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‘Godsend’: Hackney residents hail over-60s lunch club aiming to combat loneliness

The weekly meet-up at Hackney Showroom in Stoke Newington has created a ‘family’ atmosphere

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

‘Godsend’: Hackney residents hail over-60s lunch club aiming to combat loneliness

Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March

Author: Andrew Barnes

Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Frau Welt becomes Hackney Showroom’s first star of the stage

The cabaret and drag inspired solo narrative is the venue’s first play

Author: Hackney Citizen

Berlin to Broadway: Frau Welt (aka actor Peter Clements). Photograph: Holly Revell

London Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’

Six designers will be showing off collections at Hackney Showroom this time next week, Wednesday 20 September

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’

Hackney Showroom announces JOY & DISSENT: A festival of cultural activism from 27 March – 9 April

To celebrate their 2nd birthday, creative and cultural space Hackney Showroom has put together an outstanding programme of cutting edge new performance, bringing together 20 new shows & 80 artists

Author: Hackney Citizen

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My Beautiful Black Dog – review: finding humour in depression

Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Totally rock 'n' roll' play' about depression to open in Hackney

Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom

Author: Hackney Citizen

Joseph Fritzl-inspired play at Hackney Showroom makes light of dark subject matter

Clap Hands is a play about domestic imprisonment yet counts amongst its influences TV detective Columbo

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney's newest theatre is up for community building award

Hackney Showroom needs votes from the public to win the funds it needs to finish interior of the theatre

Author: Hackney Citizen