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 Friday 24 October 2020  Camdenist presents your digest of the best things to see, do and read this week 

   Big up your chest  

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and if you want to get a tasty 20% OFF the usual price, remember to nominate your Camden Covid Champion today (see below), then share your unique link with friends and we'll send you the discount.

 Pet Shop Boys at Electric Ballroom 

Passport: Back To Our Roots is a brilliant national fundraising campaign in support of cash-strapped grassroots music venues at a time of critical need. Heavyweight acts will play intimate gigs, and you can win tickets for a fiver. Camden will be graced by the truly mighty Pet Shop Boys, and you have until Sunday night to stick in some money for a potential pair of tickets. 

The best bit? The Passport gigs won't even be scheduled until UK venues are allowed to be 100% back to full capacity, so the lucky few will get the full-throttle fan experience, but with the one-off atmosphere of an intimate club gig setting.

 The ongoing rights fight 

The British Library challenges us to consider how far we have come in the fight for equality with new exhibition 'Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights', which opens today. It explores how female campaigners and their allies have strived for equal rights - from bodily autonomy and the right to education, to self-expression and protest. Trailblazers such as Cornelia Sorabji (the first woman to study law at Oxford) and Hope Powell (former manager of the England Women's football team) are highlighted, along with some inspiring contemporary protest groups. Look out for a not-to-be-missed evening of conversation with the iconic Gloria Steinem later this autumn, too.

   Gospel joy for your soul  

Parkway's Jazz Cafe are offering up something special to boost our Tier 2 spirits next week, with not one, but two nights of live soul-lifting entertainment from the London Community Gospel Choir. The world-renowned group have earned their stripes at Wembley Stadium and the Royal Albert Hall, accompanying the likes of Madonna and George Michael. They're touching down in Camden to deliver a repertoire of era-defining songs alongside the Jazz Café’s rabble-rousing live band. Book a bubble-of-six table for drinks downstairs or treat yourself to a bird’s eye vantage up in the atmospheric balcony restaurant.

 Spread the word and win 

Have you nominated your amazing neighbour, or highlighted the shopkeeper who soldiered on serving the community throughout lockdown? The votes are pouring in for the Camden Covid Champions awards, so now's the time to honour your heroes of 2020. Vote now right here, and remember to tell your family and friends to get involved too using your unique referral link. The person who shares their link the most wins a luxurious staycation at the historic Great Northern Hotel, with a room, dinner and cocktails for two, so it's well worth spreading the word.

• Transition Kentish Town's annual Trail of Wellbeing takes place tomorrow, with the to chance help prettify the area by planting spring bulbs in various community gardens, plus plenty of time for a socially distanced cuppa and a chat along the way.

• The Covid Letters exhibition opens at Bloomsbury's Foundling Museum tomorrow, presenting over 200 works from young people across the UK who have shared their feelings about the crisis by individually customising the letter that every household received from Boris Johnson at the start of lockdown.

• The Roundhouse are inviting you to enter their doors for one night only this autumn, with tickets now on sale for the annual Poetry Slam. It will be their first live event since lockdown, with performances from some of the best emerging talent competing for the coveted slam champion title.

• Kings Cross favourite, Dishoom have just launched a brand new wine list and are giving you the chance to try it for free. Visit between 4 and 6pm throughout October for a complimentary glass.

• Pumpkin carving just got competitive, with this call out in Queen's Crescent for photographs of your spooky creations for the chance to win Halloween prizes. Buy one from Kentish Town City Farm, and vote for your favourites at their QC Market stall.

• Another Covid-safe way to mark Halloween comes from Camden Market & Soho's nitro-chilled ice cream factories Chin Chin Labs, who currently have a seasonal roasted pumpkin seed milk flavour on the specials board. It has impeccable zero waste credentials, turning the usually discuarded seeds into a 100% vegan frozen treat, (no trick!).

• St Pancras Station has gone full sci-fi on us, becoming the first station in the world to feature special hi tech virus-killing robots. Check out this video of them keeping the concourse Covid-free by zapping surfaces with UV light and puffs of ultrasonic disinfectant atomiser - and see if you can spot the gliding gizmos during your next shopping trip there.

• Talking of hi tech, just over the way in Coal Drops Yard's SamsungKX, a big red full-sized one-off 5G bus has been unveiled. It's more art installation than mode of transport, but hop aboard and it showcases the latest lightening-fast wi-fi devices that are about to upgrade our lives, particularly when we're on the go.

• Fans of backstreet boozer The Pineapple in Kentish Town now have an extra incentive to pay this much-loved watering hole a visit, thanks to the return of their weekly quiz night every Monday at 7.30pm.

• More of a film buff? Tufnell Park Film Club are running another Zoom-based film quiz this Sunday. It's free for anyone to join from anywhere in the world, but do let them know in advance to expect you.

• Learn how to grow your very own crops of tasty micro-greens indoors this winter, with a free workshop this Wednesday evening, courtesy of Regent's Place and their green-fingered guests, Square Mile Farms.

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