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In collaboration with Red Cross Refugee Week 2013, four famous London faces are making miniature appearances at different locations across the city until June 23. The tiny sculptures, designed by artist Marcus Crocker, not only all have a strong affiliation with the city, but their historical roots all derive from their refugee backgrounds. Queen legend Freddie Mercury, painter Lucian Freud, the first Governor of the Bank of England Sir John Houblon and architect Richard Rogers were all refugees who fled their residing countries in the face of violence and persecution. A Syrian family and aid worker will join the high-profile models and will be displayed in front of buildings that are relevant to them, to celebrate the impact the figures have had on British culture, as well as heightening awareness of refugee issues. Watch your step…
For more info, see the Red Cross Blog.
Tags: charity, freddie mercury, marcus crocker, Red Cross, Red cross refugee week, richard rogers, sir john houblon, syria
A new week means more inexplicable quips overheard from your fellow Londoners. Here’s what your ears picked up this week… Read the full post…
Tags: #wordonthestreet, overheard in london, word on the street
A couple of weeks back we told you about CityMapper – by far the slickest, most intuitive, most downright useful travel app ever to grace the capital’s smartphones. The honeymoon period has been fantastic – oh, the journeys we’ve had. The 38 to Dalston Junction. Central line to Tottenham Court Road. It’s been ruddy magical.
However, we’re a fickle bunch and as such have to admit that our eyes have been straying toward a hot new piece of technological crumpet – Station Master. The culmination of a year’s research, the emphasis here is less on showing you how to get where you’re going (although its ‘best exit’ feature does that very well indeed) and more about slackening your jaw with maps, statistics and facts, all of which it has in mind-blowing depth and detail.
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Tags: app, Station Master, TFL, transport, travel, tube
Feeling a little under the weather and want try an unorthodox (albeit exhilarating) remedy? Get down to one of the many events being put on for London Creativity and Wellbeing Week (until June 22). The annual event aims to support the growing body of evidence that arts and creativity can aid health, through a wide variety of debates, discussions, performances and exhibitions, tours and practical workshops happening all over London. Here are a few things we’re particularly looking forward to… Read the full post…
Tags: Clapham, community company, cooltan arts, creativity and wellbeing week, Euston, london arts in health forum, midnight walk, old vic new voices, souzou collection, the wellcome collection
We told you last November about the East London Fawcett Society’s project Heartbreak Launderette which started as an art exhibition in a Bethnal Green launderette of women’s reactions to break ups. It has since developed into a full blown campaign looking into the double standards of the media when it comes to women, celebrity break-up culture and why so often women are subjected to being shamed for what goes on in their personal lives. Not only have they been thinking about the way this affects society as a whole, but they’ve been focusing on its impact on young people. Read the full post…
Tags: bethnal greem shoreditch house, east london fawcett, feminism, heartbreak launderette, journalism, media, politics, sex, sex education, women
Did you pick up your Time Out magazine this morning? If so, you’ll already be enjoying our glorious guide to spending summer nights out in London, plus guides to outdoor cinema screenings and boat parties for clubbing fans. You might be perusing our interviews with the Pet Shop Boys, the Killers and ‘wobbly comedian’ Grancesca Martinez; reading our preview of Somerset House’s ‘El Bulli’ gallery show or the creative visionaries exhibiting at the Hayward gallery; discovering London’s best hairdressers; setting your DVR to catch the blockbuster TV dramas coming to your living room, or perhaps just cringing at the idea of silent speed-dating.
We’ve got a nice little guide to European city breaks, too: Lisbon, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and more inside.
If you missed out on the mag, go pick one up from hundreds of locations, or subscribe for just 50p a week.
Tags: outdoors, pet shop boys, summer nights, the killers, time out magazine
We love @ShitTats‘ Twitter feed so we asked its creator Dom Copinger for his top 10 Shit London tattoos of all time and why the hell he started tweeting about crappy tattys in the first place. Here’s what he said: Read the full post…
Tags: big ben, boris johnson, dom copinger, going underground, london eye, london skyline, olympic flame, only fools and horses, Prince William, Shittats, tattoo, top 10, top ten, tube, twitter
You may have mastered the downward facing dog years ago but now it’s time for your dogs to hit the yoga mats because ‘doga’ – or ‘dog yoga’ if you don’t want people to ask you the awkward ‘what’s doga?’ question – has come to London.
It is believed that ‘doga’ helps both owner and canine to relax by slowing their breathing which can improve both species’ immune systems. But how are you supposed to make a free-willed animal sit still and become one with the world? Hoisting them up into the air or using them as a pillow it seems. Mahny Djahanguiri, the brains behind London’s new trend, has admitted that the first 30 minutes of each session is usually ‘chaotic’ but reassures potential participants that ‘once the owner starts to relax… the dog will feel that too.’ Unsurprisingly, these classes are mainly taught in Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Fulham and Camden and cost £16 per class. We’re not sure if this trend is barking mad or barking up the right tree but either way, it’s here to stay… good boy. Carly-Ann Clements
Tags: Camden, carly-ann clements, Chelsea, dog yoga, Doga, fulham, Hammersmith, kensington, mahnt djahanguiri, pets
The supple Serbian may not be the first tennis player that springs to mind when you think of on-court-fashion (or even the fifth person), but he’s applied his steely perfectionism to a capsule performance range of tennis gear for Uniqlo and completely aced it. Each limited edition set is inspired by a tennis competition – so a mint-green duo is designed to offset the Roland Garros clay, while Wimbledon gets a pristine set in regulation whites. Intrigued? You can meet the man himself in store tonight from 7pm, where he’ll be introducing the collection, taking questions about his service, and hopefully doing his legendary Nadal and Sharapova impressions if we ask nicely.
311 Oxford St, W1C 2HP. For info, see uniqlo.com. Find out more about Wimbledon 2013.
Tags: Novak Djokovic, oxford street, shopping, tennis, uniqlo, wimbledon
Psst! Can you keep a secret? Yeah, us neither. Clearly. Welcome to the mysterious world of Lost Summertime. What’s that? Well that’d be telling… oh, go on then.
Lost is a shifty-eyed lecturing society here to provide talks on science, art, technology, design, blogging, entertainment and pretty much everything else you could dare to dream of in secret spaces across the city. These guys like to keep their ‘Enchanting Talks from Secret Locations’ on the down-low so all we can reveal is that the next Lost Lectures will be on July 19 and 20. They’ll feature four of the most innovative, world-class lecturers and speakers, alongside innovative musical accompaniment to get all that inspiration suitably rocking. And naturally, if we told you any more, we’d have to kill you.
Penetrate the secrecy here at Lostlectures.com. July 19th is now sold out but there are some tickets left for July 20. Go go go…
Tags: european talks, lectures, lost lectures, lost summertime, talks
