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Rio Cinema founder Clara Ludski to be honoured with memorial plaque

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

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'How To Get On With Everybody' - Inspiring documentary about beloved Hackney rabbi to show at the Rio Cinema

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

Author: Lizzie McAllister

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Caught in the Act: rehearsals have been taking place for two weeks. Photograph: Mind Your Language International CIC

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Facade: a mock-up of the new Curzon frontage. Image: Hackney Council