The Great Outdoors
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 newcomers piling out of the Overground looking for a pint, or Barge East supplying the canal-side cocktails whenever the sun shows its face. But since the pandemic and its lockdowns […]
Guest Editor: Kaitlene Koranteng
The chair of the Legacy Youth Board, reflects on HWFI’s identity coming out of the pandemic and why it’s time to celebrate
Creative Wick publishes Living Lab report
Entitled ‘We need each other more than ever’, download the research document into the impact of Covid locally
Reinventing the Wheel
Mark Ciavola has been practicing pottery for 37 years and currently makes crockery for the hospitality industry from a studio upstairs in the White Building. He tells us about his innovative circular economy project, Porcelain Glass, that’s born and bred here in the Wick
Your Big Break in the Time of COVID
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
Designing The People’s Pavilion at Here East
Consulting young people on architectural and cultural plans is often patronising and then regularly gets ignored, anyway. Not so with this new project from Beyond the Box
The Story of ScrubHub
The shock of Covid spurred some truly brilliant new collaborations in Hackney Wick, with an impact reaching far beyond, too
VIDEO: Watch the premier of Aiko live at The Wick launch
If you didn’t make the socially distanced event, here’s the show
Stitching Together
Camaraderie is one thing the coronavirus pandemic has strengthened instead of debilitated. Camaraderie not amongst friends and family alone, but also amongst complete strangers. Strangers and solidarity are often not words that complement each other, but the current worldwide crisis challenging all, in some way, shape or form, has made these two synonymous. Lockdown resulted […]
The Wicked One: Laura May Lewis
How did you come to Hackney Wick & Fish Island (HWFI)?In 2006 – it was the building that captivated me – the light and the space. I wasn’t aware of all the artist studios tucked away and how many creative people lived here. That was a very nice surprise. What aspects of HWFI do you […]