The Cultural Style Week London Expo in partnership with Cultural Fashion & Arts, was a resounding success, attracting over 2000 attendees across the day. The event included a six hour programme hosted by BBC Asia radio host Nayha, the official presenter for Cultural Style Week UK. Her energy kept the audience engaged throughout the...
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Cultural Style Week London EXPO, Celebrating Global Heritage – Free Entry
The Cultural Style Week Expo at the Mall, Wood Green, will be an immersive experience featuring fashion shows, cultural performances, shopping delights, and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore diverse trade stalls, offering an array of culturally diverse fashion and beauty items for Cultural Style Week and beyond with fashion and beauty...
Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market
Founded by City & Country Farmers’ Markets in 2003, award-winning Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market is held every Sunday at Alexandra Palace Park or nearby Campsbourne School. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the market is a much-loved local fixture for residents as well as visitors to the palace and park. The primary focus is on...
CULTURAL STYLE WEEK IS COMING TO HARINGEY
Growing Cultural Fashion & Beauty Movement Announces Events In Wood Green Established in May 2022, the London-birthed Cultural Style Week event empowers migrants, displaced people, and their descendants living in diverse cities across the world, to celebrate and share their cultural diversity through fashion and personal style! From 21-27 May, People from all over...
Pedal Power in Haringey
During what would have been the second week of the Olympic Games 2020, we continue to look at aspects of our local sporting heritage and find out about those who have cycled to success in the past. From its invention in 1817 through to the modern day, the bicycle and cycling has been a huge...
The Last Elm
Some of you might recall in July last year the premier of Bruce Grove Stories, to showcase a new short film by BBC documentary-maker Alex Jones about the community and neighbourhood of Bruce Grove in Tottenham and a specially-commissioned poem about Bruce Grove by the poet Abondance Matanda. The event highlighted the project to bring...
Huff and puff up Highgate Hill
If you are a very keen cyclist, you may well have checked out the more challenging inclines in London. Although not known particularly for its hills, London does have some really tough climbs if riding a bike (or even walking for that matter!). And not surprisingly most of the steep hills are located in and...
Signs for bakers their shops in Haringey
Old signs for bakers and their shops can be found on our local streetscapes today – alongside new ones. Here’s a familiar sign in the shop window of the large and popular bakery with its tasty treats at ‘Yassar Halim’, 493 Green Lanes, Harringay: © Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Archive and Museum Service) Some of...
Chiming with History
‘As the chimes of the “grandfather” or long-case clock standing in the entrance hall resound around the museum at Bruce Castle, most visitors will be unaware of the connection with one of the old characters of Tottenham. Clock at Bruce Castle (above) and Billy Mudge on his bone-shaker in 1952. You might remember him from...
Pedal Power in Haringey
During our present lock-down, cycling is one form of exercise that has been allowed by the government, with all due care and attention for social distancing that comes with it of course. Whether you are able to get on a bike, or be lucky enough to have an exercise bike at home (or might even...
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