Wharf Life, Jun 28-Jul 12, 2023

Chris Ezekiel on the bene ts of AR as Apple releases its new goggles

how artist Mark Taylor sees history in the buildings and boats of Canary Wharf

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celebrating the best of Canary Wharf, Docklands and the new east London people - events - treasure - property - foolishness

inside issue 91

Ellen Strachan - David Lefevbre Sell - Sudoku

Karapincha - Golden Axe - The Islander Festival

Apex Legends - Ensemble Festival - Crossword

The Job Centre - Swings And Wings At Skylight

Royal Arsenal Riverside - Dock28 - Consort Place

Wharf Life Hacks - Festival14 Comedy

Detail from Landlocked by Mark Taylor

Where? Various Venues Canary Wharf

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Welcome to the 91st issue of Wharf Life. This issue is lled with art and culture including Mark Taylor’s vibrant paintings capturing Docklands, Ellen Strachan’s work-based mural on Woolwich Jobcentre Plus, the totally free Ensemble Festival in Royal Docks and food from Karapincha thrown in for a bit of spice

EVENT | Festival14

It’s nearly time for Canary Wharf’s four-day arts extravaganza featuring the likes of Craig Charles, Soul II Soul, Norman Jay and so much more. Jul 26-30, times vary, free (mostly), canarywharf.com

Where? Bank Street Park Canary Wharf

PLAY | Bank Street Basketball

Artist Yinka Ilori’s brightly coloured 3x3 basketball court is back following closure to allow for the building of padel tennis venue Padium. From Jun 29, noon-9pm, free, canarywharf.com

Where? Boisdale Of Canary Wharf Cabot Square

GIG | KT Tunstall

The Scottish singer returns to Canary Wharf’s most prominent stage with a line-up of hits and, naturally, some new sounds. Tickets are expected to go fast. Jul 26, 9.30pm, from £75 (show only), boisdale.co.uk

read our interview Mallow chefs Sarah Wasserman and Alessandra Malacarne at wharf-life.com

Tuck into some reasonably priced food down The Job Centre Find

along the Elizabeth Line with

Making murals: Ellen Strachan takes us through the work she’s created for the Woolwich Mural Trail – a Greenwich Council project to brighten up some of the area’s vacant walls

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on the radar Canary Wharf’s Adam Plaza is set to become home to an artwork recalling the most famous ruby red slippers in the world. Adam Nathaniel Furman’s Click Your Heels Together Three Times is set to be unveiled in honour of Pride month on June 29 canarywharf.com

Goodluck Hope is gearing up for the Islander Festival

While our full preview of Festival14 will appear in our next issue, stand-up fans should book £10 tickets for the Comedy Club – set to pop up at Montgomery Square from July 26-29 – as soon as possible. Acts include Shaparak Khorsandi and Abandoman. canarywharf.com

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Who is Riley Ratcliffe? Why she’s a city rat, of course, and she wants to find out a bit more about her ancestors, currently on display at the museum. Over the next couple of months families with kids aged 3+ are encouraged to spot members of Riley’s family around the museum and to discover what life was like in the past for these small, furry Londoners. Visitors can expect a worksheet to fill in for this free-to-access treat

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There’s a whiff of a rumour that Broadwick – the events venue company responsible for Printworks, Magazine and Silverworks Island – is set to take on a space in Wood Wharf’s Water Street. We’ll keep you posted. Also, a bit late to the party on this, but look out for an increasing number of tealcoloured DLR trains as TfL begins testing the new rolling stock ahead of their introduction in 2024. A total of 54 will enter service with the last ones coming onto the rails by 2026

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If you do nothing else in Canary Wharf this fortnight, consider indulging in the below:

1. Perhaps the top offer of the week, Boisdale Of Canary Wharf is offering a cheese and bacon burger plus a pint of Innis & Gunn lager for £15, Tues-Fri, noon-3pm until the end of July – @boisdale_restaurants on Insta

2. Catch tennis action on the Canada Square screens, Eastbourne then Wimbledon until July 4 – canarywharf.com

3. Catch modern-day retelling of the Selkie myth To The Ocean at The Greenhouse Theatre in Jubilee Park, on until July 14 – thegreenhousetheatre.com

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game review Golden Axe, 1989, Sega – at Platform in Crossrail Place

>> You can tell from the luxurious blonde strands of my beard, short stature and frankly impractical battle axe that I am Gilius Thunderhead, wronged brother and wielder of magical lightning...

Unsurprisingly the generic fantasy of 1989 Sega release Golden Axe is very silly. Its male and female heroes –musclebound Conan rip-off Ax Battler (who oddly uses a sword) and Amazonian warrior Tyris Flare – prefer beachwear to armour, despite their perilous quest to avenge their loved ones by killing the unashamedly evil Death Adder. I choose third playable character Gilius, narked at the murder of his sibling and the only one with an actual axe.

While Platform in Canary Wharf offers cutting edge Nintendo Switch and Playstation 5 gaming, it also offers a way to step back in time and play Sega Megadrive

classics. And the thing about Golden Axe is that, despite the nonsense, it’s very playable. There are ride-on dragons, a fish creature with a whippy tail, giants with hammers and a knight in shining armour to have a go at. Then, if it all gets a bit much, call in the lightning.

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how Karapincha is set to return to Canary Wharf with a kitchen in the Jubilee line station serving all day

by Jon Massey

There’s spice, fire, zest and vigour in the eyes of Karapincha founders asanthini and Dharshini Perumal and that’s before we’ve even mentioned the food. The twin sisters are a force to be reckoned with boasting C s that name-check P organ, , Nomura, RB , P G, i Degrees Group and many more. ccountancy, project management, finance, entrepreneurial verve – it’s all there. o why give up ourishing careers in finance to launch a hospitality business “ ver since we came to the from ri Lanka in , we knew we wanted to create a business,” said asanthini. “ ome people think that with ndian or ri Lankan food that you have to sit down and have a meal, but that’s

not necessarily the case – you can convert these cuisines to grab-and-go.

