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Meet the future
Twenty 21-year-old
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life, the universe and
their city in 2021
Inside Get your skates on
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The next stage
How a theatre group on a North
Kensington estate is changing the
lives of kids affected by Grenfell
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summer. I mean, it’s not hot or dry or
anything, but that’s no reason not to
get stuck into some top ice cream
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We have a close encounter with the lads Avoid the toxic tourist hordes with
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City
life Edited by Isabelle Aron
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The Cue Point crew with Mursal Saiq (third from left)
‘Representation is so important’
Co-founder of Afghan-barbecue-inspired catering company Cue Point, Mursal Saiq, on why
refugees and immigrants working in London’s hospitality industry need more support
I WAS BORN in Kabul on the cusp of the 1990s welcoming for refugees. It was life-changing, and working in the lower levels of London hospitality
Afghan civil war. The Afghanistan my parents I realised why representation is so important. by providing English-language acquisition,
grew up in was very different to the warzone I Aiming to diversify London’s food scene, I finance management and catering qualifications.
knew. They fell in love at university and went on set up an Afghan-barbecue-inspired catering Anyone from a refugee, immigrant or racialised
dates to see westerns at the cinema. We left our company called Cue Point with my partner Josh background can apply for our programmes for
home to seek refuge: that was a lifeline. Moroney in 2017. During the pandemic, I realised free. To kickstart the project, we’ve launched a
After fleeing to Mumbai, my mum and I were that lots of London hospitality workers were not crowdfunder with a goal of £30k. Through Cue
forced to move to the UK and were separated sufficiently provided for by the welfare system, Point Kitchen, I hope to get people into careers
from my father and sisters. We lived in north especially in the lower-level jobs that are largely and to build some sort of sustainable solution.
London and were incredibly poor. My mum didn’t done by refugees and immigrants, often on zero- If we’re going to be proud of having one of the
know the asylum process. I couldn’t tell you any hours contracts. These people can be doctors or world’s most culturally diverse food industries
CUE POINT: ANDY PARSONS
memories because I’ve blocked them out. lawyers who fled their country but, because of here in London, it should be reflected in our
When I met my father and sisters again a few obstacles like language qualifications, they can’t employability from top to bottom. ■ Interview by
years later, in 2000, I didn’t know who they were. progress to the higher rungs of UK hospitality. Chiara Wilkinson
They couldn’t speak English and were racially Now, I’m launching Cue Point Kitchen, a Find the Cue Point Fundraising for Social Impact Restaurant
abused. We moved to Hackney, which was more scheme to improve the prospects of people crowdfunder campaign on www.crowdfunder.co.uk. It ends on Aug 15.
9 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonCity life
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Hoppers’ perfectly
balanced egg hopper
IS HOXTON
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SECTIO STREET N1
What goes into the London plates THE STREET THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
that everyone bangs on about
Ryan Chetiyawardana,
IN 2012, KARAN Gokani quit his job at queues out the door. Over the years, he’s aka Mr Lyan, on the
a London City law firm to rediscover the perfected his description of a hopper: ‘It’s home of his first bar
food of his South Indian upbringing. His a bowl-shaped, fermented coconut-and-
journey took him to Sri Lanka, where he rice pancake, with an egg cracked in the I OPENED WHITE LYAN ,
was seduced by the sweet-and-sour aroma middle’. He explains what goes into it. ■ my first bar, on Hoxton
of hoppers. He opened his first Hoppers Chiara Wilkinson Street in 2013. The street
restaurant in Soho in 2015 – there were Various locations. £5.50. felt like a hidden gem. It
was a huge moment in
The my career. I’ve got tons of
The egg technique memories there. Beyoncé
‘We crack one into the ‘We swirl the batter round and Jay-Z took over the bar
middle of the hopper. It adds in a deep-sided pan, which one night. I got off the red-
a layer of richness. The texture creates the thin, crispy edge, eye from New York to 200
is like a poached or steamed then put a lid on and the missed calls. I thought the
egg. We use Burford bottom, where the batter bar had burned down.
Browns for a runny, collects, gets nice Another time, we’d been
golden yolk.’ and spongy.’ talking about who we’d
really want to see live. I said
Björk and, that evening,
Björk came into the bar. I was
dumbfounded. I got her
drinks and she was doing
karaoke on ‘Heads Up’. It was
wonderfully bizarre. A few
days later, her assistant
called to say Björk wanted to
DJ at the bar. She ended up
DJing our birthday party.
It was surreal and amazing.
The space was White
Lyan for four years and
then it became [zero-waste
bar and restaurant] Cub.
