What's On Hackney

Desperate Journalist + LIINES + THE CARESS. Artists performing: Desperate Journalist.: Tickets avaiable.

Warrior Saint: Workshop with Hari Nam Singh Khalsa and Kuldip Singh Khalsa This workshop will give you a crystal clear concept and experience of the warrior side of the spiritual path, represented by the vision, message and energy of both Yogi Bhajan and Guru Gobind Singh (the great 10th master of the Sikh way of

Woman is a powerhouse. Her capacity is 16x greater than that of a man. When she understands and develops herself, she becomes radiant and prosperous. Surrender and flow are her natural state when she is no longer ruled by her fears and neuroses.

Guests are invited to join rum connoisseurs, learning how to make a delicious array of Rumbullion concoctions, in an exclusive ticketed masterclass. Rumbullion combines high-proof Caribbean rum with a variety of spices including vanilla, orange peel, cinnamon, clove and cardamom.

A one-of-a-kind evening celebrating exploration of some of the wildest places on earth. For our London tour date we have two incredible speakers lined up: Jack Harries and Beth French.

A new play, ‘Happy Warriors’, written by 91-year old James Hugh Macdonald, makes its worldwide premiere Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre in Highgate from 28th March – 22nd April.

Get a feel of how to make the hottest hip-hop beats like P.Diddy, Pharell Williams and Kanye West! Not only will you learn how to make a beat, you will also be taken back in time to understand the history of hip-hop music production.

Vibrant ornamental planting welcomes the visitor to this hidden oasis and leads you into a verdant community garden with secluded woodland area, beehives, wildlife pond, wall trained fruit trees, and plots used by local residents to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

The epic tales of Norse Mythology are ones that have inspired storytellers, writers and artists for centuries. Rich in complex, amusing and often bewildering themes, these tales shine a light on a peculiar and ancient people and their belief system.

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Love, Bombs and Apples is the comic and poignant new play from award winning playwright Hassan Addulrazzak (Baghdad Wedding, The Prophet) - a tale of four men, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation.

Back to help you cut up a rug and shake your stuff, Bethnal Green’s premier queer discotheque for fatties&faggots&their friends. Let’s get radical!

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Fancy a pint? Join the mind behind the brewery and be one of the first to preview the new Star Beer, launched in collaboration with Camden Brewery.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Always fancied being the best Gin and Tonic connoisseur?

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. To celebrate The Star of Bethnal Green’s 10th Birthday we’re kickstarting the Roasted Sundays At Smokey series.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. The cosy walls of London’s favourite party boozer grow ever more enticing as the nights draw in...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Join us for a karaoke night to relive some of the greatest 90s classics, and together we will hip hop hippity hop.

Traveling fairs have always had an air of other-worldliness to them. Seen as a venue for the pursuit of pleasure, fairgrounds allowed different aspects of society a place to mingle and participate in a multitude of vices.

Four day exhibition curated by Classic Football Shirts in support of the Bobby Moore Fund and Football Shirt Friday (Cancer Research UK). With over 500 of the best and most unique football shirts on display and donation points with proceeds going to a great cause.

Following a highly successful run at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Theatre Re’s The Nature of Forgetting now launches an exciting international tour. It is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left when memory and recollection are gone.

The Chang Sensory Trails is a free to enter, event coming to London on the 12th of May, and aims to deliver ‘the unexpected’ by introducing the world to a modern, refreshing take on Thai food, art and music.

A 4-day festival in the run up to St George’s Day exploring ’Englishness’ through music, talks and workshops at London’s only surviving Elizabethan church.

The Grand Union Orchestra tours nationally and internationally, but has always been  based in East London. The regular Bengal to Bethnal Green programme therefore has a special place in its heart!

Korean Cultural Centre UK, Korea Creative Content Agency and Rich Mix are proud to present The K-Music Showcase featuring the award nominated bands 3rd Line Butterfly, Gonne Choi and Billy Carter. Since 2015, The K-Music Showcase has presented exciting Korean bands to London audiences.

A care home in Islington is inviting local people to visit the home to join in its celebrations for Care Home Open Day. On Friday 20th April, from 11am-3pm, Highbury New Park on Highbury New Park Road has organised a royal-inspired party to commemorate the Queen’s 92nd birthday, and to celebrate the open day.

Our Food and Drink Festival will be returning to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington following our successful launch in 2016.

Celebrate the powerful role of inter-generational learning through creative collaboration and freedom of expression. Come and join us to create an imaginary city! Construct large and small-scale buildings using cardboard, wooden bamboo canes and other interesting materials.

