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globe©DA22: © DavidAltheer@gmail.com Yinka Shonibare slavery-globe project The World Reimagined, E end of Ridley Road Market, E8, 110822

Out of the darkness, into the light — together in peace, black and white

08/17/202208/17/2022 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

THIS GLOBE THAT HAS BEEN placed in Ridley Road Market is meeting mixed reactions. Aiming to highlight the multimillion-pound African kidnapping business, it is part

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(c) Alex Brenner

The glorious Hackney Empire goes grimey for the Arcola’s astonishing opera festival

07/23/202208/07/2022 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

* Update Sunday 7 August 2022: today is your last chance to see performances of  either/both grand operas. Julia Burbach’s shortened productions will give

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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

  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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  • (c) Alex BrennerThe glorious Hackney Empire goes grimey for the Arcola’s astonishing opera festival
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  • You’ll never guess the table that Hackney now tops (almost). No, not hipsterness… Oh, you guessed
  • Barbi©DA22Will: © david.altheer@gmail.com interactive nature game Barbi chief Will Gompertz launches Our Time on Earth show at Barbican launch 040522Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world
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