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Barbi©DA22Will: © david.altheer@gmail.com interactive nature game Barbi chief Will Gompertz launches Our Time on Earth show at Barbican launch 040522

Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world

05/05/2022 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

Launching the eco-exhibition: above, Barbican arts boss Will Gompertz and, below, curator Luke Kemp  IT IS a pleasant paradox that a world-famous arts centre funded

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Rowena, Harvey, Parson Jack Russell, and Catherine nr Woodlands Cottage Nymans Estate (Nat Trust) Headcross W Sussex 040415 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Pubs opening for a Christmas Day pre-dinner pint — and now we are optimistic

12/20/202112/23/2021 CULTURE, FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

UNTIL THE COVID PANIC — sorry, pandemic — Loving Dalston published an exclusive guide to Christmas Day pub openings in and around Hackney. The

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VandA©DA21gus: V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford at VandA East PR event in Here East (ex Olympic 2012 media centre) in front of Kehinde Wiley's 2020 portrait of Melissa Thompso met in Ridley Rd Market, Dalston, 300621

This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world

07/01/202107/02/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced

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elderflower©DA13: sparkling elderflower "champagne" © david.altheer@gmail.com

Silence from officialdom over Hackney job only for ‘Black… and People of Colour’

06/10/202106/10/2021 COUNCIL, CULTURE, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney

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Carleen©DA21: © david.altheer@gmail.com, overpainted art work of N Lon artist Carleen De Sözer commissioned by Ali Hussain for wall of Dalston Minicabs, Winchester Place, Hackney E8 2PG, 240421

Whiteout! How fake news wiped away some of Hackney’s finest street art

05/10/202105/10/2021 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

SOME OF THE FINEST ART SEEN on the streets of London has been wiped out by fake news. Hip-hop Raised Me, a striking collage

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jewish©DAfamily: © david.altheer@gmail.com dragonfly 2 men with children walking boy Lea/Lee canal in Clapton, Hackney,140420

Two thirds of Jewish ultra-orthodox have Covid, says study, as Stamford Hill struggles with virus

02/07/202102/22/2021 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

  COVID-19 IS LIKELY TO HAVE infected two thirds of the UK’S ultra-Orthodox Jews, suggests a study commissioned by the community itself. The rate

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Marie©DA20: © david.altheer@gmail.com Marie Murray, co-founder Curve Garden, Dalston Ln, Hackney, London E8 081116

Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park

01/19/202101/21/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been

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ChrisWreath©DA20e5: © david.altheer@gmail.com Christmas @ Clarence Pl/Clapton Sq, Hackney London E5, 171220

🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season

12/21/202001/18/2021 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

  IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered

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KTs©DA13: hardware shop sign Kingsland Rd Dalston London E8 2013 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Things we may need but cannot afford: Hackney libraries find a way to let us hire them

11/09/202002/05/2021 COUNCIL, CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS 0

THE CLASSIC “if only I had the right tool” excuse could soon be obsolete in Hackney households. The council has taken up the library

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GeffryeBus©DA20:© DavidAltheer@gmail.com, protesters against Robt Geffrye statue at Museum of the Home, Haggerston, Lon, 301020

Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides

10/31/202006/10/2021 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

* Update spring 2021: The museum reopening is scheduled for Saturday 12 June this year.  * Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the

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