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Islington Tribune – by PETER GRUNER
Published: 21 August 2009
Shiri Shalmy
One year on… and gallery lies empty
A YEAR after arts exhibitions were kicked out of a converted public toilet in 115-acre Finsbury Park, the building remains empty.
And this week a row blew up over the eviction of arts promoter Shiri Shalmy from the gallery [...]
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Don McCullin at the National Media Museum
By Francis Hodgson
Published: July 31 2009 23:06 | Last updated: July 31 2009 23:06
The travel writer Norman Lewis became a close friend of Don McCullin while they were travelling on assignments together for The Sunday Times. “I learnt from him,” Lewis told his biographer Julian Evans, “how beautiful [...]
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Anger as art gallery shows sculpture of suicide bomber girl
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Last updated at 10:12 AM on 23rd July 2009
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‘Offensive’: Little Terror, the 3ft ‘artwork’ by Mason Storm at Gallery 90 in Finsbury Park
An art gallery has provoked controversy [...]
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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition
If you enjoyed the Transport Museum’s Art of the Poster exhibition and are a dab hand at design yourself then you’ve got just over 3 weeks left to enter the Poster Design Competition which is being run by the Museum, TFL and the London Design Festival.
The brief is [...]
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[from This Is London]
Happy-go-lucky Sally wins string of awards ahead of Golden Globes
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent
18.12.08
THE winners of the Golden Globes are yet to be named, and the Oscar nominations are still to come – but one British actress has already collected a string of awards this year.
Sally Hawkins has won the hearts of [...]
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[from The Independent]
How do I look? Megane Quashie, Singer, 27
Interview by Charlotte Philby
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Portrait by Immo Klink
“I’m Finsbury Park through and through. You see that in my attitude and you see my attitude in what I’m wearing.”
I’m bringing the ghetto back to retro. But in a good way – not like [...]
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Three major events at Stroud Green Library this month.
On Saturday, 22nd November at 1.30 onwards there will be a Craft Fair, supported by Stroud Green Residents Association which will be providing refreshments.
Our evening talk on Monday, 24th November at 7.30pm will be given by Shosh Morris. She is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists [...]
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[from gaywisefestival]
Visual Arts Exhibition @ McKenzie Pavilion Gallery Space
McKenzie Pavilion is in the Finsbury Park, next to Cafe & pond area. 5 mins walk from Finsbury Park or Manor House Tube (Piccadilly line)
Mon. 10 to Fri. 28 Nov 08. Entry Free 12- 6 PM (including weekends)
Private View Mon. 10 Nov. (by invitation)
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[from Screen Daily]
Broken Lines
Broken Lines (2007)
Lee Marshall in Venice
28 Aug 2008 11:09
Dir: Sallie Aprahamian. UK. 2008. 113mins.
Immersed in the gritty multicultural realities and historical short-circuits of life in the northern suburb of Finsbury Park, Broken Lines is one of the rare films that nails the odd flavour of contemporary London. Like Shane Meadows’ recent Somers [...]
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[from John Jones web site]
Best in Show
Curated by Pearce and Ramsey
2 – 31 October
Exhibition at the John Jones Project Space
PV 2nd October 6.30 – 8.30pm
Goldsmiths alumni Pearce & Ramsey exhibit a showcase of the best graduate talent across the UK. Twenty years on from Freeze, the exhibition that launched the YBAs, Pearce & Ramsey place [...]
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