Culture

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11 September 2025

Croydon’s favourite indie cinema reopened for the Autumn season this week, with (as always) some exciting screenings, events and collaborations planned (including a few celebs), plus a nomination for independent cinema of the year....
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Creative Croydon Competition

4 September 2025

In case you missed it, earlier this week we launched a competition to find local artists for the fourth instalment of the Creative Croydon outdoor exhibition. Partnering with Croydon BID and our alter ego...
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Croydonites is double digits

28 August 2025

Yes, Croydonites is back and is celebrating turning ten! Our favourite festival of theatre and performance takes place this Autumn from 8-18 October in venues around the town centre and South Norwood, with a...
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A romantic guide to Croydon

21 August 2025

Romantic? Croydon? It’s not a combination of words we usually (ever?) put together. We all know Croydon has a reputation; let’s not waste time on the same old tropes. Instead, what if I said...
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From bishops to brutalism

14 August 2025

It may be the middle of August and back to school (or if you’re lucky, work) seems a long way away, but this year’s Open House Festival starts in under a month (running from...
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Our industrious industries

7 August 2025

At the end of July I popped by the Museum of Croydon’s latest exhibition, Forge: Industries of Croydon. The exhibition, which is in the level 1 special exhibitions gallery space, delves into the borough’s...
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Celebrating Samuel

31 July 2025

This August, a season of cultural events launches to celebrate 150 years since the birth of Croydon’s very own Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (born on 15 August 1875). There’s probably not many of our regular readers...
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The living nature of clay

24 July 2025

This week we chat with local artist Stathis Dimitriadis about his artistic practice as well as his upcoming group exhibition Clay in vivo, which celebrates the transformative power of unfired clay. Clay in vivo...
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A celebration of love

10 July 2025

After last year’s Pride celebrations in Croydon were on a smaller scale in the town centre, we were very pleased to hear that this year Croydon PrideFest is back in Wandle Park, in true...
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Thoughts from a Croydon poet

3 July 2025

Earlier this year poet and Croydon local, Kevin Morris, suffered a number of seizures which led to him being diagnosed with a brain abscess. Whilst recovering from the resulting operation, Kevin composed many poems...
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Beckenham TED

26 June 2025

If you are a regular reader, you’ll know that we do occasionally cross the border to feature interesting events or places just outside of Croydon. This week we heard about TEDxBeckenham that is taking...
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Co-creating industrial art

19 June 2025

A team from local neurodivergent-led arts social enterprise A Collective have been commissioned to create an artwork for a new development in Factory Lane, and they want to collaborate with Croydon residents. Interested in...
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Big on nature

12 June 2025

In a couple of weeks, on Saturday 28 June, Green Spaces Day is back with its annual celebration of our borough’s green spaces, with free activities, events, stalls and performances dedicated to caring for...
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Joyful Art

5 June 2025

Yesterday lunchtime, I popped by the Clocktower to see the Museum of Croydon’s latest exhibition, Art & Joy. The exhibition showcases work by people affected by dementia, which was created at a series of...
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Conflict in paint

22 May 2025

In the heart of Addiscombe, a moment’s walk from the tram stop, is a dry cleaners, and hidden above it is the Blue Door Gallery Space. Georgie, a local artist, has her gallery and...
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Rhythm in common

15 May 2025

It’s that toe-tapping time of year when Commons returns to Stanley Arts. Launched in 2022 Commons Dance Festival showcases dance in all its diverse forms. From today (16 May) until next Sunday (25 May)...
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Cro Cro Cro: edition 3

1 May 2025

We are nearly a month on from the third edition of our music festival Cro Cro Land, which took place at Stanley Arts over the weekend of 5 and 6 April, and we have...
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New Addington’s nature adventure

23 April 2025

I have lived in Croydon all my life and I have yet to visit Hutchinson’s Bank Nature Reserve, in New Addington. I have heard its name mentioned before, but I didn’t quite realise how...
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Other-worldly art

17 April 2025

It’s not often you get a chance to chat with four artists in one day, but that’s exactly what happened earlier this week when I attended an evening viewing of the latest show in...
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The magic of DLC

10 April 2025

The David Lean Cinema has recently released their plans for the next three years. The cinema who (in this formation) has recently turned 10, is growing up. For an organisation run predominantly by their...
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