People would tell us it
was the best meal they’d
ever had. Hoxton Street
The flavour is unassuming, so people
‘The hopper has a nice
would seek us out, which
balance of sweet and sour
made it feel more special.
because of the creamy, sweet
Cub was a Covid casualty.
coconut and the lightly
I was gutted to lose it. It felt
fermented rice. It stands
important. But the space is
EGG HOPPER: BEN ROWE; RYAN: © XAVIER D. BUENDIA / XDB PHOTOGRAPHY
upagainst whatever
now the home of our agency,
you eat it with.’ The batter The extras Mr Lyan Studio. The Mr Lyan
‘To make our hopper ‘A hopper is a great brand has been on Hoxton
pancake batter, we grind vehicle for mopping up karis Street for so long. It feels
up two kinds of short-grain but you can also eat it with a like home. ■ Interview by
rice with grated coconut relish. Our caramelised onion Isabelle Aron
andalittle pinch of yeast. sambol goes particularly www.mrlyan.com
Itferments and gets well with the yolk in the
nice and sour.’ egg hopper.’
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Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 10City life
W RD
ON THE
STREE T
The most ridiculous
things we’ve overheard
in London this week
‘My fingers are
like sausages.’
‘I’m a “Pointless”
answer and I
Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre still can’t get on
the show.’
Where to take a walk when ‘The lobster
was delicious. It
you’re sick of nature was explicit!’
‘I love vinegar.’
Architecture expert William Hall picks places to explore
‘I’m literally creamed
up and ready to go!’
Stroll around the South Bank Reconsider a classic
Start at the skater-busy undercrofts of the The Barbican is a cliché of concrete architecture ‘I don’t mind
Southbank Centre, then go upstairs to marvel for good reason. Start at Golden Lane Estate, then rocket, but lettuce
at the Hayward Gallery. Scoot through the approach the Barbican from Golden Lane. Drop
underpass then up the stairs to London’s most down to the lakeside terrace to see the Willoughby is overrated.’
beautiful public garden on the hanging terraces of House bridge and look up at the three triangular
Denys Lasdun’s brilliant National Theatre. towers, with their elegantly upturned balconies.
‘I ran so fast my legs
hit my bum.’
Go on an animal-house safari Mooch around the Underground
London Zoo has lots of interesting buildings. In need of urban noise? Seek refuge on the Jubilee ‘If you’d had that
The most famous is Berthold Lubetkin’s Penguin line. The architecture of all the stations is worth coleslaw you’d
Pool with its beautiful double helix. Turn around seeing, but if pressed, choose Bermondsey for its be sweating.’
and you’ll spy the Elephant House with its hefty small-scale grandeur and North Greenwich for its
concrete curves. Keep walking north and you’ll massive leaning columns. ■ ‘Why do I always
pass the mountainous Mappin Terraces, built as a William Hall is the author of ‘Concrete’, ‘Brick’, ‘Wood’ and ‘Stone’,
naturalistic enclosure for bears in 1914. all published by Phaidon. £29.95 each.
think Barry Manilow
is cancelled?’
‘I’ll meditate
while you watch
“Love Island”.’
PHOTOS: NATIONAL THEATRE: RON ELLIS/SHUTTERSTOCK; UPCIRCLE: ANDY PARSONS
‘Mmmmm, I’ve
LONDON MAKERS got lychee lips.’
WORDS: LONDON MAKERS AND CONCRETE WALKS: CHIARA WILKINSON
Ever think about the amount of coffee ‘It’s nice having
grounds London cafés throw out? Well, friends, except
the folks behind UpCircle do. This eco when you have to
business turns waste from the city’s see them.’
coffee shops into skincare solutions –
from face scrubs to eye creams.
www.upcirclebeauty.com
Overheard something weird?
