Dear Hackney folk, the Clapton Art Market returns this Thursday https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/06/06/clapton-art-market-second-year-neighbourhood-creativity/ #Hackney London
About 1,000 cyclists attended the unveiling of a “ghost bike” in memory of the latest young Londoner to be killed cycling in the capital.
Jamal Pratley, 24, who lived in Hackney, died in hospital on April 18, six days after he was critically injured in collision with a van at the junction of Bloomsbury Street and New Oxford Street.
This short film I'm making about veteran Hackney signwriter Brian Walker is very close to fully funded.
Please help to push it over the line by either by throwing some £$€ into the hat or boosting/reposting this to reach others that might want to support micro-budget independent filmmaking.
We have been managing this urban woodland for 20 years. This summer maintenance day will focus on clearing dominant species like nettles and brambles to promote greater floral diversity along a newly created woodland ride.
Signup link for Sunday's upcoming volunteer session managing flora in the new Wick Woodland wayleave ride: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woodland-management-in-wick-woodland-tickets-1376327826579
Dappled sunlight and a few (some more, some less) tired bodies.
We came, we sawed (just a little bit), we 'weeded' (those nettles and cleavers were 'in the wrong place') and we mulched, we built some more dead hedges and mulched them too, and we did some maintenance on the rope fences: Some of the aftermath…
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PS. The next short film in the series is being funded on Kickstarter, and there are eight days left to back it, including the opportunity to get your name in the credits:
A pleasant day not too hot to work, and mostly in the shade and not the glade. Looking forward to fixing a rope fence and presumably playing with armfuls of nettle.
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Signup link for Sunday's upcoming London Fields Habitat Maintenance session https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-fields-volunteer-habitat-maintenance-tickets-1376266192229
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I was in my local coffee shop this morning, and stumbled upon a flyer for The Big Queer Book Fair happening this Saturday at Homerton Library https://www.lovehackney.uk/events-in-libraries/the-big-queer-book-fair #Hackney #London #queer
The Boyd is Back in Town
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2025/05/the-boyd-is-back-in-town/
Boyd Pianos’ ghost sign on Shaklewell Lane, London E8, revealed again after 13 years’ hibernation.
#BoydPianos #GhostSigns #Ghostsigns #Hackney #London #Palimpsest #Pianos #Preservation #Protection #Reveal #Signwriter #Signwriting #StreetArt #Theatre #UK
“This is one of London’s most unusual museums,” writes a @goldsmithsuol @mediacomgold #journalism student as she wandered #Hackney, “and the man behind it all is Viktor Wynd. He has spent decades assembling a world that resists categorisation.”
https://thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/hackney-purveyor-peculiar-museum-viktor-wynd
Thank you to everyone that has already backed this Kickstarter to get signwriter Brian Walker's story told in a short biopic.
You can back the project from as little as £1 here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samroberts/when-better-letters-met-brian-walker-a-short-biopic?ref=9wh6qg
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A week from today, I'm running the Hackney Half for the Hackney Night Shelter. Please help me raise funds for the important work they do providing emergency accommodation for people who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets. https://www.justgiving.com/page/mathew-attlee-hackney-half-2025 #HackneyHalf #Hackney #London #homelessness