“We’d been thinking about the idea and had done some test marketing at an evening market in horeditch – we cooked up some food with our family and it was really nicely taken up. We were able to sell more than portions – people really liked it.

“Then our mum and dad got sick and we couldn’t concentrate on starting something immediately. n the meantime oppers, a restaurant in oho started up and thought Bugger – they’ve got my concept’.”

ndeterred, however, and with a faith that their time was yet to come, the duo bided their time before an introduction in Canary Wharf led them in a fresh direction.

“ colleague at P organ introduced me to The Limehouse – a bar and restaurant run by Fuller’s on Fisherman’s Walk,” said Dharshini. “They loved the food, but weren’t sure whether to go ahead until suddenly everything became O and we went to sign the contract.

“ t only gave us three weeks to get going – we didn’t have a name, any staff, crockery a menu or anything in the kitchen. Luckily we work well under pressure.”

Their determination won through with the twins pulling everything together to open in , bringing their version of ri Lankan cuisine to Wharfers in a -cover restaurant.

“Fuller’s was a really good partner for us – there was so much learning to do,” said asanthini. “We had a really good partnership, learning the hygiene systems and how to organise our operation. They rebranded the place to match our colours – they really supported us and helped us to start up.”

The Limehouse, along with its neighbour, The erchant, didn’t

reopen following the pandemic, however, with Fuller’s deciding to leave the Canary Wharf estate. owever, arapincha survives – running in sites at ercato etropolitano in lephant nd Castle and Old pitalfields arket – and asanthini and Dharshini are set to bring the brand back to Canary Wharf – albeit in a different form in the ubilee line station. arapincha is e pecting to start trading in mid- uly.

“We’re going to be the first hospitality business to open in a Tube station where the kitchen will actually be cooking food,” said asanthini. “Being in the station, we’re going to take the full opportunity to trade from morning until evening, breakfast, lunch and dinner – it’s a graband-go concept.

“We’ll be doing some things that are different here to our other sites because of all the offices nearby so that people will be able to come into work and eat our food.”

What won’t change, however, is the twins’ approach to the core avours arapincha champions.

“ f you ask me where would like to dine in London, the answer would be our place, because it’s nice comfort food,” said Dharshini. “ t reminds us of home-cooked food, just like our mother made – that’s what we always wanted. We didn’t want complicated, fancy stuff.

“We use a central kitchen to supply our sites, but everything

Being in the station, we’re going to take the full opportunity to trade from morning until evening, breakfast, lunch and dinner

Vasanthini Perumal, Karapincha

Co-founder Dharshini Perumal

Karapincha serves a range of Sri Lankan dishes

and go

is home-cooked style. We make everything we serve from scratch including the mayonnaise and the “It’s about conscientiously, carefully making food that is good for your health – exactly as you would if you had people coming to your house for lunch. That’s how we train our staff – they’re a lovely bunch who look after each other like family and a happy kitchen means a happy customer.

“When they buy it, people should not feel that our food is continued on Page 8

Typical starting price for a vegan dish at Karapincha’s Mercato Metropolitano branch

LADIES CUTS FROM £75 MENS CUTS FROM £50 + AESTHETIC TREATMENTS

Co-founder Vasanthini Perumal

virtual viewpoint

by Chris Ezekiel

from Page 7

from a shop. We also cook in front of customers so they know they are getting something fresh.

Apple’s rst entirely new product for eight years is its “mixed reality” Vision Pro headset, £2,849

Running a company that specialises in arti cial intelligence, I’m always considering which jobs might be replaced with AI and robots. There’s also an interesting trend in the area of augmented reality (AR) where the digital world is superimposed on the real world through a device – such as Apple’s recently announced Vision Pro goggles. AR opens up all sorts of possibilities. For many parents, settling their toddler into nursery for the rst time can be a traumatic experience for everyone involved. I’m thankful that nursery teachers haven’t been replaced by robots. In the past week I have witnessed rst hand the uniquely human characteristic of empathy that nursery teachers have in abundance, as they soothed our own toddler’s anxiety while settling in.

This experience prompted me to imagine a future whereby toddlers going through this settling-in phase could be equipped with AR goggles, used to superimpose a parent on the nursery classroom, sitting in the corner and giving reassuring smiles and waves.

On the one hand, it may be a scary thought, but perhaps it might also be a gentler way to introduce a toddler into a new, unfamiliar and parent-free environment.

This technology isn’t something out of science ction, it exists today. The size and cost of such goggles are really the only obstacles to this becoming a reality and, of course, the acceptance of this type of practice.

In the rapidly changing world of technology, we know that the price and size will come down quickly and therefore many industries need to start preparing for this mixed world of the real and the digital now. Today, many of us are used to working with multiple computer screens. AR goggles will potentially allow us to work with an unlimited number of screens.

This opens up the possibility that the human brain will evolve to exploit this hybrid existence as the lines between the real and the digital become increasingly blurred.

There’s much talk of machines potentially taking over the world, and even making humans extinct. I believe this type of technology will bring a blended future where humans and machines work in harmony and push us to become ever more creative so that we continue to di erentiate ourselves from machines.

Chris Ezekiel is founder and CEO of customer engagement solutions specialist Creative Virtual based at West India Quay’s Cannon Workshops

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“For example, the boys will make the paratha in the kitchen every day and we never freeze food or bring anything from elsewhere – it’s all made by us on a daily basis.”

Having had the teaser photos on the previous pages, it’s now time to talk about the food. Karapincha is proud to serve a selection of potent Sri Lankan dishes, all with the twins’ personal twist.

Front and centre is the Kothu Roti – a stir fry made with chopped roti bread, vegetables and eggs, flavoured with Sri Lankan curries and sliced up with energy as it cooks on the griddle. Vegan, chicken and lamb versions are all available.

Then there’s the traditional Sri Lankan lunch of rice with curry, or how about a flaky folded paratha to dip in a rich coconut-laced sauce?

