CASA Festival, Dalston: ‘A Latin American fiesta that reminds us why diversity is so vital’
We look at three plays from July’s two-week festival, hosted by the Arcola Theatre, Rio Cinema and the Curve Garden
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Council forced to cut back Hackney Today after court rejects its appeal
Hackney Mayor ‘extremely disappointed’ as Town Hall considers how to replace its controversial freesheet
New exhibition uncovers plastics’ invention and history in east London
Raw Materials: Plastics at Nunnery Gallery runs until 25 August 2019. Free family event 17 August 12-4pm with Thames21 and UCL’s Mobile Heritage Lab
Council to put up warnings about ticks after woman reports catching Lyme disease in Clissold Park
Andrea Smyth says she was bitten last month in the same dog-free zone where a jogger purportedly caught the disease in 2018
Community parklets: Locals invited to apply as council reopens trial programme
Residents can submit ideas to the Town Hall, with plans afoot to add to Hackney’s six parking bay oases
New images offer glimpse into Abney Park’s future – if bid for more funding is successful
Plans signed off recently by Hackney’s cabinet include a café and events space, and further restoration work on the chapel
2019: A Space odyssey
Hackney stalwart Space Studios’ Mare Street gallery is relocating to Ilford in the autumn. The charity’s chief exec Anna Harding talks about the move, and picks out her personal highlights from the past 16 years
The Time Of Our Lies, Park Theatre: ‘Compelling – if you’re of the right mindset’
Bianca Bagatourian’s play about the life and work of American intellectual Howard Zinn is a ‘history lesson with sonorous contemporary relevance’
Island Social Club, Haggerston: ‘Soul-lifting celebration of Caribbean culture’
Chef Marie Mitchell and drinks specialist Joseph Pilgrim’s year-long residency at Curio Cabal is one you would be ‘mad to miss’
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Feast from the East
Our food historian brings us more on the Siberian and Ukrainian delights shown off at June’s Stoke Newington Literary Festival, and says farewell to a local favourite
The Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time for the untidy to have a go’
Kate Poland on a budding union of gardens, the joys of shinrin-yoku, and how you can help nature while getting drunk
Leader – What will it take?
The death of any homeless person is a stain on those with real power to do something – not just the ones that happen so publicly
Titbits – Tory blues, Mayor stews and hold the front page, we’ve got breaking… information
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Campaigners to hold Marian Court ‘protest party’ over threats of intentional homelessness
Thursday evening’s protest planned as family event with ‘speeches, food and music’ as campaigners say safe housing ‘a right, not a privilege’
Campaigners and council to scrutinise plans for Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Revised proposals to be studied ‘forensically’ as Hackney Mayor keeps up pressure on affordability