The photographer recalls life as a student on Ellingfort Road, then a fully squatted street, and the community he helped to build – and battled to save
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‘Hackney boy’ Asif Kapadia nominated for Oscar for Amy Winehouse documentary
‘Our aim was to show the real Amy – and in that way I think we succeeded,’ says director of Amy, which is up for Best Documentary Feature
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Vocal Constructivists: the Stoke Newington choir with a graphic approach to music
Experiemntal ensemble is out to prove there’s more than one way to read music
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Hackney Colliery Band releases ‘Heroes’ as East London mourns Bowie
Ska version of Bowie classic and rousing rendition of ‘Starman’ by primary school pupils are among local tributes to the late great musician
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A celebration of the body: the work of performance artist Poppy Jackson
Poppy Jackson, who caused a stir last November with a performance that saw her sit naked on the roof of Toynbee Hall, talks about the wider significance of artwork and the female body in public spaces
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Women: New Portraits exhibition by Annie Leibovitz opens this week in East London
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station to host exhibition comprising old and newly-commissioned work by the celebrated photographer
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Shaping up in Hackney: one man’s quest for physical perfection
Mansoor Iqbal tries out different ways of getting fit as part of an ‘exercise odyssey’
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Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: ‘I think the fear of the outsider is still present’
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England
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London International Mime Festival comes to the East End
Visual and physical theatre festival is a unique event in the cultural calendar
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London Short Film Festival: what’s on out East
Shorts offering a snapshot of modern Britain are on at Hackney Picturehouse, the Ace Hotel and the Round Chapel in Lower Clapton