Posts filed in topic ‘Hackney’.

Activities in the London Borough of Hackney.

Hackney Life launched.

A message from Mosaic Films …

What does Hackney Life mean to you?

Show the world what the real Hackney is like.

  • What does Hackney mean to you?
  • What do you want the rest of the world to know about Hackney?
  • What’s your favourite place or person in Hackney and why?
  • What do you think is the biggest challenge facing Hackney today?

We want you to record your view of the area and upload it via YouTube for the chance to be part of a film that will be screened in summer 2012.

This film is all about exploring what’s unique about life in Hackney today, and the only people who can really do that is you, the Hackney community.

Film your contribution and upload it to YouTube by midnight on 12th March 2012 for the chance to be included.

NB from Agewell Computer Club.

This could definitely be an Agewell Computer Club workshop project. Here is a YouTube video about Hackney Life.

Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to start the video.

Filed in: Hackney / Images, film, video
by ‘acc’ (2 February 2012).

Hackney Life.

A message from Mosaic Films …

Help us show the real Hackney in film.

Hackney Museum is working with Mosaic Films to create a user-generated short documentary from material uploaded to YouTube by members of the Hackney community.

The film will explore the unique nature of life in Hackney today and the momentous change the borough is experiencing in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We want you, the Hackney community, to help us create an authentic portrait of life in Hackney by telling us what you want the film to explore. What is important to you, the unseen or under-celebrated parts of life in Hackney today?

Your answers to these questions will shape the brief that we will release in January 2012, inviting video submissions from across the borough.

Open session.

  • When: Saturday, 3 December 2011 (11 am to 12 pm).
  • Where: Hackney Museum, Learning and Technology Centre, 1 Reading Lane E8 1GQ .

Contact.

  • Email: hackneylife@mosaicfilms.com
  • Phone: 020 7923 2994
Filed in: Hackney / Images, film, video / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (1 December 2011).

Video of the week: Rockin’ on Ridley Road.

Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to start the video.

Filed in: Hackney / Images, film, video / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (5 November 2011).

Hackney Peace Carnival Mural talk.

A message from Open Dalston …

OPEN Dalston are joining forces with the London Mural Preservation Society to launch a campaign to restore and protect the iconic Hackney Peace Carnival Mural and to organise a series of events which celebrate its history and spirit.

Reclaim The Mural is a year-long project by art collective The Work in Progress at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and this Sunday their ‘Take Us To Your Mural’ series of talks will reach Dalston and help launch our campaign. The event will start with an overview of the project by artists from the collective, before Marie Murray from OPEN Dalston gives a brief introduction to the Peace Mural. Then Ruth Miller from the London Mural Preservation Society will talk about the background to the mural before we move to the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, where over tea and coffee there will be an opportunity to ask more questions and to get involved with the mural campaign.

So if you would like to know more about the history of this much loved Dalston landmark and get involved in the restoration campaign, please come along on Sunday.

No need to book, just turn up at the mural on Sunday 6 November 2011, 3 pm. Even if it rains, the event will go ahead in the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (15 Dalston Lane, E8 3DF).

Filed in: Community / Hackney / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (2 November 2011).

Black History Month 2011.

Join us in celebrating diversity and achievements of people living in Hackney.

AgeWell in Hackney celebrates Black History Month.

  • Tuesday 25 October 2011, 6 to 10 pm.
  • Fellows Court Community Centre, Weymouth Terrace, E2 8LR.
    (buses: 394, 242, 149, 67, 243).
  • Social event with a fun filled evening arranged for your entertainment.
  • Delicious food and refreshments.

Booking is essential: call Carol on 020 7241 5908 .

Filed in: Community / Hackney / Other Agewell / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (17 October 2011).

Taste of Hackney.

Creating a digital legacy for Ridley Road market.

Did you visit Ridley Road Market in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s and/or 80s?

Do you have memories of buying kosher produce on the market?

Can you remember when you first saw a mango or yam on the market stalls?

A Taste of Hackney is an oral history project celebrating the history of Ridley Road Market as told by the people that have lived, worked and shopped there during the 20th century.

We are looking for people aged 50+ to take part in the project.

