This week we review our new favourite Addiscombe lunch spot Dirty Crunch 😋 👉 A place that’s part kitchen, part indie emporium, and all-round foodie heaven 🤩 🥗☕️🥂 Read more: croydonist.co.uk/dirty-crunch/

Plant-based picnic in 1-4pm Saturday, 7 June in Queens Gardens, Katharine Street #croydon eastcroydon.org.uk/2025/06/04/pla… via ECCO Croydon, UK

A big thanks to our current social media cover artist Erika Gomez. 🤩 Erika’s work explores many aspects of her life from her culture, interests and everyday journeys and experiences through living in Croydon. 👉 See more work here: instagram.com/egomez_art_ New art tomorrow 🤩

A big thanks to our new social media cover artist. 🌱 Skippy is a self taught artist who loves painting natural forms whether that is citrus fruit or hosta plants in the garden. Skippy grew up in Banstead and has been living in Croydon for 12 years 🤩👉 instagram.com/skippys_art/

Yesterday lunchtime, we popped by Museum of Croydon to see their latest exhibition, Art & Joy. 🥰 The exhibition showcases work by people affected by dementia, which was created at a series of workshops earlier this year. 💖👉 Read more croydonist.co.uk/art-and-joy/

In a couple of weeks, on Saturday 28 June, Green Spaces Day is back with its annual celebration of our borough’s green spaces 🌿 with free activities, events, stalls and performances dedicated to caring for Croydon’s flora and fauna. 🐦 🐞 🌺 🌳 Read more: croydonist.co.uk/green-spaces-d…

Interested in getting creative? Read on… 👇 A team from local arts social enterprise A Collective have been commissioned to create an artwork for a new development in Factory Lane, and they want to collaborate with Croydon residents. 🥰 read more 👉 croydonist.co.uk/negative-space…

👉 This week we heard about TEDxBeckenham that is taking place just down the road in (you guessed it) Beckenham on Saturday 5 July, and we were eager to find out more 🤩 Read our preview 👉 croydonist.co.uk/tedxbeckenham-…

This week we catch up with poet and Croydon local, Kevin Morris to find out more about his creative process. 👉 croydonist.co.uk/kevin-morris/

We are very pleased to hear that this year Croydon Pride Fest is back in Wandle Park, in true festival style. And the good news is that the party takes place in just over a week, on Saturday 19 July. 🏳️‍🌈🥰 We chatted with one of the organisers 👉 croydonist.co.uk/pride25/

Last week we popped by Bishops Wine Bar to catch up with co-owner Angela Ferrara about the bar’s history and their upcoming ABBA night on Saturday 26 July, which celebrates the 10th birthday of Cosimo (the bar’s cat, of course) 🥳🤩👉 croydonist.co.uk/bishops-wine-b…

This week we chat with local artist Stathis Dimitriadis about his artistic practice as well as his upcoming group exhibition Clay in vivo, which celebrates the transformative power of unfired clay. 🫀👉 croydonist.co.uk/stathis-dimitr…