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Posts Tagged ‘Centerprise’

‘Traditional masculinity is in revolt’: Honoured scholar Victor Seidler reflects on Hackney’s radicalism and Britain’s unrest

By Josef Steen | Wednesday 28 August 2024 at 17:04

‘Our culture lacks a way to talk to young men, such that figures like Andrew Tate have become a major influence’

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Turn up for the books: we look forward to an eventful October for Hackney’s independent bookshops

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 October 2017 at 13:57
Refurbished: Broadway Bookshop has taken an opportunity to ring the changes

The borough’s bookshops are increasingly staging events to get readers off Amazon, out of their houses and through their doors. We preview a few such bashes in this look at the lay of the literary land

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The Lime Green Mystery, Rosa Schling, book review: Dalston die-hards

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 15:06
"A hive of creativity, activism and social fizz": outside Centerprise. Photograph: Maggie Hewitt

The team at On The Record brought us history-walk app a hackney autobiography. Sister book The Lime-Green Mystery delves even deeper into radical HQ Centerprise’s colourful history

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New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 10:32
"Magical": the splash screen of a hackney autobiography's website, with illustrations by Joanna Layla

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

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Hackney Autobiography project launched to remember Centerprise

By East End Review | Tuesday 20 January 2015 at 09:00

Bookshop, cultural centre and community publisher Centerprise will be remembered in a lottery-funded oral history project

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Centerprise – the radical past of a much missed Hackney institution

By Dominic Simpson | Thursday 12 September 2013 at 13:44
A illustration of Centerprise as it looked in the 1970s. The image was provided by Ken Worpole

Iconic bookshop and cultural centre closed its doors last year but had a remarkable history, finds Dominic Simpson

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Stranger in a Borrowed Land – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 March 2013 at 13:37

Lotte Moos was a writer on Hackney’s radical literary scene in the 1970s

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Centerprise Bookshop seized by Hackney Council

By Adam Barnett | Sunday 4 November 2012 at 14:32

CEO Emanuel Amevor says council ‘came like thieves in the night’. Diane Abbott MP expresses ‘disappointment’

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Centerprise loses court case against Hackney Council

By Adam Barnett | Tuesday 16 October 2012 at 13:45

A black community centre has lost its fight in court to remain in its Kingsland Road premises

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Storm over Centerprise rages through Black History Month

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 October 2012 at 11:29

Black literature and arts hub unable to meet council’s rent demands

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Centerprise eviction threat looms

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 August 2012 at 11:54

Embattled Dalston community centre calls for support as an October date is revealed for the court hearing

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Hackney Council rent hike threatens Centerprise

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 7 December 2011 at 12:48

An iconic Dalston bookshop and cultural centre may have to close if a new lease fails to be agreed

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The £100 Shop

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 November 2010 at 13:28

Until Sunday 14 November 2010. Centerprise, 136-138 Kingsland High Street, Dalston

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