tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69820937983597034812024-03-03T16:52:43.901+00:00hackneywick.blogspot.comLeabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-28587007180750814542012-07-20T21:58:00.002+01:002012-07-20T22:10:05.777+01:00Olympic Torch Comes to Hackney Wick(ed)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Hackney Wick</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">ED</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> Presents... The Fete for the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Wick</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">ED</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><strong>, participating within the Hackney Homes Fun Day<br />
Mabley Green: Sat 21 July 2012, 2-7pm</strong></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
Bringing a selection of Hackney Wick artists together for a Fete, exhibiting
art, art games and made in the Wick products.<br />
<b>So come on down...</b><br />
- shop for arty treats<br />
- play on the photo tombola<br />
- find out more and sign up for Hackney WickED art workshops running throughout
the year..<br />
- get your hands on our Hackney WickED limited edition t-shirts and bags<br />
- take part in Simon Ould's Watercolour Challenge 2012 <br />
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<b>Artists and stalls include:</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Amy
Shearer and Laura Summerton - Shards of Art - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.shards-of-art.com&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.shards-of-art.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Megumi
- paintings and drawings </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Mike
Miles - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.themdma.co.uk&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.themdma.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">The
Outside World - Photo Tombola</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Sheila
Rennick - Mother Studios - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.sheila-rennick.com&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.sheila-rennick.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Josephine
Lyons - Mother Studios - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.josephinelyons.net&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.josephinelyons.net</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Bernard
Rangel - Iron Works - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.bernardrangel.com&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.bernardrangel.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Orly
Orbach - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.orlyorbach.com&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.orlyorbach.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Hilary
Powell - Mother Studios - Books </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.hilarypowell.com&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.hilarypowell.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Abigail
Thomas - Mother Studios - Books - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=www.abithomas.blogspot.co.uk&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.abithomas.blogspot.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Stephen
Gill - Retrospex - Books</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Janet
Bell - Britannia Works - Books and cards - </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fmarielouisejones.us1.list-manage2.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D44c6bc185f6f0a14a959bbed3%26id%3D360dbaa77f%26e%3D63f8cb4d34&lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #d83826; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">http://alhasso.com/</span></a></span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Bernard
Rangel </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">The
event runs from 2pm until 7pm, with the Olympic Torch expected to pass by at
6.20pm </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">(the time to avoid, or celebrate.. that one's up to you)<br />
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</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">RETRO</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">SPEX</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> REMINDER! Just a short stroll
from Mabley Green is the Elevator Gallery, Queens Yard, where it is your last
chance this weekend to see the Hackney WickED RETROSPEX Exhibition.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Last
days: Sat 21 & Sun 22 July open 12-5pm. </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fmarielouisejones.us1.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D44c6bc185f6f0a14a959bbed3%26id%3D4db7c525e3%26e%3D63f8cb4d34&lang=en" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #d83826; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Elevator Gallery.</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
Hackney WickED 2012 takes a trip down Memory Lane. Digging through 4 years of
history in the making and excavating the beloved fragments that have made
Hackney WickED the ROCK in the rubble.<br />
This instalment will see Hackney WickED putting on the RITZ to host a curated
exhibition that will REFLECT and PROJECT the components that have built the
wick collective conscience from 2008 to date.<br />
A HollyWick affair, indeed!<br />
<b>Signed Stephen Gill books available and photographic prints, also you can
pick up a 'Where the Hell is Hackney Wick' postcard for £1</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Getting to MABLEY GREEN:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fmarielouisejones.us1.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D44c6bc185f6f0a14a959bbed3%26id%3D0b11e54b78%26e%3D63f8cb4d34&lang=en" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">map</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><br />
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</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Other
events taking place on the Green,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #505050; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> organised by Hackney Homes include facepainting,
Hackney's famous Albion Kids' Show and a bouncy castle. The <i>Fete for the
WickED</i> and the <i>Crafternoon Tea Club</i> will provide a dream combination
of arts and crafts, and tea and scones, in an area furnished with hay bales and
trestle tables. Experienced coaches from the Council's healthy lifestyles
programme, Personal Bests, together with the charity Skyway, will be running a
host of sporting and physical activities. There will be a display of disability
sports on the 5-a-side football pitch, and advice on cycling and bicycle races
from Cycling Club Hackney. To wind down, enjoy a session of massage therapy,
sample food and drink from the stalls, and visit the Hackney Homes Marquee. All
this, on a summer's afternoon, on a green space within sight of the Olympic
Park.</span></span><br />
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</span>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-56821111410235153962012-04-19T20:01:00.003+01:002012-04-19T20:24:00.259+01:00Hackney Wick Community Centre Needs YOU!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2wocXdbTnPtB0Q9bpzGdG6U0M8Wd2K6lmsQ9caJITQcbqRrdJDFcqllKnBRxpGgKuf2ibU6eI6W0XipMIruqlc1vbQdTcc4taoS3fE_-8MXQw2l9oYSRlTVAj6AbbyY61Zm_mTUMe-3k/s1600/community+centre+01-02-07.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; height: 300px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733194583406351602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2wocXdbTnPtB0Q9bpzGdG6U0M8Wd2K6lmsQ9caJITQcbqRrdJDFcqllKnBRxpGgKuf2ibU6eI6W0XipMIruqlc1vbQdTcc4taoS3fE_-8MXQw2l9oYSRlTVAj6AbbyY61Zm_mTUMe-3k/s400/community+centre+01-02-07.jpg" /></a><br /><div>This Saturday - 21st April 1012 @11am - is the beginning of the amazing Hackney Wick Community Centre!<br /><br />But only if YOU become a part of it.......<br /><br />Hackney Wickers - we all know that we need a local community cafe/garden/meeting place/yoga centre/art centre - that we can all hang out in and meet each other. Well now is the time to get helping make that happen.<br /><br />At least please come on down this Saturday to see what needs doing.<br /><br />There will be plenty to do. Painting, decorating, cleaning, gardening, etc.<br /><br />Please contact Ron on <a href="mailto:ron.newman4@btinternet.com">ron.newman4@btinternet.com</a> for any more info - but please also just come down to talk to him on Saturday.<br /><br />The main road from Hackney Wick Overground Station is called Wallis Road - but it changes it's name to Berkshire Road & then Osborne Road - that's where you'll see the magnificent Old Baths building that is the Hackney Wick Community Centre!!<br /><br />Get E9 5JH into your googlemaps app - and we'll see you there!</div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-3687525823845252232011-09-13T15:50:00.002+01:002011-10-26T18:40:52.148+01:00New Olympic Shops Open<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj34eJHIr5uOlWACLdx9hOBfF2dLaRM6Y_SzizTd4hjReGuu9iFy6fMVix4c3zuQYmY2gSFMq8SOb1jwNIEk2xa6qWBxBErd7cuFL7kfHvGv1g9QZMg-yH-klf1ap_pYHoeTG6_znNG668/s1600/olympic+chicken+%25283%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667857070470057394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj34eJHIr5uOlWACLdx9hOBfF2dLaRM6Y_SzizTd4hjReGuu9iFy6fMVix4c3zuQYmY2gSFMq8SOb1jwNIEk2xa6qWBxBErd7cuFL7kfHvGv1g9QZMg-yH-klf1ap_pYHoeTG6_znNG668/s400/olympic+chicken+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;">There was great excitement today when the brand spanking new Olympic Chicken shack opened in Hackney Wick!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;">For months now - every Hackney Wicker has been storing their pennies just for this very day. The extra security laid on was definitely needed to control the crowd as the doors finally opened - and what incredible treats awaited the patient!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;">Brand new chrome decorations and superbly finished interiors welcomed the throng. Say what you want about the products on sale - but no expense has been spared by the Olympic Chicken people. They really know how to spoil us.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#993300;">Oh - and some other shops also opened around the corner in Stratford today as well.</span></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-24486023646903973502011-08-02T19:04:00.008+01:002011-08-02T19:48:40.202+01:00Hackney Wick equals East Wick<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3pH4JuJpViP8JN7dgz-1e5s8_lzBu16tUhItsb2UpSpFmCWKDMykAzATG-s7tKI0Xm_iH6BLfk72RiTFdiOO2rqeP-z7jzpj3mpi7JlCMVTiUI5ioCnrIo96ViZphf7LNmtI9X8F2_I/s1600/adrian+warner.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636332199853098578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3pH4JuJpViP8JN7dgz-1e5s8_lzBu16tUhItsb2UpSpFmCWKDMykAzATG-s7tKI0Xm_iH6BLfk72RiTFdiOO2rqeP-z7jzpj3mpi7JlCMVTiUI5ioCnrIo96ViZphf7LNmtI9X8F2_I/s400/adrian+warner.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwH9IVbBBatrceDM0se8Q-qWajqZthyphenhyphenObo8WsU7tRRWLuF7Smxu9HnAUEp61VjbIooIY510-l0eKHl67K3XgbtNZdt7jqj3Hjb2kKzhRuAn-CNyRM7t-2cT_dJmG6292-oC3eWQsoeL4/s1600/adrian+warner+%25287%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636327295786780850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinUiu66Kizpy5mLKGPI6uWgXLi0766LF7gscGRb97Z3nRedPgOysmpzxGncDPpS4JtaX3K9k7MOdljtTxP3D-KjiaDJBc-rAMoL2ho9L407jg3rlJRETaQbM6FJ2NMN9rg4nyut6MnIJs/s400/adrian+warner+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">The Olympics today announced that Arena Fields is to change its name to East Wick after the Olympics.<br /><br />This is another part of the grand plan to make locals feel very disconnected to the playing fields, orchards, nutteries & allotments that used to be here for us all to enjoy. 