To honour the first Trans+ History Week, Hackney Libraries are celebrating Hackney trans+ authors

Join poet Charlotte Geater to discuss Roz Kaveney’s poetry collection The Great Good Time & activist history

Thurs 23 May, 6-7:30pm
Hackney Central Library

FREE
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Book your place at a FREE lecture on Jane Austen and the place of slavery in her novel Mansfield Park

Join Professor Cecil Gutzmore for Jane Austen & Slavery: Is Her Emancipation Commitment Enough?

Weds 22 May, 6:00-7:30pm
Dalston CLR James Library

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East London Shakespeare Festival comes to Hackney this summer with family-friendly rom-com MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Book now for some sun-soaked mischief and romance!

📍 Hoxton Community Gardens, Clissold Park & Springfield Park
📅 From 20 June - 21 July 

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🎶 Share songs & explore stories at Sounds Like Home, a FREE weekly choir project for women 18+ from all backgrounds to celebrate cultural identity & heritage through music

📍 Hoxton Hall
📅 Every Wednesday, 10:30-12:30pm, from 24 April

Email [email protected] to book

🏳️‍🌈 Explore queer identity through dance with a series of FREE workshops from Ballet Queer

Open to LGBTQ+ Hackney residents without formal dance training 18+. Participants can join one or all six sessions.

📍 Shoreditch Town Hall
📅 23 April - 28 May

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Microgrants of up to £2,000 are open to Hackney community groups and organisations to fund projects celebrating #Windrush

Apply here before Monday 1 April:

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A £3k grant for a photographer, artist, poet, writer, school class or art collective is on offer to make a print-based work for this year's #Windrush programme

The work will go up on public billboards & Love Hackney channels in June

Apply before 1 April

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Just another evening of harmless fun. Or is it?

Join Laura Vaughan, author of Let’s Pretend and The Favour, for readings and a Q&A on her fantastic new thriller Hazard Night!

📅Mon 25 March, 6:30-7:30pm
📍Shoreditch Library
🎟️FREE!

Book your free spot
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Extended due to popular demand! You can now visit Hackney Museum's At Home in Hackney exhibition until Saturday 23 March to explore 50 years of Hackney life through photos.

Featuring work from established & emerging photographers connected with Hackney.

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Ready for a thrilling night at Shoreditch Library?

Join Laura Vaughan, author of Let’s Pretend and The Favour, for readings and a Q&A on her fantastic new thriller Hazard Night

Monday 25 March, 6:30-7:30pm
Shoreditch Library
FREE!

Reserve your free spot
orlo.uk/gZLEG

Extended due to popular demand! You can now visit Hackney Museum's At Home in Hackney exhibition until Saturday 23 March to explore 50 years of Hackney life through photos.

Featuring work from established & emerging photographers connected with Hackney.

orlo.uk/s2PUT

Extended due to popular demand! You can now visit Hackney Museum's At Home in Hackney exhibition until Saturday 23 March to explore 50 years of Hackney life through photos.

Featuring work from established & emerging photographers connected with Hackney.

orlo.uk/7qxJW

Love Hackney February Edition is here! 🤩

🌟 Featuring... big news on the council's budget for 2024/25, special #IWD and Lunar New Year stories, and the best of What's On in Hackney!

🗞️ Pick up your copy at your local library or grab a digital version: orlo.uk/dXvio

Refurbished memorial benches & signage paying tribute to victims of the 1981 New Cross Fire are to be unveiled 43 years to the day since the historic #BlackPeoplesDayOfAction which mobilised thousands in response to the tragic event

📍Hackney Downs Park
📅 Saturday 2 March, 12pm

🏳‍🌈Join @ParaPride to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month 2024

🎉Featuring comedy, drag, acrobatics, poetry, burlesque, DJs, plus a panel discussion and a community networking area.

📅 Saturday 24 February 12-5pm
📍Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street

Book here: orlo.uk/2OmJC

🏳‍🌈Join @ParaPride to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month 2024

🎉Featuring comedy, drag, acrobatics, poetry, burlesque, DJs, plus a panel discussion and a community networking area.

📅 Saturday 24 February 12-5pm
📍Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street

Book here: orlo.uk/wFUX9

🏳‍🌈Join @ParaPride to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month 2024

🎉Featuring comedy, drag, acrobatics, poetry, burlesque, DJs, plus a panel discussion and a community networking area.

📅 Saturday 24 February 12-5pm
📍Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street

Book here: orlo.uk/luIl4

🎉 We're celebrating #LGBT +HistoryMonth throughout February with a line-up of performances, exhibitions, drag, walks, talks, zine making plus lots more!

👀 See what's on and how to book your place here: orlo.uk/bLLE9

Curated by HackneyPride365.

As part of our #SmallSteps campaign we’re working with local groups to help residents get more active. Find out more about Coffee Run who are starting their first running club of 2024 in 2 weeks. Read more on page 16 in the latest Love Hackney magazine: orlo.uk/OHYfH

🌟 Love Hackney January Edition is HERE! 🌟

Explore what's happening in Hackney, featuring insights from our Winter Warmer housing event, lunch clubs for those 55+, and Small Steps

🗞️ Pick up your copy at your local library or grab a digital version: orlo.uk/yg9KR