Newsletter - 22 July 22

Discover the local pop-up beach, campsite and waterfront 🏖

July 22, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes

 Camdenist presents your Friday morning essential read. Five hot new local highlights and cultural happenings across the borough.

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 VISIT: Camden's own beaches, campsites & waterfronts 

As the new reality of scorchio London summers is strangely feared and celebrated with equal gusto (see poll below), thank goodness the free beach is back at JW3, the Jewish arts centre in Swiss Cottage. This year, they've pun-tastically 'splashed out' on the biggest beach to date, with loads of deck chairs, a larger paddling pool, and regular activities for children 0-4, including singing, crafts and yoga. There's a beachfront café for food and refreshments too. No need to book, just turn up. Or h

ead over to Two Tribes Campfire for a different kind of summer vibe with resident DJs and festival atmosphere to accompany plenty of great beers and flame-cooked BBQ food, every Thursday-Saturday. Alternatively, you may chose to cool off and lounge canal-side down the road in King's Cross. Everyman Presents Screen on the Canal continues to show the Tour De France daily (until 25th July), with evening screenings of films like The Greatest Showman, just across the water from the Granary Square steps.

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 GROW: From good weed...to good deeds 

The

Camdenist

 

GROW season

continues, and if you've yet to pick up a free copy of the 32-page magazine, (currently to be found in venues across Camden), you'll find some great stories from the season now online. That includes our fascinating tale of two

women of substance

, busy 

for clandestine sale to in-the-know locals. Their views on the law and the future of these crops - for both health and hedonism - are well worth reading. Meanwhile, the good eggs at the

Good Gym

enthusiastic volunteers to take on community projects, large and small, providing a gym-worthy workout in the process. And did you know that every pound you spend in the shops and restaurants of

St Pancras International

station contributes towards funding vital environmental regeneration? Read all about Project Peatlands and the impressive efforts to rewild these vital carbon sinks.

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 GET ACTIVE: Outdoor fitness / indoor wellness 

Exercising outdoors can really lift your spirits (especially when its disgusting-level sweltering inside). Take your yoga practice into the fresh air Yoga with Charli offers

 on Weds, Thurs & Sundays. Or want more sizzle in your outdoor workout? Check in with Primrose Hill-based boot camp 

 Fit For a Princess, which runs handy, drop-in

sessions every Saturday. Just turn up and you'll find them warming up in front of the Primrose Calisthenics workout area. When you want to slow things down, there are a growing number of local opportunities for a de-stressing and recharging gong bath. Popular practitioner 

Fila Vitae Sound Journeys 

returns 26th July at the St Pancras Community Association centre on Plender St.

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 Ahead of that, tomorrow night you can enjoy a gong bath by candlelight with Odette Kurland of London Gong and Sound Meditation at The Upper Room, in the heart of Camden Town.

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 EAT: Two big foodie names open new Camden outposts 

Two of the area's already long-established restaurants have opened exciting new branches in central Camden in the last few weeks. First up is the

Riding House Café

, whose Fitzrovia original has been a West End staple for over a decade. Their new branch can be found in the Brunswick Centre in the heart of Bloomsbury, offering a healthy high-quality brasserie menu (including the mechoui lamb, bulgur wheat, crispy chickpeas, coriander salsa pictured above), all in

. Meanwhile, around the corner in Lambs Conduit St, the beloved purveyors of Middle Eastern flavours,

Honey & Co

have upped sticks across from Warren St, with colourful sharing plates and cocktails from breakfast until last orders. Go for the summer sharing menu to try a little bit of almost everything. 

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 MUSIC: Small local venues making big sounds 

 tonight. Then tomorrow, 

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 FIVE MORE from Camdenist 

THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL 

The recent hot weather has been weaponised in furious online debate this week. Opinions are polarised (as bloody usual), so dare we ask, which side of the debate do you most align with?

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

Locals love lists! So which topic would you most like us to dive into researching for a future article, uncovering all the essential places for you to go out and discover?

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 UP NEXT...  more local events, stories & gossip from Camdenist  

After a rash of shop closures, Chalk Farm Road's rollercoaster of fortune is on the up once more, with the imminent arrival of tasty-sounding smokehouse fusion joint The Korean Cowgirl and ambitious Middle Eastern franchise Operation Falafel. More on both of those soon.

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The Outside Art Project is that collection of 24 concrete seats to be found scattered around King's Cross, each displaying photography and artworks for free to the public. The latest season opened yesterday, the Radical Imagination Exhibition, with unique portraits from seven very different female photographers, curated by The Photographers' Gallery.

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 Or if reality is getting too much this week, you can step into a whole new world at DNA VR on York Way, a cutting edge arcade that uses the latest headset technology to transport you to over 30 different worlds, from zombie shooting, escape room solving or walking with the dinosaurs. 

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  Berlin-based artist, Claudia Wieser, creates stunning drawings, sculptures, wall installations and tapestries based on the principle of geometric abstraction. They are currently on display at the Glass Cloud Gallery on Hampstead Road.

 COMMUNITY collaborating with businesses and people across Camden 

 

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 Find out how Camdenist can help your local business to grow, in partnership with Google. 

 

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 Look out for the free 32-page print magazine, Camdenist Presents Grow, available locally now

🥘 Are you a local food business who'd like to work with us at HowTheLightGetsIn festival this September at Kenwood? Get in touch asap to find out more: [email protected] 

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