric Shu e co-founder and CEO Steve Moore said: “This is an exciting leap in our trajectory, and one we’re more than ready to make. We’re so grateful to have a new home under the arches here and hope to become part of the fabric of this vibrant community.

“We don’t just want to exist

in London Bridge, we want it to be somewhere that’s seen to be giving back to it. That’s why we are as committed to creating an immersive hospitality experience as we are to building long-lasting foundations in the area by getting behind brilliant causes. The birth of our new venue signals more than just the opening of a new bar, it signals an important addition to the growth of the community. We can’t wait to get started.”

While its location perhaps stretches the definition of Bermondsey a bit, it is more accessible for people in Rotherhithe and Deptford than the Canary Wharf branch. The 50 capacity venue is set to open from August 20. Get sliding those pucks.

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by David Lefebvre Sell

by Jon Massey

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f I talk about centring as a daily practice, will that sound too new-agey to keep your interest?

Look at it this way, how do you know when you’re de-centred? Perhaps you’re neglecting your physical or mental health or you’ve lost a sense of meaning in what you do.

Being centred can mean different things to different people but the effect is always a greater calmness, not necessarily a feeling of control, but that the things which are out of control don’t matter as much.

A centring practice begins with your body, spend time every day just being in your body. Place your hands on your belly and feel your breathing, if you don’t know how to take abdominal breaths, learn how. Now, if you read that last sentence and thought: “I’m not bloody doing that,” why? I’m not asking you to do it on the DLR, find a private spot Now, if you read that and connect with your last sentence and breathing for a minute, it will help. thought: ‘I’m not bloody Taking time to be in nature can be centring. doing that.’ Why? I’m Lie on the ground in not asking you to do it your local park and watch the clouds, or on the DLR someplace with lots David Lefebvre Sell of trees and watch the trees, or go to the river and watch the Thames. There have been numerous studies on the positive effect that nature can have on our mental health, I know it can be hard, but maybe it’s worth the time.

Centring can be about focusing on what really matters. It’s hard to address this in the abstract because everyone has a different story. But what really matters in your story?

If you’re investing all your waking hours thinking about a boss, or a politician, that you hate, focus on what you have.

It’s annoying to hear about “gratitude lists” these days, for obvious reasons, but the practice of gratitude brings you back to your centre.

So what’s your centre? Where is the middle of you? Maybe spend more time there.

David Lefebvre Sell is a Greenwich-based psychotherapist and Yoga instructor who teaches at Third Space in Canary Wharf Follow @davetheyogi on Twitter and Instagram and @DavidLefebvreSellYogaAndPsychotherapy on FB Scan this code for more on David’s work as a psychotherapist and details of his online Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga classes

here’s something very reassuring about the return of the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDIF). Now in its 26th year, it’s set to run from August 27 to September 11, promising its usual rich collection of performances and installations running the full spectrum from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Bradley Hemmings founded the festival in 1996 and has been at the helm as artistic director for more than a quarter of a century.

“This is a very wonderful and important year for us, because it follows on from what we did in 2020,” he said. “Last summer we were able to deliver the festival in the middle of the pandemic, safely and in a completely re-imagined way – bringing performances to people, rather than the traditional focus on encouraging everyone to come to town centres.

“We’ve taken some of that learning from last year and mixed in a bit of both – town-centre fun and conviviality, that sense of occasion, but also taking doorstep performances out to neighbourhoods.

“One of those that I’m very excited about is called Mystery Bird, which features a processional giant birdcage with images of birds projected on it and a beautiful soundscape all around, that will move through places in the dusk and early evening.

“At certain points it stops, birds are released, and, by the miracles of technology and sound, they y everywhere – onto houses and into trees. It’s a wonderful experience of release and all the things we’re looking forward to.”

From his base at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, Bradley and his team have been working to come up with the finished programme, which has just been released and includes the fruits of a two-year partnership with the Diplomatic Representation Of Flanders to the UK. Central to that arrangement will be a production of Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills at a site in Thamesmead

Bradley says thoughts of healing and resilience have been uppermost in the minds of those organising GDIF Image by Matt Grayson – find more of his work at graysonphotos.co.uk or @mattgrayson_photo on Insta

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how Greenwich + Docklands International Festival is set to provoke, astonish and delight that’s been closed to the public for more than 100 years, created by Flemish company De Roovers in response to its setting.

It’s set to take place from September 7-11 and will cost £15 per person.

“It’s one of the projects we’d hoped to present in 2020, but the situation with international travel made that quite di cult,” said Bradley.