Failing that, there’s always the devilled chicken and fried rice or lamb rolls to fall back on – which all pack a punch. When the twins first opened in Elephant And Castle, they were advised to tone down the spice a bit. Suffice to say they ignored the advice and quickly built up a line of hungry fans eager to feel their tongues fizz from the pepper.

“The name of Karapincha comes from the curry leaf used in Sri Lankan cooking,” said Dharshini. “It’s all about what we like to eat – what we grew up eating and the stuff our mother taught us.

“We use her recipe for curry powder, which contains 12

Karapincha serves freshly made paratha with curry, plus some salad and its trademark pineapple pickle

ingredients in specific quantities and we import them from Sri Lanka and grind it in our kitchen. The island is known for the best cinnamon in the world.

“But there are some twists too – if you go to that country, you won’t find our pineapple pickle served at any of the roti street food stalls.”

The twins also promise twists on bacon and egg for breakfast at the Canary Wharf store alongside porridges and even a high tea box to tempt office workers looking for afternoon refreshment.

But then, perhaps this kind of thing is to be expected from a pair of founders who, upon discovering a local mine was up for sale in Sri Lanka, bought it and turned their hand to exporting silica quartz to Japan and Korea, growing the operation to support 100 employees before selling it to mining giant Nippon seven years later.

“It’s really fulfilling to have started Karapincha,” said Vasanthini. “We’re really happy.

The vegan version of the brand’s rice and curry, typically eaten for lunch in Sri Lanka

We wanted to do something in the UK, so we put this in motion and it’s been functioning for four years.

“It’s a journey and now we’re looking to take it to the next level and to operate a franchise model. We are slowly growing and we want to get bigger – at first within London. Canary Wharf will be our flagship now that we’re catching up after Covid. It’s also about the team – the people who work for us are a family. They’re so good, really brilliant and they never give up – and they need something to grow into.”

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The name of Karapincha comes from the curry leaf used in Sri Lankan cooking – it’s all about what we like to eat, what we grew up eating Dharshini Perumal, Karapincha

Lamb Kothu Roti – a chopped stir fry of bread, eggs, veg and curry

how artist Mark Taylor artist and lifeboat coxswain is capturing the present of Canary Wharf in his work

by Jon Massey

There’s a moment during our interview where Mark Taylor’s voice falters. The son of successful artist Dallas K Taylor went to art college to become a painter like his father, but wound up initially rejecting his style.

“He painted landscapes and seascapes – it was very commercial,” said Mark. “He had an art gallery in the North East where I’m from, so I grew up around him working – but I thought I wanted to be a proper artist like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko.

“I’d come down to Tate Modern in London and be completely absorbed by the scale of their works. Seeing Summertime by Pollock, I was just completely taken away by the real thing. A couple of inches on the page of a book just doesn’t compare.”

After completing a degree in fine art, however, Mark decided to go into boat design rather than opt for the life of a struggling painter – building on a lifelong love of the water, having been raised on boats growing up in Blyth.

“During my degree I’d partnered with boat builders and went to work for a company called Sealine in Kidderminster,” he said. “I used to watch their £2.5million fancy boats go off down the road on trailers escorted by vehicles with flashing lights, and I realised I was landlocked –it was my dream job, but in the wrong location. I needed to get back to the coast.”

A project helping an artist put together a portfolio led Mark to turn to the classroom as a profession, moving back to the North East to lecture in fine art in the Newcastle area.

“It meant I could be on the lifeboat like my dad and I could teach art as well, so that’s what I did for many years,” he said. “Then my father discovered he had Motor Neurone disease and he went downhill pretty fast.

“At that time, he had a 12-month waiting list for his artworks but wasn’t able to fulfil his orders. So I decided to leave my position at the college to

Nautical miles o shore that Mark and the crew of the Tynemouth all-weather Lifeboat travelled out to rescue a sinking ship, the farthest in RNLI history – see Page 10

I thought I wanted to be a proper artist like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko. I’d come down to London and be completely absorbed by the scale of their works

Mark Taylor, Artist

become his full-time carer. I went back to the family home and looked after him and, during that time, I told him I would paint his pictures.

“I’d learned how to make work like his to pay my way through university – I’d nick his style, hang work in his gallery and sell it. During the months I cared for him, he showed me a few techniques to emulate his style with a palette knife in oils.

“He taught me to smear the paint on the palette and to cut through it so that, with practice, you can get a thin precise line –perfect for the mast of a boat or a line on a building.

“I developed that style and one day I was painting a very famous scene – the bridge over the Tyne in Newcastle looking down to the quayside. It was a historic scene with horses and carts in the foreground.

“When my father saw it, he said that he couldn’t have ever painted the horses like that and if I could, then I would never be hungry.”

It’s here Mark’s voice falters at the memory – a moment not long before his father died.

“It was really amazing to think I had taken his technique and been able to continue his legacy – to paint like him and then for him to continued on Page 10

a proper becoming

Mark Taylor is currently artist in residence at the London Marriott Hotel Canary Wharf on West India Quay and is creating a series of works inspired by Docklands

Canary Wharf From Blackwall Basin by Mark Taylor

Detail from Ascension by Mark Taylor

Image by Jon Massey

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say that he couldn’t have done it himself felt great,” said Mark

“For more than a decade now I’ve continued painting like him but increasingly putting more of myself into it. Now I’ve got my own identity I’ve started branching out into different techniques with collage and acrylic rather than oil paint.

“It’s a bit like being a musician – you do a first album, then a second that’s different and now I’m on my third in the London market, which is fantastic.”

Which brings us in a roundabout sort of a way to why Mark is in this newspaper.

Having mostly painted coastal scenes and architecture, one of his works was selected for the Royal Society Of Marine Artist’s annual exhibition, an accolade that won him the attention of the London Marriott Canary Wharf on West India Quay.

Recently appointed its artist in residence, Mark has created a series of paintings currently on display there, with more planned to spread throughout the building.

The works use acrylic and, frequently, collage of historic maps of the area, to capture Canary Wharf and views of Docklands as it is today.

“The docks are massively important, when you look at the history of this area and how that has influenced the buildings we have, and the new towers – it’s about celebrating what’s here,” said Mark.

