WELCOME AN EAST LONDON CREATIVE HUB

London-based music organisation UD, which brings communities together around Black music and its culture has partnered with leading dance organisation East London Dance to provide an endless stream of opportunities for young people. Their pioneering music and dance hub called The Talent House was designed in reaction to the music industry being notoriously hard to break into. The hub nurtures talent and provides the space and opportunity necessary for people to get their foot in the door.

The new state-of-the-art £4.1 million building in Stratford is designed by award-winning architect Katy Marks and boasts an incredible amount of professional facilities like vocal booths, recording studios, dance studios and a tech lab. Talent House is where emerging talent will unite and create. There is also a central atrium which can be used for informal gigs.

GET READY FOR A NEW TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET MOVIE ABOUT CANNIBALS

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All sees a reunion for Timothée with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. The narrative follows Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman cannibal grappling with life on the fringes of society and her meet-cute with Lee (Chalamet) as their paths cross on a road trip. They embark upon a mission to find her absent father, and to uncover why she has a burning desire to feast on the flesh of people that show her love. Sounds pretty weird, but we’re here for it.

STREAM THE HOTTEST NEW SHOW

Irma Vep is the sexy new French-American series starring Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander that premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Vikander plays Mira Harberg, an American movie star who comes to France to star as Irma Vep in a television series adaptation of the (real) French silent film serial Les Vampires. Disillusioned by her career and a recent painful breakup, Harberg begins to struggle to find the line between herself and the character she plays. Tightrope-walking on the border between fiction and reality, art and life, and performance and authenticity, this miniseries will have you engrossed from the outset and throughout.

VISIT A BREATHTAKING PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

The Teenage Self at Vout-O-Reenees in London is a must-visit this summer. Curated by The Stash Gallery, this wonderful new exhibition showcases the work of two photographers, Iain McKell and Sara Leigh Lewis. Both bodies of work were taken in the late 1970s on opposite sides of the world: McKell was shooting in his hometown of Weymouth, UK while Leigh Lewis’ photography was taken in Auckland, New Zealand. Despite being a world apart, their styles are surprisingly complementary, focusing on lost youths and the raw anguish of the punk movement.

You can visit The Teenage Self until 3 September 2022 at The Crypt, ​​30 Prescot St , E1 8BB.

HEAR A READING FROM TAKEAWAY AUTHOR ANGELA HUI

Last week, we wrote about Angela Hui’s critically acclaimed memoir Takeaway. A woman of many talents, Hui has curated the Chinese Takeaway section of the Taking Care of Business exhibition at the Migration Museum for a storytelling event on 3 September. Hui will read extracts from her book and share her experiences growing up in her parents’ takeaway in rural south Wales.

Tickets are free but there is limited capacity, so be sure to register for a free place.

There are two events at 2pm and 3:30 pm on 3 September at The Migration Museum in Lewisham Shopping Centre.

DISCOVER A NEW TIKTOK TREND

Take a dive into the new TikTok trend of Manga lash extensions, which sees users taking inspiration from Japan’s manga comic books and graphic novels where the female characters have jagged, pointed lashes all grouped in one. On the social media platform, #mangalashes has cultivated over 31.4 million views.