Shifts: compassion and courage in a crisis

Grooves: Beans On Toast; #saveourvenues; Van Morrison; Camden Unlocked

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Flyboy and the Robot; Horrible Histories; Beckett; Comedy on The Terrace; Three Kings

The dark side of Dickens

Darker Pinocchio is truly enchanting

Holy unacceptable: racism and the Church of England

Beach boys and girls in Wild Swimming

Gypsy Queen shows pubs can bounce back

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Sāvitri; John Etheridge

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Strasbourg 1518; Monologues; Madame Kalamazoo; Her & Her; Three Kings

Max factor: Hampstead’s ‘incomparable’ dandy

Mental health: tales of hope

Young at art: first exhibition for Nargiz, 90

Bird in the Sky: homesick mechanic who vanished

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Fidelio Orchestra Café; Rake’s Progress

Death of a dream in Once There Was Brasilia

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: End of the Line; Space Between; Little Angel; Dance

Grooves: Miles Kane & Camden Market Unlocked; Forum art; Barbican Hall livestreams

Margaret, wife of the not so jolly Rajah

Live music: closed encounters