'Hey - ask the <strong><em>whole</em></strong> of the UK what we should call Arena Fields - without telling them anything about its past - and call it democracy'<br /><br />Anyhow - the BBC's Adrian Warner paid a visit to Leabank Squares Purple Garden this evening to do his piece. Nice guy - even if his TV voice is a little dull - and he loves Leabank Square.<br /><br />Thanks to all the kids who made his visit entertaining.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14364485"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14364485</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"> </span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-82052167706162813662011-07-27T13:30:00.000+01:002011-07-31T13:32:40.517+01:00Olympic Legacy - What's in it for Hackney Wick?<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">A few days ago - </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Caroline Davies from The Guardian</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"> came to Hackney Wick to do a story about our concerns for the future of the Wick a year before the games. She spoke to many people - but concentrated on James in the fabulous Hackney Pearl, the ever entertaining Al in White Post Lane - and me here in Leabank Square.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Of course - no journalist can ever capture the sheer cliff-like monstrosity of the Olympic site that faces us - but I tried to put across what most of us feel about the architecture.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">More than anything - I spoke about what we all want after the games. Hackney Wick has always had the short straw as far as the construction work is concerned. We were the first to have buildings constructed - pulled down - re-constructed, pulled down again - and now rebuilding yet more temporary buildings directly opposite us - again for them to be demolished. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Then - we have about 5 more years of be-designing & building whoever takes over the media centre as well.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">There is not one part of the Olympic site that will have had noise, dust & mayhem - only to be left with the most underwhelming architecture for us to stare at for many decades to come!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">I told Caroline all this - and I think she did a very good article on balance. She got over what most of us feel about all the decade of disruption the Olympics have brought to Hackney Wick.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">For link to the article - see: </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/25/2012-olympics-hackney"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/25/2012-olympics-hackney</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"></span>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-19260892334939586142011-06-23T17:07:00.005+01:002011-06-23T21:49:46.673+01:00Movies on the River Lea<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ27sUiCaZSgxkTZhWDMwyWs0Ek4Dq0V5YUbLzb8WrH3X0j6b_tzSmcCIO-xZ32hFvVJZuNU-RRhq2cTp2KqxCSqMxVOa-abXSG_oiNGQBgWnCYmJVEqPx0INWKX2IWu748BhdznLcGCI/s1600/folly+4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621519825701010642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ27sUiCaZSgxkTZhWDMwyWs0Ek4Dq0V5YUbLzb8WrH3X0j6b_tzSmcCIO-xZ32hFvVJZuNU-RRhq2cTp2KqxCSqMxVOa-abXSG_oiNGQBgWnCYmJVEqPx0INWKX2IWu748BhdznLcGCI/s400/folly+4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWyiRAGRgJy-kZ3TauFBUR1ldZS38yzs3Sa7ddmnPJjWjeQQL7X2nAtdZ4Al8DaUNohwPHoMEhcYFo088aFWBCIvOGYaeKtBBhjKPhCK1Ot7fdG1raEwmrBBagNQ5O9CTG916Zjboleoc/s1600/folly+3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 195px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621518366300453090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWyiRAGRgJy-kZ3TauFBUR1ldZS38yzs3Sa7ddmnPJjWjeQQL7X2nAtdZ4Al8DaUNohwPHoMEhcYFo088aFWBCIvOGYaeKtBBhjKPhCK1Ot7fdG1raEwmrBBagNQ5O9CTG916Zjboleoc/s400/folly+3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXYCUIxyqUwyIrzYHF5O8bqozr8NwIjG6gkTwd54Q25mB_SNaVLmkrXIdQ6kDerG5jmW7qbFFPqA3E3QoVOm0mpJCToBVCeSV2IEz3_kF5Vj6JqucpNZU80aJ66cF6YYU4aAL_ao39Uo/s1600/folly+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621517024162075634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXYCUIxyqUwyIrzYHF5O8bqozr8NwIjG6gkTwd54Q25mB_SNaVLmkrXIdQ6kDerG5jmW7qbFFPqA3E3QoVOm0mpJCToBVCeSV2IEz3_kF5Vj6JqucpNZU80aJ66cF6YYU4aAL_ao39Uo/s400/folly+2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Tomorrow see the opening of the brilliant new (temporary) movie house in Hackney Wick!! And best of all - it's just downstream from <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Hackney Wick</span>!!!!!</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">There are going to be amazing activities from - great family movies - to bug-hotel building workshops. From family discos to drawing classes. And much much more!</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Please come down to meet these lovely people - some of whom you already know from previous projects - who are making Hackney Wick that little bit extra special for all of us!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">To book seats & find out more - please visit </span><a href="http://www.follyforaflyover.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">http://www.follyforaflyover.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"> and then just have heaps of fun.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-17057770240517731802011-06-18T10:33:00.004+01:002011-06-18T10:59:25.350+01:00Last chance to comment on 'Hackney Wick Hub'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysGZDF7nrAybzWRLY0axV9qCK0VEDwyh1d3AHdCrGey2anOAFzfE0H9269vSrYDbu7lwFqRr5XnmYNxfH1_jcIInsYE8pAFPOGAihKIDnAt3EbER9oJKwdz9FLa_QXa7c4Zquj0e8ucQ/s1600/hackney+wick+hub+%252810%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619492973696287490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysGZDF7nrAybzWRLY0axV9qCK0VEDwyh1d3AHdCrGey2anOAFzfE0H9269vSrYDbu7lwFqRr5XnmYNxfH1_jcIInsYE8pAFPOGAihKIDnAt3EbER9oJKwdz9FLa_QXa7c4Zquj0e8ucQ/s400/hackney+wick+hub+%252810%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Many thanks to Ruth for this posting - please read it and act on it - it affects every single one of us:</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">The consultation on a major development around Hackney Wick station is to close this weekend and residents have just a couple more days to have their opinions heard.<br /><br />Plans for more than 150 flats, several shops and retail units around a pedestrian area off Wallis Road, and a "hi-tech" hub of affordable workspaces has been proposed by landowners London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC).<br /><br />At the end of May, the designers and architects behind the project came to the Wick for a couple of days to display and discuss the plans, and now the consultation is drawing to a close.<br /><br />Any opinions and ideas need to be with them before the end of this weekend (Sunday June 19) because they intend to submit their planning application to Hackney Council on the June 24th, next Friday. Once they have planning application they will find a developer to buy the land.<br /><br />Outline drawings and descriptions of the proposal are available on the corporation's website, here: (<a href="http://ltgdc.org.uk/ltgdc-news/development-news/hackney-wick-hub-proposals/">http://ltgdc.org.uk/ltgdc-news/development-news/hackney-wick-hub-proposals/</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">) There is not lots of detail but it gives you an idea of where it will be and says there will retail units, including bars, restaurants, perhaps a bank, shops, and takeaways, 6000sqm of affordable workspaces, and more than 130 studio, one-bed, two-bed and three-bed flats.<br /><br />Based on chats with the designers it also seems the idea is to have:<br /><br /><strong>Affordable workspaces</strong><br />The chief executive of the corporation which owns the land has said, in this interview with journalist Paul Norman, that they want to create a "hi-tech" hub for the business and people being priced out of Silicon Roundabout [Old Street] and Shoreditch.<br /><br /><strong>"Something a little bit different"<br /></strong>The chief executive also said they wanted a developer who would do something a "little bit different" with the homes and leisure parts of the development and spoke praisingly of home-grown Wick projects like a recent opera in a warehouse. During the consultation visits, the architects/designers etc were very keen to emphasise their intention to do something a little bit different and make sure it was in keeping with Hackney Wick.<br />How can the development encourage something a little bit different? What does Hackney Wick want or need in terms of leisure?<br /><br /><strong>No social housing<br /></strong>At the consultation it appeared that there would be no affordable rented accommodation (eg. social housing). This is because of concerns that there is no nearby space for kids/families to play - perhaps they see Vic Park, Hackney Marshes & the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as too far away?<br />There "may be" shared ownership housing for sale, but it was not definite.<br />Should there be affordable housing? Or is there enough in Hackney Wick already?<br /><br /><strong>New shopping street<br /></strong>Some of the units for shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs are large - big enough for a chain shops like Tesco. If Hackney Wick didn’t want big chains, one option is to make the units relatively small in order to deter chains and make it affordable for independent traders or provide space for local creatives to sell their goods. However, the landowners point out that bigger units make the project more commercially viable for the developer.<br />At the moment the planning application does not specify any unit size in order to allow flexibility for the developer. Is that right?<br /><br /><strong>What do you think...?<br /></strong><br />Email Thames Gateway Corporation (<a href="http://ltgdc.org.uk/contact-us/">http://ltgdc.org.uk/contact-us/</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">) to give your views on the Hackney Wick Hub before the consultation closes on Sunday June 19th.<br /><br />And keep on eye on this blog to see what their final plans are and find out when Hackney Council will make a decision on the planning application. </span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-82900053891094002082011-05-18T18:11:00.002+01:002011-05-18T18:38:37.388+01:00Be Part of Hackney Wicks Future!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiLye7V94BCdp30b5bA1_AN9Q8qzKwOJRL8OKL6KMEPaY-4GOuS5mRoqu6IIp81jtdpA72Jnmbd5sWazbIg9M7VmB6hFgusSjr2k2MuZi4bD2D4IENff5QoWt0_7RQ112bj-FKCm5eOs/s1600/hackney+wick+hub+%25283%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608111504434842386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiLye7V94BCdp30b5bA1_AN9Q8qzKwOJRL8OKL6KMEPaY-4GOuS5mRoqu6IIp81jtdpA72Jnmbd5sWazbIg9M7VmB6hFgusSjr2k2MuZi4bD2D4IENff5QoWt0_7RQ112bj-FKCm5eOs/s400/hackney+wick+hub+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyssP6zy8JMKnPq7u5EEz6M83RtIuILy4p4AYnz5N39CwHDDC4UNOKSzKwpdC4_ACeZf9_ELagsE3j-I79x_Q5r6hN4oe_I7owIMNIxq62IamkElZqhlE8uKEq24AfOutAOcpjwcW2Q8/s1600/hackney+wick+hub+%25287%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608111501270886626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyssP6zy8JMKnPq7u5EEz6M83RtIuILy4p4AYnz5N39CwHDDC4UNOKSzKwpdC4_ACeZf9_ELagsE3j-I79x_Q5r6hN4oe_I7owIMNIxq62IamkElZqhlE8uKEq24AfOutAOcpjwcW2Q8/s400/hackney+wick+hub+%25287%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Some of you might know that I have been a member of the Hackney Wick Partnership for a few years. We have been involved in trying to forge a desirable future for the Wick that respects local residents - as well as encourages the local creatives & existing businesses.