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Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 12City life international
CIT Y ENV Y
Great things that
we love in other cities
San
Sebastián’s
lighthouse
artwork
Sometimes we could all use a
place for quiet contemplation,
away from the emails, buses and
Prets that define twenty-first-
’Damned Tourists century urban life. Somewhere,
flock to the Rijks maybe, like this new art
Museum
installation in the Basque city
of San Sebastián. On a small
island in La Concha bay stands
How Amsterdam is fighting a disused lighthouse that now
holds an epic sculpture by
back against overtourism Cristina Iglesias. Known for
her site-specific pieces that
meditate on the relationship
Four things we can learn from the Dutch between humans and the
capital to make our city a nicer place too natural environment, the
Spanish artist has excavated
the interior of the lighthouse
to create a cascading bronze
sculpture reflecting the area’s
YOU CAN ONLY imagine locals felt relieved. district. But until last July, hundreds of thousands rocky landscapes, with water
HONDOLEA (MARINE ABYSS), A WORK OF PUBLIC ART INSIDE A LIGHTHOUSE ON SANTA CLARA ISLAND, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY
RIJKSMUSEUM: ALFIO FINOCCHIARO/SHUTTERSTOCK; REMBRANDT: NUI7711/SHUTTERSTOCK; LIGHTHOUSE: EFE NEWS AGENCY/ALAMY, CRISTINA IGLESIAS,
In Amsterdam last March, lockdown set in and of travellers did every year, exacerbating housing features mimicking the foaming
tourism was put on pause. For the first time problems, with so much real estate given over waves of the windswept bay. It’s
in forever, there weren’t tens of thousands to short-term holiday lets. Now Amsterdam has part exhibition, part place of
of travellers gawping at girls, lighting up in banned them outright in three central districts, pilgrimage, and those who make
coffeeshops, ordering poffertjes and stroopwafel and the whole city could be next. the boat trip there can cast aside
on every corner. Amsterdam breathed. all their mundane problems
Now it wants to carry on breathing. The Dutch Ban souvenir shops and, quite literally, stare into the
capital has brought in a raft of measures Souvenir shops may seem innocent abyss. ■ Rosie Hewitson
to improve life for locals and create a enough. But there comes a point when
more sustainable future for the city. there are simply too many (we’re
Here are some initiatives we’d looking at you, Oxford Street).
like to see in London too. For three years, Amsterdam has
banned new tourist-oriented
Ban new hotels businesses from opening
Have you heard about the new within its Canal Belt. That
‘iceberg hotel’ in Leicester includes sweet stores, souvenir
Square? It’s got a six-storey shops and ice-cream parlours.
basement, so there’s a lot going
on beneath the surface. This sort Ban arseholes
of gimmicky opening would never Let’s be honest: the worst thing
land in Amsterdam now. The city has about central Amsterdam is the number
banned new hotels in the centre altogether, of drunk/mashed idiots stumbling from
encouraging development on the outskirts, Irish pub to coffeeshop. Now the city is considering
spreading the benefits of tourism across the city. barring foreign visitors from its cannabis-peddling
haunts. In future, it seems, Amsterdam wants a
Ban short-term holiday lets different kind of tourist. And as for us? We could
We have literally no idea why you’d want to certainly do without people weeing and vomming For more global news:
stay around De Wallen, Amsterdam’s red-light all over Soho every weekend. ■ Huw Oliver timeout.com
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20 21-year-old
Londoners
A snapshot of the city’s newest adults.
Interviews Kate Lloyd, Isabelle Aron and
Chiara Wilkinson. Portraits Orlando Gili
Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 16WHAT WERE YOU up to in the What we discovered is a
year 2000, eh? Enjoying the fact generation who are in some ways
you could still smoke in pubs? exactly how society imagines
Rocking out to Queens of the them (politically astute, social-
Stone Age (with no support) at media-obsessed, career-hungry,
Camden Underworld? Basking isolation-exhausted) but who
in the afterglow of a cool school are also full of surprises. Take
trip to the Millennium Dome? TikTok, it makes them feel old too.
Using a Jane Norman carrier as Or partying. Yes, they are into it,
a handbag? Getting a roll of film despite all the stories about them
developed? Buying the ‘Thong being non-drinkers and club-
Song’ on CD? avoiders. Or London. Sure, some
Well, while you were doing all of young people might have fled to
that, this lot were busy being born. the coast and countryside over the
London’s freshest generation of past year but at least four of our
adults slid out of birth canals in interviewees moved to the capital
Y2K, turned 16 as Britain voted to within the past six months and all
leave the EU and graduated from of them say they plan to stay.
teenagehood amid the fucking Maybe you’re 21 and currently
pandemic. What the hell does all dismissing all of this as ‘very bait’,
that do to a person? to which I say: ‘Sometimes your
That’s the question we were brain gets a bit slow when you’re
so desperate to find an answer old, sorry.’ But if you, like me, are
to that we set out to interview heading rapidly towards middle
a whopping 20 21-year-olds age, please take the next pages as
from across the capital about a proper, comprehensive guide to
their likes, dislikes, hopes, fears London’s youngest grown-ups, all
and ambitions. in their own words. Kate Lloyd
17 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonNice to meet you
ON GROWING UP
IN LONDON...
Callum Dalston
Hampstead Ponds lifeguard
‘I live in Dalston. I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve kind of seen
it go from undesirable, and, you know, quite a dodgy place, to
being hipster central. And that’s all happened within my lifetime.
