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
East End Film Festival launches kickstarter campaign
Annual celebration of film appeals to the public for pledges as it becomes a Community Interest Company
The African Market Bank Holiday Festival at Old Spitalfields Market
11am – 5pm, Monday 5 May 2014
Club of Friends at Calvert 22
Works from two Soviet art movements that went on to change the face of Russian contemporary art are on display for the first time in the UK
Robert Capa review – prints of Europe 1943-1945
Daniel Blau gallery holds exhibition of prints of Europe during the Second World War by the iconic photographer and photojournalist
New season of drama at Hackney Downs Studios
A trio of innovative productions exploring the vulnerability of the human condition are being staged at Hackney Downs Studios
Last chance to catch Speakers’ Corner project at Bishopsgate Institute
London institution dedicated to the principle of free speech is celebrated in photography and field recordings