HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
As you can appreciate, living in London, culture is my lifeblood, it forms and creates me as a person and with so much choice going on all the time, it teaches me constantly. This is the round up of Theatre, Cinema, Exhibitions, Restaurants, Bars, Events & literature I experienced in 2022.
THEATRE
Jan - A Fight Against… - Upstairs at The Royal Court Theatre
Jan - The Glow - Downstairs at The Royal Court Theatre
Frb - Hamlet - Eddie Izzard one man show - Riverside Studios
Feb - Ava:The Secret Letters - Riverside Studios
Mar - Henning Whein - Hackney Empire Theatre (Comedy)
Mar - Outside In - The London Vaults Theatre (I inspired this play and helped write it)
April - For the Black Boys Who Considered Suicide When The Hue Got too Heavy - The Royal Court Theatre
April - Jerusalem - Apollo Theatre
April - La Boheme - Kings Head Theatre
May - The 47th - The Old Vic Theatre
May - The Haunting of Susan A - Kings Head Theatre
June - To Whom It May Concern - The Kiln (helped workshop this play)
July - This Is Not Who I Am - Downstairs at The Royal Court Theatre
Aug - Margot Le Rouge/Le Villi - Holland Park Opera (Opera)
Aug - Jack Absolute Flies Again - Olivier Stage, National Theatre
Sept - Eureka Day - The Old Vic Theatre
Oct - Jews In Their Own Words - Downstairs Royal Court Theatre
Oct - It Takes Two - Hen & Chicken Theatre
Oct - Life Of Pi - Wyndhams Theatre
Oct - Marvellous - @SohoPlace Theatre
Oct - The Crucible - Olivier Stage, National Theatre
Nov - Tammy The Musical - Almeida Theatre
Nov - Baghdaddy - Jerwood Stage, Royal Court Theatre
Dec - Don’t Shoot The Albatross - Canal Cafe Theatre
Dec - Kelly Jackson - Dorfman Stage - National Theatre
Dec - Jive Aces - Aldwych Theatre (Music & Dance)
Dec - A Christmas Carol - The Old Vic Theatre
Dec - The Nutcracker - ENB - The London Coliseum (Ballet)
Dec - 2:22 A Ghost Story - The Criterion Theatre
CINEMA
Jan - Liquorice Pizza - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Spiderman: No Way Home - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Bliss (X Fringe) - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Scream- Genesis Cinema
Jan - Belfast - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Nightmare Alley - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Sing 2 - Genesis Cinema
Jan - Parallel Mothers - Genesis Cinema
Feb - Souvenir II - Genesis Cinema
Feb - Jackass Forever - Genesis Cinema
Feb - Uncharted - Genesis Cinema
Feb - Charlie Chaplin (Documentary + Q&A) - Genesis Cinema
Feb - The Power of The Dog - Genesis Cinema
Mar - The Batman - Genesis Cinema
Mar - Red Rocket - Genesis Cinema
Mar - X - Stratford Picturehouse
Mar - The Lost City - Empire Cinema, Leicester Square
Mar - The Worst Person In The World - Genesis Cinema
Apr - Morbius - Genesis Cinema
Apr - Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Genesis Cinema
Apr - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - Genesis Cinema
Apr - The Bad Guys - Genesis Cinema
Apr - The Northman - Genesis Cinema
Apr - The Unbearable Weight Of A Massive Talent - Genesis Cinema
Apr - Enio Morricone (Documentary) - Lexi Cinema
Apr - Downton Abbey (Q&A with Costume Designer) - Regent Street Cinema
May - Dr. Strange & The Madness of The Multiverse - Genesis Cinema
May - Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Genesis Cinema
May - Who Killed The KLF (Documentary + Q&A) - The Social
May - Lix Arteana - Genesis Cinema
Jun - Top Gun:Maverick - Genesis Cinema
Jun - Jurassic Park: Dominion - Genesis Cinema
Jun - Lightyear - Genesis Cinema
Jun - Good Luck To You Leo Grande - Genesis Cinema
Jun - Minions: The Rise of Gru - Odeon Luxe Leicester Square
Jun - Elvis TCB - Genesis Cinema
Jul - Thor: Love & Glory - Genesis Cinema
Jul - The Grey Man - Genesis Cinema
Jul - Little Women - Screen On The Canal
Jul - Where The Crawdads Sing - Genesis Cinema
Jul - Super Pets - Genesis Cinema
Jul - Afterlight (Documentary Essay + Q&A) - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Manifesto (Documentary + Q&A with Jeremy Corbyn) - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Bullet Train - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Hit The Road - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Fire of Love (Documentary) - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Lucky (Apple Original) - Genesis Cinema
Aug - The Old School (Documentary + Q&A with Alan Cumming) - NFT1 Screen BFI
Aug - Official Competition - Genesis Cinema
Aug - Beast - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Tad The Lost Explorer and The Curse of The Mummy - Genesis Cinema
Sep - See How They Run - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Crimes Of The Future - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Clerks III - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Moonage Daydream (Documentary) - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Cathy, Called Birdy - Genesis Cinema
Sep - Snowflake - Close Up Cinema
Oct - Emily - NFT1 Screen BFI
Oct - Monsoon (+ Director Q&A) - Arthur & Paula Lucas Lecture Theatre - Kings College
Oct - Allelujah - London Film Festival - Premier - Royal Festival Hall
Oct - Lyle The Crocodile - Genesis Cinema
Oct - Black Adam - Genesis Cinema
Oct - The Banshees of Innishirin - Genesis Cinema
Oct - Encounters Over Several Plants (art) - Tate Modern
Oct - Triangle of Sadness - Genesis Cinema
Nov - Living - Genesis Cinema
Nov - Decision To Leave - Genesis Cinema
Nov - Wakanda Forever - Genesis Cinema
Nov - The Glass Onion:A Knives Out Film - Genesis Cinema
Nov - She Said - Genesis Cinema
Dec - Matilda The Musical - Genesis Cinema
Dec - Lynch/Oz (Documentary Essay) - Genesis Cinema
Dec - Avatar: Way of The Water 3D - BFI Laser Imax, Waterloo
Dec - I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Genesis Cinema
EXHIBITIONS
Jan - Leigh Bowery - Fitzrovia Chapel
Jan - Shackleton - Royal Geographical Society
Feb - Ash, Ember, Flame: A Japanese Kiln In Oxford - Embassy Of Japan
Feb - Mac Collins: The Ralph Steadman Prize - Design Museum
Feb - Hogarth In Europe - Tate Britain
Mar - We Gather - Craft Council Gallery
Mar - Out & About - The Curve - Barbican
Mar - Take A Moment by Barbiston - Piccadilly Lights
Mar - HIstory of House Of Vans - House of Vans, Waterloo
Mar - The Procession by Hew Locke - Tate Britain
Mar - Fighting Anti-Semitism from Dreyfus to Today - Weiner Library
Apr - One For The Women by Dark Yellow Dot - Genesis Cinema
Apr - The Travel Bureau - Whitechapel Art Gallery
Apr - Rooted Beings - Welcome Gallery
May - Prostitutes Cabinet - English Prostitutes Collective - Bishopsgate Institute
May - Breaking The News - British Library
May - Photo London - Somerset House
May - Dreamachine - Unboxed - Woolwich Indoor Market
May - John Heduk: London Masque - Royal Academy Of Arts
Jun - Magnificent Maps of London - Metropolitan Museum
Jun - The Cabinet Office - National Archives, Kew
Jun - Archives On Film:Celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - National Archives, Kew
Jun - The 1920s: Beyond The Roar - National Archives, Kew
Jun - In The Air - Wellcome Collection
Jun - The Other Shakespear - Royal Geographical Society
Jun - Walter Sickert - Tate Britain
Jun - Cornelia Parker - Tate Britain
Jun - Althea McNish: Colour Is Mine - William Morris Gallery
Jul - Grime Stories: From The Corner To The Mainstream - Museum of London
Jul - Black Heritage Collection - Museum of London
Jul - - Whitechapel Art Gallery
Jul - Beatrix Potter:Drawn To Nature - V&A Museum
Jul - The Connor Brothers:Mythomania - Maddox Gallery, Notting Hill
Aug - Jill Craigie:Film Pioneer - BFI Mezzanine Gallery
Aug - Fashioning Masculinity:The Art of Menswear - V&A Museum
Aug - Maxim Zhestkov:Waves - Launch Night - W1 Curates
Aug - Labain Hamid - Tate Modern
Aug - Gallery 31:Swimmers Limb - Somerset House
Sep - The Bigger Picture by Qido - Genesis Cinema Gallery
Sep - Design Museum
Sep - Tom Dixon at 20 - Tom Dixon HQ, Granary Square, Kings Cross.