It used to be a lovely mix of everything, and everyone rubbing
shoulders, and now it feels very much as if there are distinct sub-
sects within. Our neighbours have now been shunted out because
the rents are too high.’ k makes the
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‘When I say I’m from Lewisham, people are
like “Oh, that’s a bad area. A lot of knife crime
happens there.” Like, I know it does. And
we can’t ignore the facts and figures. But at
Oliver
the same time, there are a lot of us that live
in areas like this that are just trying to make
Shoreditch
Fashion student
it out, and sometimes having those things
stereotyped on you is hard. In job interviews,
me saying I’m from south-east kind of puts
a thing in interviewers minds, like: Oh, have ‘At school, I was more into art than academia. And,
you been involved in any criminal activity? because of that, they ruled me out as misbehaving.
For example, I’ve been in interviews where That caused problems for me. The government need
someone has said: “Oh, you have a really, to create more opportunities for families from council
you know, English name,” and “We weren’t estates. Growing up in Hackney and Harringay, I
expecting you to be from this area.” And don’t think there were enough opportunities, and we
I’ll be thinking: Whoah, you just know my didn’t get to see outside of that space. I’d put together a
name, you can’t “expect”.’ programme that lets them see London in its entirety.’
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Photographer and casting assistant
‘Before the pandemic I was doing so much, like a ridiculous amount
of jobs. I’ve been working as freelance photographer since I was 16.
It meant I missed out on normal teenage life. Now I’m trying to take
a step back and actually enjoy myself rather than feeling in a rush to
get somewhere. In fact, I saw a video the other day where these young
people, who were like 16 or 17, were saying “If you’re our age and you
don’t have a job: what are you doing?” And I was like: Sorry, what? You
should really be enjoying life. You shouldn’t be forced to “hustle”.’
Fave snacks?
What foodstuffs Gen Z are
Ameena cramming into their faces
Islington
Theatre producer
‘In December of last year – so right
in the midst of the pandemic –
I became the youngest producer
in the West End, with a show
called “Death Drop”, which was a
drag murder mystery. I think, in
my industry, the pandemic has
kind of opened doors for younger
people. Like, my West End debut onception t
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‘I was in the middle of an architecture degree when
the pandemic hit, I started thinking a lot more: Am I
actually enjoying this? You know, we have had more
time to be introspective. And I’ve started to realise
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that it possibly isn’t really the route I want to go
down. Maybe I want to do something different? So
I’ve come back to London and we’ll see.’
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A BIGGER SCREEN, BETTER SOUND
AND A CHAIR THAT HOLDS YOUR DRINKS.
Remember the cinema? It’s back.Nice to meet you
ON HAVING FUN...
Isaac St John’s Wood
Student and volunteer ambassador for youth LGBTQ+
charity Just Like Us
‘Right now, because of the pandemic, you feel like you’re missing out on
what was supposed to be, I guess, the wildest years of your life. I came
from a Muslim family – I’m not Muslim myself but that’s my background
– so I didn’t do any of that fun stuff up until 18, when I could go out with
my friends and go to nightclubs and be away from my family. So now it
just feels like I only got a little taster of that life for like a year and a half,
and then it got pulled away again. I worry about missing out.’
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now: those random “Can
Marylebone
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I borrow your lighter?”
moments, you know, that
turn into a chat and then
you get a number and then ‘I have been using Bumble BFF recently to meet new people
a “I’m going to this event because I just moved to Marylebone and I don’t really know many
tonight, are you going to people in the area. Like, two hours ago I met a guy who literally
be there” the next week.’ lives 100 metres from me. And we just clicked immediately.’
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Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 22Nice to meet you
Mickael
King’s Cross
Model
What’s in
‘I invest in stocks and
cryptocurrencies. I’m trying to
your pocket?
build up my portfolio in terms
Phone, keys, mask... Can of reasonably
of Bitcoin and Ethereum. I want
priced Continental lager?!?
to get into being able to sell
some sort of artwork that I’ve
made online, so like with NFTs.’
Izzy Mill Hill
Drama school graduate
‘I’ve just graduated from uni
and I’ve moved back in with my
parents. I obviously really want
to move in with my friends,
but it’s genuinely impossible
to afford after three years of
uni. All my friends are in the
same boat. Obviously, it’s
not what I want. I think what
I fear is that I might get in the
habit of being at home and not
ON MONEY... end up moving out for ages.
But hopefully, you know, job-
hunting and all that stuff will
get me something.’
