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Anna Stishova: Instagram’s hijabi kayaker

1st December 2023
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  Everyone has a story. Meet Anna Stishova whose teenage love of kayaking in Siberia helped her seek out paddle opportunities in the UK. Now she’s a kayaking instructor and a paddlesports leader taking out trips with kayakers and paddleboarders, despite being based first in Islington, then Bolton. Interview by…

Anna Hyde: climate activist

8th November 2023
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Everyone has a story. Meet Anna Hyde, the climate activist who’s inspired by her young son and her Islington life to put huge amounts of time and skill into turning the Islington Climate Centre pop-up into a proper community hub where people can ask questions about the climate crisis, learn…

For one day only: Wed 18 Oct 2023

17th October 2023
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Come & see the Inspiring Islington photo exhibition by photographer Kimi Gill at Angel Central. Find Kimi Gill & Islington Faces’ Nicola Baird in the Islington Climate Centre unit (ground floor) from 1-4pm Come and see these lovely photos of some Inspiring Islington people and meet the photographer Kimi on…

Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes: retired Deputy Lieutenant (DL)

9th July 2023
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Everyone has a story. Between 2011 until he retired in November 2020 the representative Deputy Lieutenant of Islington was Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes. Here Islington Faces finds out more about the work of a DL. Interview by Nicola Baird. Photos by Kimi Gill. The honorific Deputy Lieutenant (DL) role is simultaneously…

Shereener Browne: actor/producer

17th May 2023
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Everyone has a story. PlayFight, which will soon be at the Pleasance Theatre (29, 31 May and 1-3 June) bills itself as ‘Intensely moving political theatre exploring the corrosive nature of racism in the school system’. Here the woman who inspired this play, Shereener Browne, talks about turning it into…

Dorothy Boswell: green campaigner

18th April 2023
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Everyone has a story. With Islington in Bloom competition marking its 20th year of gardening prizes in 2023, one of the judges, Dorothy Boswell, talks about the ways gardening can bring us together as we create even more wildlife-friendly and climate-aware gardens. If you love planted up tree pits or…

Ben: Sylvanian Store Keeper

3rd April 2023
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Everyone has a story. For the past 30 years the Sylvanian Families Shop on Mountgrove Road has been the only independent specialist Sylvanian store. It’s a magical world of little furry families, popular with primary school children keen to spend their pocket money, or find a big gift, and has…

Patrick Green: Ben Kinsella’s legacy

23rd October 2022
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Everyone has a story. The Islington-based charity, the Ben Kinsella Trust in Clerkenwell, helps tackle knife crime with its flagship exhibition at Finsbury Library in St John’s Street – which re-opened in mid April 2022 after a refresh. CEO Patrick Green explains more about the ways this murdered 16-year-old’s legacy…

Company of Elders ready for Elixir Festival at Sadler’s Wells

13th June 2022
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Everyone has a story. A special visit behind the scenes with the Company of Elders crew at Sadler’s Wells a week before they perform at the Elixir Festival on 16 and 18 June 2022. Interview by Nicola Baird The Elixir Festival at Sadler’s Wells celebrates creative ageing with films, workshops…

Lindsey Glen: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

20th May 2022
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Everyone has a story. The gallery that brought the first bit of destination culture to Kings Cross, the House of Illustration – which was on Granary Square for six years  – now has plans to restore and open up the derelict New River Head industrial site in Clerkenwell as the…