Sarah Birch - Hackney Citizen (Page 11)

Photographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition

Autograph gallery repurposes electronic billboard on Old Street for illuminating #HackneyIsHome project

By Sarah Birch

/ 17 Mar 2021

Photographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition

Women from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’

This celebration for the upcoming Women’s History Month delves into the achievements of 113 women with connections to the borough

By Sarah Birch

/ 22 Feb 2021

Women from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’

Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir, Martha Leigh, book review: ‘Part love story, part history, part meditation’

The Hackney GP’s journey into the lives of her parents ‘probes with admirable delicacy some of the most pressing questions of our era’

By Sarah Birch

/ 28 Jan 2021

Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir, Martha Leigh, book review: ‘Part love story, part history, part meditation’

Homecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’

The Stoke Newington-based author explores, in ‘lyrical prose’, the ‘tangle of contemporary identity’

By Sarah Birch

/ 15 Jan 2021

Homecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’

Precious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’

The Stoke Newington author’s first novel is a ‘gloriously dark parable of envy between generations’

By Sarah Birch

/ 14 Jan 2021

Precious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’

Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown, Charles Court Opera online, stage review: ‘Classic tale with added spice’

The company’s 14th annual panto goes online this year, but still ‘sets you on a path to feeling festive’

By Sarah Birch

/ 23 Dec 2020

Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown, Charles Court Opera online, stage review: ‘Classic tale with added spice’

Erin O’Keefe: Certain Things, Seventeen Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Clean in form but subtle in composition’

The New York-based artist’s first solo show on these shores features ‘beguiling tableaux which repay close attention’

By Sarah Birch

/ 18 Dec 2020

Erin O’Keefe: Certain Things, Seventeen Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Clean in form but subtle in composition’

Eat Hackney Vegan Cookbook, Helena Smith: ‘A smorgasbord of food ideas suitable for everyone’

Try your hand at recipes donated by chefs across the borough in support of local causes

By Sarah Birch

/ 14 Dec 2020

Eat Hackney Vegan Cookbook, Helena Smith: ‘A smorgasbord of food ideas suitable for everyone’

Yushi Li: Women Act, Men Appear, Union Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Nude men and naked female desire’

The photographer’s reversal of gendered power roles is ‘stimulating and thought-provoking’

By Sarah Birch

/ 7 Dec 2020

Yushi Li: Women Act, Men Appear, Union Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Nude men and naked female desire’

The Little History of the East End, Dee Gordon, book review: ‘Ambitious and very readable’

The local writer packs six millennia into fewer than 200 pages filled with ‘fascinating detail and lively prose’

By Sarah Birch

/ 10 Nov 2020

The Little History of the East End, Dee Gordon, book review: ‘Ambitious and very readable’

100 Great Black Britons, Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne, book review: ‘Inspiring and highly entertaining’

This 400-page volume, based on a 16-year campaign to see eminent Black figures officially recognised, is a ‘valuable historical resource’

By Sarah Birch

/ 27 Oct 2020

100 Great Black Britons, Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne, book review: ‘Inspiring and highly entertaining’

In Your Face, Paul Trevor, book review: ‘Up close and personal’

Naturalistic photographs alternating between Brick Lane and the City from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s, this collection leaves the viewer ‘engrossed in detail’

By Sarah Birch

/ 6 Oct 2020