Sharing Our Stories: Jewish Stamford Hill, 1930s–1950s focuses on memories of Jewish community through film, photography and story-telling
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Up, up and away! Disabled artist lifted off the ground by 20,000 helium balloons
Artist Noëmi Lakmaier is undertaking an ‘all-encompassing experience for the viewers’ with 48-hour performance in St Leonard’s Church
Posted inHISTORY
Matchbox memories: the toy car factory that dominated Hackney’s industrial landscape
Lesney Products used to be the biggest employer in Hackney, producing miniature cars that were toy box staples
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Along the Hackney Canal – book review: ‘A refined eye for the sublime’
Freya Najade’s stunning collection of photographs elevates a seemingly narrow subject into the realm of the sublime
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Sleepless, Shoreditch Town Hall, preview: exploring Fatal Familial Insomnia
A new play looks at the most rare and horrifying strain of insomnia of all
Posted inMUSIC
Concert pitch: September gig guide for East London
From Thurston Moore to opera cabaret, we highlight the best live music in East London this month
Posted inSTAGE
Barred: prison play asks if art and education can rehabilitate offenders
Writer and ex-offender Dean Stalham bases his plays on searching questions that interrogate the prison experience
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Saddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum
An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’
Posted inMUSIC
Too late to stop Nao: interview
Nao is one of the brightest stars on the UK’s musical horizon, with a sound born of the hustle and bustle of East London
Posted inFILM
The Hard Stop, an interview with filmmaker George Amponsah: Language of the unheard
Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence