Hackney Citizen

Millfields Community School’s Christmas song to raise funds for playground

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 December 2013 at 11:52

Bid to find £250,000

Abney Park Trust’s future still in doubt after ‘jargonistic’ meeting

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 December 2013 at 11:01

Talks with Hackney Council ‘not reassuring’

Geraldine Pilgrim at Toynbee Hall

By East End Review | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 17:17

Toynbee Hall and Studios is the subject of a tour by installation artist Geraldine Pilgrim

Supporting Artists – Acme's First Decade 1972-1982

By East End Review | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 17:15

Whitechapel Gallery exhibition charts the first ten years of Acme, an organisation founded in the 1970s that provided affordable studio space and support for artists

Spitalfields Winter Festival – Remember Me: A Desk Opera

By East End Review | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 16:02

An opera inside a desk is sure to be one of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival highlights

The El. Train delivers Eugene O’Neill triple bill

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 15:42

A collection of one-act plays by Irish American playwright explores life on the dark side of the tracks

Bird Radio – a magical flautist

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 15:24

Flute-toting troubadour Bird Radio enchants audiences with songs inspired by British folk traditions

At Home with the Ludskis – an artistic tribute to the Rio Cinema’s founder

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 15:08

Rio cinema hosts regular avant-garde event as tribute to its founder

Black Cat Café – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 14:50

New vegan café in Clapton replaces the much-loved Pogo cafe

Christmas listings

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 14:18

Russell Parton takes a looks at what’s on offer for Hackney residents this December

Making of a ‘metamentary’ – Rough Cut by Jamie Shovlin

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 12:35

Hackney artist shoots film about the making of a fictional slasher film

Fashion designers given residency at Hackney Shop pop-up

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 12:17

In amongst the big name brands making up the fashion hub on Morning Lane lies a pop-up space for local fashion designers and indie brands

This Other London – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 11:30

Author John Rogers tours through some overlooked reaches of London

London Fortean Society’s Scott Wood launches London Urban Legends book

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 11:02

Urban myths are the subject of a new book by London Fortean Society head Scott Wood

Visible! 2013 at the Book Club – preview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 10:22

Designer Bidyut Das looks to the roaring twenties in an exhibition of hats

Lizzie Siddal at Arcola Theatre – preview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 09:48

Model for John Everett Millais’ famous painting of Ophelia is the subject of new play

Phoenix at Hackney Downs Studios – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 09:35

Cast made up of actors with experience in social care star in site-specific production by Big House theatre

Of Kings and Angels by Mediaeval Baebes- review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 09:20

Vocal group gives Christmas carols medieval treatment on festive album

Wintergarden at Sutton House – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 09:05

Colourful exhibition that looks back to 19th century fashion for glass houses filled with exotic plants is the perfect antidote for the winter blues

Artists including Chapman brothers make pub signs

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 December 2013 at 20:59

One-off signs made to support emerging artists programme at Space In Between gallery