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">We started doing this way before London was even considered for the 2012 Olympics.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">We have fed all our work into the Hackney Wick Masterplan, the Olympic Masterplan - and now the new Mayors (Boris that is) Development Plan.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">This weekend & next week is another opportunity for you to come & put your thoughts to the brilliant people at London Thames Gateway about what we would all like for the Hackney Wick Hub.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">This is the area both to the North (Tower Hamlets side) & South (Hackney side of the Hackney Wick Overground Station.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">There are major changes for the areas right next to the sloping ramps on either side of the station. And they would love to hear what you would like to see there.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">More cafes? A revitalised Lord Napier? Tree lined squares? Meeting fountain? Better welcoming open spaces? New routes/roads? Hotels?</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">What would you like to see when you come home after a hard days work? What would make you meet your visitors coming off the Overground with a sense of pride about Hackney Wick?</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Please come down to 62 Wallis Road this Saturday 21st May - between 10am & 2pm. And also next Wednesday 25th May from 4pm until 8pm.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">This is a great chance for you to be part of our lovely Hackney Wicks future - please try & make it down for a chat!!</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-26286965235078324192011-04-17T19:12:00.003+01:002011-04-18T19:30:36.556+01:00Tulip Tree for Hackney Wick!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MJNaZ_UWnlClNWFBvWg8WUOscJe_aYyOzcXSSpNvr7PTqdVbrZGmGr4uuE9sxG9QitH8MnT4Yiqy8DYNlE1xZVTnTBijjr9LFiiVNXIGPmPTxKvm74WTh_g1Rlig0P1KGTDGpV-5DjM/s1600/pearl+%25285%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596992425616425410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MJNaZ_UWnlClNWFBvWg8WUOscJe_aYyOzcXSSpNvr7PTqdVbrZGmGr4uuE9sxG9QitH8MnT4Yiqy8DYNlE1xZVTnTBijjr9LFiiVNXIGPmPTxKvm74WTh_g1Rlig0P1KGTDGpV-5DjM/s400/pearl+%25285%2529.JPG" /></a> <br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2mCs5HRfqZSw9AQwNuQHHAmdc2Oq6_YROPocYYJcTCyj-4CjMwA9Lt8XTQk-XeCjmw8S02UzHKizh3ukvQcFIyne42pf6cuJPh9XoTKKQxHP3YRE0ODlcVc3_O666yqReJKwT-SkVMM/s1600/pearl.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596992417251548626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2mCs5HRfqZSw9AQwNuQHHAmdc2Oq6_YROPocYYJcTCyj-4CjMwA9Lt8XTQk-XeCjmw8S02UzHKizh3ukvQcFIyne42pf6cuJPh9XoTKKQxHP3YRE0ODlcVc3_O666yqReJKwT-SkVMM/s400/pearl.JPG" /></a> <br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;">Have you met your newest neighbour yet? </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;">On your way to the station or bus stop tomorrow - please take a diversion to Prince Edward Road - and go hug a tree. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;">A stunning giant Tulip Tree to be exact! She has been planted right next to the Hackney Pearl - and is absolutely beautiful. She will be giving us all many more years of shelter, shade & fresh air. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;">She was put there by the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">muf</span> (http://www.muf.co.uk/mprofile.htm) team who are prettying up parts of the Wick with green ideas. We will be posting a few more of their projects in the next few days - but in the mean-time - please go & say hi to your new neighbour. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;">Ooh & while you're there - why not pop into the Pearl (http://thehackneypearl.com/) for one of their delicious <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">choccie</span> brownies & a cuppa.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663300;"></span></div><br /><div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-27238309214645809412011-03-09T12:11:00.002+00:002011-03-09T12:36:43.647+00:00In All Its Guises</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iGsYrIX9bMClWUxeL5gSeTanrmlePDMaSpWCD0ejVu7MLHbPct-9lEHswauhTnME-jOeiJVzwbIwAepT_BeIgyc5gZwwhTu5NFn6PTVsZ08w3yephX1HjDWVlyOkwKvkb_7NPyIIoU0/s1600/in+all+its+guises+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582057709871031154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 288px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iGsYrIX9bMClWUxeL5gSeTanrmlePDMaSpWCD0ejVu7MLHbPct-9lEHswauhTnME-jOeiJVzwbIwAepT_BeIgyc5gZwwhTu5NFn6PTVsZ08w3yephX1HjDWVlyOkwKvkb_7NPyIIoU0/s400/in+all+its+guises+2.jpg" border="0" /></a>
<br /></a><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">This just in from everyone's fave art gallery curator - Will Chamberlain.....</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Private View – Tomorrow - Thursday 10th March 18:00-21:00 </span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Our environment is ever changing, never still and as such is a constant source of inspiration. Be it natural or man-made it provokes a myriad of responses. Here artists immerse themselves in their own visions and, through a range of media, create their own engaging statements interpreting the architecture that surrounds them. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>EXHIBITORS </strong></span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>Jeanette Barnes</strong> has over the past three years produced a number of large drawings of the London 2012 Olympics under construction. These along with other city drawings were showcased at Toto, London 2010 in association with Blueprint architecture magazine. She has exhibited in many shows including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Jerwood Drawing Prizes and received a number of commissions and awards. Her drawings explore through evolutionary layers of instinctive activity the development and growth of urban environments. The balance of these works constantly shifts in search of something as yet unknown. She is represented in public, corporate and private collections.</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>David Downes</strong>, originally from Suffolk, moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. He undertook a major commission for BBC Heritage from 1999-2001 and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2004. Fascinated by the contrasts of the urban environment, he records the cityscape in mesmerising detail, often from imagined aerial perspectives. He recently completed residencies at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens and Goldman Sachs, London, and has been working on site at the Olympic Park recording the construction process since 2008; selected works were recently displayed at London's City Hall. Sought after by corporate and private clients, David’s work is in the collections of the BBC, Land Registry, Kew Gardens and Merrill Lynch.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>Peter Freeth</strong> grew up in Birmingham – a lasting influence - and studied painting and etching at the Slade. He won the Rome scholarship in 1960, and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1990. He has worked almost exclusively as a printmaker for many years. Freeth’s etchings have a rich tonality and draw on an unusually wide range of subjects, both from observed, everyday life and from, memory, imagination, music and literature. He is represented in many collections including the V&A, the British Museum, the Arts Council, the Fitzwilliam and Ashmolean, the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>Simon James</strong> is a multi-disciplinary artist who has lived and worked in Asia for more than a decade and is noted for his large-scale video installations and photography. He has received a number of awards and commissions for his work and has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Berlin, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Light as an agent of perceptual change and the interplay between the man-made environment and the forces of nature has been a constant source of inspiration during his career. Through architectural imagery, he explores mankind’s desire for order, control and aggressive self-expression in a manufactured landscape.</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>Julian Perry</strong> (born 1960) has gained considerable media attention for his landscape based paintings. His work is characterised by an engagement with the landscape that explores issues of land use and the often strange results of human labour. A major show at the London Guildhall in 2004 was the result of a three year project working in Epping Forest, more recently Perry recorded thirty allotment sheds now demolished to make way for the London 2012 Olympics. His most recent show (at Austin Desmond Fine Art) explored the extraordinary impact of Coastal Erosion. Perry has works in several major collections and is represented by Austin Desmond Fine Art.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><strong>Nessie Stonebridge’s</strong> works convey a sense of energy, restriction and release. Highly charged frenetic mark making oozing with emotional content that races and spills across the surface of the canvas only to be pierced by structural forms that ground and anchor the seemingly untamed work. Profiled by PhillipsART expert, picked by the Saatchi Gallery as emerging artist of the week and chosen by Modern Editions as one of the UK’s leading abstract artists, Stonebridge’s work is held in many private collections both nationally and internationally.
<br />RSVP to </span><a href="mailto:smokehousegallery@formans.co.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">smokehousegallery@formans.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">
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<br />Formans Restaurant will be open during the private view and at all times during the show.
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<br />Thursday 10th March - Sunday 3rd April
<br />Private View Thursday 10th March 18.00-21.00
<br />Thu and Fri 5-9pm</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Sat and Sun 12- 5pm
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<br />Venue: Formans Smokehouse Gallery, Stour Rd, Fish Island, E3 2NT</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Private View Sample Menu</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Forman’s Famous London Cure Smoked Salmon </span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Gourmet Salmon & Lobster Fishcake – Rocket Salad</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Chicken, Air Dried Ham & Sage Ballotine - Buttered Spinach</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Spinach & Goat’s Cheese Quiche - Tomato Salad (v)</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Pot-roasted Scottish Daube of Beef – Horseradish Mash </span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Mushroom & Butternut Squash Risotto (v)</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Any Dish - £9.50 Paddy & Scott’s Coffee & Cake Selection for 2 £9.50</span></div>
<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">(Cappuccino, Espresso, Latte or Americano with Chocolate brownies, Lemon & Pistachio Cake & Banana Bread)</span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">For more information and for any exhibiting or sponsorship enquiries, please contact Gallery Manager William Chamberlain on 07947 175 283 or email him on </span><a href="mailto:smokehousegallery@formans.co.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">smokehousegallery@formans.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">.
