Design 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
Read MoreHackney activist highlights campaign to end violence against sex workers
Thierry Schaffauser talks about his work and the international campaign to end violence against those working in this industry
Read MoreLondon Mayor Boris Johnson joins tea party with Hackney girl Barbara Windsor
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson volunteers at a Contact the Elderly tea party and calls on citizens to help those who are vulnerable and isolated
Read MoreThe Reindeer Monologues
Every Tuesday and Wednesday until Christmas at The Lion, Church Street, Stoke Newington
Read MoreTurning over a new loaf at e5 Bakehouse
The Citizen visits e5 Bakehouse to find freshly baked bread in London Fields
Read MoreDown at the FARM:Shop
The Hackney Citizen finds chickens, coffee and camaraderie on Dalston Lane
Read MoreLong Way Back to Nowhere: New Works from the Holy Land
The Citizen talks to Nick Waplington about his time in the Middle East and how it inspired his new show at See Studio
Read MoreThe Puppini Sisters’ ‘little black book’
Looking for somewhere new to visit in Hackney this month? Local girls Marcella and Kate from the Puppini Sisters share their tips for the best hang-outs
Read MoreWord Up: screen prints exhibition by Mr Gresty
Mr Gresty’s Word Up exhibition of typographic screen prints is on show at Biddle Bros until 21 January 2012
Read MoreRioter gets five years in longest sentence yet relating to August disorder
Junior Saunders pleaded guilty to violent disorder, criminal damage to a police car and burglary in Hackney on 8 August
Read MoreGoodbye Barcelona – review
24 November – 23 December 2011, Arcola Theatre Dalston
Read MoreHackney Council rent hike threatens Centerprise
An iconic Dalston bookshop and cultural centre may have to close if a new lease fails to be agreed
Read More‘Nessie of the Lea’ mystery as river raider lurks beneath
A mysterious and dangerous creature has returned to the River Lea and its presence is causing more than a wind in the willows
Read MoreHackney Council defends CLR James library ‘Starbucks cafe’ decision
‘It’s not a Starbucks’ says Hackney Council, but admits the cafe will sell Starbucks coffee and other Starbucks products
Read MoreCinderella – review
Cinderella is at the Hackney Empire until 8 January 2012
Read MoreMinistry of Stories teams up with the Hackney Citizen
Young journalists at the Ministry of Stories produce their own newspaper, Hoxton A.M., available free inside this month’s Hackney Citizen
Read MoreHackney’s political parties divided over ‘Bank of Ideas’ squatters
The borough’s political parties are at odds over the occupation by campaigners of a UBS-owned building
Read MorePoe and Pinter: Macabre Resurrections and The New World Order – reviews
The Hackney Citizen checks out two new site-specific Poe and Pinter-based performances
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