“We’ve always been committed to it, because the play, which was originally written as a T film, has a wonderful connection to the site we’re taking it to.

“When Thamesmead was created, this area was used for the spoil, which came when they were draining the land so it’s created this landscape of hills and woodlands where nobody is allowed to walk.

“Potter’s story features adults playing children and it takes place in wartime in the idyllic Forest Of Dean. But, like Lord Of The Flies, things aren’t quite so idyllic.

“We look through rose-tinted glasses, but the reality of it was actually rather more brutal – children and their games, which go seriously wrong, who are very much the victims of war, just as much as their parents are.

“The setting, where still in the 1960s and 1970s there were stories of kids who would explore this remarkable landscape on summer adventure schemes, is part of the psycho-geography of Thamesmead and we’re playing with that by bringing this production here.”

Another key part of the

programme is the return of Greenwich Fair on August 29. This collection of circus, dance and theatre performances, complete with street games, owes its lineage to a regular historic festival that brought travelling shows and attractions to the town until 1852 and was much loved by Charles Dickens.

Flying high over that spectacle will be We Are Watching, in place at the Old Royal Naval College from August 27-30 – Swiss artist Dan Acher’s monumental 10-storey high ag depicting a giant eye made up of digital portraits from people in 190 countries across the globe.

Bradley said: “The idea of it is that all those people are expressing the fact that they are watching what is about to happen later this year at climate change conference COP26 in November.

“It’s a provocation, if you like, to all of us – to the festival audiences, to think seriously about what this all means and how they might be able to contribute to that, but also to the global leaders who are going to assemble in Glasgow.

“The other work we have featured from Dan is called Borealis and there has been a huge amount of interest in that already.

“It is an extraordinary recreation of the Northern Lights, which are certainly on my bucket list.”

The installation promises to create the experience of seeing the Aurora Borealis at two locations in southeast London.

Like the vast majority of the festival, it is free

to attend and will be in place from August 27-September 5 at the Old Royal Naval College and from September 9-11 in Woolwich.

Closing things out, on September 10 and 11, will be Healing Together – a programme of street arts, installations and performances focused on the environment and taking place at both Royal Victoria Gardens in Royal Docks and Woolwich town centre.

“The first year of the festival was 1996 when you could only go from the Isle Of Dogs to Greenwich via the foot tunnel – there wasn’t even the LR,” said Bradley. “Not everyone was in love with the idea of a cross-river festival. The way this area of London has transformed is part of our story.

“With Healing Together we’re supporting another cross-river relationship that isn’t new – North Woolwich, Woolwich and Silvertown used to be part of the Borough Of Woolwich but were separated in the 1960s, so we thought we’d bring them back together.

“There will be gardens of light and fire to explore, a cross-river street theatre programme and a finale moment you can experience on both sides of the river on September 11 that, by the miracle of light and fire will unite both Woolwiches.”

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Just a few of the performances to look out for during the festival

Dance By Design Greenwich Peninsula Aug 28-29 Check out The Lost Opera, Finale and Dandyism at this free pop-up in North Greenwich

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The O2 Peninsula

GIG | Burna Boy: Twice As Tall The first event in the venue’s Welcome Back Show series sees the Afrofusion star return to The O2 after storming the Brits with Stormzy in 2020.

Aug 27, 6.30pm, from £76.75, theo2.co.uk Where?

Greenwich Theatre Greenwich

STAGE | Pinocchio From talking log to the folly of lies, director James Haddrell takes on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale via this special adaptation from Anthony Clark.

Aug 8-Sept 5, times vary, £15, greenwichtheatre.org.uk Where?

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Family Tree Charlton House And Gardens Aug 27-30 (£15) Discover this new play exploring exploitation and ethics in healthcare

SEE | Tudors To Windsors: British Royal Portraits This exhibition will help you discover how royal portraiture has developed over the last five centuries, from Henry VII to Elizabeth II. Ongoing, daily, £10, rmg.co.uk

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Balsam Building 41, Woolwich Sept 7-11 (£15) Potions and elixirs are created to heal and calm in this theatrical adventure

Scan this code to explore GDIF’s full programme in Greenwich and across Docklands including Royal Docks, Thamesmead and Canary Wharf

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Years Pervin and Cyrus Todiwala ran Cafe Spice Namaste in Prescot Street before relocating to the Royal Docks

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and is expecting to open its doors to diners in August

SEE | Music Of The Spheres We don’t know where or exactly when this will take place, but the three shows featuring performers inside giant bubbles will be worth waiting for.

Sept 4, free, royaldocks.london Where?

