Ridley Road Market - Hackney Citizen (Page 2)

We need to talk about Dalston: Town Hall launches major listening exercise for locals

The Dalston Conversation will ‘put residents’ priorities at the heart of the council’s work’

Author: Hackney Citizen

We need to talk about Dalston: Town Hall launches major listening exercise for locals

Kollier din-Bangura interview: ‘society is not ready for a black guy to be in a gallery or to own a gallery’

We met with the sculptor and longstanding Dalston cultural entrepreneur, for a discussion covering black enterprise, gentrification and the loss of creative communities

Author: Hackney Citizen

“What we’re looking at is retention of what exists”: Kollier din-Bangura outside 16 Dalston Lane earlier this year

Concerns over future of Hackney’s markets amid ‘challenging’ landscape

Traders push for more promotion as their fears about dwindling numbers are revealed in a council survey

Author: Hackney Citizen

Ridley Road Market: Council survey sparks fears over gentrification

Town Hall says questionnaires about its local markets are about ‘improvements’ and none are ‘under threat’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Ridley Road Market: Council survey sparks fears over gentrification

Lucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market

The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition

Author: Hackney Citizen

'There's a lot more here to see': Lucinda Rogers' Fruit mountain at the entrance to Ridley Road. © Lucinda Rogers

East End exhibitions – five of the best for July

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Detail from Russian in Venice I, 2005, Monotype, (c) Stephen Chambers, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Get checked: Prostate Cancer Roadshow for African and Caribbean men to arrive in Dalston on Monday

Charities Orchid and Cancer Black Care will be at Ridley Road Market from 9am – 4pm

Author: Hackney Citizen

Having a ball: a recent Prostate Cancer Roadshow in Newham. Photograph: Spink Health

New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

Author: Hackney Citizen