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

• The new free 32-page Camdenist Presents print guide is out now

• Available in over 200 locations locally and across London

• 8-page map + guide to next weekend's A Taste of Buck Street festival (all-inclusive wristbands here)

• Your pocket-sized insight for making the most of local life this autumn

 ART: Stroll with sculpture 

Frieze Sculpture has just landed back in Regent's Park and is open to the public until the 31st October. With sculptures exploring geopolitical power structures, environmental concerns, colour and architecture, the free outdoor exhibition is well worth a wander. Pictured is Gisela Colón's Quantum Shift. Fancy making your own art? Submissions are now open for Highgate Art's November Postcard Exhibition. And for lovers of design and fashion, King's Cross Design District and its resident brand names will be throwing the doors wide as part of the London Design Festival to present exhibitions, installations, talks and more from tomorrow through to next Sunday.

 FOOD: Hot new places to try 

This weekend's brand new local launch at the rapidly-growing Hawley Wharf is exciting Middle Eastern steakhouse The Black Cow. Set around a smart long countertop, expect a fusion of American grill flavours with a deeply herbal Middle Eastern zing. Another exciting option just opened at Hawley is Camden's very own outpost of acclaimed Italian streetfood vendors Sugo, focused on lesser-known dishes from Roma, Napoli and Palermo. And the latest branch of Tonkotsu opens tomorrow opposite Kentish Town tube, bringing hearty bowls of their famously tasty ramen, alongside katsu curry and gyoza plus a selection of Japanese whiskies and sake. 

NEXT WEEKEND enjoy delicious tasters from 26 street food vendors, craft drinks & live music all for one £15 wristband. Hurry - tickets are limited! 

Book HERE 

 DRINK: Coffee with Fatboy Slim 

Last week we suggested you drop in for tea with photographer Rankin. This week, top DJ/producer Fatboy Slim is our local cuppa partner of choice.

Pepita Coffee

(inside Kentish Town Rd's

Let It Roll Records

) have teamed up with Fatboy, aka Norman Cook, and illustrator George Fox for the latest in their limited edition designer tin range. Point the Artivive app at the tin and it magically springs into life. Who knew coffee tins could be their own exhibition? The award-winning Colombian coffee is a treat too. 

 EVENTS: Free community celebrations ahoy 

Bringing together street art, music, food and a speaker's corner,

Camden Inspire

takes over two roads in the heart of Camden Town

today and tomorrow

. 

Meanwhile, over the next two weeks,

Somers Town Pop-Up Museum

has teamed up with

Think & Do

to put on a dizzying array of green workshops, talks, meals and history walks in and around Ossulston St TRA Hall, part of a long-term plan to honour the rich history of the area.

 THINK: Following the light  

This weekend HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest festival of philosophy, music and comedy, finally returns to Kenwood House. For a taste of what to expect, read Camdenist.com's series of interviews with some of this year's fascinating speakers including Futures Theorist Luke Robert Mason, neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and Francis Crick Institute scientist

Güneş Taylor

. 

CAMDENIST READER OFFER: 20% OFF the price of last remaining day tickets at HowTheLightGetsIn, 18-19 September. 

Just enter the code CAMDENIST20 at the checkout 

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL Sticking with philosophy again this week for fun, what has COVID done for your understanding of nature? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

After interviewing 'futures theorist' Luke Robert Mason (see above), we've been pondering the quest for immortality. Would you go for it, if you had the chance?

Camdenists are fairly at ease with their eventual demise. Only 11% of you claim to want to live forever, but the unanswered question of what life itself really is, and whether that's the pinnacle of our total existence anyway, hangs tantalisingly for 38% of respondents, too.

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