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<br />Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-50540568042412580312011-03-04T15:59:00.002+00:002011-03-10T15:15:41.521+00:00They Say All Politics Is Local<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9gEU6YIlCj6DaV_aR0TqrINbGUhumdKWLaOgzLmmjg0gcuIhEZ8rJVt9s6fVwvnQqxnGJDRVD7Zk4ylJUBd2Yo137dvoXgfu_kmxmjPaXCmE2ozzl5E4IzN5e0zXeOdc3P-yfKR_b3A4/s1600/hackney+wick.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582470201536269970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9gEU6YIlCj6DaV_aR0TqrINbGUhumdKWLaOgzLmmjg0gcuIhEZ8rJVt9s6fVwvnQqxnGJDRVD7Zk4ylJUBd2Yo137dvoXgfu_kmxmjPaXCmE2ozzl5E4IzN5e0zXeOdc3P-yfKR_b3A4/s400/hackney+wick.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">Parish the thought!<br /><br />They say all politics is local, but how local? Well now, for Hackney residents (including the Wick), the way local decisions are made, on everything from house-building to park benches and licensing to Olympic planning, could be changing very soon.<br /><br />London Assembly member, Andrew Boff, certainly thinks so. He came to Leabank Square Community Association’s latest meeting to tell us how he’s using a change in the law to set up a community council (a sort of urban parish council) for London Fields (</span><a href="http://londonfieldscouncil.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">http://londonfieldscouncil.org.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">) and how the same idea might apply to the Wick.<br /><br />We all think of Parish councils as being something for the countryside, or small villages, like the one up North where I’m from, but few people know that residents in urban areas can set up their own (</span><a href="http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Publications/Booklets_and_Resources.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Publications/Booklets_and_Resources.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">). Cities having very blurred boundaries (Where exactly is Shoreditch??), there are few places within built-up areas that can said to be a self-contained community, but if anywhere is, surely it has to be our very own Hackney Wick?<br /><br />So what would we do with an Urban Parish Council, or a Community Council if we decided to set one up? Well, for a start, the community council would have the right to be consulted on planning decisions in the local area, something that’s going to be a big issue for the Wick with all the Olympic developments and Lottery regeneration coming up. Urban parish/community councils can also share in the proceeds of new developments, make arrangements to put up more litter bins, get together to run allotments, organise local festivals or improve the local land and townscapes.<br /><br />Wouldn’t this just cost a lot more money and mean more politicians though? That depends. The sort of community council people want for their area is up to them. Some parish councils don’t collect money and are entirely voluntary, funding improvements using their share of planning and development fees, public subscription or donations. Others might charge a precept, usually not more than £20 a year, and some will use a combination of these options. Relations with ward councillors and the borough are all issues that have been raised by opponents in other areas and it’s clear that the model isn’t for everywhere and that there are issues to be addressed. It seems that whether the Wick gets a Community Council or not and the success of that council will be dependent on one factor: US, the residents.<br /><br />As with any local enterprise, it is what people make it. The make-up and ambition of a community council is a reflection of the local population. Would this work for our area? The people of Hackney Wick (the area bound by the Eastway, Railyway line and canal) will very soon be getting a chance to have their say. If more than 10% of the local population sign a petition to set up a Community Council, we could very soon be finding out.<br /><br />Further information: A google search of “Urban parish Councils” will bring up lots of articles in the local and national press. This website shows the breadth of services that might be provided:<br /></span><a href="http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Document/Download.aspx?uid=dc050f08-3a21-4528-aa85-283cd57fc705" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Document/Download.aspx?uid=dc050f08-3a21-4528-aa85-283cd57fc705</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">This article was written by our most enthusiastic gardener & Conservative Party Councillor hopeful - Mathhew Woods. Some of us have been lucky to work alongside him in the gardens - and will remember just how hard he grafts. And then other will remember him canvassing locally at the last election. Whatever your politics - you have to agree that Matt has Leabank Square & the rest of the Wick's interests at heart. Thanks Matt.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">See also: </span><a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/matt-woods/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/matt-woods/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-55548137222276668112011-02-26T20:16:00.002+00:002011-02-26T20:22:44.359+00:00Wick Curiosity Shop 1st March - 6th March 2011<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvngnQaI8fJoKrGbOnyIRoeWP7offDBkA7GveDkhlo0-ItSwZ4SQXyn2x67Uh18cwh3-x1decR8UA4tv3cFmzHauo-IiPA4fpgBBCA_Q5Lnjq5eBGiBzLF5e4dSrtlOw-SL9J3A98bflA/s1600/wick+curiosity+shop.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 254px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578094953025352930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvngnQaI8fJoKrGbOnyIRoeWP7offDBkA7GveDkhlo0-ItSwZ4SQXyn2x67Uh18cwh3-x1decR8UA4tv3cFmzHauo-IiPA4fpgBBCA_Q5Lnjq5eBGiBzLF5e4dSrtlOw-SL9J3A98bflA/s400/wick+curiosity+shop.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">I urge every one of us to get down to 10 Felstead Street to the Wick Curiosity Shop this coming week. From the 1st March to 6th March – we will be treated to the most incredible local extravaganza of fun, news, talks, walks & workshops – all just for us in Hackney Wick!!<br /><br />Opening times from 11am – 7pm*<br />(*open later for evening events)<br /><br />Just take a look at all this:<br /><br />10 Felstead Street, Hackney Wick, Tuesday March 1 – Sunday March 6, 2011<br /><br />The Wick Curiosity Shop is an informal archive and cultural space dedicated to Hackney Wick.<br />It will take over an empty shop in Olso House for the first week of March, hosting a series of events<br />about the ‘goings-on’ in the Wick of the past, present and future.<br /><br />The Shop traces, documents, promotes, hosts and connects the many histories, initiatives and<br />ambitions of the area. It is also a space for debate and action for change in which desires,<br />ideas and makers can meet to plot collective or individual futures.<br /><br />This coming week Wick Curiosity Shop focuses on current activities and programmes<br />including self-initiated, commissioned, informal and formal projects.<br /><br /><br />The programme splits into three groups of events:<br /><br /><strong>1.The Way We Walk<br />2. The Way We Make<br />3. The Way We Talk<br /></strong><br />All events are free of charge<br />Places on the walks are limited, reserving a place is recommended.<br />You can do so by emailing info@wickcuriosityshop.net,<br />message us on Twitter @wickcuriosity or find us on facebook.<br /><br /><strong>1. THE WAY WE WALK<br /></strong>A series of Walks from the Wick<br />By public works in collaboration with ……<br /><br /><strong>Walking the Press<br /></strong>Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 11am<br />A walk from Abbey Gardens (www.abbeygardens.org) to the Wick Curiosity Shop in Oslo House, where we will take the mobile press from Abbey Gardens with us to make seed bombs. The seed bombs will be used for the Sunflower Avenue walk (see below).<br /><br />Get an introduction to the beautiful Abbey Gardens and enjoy a slow walk into the Wick via the Greenway pushing, pulling and talking all things gardening.<br /><br />The walk will be led by Andreas Lang and take approximately 1.5 hours Start is at Abbey Gardens at 11am.<br />Bakers Row E15 3NF. Check www.abbeygardens.org for directions.<br /><br /><strong>Printers Paradise<br /></strong>Thursday, March 3, 2011, 3pm<br />‘Printers Paradise’ was the informal name of the dense cluster of printers and related industry spread around the Wick and along Carpenters Road.<br /><br />With the changes sweeping through the area and the print industry, only a few outposts of Printers Paradise remain. Join us on a walk to trace some of the former glory, meet some of the printers and visit still active print workshops in Hackney Wick.<br /><br />The walk will be led by Gemma Drake and Andreas Lang.<br /><br />The walk starts at The Wick Curiosity Shop at 3pm, and will take approx. 1 hour.<br />10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT<br />The walk will contribute to an on-going project by Gemma documenting the changing industry in and around Hackney Wick.<br /><br /><strong>Friday Fish Walk<br /></strong>Friday, March 4, 2011, 3pm<br />It is Friday afternoon and what better way to spend it than joining the Curiosity Shop<br />on a walk to show you where to pick up the best fish in the Wick!<br /><br />Along the way we will fly post pictures and posters, which have been made on-site at Oslo House earlier in the week.<br /><br />The walk will be led by Polly Brannan and take approx. 40 minutes.<br />We leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop, 10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT<br /><br /><strong>Sunflower Avenue Seed Bombing Walk<br /></strong>Saturday, March 5, 2011, 11am<br />Sunflower Avenue connects Mabley Green to Victoria Park cutting straight through<br />the heart of Hackney Wick.<br /><br />It is a local Initiative by Lea Bank Square Purple Garden to establish a planted connection between the two local parks. Seed Bombs specially designed and made in the Wick Curiosity Shop will be used to replant hundreds of sunflowers while strolling along the Avenue.<br /><br />The walk is led by Andreas Lang and take approx. 1 hour. Start is at the Wick Curiosity Shop,<br />10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT ending at Mabley Green<br /><br /><strong>The Way We Walked<br /></strong>Saturday, March 5, 2011, 2pm<br />Following the footsteps of one of the most popular annual walks in the Wick – the Christmas Swim - we walk together to retrace the ‘Otters Swimming Club’ days, with giant posters and hot dogs on the way!<br /><br />The walk is led by Polly Brannan and take approx. 1 hour. We will leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop,<br />10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT<br /><br /><strong>Off the Track</strong><br />Brigand Boys, Monkey Parades and Clarnico Girls<br />Sunday, March 6, 2011, 4pm<br />Monkey Parades were popular from at least the 1840’s and were a British working class institution.