Christmas is just over a month away, and if you haven’t already started thinking of gifts to buy for your loved ones or festive food, there’s no time to waste! Enter our competition for some free tickets (worth £44) for the Taste of Christmas exhibition

Ladies, can you imagine fourteen male dancers wearing white suits and white hats accompanying only one female dancer on stage? This is the opening scene of the Peacock Theatre’s current show Balé de Rua that is on tour there from the 2nd to the 20th of November.

Art and crime aren’t normally associated with one another, unless its in the context of a heist of a priceless artwork, Italian Job style. But art has always been used in prisons, mental institutions, and detainment centres to provide not just a hobby for the prisoners, but also to teach a valuable life skill.

Ai Weiwei’s installation at the Tate Modern, titled Sunflower Seeds, was meant to be handled, waded in, and even taken as a sneaky souvenir. Instead, due to health & safety regulations, it is now only enjoyed behind a safety barrier. Guest writer Matthew Miles reviews what should have been an extraordinary exhibition.

Many times over the course of our lives, we find that our appreciation of certain things take time to develop. Take a good wine for example, or a trip to the museum. For me, it has been the latter – having visited the Natural History Museum (NHM) on the last Friday of September.

Black History Month within the UK is once again upon us, allowing people of all origins to increase their knowledge of Black/African History, cultures and legacies.

One of Britain’s upcoming songwriters and singers, Lotte Mullan, has teamed up with Cafe Nero to play a series of 20 gigs across the UK, in Cafe Neros up and down the country.

Wait.. there’s a day to celebrate Apples? That’s right, this Thursday, 21st October, is a day to celebrate apples, which is of course one of the great British fruits. The apple season in Britain is now in full swing, and in case you haven’t noticed, grocers markets and even bland generic supermarkets are stocked full of interesting varieties of apples.

The Bloomsbury Festival, taking place from the 22nd to 24th October, aims to celebrate the area’s rich history with those who live, work or study there and with those who just need an extraordinary colourful weekend.

The London Film Festival programme guide has just been released today, and as usual there’s been lots of excitement about the new films gracing screens across London for the 54th film festival hosted by the BFI.