We now have 58 releases out on our new Takuroku digital label, featuring the likes of Ikue Mori, Foodman, Lucy Railton, Steve Gunn, Phew, Ashley Paul, Otomo Yoshihide Han Bennink, Valentina Magaletti, Goodiepal & so many more cafeoto.co.uk/shop/category/…

Today, we stand w/ the whole live music community in solidarity w/ the people that make events in all our wonderful venues & festivals happen. We support #letthemusicplay & ask the government to extend the support schemes to everyone in our sector unable to return to work.

Three more Takuroku albums will be released tomorrow. Three duos recordings exploring different forms of dialogue: call & response, fiery symbiosis and diaristic exchange and nurture. Excited to be releasing these...

Almost there... and the Curve Garden is blooming for when we can open our doors once more! Please help us get there by donating to our Crowdfunder gofundme.com/f/save-dalston… Every donation, no matter how small, makes a difference!

1938 A group of women workers hold aloft a large balloon during construction at the Abney Mews Stoke Newington balloon factory run by Ena Spencer, great grand-daughter of British pioneer balloonist Edward Spencer. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

🎥 Come to our socially distanced outdoor screening of 'Ridley Road 2020: A Street Market Under Threat'. Every half hour from 8.00 p.m. til 10.00 p.m., Thursday 20 August, outside the Ridley Road Shopping Village. 🎥

OPEN Dalston The film of a local story but with a universal message - how regeneration bureaucracy and development can destroy local economies diversity and culture. Dont miss this outdoor screening 👇👇👇

It’s all in the detail... just as we are about to re-open our doors to the public, we’re appreciating some fresh details from our rebuilt entrance that are giving us joy! If you want to ensure the Garden can stay open, please donate to our Crowdfunder: uk.gofundme.com/f/save-dalston…

Projections of the future #London ? #SaveRidleyRoad. A market with a #PeoplesHistory. #Aug20 8.30pm community film tells whats what... SaveRidleyRoad @OpenDalston Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan Mayor of Hackney BBC News (UK) BBC South East

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Huge thanks to all our supporters, we raised £12,738 on Crowdfunder UK. We have enough resources to continue our work on the gardens for another year

At last our doors are open again! Thanks to over 2,700 crowdfunder donors, everyone who has helped spread the word and the hard work of staff & volunteers. We still need to raise £24,000 to make sure the Curve Garden remains open Please donate if you can gofundme.com/f/save-dalston…

"Rdley Road 2020 - a market under threat" screening now & every half hour, in Ridley Road until 11pm

From old to new, for over thirty years, Vortex Jazz has been a beating heart in the London Jazz community. Help us continue to have a future: please donate in the final few days of our Crowdfunder bit.ly/3ghJA1x #SavetheVortex

Legendary British Jazz singer Norma Winstone talks about why she is supporting #SavetheVortex. With just two days to go, you can still donate to our Crowdfunder, helping us to survive. Please give what you can bit.ly/3ghJA1x

‘We did not stop creating’: Dalston art gallery emerges from lockdown with fittingly titled show ‘HOPE’ BSMT Space on Kingsland Road will reopen with artist Dave Towers’ bold typography – a ‘playful take on our new normal’ bit.ly/34EdOcB #Hackney #exhibitions #art

Dalston’s “Cultural Quarter” & community Eastern Curve Garden are once more at risk opendalston.blogspot.com/?m=1

Heritage & creative assets add £Bns to our economy & must form part of any “best value” reckoning before public cultural assets are sold. Seeking only to “maximise capital & revenue receipts” will impoverish our economy & community well being

Hackney Citizen Mayor of Hackney The Hackney Society Hackney Labour Hackney South Labour Morning Lane People's Space Diane Abbott Andrew Boff Dalston Curve Garden Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Hackney Green Party The Victorian Society Emma-Louise Williams SAVE Britain's Heritage Save Lea Marshes 🍃💚🍃 This is the 1862 railway engineering works behind the Ashwin St houses The charity Pyramid Arts Development raised UKGov grants & donations in 1985 to buy the whole site, in Hackney’s name, for public benefit How will Hackney secure that public benefit if it’s sells the site?

Hackney Citizen Mayor of Hackney The Hackney Society Hackney Labour Hackney South Labour Morning Lane People's Space Diane Abbott Andrew Boff Dalston Curve Garden Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Hackney Green Party The Victorian Society Emma-Louise Williams SAVE Britain's Heritage Save Lea Marshes 🍃💚🍃 Hackney recommends private sector carve up of Dalston's "Cultural Quarter" despite its vibrant cultural & architectural legacy opendalston.blogspot.com/?m=1

Hackney Citizen Mayor of Hackney The Hackney Society Hackney Labour Hackney South Labour Morning Lane People's Space Diane Abbott Andrew Boff Dalston Curve Garden Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Hackney Green Party The Victorian Society Emma-Louise Williams SAVE Britain's Heritage Save Lea Marshes 🍃💚🍃 Hackney’s Cabinet tonight authorised Council officers to take all the decisions for a private sector carve up of Dalston’s “Cultural Quarter” with no further scrutiny by our elected Mayor or councillors.