<br /><br />This courting congregation that saw men and women lavishly dressed to impress<br />was rife in Hackney in 19th Century. The walk retraces a visual journey of the Wick by George Sims, a journalist during the height of the popularity of Monkey Parades in the late 1800s.<br /><br />Participants are invited to dress to impress and the ladies are invited to wear lavish hats (designed by the Ladies at the Wick). Drinks will be served on Mabley Green at the end.<br /><br />The walk is led by Torange Khonsari and takes approx. 1 hour. It starts at the Wick Curiosity Shop,<br />10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT<br /><br /><br /><strong>2. THE WAY WE MAKE<br /></strong>A series of hands on workshops in the Wick Curiosity Shop<br /><br /><strong>The Anecdotal Manicure<br /></strong>Tuesday, March 2, 2011 from 2-5pm<br />Get your hair styled or your nails done, have a tea and chat about the Wick.<br />Lauren Campany will offer free hair styling and manicures in return for some lively anecdotes about the Wick - imaginary or real, regardless weather you live in the Wick or are on your first visit.<br /><br /><strong>Pimp your Hat</strong><br />Tuesday, March 1, 2011 6pm<br />Join the ‘Ladies of the Wick’ for a hat making session in the Wick Curiosity Shop<br />in preparation for the Monkey Parade - a courting congregation along the Wick,<br />which will see men and women lavishly dressed to impress.<br />Just bring yourselves – material is provided.<br /><br />The workshop will be led by Torange Khonsari with the WI of Hackney Wick (tbc)<br /><br /><strong>Fish Frying Posters<br /></strong>Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 1,2,3, 2011 from 11am-2pm<br />Fish has been part of the Wick for a long time. Join us to make large scale<br />posters which will be copied and pasted during the Friday Fish Walk.<br /><br />The woskhop will be lead by Polly Brannan.<br /><br /><strong>Seed Bomb Pressing<br /></strong>Tuesday, March 1, 2011 from 1pm-4pm<br />Join us and our magic 10 ton press to make unique Hackney Wick seed bombs<br />to re-seed the Sunflower Avenue.<br /><br />The workshop will be led by Andreas Lang.<br /><br /><strong>3. THE WAY WE TALK ,<br />REMEMBER AND IMAGINE<br /><br />Wick Session Number 1<br />Collectively Wick<br /></strong>Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm till late<br />A Wick Development Trust and trust in development.<br />There is no Development Trust in Hackney Wick or the surrounding area. With so much speculative and top-down development descending on Hackney Wick we want to take a moment and brainstorm alternatives for a collective, community driven development of public spaces in Hackney Wick.<br /><br />Speakers to be confirmed<br />Please check our website for updates, www.wickcuriosityshop.net<br /><br /><strong>Wick Session Number 2<br />Grounds for culture<br /></strong>Friday, March 4, 2011, 7pm till late<br />Wick Session Number 2 will bring together artists and activists currently working on projects or setting up initiatives in Hackney Wick.<br />A friendly and informal exchange between practitioners with a passion for Hackney Wick.<br />Speakers to be confirmed<br />Please check our website for updates, www.wickcuriosityshop.net<br /><br /><strong>Wick on Film<br /></strong>Saturday, March 5, 2011, 5pm till late<br />Pop down to the Wick Curiosity Shop on Saturday afternoon for a screening session<br />showing a varied selection of films from and about the Wick.<br /><br />While the final programme is yet to be confirmed it is likely to include archive footage, explorations of what is now the Olympic site and stories from the area.<br /><br />Curated and hosted by Rakan Budeiri and Andreas Lang<br />Please check our website for updates, www.wickcuriosityshop.net<br /><br /><strong>Tea, Cake and Curiosities<br /></strong>Sunday, March 6, 2011, 1-4pm<br />Join us for some free Tea and Cake on early Sunday afternoon in the Wick Curiosity Shop, and bring you photos, anecdotes and rare curiosities to be included in the Wick Curiosity Shop archive.<br /><br />The antiques road show meets friendly chatter and stories about life in the Wick.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">The Wick Curiosity postal service to Graz, Austria.<br />public works is invited by Rotor Gallery to present the Wick Curiosity Shop in Graz, Austria. </span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><div><br />After a packed week in Hackney Wick, the Shop will be journeying across the continent. The venue in Graz is situated in a similar social context to the shop’s home in the Wick and thus this visit aims to create a form of cultural exchange between the two areas, and a link between the explorations on either side.<br /><br />As part of this exchange the Curiosity Shop is interested in receiving contributions<br />from visitors who would like to post something (physical or not) to Graz. If you have something to send, pop into the shop during the week or email us via our website.<br /><br />Part of the show in Graz is a two day conference on URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD CULTURES with an impressive list of speakers from across Europe - Hackney Wick will be in good company!<br /><br />The Wick CuirosityShop started in 2008 and has since been shaped by many different individuals and groups based in, or with close associations to, the Wick. The project does not have a permanent home, and exists across changing location and settings.<br /><br />To browse the archive and find out more visit <a href="http://www.wickcuriosityshop.net/">www.wickcuriosityshop.net</a><br /><br />The Walks Programme is part of the ‘Wick Curiosity Shop - Route Book’ project by public works.<br />It is one of six temporary art projects commissioned by London Thames Gateway Development Corporation<br />for London Borough of Hackney (LBH) and London Borough of Tower hamlets (LBTH), curated by muf architecture/art.<br /><br />This Wick Curiosity Shop was originally commissioned by [SPACE]<br />as part of the Hackney Wick Festival in 2008 </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span> </div><div> </div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-45997862480546459412011-01-19T11:44:00.001+00:002011-03-10T15:16:52.333+00:00Cliff Richard Gig in Hackney Wick?!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNNozaf7Y0j_N76txLe1RATUfIivgP-d5e1vGDLIg5ifa1IXZ7L45CF-9RyhgsZtodpvcAJhWZjGrmdY9xwJtOq6RU6dq_BHCgXcXwmL3FZWaD_x2w7GURmtMiGgMmgEkd3OdbyfwekE/s1600/cliff+in+59.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582470515649471186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNNozaf7Y0j_N76txLe1RATUfIivgP-d5e1vGDLIg5ifa1IXZ7L45CF-9RyhgsZtodpvcAJhWZjGrmdY9xwJtOq6RU6dq_BHCgXcXwmL3FZWaD_x2w7GURmtMiGgMmgEkd3OdbyfwekE/s400/cliff+in+59.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;">Fiona has just sent this invitation to all of us to join these artists in Hackney Museum this Saturday. Some of went to the last one a few weeks ago - and this one promises to be even better! Please come along - you'll be gutted if you miss this!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>THE CUT<br /><br /></strong></span>Collecting stories of the River Lea Navigation Canal between Hackney Wick to Old Ford Lock<br />What can you tell us about the canal?<br />What do you remember?<br />Come and meet Chris Dorley Brown, Jessie Brennan and Daniel Lehan who are creating new artworks about the canal.<br /><br />The event starts with a film screening which includes rare footage of Cliff Richard and The Shadows’ visit to Hackney Wick in the 1960s, plus scenes from Lesney Toy Factory, Hackney’s first computer pub, Kingsmead Estate and the Trowbridge blowdown. 11am to 11.45am.<br /><br />Then join the artists to add your stories and contribute to the creation of a physical map of Hackney Wick, 12 – 2pm<br /><br /><br />Saturday 22nd January<br />11am to 2pm<br />Free<br />Refreshments provided<br />Hackney Museum , 1 Reading Lane, E8 1GQ<br />All children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.<br /><br />The Cut is an oral history project led by artists and produced by SPACE<br />Three artists and a team of local volunteers are exploring the Hackney Cut, or Lea River Navigation Canal , and the industrial, physical and social history of Hackney Wick. By collecting stories (up to the present day) from the people who work and live alongside the canal the project will document the importance of The Cut to the community in an area undergoing huge change.<br /><br />Contact: Fiona Fieber fifi@spacestudios.org.uk 0208 525 4347 www.spacestudios.org.uk<br /><br /><br />Fiona Fieber<br />Head of Learning and Participation<br />[ s p a c e ]129 – 131 Mare Street<br />London E8<br />020 8525 4347 </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333399;"></span></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-82336180482883956732010-12-03T11:31:00.006+00:002010-12-04T12:53:06.908+00:00Stories of the Lea River - 11 Dec 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcdhQ5aGHJTomFLqFpWxjcTNuRwIbv4BnPqUj8TxyOQLL81FVCCqLoXgcp6x4GZDrlAP7YQmsMj0tWx8AVOnJ-CuAJImaCYL_66mIXS6SzXkjNDbMhK6s0J0ZWn5YFMeSXcOlh5rBLqk/s1600/st+marys.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546809174441716082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcdhQ5aGHJTomFLqFpWxjcTNuRwIbv4BnPqUj8TxyOQLL81FVCCqLoXgcp6x4GZDrlAP7YQmsMj0tWx8AVOnJ-CuAJImaCYL_66mIXS6SzXkjNDbMhK6s0J0ZWn5YFMeSXcOlh5rBLqk/s400/st+marys.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7emdQFVHl23Q77VybZhk50e6L7vbPsM6at8YDF4ks1kD2V2A28Xf9XBzr1KBTr6_ZNXJ3ImEu6YRUfzndmWB7vIrUbv14oC6FqX1_qRya059jCIN7ilT36NLnLVrnNkYJikOznIDH3Xg/s1600/st+mary+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546809171715531298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7emdQFVHl23Q77VybZhk50e6L7vbPsM6at8YDF4ks1kD2V2A28Xf9XBzr1KBTr6_ZNXJ3ImEu6YRUfzndmWB7vIrUbv14oC6FqX1_qRya059jCIN7ilT36NLnLVrnNkYJikOznIDH3Xg/s400/st+mary+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJ9n5X27bWvpA7Q3xBIBJGNMM2jqDIQkr61usFPjV_N9hHoO_RUJ8QC_4G07bTYhmAJS57BqpcLpaFZ0cbkGdxTgYV6ibCVTQhCZGDgPhWN69OBknPpes5GadUQzvtGuHSxYggf_h3YM/s1600/fiona+fieber.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546806709063347554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJ9n5X27bWvpA7Q3xBIBJGNMM2jqDIQkr61usFPjV_N9hHoO_RUJ8QC_4G07bTYhmAJS57BqpcLpaFZ0cbkGdxTgYV6ibCVTQhCZGDgPhWN69OBknPpes5GadUQzvtGuHSxYggf_h3YM/s400/fiona+fieber.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Fiona - over in Space Studios is inviting all of us over to St Mary of Eaton Church on Saturday 11 December - to see some old movies about the Lea River.<br /><br />This is going to be the most amazing opportunity to see some incredible history of our neighbourhood - so I beg as many of you to turn up as possible.