art
Community bluebell planting at Hackney Downs
Sunday 29 April from 11am, Wilson Williams Gallery Patio and the Community Orchard, Hackney Downs
The Invisible Line – seeing is believing
The Hackney Citizen takes a closer look at a new gallery in Dalston Lane
Art Against Knives sets up at BoxPark Shoreditch
An anti-knife crime charity set up after the 2008 stabbing of an art student in Shoreditch moves in to the BoxPark pop-up mall
Social Fabric: threads of colonialism laid bare
If an antidote were needed to MP Diane Abbott’s notoriously clumsy tweets on the legacy of colonialism, it can be found at a subtle new exhibition which uses the textile trade to unpick the history and impact of the colonial past
Festive art and design: Chocolate Factory N16 Winter Open Studios 2011
Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December 2011, 11am – 6pm
Donna Walker makes aMEND
Award-winning artist’s new collection comes to The Residence in Victoria Park Village
Infinite Blue: exhibition revisits life in Ceausescu’s Romania
Stefan Constantinescu’s first solo exhibition at Galerie 8 explores the notion of art in a totalitarian state
The Fishwick Papers: East London’s printmakers
A group of Hackney artists pay tribute to the borough’s printmaking heritage with a new exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery
Hackney WickED Art Festival 2011 – review
This popular three day extravaganza drew thousands of art and music lovers to Hackney Wick and Fish Island last month. The Citizen explores the galleries
I Am Braziliality
A new exhibition challenges preconceptions and looks at the nation’s culture and identity afresh
I Am Here – review
The creators of a photographic exhibition of the residents of the disappearing Haggerston and Kingsland Estate document the changes to the neighbourhood
Hackney’s cycling cultures: Bike Portraits pop-up exhibition
30 July – 31 August 2011, Hackney bike shops
