It’s a cold Friday night on Clarence Road, and while most people are drowning the week’s sorrows in their local watering hole, a large crowd of people have congregated at the celebrated vegan café and social centre, the Pogo, for a night of spoken word and poetry, entitled ‘The Spoken Sedition’. Run by Stoke Newington [...]

Stoke Newington resident and first time author Jonathan Kemp, will be reading from his recently published London Triptych, which we reviewed this summer. London Triptych is an intriguing look at the homosexual experience through the prism of male prostitution over the past 100 years. Episodic in structure, it flits between the lives of three men [...]

To celebrate Black History Month 2010, young people explore fresh visions of Dalston for a one night only performance at the Dalston Trinity Centre, in the heart of Hackney. Our Place on the Stage launches its first cross-arts performance devised entirely by young creatives under the age of twenty-five. The night will be a heady [...]

A documentary produced and presented by Barbara Kelly. The documentary also looks at the history of sugar cane, the opulet life-styles of the slave owning planters and the ‘Great Houses’ in Jamaica that were a product of its sale. It focuses on Greenwood House, the home of land and slave owner Edward Moulton Barrett. 17th [...]

Saturday 23rd October Poetry Performance Workshop for Kids at Chats Palace The Bookbox has teamed up with poetry performance organisation Apples & Snakes and Chats Palace for a half term poetry performance workshop The event will be taking place in the newly re-opened Chats Palace and will offer kids the opportunity to work with young [...]

click photo to enlarge Platform One at Hackney Downs station has been transformed to a reading room and art exhibition area available to residents, visitors and passengers. The contemporary art space brings back into use empty units on the railway platform and includes a programme of exhibitions, events and performance. The reading room holds a [...]

Photographs by Martin Lau Soundtrack by Cos Chapman and Isnaj Dui 14th-24th October 2010 The Hermit and The Sleeping Beast comprises the first two installments of the ongoing series The Menagerie. I have been fascinated by industrial vehicles such as the ones featured here for as long as I can remember. They are undoubtedly impressive [...]

Voices of the Black Diaspora 2010 Europe’s largest Black literature festival and book fair returns on 15th – 17th October and will be hosted by Centerprise Book Store in Dalston. A celebration of Black voices,  come together at Hackneys oldest book-store and Black community and arts centre, bringing together authors, artists and readers for discussions, [...]

8th October – 27th November In this exhibition, words and images gathered over the last year tell the story of Chatsworth Road. This high street, filled almost exclusively with independent shops, is a rarity in modern Britain. Shops like ‘Chatsworth Tyre Service’ and the butcher ‘Mighty Meats’ have been run by the same family for [...]

The Shoreditch Tales uncover the stories of Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston- their inhabitants and histories. Living memories and historical documents are used to tell the tales of everyday life in Shoreditch from the 1930s to the 1980s. More than forty local people contributed to The Shoreditch Tales and it contains over 100 photos and illustrations, [...]