Rich Mix to host ‘rowdy, political knees up’ Question Time Cabaret next week
Artist Talia Randall and a panel of journalists and performers will tackle ‘gentrification and the art of the East End’ in an inimitable way – albeit without any Dimblebys
Hackney One Carnival returns on 10 September – we have all the details
Find out the new route, what’s on, the prospective weather and more in our guide to next weekend’s festivities
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to hold Hackney pet drop-in on Saturday 9 September
Free advice and services for dog and cat lovers will feature at the event, to be held at Pembury Community Centre off Dalston Lane
Visions Festival / Institute of Light / Billy Smokes review: out here in the Fields
Find out why last weekend’s music festival was “irritating but frequently brilliant – much like London Fields itself”…
Meet the man monkeying around with 1970s T-shirt transfers
Andrew Rutland runs Let It Gibbon, a stall that allows people to cut and paste their selection of authentically retro decals onto their own unique shirt
Hackney Summer Fete returns to St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens on 8 July
Final call for stallholders of all kinds – organisers are specifically interested in food, vintage and flowers
How about them apples? Strongroom Bar Cider & Cheese Festival coming later this month
The bar on Curtain Road, Shoreditch follows up their popular American beer festivals with a celebration of scrumpy and a side order of cheese
Holly-wooden: the local architect aiming to raise a timber cinema and theatre in Millfields Park
Just over a week left to crowdfund ‘Cine-Theatre on Millfields’, which will stage screenings, plays and workshops in an amphitheatre made of pallets
Pop Up a whole new living in six Hackney weeks
A new support for brand new micro-businesses – Six Weeks to Pop Up starts 24th May in Hackney
Player 2: Press Start: a look at two new, local video game ventures
Hackney is set to get button-bashing all over again with the arrival of GamePad and Four Quarters East