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Meet unconventional Actor, Writer and Director Patrice Etienne on his new play Venus / Mars

Meet unconventional Actor, Writer and Director Patrice Etienne on his new play Venus / Mars

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Actor, writer and director Patrice Etienne is a Hackneynite through and through. This multi-hyphenated East London boy grew up in the borough and has continued to support the community through his work with youths in the area. Patrice’s latest play, Venus / Mars about love and intimacy in 21st century London…

Q & A with country singer Chris Young on his first UK tour

Q & A with country singer Chris Young on his first UK tour

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  It may not be the most popular music genre in the UK, but country music has a fan base here.  Nashville knows this and is hoping to bring more of it’s talents to our shores.  It’s rarely played on British radio, where some still believe country is still Dolly…

The endeavours of a thoroughly modern day Hackney Empresario

The endeavours of a thoroughly modern day Hackney Empresario

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Melissa Palleschi takes a walk on the entrepreneurial side with Creative Network Partners Managing Director, Leo Lawson-O'Neil    Former life coach and trained actor Leo Lawson O’Neil was born and raised in Kentish Town but is really a Hackneyite at heart. This Renaissance man is the managing director of Creative…

Sappho …. In Nine Fragments – An interview and preview with Jessica Ruano

Sappho …. In Nine Fragments – An interview and preview with Jessica Ruano

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Second Skin Theatre opens 2013 with Sappho…in 9 fragments, a politically-charged and inspirational work about Ancient Greece’s first love poet, intertwined with a fearlessly romantic modern-day affair. The Second Skin theatre is the resident theatre company at Stoke Newington’s White Rabbit Cocktail Club and have set out to create “bold…

Exclusive: Hackney woman’s plan to revolutionize how taxi drivers study for the Knowledge

Exclusive:  Hackney woman’s plan to revolutionize how taxi drivers study for the Knowledge

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Thanks to her cousin and husband, Hackney resident Davina Duggan, stumbled on to the idea of developing an App for trainee taxi drivers, and is now attempting to bring a specialist method of study into the wired 21st century. The knowledge of London, better known as the “Knowledge”, is a…

A conversation with Hoxton based composer Stuart Wood

A conversation with Hoxton based composer Stuart Wood

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Stuart Wood is a Hackney-based composer who not only scored the notorious ‘Go Compare’ television adverts but also devised and wrote the original Music Hall piece ‘Frank’s Closet’, which drew crowds to Hoxton Hall last year. In his studio, in Hoxton Works, he talked of his career and how he…

From US Drug Kingpin To Author: Shaun Attwood’s Road To Redemption

From US Drug Kingpin To Author: Shaun Attwood’s Road To Redemption

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EXCLUSIVE – Author, Shaun Attwood will be at Stoke Newington Literary Festival The man from Cheshire US authorities say was bigger than mafia honcho and hitman, Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano I’ve been meaning to catch up with Shaun Attwood for a while.  Logistics,  commitments and a last minute miscommunication meant…

One to Watch: Martin Lau (photographer)

One to Watch: Martin Lau (photographer)

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Martin Lau is a London-based photographer and filmmaker who works frequently in Hackney. His most recent subject, Covered City, is currently on display at the NO:ID gallery in Whitechapel HH – Tell us what inspired Covered City? ML – Walking through Fitzrovia, I came across a shrouded development. The district is undergoing…

Vortex Outdoors Festival interview: Zarif

Vortex Outdoors Festival interview: Zarif

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One of the U.K's fastest rising music acts, singer-songwriter Zarif is receiving much critical acclaim for her infectiously edgy and versatile pop and her energetic live shows and has been hailed by Elle Magazine and the News of the World as a major talent and described by The Guardian as…