Lido regulars pose for a collection of thoughts and images that celebrates the life affirming properties of swimming in the open air
Hackney’s Finest by Lord of the Rings director Chris Bouchard has already caused a stir with its graphic portrayal of drug dealers and criminality
Sebastian Hofmann returns to the East End Film Festival this year as its director-in-residence and with a clear vision for the future of Mexican cinema
The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
John Barker found notoriety as a member of the Angry Brigade, an urban guerilla group based in Stoke Newington which undertook a bombing campaign during the 1970s. Having served his time, he is now an author with a new book about drugs and 1980s capitalism
From its rivers to its lidos and heated pools, London boasts its fair share of places to go swimming
Guardian journalist Tom Clark explains his views on the global economic crisis set out in his new book Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump and how they apply to Hackney
National festival to hold its opening and closing ceremonies at Hackney Picturehouse
Annual celebration of film appeals to the public for pledges as it becomes a Community Interest Company
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
Masters of the Airwaves tells the story of the birth of black music radio in the UK through interviews with the people who were there
