The biggest children’s festival in the UK has once again stormed through three days of kids entertainment and attractions, this time helping to baptize the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and establish it as a venue in it’s post-Hellenic legacy. I have to admit, even for a hardened cynic like me, it is quite a […]
LolliBop, the UK’s biggest kids festival, is returning for 2013 to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park right here in East London. As Hackney Hive has done for the past three events, starting from the very first one in Clissold Park in 2010, we are giving away passes. This year we have a family pass worth £100. […]
Award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell will be signing copies of his new book Alienography 2: Tips for Tiny Tyrants at Victoria Park Books. The author’s visit is the first in a line of exciting events the bookshop has planned for the run-up to Christmas, which include signings by local authors David Lucas, Karin […]
Looking to entertain your children this half term? There’s lots on offer at both Hackney and Stratford Picture House. From this Sunday there will be activity sessions before screenings of ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Fantasia 2000’ and ‘Tinker Bell and The Great Fairy Rescue’ for only £3 a ticket (£1 to Picturehouse Kids Club Members). To celebrate […]
A play scheme that first took root in Bristol, has recently been copied in Stoke Newington. Children in Hackney are set to reclaim the streets, thanks to a groundbreaking scheme that will close selected streets to through traffic, turning them into “play streets”. Hackney has become the first borough in London to introduce Temporary […]
COMPETITION HAS ENDED Here’s an idea, the kids are off from school so why not treat them to a day out at the Lollibop Festival that takes place on the weekend of 5th 6th & 7th of August, in Regents Park. Last year we gave away several tickets to Lollibop and this year we have […]
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 […]
CHECK OUR EVENTS GIGS N THINGS FOR UP TO DATE SUMMER EVENTS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE Summer is here, the school holidays have began, but what to do with the children. Don’t panic, children and even hard to please teenagers will find a host of activities within the borough. There are playgroups and play […]
Please Click On Photos To Enlarge Another of our Lollibop competition winners, Nicole Newman and Roger d’Olivere Mapp, a professional photographer, took their children to the festival which was held at Clissold Park in Stoke Newington last weekend. The photo’s and the children’s reaction says it all; They had a blast and can’t wait until […]
One of our runner up winners, Stuart, took his family to the Lollibop Festival in Clissold Park yesterday but was lucky to have the whole family allowed in free. Runner up prize was 1 child’s ticket. Here are his thoughts on the 2 day event. Children and festivals don’t mix. It’s a fact that some […]
