ISSUE 9
Spring 2023
OUT NOW
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.
What first possessed you to get into the laborious world of stop motion animation? Growing up in Derbyshire there wasn’t that much around, so you
In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, University of East London’s Tracie Trimmer helped engage younger locals by asking their hopes for the future. Here she reconnects with them, a decade later, to see how they are getting on
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
Even five years ago, opening a Sainsbury’s on Wallis Road would have been, at best, a poor business idea. Like many things in Hackney Wick,
Plenty of Hackney Wick’s existing food and drink venues were already famous for their outdoor seating areas: Queens Yard being first port of call for
How long have you lived here? I was born in Woodford Green and went to school there. Then I joined the Navy for 10 years,
Kevin Hempsted is a born and bred Eastender, and runs White Post Lane therapy and counselling centre A Balanced Life. He talks about how the pandemic has impacted
In his early years, Bobby Kasanga was a talented footballer who had represented his county and played at a high level of the semi-professional game.
The shock of Covid spurred some truly brilliant new collaborations in Hackney Wick, with an impact reaching far beyond, too
In this year of massive coronavirus upheaval, many voices – from the Prime Minister to homelessness charities – have been calling for how we must
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