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Your five weekly feel-good highlights, including exclusive offers, great reads and things to do locally. Easing you slowly-but-surely out of lockdown. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 WIN: Limited Edition Jayson Lilley Art Tin 

Pepita Coffee

, in less locked-down times to be found inside Kentish Town Road's 

Let It Roll Records

store, have revealed the latest limited edition in their collectable art-on-a-coffee-tin range. A striking collaboration with contemporary artist and printmaker Jayson Lilley,

Love You London

depicts the iconic NHS-supporting rainbows of the Covid era with three different city skylines, including the view from Parliament Hill. Read this week's interview with Pepita owner Andres all about the project, and if you'd like win a tin...

To be in this week's draw to win a limited edition Jayson Lilley-designed Love You London coffee tin, including 250g of 100% arabica blend inside, simply share your unique referral link below with friends. For every one that signs up before Friday 5th March, you get another chance to win!

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 EAT IN: Camden Home Cooks 

The lockdown has been disastrous for pubs and restaurants, but from adversity comes brilliant innovation, too.

Camden Home Cooks

is a volunteer run collective uniting out-of-work chefs with their neighbours, meaning restaurant quality home deliveries with far more ethical, sustainable and social chops than the usual Deliveroo experience. Find out all about the democratic food revolution happening on our very own doorsteps.

 PARTICIPATE: Re-imagine Camden High Street 

Vagina Museum founder Florence Schechter has some exciting ideas for regenerating the forlorn stretch of Chalk Farm Rd and Camden High St near the museum, where boarded-up shops currently dominate. Check out her plans, and add your feedback, ideas and enthusiasm for what the future might hold here. Could post-Covid be the time for a genuine reinvention of the way rents, rates and retail work in Camden - and beyond?

 OPPORTUNITY: Creative Industries Training 

A great opportunity for 18-25-year-olds has just launched in the shape of a new free course, 

AD-Cademy

, supported by Regent's Place/British Land. It offers training from experts from across the advertising, tech and media industries, offering a route to placements and employment in these fields for young people hailing from a truly diverse range of backgrounds. Find out more and register for the 8-week spring course. 

 WATCH: Launching New NW1 Bakery Panadera 

Two doors down from Europe's first Filipino ice cream parlour, Mamasons, the same owners have just launched a bakery. Panadera specialises in breads and pastries from the same part of the world. They've weathered the storms of lockdown to open, as documented in this video diary. The team, who are also behind four more popular world food restaurants in the same strip, give a real insight into how they work. Check out their YouTube channel for loads more videos.

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL How long do you think it will be before central London returns to feeling anything like at 'full speed'? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

Camden currently has London's lowest rate of Covid infection - even less than we had under Tier 1 in October. How do you think this happened?

An impressive vote of confidence in our collective ability to follow the rules, with pretty much half of the poll respondents feeling this has been why Camden has managed to contain the worst of Covid. Three cheers for civic-minded behaviour!

 CAMDENIST COMMUNITY: Spread the word 

Last chance to bag yourself and three friends a 

Dishoom at Home

bacon/vegan naan & chai tea kit delivered to 

all of your homes

. Check your live total number of referrals to date (below) and see if you can add a few more this weekend. 😎

All new sign-ups also put you in the running for a Jayson Lilley limited edition artwork coffee tin (see above).

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