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An interview with the experimental American composer and musician, Sxip Shirey

An interview with the experimental American composer and musician, Sxip Shirey

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      Sxip Shirey is an experimental American composer, musician and storyteller who is about to grace the  London Wonderground Festival stage at the South Bank Centre as part of the brand new show, Limbo.  Limbo has been billed as  “an exotic mix of cabaret , circus and acrobatics”. …

Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival – Five Dances

Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival – Five Dances

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With the lobby of the Hackney Picturehouse heaving with exciting vibes and tight nit culture – the audience waiting to get into the sold out opening screening for the Fringe! Film Festival. In its third year now, it has brought and championed some real treats of queer cinema to East…

BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

BEV 2013: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers – Small Stories, Big Pictures.

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  Bird’s Eye-View have been championing and celebrating women in film through yearly festivals, programmes and events in what is still a massively phallocentric industry. Because cinema is ingrained so deep in culture, it is easy for many to never even notice the lack of female directors or screenwriters so…

Celebrate Food, art and music: Consume Creativity with Appetite 2013

Celebrate Food, art and music: Consume Creativity with Appetite 2013

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Just a few minutes away from Hackney via  Lea Bridge Road or a more leisurely bike ride along the River Lea, is Waltham Forest, a borough as diverse as Hackney.  Hassan Vawda previews a new addition to the boroughs growing artistic and culinary community events. Appetite 2013 is a brand…

Gary Barlow added to Mencap’s Little Noise line up under stained glass in Hackney – win a pair of tickets

Gary Barlow added to Mencap’s Little Noise line up under stained glass in Hackney – win a pair of tickets

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Organizers of  Mencap’s Little Noise have added Gary Barlow to their  annual winter festival line up, to take place at St John-in-Hackney Church in Clapton this month.  The X Factor judge who now sits in Simon Cowell’s former chair is currently on a 20 date solo tour of the UK…

Film Festival Australia @ Hackney Picturehouse Review

Film Festival Australia @ Hackney Picturehouse Review

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Australia took over The Hackney Picture House for three days last week. Formally known as London Australian Film Festival and held annually at the Barbican, this smorgasbord board of Australian celluloid now in a new incarnation, has partnered with Picture House. Melissa Palleschi popped over to see what all the…

Camden Fringe 2012 Review – Savage in Limbo

Camden Fringe 2012 Review – Savage in Limbo

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  Impressively, The Planxtonic Players manage to accomplish the feat of drawing you into a seedy nest of tedium and frustration and compelling you to want desperately to stay in that pit of despair and see it to its bitter end. Such is the spellbinding night of theatre that is…

Shoreditch Festival 2012 Hackney 14 to 22 July 2012

Shoreditch Festival 2012  Hackney 14 to 22 July 2012

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From 14 to 22 July 2012, Shoreditch Trust presents its eleventh Shoreditch Festival – a free programme of performance, entertainment and exploration along the Regent’s Canal and across Shoreditch. Shoreditch Festival, one of Hackney’s largest free festivals, showcases the best of East London with live music, dance, theatre, arts exhibitions,…

The Apple Cart Festival Review

The Apple Cart Festival Review

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  This was the second time that weekend I ventured to Victoria Park having enjoyed Field Day the previous day. We were treated to blazing sun and good music. This however was quite the sharp turn. The weather was truly appalling which of course the festival organizers could not control,…

Win a pair of Apple Cart Festival tickets

Win a pair of Apple Cart Festival tickets

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COMPETITION IS CLOSED AND WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED ON TWITTER Hackney Hive is happy to offer a pair of tickets to this years Apple Cart Festival in Victoria Park. In the past lucky winners have seen Tim Minchin, St Etienne and Soul II Soul to name a few The Apple Cart…

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