Neville Gabie’s next project will ‘explore how far away we might have moved from the original spirit of the Games’

An exhibition at Hoxton Art Gallery finds unexpected beauty and fascination in the often-ignored debris of city life

The Matchmakers Wharf development in Homerton offers affordable purpose-built studios to non-commercial artists

Various Dalston venues, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 May 2012

Artist Nazir Tanbouli creates murals of mythical creatures on the Kingsland Estate in Haggerston

Alvarado Gallery, 33 Chatsworth Road. Until 2 May 2012

Sunday 29 April from 11am, Wilson Williams Gallery Patio and the Community Orchard, Hackney Downs

Fishbar Gallery, 176 Dalston Lane, 25 April – 30 May

The Hackney Citizen takes a closer look at a new gallery in Dalston Lane

An anti-knife crime charity set up after the 2008 stabbing of an art student in Shoreditch moves in to the BoxPark pop-up mall