Posts by Hackney Citizen
Hackney gardens to open for June weekender
Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden and Abney Park Cemetery are among 20 green spaces in Hackney participating in the Open Garden Squares Weekend in June
Read MoreGeneral Election 2017 : Full list of candidates for Hackney North and Hackney South
Nominations have now closed for the General Election on 8 June
Read MoreGreens promise ‘bold action’ on environment at Hackney launch
Caroline Lucas vows to revamp energy market and create bottle deposit scheme in manifesto announcement at Woodberry Wetlands
Read MoreAlas! Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet tour to stop at Hackney Empire next year
Londoner Paapa Essiedu to star in the production, which reimagines Denmark as a modern, African-influenced state
Read MoreTree felling in Hackney tripled in a single year, new figures show
Council cut down nearly 200 trees across the borough in 2016, but says work is necessary to ‘protect residents’
Read More“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’
Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life
Read MorePregnant driver jailed for ramming cyclist into tree in Hackney
Police release shocking footage of Justine Henshaw-Bryan ‘using car as a weapon’ following row over mobile phone
Read MoreRichmond Road Medical Centre to showcase range of borough’s mental health services for awareness week
Tomorrow’s event at the GP practice will feature mindfulness and yoga taster sessions and more
Read MoreMaeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire
In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts
Read MoreCleaver-wielding man arrested after ‘threatening to kill Jews’ in Clapton
Suspect armed with butcher’s blade and large knife reportedly screamed at Jewish schoolgirls to ‘run away’
Read MoreShut Down LD50 to ‘keep fighting’ after Dalston gallery reopens
‘We need to show them that they are not welcome here’, urges anti-fascist group as controversial gallery unveils new exhibition
Read MoreLes Nénettes, Clapton, restaurant review – ‘classic southern French’
This new French restaurant on La rue de Lower Clapton offers fine fare from apéritifs to main course
Read MoreHackney burns survivor floats free swimming scheme
‘I needed to do something positive to help other people in my situation’, says campaigner Sylvia Mac
Read MoreClient Earth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman, book review – ‘a fight to protect our natural habitat’
The London Fields-based environmental law firm ClientEarth scored another victory last month in their battle for clean air. A new book outlines their philosophies
Read MoreIdris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up
Police called after hundreds gathered outside Whitmore Community Centre last night to audition for upcoming film set in Hackney
Read MoreControversial LD50 gallery in Dalston launches new exhibition
Hackney art gallery that anti-fascist protestors claimed to have shut down is putting on new show called ‘Corporeality’
Read MoreFor whom the bell tolls: the world of Breathing Space
We talk to the sonic art collective, fresh from their latest time-bending, meditative sound installation at St. Augustine’s Tower
Read MoreWhitehall ‘passing the buck’ on illegal air pollution, say Hackney lawyers
ClientEarth blasts government’s latest air quality action plan, released by ministers on Friday after failed legal bid to delay publication
Read MoreThis Beautiful Future, The Yard, theatre review – love during wartime
The latest production at The Yard, This Beautiful Future, is “a tale of love and war” set in occupied France, 1944
Read MoreGeneral Election 2017: Conservatives announce Hackney candidates
Amy Gray to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Luke Parker in Hackney South and Shoreditch
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