These are tumultuous times. In response we’re stepping up our communal activities. Winter is here but we’re not slowing down. There’s walking, talking and connecting to be done… The civic sphere is where we’re going to find each other and make sense of this year. Whatever happens, surely conversations are where any solutions will start?…
Tag: Chatsworth Road
Chatsworth Road Festival 2015: Free ‘Connect with Clapton’ Exploratory Walk
It’s been a busy summer, hanging out with Sir Ken Robinson in Davos and plotting the future of education; leading groups around our favourite East London stomping grounds for Hackney Council and showing Americans central London. It continues tomorrow with a FREE chance to explore Clapton on a mini-tour for Chatsworth Road Festival. Come and…
Discover Clapton: Pay What You Want Psychogeography Walking Tour Good Friday From We Are Nana 10.30am
Now that’s a title that pretty much sums everything up, don’t you think? We’ll be hearing about Hackney rebels, reformers and revolutionaries on this tour as we discover the stories and social history that Clapton is steeped in. More steeped than a We Are Nana all-the-tea-you-can-drink-for-£1 teabag even. And that’s saying something. So, kick off…
Grans Doing Grand: Clapton’s New Community Cafe
Hackney Tours is excited to announce the first Clapton history walk (10.30am Fri 15th Feb) leaving/returning from/to We Are Nana. See below for details of this great new intergenerational initiative here: “I met these people who were 80 or older and still smashing it every day!” says Katie Harris, founder of a new Clapton community…
Gentrification: Is Our Art & Coffee Costing The Neighbourhood?
“It is at best a misunderstanding, and at worst a harmful lie, to portray the cultural sector as an ally of low-income groups. Campaigners against gentrification should resist every art gallery, craft workshop, or new media centre. The first art gallery in a working-class neighbourhood is a sure sign, that gentrification is imminent. “Keep them…
