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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Artist Louis Masai spent five intense days up a cherry picker spray painting parrots on Tilloch Street, N1 for the 2011 Cally Festival. His brief was to be “colourful” but the task didn’t just brighten up the area, it also led to Louis focusing on raising…
Everyone has a story. This guest post is by Joanna Bevan who works with Here To Islington. Here she interviews Chris Morris, tattoo artist at the Ohh My God Tattoo studio in Archway. Find out how to contribute a guest post (or nominate a person to be interviewed) on islingtonfacesblog at…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. He doesn’t drink or smoke but from about 7am, often until very late, Highbury Barn’s pub manager Tony Bedwell can be found at the pub – making him the perfect person to ask what’s behind that scaffolding? What’s cooking? And how much has the pub…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Sybille Hazward started her business with just £80 after using her flatmate’s printer to create 500 flyers. The result was FreeFormFitness and Highbury Fields’ first fitness boot camp – but not the military style regime she despises. Sybille talks about loving your body and the…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. For 50 years the Little Angel Theatre has put on stunning puppet shows with marionettes as well as shadow puppets, rod puppets, glove puppets and table puppets. No wonder that as an Islington school boy Alex Carter detoured past the Little Angel Theatre* most…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Katherine Horsham, manager of the Islington council-funded Here To project designed to encourage helping out in the borough, is a huge fan of living in Islington, and one day hopes to live by Regent’s Canal. Interview by Nicola Baird “It’s a real privilege to live and work in…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. What’s it like running an Islington pub theatre? Meet Dominic Haddock, one of the trio behind OperaUpClose – which puts on affordable opera at the atmospheric King’s Head Theatre on Upper Street and has just set up Islington’s newest theatre above the Hope &… 
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Minerva runs the fabulous alterations shop, Image, at the far end of fashion fans’ best-kept secret, Fonthill Road, N4. So how did pet dog-loving Minerva, born in a Cyprus village in 1953, but brought up in Rochdale (Manchester), end up running a boutique repair…
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. But who has the best story? As the interviewer I find it impossible to judge (well, there are more than 60 interviews about people who live or work in Islington on this blog) but I’ve picked 10 of my favourites for you. Happy reading,… 
