Elizabeth Nott- Musician
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela. My dad was English who went on to live and work as industrial designer in Venezuela in the 60s. My mum was already working as a primary school teacher and living there with her Italian family who emigrated from Naples in 1948. They met there and got married. I left the...
Grown & Thrown – Mix & Match, Ceramics with Plants
Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th October 2019Location: DIY Art Shop, 129 Shacklewell Lane, Hackney E8 2EBOpen 11am –6pm Choose from a range of commissioned ceramic pots /planters, and match them with a selection of cacti, succulents, and house plants, to create your perfect plant / pot coupling. Exclusive pots/planters will be produced by ceramic artists...
RAYYANE TABET: ENCOUNTERS
29 September – 14 December 2019 Preview: Saturday 28 September, 6–8 pm Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is delighted to present Encounters by artist Rayyane Tabet, his first major solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, with eight works from the past 13 years installed together for the first time. An...
Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel
Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel return for a Barbican residency in November, with soloists Yuja Wang and Herbie Hancock, four premieres plus an open rehearsal with 100 young musiciansThe Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, is celebrating its centenary this year. The LA Phil was founded by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a millionaire and...
The final instalment of the David James trilogy at East London’s Gallery 46
6th - 31st October Londonewcastle presents Storyboard, the culminating show of a trilogy that examines life, loss and rebirth by renowned British artist, David James.In the first show - Civilisation, James explored the relationship between art history, transformation and personal experience. In the second show -Automatter, he delved into the subconscious mind through his practice of...
The first railway murder in Britain: 1864, Hackney
The murder of Thomas Briggs by the young German, Franz Muller has been well documented. Briggs was sixty-nine years old and held a senior position with a firm of London city bankers. On Saturday 9th July 1864 he caught the 9.45pm train from Fenchurch Street to Hackney, travelling in a 1st class carriage. But when the train...
Julie Cockburn
Telling it Slant In the nineteenth century, long before the current era of fake news, Emily Dickinson wrote a meditation on truth in her poem Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. With a title alluding to the poem, this exhibition of Julie Cockburn’s latest work similarly excavates authentic stories by circuitous means....
How Hackney small businesses are using social media for marketing
78 per cent of small businesses are now using social media. Active social media users make up 3.4 billion or 43% of the world population. But can social media really do any good for small businesses? Interviews: Yasemin Cusack HANA SUTTON - SUTTON AND SONS FISH AND CHIPS
Esther Pearl Watson
Esther Pearl Watson, based in Los Angeles, grew up in a series of small towns outside of Dallas, Texas with her sib- lings, mother, and flying sau- cer-building father, Gene, who aspired to influencing NASA with his prototypes. She creates pictures on board and paper depict-ing farmland, highways, oil rigs,...
De Beauvoir flower, produce and dog show
Flower and produce show with adults’ and kids’ competitions for flowers, growing, baking and arts and crafts. Dog show, teas, cakes, raffle, tom- bola, plant stall, children’s activities and greener planet information. COMPETITION All categories are open to any individual over 16 or group to enter. Children under 16 can enter...
