London Contemporary Orchestra: 24, Barbican, stage review: ‘Marathon concert offers an eye-opening view of music and humanity’
A day-long experience that saw the ‘old rules of theatre dissolve off the stage as the old rules of music were eroded on it’
Read MoreDexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’
The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’
Read More‘There’s a good reason for this’: Two local nurses on vaccine hesitancy and efforts to make the jab a ‘positive experience’
Gemma Evans and colleague Gemma Davies say there is a wealth of experience and support on offer to people who are nervous
Read MoreWomen’s theatre podcast founded in Hackney launches first full series
Fizzy Sherbet’s inaugural season will see an episode released every fortnight from today
Read MoreCampaigners stage mass rally in last-minute bid to stop deal for controversial new incinerator
Over 600 people are said to have joined the march yesterday from Edmonton to the North Circular
Read MoreArtist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks
The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more
Read More‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop
Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’
Read MorePop-up vaccine clinics are pulling into Liverpool Street station – with health bosses hoping to reach waiting commuters
Christmas week saw highest number of jabs given since Omicron vaccine push began
Read MoreHomerton Hospital boss says number of Covid patients may be ‘plateauing’ – but staff pressures still ‘tight’
Tracey Fletcher said medics were ‘expecting a pretty dire weekend’ but actually cases ‘seemed to level out’
Read MoreHarassment and poor lighting among concerns as women respond to council safety survey
Over 200 people have reported issues since Town Hall put out the call last month
Read MoreHuge rise in e-scooter collisions in London ‘likely to be the tip of the iceberg’, warns Assembly Member
Unmesh Desai hits out at illegal e-scooters as figures show nearly as many collisions in the first six months of 2021 than in the whole of 2020
Read MoreSolar panels installed on three community buildings as council’s efforts to harness renewable energy continue
Town Hall is this year aiming to produce one megawatt of power using the sun
Read MorePublic toilets in Gillett Square would ‘likely be used for illicit activities’, councillors warned
Town Hall design officer tells planners that the ‘cons outweigh the pros’
Read MoreHackney Stand Up To Racism doubles down on Geffrye campaign following Colston Four acquittal
‘No better time for offensive statue to be removed,’ says anti-racism group
Read MoreTown Hall ‘still working to recover data’ more than a year after ‘devastating’ cyber attack
Report on October 2020 hack reveals social care, benefits and housing are among services that remain badly affected
Read MoreCenturies-old stained glass windows discovered at Homerton Hospital after ‘decades in the dark’
The ‘truly amazing’ roundels have been restored and put on display after being unearthed in a store room
Read MoreMotorcycle business bosses whose volunteers delivered vital medical equipment during pandemic receive honours
Husband and wife Anthony and Vikki van Someren, who run the Bike Shed in Shoreditch, helped organise a team of 1,400 riders
Read MoreCovid patients fill four wards at Homerton Hospital as 300 staff self-isolate
Close to 100 patients have the virus, but spokesman says they are ‘not as critically ill’
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: Scythe in pleasure
Kate Poland on the joys of sweeping a blade through the blades, and why it’s actually kinder and more efficient than a machine
Read MoreHappy Christmas from the Hackney Citizen!
We’ll be back next week – until then, enjoy some recent festive content and a couple of stories from our archive
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