Newton Dunbar: 'The New Four Aces is wherever I play'
After running iconic Dalston club The Four Aces, Newton Dunbar has now reinvented himself as a reggae DJ
Russell Parton
Life of Justin Fashanu remembered in song
Debut single by Elephant and Castles commemorates the life of Hackney-born footballer Justin Fashanu
Hackney pensioner wins Mervyn Peake prize for short film
Two-minute film about Parkinson’s asks whether ‘control’ is a friend or foe
Dan Tobin Smith wants 'kipple' for London Design Festival installation
Artist wants the public to donate unwanted clutter for an exhibition inspired by Philip K. Dick’s concept of ‘domestic entropy’
Beyond Caring zeros in on zero-hours contracts
A group of cleaners in a meat factory is the backdrop for Beyond Caring which looks at the impact of zero-hours contracts
Leytonstone man leads letterpress revival
Russell Frost is championing the revival of a form of printing used for hundreds of years
Inside Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton’s Music Hall is one of East London’s hidden gems, with a history as checkered as the characters that used to frequent it
Clapton street artist RUN given first solo exhibition
Mysterious muralist RUN to exhibit at Stoke Newington’s Hang-Up Gallery
Riding a new wave: Mexican cinema comes to the East End Film Festival
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
Turfed: the play that uses football to tackle homelessness
Hackney Downs Studios to stage football-focused play recounting the experiences of street children in dance, poetry and music
Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates: 'I wanted to force people to see how bad the problem was'
Feminist campaigner and journalist Laura Bates will be retracing childhood memories by returning to Hackney to talk at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival this month
Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates: ‘I wanted to force people to see how bad the problem was’
Feminist campaigner and journalist Laura Bates will be retracing childhood memories by returning to Hackney to talk at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival this month
Yo Zushi to return with single launch and album
The Hackney based songwriter once described as the “spirit of Bob Dylan for the twenty-first century” is on the cusp of releasing his first album in five years which he describes as a “story album about love in stolen moments”
East London Group reunited for Bow Arts exhibition
Forgotten collective of working class artists rediscovered and their work put on display at the Nunnery gallery
Scan Artists: review – cancer choir's hymn to self-expression
Brit School graduates play teenage cancer sufferers in impressively staged production at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick
Hackney to play key role in Green Film Festival
National festival to hold its opening and closing ceremonies at Hackney Picturehouse