Generate meaningful experiences with art and process through playful experimentation with light and shadow. Immerse yourself in a process-driven architectural floor piece that spans the entire space.

A Festival for the Creative Industries. D&AD Festival is a three-day creative spectacular celebrating the world’s best advertising and design, hosted in the heart of London’s east end. Festival passes are now on sale.

Amusement Parks On Fire plus Misty Coast + Marine Store Dealer. Artists performing: Amusement Parks On Fire.: Tickets avaiable.

Tumble Tuck, written by Sarah Milton and presented by BackHere! Theatre, will headline the Who Runs the World? season at the King’s Head Theatre. This exciting season showcases work by female playwrights in direct response to the under-representation of female voices on stage.

Breaking the usual conventions, Balance isn’t just your next large-scale fitness and wellness festival, it’s a movement. The festival brings together progressive Londoners, united by their shared values to achieve a healthier way of living: challenge, positivity and a constant thirst to better themselves.

An award winning walled garden 5m x 17m, behind a Georgian terraced house, enclosed by evergreen climbers with mature Bay, Box, Olive and Fig trees. Architectural plants chosen for form and texture in shades of green, enlivened by pots of white flowers.

Award winning small garden designed by Karen Fitzsimon which makes clever use of an awkwardly shaped plot. Curved lines are used to complement a modern extension. Raised beds contain a mix of tender and hardy plants to give an exotic feel and incl loquat, banana, palm, cycad and tree fern.

One could describe our garden as a person: small, unpretentious and attractively formed by yew and box hedges, and faithful beds with hellebores, fatsia, erysimum, euonymous, euphorbia and the lively climbing roses, star jasmine and solanium.

Thornton & English present in association with Forman’s Lost Street Chicken Showcasing Artist’s Lilly Vasil, Rosie Mcginn, Marie L Gerard, Lusky and Anudarani. There it stands, a golden pinnacle of being.

Directed by JMK 2017 award winner Josh Roche (My Name Is Rachel Corrie), this poetic and unflinching production is an extraordinary mix of drama and performance poetry set in an Essex school which tells the story of four young people who are forced into adulthood.

Group of unique 1830s terrace houses built on the site of Thomas Oldfield’s dairy and cricket field. Cottage style front gardens in cobbled cul-de-sac - a peaceful oasis in the heart of London.

London Speed Dating About Speed Dating in London Events At one of our London Speed Dating events, you will have four minutes to chat to each date, Four minutes is long enough to see if you click with the person you are talking to and whether you would like to see them again and also short enough if you

London Speed Dating How speed dating in London works A great event to go to is Speed Dating in London. How it works is our friendly professional hosts will greet you and they will settle you in by briefly explaining the format of the Speed Dating evening.

Sadler’s Wells Associate Company, English National Ballet, returns with a programme of neo-classical ballet with an American accent from three generations of choreographers.

The award-winning duo Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have collaborated together since 2005 and have created works for Lyon Opera Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

DeNada Dance Theatre comes to Sadler’s Wells with a new production following a guest appearance in a Wild Card evening last autumn. Boldly approaching the erotic themes within the story, TORO is a gender-fluid, Hispanic interpretation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

After its premiere in Autumn 2017, BalletBoyz returns with the unique project: four pieces created in just 14 days.

Breakin’ Convention is back and celebrating its 15th year with another incredible line-up of acts from around the world and around the corner, including highlights from the past 14 years.

Choreographer and writer Lin Hwai-min’s new work takes inspiration from the legendary words of the Portuguese sailors in the 16th century, as they spotted the verdant land that would one day be known as Taiwan: “Formosa!” (“Beautiful!

Burrows and Fargion return to Sadler’s Wells with Any Table Any Room, a new work welcoming four local artists to join them on stage: Seke Chimutengwende, Tanja Erhart, Jacky Lansley and Alesandra Seutin. How possible is community? How do we retain our autonomy while being in a group?

After bringing Sadler’s Wells a succession of story-ballets, including the South Bank Sky Arts Dance Award-winning 1984 and the critically acclaimed Casanova, Northern Ballet returns with Jane Eyre.

At the Society of Genealogists, we’re passionate about family history. Since we started in 1911, we’ve been collecting family history documents, long before the arrival of local record offices - even typewriters were new.

We all take the simple birth certificate for granted, but there’s more to look at than most of us think. In this talk, Anthony Marr explains the hidden information appearing in plain sight on a certificate and how to fully decode this most basic of family history sources.