 There will be a special concert to celebrate LGBT History Month 2012 at Stoke Newington School on Friday 24 February.
The ‘Educate and Celebrate Showcase’ will be fun, loud and proud with performances and presentations by SNS students, and guests from the London Gay Men’s Chorus, the L ... more
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 You may have read in the last issue (number 50) of N16 Magazine an article entitled 'Radical Jewish East End Walks', written by Rab MacWilliam.
These walks, conducted by East End historian David Rosenberg are starting again towards the end of February. There has been heavy pre-booking of the ... more
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There will be 100,000 tickets available for BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012, which will be staged across two days, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 June 2012, on Hackney Marshes. As the BBC's biggest ever free-ticketed live event and part of the London 2012 Festival, Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend will ... more
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An exhibition of artists' work charting changes in East London as a result of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games opens on Wednesday 25 January, at the council run Hackney Museum.
Art on display includes artistic impressions of the Olympic site, photos through peep holes on Hackney building ... more |
 73 Stoke Newington High St, formerly an estate agency that went under or shut up shop? I’m not really sure, but the building remained closed and piles of post accumulated inside sufiiciently for the passer by to know that Property was no longer profitable in this particular location The shop is ... more
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 Neither pantomime nor nativity play, this captivating Little Angel Christmas production in association with Kneehigh, presents some seasonal ethics about church, banks and humanity.
Inspired by a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, Annamaria Murphy has re-imagined the tale; keeping the flamboyancy ... more
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 It’s November, the winter chill and dark evenings have finally descended upon the neighbourhood and, with slightly perverse timing, the Arcola Tent is launched. Not quite a pop-up venue but buying into the concept, the Tent venue is a few yards away from the main Arcola building. The 300 seat ... more
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 Based on the ‘Silent Twins’ by Marjorie Wallace, Shared Experience dramatise the true life story of, Jennifer and June Gibbons, with emotion, physicality, exact attention to detail and an outstanding cast.
‘Elective mutes’ to the outside world from the age of four; behind a locked bedroom door ... more
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After his gig at the Vortex a month or so ago, playing with the talented but over-amplified Trembling Bells, it was a pleasure to see the ex-Incredible String Band virtuoso Mike Heron back in town, this time at Clerkenwell’s favourite local, the Betsey Trotwood.
The venue was much more appropriate ... more
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 Steve Tiplady one time artistic director of the Little Angel Puppet theatre, was inspired to create his production of Pinocchio by his own son and it is a show he has performed many times. The stage is set as a carpenter's workshop, complete with bench and tools. He opens with a warm-up chat, moving ... more
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 Sarah Kane took her inspiration for Phaedra’s Love from Seneca’s classical tragedy. Using the elements of Greek drama that make a good contemporary soap opera and most engage an audience, Phaedra’s Love displays all the great qualities of Kane’s writing. Acknowledged as one of the ‘In Yer ... more
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 As uncomfortable as a hot prickly rash spreading over one’s body, and as impossible to escape, African Gothic serves as an analogy for the rank, corrupt and insidiously damaging Apartheid regime during which the play is set. On one of the hottest nights of the year it was not difficult to ... more
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A new theatre cafe/bar in a converted warehouse has opened in Hackney Wick, THE YARD will host theatre, opera and dance.
The Yard is the brainchild of a group of theatre directors, led by Jay Miller, with the purpose of offering opportunities to emerging artists in London. The venue offers a safe ... more
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Written by Michael Rosen and performed at the Little Angel Puppet Theatre.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Tempest, Hackney poet and author, and former children’s laureate, Michael Rosen, has written 'The Magician’s Daughter'. The 40 minute production directed by Peter Glanville for the Little Angel Puppet Theatre, is a gentle introduction to Prospero’s island for the very young. ... more |
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 A night of three new contemporary dance works performed offstage and up close at The Others on the 24th February.
The performances start at 7.30pm, followed by music until late.
Laugh & Cry
Choreographed by Evangelia Kolyra and performed by Samantha Agnew, Vasiliki Stasinaki and Ivey Wawn. ... more |
 The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley directed by Edward Dick
Arcola Studio 1 until March 17
The Arcola Theatre revival of The Pitchfork Disney (first performed at the Bush Theatre in 1991) is as engaging and startling in 2012 as any drama you are likely to find on a London stage. Mixing squalor, ... more
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Freedom Arcola Studio 2
Written and directed by Rick Limentani, former Soviet, Central Asian, remote Tajikistan is a stirring background for this drama. Benham lives on a farm near the Afghan border, his family grow poppies. He tells a lie about an important relation in order to hold off the ... more |
Premiered in the UK by Cerberus Theatre in 2011, Count Oederland was written by Max Frisch in 1951 and provoked riots in Europe. The play combines elements of fairy tale, philosophy and the political. Much of the ‘otherness’ of the piece is conveyed through a monochrome Warhol inspired ... more |
 unSTILL Lives 3: Gina Southgate at Beaucatcher exhibiting her latest landscapes, abstracts, and live gig paintings.
Artist Gina Southgate should be familiar to locals, by name and paintings. Her work has frequently been exhibited around the borough in venues as diverse as Clissold Park House and ... more |
 Goodbye Barcelona was inspired by a collection of interviews with surviving British Brigadiers who fought against Franco in the Spanish civil war from1936 –1939 as part of the international movement of volunteers compelled to take up arms, where governments would not make a stand against Franco ... more
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 How the World Began by Catherine Trieschmann
Arcola Studio 2 - until December 10
In a small town Kansas community that has been ravaged by a tornado, three characters are caught in a dispute that evolves into a full on clash over fundamental convictions.
New Yorker Susan arrives in the community to ... more
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 Autumn Portraits from Sandglass Theatre at the Little Angel Theatre
International Award Winning Puppetry
The great issue of facing our humanity as we grow older, is captured in just under an hour of reflections presented by Sandglass in an interesting twist where inanimate objects reflect the ... more
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 Conceived and directed by Max Hoehn, The Queen of Spades, Pushkin’s tale of ghosts, gambling and social satire is the basis of an evening of visually, lyrically, and musically laden riches. Presented in a new version, written in verse, by Raymond Blankenhorn, Fusebox Productions describe their ... more
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 The Vortex was sold out last night (29 August), with most of the audience – a blend of grizzled old hippies and fresh-faced, nu-folk devotees (and a tall guy who, inevitably sat right in front of me) – looking forward to seeing the ... more
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 Grimeborn at the Arcola - Dalston's Festival of Opera With Attitude
The Emperor of Atlantis
An opera in one act by Viktor Ullmann, English version by Sonja Lyndon
In this allegory on fascism, the automated slaughter of modern warfare has replaced the art of dying naturally, a state of total conflict ... more
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 With characteristic intuitive good timing the Arcola has programmed ‘On the Record’, a production about ‘real journalism’ and the integrity of the independent reporter. A refreshing refocus of perspective following the deluge of red top scandal we’ve been subjected to in recent weeks.
In the wake of ... more
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 Performed by Roar Theatre at the Lion 19th June - 7th July.
With the exception of a few productions in the old Samuel Beckett (now the Three Crowns) many years ago, pub theatre hasn't ever really taken root in Stoke Newington; this is surprising especially as the proximity of an underground station has never been a prerequisite of the tradition. ... more |
 At the Arcola Theatre until 16 July
Chekov’s play,' Seagull', explores resistance to change in life and the theatre, and misguided, misdirected love, which ultimately leads to suicide by a young man who cannot win approval or interest from the two central women in his life. ... more |
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