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Craft fairs, Christmas films, live music and more.

Live music, festive films and Christmas fairs, all over town.

The rhythms and rituals of rural life have seldom been conspicuous in British cinema. But in this feature from our August 2010 issue, Rob Young looks back to feature films of the 1960s and 70s, and to documentaries across the decades, and finds that traces of the ‘old, weird Britain’ can still be unearthed.

The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as the ICA puts on a retrospective with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis Cocker

Photographer Johny Pitts and poet Roger Robinson wanted to use their art to reflect on the experiences of Black Britons. So they rented a red Mini Cooper and set off clockwise around the coast

An Afrofuturist road movie through eerie, emptied English landscapes

Work in the ArcSoc (University of Cambridge architecture society) Cambridge Show has always had an affinity for bringing new life to neglected and

True crime, psychogeographic wanderings and a decadent drama of record-breaking excess. What are you watching this weekend?

Tate Britain Commission 2022: Hew Locke

Why cities emptied by COVID-19 are perfect for modern flaneurs Copying the approach of Baudelaire’s quizzical stroller can help us escape lockdown — even if he needs a little updating By Chris Moss / The Guardian Charles Baudelaire, whose 200th birthday yesterday was celebrated with stamp issues, new editions of his poetry and virtual events, is arguably more famous for his concept of the flaneur — an aimless stroller or ambler — than for his writing. That’s partly because reading h...