East End Review (Page 1)

'The industry is waking up' – award-winning film documents Hackney venues' journey to greater accessibility

The upcoming documentary follows Marion Marincat, who became profoundly deaf aged 26, and Oscar Acoustics as they work to make three cultural spaces in the borough more audio-inclusive

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'The industry is waking up' – award-winning film documents Hackney venues' journey to greater accessibility

East London filmmaker explores ‘universal language of grief’ in award-winning short film

Joe Borg’s ‘Resaca’, now available to stream on Omeleto, follows a pair of neighbours on an unexpectedly cathartic walk

Author: Lizzie McAllister

East London filmmaker explores ‘universal language of grief’ in award-winning short film

Former men’s-only members club launches inaugural Women’s History Month celebrations

The Mildmay Club opened to men only in 1888, and only became fully accessible to women in 2010

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Former men’s-only members club launches inaugural Women’s History Month celebrations

Women’s History Month arts programme shines spotlight on 'extraordinary' East London figures

Alternative Arts’ programme of workshops, exhibitions, talks and performances begins on 1 March and takes place across the East End

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Women’s History Month arts programme shines spotlight on 'extraordinary' East London figures

Hackney's unsung heroines to be celebrated at International Women’s Day film screening

‘Women from Hackney’s History’, inspired by the two-part book series of the same name, will premiere at the Rio Cinema next month

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Hackney's unsung heroines to be celebrated at International Women’s Day film screening

Hackney author David Annand tackles social injustice in 'The Dice Was Loaded from the Start'

Annand's zippy new novel sees 42-year-old Max Anderson wrestle between two realities in an idyllic North London setting

Author: Sarah Birch

Hackney author David Annand tackles social injustice in 'The Dice Was Loaded from the Start'

Ken Worpole and Gareth Evans: Brightening from the East

Worpole ponders the relationship between East London and the East of England, and commemorates the work of John Berger in the centenary year of his birth in Stoke Newington

Author: Sarah Birch

London Short Film Festival comes to iconic East End venue to raise disability awareness

The six films on show ‘engage with perspectives that address the lived experience’ of disabled people in the UK

Author: Elspeth Rees

London Short Film Festival comes to iconic East End venue to raise disability awareness

Ground-breaking short film challenging narrative around asylum seekers to be shown in Parliament

Anti-immigration discourse is rife, with much of it aimed at people arriving in small boats. A new short film hopes to change that.

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Ground-breaking short film challenging narrative around asylum seekers to be shown in Parliament

The radical Stoke Newington poet that time forgot

Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a leader in the Enlightenment, a prominent poet and a women's rights activist, but her name has largely been left out of the history books.

Author: Julia Silverberg

The radical Stoke Newington poet that time forgot

The Harder They Come - 'a message of persistence rings loud and clear'

Olivier Award-winner Matthew Xia directs this stage adaptation of the film The Harder They Come at Stratford East

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Danny Bailey (José) in The Harder They Come

Discovering the long lost cinemas of Hackney

A former programmer at the Rio and now Head of Cinema at the Barbican looks back at the surprisingly rich history of Hackney’s cinemas

Author: East End Review

Discovering the long lost cinemas of Hackney