“You’re capturing moments in time. The first painting I did for this series was looking at Canary Wharf from Blackwall Basin –there’s a lovely bit of water there with the reflections of the buildings all around it.

“I took a photograph of that and then, the next time I came down, a concrete lift shaft for a building under construction had sprung up in the middle of the scene so that view is now lost. But I was able to capture it and put it in this painting. Then, the next paintings can celebrate what is

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Sorry to break the flow of the article, but there’s something else that adds depth to Mark’s character. His father also gave him a lifelong love of being on the sea, coupled with the example of stalwart service saving lives in the RNLI.

Having moved back to the North East, Mark began volunteering on the lifeboat as Dallas had before him.

Rising rapidly through the ranks (thanks to his dad training him in water safety from an early age), he’s now the coxswain for the Tynemouth all-weather lifeboat – the largest in the charity’s fleet – as well as helmsman for the station’s inshore inflatable lifeboat.

While there’s probably enough material for a book in his more than 16 years of volunteering, to save lives in some of the most

extreme conditions on the water – one tale stands out.

“I’d just qualified as a navigator when we got the shout that a vessel was sinking 110 nautical miles off the coast,” said Mark. “We knew we’d have only enough fuel to get out there, do a search and then return so everything was on me to get to the right place.

“The search area was huge – the drifts, the tide, the wind. A helicopter picked up a very faint radio message

from the stricken boat and we managed to find the vessel, get it on tow and then pull it back to Sunderland over about 14 hours.

“It feels incredible when you can get someone back to their family who would have drowned if it wasn’t for the RNLI. That one turned out to be the farthest rescue from shore ever completed in the organisation’s 200-year history and it was my first shout as a newly-trained navigator.

“You risk your life, but there’s a reason why you’re doing it. People’s lives are in grave and immediate danger so we go out in all conditions. It’s a great thing to be able to do and an honour to be the coxswain, following the retirement of Michael Nugent who I’ve looked up to all the way through.”

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coming in the future. For some of the other pieces I was researching what the area had been like and I realised the colour of one of the maps I was looking at was like the windows of the office blocks at night so I began working pieces of collage into the painting.

“That way I have the new in the work while honouring the heritage of the area too.

“I’ve spent the last 11 years concentrating professionally on my art, developing and bringing new elements into my work.

“With the Royal Society exhibition and this residency I think I’m definitely on my way to qualifying as a decent artist. It’s a bit like climbing a mountain – you get to the top and you realise there’s another peak you just didn’t see until you reached that point.

“What I’ve also realised is that my dad was always a great artist – he painted pictures people loved and would request again and again.

“For me, painting standalone works is exciting and I’ve been able to take his technique somewhere completely different.

“I get totally absorbed by the work. I’ll often go into the studio at 10.30am and paint right through until 1.30am. It’s amazing to be in that creative space.

“Luckily I live within sight of the lifeboat station, so when the pager goes off I can drop my tools and go straight out.

“Going on a shout puts everything in perspective. The other day I was under real pressure to get this picture finished for a client. I was really feeling it – at a moment where you don’t know where to stop. Is it going right? Is it going well now, but is it going wrong? Then I got the call and me and two crew had to go and extract a casualty trapped on the shoreline in a heavy surf, which we managed successfully. After being out at sea with the adrenaline pumping, saving someone, I was completely calm. In the greater scheme of things if you make a mistake on the canvas you can always paint over it.”

Mark’s work is on display at the Marriott on an ongoing basis, with each original piece also for sale. Prices start at £11,500.

Mark is also set to come and produce some of his work at the hotel itself starting in July, although exact dates are yet to be confirmed. Wharfers are welcome to come down on these occasions and meet him amid his paintings. Go to marktaylorthecollection.com

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I realised my dad was always a great artist. I’ve been able to take his technique somewhere completely different

Mark Taylor, Artist

Detail from Mark’s painting of the Tynemouth lifeboat

Signs by Mark Taylor

Sunset Over Greenwich

Park by Mark Taylor

Big Easy by Mark Taylor

Wapping - Limehouse - Shadwell

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Price of bottomless chicken wings and Corona beer for 60 minutes at Skylight

Skylight is spread over the top two oors of a former car park at Tobacco Dock in Wapping

what’s on things to do, places to go, people to see

Where? The George Tavern Shadwell

GIG | The New Eves

Audiences can expect dishevelled elegance and witchy energy from this quartet as they celebrate the launch of their latest single in east London. Jul 18, 8pm, £9, thegeorgetavern.london

Where?

Troxy Limehouse

GIG | Men I Trust

Following phenomenal demand, a second London date comes for the Canadian indie dreampoppers to follow their sell-out show at the Roundhouse. Jul 20, 7pm, from £26.25, troxy.co.uk

Where?

Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

by Jon Massey

That Tobacco Dock has a semi-secret rooftop bar is no great revelation. Skylight has been plying its trade over the top two oors of a former car park in Wapping for years. However, what is new for 2023 is that this superbly anarchic spot – complete with petanque, croquet, shu e board and table tennis – is using the power of fried chicken to tempt punters upstairs.

bottomless

The bar’s Swings And Wings promotion o ers an hour of bottomless wings tossed in either Korean Gochujang sauce or New York Bu alo dressing plus Corona beers for £19.99 per person (non-alcoholic alternatives available).

The o er runs from 5pm-7pm on Thursdays and all day on Sundays.

Should the wings not prove appealing, the venue also o ers bottomless Mexican brunch for £34.95pp or Amigo Thursdays with a bowl of food and a Corona for £10.

The venue also hosts special events including a

Garage Brunch Rooftop Party on July 15 (from £15) and The Label Summer Skylight party promising unbeatable cocktails and summer vibes (from £12.62).

