June 15th, 2011 with No Comments
Pupils from Hackney Free & Parochial and Stoke Newington Secondary Schools saw their poster designs picked as part of a competition to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller History (GRTHM) Month.
The pupils were presented with an award by Mayor Jules Pipe at the event at the Hackney Central Library which included Irish dancing from the Maguire O’Shea [...]
June 14th, 2011 with 1 Comment
After five rounds of gruelling auditions a budding young Hackney performer is overjoyed to have been awarded one of only fifteen places this year for female actresses at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA).
Selected from over 3,500 applications nineteen year old Rashmika Torchia is no stranger to success, being congratulated in August [...]
June 8th, 2011 with No Comments
Yewande Daramola aged 15 from Haggerston School, scooped top prize in the Hackney final of Jack Petchey’s ‘Speak Out’ Challenge! 2010-11, held at Haggerston School on 26th May 2011.
Yewande’s speech on her chosen subject, ‘Addiction’ won her an iPod touch and a chance to go through to the Gala Grand Final of the Speak Out [...]
June 8th, 2011 with No Comments
Young musicians in Hackney are receiving first class tuition and support according to an official report on The Learning Trust’s Music Service.
The external review conducted by the Federation of Music Services (FMS) in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), concluded that the Service is outstanding. It praised in particular the many opportunities for Hackney [...]
July 1st, 2010 with No Comments
Children from six Hackney schools have collaborated during June and July with six visual artists to create gigantic works of art for the exhibition Hackney’s Here!
Exploring scale and what it means to live in Hackney in 2010, children and artists have been challenged to fill the 4,300 sq ft outdoor courtyard at SPACE with works [...]