Excel Royal Victoria Dock

SHOW | Designer Con Making its UK debut this show brings collectable toys, designer goods and urban underground pop art together in one place packed with creative energy.

Aug 20-22, 10am-6pm, from £23, excel.london Where?

Pontoon Dock Silvertown

SEE | Future Cargo Part of GDIF, this 50-minute sci-fi dance show promises to take audiences into a surreal visual and aural world with sound on personal headsets.

Sept 3-4, 8pm, free (ticketed), festival.org

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by Jon Massey

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ldgate’s loss is the Royal Docks’ gain. After more than a quarter of a century operating in Prescot Street, Cafe Spice Namaste – the agship restaurant in ervin and Cyrus Todiwala’s family business – has been forced to relocate, after losing its lease to a new landlord with an eye on redeveloping the venerable red brick building it occupied, as o ces.

With the pandemic biting and hospitality reeling, the couple initially looked at opening on Commercial Street in nearby Shoreditch before a former employee, living in east London, got in touch.

“She said: ‘Why don’t you come to Royal Albert Wharf? It would be nice for a little cafe’,” said chef patron Cyrus. “So we looked at it and decided in the end to establish a wider business.

“There are lots of plans in my brain, which gradually we will put into action and, fingers crossed, we will succeed.”

At the heart of everything will be a fresh incarnation of Cafe Spice Namaste, set to open in August and located on Lower Dock Walk, less than 10 minutes on foot from Gallions Reach LR. While the setting – overlooking the waters of Royal Albert Dock towards the niversity Of East London, Excel and London City Airport – provides the backdrop, there’s little doubt that the food will be the most potent draw.

It would be easy to fill the remaining space on this spread by simply listing Cyrus and ervin’s many achievements – not least holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand for nearly two decades, which would make the new restaurant the farthest east in the capital (by some distance) to trouble the guide, should it be similarly recognised.

But rather than cover the same ground as a recent episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme – which has already done a great job of distilling and presenting the background to the Todiwalas’ current situation (including their notice to quit their old premises, Cyrus’ successful battle with cancer and the story of Bombay Duck) – we’re going to focus on the future.

Cyrus intends to start things off with a few informal evenings for those signed up online to his Greedy Pigs Club before opening the venue o cially.

He said: “We always had a splash of colour and I think that will come here too. This space is a lot more modern, with big windows, so it will feel different, but we want to bring back as much of the feel of the original Cafe Spice Namaste as we can. The food is a variety of Indian cuisine, not stuck to any one region or area, though we do have an emphasis on my own style of cooking which is Parsee and we do a lot of Goan food because of my background working there for several years. We try to bring in as much of the

Scan this code to listen to The Food Programme featuring Pervin and Cyrus Todiwala

how Pervin and Cyrus Todiwala’s Cafe Spice Namaste is set to fill Royal Albert Wharf with flavour, food, education and myriad ideas sub-continent as possible. At the new restaurant, the classics that our regulars will be familiar with will remain – the rest will evolve.

“We will do specials around seasonal British produce and we’re also thinking that, in this area, it may be easier for people to have more shared plates, which will be small plates so we can present a bigger variety and bring more choice to the menu. We’ll also hold supper-club style events once a month that people can register for online.”

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ithout the goodwill and support of its loyal group of regulars, it’s likely Cafe Spice Namaste wouldn’t be coming to the Royal Docks or anywhere else, for that matter.

It was hit especially hard by the pandemic because of its location in the City – losing almost all passing trade – and never having focused much on takeaways, so a group of three customers led a funding drive, raising nearly 50,000 to help with the move.

Cyrus said: “That felt really amazing – where else would you have customers willing to put money in and help you relocate and re-establish yourselves “That money gave us a big stepping stone. Hospitality has been decimated and we were certainly not alone in many of

The space is a lot more modern, with big windows, so it will feel different, but we want to bring back as much of the feel of the original Cafe Spice Namaste as we can Cyrus Todiwala, Cafe Spice Namaste

the di culties we faced, but we had other problems and issues as well. We weren’t able to benefit from local sales as the City was deserted.”

His other restaurants, based in Hilton hotels, including Mr Todiwala’s on the Isle Of ogs and one near Heathrow, remain closed too, victims of business models upset by Covid-19. In the short-term, then, it’s up to Cafe Spice Namaste to be the lead in the charge for recovery.

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uring the photoshoot for this piece, a service boat was visiting Royal ocks, loading up on fresh water to supply a recently arrived superyacht in central London. Having not used the craft in a while, its crew were allowing the excess to gush through the system and down into the depths below to Cyrus’ visible discomfort. The spectacle of so much water apparently going to waste was a tough watch for a man from Bombay – a visible sign of one of the key ingredients in his makeup.