July is

Failing that, in hot weather this is a great place to catch a breeze and hammer some hoops with the City skyline in the background. Go to skylightbars.com for more information

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STAGE | Ida Barr: Not Dead

Music hall meets urban r’n’b as “the people’s pensioner” presents her very own brand of Arti cial Hip Hop. Presented by comedian Kit Green. Jul 12, 7.30pm, from £8.50, wiltons.org.uk

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The George Tavern o ers comfy leather seats, a luxuriously appointed stage and a capacious garden plus extensive gra ti in the toilets – the perfect environment to see live music in east London with a bit of dry ice to boot thegeorgetavern.london

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how Skylight o ers a plethora of reasons to climb the stairs to a disused car park for wings and more

party on the

Skylight at Tobacco Dock o er drinks, wings and plenty of games in Wapping

what’s on things to do, places to go, people to see

Where? Craft Central Isle Of Dogs

ART | Unbroken Ukraine

This exhibition and art sale of work by Kids And Art For Ukraine will showcase more than 200 works in celebration of love, support, solidarity and freedom. Jul 10-23, 11am-7pm, free, craftcentral.org.uk

Where?

Bartlett Park

Poplar

KIDS | The Promise

Part opera, part environmental event, this outdoor production for ages 6+ follows a lost girl who makes a promise to plant some seeds. Will you too? Jul 18, 2pm, 5pm, pay-what-you-feel, poplarunion.com

Where? The Space Isle Of Dogs

STAGE | You Wake Up / Octopus

Billed as an interactive, immersive journey where audiences play a newly conscious octopus on a quest to nd its missing mother. Surreal. Jul 14-16, 7.30pm, pay-what-you-choose, space.org.uk

ash back

This is Mark Ewbank, joint artistic director of Otisdotter, the theatre company behind Lady Inger by Henrik Ibsen, which runs at The Space until July 8 with performances at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £16 space.org.uk

Scan this code to read our interview with Mark about Ibsen’s most brutal play at wharf-life.com

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Bookable events that still have tickets as the Islander Festival comes to Goodluck Hope

Islander Festival is set to enliven Goodluck

by Jon Massey

The Islander Festival is set to bring a cluster of varied events to Ballymore’s Goodluck Hope development in Leamouth. – in July. While some activities have already sold out, others are still taking bookings with the following still available at the time of going to press:

● A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Orchard Dry Dock

The Walking Theatre Company

July 2, 4.30pm, £22.38

Like strolling? Like Shakespeare? Then this could be the one for you. Expect to roam around as Puck and friends make mischief for a couple of hours. Ticket includes a welcome drink and a donation to charity.

● Drag Bingo

The Lantern Room

Sheila Simmonds

July 19, 6.30pm, £20

Sheila dons the glad rags for an evening of music, comedy and,

presumably bingo. Ticket includes a welcome drink and a charitable contribution to Opening Doors.

● Summer Show

Trinity Art Gallery

Various Artists

July 20, 6pm, FREE

Take a look at the work of painters, sculptors, ceramicists and photographers, meet the artists and network away at the launch of the gallery’s latest seasonal show.

● Sunrise Yoga

The Lantern Room

Hum Yoga

July 21, 27, 7am, £10 ead up to the th oor of Douglass Tower at Goodluck Hope for a wellness class with a view. Tickets (which will go quickly) include a juice and a donation to homeless charity Caritas Anchor House.

● Islander Carnival

Orchard Dry Dock

Various Attractions

July 22, noon-9pm, from FREE

The centrepiece of the festival, this all-day carnival will feature food, drinks, live music, market stalls,

talks, film screenings and more. Worth blocking out in your diary.

● Mead & Honey Masterclass

Trinity Art Gallery

Afon Mel

July 26-27, 6.30pm, £27.80

Discover the delights of this drink and the stuff it’s made from with a producer that has more than 35 years of history working in the field. Tasting lasts minutes and tickets include a charitable donation.

● High Altitude + Island Wines

The Lantern Room

Wanderlust Wine

July 29, 4pm, 6.30pm, £25

Taste wines from the Canaries, Sardinia and The Azores – all grown at high altitudes – while gazing over Canary Wharf and the Thames with these two wine tastings. Likely to sell out fast. Go to goodluckhope.com

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Hope with free and paid for events (especially on July 22)

Events include wine tastings mead tastings, a day-long carnival and sunrise Yoga

£8.50

For a plate of bangers, mash and peas at The Job Centre in Deptford High Street

It might not be fancy, but it’s plentiful, lling, warm and good for the soul

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Where? The Albany Deptford

EVENT | Standards - My Right To Safety

Hosted by Amaarah Roze, this networking party for those ages 11+ promises an evening of art, conversation and celebration. Expect performances. Jul 14, 7pm, pay what you want, thealbany.org.uk

Where?

Brunel Museum

Rotherhithe

GIG | HEXAD - After Byrd

The musical collective head underground to Brunel’s tunnel shaft for an evening of music by Byrd, Aleotti, Leonarda, McDowall and more.

Jul 20, 7.15pm, £15, thebrunelmuseum.com

Where?

The Albany Deptford

how

by Jon Massey

hen it opened, The Job Centre in Deptford High Street became a sort of lightning conductor for those enraged by the threat of gentri cation.

How dare anyone open a fancy pub serving craft beer in a deprived area, seemingly making fun of the fact that its premises had previously been used as a job centre.

Many years down the line,

the pub endures and feels, ironically, pretty much at the heart of its community.

WLike many places in Deptford, the only attitude behind the bar is one of non-judgmental welcome. Its house beer raises money to help those su ering as a result of the con ict in Ukraine and the drinkers are a pleasingly diverse cohort.

Better still, it’s seriously good value. Service comes with a smile and why not, when you’re delivering a hefty plate of sausages, mash and peas soaked in a rich, unctuous gravy.

Nobody could accuse the

place of being a gastropub, but that would be to miss the point.

For £8.50, this is decent grub designed to support the consumption of several ales and it’s most welcome. In short, The Job Centre makes the most of simply being a solid local watering hole with a calm and friendly atmosphere. Go to jobcentredeptford.com

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STAGE | Hold On To The Letting Go

Prepare for maximum mentoring as 15 teenagers take audiences on a journey of learning, unlearning, rebelling and simply letting go. For all ages.