If you’re interested in sharing your memories and stories about the market, have recipes to share, or simply want to tell others about what the market means to you, we want to hear from you.

Want to take part?

Get in touch with Victoria …

  • Email: victoria@adifferentdrumproductions.com  .
Filed in: Community / Food, recipes, nutrition / Hackney / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (6 October 2011).

Ridley Road video.

Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to start the video.

A short documentary about Ridley Road market in Dalston, filmed on Saturday 4 December 2010. The film is shot in time lapse and features interviews and stories from some of the market traders.

Filed in: Hackney / Images, film, video / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (20 September 2011).

A Taste of Hackney (updated).

Taste of Hackney has funding!

NB: the original date for this was 9 August (we had to postpone it).

Victoria Coker (Different Drum Productions) has told us that the funding bid for ‘A Taste of Hackney’ has been successful, and the project will start soon.

Here is an extract from our original post on 5 May 2011 …

A Taste of Hackney is an innovative intergenerational project that charts the different contributions made by ethnic minorities to the culinary landscape of Hackney.

Participants will be trained in oral history, research skills, photography, web-design, blogging and app design and filmmaking to provide material to create the website, smartphone app (iPhone and Android), and exhibition.

The project will explore the Ridley Road market’s history from its humble origins in the mid 19th Century to its evolution as a hub of migration throughout the 20th Century.

Victoria is coming back to The Lawns to get you involved!

This project is a unique opportunity to learn and understand the Internet by being part of it, rather than sitting around listening to somebody else telling you what it is. Internet beginners can do this as well as anyone else. If you would like to join the project, or if you want to find out more about it, come and meet Victoria at The Lawns on Tuesday 20 September 2011 (3 pm).

By the way, Victoria’s latest flyer is on the web: Taste of Hackney flyer.pdf . She says “it’s rather generic and makes no reference to the truck load of new skills participants will learn.”

Filed in: Community / Food, recipes, nutrition / Hackney / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (20 September 2011).

Dance Nations Dalston 2011.

A message from Gillett Square …

Saturday 9 July 2011 (2 pm till late).

The Barbican’s theatre and music teams return to Dalston’s hippest square with a day of music, dance workshops and performances for all ages and abilities.

Dance comes from Tropical Isles, Strictly Dumb Dancing, Green Candle’s Vintage@Northwood, Alevi Centre’s Turkish folk dance and Boy Blue.

The day’s music will be courtesy of Orquestra Contemporanea Da Olinda, Yaaba Funk. Bass Clef & The Hackney Memorial Free Jazz Marching Band and New York’s Gutbucket.

Venue: Gillett Square, N16 8JN.
Map: gillettsquare.org.uk/webdocs/map.html .

Filed in: Community / Hackney / Performance, dance / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (4 July 2011).

Visit by Hackney iCare.

Workshop: Tuesday 28 June 2011 (3 to 4.30 pm).

This special workshop will be led by the developers of Hackney iCare – a site under development that will be hosted by the Hackney Council website. Hackney iCare will be a hub for preventative and social care services, will be a place for carers and local service providers, and will give information about the services and allow people to carry out some transactions online. Its development is part of the Transformation of Adult Social Care Programme (TRASC).

This workshop will have a specific purpose. It will be more than just a demo of the new site – our visitors are also hoping for feedback on their strategy and what they have done so far. You could think of it as a brief focus group exercise – but about the design of an entire digital service, not just web pages.

Why is it so important?

The idea of providing all this information in one place online is admirable, but TRASC’s own research has produced evidence that less than 12% of the ‘adult social care client group’ use the Internet as a source of information, less than 10% use the Internet regularly, and two-thirds said they never use it. So – if the new site is going to be the primary source of information, most of the people who need it will not receive it – unless further steps are taken to ensure their digital inclusion. The iCare developers are clearly aware of the scale of the problem, and are now looking carefully at how their service users actually do receive information. Their visit is just one of a series of consultations intended to elicit responses across the borough.

Why might this be one of the most interesting workshops ever?

