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Litterpicking on Regent’s Canal

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Everyone has a story. On the canal near Old Street, City Road and Angel, Islington Faces is helping paddleboarders collect up rubbish from the water thanks to a grant from Cripplegate that’s getting people on to the water Quick photoshoot of all the paddle and pick participants on our 9…
3 book jackets with novels that have come out in spring 2024 and feature Islington, London.

Let’s read about Islington

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Every bit of Islington has a story. Three new books published in spring 2024 use Islington as the backdrop for the action including Caledonian Road, Old Street (Hoxton) and Regent’s Canal. Reviews by Nicola Baird (in a shameless plug for her own funny novel, Not That Deep, which is centred…

Let’s Chat: ideas to beat loneliness

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Let’s chat: ideas to beat loneliness and get local people talking Sharing our learning from the Let’s Chat project with ideas to beat loneliness and get local people chatting. We found writing questions on big bits of woods helped inspire chat. Try it and see if it works for your…

INVITATION to plan an Islington Faces exhibition 2019

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Everyone has a story. You are invited to share ideas about how to make Islington Faces’ upcoming exhibition at Islington Museum in 2019 successful. Meetings are on Thursdays at the Blackstock Kitchen, 136 Blackstock Road (Sep 25, Oct 4, 11, 18 & 25). First meeting is this Thursday, 25 September, 11am-12noon. Islington…

Castellers of London: rehearsing

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Everyone has a story. Building human towers – a 250-year-old Catalan tradition – is thriving just near Arsenal’s Emirates stadium. Interview with founder Marc Pujol and President Anne D’Hermy, by Nicola Baird.  Red shirts, white trousers, black faixa wrapped around the waist are the uniform of the Castellers of London.…

Coffee Music Project in Islington

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Everyone has a story – but some have a song about coffee. At least the emerging musicians through to the final at O2 Academy2 in Islington’s N1 Centre do. At a unique taster session held at Camden Passage’s trendy Coffee Works Project Nicola Baird met some of the singer-songwriters hoping to win…