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Evening all. The bar that used to be Mbangang is being run by the people that did the very short lived pop-up Super Hands on the Lower Clapton Road.

By the way, I've always known Vicky park to be in Tower Hamlets, but then maybe I would think that, as a proper eastender.... ;-)
 
along with the new bar opening where MbangBang was , apparently there is also one opening a few doors away where the Bengali Housing office was - both want late licences

becoming a bit of a drinkers corner there - a mate who lives on Thistlethwaite Road isn't too happy - they endured years of noise, etc when Chimes and the Palace nightclub were in full swing
 
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marty21 said:
along with the new bar opening where MbangBang was , apparently there is also one opening a few doors away where the Bengali Housing office was - both want late licences

becoming a bit of a drinkers corner there - a mate who lives on Thistlethwaite Road isn't too happy - they endured years of noise, etc when Chimes and the Palace nightclub were in full swing
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I went to the Clapton Hart one Friday a few weeks back. It is probably the trendiest place I have ever been in my life. I also remember when it used to be Chimes. What a massive, massive change!
 
goldenecitrone said:
I went to the Clapton Hart one Friday a few weeks back. It is probably the trendiest place I have ever been in my life. I also remember when it used to be Chimes. What a massive, massive change!
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I tend to drink there early doors , on my way home from work, it is quieter then, no queueing behind hipsters:thumbs: landlady charlie is lovely , knows her stuff :thumbs:
 
marty21 said:
I tend to drink there early doors , on my way home from work, it is quieter then, no queueing behind hipsters:thumbs: landlady charlie is lovely , knows her stuff :thumbs:
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Sounds like a more sensible time. I tend to stop off at the Princess of Wales for a quick jar if I'm cycling home. Nice and peaceful down by the canal.
 
alsoknownas said:
No wonder you think the Hart is the trendiest place on Earth ;) :p.
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That's probably it. Only a fraction of the number of hipsters per square foot in the Princess.

alsoknownas said:
Oh, by the way - are you (and everyone else) aware - we're having a cycle along the Lea on the 29th as per thread:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...alley-bike-routes.326619/page-7#post-13526577

Probably starting from the Princess of Wales as it happens :).
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Am aware, but all my weekends are chocka for the foreseeable future. Maybe next spring if I've finished writing up my dissertation and doing up the house. Happy cycling! :thumbs:
 
Sue said:
Great, looking forward to the film and be good to meet people properly. Guess if we sort out our own tickets then meet wherever. Obviously we'll need to spend about 17 pages trying to decide on a venue... :)
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Won't now be able to make post-cine drinks :(. Catch you guys another time!
 
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I love the logo the Hackney Arts people have used on the Twitter page!
Someone has altered the Hackney logo in a similar way on a refuse bin outside some flats in Albion Road - always makes me smile if I pass on the bus.

ETA apologies for the size of the pic - that's the first time I've managed to cut and paste something!!
 
Did anyone get tickets for the Rio on Saturday?



Estate, a Reverie (Trailer)
from Andrea Luka Zimmerman 21 hours ago All Audiences
A film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 83 min, 2015

An unruly celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity!

A 1930s block is bulldozed, a luxury-apartment-complex rises: tracking the passing of utopian principles of social housing. Filmed over 7 years, Estate seeks to reveal and celebrate the resilience of residents who are both stereotyped and profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents' own historical re-enactments and dramatised reveries Estate asks how we resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, through geography even?

Synopsis: Samuel House, the final block in Hackney’s Haggerston estate has been demolished this autumn, exemplar of a nationwide, even international, shift in the character and fabric of the inner cities. I lived in Samuel House for 17 years, at a time when the estate had been abandoned by Hackney Council and allowed to fall into dereliction, both architecturally and socially. Nevertheless, this was home to me and to many others. My film Estate, a documentary essay filmed over 7 years, seeks to reveal and celebrate the resilience of residents who are both stereotyped and profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. It follows an earlier building-wide site-specific photography project and an exploratory book of essays and images.

It feels important to say that Estate has not been made about this community, but has been made from it. Through a variety of filmic registers and strategies, the film seeks to capture the genuinely utopian quality of the last few years of the buildings’ existence, a period when, because demolition was inevitable, a sense of the possible, of the emergence of new, but of course time-specific, social and organizational relationships developed, alongside a fresh understanding of how the residents might occupy the spaces of the estate.

Estate focuses on the ‘structure’ of its eponymous architecture not only because it is where we live, but also how we live. The film explores the multiple implications of what most explicitly defines us to other people, while simultaneously challenging that often all too monocultural definition and revealing the complex diversity of the population it houses.

Estate is, inevitably therefore, about housing, and about the policies that lead us to live lives at the mercy of governmental and financial decisions. But, much more, I hope, it is about how we belong in the world and what structures of meaning exist to define personal and social lives. How do we resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, through geography even? How can we express the fullest possibility of our being, creatively and collectively?
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http://estatefilm.co.uk/

I am looking forward to it! :cool:
 
Fozzie Bear said:
I'll be there with some of the Hackney Independent lot and will try to find you Rutita1
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Ah okay. It shouldn't be hard to find me as the Rio isn't that big :D Please do say hello at least. :)

Gonna be a great day tbh...I expect some tears too, many of the people/my neighbours in the film didn't live to see their new homes. :(
 
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