Posts Tagged ‘hackney wick’
Thirty-foot swastika daubed on Hackney Wick building owned by Jewish Brexit Party candidate
Lance Forman, whose father is a Holocaust survivor, calls attack on his salmon smokery a “sick act” – as police investigate
Read MoreContamination sparks calls for residents to have more say over Hackney Wick’s future
LLDC states fumes which threatened closure of primary school pose “no safety issue for residents”
Read MoreFurious Hackney Wick residents demand answers over contaminated construction site
Principal speaks up for ‘young lungs’ at local primary school as council confirms carcinogenic hydrocarbons as cause of ‘odours’
Read MoreComic – Save Hackney Wick
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the predicament facing one of Hackney’s most creative quarters
Read MoreEvents series Wick Wednesday celebrates the plethora of creativity in Hackney Wick
From an exhibition created by Gavin Turk, to life drawing classes and free vinyl cleaning, this month’s event highlights the best the Wick has to offer
Read MoreVittoria Wharf: Campaigners launch final bid to halt imminent demolition
Local politicians express urgent concerns as Save Hackney Wick claims new bridges were ‘never negotiable’
Read MoreYou, Me, The World and Hackney Wick: new play at The Yard explores the history and future of E9
Following a free community meal, the stories of twenty locals from all walks of Wick life will be told tomorrow 13 January
Read MoreFuture Hackney: New youth project captures gentrification on film
‘We wanted to bring up the production values from previous community film projects and do something a bit more ambitious…’
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for October
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more
Read MoreDecades-old children’s charity pleads for council ‘rescue package’
Albion Kids Show, which runs play sessions on Hackney estates, blames imminent closure on lack of funding and ‘devastating’ £16k rent hike
Read More‘I found my East Berlin right here in East London’: Hackney Tours interview
We meet Simon Cole who, as the man behind the ‘alternative experience walks’, knows his Hackney history and the lay of the land locally
Read MoreFewer bins…less litter? Canal & River Trust plan to remove receptacles from towpaths meets concern
40 per-cent of litter bins could be removed from along the River Lea in a bid to prevent fly-tipping and “mistreatment”
Read MoreForty films in a day at Short Sighted Cinema on 18 June
The all day event at The Yard in Hackney Wick will feature hour-long blocks of shorts – from heartwarming to horrifying – on six different themes
Read More“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’
Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life
Read MoreThis Beautiful Future, The Yard, theatre review – love during wartime
The latest production at The Yard, This Beautiful Future, is “a tale of love and war” set in occupied France, 1944
Read MoreLocal community football team Hackney Wick FC to turn semi-pro
The side are set to merge with Newham-based London Bari FC, but a lack of quality football grounds mean they won’t be playing in Hackney
Read MorePutting in a Shift – ideas from the public sought for new canalside community and business hub
Make Shift’s efforts to ‘transform underused urban space’ are currently being applied to Clarnico Quay, a disused site in between the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick
Read MorePEARL Hackney Wick, restaurant review: ‘an upstart in a changing neighbourhood’
Hackney Wick’s Oslo House is home to new multifaceted dining venture, PEARL
Read MoreRemoval Men, The Yard Theatre, review: ‘at its best worthy of Joe Orton’
An Immigration Removal Centre is the setting for a new play at the Yard Theatre that explores a ‘crisis of compassion’ in society, through song, dance and caustic-whimsical dialogue
Read MoreShort film on view at Hackney Museum zooms in on the life of painter Paul Dash
A Hackney Wick artist who migrated here in 1957 is the focus of a poignant and fascinating short film about black identity
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