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A photographer from Stoke Newington will auction off photographs of Hackney from the 1970s and 1980s to raise money for Hackney Foodbank.

A photographer from Stoke Newington will auction off photographs of Hackney from the 1970s and 1980s to raise money for a foodbank.

Stoke Newington Police Station was officially reopened on Saturday, September 3 with refurbishments that are meant to create a local connection.

The Voice was at the heart of community demands for action after police deaths

The Jamaica Observers Entertainment Desk continues its month-lon...

Isaac Julien judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021 Isaac Julien judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021 The work of trailblazing installation artist, filmmaker and educator Isaac Julien explores identity, representation and cultural history. Here, he discusses his nuanced criteria for judging our annual honours  Artist Isaac Julien photographed via Zoom. Photography: Larry Fink One of the most compelling works at the recent Summer/Winter Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts was I...

From One Day Off in Hackney, 1984 © Rio Cinema Archive "This is the city. In the city there are many stories, and the Rio is one of these." Thus runs the founding manifesto of the Rio Tape/Slide Newsreel Group. Something rather groundbreaking was brewing in 1982: the Rio in Dalston — Londons first community-led cinema — gave a group of Hackney residents some recording equipment, so they could capture local life — which would then be played in as audio-enhanced slide shows before the main...