ISSUE 9
Spring 2023
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The Wick is your local collaborative media platform.
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.
It’s important that big incoming organisations invest their sizable public realm budgets locally, as these projects demonstrate
On her passion for Japan’s dance theatre style Butoh, the creative community and performing in the streets
The UK’s leading advocate for hip hop dance shares his dance story and tells The Wick about the Hip Hop Theatre Academy opening in the Olympic Park
Artist Aida Wilde is angry. She asked for local legend Edwin’s iconic slogan, ‘SHITHOUSE TO PENTHOUSE’ – an artwork curated by her – to be
From illegal-squat raves and graffiti to repurposed derelict buildings, Hackney Wick’s history is written on its streets. And while the near weekly-opening of new businesses,
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.
Marking the launch of The Wick with live music from Aiko plus DJ sets from Justin Robertson & Ben Osborne
At first glance it might not appear to be the greenest of places, but Hackney Wick is bursting with plant life. From the roof gardens
It’s a Sunday morning, 8am, and I’m squinting into a dark black abyss in the middle of a Hackney Wick building site. And yet, I
In early 2021, just as the world was opening up again, a good friend of mine Kevin – who owns A Balanced Life here on
The chair of the Legacy Youth Board, reflects on HWFI’s identity coming out of the pandemic and why it’s time to celebrate
Entitled ‘We need each other more than ever’, download the research document into the impact of Covid locally
We’re living through the economic shock of our lifetimes, but East London is a good place to be if you’re in need of inspirational training opportunities and financial support
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