Monnae Tottenham
Youth support worker
‘My big worry during the lockdown was my rent: just the
worry of going into arrears and how to get out of it, that
sense of debt. I want to be a teacher but when the pandemic
hit I lost motivation. That’s back now. A charity called Beam
STELLA: BEN ROWE
helped me get a youth worker role. It’s just mainly helping
people find something to do in the summer holidays, not
them being on the streets and finding trouble.’
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23 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonNice to meet you
ON PERCEPTIONS
OF THEIR GENERATION...
Bella Wandsworth
Vaccination volunteer
‘I’m halfway through my medical degree and I’ve taken this
year as a gap year. I’ve spent it as a volunteer vaccinator.
I think young people, in general, have felt isolated,
especially last year, because everyone was kind of blaming
the twentysomethings for the rises in Covid cases. I think
young people did take on a lot of the bad parts, like having to
quarantine and follow all the rules, even though it wouldn’t
necessarily impact them as much if they did catch it.’
Oceanne
East Dulwich
Marketer
‘Older generations think
Lockdown hobby?
we’re all antisocial and Good old wholesome fun – that’s what the past year has been full of
just want to stay on our
phones, and that social
ing my ‘Painting’
media is all that matters to ‘RebuildRover’ ‘Juicing’
us. But I feel like it’s more
that we have a different
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way of communicating
and connecting with other ‘Puzzles’
people to them.’
‘Crochet’ ‘Pottery’
ON MOVING TO
LONDON... Ruby
Hackney Wick
Chef at Hot 4 U
Dan Ealing ‘When I moved to London
Hairdresser in January, I was like, “God,
what am I doing? You can’t
go anywhere.” It was a bit
‘I recently read a book about being a random but I don’t regret
Virgo. I am one so it resonated. And I’m it. I feel like there’s still
quite a typical Virgo as well: perfectionist opportunity here. Even
and rebellious. I grew up in Somerset in a really, really small, though hospitality is on its
little countryside village. But I always knew that I wanted to knees, everyone’s coming
move to London, and then when the pandemic struck, I sort of together to help each other
had that “it’s now or never” kind of feeling. I’ve been here for six through the next few months.’
months now. I like the fact that in London you can be whoever
you want to be, because I don’t really feel the pressure to fit into
society. I think Virgos can be quite strong characters like that.’
Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 24Nice to meet you
Pippa Clapham
Social worker
Fave
‘I was on a uni placement in a care home during the
second wave. That was pretty intense. We lost quite
a lot of residents, and I had built relationships with
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these people. It made me appreciate lives a lot more
because I was seeing how quickly they can be taken.’
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‘I think people tend to, as they grow up, be more okay
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with being alone, like they’ve already done, you know,
Charli
everything else. But the social isolation, at this age, just
feels very daunting. I have a lot of friends who are struggling
with it more than I am, too. That feels very daunting.’
Ghetts
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Pimlico SOPHIE
International student
Oil of Every
Pearl’s
Ed Shoreditch ‘I’m from Berlin and, when the
Un-Insides
Rugby player and intern pandemic hit, I was originally
going to stay in my uni halls.
When I decided to fly back, there
‘I like the gym. I like going for a was this mad rush. I had to pack
D-Block
few beers. But one good thing up everything in my student Europe
that’s happened, because accommodation room in less Us vs Them
of bars and clubs being than a day. I ended up back there
closed, is it has brought until mid-September. I’m an
my friendship group introvert, so I don’t mind being
together better. We alone, but I’ve found, on the
have spent more time education side of things, it’s
face-to-face talking been quite difficult. There hasn’t Future
to each other than we been support from either the HENDRXX
would in clubs. I’ve had university or the government.’
conversations I wouldn’t
normally have with people.’
25 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonXxxxxxx
‘The skating community in
London is supportive, diverse and
exciting. There’s so much to learn and
Walking? For losers. absorb from each other. Recently,
Cycling? Dumb and I finally did one of my dream tricks
boring. All the cool and everyone at the skatepark was
Londoners are rolling clapping and congratulating me. I felt
now. Andy Parsons very loved at that moment.’
captures the scene Fi Mendonça
The great
skate
Victoria Park
Tegan Walker (pictured right) explains
whyshe fell in love with skating
My mate and I decided we’d learn to skate
together last year. The first time we put them
on, we nearly scared ourselves half to death.
boom
But we persevered and got more confident. We
wondered if there were any other people who
were fat or living in marginalised bodies who
were doing this. We started doing meetups and
soon there were 40 people coming. I don’t think
of it as exercise: it’s ‘joyful movement’. There’s
nothing better than zipping around in a group,
singing along to good songs and realising that the
more you do it, the better you get. ■
Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 26Victoria Park
Victoria Park
‘My favourite skatepark in
London is Victoria Park – the bowl
Hyde Park is great and all the regulars are
lovely. There is usually somebody
I know there every time I skate –
whether it’s a BMXer, blader or
skateboarder – which makes me
feel very safe as a female skater.’
