Visiting an art gallery is a high-brow activity, no? It’s something that I’ve always considered in the past. Before now, I had never visited an art gallery, which is shameful considering the multitude of such venues that we are blessed with here in London.

The Cockpit Theatre isn’t one of London’s best known, and it doesn’t come with West End glitz, but if the standard of performance of Next Door is anything to go by, it ought to be a must-visit destination. The inconspicuous theatre on the outskirts of Marylebone has a history dating back to 1969 when it was created by the Inner London Education Authority as a community theatre. It is now owned by Westminster City Council and run as part of the City of Westminster College.
Next Door is exemplary of the …

Two actresses who want to make a play which they can be in. No idea what it could be about. Ask the public for suggestions. That’s the basis of this cutting-edge, part-improvised sketch-show style comedy which addresses the issue of disability in a thought-provoking but hilarious way.

Battersea Arts Centre’s N20 Comedy Festival is in full swing with a host of one-off performances and Edinburgh Festival previews. The Storytellers’ Club is stand-up with a twist, and a value night out with laughs guaranteed…

The first time I heard about John Kenny happened when I visited the Capital Culture’s Gallery in Covent Garden back in the early summer of 2009. His then exhibition ‘Portraits from Africa’ stuck in my memory. Even though he states that he has not received an art or photography education, his works are striking.

Hotel Medea defies categorization. The work incorporates performance art, dance, theatre and audience participation to create a bizarre and surreal journey through the ancient myth of Jason and The Golden Fleece. And all on a ship, and in the middle of the night too.

The 1001 Inventions is a free, family friendly interactive exhibition which showcased at the Science Museum from January to the end of June. It leads us – the exhibition goers – through a journey of scientific, social and technological advancements made between the 7th and 17th centuries across the Islamic Empire in order to illustrate that the so-called Dark Ages were really a “Golden Age” – a period of illumination in terms of science and knowledge.

Most people have seen fire eating, pieces of material cut and magically rejoined and implausible feats of memorisation. All three of these featured during Penn and Teller’s run at the Hammersmith Apollo, which concluded the weekend that just passed. ricks and illusions are executed seamlessly with rich storytelling, verve and passionate criticism, in addition to scepticism of the magic and supernatural professions.

If you haven’t heard of the Secret Garden Party before, don’t worry, you’re not the only one! This small festival taking place in fields at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire will never rival its bigger rivals in the summer music festival genre, but it tries not to anyways. However, does it sound all too hippie with its community and run free and wild spirit?

Ellie Goulding has only been on the music scene for a couple of years now, but you wouldn’t have guessed it from her recent performance at Indigo2. After being thrust into the limelight post-BBC’s Sound of 2010 and BRIT award wins, Ellie topped the UK album chart with her debut album, ‘Lights’. In this age of all hype and no substance, could Ellie pull off a performance worthy of all the excitement?