Brunching Out
From a shakshouka at Good Egg to a hangover cure at Arepa, here is a list of delicious brunch options around Hackney to intrigue and delight you. By Mersa Auda The Good Egg A Stokey favourite serving remarkable variations of Middle-Eastern street food, The Good Egg prides itself in carefully sourcing its ingredients and preparing practically everything on-site. Mainly inspired by Jewish...
Therapy at -160C
A Japanese therapy technique that exposes a subject’s body to extreme cold temperatures is now on offer in Hackney. Popular among professional sports stars and celebrities, cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s and is used to treat inflammation and anxiety and to flush out toxins and fats. Stoke Newington based SaiSei Cryo comes with a “cryosauna” where subjects can...
Food market opens on Church Street
After opening last year, Victoria Park Market has set up a sister branch in Stoke Newington. Church Street Market runs every Sunday at William Patten School on Church Street from 10:30-3PM. The new food market boasts a variety of stalls offering different foods, drinks and more. Visitors can find a variety of cheese, baked goods, cakes, bread, wine, vegan food and organic...
Akiko Hirai – Ceramic Artist
I was born in a town called Shizuoka in Japan. Famous for green tea, tangerine and Yamaha that produces motorcycles and musical instruments. I started pottery at one of the FE colleges as a hobby when I came to England (I came to see my sister as she was studying photography in London). During my first visit in England, I met...
Simon Cole – Tour Guide
From Sunderland, I came to London after university in Manchester. After living and working in places like San Francisco, Australia and Vanuatu I studied postgrad journalism here. I was set to move to East Berlin – and then I found Hackney! As an international tour guide, I’d noticed the significant radical history and exciting contemporary subcultures here. I started...
Hackney’s Award Winning Bookshop
Lower Clapton Road’s Pages of Hackney was voted London’s Independent Bookshop of the Year at the British Book Awards. Winning was “an incredible honour” senior bookseller Ollie Simpson told Hackney Magazine, “We were really touched to read some of the comments sent by our customers”. Voters often praised the shop for the selection of books on sale and for...
Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn cut ribbon at brasserie opening
Hackney MP Diane Abbott, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his wife cut the ribbon at the opening of Acoustic Brasserie’s second branch on Stoke Newington Church Street. Corbyn and his wife Laura are regular customers at Acoustic’s original Newington Green location which has been open for 8 years. “We can’t start a Labour Party canvassing session in Mildmay without...
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Legendary New York performance artist and singer Taylor Mac reframes the social history of America through three decades of song in this no-holds-barred extravaganza of music, art, activism and hugely entertaining mass ritual. Joined onstage by a 22-piece orchestra and host of local special guests, New York’s Mac has created a Pulitzer Prize-nominated, once-in-a-lifetime, immersive performance in a quest to...
The London Open 2018
The London Open 2018 brings together the most dynamic and critical contemporary art being made in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on a time of significant change in this global city. The exhibition features a diverse selection of 22 artists working in London...
Lost libraries of the Silk Road
The Universal Now and further episodes is a mid-career survey of work by Abigail Reynolds at Peer, Shoreditch Library and Bookartbookshop. The three-way exhibition features a new film installation drawing on the artist’s recent journey in search of the lost libraries of the Silk Road, a new large- scale sculptural commission for Peer plus collage, sculpture and print works...