<br /><br />But please also come if you have any interesting stories & anecdotes to tell about our river/canal. There are still loads of us who live here - and have seen many changes over the last few decades - who can enthrall the rest of us with incredible tales of Hackney Wick.<br /><br />So - even if your Nan has moved out to Essex - please bring her along to Rev. Alan's church - to share some of her memories with the rest of us.<br /><br />Details:<br /><br /><br />THE CUT: Stories of the River Lea Navigation Canal<br /><br />11am - 2pm at St Mary of Eton Church, Eastway, Hackney Wick E9 5JA<br /><br />A chance to see some rare old films and photographs of the area from the 1970s to the present day.<br /><br />THE CUT is an artist led oral history project collecting stories from people who work and live alongside the waters of the Hackney Cut - from Lea Bridge to Old Ford Lock.<br />From September 2010 to March 2011 three artists and a team of local volunteers are exploring the industrial, physical and social history of this area of Hackney Wick.<br /><br />By interviewing local residents they will document the importance of The Cut to the community in an area undergoing huge change, and create new work for an exhibition in 2011.<br /><br />More info: Fiona Fieber fifi@spacestudios.org.uk<br /><br />If you cannot make this event, please come along to Hackney Museum, Reading Lane, Hackney E8 1GQ on Saturday 22 January 11am- 2pm instead.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/the-cut-stories-of-the-river-lea-navigation-canal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">http://spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/the-cut-stories-of-the-river-lea-navigation-canal</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"> </span></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-17330268648854732452010-12-01T18:24:00.010+00:002010-12-02T20:01:24.359+00:00Hackney Wick 7/8 a Side Anyone?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb314pWbNx1lqn-qNRNZu_7l4NmUoaBZskvaKPQKHlLZY8cr0b4KaeMNrUKN_7vSgMo3Mv6xBVf4JaEL15yXuBCNPeeCZoZbSUqaJPXNg15IvAu4EClZKQjp1MMOaTWTMl9pcFhlAPeEE/s1600/mabley+green.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545784225719051442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb314pWbNx1lqn-qNRNZu_7l4NmUoaBZskvaKPQKHlLZY8cr0b4KaeMNrUKN_7vSgMo3Mv6xBVf4JaEL15yXuBCNPeeCZoZbSUqaJPXNg15IvAu4EClZKQjp1MMOaTWTMl9pcFhlAPeEE/s400/mabley+green.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">You know how it is at this time of the year. You're always promising yourself that you'll do some more excercise - but need a few new mates to help you do it. Well - how about joining the footie players for a light game every week.<br /><br />Dom has just sent an appeal out for more members to join the 7/8-a-side footie teams on Mabley Green.<br /><br />They meet up at the floodlit pitches every Thursday at 7pm - and normally finish at 8pm. Dom says they welcome anyone who's up for a friendly kickabout. The pitch fee is £5 each - all you need to do is contact Dom on dom@digitile.co.uk. There is already a good mix of regulars - as well as casual players.<br /><br />Come on Hackney Wick - let's get together for an hour or so - and meet your neighbours! </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span><br /><br /><iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?key=ABQIAAAAX_QdAdbIQFg0mim7zz4MfxTdwzauLEqTjQ9HKCdh74exR4eI9xQUbzfFw6g5Vi9RMywcgOcbeLCTzw&mapclient=jsapi&oi=map_misc&ie=UTF8&ll=51.548016,-0.029783&spn=0.011449,0.038409&z=15&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?key=ABQIAAAAX_QdAdbIQFg0mim7zz4MfxTdwzauLEqTjQ9HKCdh74exR4eI9xQUbzfFw6g5Vi9RMywcgOcbeLCTzw&mapclient=jsapi&oi=map_misc&ie=UTF8&ll=51.548016,-0.029783&spn=0.011449,0.038409&z=15&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-81862420504018749362010-12-01T12:25:00.004+00:002010-12-01T12:42:36.695+00:00Get Your Bike Tagged - Youll Be Glad You Did!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j4ybWXhkVxIXd_bwX9602S-sM6AfcV6XGtUJB-t-Uw7oIgYnGVTa2aBjEBo1LOTA_YLuGYaqNyVzWwH3Rfw7dVw4YGFM7pqAeEPg6egpS976BvysQNWhGqGPi-zepzloJUK9Szk8Z5g/s1600/stolen+bike.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545692890486323346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j4ybWXhkVxIXd_bwX9602S-sM6AfcV6XGtUJB-t-Uw7oIgYnGVTa2aBjEBo1LOTA_YLuGYaqNyVzWwH3Rfw7dVw4YGFM7pqAeEPg6egpS976BvysQNWhGqGPi-zepzloJUK9Szk8Z5g/s400/stolen+bike.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6fyDW8INjMc1VZV50l9JHvlCfQ9Pq4PeX6GaicPDUHNw8UJ5zvxj1s6aX8QeMy5JcnYFhXYP6rfQ0N-D8hSVwyoy1EKMfHgzLs4bnTAfJK0s6uNhSMCSgJLL2hHivO7M-JMWmKDQ7ik/s1600/snt+13.07.09"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 236px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545691889625330802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6fyDW8INjMc1VZV50l9JHvlCfQ9Pq4PeX6GaicPDUHNw8UJ5zvxj1s6aX8QeMy5JcnYFhXYP6rfQ0N-D8hSVwyoy1EKMfHgzLs4bnTAfJK0s6uNhSMCSgJLL2hHivO7M-JMWmKDQ7ik/s400/snt+13.07.09" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">Many thanks to Councillor Chris Kennedy one of our Wick Ward councillors - for sending this through. Almost everyone I meet nowadays has had a horror bike theft story (I know I always bore you with mine (<a href="http://leabanksquare.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-wheels-have-been-nicked-help.html">http://leabanksquare.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-wheels-have-been-nicked-help.html</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">) - and whoa betide you leave your lights on while nipping in for the paper!<br /><br />Please do take advantage of this kind & generous offer from our Safer Neighbourhoods Team - the last session was very well attended - the more of us who get these chips - the less chance the toerags get away with our bikes!<br /><br />Thanks Chris!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: <a href="mailto:Antony.P.Brotherton@met.pnn.police.uk">Antony.P.Brotherton@met.pnn.police.uk</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">[mailto: <a href="mailto:Antony.P.Brotherton@met.pnn.police.uk">Antony.P.Brotherton@met.pnn.police.uk</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">]<br />Sent: 24 November 2010 13:28<br />Subject: BIKE TAGGING<br /><br /><br /><br />Dear All<br /><br />Following the previous successful Bicycle Tagging sessions in the Wick Ward, we have been able to secure a further limited supply of microchips for a one off event:<br /><br />Location: WELL STREET COMMON at CASSLAND ROAD/ GASCOYNE ROAD JUNCTION<br />Date: MONDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2010<br />Time: 2PM - 6PM<br />Requirements: MUST BRING BICYCLE WITH YOU<br />MUST HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS<br />MUST BE ABLE TO REMOVE SADDLE FROM BICYCLE (PLEASE NOTE, THIS MICROCHIP DOES NOT WORK ON BROMPTON STYLE BICYCLES)<br /><br />Can I ask that you let as many of your residents, colleagues, friends and family in the area who own bicycles aware of this event to help make it yet another success. However, please be advised that from previous experience, these tagging events do prove very popular and we expect the microchips to go before the end of the session as they will be distributed on a first come first served basis.<br /><br />Should you require any further information about this, please do not hesitate to ask.<br /><br />Kind regards<br /><br />Antony Brotherton PCSO 7205GD<br />Hackney Wick SNT<br />Office Telephone: 020 7161 9214<br />Ward Mobile: 020 8721 2938<br />Ward Email: </span><a href="mailto:Wick.SNT@met.police.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">Wick.SNT@met.police.uk</span></a> </div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><strong></strong></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-76713931296610350202010-11-30T11:43:00.003+00:002010-11-30T12:00:21.461+00:00BBC Culture Show Looking for Anish Kapoor Wickers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkqwM0YuZyhxD1VqtSDLTXxijw_zwYfso72PXwrMEyhEHfgy1UhZT_5NRynUftqKBjPPrVk2G4zmXKUEfVmylzFfavRFiAEM0123RA9ARj9j5Umha6NtATrgL3IjfvSN5jKY2knke35I/s1600/anish+kapoor.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545309884621552994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkqwM0YuZyhxD1VqtSDLTXxijw_zwYfso72PXwrMEyhEHfgy1UhZT_5NRynUftqKBjPPrVk2G4zmXKUEfVmylzFfavRFiAEM0123RA9ARj9j5Umha6NtATrgL3IjfvSN5jKY2knke35I/s400/anish+kapoor.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Prue from the Beeb is looking for residents living around the Wick who will be seeing the massive ArcelorMittal Orbit (that's the olympic Helter Skelter to you & me) from their windows.<br /></span><a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-01-22-29-31-anish-kapoor-to-design-iconic-visitor-attraction-for-olympic-park.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-01-22-29-31-anish-kapoor-to-design-iconic-visitor-attraction-for-olympic-park.html</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;"><br />It's probably one of those regular visit - How's it going this time - kind of programs. But with the most creative types living right here in Hackney Wick - surely we could come up with some incredible spokespeople for the Wick?!<br /><br />Please all you creative types - get in touch with Prue - and give the culture show something special from Hackney Wick!!<br /><br />Here's her email:<br /><br />Dear Nadira and Sóna,<br /><br />I'm writing to you from The Culture Show, the flagship magazine arts programme on BBC2. I'm currently working on a programme about the ArcelorMittal Orbit which is due to air in late 2011. The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a public sculpture by the artist Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond. It is currently being built in the Olympic Park, near to the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre.<br /><br />Once finished, the sculpture will be 115m tall. For our programme, we are really keen to meet people who will be able to see the sculpture from their homes. It would be wonderful to check in with them as the view from their window changes over the coming months. Do you know of anyone in the Hackney Wick area who is in this situation and might be interested in talking to us?<br /><br />I will be on a recce in Stratford for the rest of the day, but do feel free to call me on the mobile number below if you have a thought of who we could speak to before tomorrow. If not any email with any help at all would be great.<br /><br />Many thanks and best wishes,<br /><br />Prue<br /><br /><br />Prue Richardson The Culture Show<br /><br />BBC Vision Productions Room MC5 A3 The Media Centre 201 Wood Lane London W12 7TQ<br /><br />T: +44 (0)20 8008 3861 M: +44 (0)7814 756344 E: </span><a href="mailto:prue.richardson@bbc.co.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">prue.richardson@bbc.co.uk</span></a></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">Oh yes - did anyone else read the brilliant interview with Anish Kapoor over the weekend? His first free show in India is coming up - and........ </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/27/anish-kapoor-india-exhibition"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/27/anish-kapoor-india-exhibition</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;"><br /><br /></span> </div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-22196446933677367592010-11-23T08:36:00.003+00:002010-11-23T08:54:56.994+00:00Tour Hackney Wicks Art Galleries & Studios Sat 27 Nov<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZIVd63eqvZMm4ceZeGvQEg0CUXJDHomgdviSlNj6xCAcT5Hiz2kcvOjq05vlst4ncSX94KdAaaEdebMIOKWX-8Qu-Cn-dqU7o_hUp9pGQ-TbLBaSP-UAH-JaPcwL65YvqewzBD8h7V0/s1600/art.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542665891119479010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZIVd63eqvZMm4ceZeGvQEg0CUXJDHomgdviSlNj6xCAcT5Hiz2kcvOjq05vlst4ncSX94KdAaaEdebMIOKWX-8Qu-Cn-dqU7o_hUp9pGQ-TbLBaSP-UAH-JaPcwL65YvqewzBD8h7V0/s400/art.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrenw9VgFidnFAbM30g5Znqt0napbXsaR9lDkqt_A2bLtuTnkeVRgX6W9zNbPpE0W7uJZXI3-hMvthN5i5EofZepVfNSnf0p1CffI024Yo3Ufz2PmGtTEr28i8WSTjhxHX31suHFwuTQQ/s1600/art+%25284%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542665880619235282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrenw9VgFidnFAbM30g5Znqt0napbXsaR9lDkqt_A2bLtuTnkeVRgX6W9zNbPpE0W7uJZXI3-hMvthN5i5EofZepVfNSnf0p1CffI024Yo3Ufz2PmGtTEr28i8WSTjhxHX31suHFwuTQQ/s400/art+%25284%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Would you love a chance to tour some of the most amazing Art Gallery's in Hackney Wick?! Well here's your chance!! </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">The Arts Council - together with Art Licks have put together an incredible tour of the Wicks most innovative & creative studios. I know the £10 is a bit steep - so make the most of it by really chatting to the artists you meet up with. Ask them more about the whole Hackney Wick area - and what an incredible place they find it.<br /><br />For a short flavour of what you'll see:<br /></span><a href="http://hackneywick.blogspot.com/2009/08/hackney-wicked-fantastic.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">http://hackneywick.blogspot.com/2009/08/hackney-wicked-fantastic.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;"><br /></span><a href="http://leabanksquare.blogspot.com/2009/08/hackney-wicked-completes-leabank-square.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">http://leabanksquare.blogspot.com/2009/08/hackney-wicked-completes-leabank-square.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Saturday 27 November, 2.30-4.30pm: HACKNEY WICK<br /><br />Meet at Hackney Wick Station, 2.30pm<br /><br />You will visit:<br /><br />Mother Studios<br />Schwartz Gallery<br />Artists' Studios<br />STOUR SPACE<br />L.I.U, Legacy 1<br /><br />To book a place - visit:<br /></span><a href="http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=52719"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=52719</span></a></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;">Please come on down to Hackney Wick - this place is already kicking - imagine what it's going to be like when London's Silicone Valley starts up after the Olympics?!</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#333300;"></span></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-17861894121709793022010-11-17T09:50:00.003+00:002010-11-17T09:59:26.730+00:00Altered State by Mantis in the Lord Napier<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9mat2OGBfcdwa1-29XQAbWPZoHTiZ8FZIo9M54ePtzBlnARaIUQp1azkRzFhe1NlFtbiFNPOKcpwLwO9nrfocdosuTFM_XxFeG0tHu_JIzCusK7yzY59WbnHr4pq7XF3kwWjwcXMpuk/s1600/mantis.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540455911878476674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9mat2OGBfcdwa1-29XQAbWPZoHTiZ8FZIo9M54ePtzBlnARaIUQp1azkRzFhe1NlFtbiFNPOKcpwLwO9nrfocdosuTFM_XxFeG0tHu_JIzCusK7yzY59WbnHr4pq7XF3kwWjwcXMpuk/s400/mantis.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">If you have time on Thursday - please come down to the Lord Napier pub in White Post Lane - just at the bottom on the north-bound platform of Hackney Wick Station.<br /><br />Mantis is having a fantastic solo exhibition called 'Altered State'.<br /><br />We all know that we need to support our local artists all the way - and these solo shows are the best way of giving them a much needed pat of the back for making the Wick such a stunning place to live.<br /><br />Plus - this is a great way to see the inside of the Lord Napier as well. For those that are not hardcore ravers - or have ever wondered what goes on inside it - here are the contact details:<br /><br />Thursday 18th November: RSVP preview 4-6PM, public view from 6-9PM<br />Friday 19th November: Viewing on appointment only.<br />Saturday 20th November: Open all day to the public from 11AM- 8:30PM, with a closing party on Saturday night with live music from 8-10:30PM with two of the artists favorite local bands.<br /><br />The Lord Napier Pub<br />25 White Post Lane<br />Hackney Wick, E9<br /><br />RSVP: </span><a href="mailto:alteredstate@themantisproject.co.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">alteredstate@themantisproject.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"><br />For more info email: </span><a href="mailto:mantis@themantisproject.co.uk"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">mantis@themantisproject.co.uk</span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"><br /><br />Please see:<br /></span><a href="http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/11/preview-mantis-altered-state-solo-exhibition/#more-83453"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/11/preview-mantis-altered-state-solo-exhibition/#more-83453</span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-81743039006739823182010-11-14T10:10:00.002+00:002010-11-14T10:18:40.179+00:00Stephen Gill on Hackney Wick<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAPPwwynklY-iKccLm_GC89EDtfBYDbmAPOyDc6AOYlgFlYwIQpL9QlKAvtN2-hsoXZloVL57Js9y2a1ln5tPggblHqJpIfPzQ2n_p9l9pH8H6NnRut7w0t03UFP3iXyJUjaxl-S5VzJw/s1600/stephen+gill.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 350px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 350px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539347659139960130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAPPwwynklY-iKccLm_GC89EDtfBYDbmAPOyDc6AOYlgFlYwIQpL9QlKAvtN2-hsoXZloVL57Js9y2a1ln5tPggblHqJpIfPzQ2n_p9l9pH8H6NnRut7w0t03UFP3iXyJUjaxl-S5VzJw/s400/stephen+gill.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">How many of us remember the incredible Sunday Market in the old greyhound stadium in Hackney Wick? Absolutely anything went on there. It was a kind of lawless, non policed, unregulated market - with just about everything on sale.<br /><br />Well - Stephen picked up an old camera from the market - and then started taking pics of the actual market with it. Many of us have seen his exhibition & bought the book (available from </span><a href="http://www.stephengill.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">http://www.stephengill.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">) and are still proud to call him one of our own.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">Anyway - click on this link </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/16768040"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;">http://vimeo.com/16768040</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"> to see him actually talking about the making of this collection of pics. It's fascinating!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-82197559609402618472010-11-09T19:17:00.004+00:002010-11-09T19:47:00.195+00:00What Pub Is This?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBapb8smkd8WS1DGp4Q-lIpPrcm6dVc4WQigBSgxHtNIv1zunRDwu20a3PLsPKmEqzkz6so6iUduKn2AoAQzMAN69kbZhN5QP1BY865FytbbCNscUELZz4GUKPYJvWdl4q5jEM7JTZPc/s1600/tommorows+world+%25284%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537638313278358594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBapb8smkd8WS1DGp4Q-lIpPrcm6dVc4WQigBSgxHtNIv1zunRDwu20a3PLsPKmEqzkz6so6iUduKn2AoAQzMAN69kbZhN5QP1BY865FytbbCNscUELZz4GUKPYJvWdl4q5jEM7JTZPc/s400/tommorows+world+%25284%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGiTD13ZM-8ZUnEfGOVtNsNfDhL2k2xmgRBOCeMMt37pJi9LtdG27S-I6yE0arfak9WwyaQVoP9fbVcvZgv48vUnDoxC7glXXr7d2blH_NCtSuMjIYAyjlxSnEjW9d3hD1ishL8_EiY_Y/s1600/tommorows+world+%25283%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 244px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537638301431827170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGiTD13ZM-8ZUnEfGOVtNsNfDhL2k2xmgRBOCeMMt37pJi9LtdG27S-I6yE0arfak9WwyaQVoP9fbVcvZgv48vUnDoxC7glXXr7d2blH_NCtSuMjIYAyjlxSnEjW9d3hD1ishL8_EiY_Y/s400/tommorows+world+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFTmhovpck0sJQlBxX9L3yf-WerokENtcilrA8JR-zwjn-TuDUjxAin_uedLZsHBSu82tS_9NBpXxcd5AnFT5WONXhUZvKHYEGfIHKUkMTgNgzkG3mzOMgZ5ttneRMLKbYQ_hj0MTjN8/s1600/tommorows+world+%25282%2529.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 245px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537637845568025490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFTmhovpck0sJQlBxX9L3yf-WerokENtcilrA8JR-zwjn-TuDUjxAin_uedLZsHBSu82tS_9NBpXxcd5AnFT5WONXhUZvKHYEGfIHKUkMTgNgzkG3mzOMgZ5ttneRMLKbYQ_hj0MTjN8/s400/tommorows+world+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfy1nM8AUBOEWxiqd5qknLmALHlhnE4sZ3TUkU3o_ZiGjn4XqRebVcWTcGRpUaXFSMVr70wmfaQ0W_NTcwdMryY_j0PE0JQBu1u_wHqFgE71ABtvvfMej1NWOS3Nn5BvBYGgL3D0yixs/s1600/tommorows+world.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 239px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537637840864416978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfy1nM8AUBOEWxiqd5qknLmALHlhnE4sZ3TUkU3o_ZiGjn4XqRebVcWTcGRpUaXFSMVr70wmfaQ0W_NTcwdMryY_j0PE0JQBu1u_wHqFgE71ABtvvfMej1NWOS3Nn5BvBYGgL3D0yixs/s400/tommorows+world.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">You know how we always go on about all the terrible inventions that have come out of Hackney Wick......<br /><br />Almost all of the most environmentally destructive products were invented right here in the Wick: Petrol, Dyes, Paint, Plastic, Laundromats - It wouldn't surprise me if a few insecticides weren't adapted from the list above as well.<br /><br />Aaaaaanyway! Here's one we can be - if not proud about - the at least not feel too guilty about. The ever-investigative dorlec01 (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dorlec01"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">http://www.youtube.com/user/dorlec01</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">) has just posted a new found clip from Tomorrows World from 1965 - about an unknown pub right here in Hackney Wick.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">It features a newly invented 'computer' that you dial your order to. And I mean dial - in the old fashioned - tick your finger in the correct number hole and turn the dial all the way around to the stopper.