Your Unmissable July List Is Here + Green Border Review
Summer actually arrived! Yes, it’s here – for however long it lasts – but whatever the weather, you know you can rely on us for a our monthly list of Unmissable Things To Do in London (and beyond).
Unmissable Things To Do in London This July
Summer actually arrived! Yes, it’s here – for however long it lasts – but whatever the weather, you know you can rely on us for a our monthly list of Unmissable Things To Do in London (and beyond).
Oh, and… DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!
June highlights include:
A batshit crazy night for lovers of the obscure (Fool’s Moon | Soho Theatre | 1 July | From £16)
Erotic, strange, fairytales with a tongue in cheek sense of tragicomedy (The Films of Fuyuhiko Takata | UCL East | 2 July | FREE)
An experimental surrender to the intimacy of dance (down below things shudder | ICA | 4 & 5 July | From £14)
London’s finest Dyke talent flogging their wares (London Dyke Market | Space Station Sixty-Five | 6 July)
The fabulous performance culture of clown (London Clown Festival 2024 | Soho Theatre & Jacksons Lane | 8-26 July | From £13)
A literary salon of debut works (Debut Authors Panel: Ania Card, Joshua Jones and Rachel Dawson in Conversation | Waterstones Trafalgar Square | 10 July | From £6)
stories of the romances and toxicities of rivers and waterways (Daughters of the River | Stone Nest | 11 July | £15)
A celebration of Gay Humanist values (Lead Me Into Temptation, Please: LGBT Summer Fair | Conway Hall | 13 July | £3)
Circus and performance spectacular (Ensemble Festival 24 | Royal Victoria Docks | 20 & 21 July)
Wrestling, drag, comedy and cabaret (FIST CLUB – VIOLENT DELIGHTS | The Garage | 26 July | From £15)
And so much more! Check out the whole article, with 25+ amazing things to do this July!
REVIEW: GREEN BORDER ★★★★★
Director Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize winner, Green Border, is a heartbreakingly powerful dramatisation of a human rights travesty on the borders of Europe.
At a time when the far-right is resurgent across Europe, and even mainstream parties trade promises to ‘stop the boats’ and ‘crackdown’ on immigration, Green Border (in Polish, Zielona Granica) – directed by Agnieszka Holland, written by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk – is an angry, searing repudiation of the myth of refugee as insurgent threat. Instead, over two and half hours of stunningly shot yet achingly sad human drama, the true threats are made startlingly clear: cold political exploitation, heartless border policing, public apathy and the ease with which distant hinterlands can simply be dismissed as ‘out of sight, out of mind’.