Southend's biggest free arts and music festival takes place on Saturday (26th) as Village Green returns to Chalkwell Park.
The 11-hour event, run by Metal, features a huge number of groups, artists and exhibitors all displaying the diverse range of talent in the borough.
It starts at 11am and Longpier. Click to continue reading...

This weekend (11/12/13 Sep) Southend plays host to its first ever Polish Arts Festival.
Around 3,000 people originally from Poland are estimated to live in Southend and surrounding areas, and the Essex town is twinned with Sopot - a Polish coastal resort on the Baltic Sea.
Over the weekend around 10 activities are taking place across the borough. Click to continue reading...

Facing the cancellation of the statewide Rec festival, we put our own event together and were surprised how well received it was. Click to continue reading...

A film about Iranian women's football is receiving critical acclaim on its premier at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary follows a historic match between the Iranian national team and a Berlin-based women's team Click to continue reading...

A film about Iranian women's football is receiving critical acclaim on its premier at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary follows a historic match between the Iranian national team and a Berlin-based women's team Click to continue reading...

A film about Iranian women's football is receiving critical acclaim on its premier at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary follows a historic match between the Iranian national team and a Berlin-based women's team Click to continue reading...

After a day or so off from posting, it is back to work now that I am in Texas for a little while (normally I am in my usual post in Morgantown, West Virginia if anyone really wanted to know). The 4th of July is upon us and the league has packed us with a [...] Click to continue reading...