Sep - Science Gallery, London Bridge
Sep - Comfortable Cities - City Centre Gallery
Sep - The City Model & Exhibition - City Centry Gallery
Sep - Little Palette by Sebastian Chaumeton - Maddox Gallery, Maddox Street.
Oct - Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright: 50 Years of a British Comic Legend - Cartoon Museum
Oct - The Carpenters Line - Japan House
Oct - States Of Oneness:Kamala Ibrahim Ishag - Serpentine Gallery South
Oct - Beyond Nature:Jeff Rob - The Crypt, St. Pancras Church
Oct - Banking & Slavery - Bank Of England Museum
Oct - This Exhibition Is A Work Event: The Tale Of Boris Johnson - Cartoon Museum (My work with Mike Stokoe - The Best Of Times.. The Worst of Times… is hanging in this exhibition)
Oct - Infinite Folds:Barbara Chase-Riboud - Serpentine Gallery North
Oct - Frieze Art Fair - Regents Park
Oct - Fara Thomas: Bright Light City (Private View) - Select Gallery
Oct - Everest Through The Lens - Royal Geographical Society
Oct - Reimagining The Musical - V&A Museum
Oct - Caroline Wong:Artificial Paradises - St. James & Soho Club
Oct - Politics of Charm: Women, Bame, Queers & Progress - Cicek Art Gallery
Nov - There Was A Time: Jewish Family Photographs - Weiner Library
Nov - In Plain Sight - Wellcome Collection
Nov - Butterfly Effect: Lily Mixe - Saatchi Gallery
Nov - Studio Response - Saatchi Gallery
Nov - Modern Landscape: Stanley Donwood - Saatchi Gallery
Nov - Marinel Sheu - W1 Curates
Nov - Lynette Yiadom Boakye - Fly In The League Of The Night - Tate Britain
Nov - Grace Ndiritu - Healing Pavilion - The Wellcome Collection
Nov - Jim Naughton - Objects In Stereo - The Wellcome Collection
Nov - Africa Fashion - V&A Museum
Dec - Cezanne - Tate Modern
Dec - Lu Yang - Neti Neti - Zabludowicz Collection
Dec - Bob Brewer - Big Yellow Circle - Dark Yellow Dot Gallery
Dec - Christopher Ionas - Portraying Our People - Wigmore Hall
Dec - Yinka Ilori - Parables for Happiness - Design Museum
Dec - Costume Design - The Alchemy of Ann & John Bloomfield - BFI Mezzanine Gallery
Dec - Stephen Chambers - The Outliers - Vigo Gallery
Dec - SixnFive - Cycles - W1 Curates
Dec - The Lost King: Imagining Richard III - The Wallace Collection
Dec - August Robin - Eclectic Exhibition - MiArt Gallery
Dec - Bill Brandt - Inside The Mirror - Tate Modern
Dec - Fred Tschida - Sphere - The Royal Festival Hall
Dec - Christopher Klarendin Thomas - Another World - Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
LITERATURE
Jan - The Innovation Illusion: How Little is Produced by so many, working so hard - Frederick Erixson & Bjorn Wiegel
Jan - Stories of The Law & How Its Broken - The Secret Barrister
Feb/March - The Shame Game: Overturning The Toxic Poverty Narrative - Mary O’Hara
April - The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey Of Hope - Dr. Denis Mukegwe
May/June - Out Of The Sun - Essays At The Crossroads of Race - Esi Edugyan
July - Tips From A Publisher: A Guide To Writing, Editing, Submitting and Publishing Your Book - Scott Peck
July - An Obstacle Course: Homelessness assistance and the right to housing in England - Amnesty International (Includes my contribution)
Aug - Tenants - Vicky Spratt
Sep - Cloud Money:Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War For Our Wallets - Brett Scott
Sep - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Oct - A History of Britain in Just A Minute - Gyles Brandreth
Nov - A Home Of One's Own:Why The Housing Crisis Matters - Hashi Mohamed
Dec - From The Silence of The Stacks New Voices Rise Vol. 3 - The London Library Anthology (Includes my essay Britain Isn’t Great).
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