Jess Condie
Clissold
Park
Hyde Park
27 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonStaging
the ghosts
of Grenfell
A theatre charity in North Kensington is dealing
with Grenfell’s legacy in novel ways. Chris Waywell
meets them. Illustration Cathal Duane
IN THE CEILING of a that SPID has run with residents
handsome undercroft is finally seeing results. Kensal
space at the top of House was specifically built to foster
Ladbroke Grove there’s community. Now it’s falling apart.
a gaping hole, like a six-foot-wide But that isn’t about to stop SPID.
gunshot wound. Pipes and cables
hang out of it. There’s a complex A prototype for modern living
mesh of ancient concrete poured The 68 flats of Kensal House were
over a grid of steel cables, which designed by architect Maxwell Fry
have rusted and burst apart. You’d in the 1930s to improve life for local
never guess you were in a Grade working-class people who otherwise
II*-listed building in a west London would be prey to the area’s notorious
borough. It looks like Aleppo. private rental market of chancers
The building is Kensal House, a and slumlords. Built around a
visionary social housing project garden space, this ‘prototype for
from 1937, and the space is the modern living’ included a host of
home of SPID (Social Progressive shared amenities. SPID’s space
Interconnected Diverse), a theatre was a community room, used for and more run down. Looking for a of estates is part of divide and rule.
charity that is dramatically social events. A photo of it from the new custodian for the space, it came Trellick Tower is very famous;
changing the lives of local young 1940s shows residents bathed in across SPID. Silchester and Dalgarno: they’re all
people. I’m here with its artistic light from floor-to-ceiling windows. You wouldn’t want to get on the special places.’
director, Helena Thompson; its ‘There were also cobbling shops, wrong side of Helena Thompson. That love for the original ideal of
chair Ivor Flint, a Kensal House woodworking shops, metalworking Angular, animated and eloquent, the council estate – a community
resident; and Sue Redmond, whose shops, sewing circles and knitting she has a real intensity when bonded and equalised by its
charity Full of Life is also based circles,’ says Flint. ‘There was a talking about the uninterest shown environment rather than set at
on the estate. We’re all craning dining club, so if you came home towards North Kensington’s estates. each other’s throats by it – has seen
our necks to look at the huge hole from work you could just come ‘Nobody was surprised by Grenfell,’ Thompson raise £2.6 million to
glowering above us. down to dinner.’ But like many she says. ‘We don’t have fires here, refurbish SPID’s space, including
‘We’ve been trying to get them other examples of the utopian we have leaks. Other estates have £200,000 to install a lift to make it
to fix the leaks here for 16 years,’ 1930s, Kensal House suffered in had collapses; all the estates have accessible. ‘Investing in people,’ she
says Thompson. The campaign the postwar years, becoming more been neglected. The demonising says, ‘means investing in buildings.’
Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 28the man. The conflicts it dramatises
are real and raw. It raises cash to do
things. It offers parents a chance to
get kids off their hands for a couple
of vital hours. It gives those kids
better language and social skills.
Dramatising the unthinkable
‘At the end of the first session they
had to create a little play. My son
doesn’t do reading in front of people.
But he had to read. He went, “I’ll do
it.” I didn’t think it was my child.’
Sophia’s son Taevian was nine
when they had to flee Grenfell.
They weren’t in the tower itself.
‘We were living in Testerton Walk,’
she says. ‘We had smoke coming
in; you could feel the heat.’ A week
later, they returned to their flat. ‘The
council sent a key worker,’ she says.
‘She said: “You can’t stay here, it
smells of dead people.” I just thought
everything was a bit dusty but she
said, “No, Sophia: that’s soot.”’
After 18 months living in
Waterloo, they moved back and
discovered SPID. Sophia identifies
that dramatising events is hugely
important to traumatised young
people. ‘They’ve brought out
something in my son that had been
suppressed,’ she says. ‘A bad thing
has happened. We adults can do the
negative bit, but you children are
going find beauty from it.’
