One of my favourite groups, Climate Rush, are coming out of what you could call a period of hibernation. It ends officially on 13 October at Toynbee Hall, more at http://www.climaterush.co.uk/

Climate Rush in 2008

is the name of a group show on theme of cultural hybridity (isn’t all culture a hybrid?) that opens today. It features the legendary Al Braithwaite, along with Aya Haidar, Shezad Dawood, Lale Tara, Mohamed Abdulla, Sonia Balassian; it’s at Belgravia House, London, and closes on 31 October.

A town hall (the very one where I once gave a talk to 12 people)

What was to be a ‘town hall tour’ to launch the government’s Big Society, is no longer going ahead. Was it such a good idea in the first place? The tour, that is. At its most pared-down, Big Society embodied a shift away from a centralized, nationwide approach to community. So why not get things going with a nationwide tour directed from, er, the capital..?

by the Charity Commission at least. And about time, says the inimitable King Arthur.

that might be good. In London, ‘Muniments: Iran’, by Afshin Dehkordi is at Black Dog Space, 10a Acton Street, WC1X 9NG, 1 October – 10 November. For a taster: http://dehkordi.co.uk/ (but avoid the terrible press release if you can). Also in London is Parastou Forouhar, Leighton House, 1 October – 6 November, some images should be on Rose Issa’s website. Continue reading →