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Hackney young filmmakers shortlisted for national award in scheme set up to discourage smoking

Hackney young filmmakers shortlisted for national award in scheme set up to discourage smoking

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,…

27 million pound scheme for Fairfield Halls

27 million pound scheme for Fairfield Halls

Fairfield Halls will be working more closely together with Croydon Council in the future management…

Horniman walrus leaves for trip to Margate

Horniman walrus leaves for trip to Margate

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…

Goldsmiths sounds fill South Bank festival

Goldsmiths sounds fill South Bank festival

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…

NX Records music label launched by Goldsmiths

NX Records music label launched by Goldsmiths

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…

Disused old pub stops museum extension

Disused old pub stops museum extension

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…

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival [Audio]

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival [Audio]

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…

New project to engage youth through graffiti [Audio]

New project to engage youth through graffiti [Audio]

  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…

DJ Anna Wall: building her house career brick by brick

DJ Anna Wall: building her house career brick by brick

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…

Hackney Downs Studios launch new shopping outlet

Hackney Downs Studios launch new shopping outlet

Hackney-based Creative Network Partners, who manage creative hubs Netil House and Hackney Downs…

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