How to build a destination-venue: Nick Giles, Director of Shoreditch Town Hall
A little over 3 years ago Nick Giles left Donmar Warehouse to become Director of Shoreditch Town Hall. His pitch to the venue’s board was simple and ambitious - inject the architectural gem with an artistic programme to match: “Saving the building was not enough – we needed to give it a life, and audiences and our local community compelling reasons to come through our doors.”
Forget any and all clichés - Donald Hutera talks mime etcetera to Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig, co-directors of London International Mime Festival
Image: Alex Brenner
‘Unbelievably,’ says Helen Lannaghan, one of the two directors of the London International Mime Festival, ‘this is our 39th year. Who’d have thought it?’
SCOTTEE'S 6 MINUTES 32 SECONDS LONG INTERVIEW WITH BLACK LACE
In 1987 my Dad took me and my Mum to Spain. I was 18 months old and only memory I have of the holiday is sipping cola and dancing to the Hokey Cokey surrounded by other council kids giving it the ‘left leg in’!