Jun 12-13, 7pm, pay what you want, thealbany.org.uk

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Zambian and Scottish musician Namvula is set to perform for south-east London promoter Tuned In London at City Hope Church in Bermondsey on July 12, kicking o on 7.30am. Tickets cost £15 tunedin.london

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The Job Centre in Deptford delivers plates of decent dinner for a surprisingly reasonable price

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by David Lefebvre Sell

David says feeling like an outsider is actually pretty normal given constant pressure to t in

You know what’s a funny paradox? Feeling like an outsider is super common. We all experience the pressure to t into di erent groups – humans are tribal in nature – and not doing so can carry a real feeling of threat.

Some people are made to feel like outsiders because of the colour of their skin or their sexuality – take your pick of the stupid reasons to bully someone. Other people carry an “otherness” internally. They have something that makes them feel separate from those around them. Being an outsider, or feeling like one, can have painful and even traumatic consequences, but it can also have some positive repercussions.

Perhaps I should rst address the straight, white, middle class elephant in the room. It’s perfectly valid to say someone like me has no experience of what it’s like to really be an outsider. This is often the case for a therapist – no-one can have personal experience of all the di culties that another individual might go through. But everyone can choose to try to understand the experience of the person they’re with.

And that’s the point.

Trying to understand people is di cult – it’s much easier to make assumptions. Outsiders challenge other people to grow and to explore di erent, possibly suppressed, parts of themselves.

Despite the need to belong, we also have the drive to become more truly ourselves. Carl Jung called this “Individuation” and it always requires some kind of rebellion against the norms of our groups. The pain of being an outsider sometimes makes us want to belong all the more strongly. But that need can make us bury the best parts of ourselves – our creativity, morals and weirdness. Society has always suppressed outcasts at rst, but name a great person from history and there’s a good chance they were a weirdo. Maybe we’d be better o if we stopped asking people to t in.

David Lefebvre Sell is a Greenwich-based psychotherapist and Yoga instructor who teaches at Third Space in Canary Wharf

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Murals in total have been placed in Woolwich to showcase the area’s heritage and to brighten up the area

by Jon Massey

Walk down the side of Woolwich’s Jobcentre Plus and you’ll find a recently installed mural decorating a once bare brick wall.

Ellen Strachan’s Work In Woolwich mural is one of five artworks commissioned by the council to brighten up the area and showcase its heritage.

“My piece looks at the past, present and future of work locally,” said Ellen, a former physics teacher who lives in Abbey Wood and decided to pursue art full time after the birth of her daughter three years ago.

“There are three large panels that have those themes and two others that were created based on the stories and creations of local residents who participated in workshops about that theme while was developing the work.

“ ome told me about their lives, while others created their own paper cut outs for inclusion in the piece.

“I hope my mural makes viewers think a little bit about the people around them – how we are reliant on each other and that everyone’s work helps us as a community. I’d like them to think a little bit about the past and all the people who have contributed to where we are now, the future and where we are going.

“It’s a time of such change, with more technology coming and jobs changing quite a lot and it was interesting to look into that.

“ nvironmental considerations

are also very important – since we’re going to need to make a huge change in how our economy works with regard to everything from transport to heating.

“If people look at the mural, hope they wonder why ’ve chosen the things that are featured and ask themselves what they would choose if they were creating a piece.”

Ellen’s work in this instance comes as printed vinyl, although she usually works in lino cut or using cut-out paper collage, which was the basis for the mural before it was digitally scanned.

“ like those techni ues – ’ve always used a pair of scissors,” she said. “Both make you think about the positive and the negative – where something is either printed or it’s not.

“The artwork for this mural has been created using paper, which makes me simplify what I’m doing and create something quite bold. t feels really good to have the piece finally unveiled.”

The council commissioned the piece as part of its Woolwich Mural Trail – a series of works by local artists created with local residents, schools and community organisations.

It joins Welcome To Woolwich by The Collective akers on Powis Street, Your Woolwich in Beresford Square by Paige Denham and Fo field Primary chool, Woolwich Scenes in Myrtle Alley by Marc Drostle and Area Of Prosperity in Barnards Close by affeera Cader Saul and Nightingale Primary School, to complete the trail.

“These stunning murals tell the personal stories and aspirations of our community, bringing

council says

Cabinet member for regeneration

>> “I’m so impressed with these special artworks and how they have instantly brightened up empty spaces in the town centre,” said Cllr Aidan Smith.

“Alongside wider improvements, which will get under way this summer, they help make Woolwich a more attractive and vibrant place for residents, businesses and shoppers.

“The upcoming works will provide improved facilities for traders in Beresford Street market including fully accessible public toilets, as well as new planting, better seating, lighting and play spaces throughout Beresford Square and Powis Street.”

Society has always suppressed outcasts. Maybe we’d be better o if we stopped asking people to t in

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how artist Ellen Strachan created one of five new murals aimed at livening up the walls of Woolwich

Top, mural at Woolwich Jobcentre Plus by artist Ellen Strachan, above. Scan the code to nd out more about Ellen’s work

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creativity and colour to Woolwich town centre,” said Greenwich Council cabinet member for equality, culture and communities, Cllr Adel Khaireh. “It’s fantastic to see how proud the artists and the school pupils are of their artwork, and to see Woolwich’s rich history brought to life.

“On behalf of the council, I’d like to thank all the different artists, community groups, schools and people who got involved and shared their memories and ideas. I hope they will all be enjoyed for many years to come.”

For Ellen, the commission was just the latest stage in her journey as an emerging artist, having gone from designing prints to selling her work through the Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency’s Made In Greenwich shop in Creek Road and Deptford Does Art in Deptford High Street under her Pigeon Loft Prints brand.

“I actually found out about the mural trail through Made In Greenwich’s May Jane Baxter,” said Ellen. “Working with them has been really great. Initially when I gave up teaching, I was very isolated as an artist until I went to Made In Greenwich –they’ve really made me feel like I’m part of a community.

