Newsletter - 15th Jan 21

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Your Lockdown Lifeline: weekly feel-good reads, exclusive deals and local highlights to enjoy from home, prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 Meet Matt and Ali, winner of our Business Pivot award 

We had brilliant feedback following the debut

Camden Covid Champions

 announcement, with praise for Nell, our

Doorstep Hero

winner last Friday. Week 2 focuses on local businesses that had to move fast to survive lockdown. You can read about all the nominees in the

Business Pivot

category, and catch up on Nell if you missed her, too. This week's honours go to Matt and Ali, owners of The Old Crown pub in New Oxford Street. Lockdown forced them to 

contemplate the future, which resulted in a detailed sustainability blueprint for how the West End may well eat, drink, work and socialise in a decade's time. Read their full story here.

Not only are England's Lane fave Chamomile Cafe offering Camdenist readers 10% off all takeout orders next week (18th - 24th Jan), but they've also supplied this lovely artwork of their frontage in order to illustrate. Stop off and takeaway a discounted coffee, pastry or cake, which are guaranteed to help anyone endure even the most bracing of midwinter lockdown sorties. As ever, just mention Camdenist and the deal is yours.

Another hugely enjoyable local history lesson for you this week from film-maker John Rogers, London's foremost adventure video blogger. He's walked the full route of the buried River Fleet, from where it springs on Hampstead Heath, down through Kentish Town, King's Cross and Clerkenwell to meet the Thames at Blackfriars. Along the way, he points out numerous quirky nuggets of local knowledge, all with an infections enthusiasm. Well worth a watch, and to inspire your next lockdown exercise walk.

Euston's creative dance hub The Place and London's Korean Cultural Centre are inviting young dance enthusiasts (aged 12-19) and youth dance companies to take part in a brand new digital project. It offers a free online workshop with a K-Pop choreographer, where students learn choreography from K-Pop girl band sensation LUNARSOLAR's music video, then submit their dance recording to feature in a new film to be broadcast online later this year. Watch the video and find out more here.

Primrose Hill's Princess of Wales pub is running 2-for-1 on all pizzas when you collect. The deal is available throughout the week from midday to 9pm. And you can get actual draft pints to go, too. Just give 'um a call.

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