Ghosts of Grenfell and Kensal House
Apart from the massive hole
in its ceiling, SPID is a story of
overcoming, and performative
remembrance. But the giant rift
in the community in the wake
of Grenfell is still there. ‘There’s
‘This some repairing to be done,’ says
Thompson. ‘We fell in love with this
space has space. It has history and it has young
As many observers said at
the time, Grenfell Tower was an history But just four years after Grenfell,
another estate in North Kensington
people. There are ghosts.’ Those
ghosts are not just of generations of
accident in waiting, a moment
when the socially invisible became
and it has is having to raise its own money to
improve its surroundings. ‘This
everyday working people, they are
of a whole way of life that has come
visible in the most horrific way.
Thompson calls it a ‘tragedy of
young building is listed,’ says SPID youth
ambassador Naomi Israel. ‘It’s a
close to obliteration. ‘A lot of us lost
friends [at Grenfell],’ says Israel. ‘We
disempowerment’. Her 2019
play, ‘The Burning Tower’ was
people’ piece of social-housing history, yet
it’s treated with contempt. I knew
don’t want their deaths to be in vain.
[SPID] is keeping them alive.’ ■
produced by SPID and has since people [in Grenfell]. I witnessed Helena Thompson’s new play ‘Smile!’ is
been performed on council it. It’s the single most harrowing published by Methuen and produced by SPID
estates around the country. As one thing I’ve ever had the misfortune of this month. www.spidtheatre.com
character in it says, ‘It wasn’t the seeing. I think about it every day.’
cladding or fridge that killed my So SPID is a lot more than a kind of Read the full story online
friends, it was being ignored.’ ’60s lefty arts company sticking it to timeout.com/kensalhouse
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Time Out London August 10 – 23 2021 30Things to Do
Things to do
in London Edited by Katie McCabe
timeout.com/thingstodo @timeoutlondon
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Notting Hill Carnival sadly won’t be hitting the streets this year, but you can still get a healthy dose of steelpan
and calypso at new fundraising event series Carnival Culture in the Park. Turn to p36 to read more.
31 August 10 – 23 2021 Time Out LondonThings to Do
Big food and
drink festivals
N StrEATlife at Alexandra
Palace
Take in the frankly ridiculous
panoramic views of the city from
Ally Pally while making your way
through craft beers, waffle wraps
and Brazilian doughnuts at the
StrEATlife food festival. Try not to
strain an extraocular muscle as you
roll your eyes at the many punny
pop-ups (our favourites are Steak
Life and Last Night a Vegan Saved
My Life). Once you’ve had your fill,
can check out the live music line-
up (singer-songwriters, an eight-
piece brass band, you get the idea).
It’s all free, except for the grub.
The Terrace, Alexandra Palace. Aug 21-22.
Free entry.
S Hot Sauce Festival
Recent heatwave given you an
appetite for intense sweating
and general warmth-induced
discomfort? Get yourself to the
Hot Sauce Festival in Peckham.
Promising to be ‘bigger and spicier
than ever’, the fest will see more
than 40 different condiment
peddlers pack out Copeland Park
with a range of hot sauces destined
to annihilate your tastebuds.
Copeland Park Gallery. Aug 21-22, £12.
E London Craft Beer Festival
Usually, you go to a festival and
maybe – just maybe – you might
happen to come across some good
beer. Not at London Craft Beer
Festival. As the name suggests, the
beer comes first, with hundreds of Drag me to hell
Séayoncé: ‘Hell Bent’
varieties from the UK and beyond.
There’ll also be some solid DJ
sets from Craig Charles
and Django Django.
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their kids) were
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after a few too many rolling along the Arp had no time for or art labels. a space iinside the actual
tasting samples, you streets on four In the 1920s, the artist moved Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. In
can go full belt at wheels or trying between painting, craft, case yyou’re not familiar with
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exhibition at Somerset House to interpret poetry Hammond, specifically to
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exhibitions seeks to show. Using a mix of skate
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skateboarding. Suddenly newbie Somerset House. Until Sep 19. Free, but book Tate Modern. Until Oct 17.
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visit, all they ask is that you refrain
from kicking the art.
OOF Gallery. Until Nov 21. Free.
clairvoyant who is determined
to pull you into the underworld
kicking and screaming. Not even
Think drag brunches are a bit
pedestrian these days? Not when
Club fitness
Mystic Meg could predict the pure you’re eating poached eggs and E The Rogue Room x Fabric
C Bellotto: ‘The Königstein filth of this drag séance. knocking back bottomless bubbly London presents Redemption
Views Reunited’ Underbelly Cavendish Square. Aug 12. £15.50. in the company of A’Whora, fashion Does the mere thought of moving
You’re dwarfed by these paintings queen of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’. your body to electro in a throng of
as you walk in. Venetian painter S Drag Fest Between the Bridges. Aug 14. £25. people have you reaching for your
Bernardo Bellotto’s five views of The Klub Kids promoters are at mask? There is a more relaxing
Königstein in Dresden are big, it again, putting together events E Mimi’s way to re-enter the club life. At this
towering, heavy works. They loom with the great and the good of The drag artists formally known Rogue Room session, you can set
over you with their pillars of grey ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’. Their latest is as Mariah & Friendz are returning your sun salutations to high-octane
stone and stark, sharp angles. He a massive drag music festival with to Bethnal Green Working Men’s dance music with a vinyasa yoga
was commissioned to do these in appearances from Ellie Diamond, Club for a night of diva anthems class held inside Fabric nightclub.