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;">If anyone remembers the actual pubs name - please send in a comment - and maybe we'll find some of the pubbers in the clip. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330033;"></span> </div><div> </div></div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-21056504862241518832010-10-27T11:30:00.003+01:002010-10-27T12:00:01.526+01:00Greenway Volunteering Day - Friday 29 October<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6N0jVL9RQxThlyse0FcOzXM6MGfdlZngp1aeBmpKs0LqyDVvGQHHtFv_IgrGnZT0TYDPx-rWNBeY-MYuHK_kxddQq_xJ4ywVMHKmXkA2neZYYY4k8LP67YGeTuyZqsSGQTVWV_0qmOJw/s1600/greenway.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532678666176960594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6N0jVL9RQxThlyse0FcOzXM6MGfdlZngp1aeBmpKs0LqyDVvGQHHtFv_IgrGnZT0TYDPx-rWNBeY-MYuHK_kxddQq_xJ4ywVMHKmXkA2neZYYY4k8LP67YGeTuyZqsSGQTVWV_0qmOJw/s400/greenway.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">The Hackney Wick end of the Greenway has been completely changed in the last few years. Gone is the muddy, burned-out motor-bike, overgrown, lawless, ASBO populated path of old. Some may say that they loved it that way - but families, cyclists & some of Hackney Wicks longer term residents are happier as it is slowly becoming.<br /><br />The whole area has been severely hard landscaped - and although a few landmarks like the Second European War Pillbox (</span><a href="http://hackneywick.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-this-pill-box.html"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">http://hackneywick.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-this-pill-box.html</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">) and some of the apple trees we planted years ago - are still there - but it's time to start replanting.<br /><br />We tried some guerrilla planting a few weeks ago - but the whole area is infested with Olympic guards now - every time we pulled out a shovel - a pair of jackboots was soon on the scene.<br /><br />Of course we will always continue to plant local & indigenous plants all over the Wick including the Greenway - but here's an opportunity to do some spying:<br /><br />The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) are doing a voluntary planting day this Friday 29th along the Greenway. This is an ideal way to see what is being planted by them - so that we don't duplicate some of our efforts. Plus - you get a free lunch in the bargain from our good friends at the View Tube Cafe (</span><a href="http://www.theviewtube.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">http://www.theviewtube.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">) into the bargain.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">It's open for all - though the very short notice is somewhat suspicious - so please come along. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">Meeting up at the View Tube Cafe at 10am for a quick chat & introduction. Planting then takes place between 10.30am & 1.00pm - with everything supplied by the ODA. Then your free lunch at 1.00pm - with the day closing at 2.00pm.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">So please come on down and enjoy a bit of time with fellow Wickers - and you'll get to be part of the future landscape of Hackney Wick!</span></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-83493739587942541152010-10-21T20:38:00.003+01:002010-10-21T20:45:24.044+01:00Artisan Designers Market in the Brittania<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8q02MTiaU-9x2dbht38LOA0hseweAf1wvQkl7Tj2j7sixbPAgv2OWUAMVm2iCGcQKfHcWb7a-tPTP7OsgCIOo4iSwuGStqupMYdn5qGiZtYGSIx3wkxVFjJ9wRjzVuNamSXSZzjzleM0/s1600/artisan.bmp"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 276px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530586491909939666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8q02MTiaU-9x2dbht38LOA0hseweAf1wvQkl7Tj2j7sixbPAgv2OWUAMVm2iCGcQKfHcWb7a-tPTP7OsgCIOo4iSwuGStqupMYdn5qGiZtYGSIx3wkxVFjJ9wRjzVuNamSXSZzjzleM0/s400/artisan.bmp" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">I'm sure many of us will remember Erin & Mat from the Hackney Wick Festival. They had that amazing handmade fabric jewellery stall that we were all drooling over!! </span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">Well - now's your chance to check them out again - or you can even hire a stall alongside them as well! Stalls cost a mere £10 - and because there will be many other amazing stall holders there - the punters will come flooding in - getting their Xmas shopping in nice & early.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">This incredible market will be on every last Saturday of each month - starting October 30th - from 11am to 5pm.<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">So come on Hackney Wick - whether you want to set up stall - or simply browse yourself sill in a great pub - hop on the number 388 & get yourself down</span> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#330000;">there!! </span></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-58158333631269180602010-10-01T09:56:00.003+01:002010-10-01T10:19:37.982+01:00Hackney Pearl wins Time Out Award!!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvXbldJedlCNMs7CAJTDwKlPGbcUPjXHdbrO2Xs3A0Kbz_tJe2aqlGBTuTa-U0h1MbhNJao7O8ThFSSITHfVBj-BHxxPCBZKruMPaBphoDOC7VRKHaju0Hu_I9RBZ109MQZ2JY-PgExM/s1600/hackney+pearl+(9).JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 239px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523004671741388002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvXbldJedlCNMs7CAJTDwKlPGbcUPjXHdbrO2Xs3A0Kbz_tJe2aqlGBTuTa-U0h1MbhNJao7O8ThFSSITHfVBj-BHxxPCBZKruMPaBphoDOC7VRKHaju0Hu_I9RBZ109MQZ2JY-PgExM/s400/hackney+pearl+(9).JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCb7OPzQ-DOgAm8nE_qNYUSjDa1R4oNLQioX0oFO8bFa-8uo66S5WkUlN1y5X31BcYOkiOjxLXIMICns4S3e4zXcLQ4VYZkABF6HJJrmlnF5th2uN-U5YQuZT90q-OFCaAzcxHUoh5LY/s1600/hackney+pearl+2.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523003469189411362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCb7OPzQ-DOgAm8nE_qNYUSjDa1R4oNLQioX0oFO8bFa-8uo66S5WkUlN1y5X31BcYOkiOjxLXIMICns4S3e4zXcLQ4VYZkABF6HJJrmlnF5th2uN-U5YQuZT90q-OFCaAzcxHUoh5LY/s400/hackney+pearl+2.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBobW-cwagY6APzMgXNG41yTdyycOkzh9ZgHLqCkhbSOSJqA-Kto3uhZOOOL7ZOCKu8iyoGes9lyXkGf4TKs1_pe8tvHzebc96BvYhmT-R83cgjArjHa0XnGcGAiU9ivzmyn54qBt3Rw/s1600/hackney+pearl+1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523003462941303746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBobW-cwagY6APzMgXNG41yTdyycOkzh9ZgHLqCkhbSOSJqA-Kto3uhZOOOL7ZOCKu8iyoGes9lyXkGf4TKs1_pe8tvHzebc96BvYhmT-R83cgjArjHa0XnGcGAiU9ivzmyn54qBt3Rw/s400/hackney+pearl+1.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">A very belated congratulations to James from the Hackney Pearl (</span><a href="http://thehackneypearl.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">http://thehackneypearl.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">) on winning the Best New Cafe award in Time Out a couple of weeks ago!!!<br /><br />(Check out - </span><a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/519/time-out-eating-and-drinking-awards-2010#cafe"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/519/time-out-eating-and-drinking-awards-2010#cafe</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;">)<br /><br />We all know just what a great guy James is - but what many of us don't know - is just how committed he is to Hackney Wick!<br /><br />Very quietly - behind the scenes - he is a very community spirited member of Hackney Wick. He's offered community gardeners free cuppas to warm up after freezing days planting up the Wick. He's involved in redesigning the street scene around the Pearl to make it much more attractive for the rest of us. He is a member of the Hackney Wick Partnership - which looks at how best to masterplan Hackney Wick for generations to come - I could go on & on - but..........<br /><br />........the best thing about him is his cafe!<br /><br />Please pop down to the Hackney Pearl and sample his amazing food - you'll be so very happy you did!!<br /><br /></span></div></div></div>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982093798359703481.post-51729095519614813182010-09-16T21:07:00.002+01:002010-09-16T21:12:03.904+01:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAUjfZm0r0Qpjahdgbnlx3K8WkY630s45RNjTFfMztOxRrN9SSqPpY_rQpZ5gbxt68OJSmg_Sn_j31ECme1avNaKYr_cjNhEldWkPAmz65LR0G7NrXE4_dK00bCBcjX1BvUn7ekHYsjM/s1600/laburnum.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517606596960440242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAUjfZm0r0Qpjahdgbnlx3K8WkY630s45RNjTFfMztOxRrN9SSqPpY_rQpZ5gbxt68OJSmg_Sn_j31ECme1avNaKYr_cjNhEldWkPAmz65LR0G7NrXE4_dK00bCBcjX1BvUn7ekHYsjM/s400/laburnum.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Free narrow boat trips and fun event<br />Sunday 19th September 2010, 12 – 5pm<br /><br />Windsor Wharf, Wick Village, E9 5NY<br />via Meadow Close, off Eastway, Lea Bridge end<br />or via Silk Mills Square, off Berkshire Road<br /><br />Limited places, book in advance: Fiona 0208 525 4347 <a href="mailto:fifi@spacestudios.org.uk">fifi@spacestudios.org.uk</a></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /><br />Activities<br />12 – 5.0: Exhibition of model narrow boats. Artists Jack Brown and Isobel Manning worked with local schools to build model narrow boats whilst investigating Hackney Wick's history. Each boat has been hand coloured and pupils have added their own unique cargos with stories to tell.<br />1.15: Pop up singing from the Secular Choir<br />1.45: Jo Roach, Hackney poetry performance<br />2.15: Peter ‘Wiggy’ Wilson talk and walk to the Eton Mission Rowing Club, Wallis Road (approximately one hour in total)<br />2.30: Jo Roach performs a second set of poetry<br />3.0: The Secular Choir pops up<br />4.0: The Secular Choir pops up again<br /><br />We’re taking part in Hackney Wick Festival!<br />www.hackneywickfestival.org..uk<br />THE CUT<br /><br />THE CUT is an artist led oral history project collecting stories from people who work and live alongside the waters of the Hackney Cut - along the River Lea from Lea Bridge to Old Ford Lock.<br /><br />From September 2010 to March 2011 there will be three artists and a team of local volunteers exploring the industrial, physical and social history of this area of Hackney Wick.<br /><br />Through interviewing local residents they will document the importance of The Cut to the community in an area undergoing huge change and create new work for exhibition in 2011.<br /><br />SPACE provides artists studios across east London including Bridget Riley and Britannia Studios on Fish Island and Eastway Studios in Hackney Wick.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/">http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/</a></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></span>Leabank Squarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05482765049099564103noreply@blogger.com1