“I started by doing surface pattern designs using lino cut prints. I’d take them and turn them into textile designs for products, which I’d sell through the shop.

“Then I got the chance to design the Christmas windows for Made In Greenwich, which turned out to be quite important. Greenwich Council held an open call for artists to do the Woolwich Mural Trail and so I had that as an example of working at a large scale.

“Since then, I’ve had a few more large pieces of work commis-

sioned – I’ve just been working for the past couple of weeks on a mural in Walthamstow for Crate, which is going to open a new food hall in the central shopping centre there. My piece will be on the back of one of the kiosks where people enter the space and it will welcome them.

“Working with Made In Greenwich has allowed me to build up my portfolio to apply for this kind of project.

“For example, I have another temporary mural coming up in Woolwich for the Woolwich Stories Cultural Trail, which is going to be taking place in August with some art installations and performances.

“That mural, entitled Woolwich Treepreciation will be on a disused shop front and will focus on trees – it’s showing an appreciation of the street trees in the area with hand prints and thumb prints making up the leaves.

“Local people’s words about the trees will also feature – lettering being a common feature in a lot of my work.”

Go to pigeonloftprints.com for more on Ellen’s art and products or royalgreenwich.gov.uk for more about Woolwich Mural Trail

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Where? Indigo At The O2 Peninsula

DANCE | Mums That Rave

The O2’s second venue hosts a panel talk and day party for mothers aimed at smashing stereotypes and lling dance oors – hosted by DJ Nikki Beatnik. Jul 15, 2pm, £24.90, theo2.co.uk

Where?

Visitors’ Book Cafe

Woolwich Works

COMEDY | Micky Overman + Olga Koch

Two comedians present work in progress shows, both ahead of their Edinburgh Fringe shows later in the year. Get two stand-up sets for less than £10. Jul 20, 6.30pm, from £7, woolwich.works

Where? Greenwich Theatre Greenwich

COMEDY | Not Overthinking Things

Non-binary comedian Cerys Bradley muses on divorce, awkward social interaction and being mean to work colleagues in this playful work-in-progress. Jul 20, 7.30pm, £15, greenwichtheatre.org

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There are still two dates left in Woolwich Works’ Queer Jazz season, bringing a diverse range of artists to the venue for improvisation and smooth grooves on July 13 and Aug 17. Tickets from £15 (advance) woolwich.works

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If people look at the mural I hope they wonder why I’ve chosen the things that are featured and ask what they would choose

Ellen Strachan, Pigeon Loft Prints

Three of the other artworks that can be seen on the Woolwich Mural Trail

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Ensemble Festival 2023

GORILLA CIRCUS

July 22-23, 8,30pm

The absolutely unmissable nale to Ensemble Festival –expect hair hanging, high wire and much more from this aerial spectacle outside Building 1000 at Royal Albert Dock

by Jon Massey

Clive Lyttle is smiling and there’s a glint in his eye. The artistic director of Certain Blacks is relishing the prospect of putting on four days of completely free entertainment in Royal Docks when the organisation’s Ensemble Festival returns.

Six whistle-whetting performances are set to take place on July 19 and 20, followed by a further 10 on July 22 and 23 – all adding up to a brightly coloured spectacle of newly commissioned circus, dance, art and voguing.

GHETTO FABULOUS

July 22-23, noon-7pm

Four LGBTQIA+ dancers from Manchester and Liverpool strut their stu in this family catwalk extravaganza. Audience decides the winner. Find this show at Western Gateway

FUSSY FOODIES

July 22-23, noon-7pm

Just More Productions presents the Battle Of The Pans – a game show themed around Caribbean cooking. Expect foodie facts, spices and storytelling. Find this show at Western Gateway

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The festival’s 2023 programme is its most extensive to date in Certain Blacks’ ongoing mission to bring live performance from the margins to the mainstream.

“I’d spent 17 years working for Arts Council England and I developed Certain Blacks because of the need to support a wide range of diverse artists,” said Clive. “Our first indoor festival took place in 2015 at Stratford Circus and we continue to showcase work as an arts development organisation.

“At the Arts Council, I was responsible for Newham, so I have deep contacts in the borough – my first job was as a multi-cultural arts officer for the council.”

Having worked extensively in the area, Clive made the move to Royal Docks six years ago and now lives overlooking Excel from the Flying Angel – a former seaman’s hospital for more than a century, converted into residential homes. Between there and Certain Blacks’ base at The Factory Project in Silvertown, he oversees two annual festivals – Ensemble in E16 and Heroes, last held at Shoreditch’s Rich Mix in February.

While the latter is a platform for artists to explore performances strictly for an adult audience

indoors, the former is strictly family friendly and very much out in the open air.

“Certain Blacks is part of a network called Without Walls,” said Clive, who originally wanted to be a rock star before going on to study jazz guitar in Northumbria and embarking on a career in the arts.

“It’s a national consortium of 36 festivals that work together to commission and develop innovative new work each year that can then tour the country.

“We’ve got seven new commissions including Gorilla Circus – a large scale show with high wire, trapeze and hair hanging that will be the finale of this year’s Ensemble Festival

“We’re lucky to have Arts Council funding, which gives us a little bit of money to get these shows made and then a bit of time to put a programme together. I travel to various festivals in the UK and Europe where we meet people – we’re always on the look out for artists.

“The festival is also funded by the Royal Docks Team for some smaller commissions that range from a local music collective to a Chinese dance group, an African psychedelic performance and something we’re putting together called Give And Take, which is about the politics and rights and wrongs of giving.”

These performances will mostly take place in front of Good Hotel off Western Gateway, a few minutes’ walk from Royal Victoria Dock DLR station. The finale, however, is set to take place beside Building 1000 near Royal Albert Dock DLR on the Saturday and Sunday.

“It’s a spectacular show,” said Clive. “I saw it at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival – one of the partners in Without Walls – in May and it was fantastic. Of the consortium, we’re one of the few partners putting that show on.

