This year’s International Women’s Day is just a couple of week’s away, on Saturday 8 March. The 2025 theme is #AccelerateAction for gender equality. Depressingly, stats show that at the current rate of progress,...
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The Shop for Mortals and Fools opens today at Stanley Arts. This is no ordinary shop however, as this shop is a site-responsive and immersive physical theatre experience, by artist and local Vinicius Salles....
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Wiggle Wonderland is coming to the Whitgift Centre… ‘What are all these ‘W’ words’ I hear you cry. Co-founders Lucy Grainge and Beau McCarthy describe Wiggle Wonderland as ‘a timber-framed, open-air gallery that can...
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Even if classical isn’t your particular musical genre, pretty much everyone knows the sound of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Originally written over three hundred years ago in 1723, the world then was obviously a very...
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An exciting new exhibition comes to Croydon next month to celebrate LGBT+ History Month which takes place across the UK each February. With my graphic design hat on, I’ve had the pleasure of working...
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Founded back in 1870, the Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society (CNHSS) explores our borough’s history, geology, archaeology, flora and fauna, by hosting talks, walks, and more. I had encountered the society a couple...
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Last October we announced that our indie and alt-rock festival, Cro Cro Land, would be making a return for its third instalment this year on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 April at the wonderful...
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Happy new year Croydon, and hello 2025! If you’re a regular reader you’ll know we begin each January with a group feature on thoughts for the year ahead, to whet our appetites for what’s...
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It’s that Twixmas time of year, when we look back at our ten favourite features from the last year. Here’s our review of 2024, in date order, of course… A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM...
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Now are you a last-minute-shopper, or a do-it-all-in-August kind of present-buyer? Are you a shop-local person or a get-it-on-Amazon-as-there’s-no-time panic-buyer? Or a combination of all of the above? It may be less than a...
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When I first set eyes on Croydonopolis by Will Noble, I thought ‘what a great cover’*. Yes yes, I forever have my graphic design hat on… But the cover definitely does do this fresh...
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This Saturday, 7 December, a new comedy show comes to town and there’s not a stand-up comedian in sight. Sketchy, by Best Before Productions is a combination of sketch and musical comedy and takes...
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Earlier this week I found myself sitting amongst a 90-strong audience in the beautiful Braithwaite Hall, eagerly anticipating the start of the inaugural Lit Nights – a modern-day take on the traditional Literary Salon,...
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After having a very hectic panto season last year with trips to not one but two Croydon pantos, we’re back on it for 2024 to find out what the ‘magical’ season has in store...
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… my true love sent to me, the LMP brass band playing… OK, I’m shoehorning metaphors again. I’m actually talking about the sixth day of December, so read on. We are only at the...
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Last month during the Walnut Fair weekend we finally made it along to Pollocks Toy Museum, which has its current temporary home near Turf Projects in the Whitgift Centre. One of the oldest toy...
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This year the spooky season spills into November as Stanley Arts’ Days of the Dead Festival takes place next week. On the festival programme there is a new immersive theatre production called Selecting a...
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Ok we may have twisted an idiom to the max there, but we are very excited to announce that our baby and Croydon’s much-loved indie and alt-rock festival, Cro Cro Land, is making a...
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October is of course Black History Month, and as part of the borough’s culture programme, there is a series of events happening on the last weekend of the month, called Reclaiming Narratives, which shines...
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It’s Autumn and that means Croydonites is back very soon. In fact the theatre and performance festival is back x 2, because they are hosting their first ever Fringe Festival from Thursday 31 October...
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