Francesca Cacciarru's articles
Scott Matthew makes The Garage go acoustic
It is always a pleasure to seep through the long queue of teenagers heading to The Garage’s main room and sneak in through a side door to ‘The Upstairs’: an intimate, red-lit, drink-friendly little room, set up and ready for independent artist Scott Matthew to [Read More]
Holloway Arts Festival: Ibsen’s Ghosts and live music come together
The Holloway Arts Festival continued, June 5th, for an amazing evening in North London. Out of London rain and into the Old Fire Station, you could find yourself immersed in a friendly and lively atmosphere where live music, theatre and art merged for a full three-hour [Read More]
My life below the poverty line, 7th-11th May 2012
Earlier on this year, I signed up for Live Below the Line 2012, which we reported about last month here. Like in 2011 – when Australia launched it and the US and UK soon joined in – this year’s challenge was to eat ‘below the line’ for five days, to raise funds [Read More]
The West goes hungry with Live Below the Line
Last month, in an article called Could you live on £1 a day?, we announced the launch of Live Below the Line, the anti-poverty campaign and fundraising crusade that has now officially kicked off. This is an event of international proportion, involving the UK, US, Australia [Read More]
Alchemy – a festival for the UK and the Indian sub-continent
Lovers of Indian and south-Asian cultures will definitely not want to miss this weekend’s festival in Southbank Centre. Alchemy 2012 – a project developed with collaborations from British Council, the Nehru Centre and Pan Asian Women Association among plenty of other [Read More]
Could you live on £1 a day?
A major fundraising event took place across the UK, Australia and the USA last year involving thousands of people and receiving huge media attention. It was the poverty awareness campaign Live Below the Line, coordinated by education and campaigning organisation Global [Read More]
Don’t miss out – street artist Olek crochets an entire room
If the first thing springing to your mind at the word ‘exhibition’ is paintings or photographs, endless captions to read or ancient stuff to peruse, street artist Olek will revolutionise your thinking in less than a second. From the rainy roads and hostile puddles of [Read More]
Ghost stories and the supernatural – the gothic side of Charles Dickens at the British Library
Two hundred years ago, Charles Dickens was only a two-week-old toddler, born in Portsmouth to a family that moved several times before settling in London in 1822. It is here that he experienced the city’s poverty and darkness as well as his own family’s financial [Read More]
Celebrating Charles Dickens at the Museum of London
On February 7 Britain celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, with a wreath-laying ceremony which took place in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey. For those of us who could not find a ticket, aren’t either actors or royal family, or simply missed it [Read More]
Celebrating Death at Southbank Centre & The Poetry Takeaway
It is all about the Ultimate Equalizer, the Grim Reaper, the Blessed Release – call it however you like, the great theme of this month’s Festival in lively Southbank Centre remains a very fascinating one: Death. From Jan. 27 to 29, it is indeed a celebration for the [Read More]
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