Category: This month
Debate, play and laugh the night away at at the Enlightenment Café
The Enlightenment Café is a unique theatrical project that combines the beauty of science with the power and imagination of immersive performance. Originating from the Coffee Houses of the 17th century, Enlightenment Cafés (also known as Penny Universities) were ‘theatres of exchange’ and social hubs for new thinking in science, philosophy, politics and arts – [...]
1920s night at Cabarera
Cabarera is a themed cabaret/comedy night which transports you to a different era each month. This month you’re going back to the roaring 1920′s! The eclectic line up includes the wonderful Pippa Evans (as seen on Channel 4’s The Morgana Show, BBC’s The Wrong Door & Fast and Loose) and acclaimed puppeteer Aya Nakamura who [...]
Listen to Skinny Lister at their free Vintage Store Pop-up Tour
Officially crowned the hardest working band in Britain due to their unrivalled number of performances at UK festivals last year, Skinny Lister are proud to announce a personal best, and the first of its kind: the free Vintage Store Pop-up Tour - four performances, four different east London venues, one afternoon. After a glowing New [...]
Talk: Hollywood fashion in London in the early 1930s
If you are interested in Thirties fashion in the capital then head to “Flooded With Little Joan Crawfords” – Hollywood in London in the 1930s, an illustrated talk by Amber Butchart as part of Beyond Retro’s 10th Birthday Celebrations. As one half of The Broken Hearts DJs duo, Amber was once head buyer at Beyond [...]
Weekend must: Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair
One of London’s leading vintage fashion, accessory & textile events is taking place monthly at Old Finsbury Town Hall, showcasing 50 of the finest dealers from all over the globe. The Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair sells mens and womenswear from the 1800s to the Eighties, plus hosiery, fabrics, buttons, lace, hats, bags, shoes and plenty more. [...]
Vintage Bollywood – watch Deewar, the film which inspired Slumdog
Take a walk on the dark side of Seventies Bollywood. Enter a world of sex, drugs and smuggling. Meet gangsters and their molls. Get down and dirty in the slums, where it all began. Deewar (1975) has been given the Bollywood Bitesized treatment – the venue will reflect the mean streets of Seventies Bombay and [...]
