Council urges Hackney residents to recycle to reduce festive waste
Hackney residents are being encouraged to reduce waste over the festive season and recycle as much as they can
Read MoreHouseboaters being ‘forced out’ of Olympics area
River Lea residents claim they are being priced out and uprooted from their community by British Waterways
Read MoreRailtracks by John Berger and Anne Michaels – review
Railtracks is a collaborative work by Hackney-born author John Berger, novelist Anne Michaels and photographer Tereza Stehlíková
Read MoreYAOAY announce New Year’s Eve party and new EP
Indie / post-punk / electro funk band based in Hackney Wick to release debut EP in New Year
Read MoreArthur Christmas – review
Aardman’s festive movie is showing at the Rio Cinema in Dalston until Monday 2 January 2012 (daytime screenings)
Read MoreHackney Winter Night Shelter seeks residents’ support
Hackney Winter Night Shelter is seeking financial donations and volunteers to look after its New Year guests
Read MoreSofa Surfer film highlights Hackney’s ‘hidden’ homelessness
Sofa Surfer is a short film telling the story of a young woman from Hackney who has nowhere to go
Read MoreHackney Citizens’ Advice Bureau seeks volunteer advisers
Citizens’ Advice is for life, not just for Christmas – volunteers are needed all year round
Read MoreHackney estate tenants in pets row
Proposed changes to tenancy agreements for Hackney residents living in council-owned properties are causing concern
Read MoreHackney Community Law Centre appoints new manager as legal aid cuts bite
Cllr Ian Rathbone says new arrival will ‘bring a cutting edge’ to the work of Hackney Community Law Centre
Read MoreHackney residents ‘homeless’ at Christmas after suspected arson attacks
Alarmed shopkeepers demand tighter security following dual blazes within a week of each other
Read MoreThe Animalympics – review
Julia Griffin and Hendrik Wittkopf’s new children’s book, The Animalympics, is a lively and refreshing take on the 2012 Games
Read MoreTop Boy, Top Christmas
A look back at Hackney in 2011, another year of the unexpected and unpredictable
Read MoreTeenager stabbed outside Hackney Town Hall
An outbreak of violence on the last day of term leaves a 15 year-old in hospital
Read MoreProtestors occupy Hackney to highlight the ‘99%’
The global Occupy movement arrives in central Hackney as protestors demand social justice and greater wealth equality
Read MorePlans afoot for new Hackney secondary free school
The Hackney Citizen meets Andreas Wesemann to find out more about a bid by local residents to open their own school
Read MoreRiver Lea not fit for fish warns report
A much-loved local river is becoming highly polluted and its water quality is hazardously low in many places
Read MoreDesign Den at Barbican Centre
The Curve Gallery is host to this festive pop-up shop selling by works by a number of Hackney-based artists and designers
Read MoreStour Space Designers’ Market
Stour Space Designers’ Market, Saturday 17 December 2011
Read MoreHouse of Hackney launches Circus of alternatives
Circus is at The Tramshed in Shoreditch until 18 December 2011 from 10am – 8pm daily
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