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Florence and the Machine live stream

Tickets for Florence and the Machine’s Hackney gig sold out within minutes after going on sale last week, but live streaming will provide an alte...

Oxjam comes to Hackney for the first time

This Saturday, head down to Stoke Newington and get in on the first ever Oxjam at Stokey Takeover.Organized by Oxfam, a global movement of people w...

“Free To Be” exhibit to open next week in Mile End

An exhibition showcasing the work of young Muslim women in Britain starts in Mile End Park next week. “Free To Be” is based on media workshops ...

Second street art project in Croydon underpass

One week after the vandalization of the £10.000 street art project at Norwood Junction, two local artists reveal a new art project in what is loca...

The Risk through to the next round and bookie’s favourite to win X Factor

Boy band ‘The Risk’ have made it through to the next round of the X Factor and are now the bookie’s favourites to win after a well re...

X Factor fame for two South East Londoners

Two young men from South East London are rising to fame after making it through to ‘The X Factor’s’ final 12. Ashley John-Baptiste, 22, f...

Street art brutally vandalised

  Street art at Norwood Junction Station underpass was vandalised last week, just after a £10.000 makeover. Last week vandals ripped and tagg...

Last chance to enter photo competition

Document Tower Hamlets as it transformes from just another East London borough to an Olympic borough. Organised by Shoot Experience Photography and...

London Riots Inspire Hackney watch artist

Dominic Wilcox, 36, an artist based in Hackney has created a series of miniature clocks, Moments in Time, capturing scenes from the London riots. A...

Sound Tracks Festival: putting the music on the right track

EastLondonLines welcomes a new music festival that will spread music along the line, leaving its own sound tracks. The concept of Sound Tracks fest...

Field Day Festival Preview

We’re counting the days until Victoria Park’s Field Day festival on August 6, ELL takes a quick look at this year’s highlights By all accoun...

Croydon student a national finalist

Croydon student, Akachi Mbakwe, is among the finalists in a competition aiming to help disabled people. Twelve-year-old Akachi of Archbishop Teni...

Stokey Lit Fest: Weekend reviewed in full

Extensive coverage and photographs of all the happenings in N16

Lit Fest: Saturday review

Saturday at Stokey Lit Fest, including an electric, sold out performance by Stewart Lee and Dan Rhodes

Stoke Newington Literary Festival – Final Day

It's the last day of Stokey Lit Fest, here's our guide to the best bits, of which there are plenty to get stuck into!

Lit Fest: Friday review

Performances at Stoke Newington town hall by Richard Wiseman and Jon Ronson go down a storm

Lit Fest: Five minutes with Emma Kennedy

Meet one of the funniest travel writers around.

Olympic marathon to pass through Tower Hamlets

The Olympic marathon will go through Tower Hamlets. A local blogger, monitoring the trial Olympic run on Sunday, discovered that runners entered a...

Universal Music speakers make industry accessible

Leading people from Universal Music gave a talk at Goldsmiths yesterday, giving students the chance to ask questions about the industry and how to ...

Brockley festival kicks off on Friday

One of London’s top festivals, Brockley Max, starts this Friday 27th of May. Lasting nine days, the festival is run by the community-led organisa...

Stoke Newington to host literary festival

Stoke Newington Literary Festival is back for a second year and has just released its programme of events. The festival, which made its debut last ...

Hackney comic Kojo returns to the Empire

East London comic Kojo will host The Young Kings of Comedy on the 29th May at The Hackney Empire. In between writing his film (‘The Weekend’, w...

Chris Petit comes to the Rio cinema

The road movie maker Chris Petit has made a stop at the Rio Cinema in Hackney. His latest film “Content” will be shown there on Saturday 21st M...

Dubstep’s down to earth UFO

Ahead of the release of record label Hessle Audio’s compilation CD on May 16 and launch party this Friday at XOYO, one of the label’s co-found...

Football cup shows Tower Hamlets’ talent

A new annual football tournament has been launched in Tower Hamlets to show that, when it comes to producing star players, the borough is top of th...

Immersive theatre at The Albany

Reykjavik, a play by Jonathon Young, opens at The Albany in Deptford this week. The play received rave reviews after its showing at the Edinburgh F...

Indies win national radio ‘Oscars’

Small indy production organisations in the Lewisham area and Hackney have beaten multi-billion pound global media groups to win two prestigious So...

Cash-strapped theatre’s play gets national applause

Six months after a fundraising gap left a Hackney Theatre £110,000 short of the money it needed to relocate, its latest play has been given glowin...

Whiskey-sodas in Bethnal Green with new novelist Ned Beauman

Bethnal Green Road is a place that still feels distinctively ‘east end’. There are market stalls selling fruit and veg and discounted loo paper...

John Terry ensures survival of boyhood club

John Terry has stepped in to save Senrab, his boyhood football team, after a campaign to keep it afloat. The financial plight of Senrab was first ...

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