Shining a light on the everyday issues that matter to Londoners
Today we’re getting our literary heads on and getting linguistic with a look at Winning Words, a project that aims to “enhance people’s lives through poetry” by leveraging the imminent celebrations with the Games kicking off at the end of the month.
“Using the Olympic Games as a spring-board, poetry will leap off the pages and into the physical spaces around us”.
Already partnering a host of community-based schemes in and around London and further afield, this includes: Get Set …
On a warm Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, London Living headed to Hackney Road for our eagerly-awaited Art Licks tour.
If you haven’t heard of Art Licks, they are, in their own words, a ‘creative and social guide taking you steps beyond the commercial and the mainstream.’
Art Licks run whistle-stop tours of London areas such as Peckham and Hackney, diving into the rich culture and artistic happenings taking place in those boroughs of …
It was a fascinating night out recently when London Living took a trip over to the Old Queen’s Heads in Islington to an All Ears event exploring the highs and lows of London life – in other words, the things we Londoners love and hate about our home town.
It was a thought-provoking evening as a homeless man, a London entrepreneur and a Tower of London Beefeater took to the stage to share their London stories with a captive audience, providing the unsung heroes …
At London Living, we know that listening to and experiencing music is often a very personal experience; hearing a familiar melody can bring back memories in haunting detail, while a new song can excite and inspire. As John Lennon once said, ‘Music is everybody’s possession’.
This is the principle behind a new project to map South London’s black music by artist Barby Asante and brought to our attention by the ever-wonderful Londonist. The South London Black Music Archive at Read more …