Because this is a genuine front-line digital inclusion problem for which a solution must be found – far removed from the whimsy of the various national campaigns we are exposed to. We know that many agewellers are interested in these issues. As an example, before the end of the ‘refurbished computers’ workshop last week, we had stopped talking about buying bits of hardware and had moved on to the social context in which the Internet is used. At this special iCare workshop, that will be our starting point.

Web links.

Please reserve your workshop place.

Reserve your place by sending an email to acc@lawns.org.uk (and please read your email again soon after for our reply, as our workshops get over-subscribed very quickly). When you send your email to reserve, please tell us if you are a carer, or affected by changes in policy or practice of adult social care in Hackney – because we want to give priority to those people.

Also on the same day …

Filed in: Hackney / Health and well-being / Workshops / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (20 June 2011).

Older Caribbean men & women for an intergenerational project.

Dave Ramdial, director of ‘Hold It Down’ will be at The Lawns on Tuesday 12 July 2011 (12 to 1 pm) to meet Caribbean elders (ie: 50 or over). So, if you are a Caribbean elder – please come and hear what Dave has to say about this inter-generational project. It’s not just socially important – it’s also a great opportunity for you to learn some new digital skills.

If you would like to contact Dave personally, his phone number is 020 8525 0600, and his email address is dave@holditdown.org.uk .

Here is Dave’s original message …

A Comic Relief funded inter-generational video/film project involving 12 Caribbean elders and 12 young black men who have been involved in gang crime. The focus is on the Caribbean war-time community as a way of telling their stories from the 2nd world war to the present day from a Hackney perspective.

The project would involve older people being paired with young people in order to support them to plan, design and produce the film/video. Working in partnership with Hackney Caribbean elders. Young people and elders will be taught video and film skills by a local Hackney production company to produce a series of short films/video which capture the voices of the elders through young people. The project will also work in partnership with the Youth Offending Team. The project would span 12 months – produce the scripts, film including edit. This will be presented at film/video screenings at local lunch clubs, elders day centres with a grand screening night open to all elders at the Hackney Empire.

The aims are to teach film based skills, inter personal skills, team working and intergenerational skills for both young people and elders. Once completed a resource pack will be created and sent out to all Hackney schools.

All sessions will be held in Hackney and we will arrange travel if necessary.

Filed in: Community / Hackney / Images, film, video / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (19 June 2011).

The Uncommercial Traveller.

A message from the Arcola Theatre …

An Immersive Theatre Experience, 25 June to 17 July 2011.

Special Hackney residents offer.

An unexpected encounter in a surprising East London location inspired by The Uncommercial Traveller, Charles Dickens’ account of his wanderings around London.

Tickets have already gone on sale to the general public for this very special one off theatrical event and tickets are flying out of the door.

We have held off a special allocation just for Hackney Residents until Friday 17 June 2011 to ensure our community get the opportunity to experience The Uncommercial Traveller.

Tickets are £6 each and only available by phone. You will have to mention the LOCAL OFFER to access the ticket allocation.

  • Box office: 020 7503 1646
  • Performance location: 13 Pearson St, E2 8JD.
  • Performances: Saturday and Sunday — 25, 26 June, 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 July. Every half hour between 1 pm and 7.30 pm.
Filed in: Hackney / Performance, dance / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (14 June 2011).

Website of the week, 14 June 2011 : Hackney Podcast.

Hackney Podcast.

In their own words:

The Hackney Podcast was set up in 2008 to record the borough’s different faces: one of Britain’s poorest places but culturally one of its richest; an area of London profoundly marked by its history but, as the Olympics loom, caught in a frenzied period of change. From its first days, the podcast – available free to download – has provided an eclectic mix of politics, environmental issues and scenes from local life alongside cutting-edge art, literature and music.

URL: http://hackneypodcast.co.uk/ .

Filed in: Hackney / Sound, radio, music / Website of the week
by ‘acc’ (14 June 2011).

Website of the week, 14 May 2011 : Discover Hackney.

Discover Hackney.

In their own words:

Discover Hackney is a partnership of ten Hackney based organisations who share common goals around increasing the use and knowledge of the borough’s rich heritage and its built environment. We work together on projects which increase learning and a sense of pride about the various strands that make up the rich heritage of our diverse communities.

