The Metropolis

London agenda for Thursday 7 April

Darren Atwater | Thursday 7 April, 2011 09:20

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1. Write your own blurb for the celebration of the self-published [Le Cool]

2. Spend a night of experimentation, acoustic robotics and digital synthesis at Felix’s Machines [Run Riot]

3. Go shopping in Shepherds Bush Market [Tired of London]

4. Club nights? Pah! Listen to a talk about designing the signage in the new Dubai Metro commuter railway [Ian Visits]

5. The Old Nichol slum in Shoreditch had the worst reputation in London for criminality, chronic poverty and low life-expectancy in the second half of the nineteenth century. But was it deserved?

6. Start the London Word Fest by shaking your arse at Cybraphon [Jon Davis]

7. Check out a Poverty of Riches at Whitechapel [Lauren Down]

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