the eighteenth century as a court Thorgy Thor, the United King Dolls and intimate circus acts. Everyone Fabric. Sep 6. £35.
painter and, like any court painter, and other hilarious drag starlets. needs proof of a vaccination or
his job was to make his boss look If you’ve never seen the show, those negative Covid test for entry, so E Panorama Barre
big and impressive. And it worked. mes will mean nothing, but
names wear a lat flow with pride. Club-themed fitness classes are
Bellotto uses every weapon of they’re
ey’re a big deal, we swear. Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Aug 14. having a bit of a moment just now,
perspective in his arsenal to create Studio 338. Aug 14. From £65. From £12. so it was only a matter of time until
vistas that are intensely dramatic a Berghain-inspired one came to
and tell a story of fearsome power town. Named after one of the Berlin
and impenetrable defences. ‘And that’s the same club’s dancefloors, these Panorama
The National Gallery. Until Oct 31. Free. as the last one, but it classes are run by fitness instructor
has a blue can’ London and DJ Olivia Lumb. They bring
Craft Beer Festival
together hi-NRG underground
mixes with super-sweaty barre
Arty fitness, so offer a great opportunity
to get your exercise in while also
workshops giving your auditory canals a bit of
a workout. Plus it’s much easier to
get into than the actual Berghain.
S Collage Club Blok in Shoreditch and Clapton and Fly LDN in
You know what’s surprisingly Aldgate. Dates vary. £17.
therapeutic? Scissoring shit up. At
Collage Club, you can cut and paste
and splice your way through an
afternoon, and leave with a handful
of experimental compositions. You
don’t need any experience with art-
making to join. You’ll be provided
London Wonderground’s festival
with stacks of magazines to slice
through and the friendly session
will begin with some fast-paced
is an oasis of uncomplicated fun
warm-up challenges to get your
collages cooking. W London The headline
Peckham Supply, Copeland Park. Aug 21. £14. Wonderground act for the bulk
There is something of the festival
SWild Life Drawing: deeply soothing (until August 15)
Miniature Piglets about London is 360 Allstars,
Instead of humans acting as Wonderground. a ‘supercharged
models, at Wild Life Drawing During an urban circus’,
participants are tasked with unsettling time, whose name
sketching a live animal. Past classes the Earl’s Court alludes to the
LONDON CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL: NIC CRILLY-HARGRAVE; LONDON WONDERGROUND: PASCO.PHOTOGRAPHY
have seen alpacas, wolf cubs and attraction offers array of skills its
donkeys strike a pose for a willing immersion in the members bring to
crowd. Next up, it’s miniature frivolously extra the table: there’s
piglets. Prepare to be distracted by paraphernalia a beatboxer,
outlandish cuteness as you sketch of the festival a drummer, a
their tiny trotters. season. There’s an BMX guy and a
Bermonds Locke hotel. Sep 5. £30. artificial beach with deckchairs, a helter-skelter, basketball guy. It’s all dumb escapist fun, the
bumper cars, endless bars… and, of course, a performance equivalent of having an entire can
giant inflatable upside-down purple cow, aka the of Lynx Africa sprayed into your face… but in
Udderbelly performance venue. 2021, that’s okay. So much work has gone into
London drag You could probably spend a nice enough
evening there without taking in a show if the
trying to save Britain’s cultural crown jewels that
we perhaps forget that audiences sometimes
excellence weather was right. But it’s the shows that
provide the main impetus to go. As ever with the
Wonderground, the genre is ‘a bit of everything’:
just want a bit of a laugh. The Wonderground is
not the bleeding edge future of performance, but
it is an oasis of uncomplicated good vibes in our
C Séayoncé: ‘Hell Bent’ you’ll find a kids’ programme, comedy, a bit of summer of uncertainty. Andrzej Łukowski
Spend the evening in the music and a smattering of cabaret. Empress Place. Until Sep 26. Free entry, show prices vary.
Underbelly spiegeltent with
Séayoncé, a sassy London
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