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Autumn 2023, issue 11
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We use print and digital storytelling to unite the creative, business and residential communities in Hackney Wick & Fish Island plus the other neighbourhoods in and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The Wick presents a guide to the boundless opportunities that now exist in East London if you’re looking for work or training in the creative sector
London’s creative industry ambassador reveals why here and now is the best time to be pursuing a career in this exciting sector
Andrea Stark of Creative UK and a veteran of many other culture sector roles tells us how she managed to make it – and how you can too
Breaking into an arts and culture role can seem like a closed shop if you don’t know where to start, so here’s our guide to what’s out there
No less than six world class universities have now gravitated to establish campuses on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offering an inspiring range of courses
As the driving force behind the ‘Save Brick Lane’ campaign, Saif Osmani fights for East London’s marginalised voices. Here he argues that disaffection with the Olympic legacy has reinforced inequalities,
with the arts often used to cover-up social divide
Among all the lofty aspirations for what should follow London 2012, nobody guessed that dance would end up one of the area’s biggest success stories
From preserving artist studios by co-founding Mother X to her work running the UK’s Bangladesh Education Trust, we meet a true local artist and activist
Greater involvement from the local community can shape future development projects and avoid the mistakes of the past
What might our informal and threatened co-living spaces reveal about how other homes and neighbourhoods could be built?
A local resident with a unique insight into an area, as Director of Architecture studio Stanton Williams
For some years, scaffolding boards and other ‘waste’ materials from the Olympic Park were used for mezzanine-building, warehouse modifications and much more in Hackney Wick.
It’s said that the celebrated photographer David Bailey’s grandmother collected glasses there and was paid in gin. Certainly printers, mechanics, scrap metal merchants and more
If you didn’t make the socially distanced event, here’s the show
When an area changes as rapidly as Hackney Wick today, it can place a range of stresses on our wellbeing. But help is close at hand
Being asked to light the torch at the opening ceremony inspired a glittering career
Find out how informal sports are flourishing happily alongside the big facilities
Meet the teen entrepreneur who turned his lockdown dog-walking venture into a fully-fledged retail business
No less than six world class universities have now gravitated to establish campuses on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offering an inspiring range of courses
Breaking into an arts and culture role can seem like a closed shop if you don’t know where to start, so here’s our guide to what’s out there
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