#Haters is a story about community conflict based on a controversial incident at a Hackney pub last year
Posted inART
Tube workers show station mastery with Out of Uniform exhibition
View art by London Underground employees in an empty office turned gallery next to Leytonstone Underground
Posted inSTAGE
Puppet-powered Snow White panto comes to Winterville
Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
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This is East London: short film Jacked has true grit
Two car thieves make an unusual discovery in short film starring Charley Palmer Rothwell and This is England’s Thomas Turgoose
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Jack and the Beanstalk, Hackney Empire, review: hilariously silly and mischievous
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
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A fish odyssey across East London
Your intrepid correspondent casts his net in search of delicious seafood
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PJ Harvey to headline as Field Day announces first wave of acts
Beach House, Deerhunter and Four Tet also set to perform at festival’s tenth anniversary in Victoria Park
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The Divided Laing review – inside the mind of a psychiatrist
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
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Hackney Propaganda: a look at 19th century working men’s clubs
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
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My Beautiful Black Dog – review: finding humour in depression
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression