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 Hackney residents of all ages are invited to come along and try out new fitness activities and get some healthy lifestyle tips, at a free Health and Fitness Day, 26 June, at the Hackney Marshes Centre, E9.
The initiative, in partnership with the Barry... more
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 Limehouse Town Hall June 22nd : An Abject Bloc Party with Band of Holy Joy live and guests / DJ’s Sean McClusky (1234 / Subway Sect) and Jonny Mugwump (Exotic Pylon).
Head east to Limehouse on 22nd June for a Midsummer night celebration of life in... more
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 A new exhibition at the Hackney Museum in partnership with the Migration Museum Project, will give a glimpse of migration in and out of Britain over the last 100 years.
Pictures from people across the country, including some from well-known... more
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 Pleasance London is excited to announce its 2013 Edinburgh Preview Season. This year’s line up is our biggest ever with over 50 shows featuring some of the biggest names in comedy alongside fresh young talent. Ticket prices start from just £5.
Pleasance... more
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 Explore the history, cultures and languages of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in Hackney throughout the month of June and find out more about the borough’s history.
Throughout June Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities across Britain will be... more
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 The desire to escape our daily existence is almost an essential part of the British psyche, as expressed by H G Wells in ‘The History of Mr Polly’ and of course in the character of Reggie Perrin. One might be led to believe by small ads and café... more
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 ‘Larisa and the Merchants’, a new version by Samuel Adamson of Alexander Ostrovsky’s original ‘Besprindanista’.
Playwright Alexander Ostrovsky is little known to London audiences yet he is a household name in Russia where his plays are widely... more
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 Simple 8 theatre company approach drama espousing the following principles: simplicity, the collective, the story. Their dramatisation of the 1851 classic novel Moby Dick draws the audience into the world of adventuring sailor ‘Ishmael’ ( a... more
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 Simple 8 have opened an Arcola double bill with a trade mark combination of live music, drama and inventive ways to use bed sheets as back drops, in their stage adaptation of 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari'. Writers and directors Sebastian... more
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 The setting for Leyla Nazli’s new play ‘Mare Rider’ is a maternity unit at the Homerton Hospital. Design by Matthew Wright offers a sleeker, quieter and stylised version of the reality that a number of Hackney women may have experienced. But... more
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Olga’s Room by German playwright Dea Loher is based on the life story of 1930s freedom fighter Olga Benario. A German Jewish communist, Benario was imprisoned when pregnant in 1937 in Brazil. Despite international campaigns to free her Olga was... more
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 Mehmet Ergen directs a glittering musical production for the festive season that delivers all the sinister backstabbing and jewel encrusted, ermine coated venom one might expect in a story of fame, fortune, politics and newspaper columnists.
Central... more
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 Helena Kaut–Howsen directs a striking, strangely discordant production of Chekhov’s first play ‘Platnov’. Translated and adapted by Kaut-Howsen from a lost script only found after Chekhov’s death the drama has been titled ‘Sons Without... more
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 In March 1988 the SAS killed 3 unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar. A Thames TV documentary ‘Death on the Rock’ raised public interest in whether or not the British government was operating a ‘shoot to kill’ policy. The terrorists’ intention... more
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 The English Touring Opera were back at the Hackney Empire this week (2nd - 9th March), leaving their audiences spoiled for choice with a programme of classic, rarely performed and politically resonant operas . The Spring tour is a season of stories... more
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 The Creative Learning team at the Arcola are staging a spirited, high energy production that injects great hilarity into the Jules Verne classic novel ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’. The book as been adapted for stage by Toby Hulse and is... more
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 Jessica Ruano directs Victoria Grove in a one woman show evoking the myth of Sappho the poet, the lover, the legend and Plato’s ‘tenth muse’. Weaving together strands of her life, her loves and a modern day erotic affair the show imagines... more
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 If you only take your children to one show over the Christmas break make sure that it is ‘Dogs Don’t Do Ballet’ at the Little Angel. Directed by David Duffy the production is enchanting, hilarious, expertly performed and suitable for all ages.... more
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