“It gets your heart really beating – the hair hanging may make a few people wince and the high wire act is one of the best in Europe. He doesn’t wear a harness and left me with my heart in my mouth when I saw the show last month.

“As for the rest of the performances, a lot of the programme is an open call to artists – anyone who wants to do outdoor work can apply and that can lead to

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how Certain Blacks’ Ensemble Festival is set to spread diverse performances along the docks

The Royal Docks is getting to be very much a part of the wider events ecology of London

Clive Lyttle, Certain Blacks

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performances at, say, seven or eight festivals nationwide.

“With Certain Blacks, a lot of it is putting on work and supporting artists that I’d love to see – but also pieces that are unexpected and diverse.

“It has to be fun too. We do a lot of live art, a lot of work which might challenge the audience – but Ensemble is very much PG-rated, even if the shows might make people think.

“We have the Sonia Sabri Company presenting Mughal Miniatures – The Awakening, a piece based on tiny pictures you can see in Indian temples brought to life. Then there’s Fussy Foodies: Battle Of The Pans where people can learn a few tricks about being a celebrity chef, play a few games and have a good singalong.

“Some of the themes we’ll be addressing through the Royal Docks Team commissions are ecology, being eco-friendly and how we live.

“We’ve got an event anyone can take part in called the Bench Invasion. People from Belgium are coming over with 10 benches and we’ll have local volunteers helping to put the benches down, and people can sit and talk to them – then at the end there’s a little party and an exchange of stories. It’s about slowing life down and listening.

“We’ve also got a big eco-show with the Austin Dance Theatre called Out Of The Blue – it’s a giant puppet that goes around telling stories about conservation.”

One of the few pieces to take place elsewhere will be dotComedy’s News Desk – a live rolling broadcast about events happening on the streets of Royal Docks presented in front of City Hall, delivered by comedian Richard Sharp. There isn’t even space to properly mention the interactive pub serving sounds or the rebellious hip hop dance of S.C.R.U.M

All in all, it adds up to an extensive, diverse and surprising range of work as Royal Docks beds in as a serious cultural destination in London.

Clive said: “The area is getting to be very much part of the wider events ecology of London and we want to take artists from here out into the wider world.

“One of the points about our small commissions is to start artists on that journey, so they could be commissioned by people like Without Walls.”

Go to certainblacks.com for more information

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Where?

Silverworks Island Royal Victoria Dock

GIG | Wah In The City

The hastily renamed venue (formerly Dockyards) is set to welcome the likes of Chase And Status, Andy C, pictured, and Bou for this festival of drum ‘n’ bass. Jul 9, noon-10.30pm, from £39.50, dockyards.co.uk

Where?

Royal Victoria Dock Royal Docks

SWIM

| Royal Docks 5k Swim

Take to the water for this fun and friendly distance event (which includes a free swim cap). The ideal chance to warm up for Dock2Dock in September. Jul 22, noon, £35, royaldocks.london

Where?

Good Hotel Royal Victoria Dock

ART | Types Of Happiness

British Nigerian artist Yinka has placed two of his six brightly coloured 10ft chairs in Royal Docks as part of an installation celebrating pride and strength. Ongoing, free, royaldocks.london

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Where?

Theatre Royal Stratford East Stratford

COMEDY | Fern Brady

The headliner is joined by Darren Harriott, Chloe Petts and Morgan Rees for an evening of top stand-up. Expect TV-grade comedy. Jul 21, 7.30pm, from £10, stratfordeast.com

Where?

Rule Zero

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FILM | Gamera (1965)

Bar Trash presents this giant monster or kaiju epic, released to compete with the Godzilla franchise. Breathes re and can change into a ying saucer. Junl 24, 7.30pm, £1, rulezero.co.uk

Where? London Stadium Stratford

EVENT | Monster Jam

From Burna Boy, to burnt rubber, London Stadium begins to come into its own with summer events including this monster truck derby. Radical revs. Jul 15, 3pm, from £15, monsterjam.com

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Apex Legends Split 2 Playo s bring milliondollar action as Stratford emerges as a gaming focus

by Jon Massey

It wasn’t so very long ago that cartoonist Gary Larson drew a panel entitled “Hopeful Parents” lambasting a couple watching their kid bashing the buttons on a console and dreaming of a future in 2005 with computer games experts attracting substantial salaries and free houses in return for their skills.

Fast forward to 2023 and the Apex Legends Global Series Split 2 Playo s – set to take place at the Copper Box at the Queen Elizabeth

Olympic Park from July 13-16 – pits 40 of the world’s top teams against each other with a prize pool of $1million with the victor claiming $300k. Stratford is increasingly hosting events like this. Suddenly Larson’s projection of $75,000 salaries to rescue the princess don’t seem so risible. For the uninitiated, Apex Legends is a rst-person shooter that sees squads of players battle each other until only one group remains in a virtual world that gets smaller and smaller, forcing the opponents to come together.

The tournament sees

teams compete against each other in group stages before progressing to knock-out rounds.

The tournament will be streamed on Apex’s o cial Twitch and Esports channels – the mass audiences providing the secret to the revenue for this growing, ourishing sector. Tickets to watch live start at £22.38. Go to eventbrite.com

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Tambo And Bones at Theatre Royal Stratford East is a show about hip hop, comedy, music and activism, featuring the talents of Rhashan Stone and Daniel Ward and running until July 15, so there’s plenty of time to see it stratfordeast.com

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14, 18 acc. Dispatch a group of black birds (1,6,2,5)

16. A crowd in disarray can lack bravery (6)

19. A cone, confusingly, needs paddling (5)

21. One can last a very long time (3)

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1. Specialised group (4,5)

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9. German beer fair (11)

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12. Spanish island (5)

13. Competitive running (6) 15. Insist on (6)

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. Rigorous 20. Sensational (11) 22. Up to the time (3)

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2. Enquire (3)

3. Fast broadband (5)

4. Old TV shows (6) . Foes

6. Injurious (11)

. Pompous 10. Hanging on (11)

. Beginning 16. Savours (6)

19. Ride a bike (5) 21. Donkey (3)

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