Hackney Jubilations – what’s on this weekend

Lovely Jub'lee: time for a party

Last year one million people partied for Will and Kate’s wedding and in 1977 ten million people celebrated the Queen’s Silver Jubilee: Royalist or not, we all love a street party. Hackney is diverse but also divided, so why not celebrate with your community and meet your neighbours, young and old, poor or rich for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee?

Here are some of the many free events this Bank Holiday weekend for everyone:

Saturday 2 June

The Queen’s Jubillegal – a floating, boating and dancing procession
12pm – late
From Union Wharf, Regents Canal N1 to Broadway Market E8.

To vie with the official flotilla and the Queen’s Royal Barge on the River Thames, Animal Control & TellTails bring a mass free flotilla for everyone. If you don’t have a float, you can dance along on the waysides to the market and onto a secret after party.
* Remember – safety first.
For more information go here.

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Sunday 3 June

Wilton Way Diamond Jubilee Street Party
11am-6pm

Wilton Way residents get together with their neighbours for a good old-fashioned knees-up.
For more details go here.

The Book Club Diamond Jubilee Street Party
Midday – 8pm outside
Midday – 2am inside

Leonard Street and the Leonard Street Car Park, EC2A.

After holding the second biggest street party for the Royal Wedding, The Book Club are upping the ante with 5,000 guests expected this year. Find some fancy dress for this proper Cockney knees up, with a real ale festival, fete games, live music, fine food and a screening of the Queen’s procession.
*If you haven’t got a wristband get down before 2pm.
For more information go here.

Chatsworth Road Market Street Party
11am – 4pm
Chatsworth Road, E5.

The regular Sunday market will host a street party open to all with live music, extra seating areas, Pearly Kings and Queens, a tug of war, a bouncy castle, cream teas and plenty of bunting.
* The road will be closed to traffic between Dunlace and Blurton Road.
For more information go here:

N16 Jubilee Street Party
12noon – 5pm
Church Street, Stoke Newington N16.

Church Street will officially close as tables are set down the centre for everyone to celebrate – bring grub, drink plus some chairs and picnic blankets and enjoy a day with your neighbours while popping in and out of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival running alongside it, with lots of free events.
For more information go here and here.

The Stoke Newington Regicidal Literary & Music Fringe
Renegade Books, Praxis N16 – 3-9 Belfast Rd N16

Dance to a selection of alternative music and browse one-off books while indulging yourself on festive food and delicious drinks.

Big Jubilee Lunches

2pm
Christ Temple Ministries International, Kenmure Road E8.
With a DJ, bouncy castle and games, this is the perfect chance for all cultures to come together to chat, dance and share different foods.

12pm
The Marksman Public House – Hackney Road E2.

Eat a Sunday Roast in a traditional East End pub where queens, sailors play competitions and watch the TV pageant, washed down by cocktails.
* For free Jubilee recipes or more information on Big Lunches in the area, contact Hackney Council or www.thebiglunch.com. There will be lots more Big Lunches in your area – 2 million people have lunched with their neighbours in the last three years – so get talking to your neighbours, family and friends and find out where the party’s at!

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Monday 4 June

Rivington Street Festival

Midday – 8pm outside
8 pm – late inside
Rivington Street EC2A.

Drawing from Shoreditch’s abundant creatives, this free family-friendly music and art festival has live music and spoken word with two open air stages, Secret Cinema, plus Future Shorts from Future Cinema. There will be an art auction, pop up galleries, live art shows and a market with art, jewellery, design and fashion stalls.
Entry is guaranteed by registering here.

*The evening programme will be held in venues in the area – Juno, Bedroom Bar, Callooh Callay, Dragon, Cargo, Strong Room and Bar Music Hall.

**Donations are welcome in aid of C.AL.M. – the campaign to reduce the rate of suicide in men under 35 – currently the biggest killer of young men in the UK.