Posted on May 20, 2013 by Saskia Black and saved under Arts, Education, Hackney, Lead Stories, Local News, News
Students at Hackney Community College have been shortlisted for their anti-smoking film What Will You Do About It? for the National Cut Film Festival awards. The Cut Film project aims to dissuade young people from smoking. It was started by the Deborah Hutton Campaign group, a peer to peer smoking prevention charity,…
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Posted on May 15, 2013 by Sean Mullervy and saved under Arts, Lead Stories, Lewisham, Local News
The walrus at the Horniman Museum has not moved from his artificial ice floe for more than 100 years, but this week he is leaving his long-time home and making a trip to the Kent coast for the summer. He is going to be one of the star exhibits at…
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Posted on May 11, 2013 by Sean Mullervy and saved under Arts, Lewisham, Music
The South Bank Centre resonated with the music of emerging artists on the evening of Thursday, May 9, for the double-launch of Pure Gold and NX Records. Final year undergraduates and alumni from the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London took to the stage across three venues to…
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Posted on May 8, 2013 by Hana Walker-Brown and saved under Arts, Lead Stories, Lewisham, Music
Students from the Popular Music Course at Goldsmiths College are launching their own record label this week in collaboration with Matthew Herbert, founder of Accidental records. NX Records will launch alongside the annual PureGold event at The Sounthbank Centre. The label will act as platform enabling students and alumni to…
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Posted on May 3, 2013 by Benedikte Granvig and saved under Arts, Hackney, Lead Stories, Local News, Politics, Society
A proposed plan for a new £18.9million development to be designed by David Chipperfield Architects for the Geffrye Museum in Hackney has been voted down by a Council planning committee. The museum, dedicated to the history of the home of the urban middle classes, made itself unpopular amongst a group of…
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Dea Cisar and saved under Arts, Events, Lewisham
The second New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival is bringing cinematic experiences to venues across Lewisham this week. The festival will be screening a diverse program of free films for residents and visiting film buffs. Local residents started the festival last year, making it the fourth in a similar…
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Posted on April 24, 2013 by Benedikte Granvig and saved under Arts, Hackney
A new creative project using a non-traditional method to engage young people in Hackney will begin this Thursday 25 April. Headed by volunteer, Haseeb Ahmed, 22, the Levy Centre in Hackney will launch Urban, a graffiti art project for youths between 13 and 25. Despite defining graffiti as being…
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Posted on April 19, 2013 by Laura Liszewski and saved under Arts
Brick by brick is how DJ Anna Wall builds her house. She had brush with fame the other day. Hungover, she woke in her Dalston flat to a friend’s message declaring her appearance in that day’s Sun, dubbed, “one of UK house music’s rising stars for 2013″. She insists she…
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