Your Friday morning essential read. Five local feel-good highlights, including exclusive special offers and events. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 EVENTS: Late summer parties this weekend 

We're spoilt for choice this weekend with free outdoor music, drinking, dining and performances popping up all over the place. The biggest is the return of Camden Town Brewery's famous

Tank Party

after a Covid-enforced hiatus. Head

under the arches

for a 2-day fiesta of beer poured straight from the fermentation tanks. It's the first time chef Theo Randall's classy Beer Hall food will be served at the event, too. If you're quick you can book one of the last remaining beer banquet tickets, which include a special 3-course tasting menu. Or

head to Whitfield St

 on Saturday for the

Fitzrovia Youth In Action Street Party

, where young artists from Chalk Farm's Roundhouse will perform and host interactive workshops for others to join in. Also part of the

Camden Together

programme on Saturday is a dementia-friendly summer concert of from Songhaven in St George's Gardens, Bloomsbury. Bring a picnic and enjoy songs from classically-trained artists. Meanwhile, up at Parliament Hill Fields the Dig It Soundsystem are also back with one of their popular community DJ hoedowns at the bandstand (2019 edition pictured above). Nearby party-starters Disappearing Dining Club will deliver pre-ordered picnics, draft beers and cocktails if you ask them nicely, too. 

 OPENINGS: New food & drink to try in Camden 

Jamestown Rd's Fifty-Five Bar was an early victim of lockdown, but happily the site has just been reborn as

All About Eve

, a

1950's themed

all-day diner and cocktail bar, looking very handsome in the image above. Nearby on Chalk Farm Rd, a vast new branch of West Hampstead fave

Organico

has opened in the former

Escapade

 fancy dress shop. The mezzanine level has loads of tables and a menu of healthy brunches and chef's specials like meat-free burgers, mezze platters and spinach daal, while down below is a cavernous eco-groceries and homewares

destination

. At the heart of the newly opened 

Hawley Wharf

is Dockray Place, a secluded square that's now hosting

The Spread Produce Market

every Saturday and Sunday. They're 

launching with 30 artisan stalls

offering deli goods, fresh bread, small batch drinks and more, as a brand new weekend pit-stop for locals.

And just up on Kentish Town Rd is new Middle Eastern cafe

Kentish.101

, serving homemade Kurdish and other regional specialties each day, adding nicely to a strip that's already rich with tasty global food options. Plenty to get your teeth into. 🥗 🍹 🥐

 MUSIC: Vince Power on his return to Dingwalls 

Legendary festival promoter and venue owner, Vince Power, surprised many when he bought Camden's Dingwalls venue at the height of the Covid pandemic last year. But as he tells us, the ups and downs of his amazing 50-year career have taught him little when it comes to following his unfailing passion for music. After many months wait, the venue now known as Powerhaus, is finally hosting live gigs and we can all get excited about this new local gem, and the plans Vince is working on.

 READ: HowTheLightGetsIn Festival preview  

In this week's interview in the build-up to the world's largest festival of philosophy and music touching down on Hampstead Heath later this month, we speak to

neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland

about her lifetime of work on the brain and how and why it does the things it does. She will be appearing at the festival alongside a brilliant line-up of the planet's leading thinkers, politicians and questioning minds. Find out more here.

CAMDENIST READER OFFER:

 20% OFF the price of all tickets for 

How The Light Gets In,

the world's largest festival of philosophy and music, held across the weekend of 18-19 September in the gardens of Kenwood House. 

Just enter the code CAMDENIST20 at the checkout 

 VISIT: Open House let's you peer inside 

The much-loved Open House Festival kicks off tomorrow across London, giving us a rare chance to see inside some of the city's usually private architectural wonders. Here in Camden, you might want to tour the big hitters like gothic masterpiece St Pancras Chambers or brutalist The Standard hotel opposite. Or you may prefer to have a simple nosey round the verdent Fitzroy Park Allotments, or acclaimed public housing in Highgate New Town (pictured). Events run through to next weekend.

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL As a new weekly market offering fresh produce from independent traders opens at Hawley Wharf (see above), what are your views on urban farmers markets? 

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