Events series Wick Wednesday celebrates the plethora of creativity in Hackney Wick
From an exhibition created by Gavin Turk, to life drawing classes and free vinyl cleaning, this month’s event highlights the best the Wick has to offer
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Food to a-door: Chats Palace to host supper club and market to raise money for new entrance
The former Homerton Library has been a venue and creative hub since 1976 but the frontage has barely changed in 100 years – find out how you can help through fun and feasting
Council invites tenants to ‘celebrate their estates’ at free housing festival
Live music and freebies on offer at first ever Your Homes event next month
Arcola Theatre’s Creative/Disruption festival: we preview this season of new plays from the local community
From over 50s to Turkish theatre, the Dalston theatre is throwing the spotlight on underrepresented groups’ stories in this iteration of the annual festival
Town Hall launches search for 100 inspirational Hackney women to mark suffrage centenary
Nominations are open to find and showcase ‘local heroes’ driving change in the borough
Safety expert raises concerns over imminent cladding work in Hackney
Town Hall revealed this month that cladding at four blocks is to be replaced
The Myrrors @ Shacklewell Arms, live music review: epic desert psych improves with volume
Our reviewer stuck with the Arizona band, through 15 minute songs and a chatty Dalston crowd, to reach a climactic finale
Hackney set to receive £317k from Sadiq Khan to improve streets
The extra funding, which forms part of Transport for London’s budget for the coming year, will go towards sprucing up neighbourhoods
Residents urge Hackney Council to reject three-storey block of flats in London Fields West Side
TRA slams ‘unacceptable’ loss of light and privacy as council sends out consultation letters
Village Underground gets £1.9m cash boost for Hackney Arts Centre project
Plans to turn the derelict Savoy cinema into a culture venue are taking shape
Victory Mansion/TA-KO, Stoke Newington, pub/restaurant review: fusion goes down well with cocktails
The relaxed, shack-like cocktail bar is celebrating two years in N16 with a new Asian-cum-Mexican menu of tacos and other small plates
Closure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End
Doctors say the five patients’ move to Thames House Ward will improve ‘quality of care’
Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape
Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March
Hackney to vote on anti-semitism definition opposed by anti-Israel campaigners
IHRA definition adopted by 125 local authorities has seen protests in other boroughs
Lunar New Year: Hackney’s East Asian communities to unite for Year of the Dog celebration
Members of Hackney’s Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese populations are working together on a day of performance, collaboration and guest speakers – including Mayor Glanville
NHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital
Trust says five-year sum is lowest for any London hospital with a maternity unit