Skip to content
Hackney Citizen
  • Sign up to our free newsletter
  • Digital Edition
  • Get in touch
  • About us

Posts by Max Eckersley

A group of Hackney residents are using a doughnut to reinvigorate their community

By Max Eckersley | Thursday 22 April 2021 at 15:41

Artist Rose Gibbs tells the Citizen all about plans for a self-built community hall on Mountford Estate – and the snack-shaped diagram underpinning them

Read More

‘History in the making’: Hackney artist’s Brexit gift ‘delightfully received’ by Prime Minister Theresa May

By Max Eckersley | Friday 14 June 2019 at 15:43

Kevin Gill, who counts Barack Obama as a fan, sent a print of his painting ‘The Brexit Note’, featuring politicians past and present, to Number 10

Read More

All hands to The Plough

By Max Eckersley | Wednesday 6 March 2019 at 11:51

Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen

Read More

Backlash as Hackney North Labour passes motion rejecting claims of ‘institutional racism’

By Max Eckersley | Friday 1 March 2019 at 14:59

Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calls on Labour’s executive committee to investigate Diane Abbott’s local party

Read More

Smashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 26 February 2019 at 13:04

A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together

Read More

Volunteer group using dogs to fight loneliness finds a new home for 2019

By Max Eckersley | Monday 25 February 2019 at 12:31

Pets Against Loneliness to start up again after renovation work at its old meeting spot put its plans on hold

Read More

Labour’s Meg Hillier rules out defection but reveals hopes for a vote on second referendum

By Max Eckersley | Friday 22 February 2019 at 14:31

The Hackney South MP hints that she could break with official party policy next week to back a fresh public vote

Read More

Carved-up Stik mural to get Polish homecoming after four-year wrangle with London gallery boss

By Max Eckersley | Friday 21 December 2018 at 15:10

Stik hails ‘step forward for artists’ rights’ as he reveals plans to restore a community mural in Gdansk that was chopped up and sold off without his knowledge

Read More

Homelessness charity launches winter campaign with video shot by Hackney filmmaker

By Max Eckersley | Thursday 20 December 2018 at 15:30

Rob Newman’s film shows how finding a home is often just the first step on the road to recovery

Read More

Street artist unveils First World War mural in Shoreditch to mark Remembrance Day

By Max Eckersley | Thursday 15 November 2018 at 23:43

Jerome Davenport, also known as Ketones6000, previously painted a tribute to suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in nearby Bow

Read More

UK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton

By Max Eckersley | Wednesday 14 November 2018 at 16:57

Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year

Read More

‘Lutes, lutes, lutes!’: Filmmaker Laura Stratford on her new documentary, #MeToo, and why she’s on the tail of Elaine Paige

By Max Eckersley | Wednesday 19 September 2018 at 17:33

The talented 26-year-old sat down with the Citizen to discuss her film about a brain injury survivor after its recent Rio premiere

Read More

Hackney school’s mental health charity to launch pop-up arts shop curated by top DJ

By Max Eckersley | Thursday 30 August 2018 at 16:52

Safaplace and Gilles Peterson’s week-long collaboration will feature daily appearances from authors and performers

Read More

‘London’s first theatreland’: Archaeologists dig up more secrets at Shakespearean playhouse

By Max Eckersley | Thursday 30 August 2018 at 12:52

Museum of London also reveals plans for a new exhibition space in Shoreditch centred around The Theatre’s in-situ remains

Read More

Artist teams up with East End schoolchildren for new Whitechapel Gallery show

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 28 August 2018 at 10:49

Mikhail Karikis’ No Ordinary Protest is the gallery’s 10th children’s commission

Read More

Flowers Gallery to host John Loker retrospective to mark artist’s 80th birthday – 48 years after it put on his first solo show

By Max Eckersley | Monday 20 August 2018 at 16:30

Loker, along with David Hockney, was part of the so-called ‘Bradford Mafia’ – a group of artists who first rose to prominence in the 1960s

Read More

‘Victims are becoming the perpetrators’: Rabbi and former Labour councillor hits out at ‘toxic’ atmosphere in local party

By Max Eckersley | Friday 17 August 2018 at 15:37
Rabbi Pinter (Photograph: Hackney Council)

Party says it is ‘very sorry’ to hear the views of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, who recently wrote to Jeremy Corbyn over ‘unchallenged’ instances of antisemitism he has suffered

Read More

‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 14 August 2018 at 13:10

Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’

Read More

Over 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers

By Max Eckersley | Monday 13 August 2018 at 13:28

Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development

Read More

Hackney becomes first council to pass Windrush motion as leading activist urges others to follow suit

By Max Eckersley | Friday 10 August 2018 at 11:49

Town Hall officially agrees to push the government for a public inquiry into the scandal and oppose criminalisation of the Windrush generation

Read More
Older Posts »
Hackney Citizen does not take responsibility for any comments posted on this site. Hackney Citizen is operated by Citizen News & Media Limited - Terms and Conditions. Citizen News & Media Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. No.06426082. Registered Office: Citizen News & Media Limited, 9 Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DD. The Hackney Citizen® is a registered trademark © 2020 Citizen News & Media Limited.
© 2024 Citizen News & Media Limited