Perhaps one of the reasons the Todiwalas were able to find support in the community is that Cyrus has been persistently outward looking, keen to get deeply involved with the creation of the produce he uses and to ensure as light a touch as possible on the planet.

“I grew up in an area with acute water shortages and no electricity for most of the day,” he said. “I wish I could get more people to see how the culture here is so wasteful – nobody considers what happens to things once they’ve been put in the bin.

“We started recycling bottles in 1992 – nobody had heard of it then and nobody wanted to do it, but I just couldn’t bear the thought of throwing them away.”

He’s also run farms producing pigs and poultry as well as agricultural plantations of pineapples, coconuts, cashews and mangos. More recently, he was the first chef ambassador for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, presenting Mudchute ark

And arm on the Isle Of ogs with its approved status in 201 and in une took over from the late Albert Roux as group chef ambassador with The Clink Charity, which delivers training to inmates in British prisons. He’s also in talks with a farm project in Greenwich to supply Cafe Spice amaste with seasonal vegetables to minimise food miles.

As part of his latest venture he is also hoping to establish an academy to train young people at Royal Albert Wharf.

“We will start with one-off classes for four hours and it will grow slowly,” said Cyrus. “But some people will want to do a week and, if there’s interest and demand then we’ll build that in.

“As the restaurant opens it will be a stressful time – it’s always di cult to find your feet, but we’ve been at this for many, many years and so we’re prepared, compared to the newer operators.

“I want this to be a place that the community accepts, that draws people to us, supplying their needs at different levels.

“One gentleman living across the water has already asked us to supply a week’s menu to him every seven days, so we’re doing that, and other people may want the same. If people sign up to our newsletter then they’ll get all the information about what we’re doing, what we’re developing. There are loads of ideas that are brewing and, when we are established, we can start to implement them.

“I’ve had a great life and a good career so far. It’s been hard, but that’s because I take on extra things, thinking about how I can help the community and what I can do for young people. But if I’d done it differently I probably wouldn’t have learned as much as I have.”

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Roof East Stratford

FILM | Notting Hill Watch Hugh Grant’s career-defining turn opposite Julia Roberts in this tale of books, unlikely flings and acting. Best of all, see it outside atop a car park.

Aug 1, 8.50pm, £15.95, roofeast.com

An artist’s impression of how the The Pavilion will look when work at the site is completed

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River Lea Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

CRUISE | Gin On The River Chug up and down the river for three tranquil hours while sipping a total of six gin and tonics while Gin On The River tells you all about the spirit.

Saturdays, times vary, £65, ginontheriver.co.uk where?

Lee Valley Velopark Stratford

as The Pavilion at IQL wins BREEAM Outstanding rating, the future promises much as regeneration marches on

by Jon Massey

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azing into the months and years ahead for Stratford is an activity filled with possibility as the transformation of the area that started with the London 2012 Games continues to unfold.

International uarter London I L , primarily a development of o ce space along a strip of land separating the ueen Elizabeth Olympic ark from Westfield Stratford City, is putting its stamp on this crucial pedestrian artery with The avilion.

This largely wooden, two-storey structure will, when complete, house a restaurant – think lateau in Canary Wharf or Le ont e La Tour at Tower Bridge – with a rooftop terrace and bar and will act as a gateway to the development.

Lendlease, the firm behind I L, recently announced that as well as being a significant draw to the area for those intent on a decent meal, its latest additon to the estate had also achieved a BREEAM

Chief among reasons to visit IQL is the return of its Summer Screen, which will be in place until August 31 and will be showing a selection of films including Moana (July 28), The Jungle Book (July 29) and Captain America: Civil War (July 31) as well as action from the Tokyo Olympics. Check online for full programme details and information on how to book

Outstanding rating, meaning it’s about as good as it gets in terms of sustainability. esigned by Acme presumably not the Looney Tunes firm of old , the classification for the 10,000sq ft structure places it in the top 1 of new buildings in the in terms of its impact on the environment.

Measures taken to ensure this ranged from using only timber from orestry Stewardship Council certified sources for The avilion’s frame to installing bat and bird boxes in a bid to boost local wildlife. Lendlease says the rating is a practical demonstration of its commitment to Mission ero – aiming to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and absolute zero by 20 0 – the latter being reached when all emissions are eliminated, even those generated indirectly by its activities and without the use of offsetting.

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Aug 28, 9am, from £10 (kids free), runthrough.co.uk

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