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Posts Tagged ‘rio cinema’

Rio Cinema founder Clara Ludski to be honoured with memorial plaque

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 20 March 2026 at 12:02
Rio Cinema

The Hackney Society is currently fundraising for the plaque and hopes to unveil it next month

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Obituary: Peter Howden, luminary of independent cinema, dies aged 80

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 25 January 2026 at 15:26

Howden was a fixture of the London film scene, spending the latter half of his six-decade career at the Rio in Dalston

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‘How To Get On With Everybody’ – Inspiring documentary about beloved Hackney rabbi to show at the Rio Cinema

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:07
Rabbi Gluck

‘It’s a very nice film’ says Rabbi Herschel Gluck, ‘a very beautiful film’

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New documentary presents ‘intimate portrait’ of beloved Hackney rabbi

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 13:28

‘How to Get On With Everybody’ follows Rabbi Herschel Gluck in his efforts to build bridges between communities

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Rio Cinema celebrates Hackney’s politically-charged film history

By Josef Steen | Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 10:51

A recent screening of four short films charts the ‘cultural significance of both the Rio and the borough at large’

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Arts venues across Hackney announce new wave of discounts and freebies as part of Town Hall’s culture recovery effort

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 3 February 2022 at 15:01

Cut-price tickets for young people and low-income families are among the latest offers

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Out of this world! Hackney primary school pupils flex their creativity for UFO arts project

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 25 November 2021 at 13:33

Artist Tom Pearman teams up with the Rio Cinema to offer children an other-worldly experience

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Rio Cinema board ‘baffled’ by rumours of commercial sell-off

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 29 June 2020 at 19:52
Rio Cinema. Photograph: Mark Hillary via Flickr

Directors dismiss claims from the Save Our Rio campaign, which has launched a petition to oust them

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Treasure trove of photos found at the Rio to go on show at Hackney Museum

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 15:04

Thousands of images of 1980s Hackney, discovered in the cinema’s basement in 2017, set to become a major exhibition

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CASA Festival, Dalston: ‘A Latin American fiesta that reminds us why diversity is so vital’

By Gaia Caramazza | Thursday 8 August 2019 at 16:18

We look at three plays from July’s two-week festival, hosted by the Arcola Theatre, Rio Cinema and the Curve Garden

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Queer film festival to return to east London for its eighth year

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 October 2018 at 14:26

Volunteer-led Fringe!, founded in 2011 in response to arts cuts, is back for six days in November

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Charity documentary about a lute-playing brain injury survivor to premiere at the Rio

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 September 2018 at 16:25

Filmmaker Laura Stratford follows the story of musician Stephanie Feeney, who nearly died at the age of 11 after being hit by a car

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Spring loaded: East End Film Festival announces line-up for next month’s cinematic harvest – our preview

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 15 March 2018 at 17:30
Team Hurricane

The 17th annual festival of features, documentary and all sorts in between comes to venues around Hackney and beyond from 11-29 April

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Dalston Tesco Express to become a 120-room hotel despite fears of Shoreditch-level anti-social behaviour

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 February 2018 at 14:30

Speaker of Hackney among opponents of hotel on Kingsland High Street

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Love is in the area: Hackney Valentine’s Day listings

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 February 2018 at 12:50
Yas queens: Drag Queen Bingo comes to Number 90, Hackney Wick, for some canalside carnage this Valentine’s

Our guide to some of the more offbeat V Day events – plus, we ask local politicians: what’s the most romantic spot in Hackney?

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Learning French by rote? Très ennuyeux! Dalston kids get into new habit with bilingual Sister Act performance

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 23 August 2017 at 17:34
Caught in the Act: rehearsals have been taking place for two weeks. Photograph: Mind Your Language International CIC

Rio Cinema performance of the musical version of the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film, taking place this Friday, will be the culmination of a two-week scheme run by Hackney’s Mind Your Language

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London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 10:52

LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil

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A cinema lover’s double-bill: council approve licence for new Hoxton cinema as Rio launches crowdfunder

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 July 2017 at 12:32
Facade: a mock-up of the new Curzon frontage. Image: Hackney Council

Mayor Glanville lends support to the all-new Curzon planned for Pitfield Street and Sadiq Khan is among backers of the long-promised ‘RIOgeneration’

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Dalston’s Hackney Pirates put on a show at the Rio

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 12:34
Hackney Pirates on stage at the Rio Cinema

Literacy charity premieres film made by children at red carpet bash

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Rio could get second screen by summer 2017 and a third by 2021

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 23 December 2016 at 11:32
Expanding: Dalston's Rio Cinema

Executive director Oliver Meek reveals growth plans as he admits financial situation for iconic Dalston cinema is currently precarious

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