Posts by Sarah Birch
Photomonth 2018: East london’s annual picture festival is back – and ‘more varied’ than ever
The two-month event, featuring over 50 exhibitions, offers audiences a ‘visual smorgasbord’
Read MoreAtlas of the Unexpected, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘Bite-sized chunks on weird and wondrous places’
Floating villages, a chess-inspired city and a tiny Canadian island all feature in this ‘enchanting’ travel compendium
Read MoreUnreal Estates, Dalston, exhibition review: ‘Dreamy excitement and sheer dread’
Amanda Lwin’s immersive show, inside a working estate agency on Kingsland High Street, ‘feeds on house-moving emotions’
Read MoreSmile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’
Simon English’s new solo show features never-before-seen sculptures made from objects picked up around London
Read MoreMemorial, Barbican Centre, theatre preview: ‘the biggest challenge is learning all the Greek names!’
The Citizen chats to Martina Schwarz, whose Hackney-based community choir will perform in the upcoming war drama
Read MoreKings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey – review
From his houseboat on the Lea, it takes Weymouth three days to reach McNeil Lake, the salmon spawning ground most distant from the Bering Sea where the Yukon eventually emerges
Read MoreLola Flash: ‘beauty for me is an idea of being proud and strong’
Herein lies the purpose of my work, to enable marginalized folk a way of seeing the glory of themselves
Read MoreCurtain Theatre: ‘this playhouse has exploded everything we thought we knew about playhouses’
Archaeological uncovering has had major impact on understanding the social role of Elizabethan theatre
Read MoreScene Gym Shorts, Arcola Theatre, review: ‘an opportunity to see a crop of fresh new ideas’
‘With hardly any set and casts of no more than five, these short, taught plays relied on dialogue to do their work’
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