If the thought of a standard Christmas dinner bores you slightly, then head on down to London's Pedley Street Station. There, thanks to Funicular Productions' latest offering The Greatest Snowman, you'll board a train and get whisked away on a festive journey to remember. The production company is pioneering a new form of immersive dining in the city, and like the other productions I've seen, its newest number promises to please. I don't want to give too much away, but on board the Arctic Express you'll embark on a ride peppered with laughter, lots of Christmas spirit and a range of high ji...
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If you’re looking to spice up dinner time with a dash of sensuality, book tickets to An Evening of Meat. This new provocative dinner installation promises to serve up ‘a feast of femininity where expressive dance and indulgent food meet to thoroughly inundate all the senses’. And after checking out the experience, I can promise it delivers! Heading down to one of my favourite London venues – The Vaults in Waterloo – I checked out An Evening of Meat on a Thursday night with a girlfriend. The production has transformed an area of The Vaults into a dimly-lit space to create an urban cabaret-s...
Read more →The Waldorf Project : Chapter Three / FUTURO is an immersive art experience combining gastronomy, sound art, design, architecture, choreography and theatre. Staged under the concept of the Japanese emotion ‘AMAE’, meaning ‘a temporary surrender in perfect safety’, 7 'courses' will be interwoven with radical immersive theatre, all carefully crafted and choreographed to test your responses and manipulate your emotions as you go on a trip like nothing you will ever have experienced before and ‘arrive reborn’ at the end! Testing responses and emotions, imposing feelings of tension, discomfort, fe...
Read more →Emma Symes, the Director of Pomba Girls is a passionate female performer running and hosting fabulous female- driven immersive experiences and events centred around dance and dress-up. We interviewed Emma on her journey to the Pomba Girls, her passion for music and love for dance. EMMA SYMES INTERVIEW Tell us about The Pomba Girl! Who are you and how did you come about? The "Pomba Girl" is the epiphany of a "Party Girl" - she uses the act of "Partying" to release her inhibitions and empower herself as a female. She originates from the "Pomba Gira" a transgressive female spirit belonging to...
Read more →This month, the Deep South is coming to East London. Expect live jazz from Professor Longhair, authentic soul food and plenty of cocktails at The Caledonia Club's The Closing Night.
Read more →This Halloween deep in the depths of Dalston I entered Dalston Heights attic, a large open warehouse space which was the perfectly chosen venue for the Twisted Toys Halloween party. It was the home to a cast of actors playing the role of some seriously disturbed toys, who had spent years without any human contact with only each other to play with. The toys had heard that we were coming and had decided to throw a tea party in our honour. What a treat!
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