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The Hard Stop, an interview with filmmaker George Amponsah: Language of the unheard

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 17:08
Protests in support of Mark Duggan.

Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence

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Today Studios: a workspace to thrive in

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 16:27
Today Studios 1

This co-working space in the heart of Hackney gives you everything you need to spark creativity

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Draw talent: Shoreditch art school holds exhibition of work by artists aged 10 to 18

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 15:55

Future household names could be taking part in the Royal Drawing School’s annual exhibition for young artists

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Draw talent: Shoreditch art school holds exhibition of work by artists aged 10 to 18

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 15:51
Part of a piece by Shoreditch-based 14-year-old, Ananda. Photograph: Royal Drawing School

Future household names could be taking part in the Royal Drawing School’s annual exhibition for young artists

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Hackney students get their GCSE results

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 14:49
Students at Stoke Newington School celebrate their GCSEs

As pupils across the borough get their grades, we bring you the latest from schools

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Isolation Chamber Vacation, Transition Gallery, preview – Alone time

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 12:49

A new exhibition examines the concept of solitude, from associated connotations of madness to its status as a tool for creative genius

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Isolation Chamber Vacation, Transition Gallery, preview – Alone time

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 12:39
The Champagne Suite, from Juno Calypso's series The Honeymoon. Photograph: Juno Calypso

A new exhibition examines the concept of solitude, from associated connotations of madness to its status as a tool for creative genius

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Jidori, Dalston, restaurant review – View-a skewer

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 11:32

The vision for Jidori is yakitori, a Japanese cuisine centred on chicken skewers, cooked on a charcoal grill and washed down with copious amounts of booze

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Jidori, Dalston, restaurant review – View-a skewer

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2016 at 11:25
The bar at Jidori. Photograph: Mary Gaudin, Design: Giles Reid Architects

The vision for Jidori is yakitori, a Japanese cuisine centred on chicken skewers, cooked on a charcoal grill and washed down with copious amounts of booze

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Shadow Optics at Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes, Clapton: Things falling apart

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 August 2016 at 15:52
An excerpt from Solveig Settemsdal's Segment I.I.

Delicacy and light are the dual themes of exhibition at Clapton gallery that places emphasis on curation rather than individual artists

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Blue Pen, film preview: Breaking the silence

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 August 2016 at 11:46
Dorothy Lawrence as Sapper Dennis Smith.

Inspired by the tragic story of war reporter Dorothy Lawrence, Blue Pen looks at the lives of women journalists whose voices have been silenced

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Grimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: ‘excellent programme of rarities and standards’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 15:38
Mozart and Salieri at Grimeborn

Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival

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Grimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: 'excellent programme of rarities and standards'

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 15:34

Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival

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Work for Hackney Winter Night Shelter: seeking two Advocate Workers

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 15:10

Hackney Winter Night Shelter is recruiting staff to help them get ready to welcome guests for the Winter season 2016/17

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Literacy on the high seas: Hackney Pirates looks back on an incredible six years

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 14:10
A Hackney Pirates trip to Ridley Road market, complete with 'future glasses.' Photograph: Hackney Pirates

Pioneering afterschool club’s founder Catriona Maclay looks back on its successes thus far

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Chatsworth Road festival to return for a fourth year

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 14:06

Community-organised ChatsFest is back on 10 September for ‘good ol’ knees-up’ with music, food and more

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Police hunt for two men after shot fired at Hackney restaurant

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 12:16
First suspect enters the restaurant

Detectives appeal for information following knife and gun attack at a Turkish eatery in Dalston

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Diane Abbott Foundation spent nearly £30,000 on awards ceremony, accounts reveal

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 17:24
Diane Abbott MP

Sum was more than 80 per cent of annual budget of small education charity of which MP is the director

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Top tie-up as “old school” network helps connect ex-students with Hackney youngsters

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 16:48
"A thriving alumni network...". Photograph: Future First

A new project is helping connect those who remember the days of the old schoolyard with current pupils with the aim of improving career prospects

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London’s Olympic Legacy – book review: ‘spruced up field notes’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 15:23
Gillian Evans at Olympic Park 620

Volume provides an insider account of how the idealistic goals that motivated the early phases of Olympic legacy planning gradually eroded

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