URL: http://discoverhackney.co.uk/ .

Filed in: Community / Hackney / Website of the week
by ‘acc’ (14 May 2011).

Visit from Stoke Newington School.

A message from Helena Sustar …

We need your help to develop a service that will bring together ‘silver surfers’ and young people.

On 17 May 2011 (afternoon, from 1 pm to 3 pm) children from Stoke Newington School will be visiting Agewell Computer Club at The Lawns Centre. The children are part of Keeping Connected Design Challenge organized by the Design Council, which aims to develop a service that will bring together old and young people. Children would be interested in

  • Your day-to-day activities.
  • How ‘silver surfers’ using various technologies (e.g. computer, mobile phones).
  • Services (e.g. Skype).
  • Interests that older and young people could share.

With your help children would be able to understand the older generation more, and hopefully come out with great ideas for their service.

Homemade cakes and biscuits will be provided.

Thank you for your interest and hopefully we will meet you in the centre.

Dr. Helena Sustar,
Design Ambassador.

NB: the school children will be accompanied by their teacher.

Filed in: Community / Hackney / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (12 May 2011).

A Taste of Hackney.

A message from Victoria Coker, Different Drum Productions …

The project.

A Taste of Hackney is an innovative intergenerational project that charts the different contributions made by ethnic minorities to the culinary landscape of Hackney.

Participants will be trained in oral history, research skills, photography, web-design, blogging and app design and filmmaking to provide material to create the website, smartphone app (iPhone and Android), and exhibition.

The project will explore the Ridley Road market’s history from its humble origins in the mid 19th Century to its evolution as a hub of migration throughout the 20th Century. Between 1900 – 1950 it was the centre of the Jewish community, and since the 1950s several different ethnic groups have made Hackney their home.

Today the market mirrors Hackney’s diverse population with stalls full of Turkish, African and West Indian produce. Through sharing memories, researching local history, preparing, cooking and eating foods that have shaped the culinary/cultural palate of the area communities will rediscover the varied food heritages that have shaped the market.

Why?

From building relationships with traders to preparing meals as a family, the distractions of modern life are reducing collective cultural food traditions. This project will capture lost practices so future generations may learn the role the market has played in Hackney daily life. It provides an opportunity for residents to develop new skills and increase their knowledge of local heritage while also becoming artistic creators in their own right.

The project is about capturing past and present memories during a time of tremendous regeneration. It will bring together local people from different cultures and ages to acknowledge cultural diversity, while the app will enable a wider ‘passive’ audience to discover the untold stories of the borough’s past, as told by market traders and residents.

The idea of this project developed during discussions with local residents and traders. They identified the project as an innovative and creative way for them to learn new creative skills in heritage and digital literacy skills as well as to raise awareness with a wider audience, and with the Olympics fast approaching a smartphone app emerged as the ideal platform to share learning.

Who?

We aim to work with Year 6 pupils from Colvestone Primary School, local residents over the age of 50 including members of Hackney’s diverse ethnic communities, and the wider ‘passive’ audience who download the iPhone and Android app. Approximately 30 young people and at least 20 elders will collaborate to produce the content of the exhibition, website and smartphone app development.

We would like the service users from AgeWell in Hackney and Hackney Caribbean Elders Association to be part of the project. By encouraging older residents to participate in the project we wish to introduce and encourage older people to get involved in creating content for a Hackney based smartphone.

The final group of ‘beneficiaries’ will be the people who access the production either via the website and smartphone app. As further regeneration takes place in the surrounding area and a growing number of newcomers and visitors arrive on the streets of Dalston, the project provides they with a tool to explore the rich culture, character and history of the capital’s most ethnically diverse quarter.

Note from Agewell Computer Club.

Victoria will visit The Lawns on Tuesday 10 May 2011 to tell us more about Taste of Hackney. We think it could be even better than the Whats Your Story project that some Agewellers did with the Documentary Filmmakers’ Group last year. Nothing has been decided yet – but if you think you might like to be involved eventually, please be here at 3 pm.

Filed in: Community / Food, recipes, nutrition / Hackney / ~ past activities ~
by ‘acc’ (5 May 2011).
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