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

 EXPLORE: Your guide to Hawley Wharf 

Today see's the opening of Curzon Camden, a tasty 5-screen arthouse cinema (pictured), themed on New York's jazz bars and based in railway arches at the heart of Camden Town. It's just one of the many new attractions, including 30 independent food vendors, 15 boutiques, a boxing gym and loads more we've covered in Camdenist's ultimate guide to Hawley Wharf. It's a comprehensive tool for discovering what's going on at the area's brand new destination, and reveals a series of regular free DJ events taking place from next week through to the end of the year at the Waterside Halls, too. We'll ensure the guide stays fully up-to-date as more traders and attractions get added. All you need to do is explore. 

 HISTORY: Hawley Wharf then...and now 

Back in 2015, the area that is now home to the aforementioned restaurants, cinemas and boutiques of Hawley Wharf stood fenced-off and awaiting demolition. Street artists had been permitted to roam, spraying huge artworks on the condemned buildings just days before the whole site was flattened. Luckily, we got inside and took these historic photos just in time. 

Now, with the whole area finally reopening to the public, you can compare the site before and after by sliding back and forth between each of the images, while reading more about this historic period of redevelopment in the middle of Camden.

 MUSIC: An orchestra walks into a school... 

Camdenist's Music in Camden series continues with this latest interview with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Acland Burghley School about their unique local partnership, the first of its kind in the UK. We've also been talking to Lucy Wood, Head of Music at Roundhouse, about her experiences working in the music industry and the venue's recent Rising Festival that celebrates emerging talent.

 AUTUMN: Candle making and Korean films 

As the nights get crisper and darker, find some warmth in a candle making workshop on Tuesday run by DJ Sue Grant with the Ladies of the Lock. Entry is free for LOTL members or £5 on the door. London Korean Film Festival is another excellent way to stay warm paying a visit to cinemas city-wide, including in and around Camden at Regents Cinema, the ICA and Picturehouse Central, all screening Korean films from 4th-19th November. 

 WALK: Cross the rainbow 

Upgrade your weekend walk with a colourful proposition from Camden Guides as part of London Design Festival

and the Let's Do London Initiative. Artist

Yinka Ilori

has painted road crossings on 

Tottenham Court Road

and around central London

 with a vibrant makeover. There are free walks, led by Camden Guides, to learn more about the communities that make up this city, and celebrate joyful art in the process. Although the walks are free, you'll need to

select and book

a time. 

CAMDENIST Presents...

32-page Autumn print guide still available free across local and London-wide stockists. Winter special coming soon 😏

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL How do you feel about the ongoing redevelopment of chunks of London, as we've seen with Hawley Wharf here in Camden? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

With big changes to our lifestyles increasingly being seen as the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change, how adaptable do you feel you are?

Ahead of COP26 starting on Sunday, there was a resounding willingness from local readers to do whatever it takes to save the planet. Just under a quarter were less ready to give up their freedoms, but would be swayed to tow the line if the authorities step in. A small group are firmly on their own trajectory, defending their right to consume at all costs. Let's see if the conference delegates make the kind of progress that will assure real movement on the challenges ahead.

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