Andrew Kalleen: Protest Music

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• Andrew Kalleen

Andrew is a rock star in every possible sense. As well as being one of the city’s finest buskers, he’s also an activist, who’s stared down police intimidation, faced arrest…

Elizabeth Pisani: The Role of Corruption

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• Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani is one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, her incendiary book, The Wisdom of Whores, argued for a total reappraisal in our approach to AIDS (ruffling quite a few…

Josephine Decker: Making Communities

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• Josephine Decker

Rising star of independent cinema, Josephine Decker is a force to reckoned with. Indie Wire described her work as “The unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch” while the…

Femi Adeyemi

One of the founding members of Boiler Room, Femi has been instrumental in changing what we listen to and how we listen to it. In recent years, he’s founded NTS radio, a…

Scottee

Scottee is one of the most controversial entertainers on the circuit, known for provoking visceral responses in his audiences and polarising critics – whether hurling cake at Rihanna on live…

Bradley Garrett

We’ve been trying to pin down Bradley for close to a year. His evasions have ranged from lack of phone signal (roving the sewers of Antwerp), to general business (writing a…

Luisa Omielan

Luisa Omielan has been described at the Beyoncé of comedy. Like Beyoncé, she sells out shows wherever she lands (London, New York, Edinburgh) and has an ever increasing legion of fans.…

Inna Shevchenko

Inna Shevchenko is the leader of Femen, a notorious group of Ukranian activists, fighting patriarchy in all its forms. They describe their work as ‘Sextremism’ which goes some way to capture…

London Afrobeat Collective

London Afrobeat Collective describe themselves as a “politicised party machine”. One of the most notorious live acts in London, their raucous gigs are swiftly becoming the stuff of legend. This year…

Penny Woolcock

The ridiculously multi-talented, Penny has worked across a spectrum of mediums: film, opera you name it. Throughout her career, she’s maintained her focus on the margins of culture; from illicit…