Scarf pop-up sale of limited edition art scarves
Choose from a range of exclusive and limited edition art scarves designed by artists sourced from our DIY Art Market, and from further afield.With all scarf editions limited to no more that 20, and priced at under £30, they'll be a bounty of affordable, unique scarves to wrap up warm with this winter. Saturday...
Hackney in the 1980s: 12,000 photographs found in The Rio’s basement have been brought back to life
Hackney Museum is set to reopen this week, with an exciting new exhibition, ‘Hackney in the 1980s’. The exhibition featuring an extraordinary collection of thousands of photographs taken in 1980s Hackney, found in the basement of the Rio Cinema in 2018. The extraordinary discovery of over...
Celebrate cocktails with London Cocktail Week in Hackney bars
Having been extended to encompass the entire month of October this year, London Cocktail Week is the biggest city-wide celebration of cocktails. Featuring signature cocktails at participating venues, immersive experiences and self-guided Cocktail Tours, London Cocktail Week is the best way to explore the very best of London’s unrivalled cocktail scene. The full list of Hackney bars...
Discover ‘What Does It Mean To Be Human, Now” at Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection has reopened its doors with a programme surrounding the question “What does it mean to be human, now?” Throughout history, pandemics have been powerful engines of change. This reopening programme explores the intertwined connections between the individual, societal and global health. Tickets to the museum and exhibition can be booked here.
How Hackney chef to the stars Leon Rothera is adapting to the post-lockdown industry
By Victoria Gray Businesses all over Hackney are now adapting to the ‘new normal’. Leon Rothera runs Honest Foods, a catering company based in Hackney that specialises in providing food for film and TV crews. “I’ve done filmset catering for 10 years, feeding 300-400 people a day. It’s tough work, starting at 3am, spending...
Grown & Thrown – mix & match, ceramics with plants
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 that exhibit at the Independent Ceramics Markets, as well as ceramic artists from further afield. They'll also be a collaborative range of...
Hallowed Ground: Abney Park Cemetery
by CARRIE O'GRADY Newcomers and visitors to the Stoke Newington area often feel they’ve stumbled upon something special when they wander into Abney Park cemetery. “What a find!” they exclaim. But in fact, most of them will have seen it before: on the BBC’s Autumnwatch, in a fashion shoot, or on the TV series Waking the Dead. It’s through this very...
The first steps to reduce your carbon footprint in Hackney
by Victoria Gray We all pretty much know what a carbon footprint is by now – the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions (CO) caused by a human activity, an event, a product or action. Usually, the bulk of an individual’s carbon footprint will come from transportation, housing and food. Here are three...
Meet the klezmer band multinational She’koyokh
Hackney-based but multinational She’koyokh present themselves as a klezmer band. But they source their music much more widely, singing folk and gipsy songs from the Balkans and Turkey. Award-winning band have performed in such eminent European concert halls as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Gasteig in Munich and London’s Southbank Centre. SUSI EVANS-CLARINET (FOUNDER MEMBER OF SHE’KOYOKH)
London’s first Russian bath house
By Jane Green Everyone needs to throw away their stress and spend some time relaxing, especially seeing as we live in a busy, noisy town like London. Writing about this Russian banya was the most relaxing thing I did for this issue, especially considering I wasn’t exactly cheerful as I entered.
