Smokers Encouraged to Join Stoptober

01 October 2022-31 October 2022 @ All Day – Stoptober is back, calling on smokers in England to join the 2.5 million others who have made a quit attempt with the campaign since it launched a decade ago in 2012. Nearly 6 million adults in England still smoke, and it remains the single biggest behavioural cause of preventable death. If you are a smoker, […]

Get Online Week – #Tryonething!

17 October 2022-23 October 2022 @ 12:00 am – Get Online Week – #Tryonething! 17 – 23 October 2022 Get Online Week is an annual digital inclusion campaign run by charity Good Things Foundation. In the last 14 years, the campaign has helped hundreds of thousands of people to get online for the first time and improve their digital skills. Did you now? Nearly […]

Somali Week Festival 2022!

21 October 2022-30 October 2022 @ All Day – Friday 21 October to Sunday 30 October Kayd Somali Arts and Culture is an arts organisation that was founded in 2009 by Ayan Mahamoud MBE in Tower Hamlets, London to build and expand on Somali arts projects that previously took place in Oxford House in Bethnal Green. These projects were created to provide a platform and […]

Grand Union’s Song of Africa programme

21 October 2022-29 October 2022 @ All Day – Friday 21 October / 7:00 pm to Saturday 29 October / 10:00 pm This year’s BHM 2022 programme is being led by Grand Union artists born or brought up in musical traditions ranging from Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Somalia, as well as South Africa. Ghana and Nigeria. […]

Somali Week Festival: Children’s Entertainment

22 October 2022 @ 2:00 pm-4:00 pm – Saturday 22 October / 2.00 to 4.00 / Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG This is a much-loved children’s segment by long-time Kayd partner Galool featuring Ilwad Sabban – a Somali storyteller and entertainer who promotes the writing and reading of the Somali Language among Somali children in the UK, based on the cultural and linguistic resources she has developed […]

East End Masculinities

22 October 2022 @ 3:30 pm-4:15 pm – Saturday 22 October / 3:30pm & 7:30pm / St. Margaret’s House, Mulberry Hall, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL How are you ever gonna be the man of the house? The living room, a boxing ring, and Bethnal Green Tube Station serve as the arenas in which Alex, Barry and Jasraj grapple with this question. […]

East End Masculinities

22 October 2022 @ 7:30 pm-8:15 pm – Saturday 22 October / 3:30pm & 7:30pm / St. Margaret’s House, Mulberry Hall, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL How are you ever gonna be the man of the house? The living room, a boxing ring, and Bethnal Green Tube Station serve as the arenas in which Alex, Barry and Jasraj grapple with this question. […]