Past Events 2006
Michael Rosen I love Hackney in the Future
Tuesday 14 February 1-2pm
Word fun with local author
Betty’s Beading Bonanza
Thursday 16th February 1pm-4pm
Join Betty Nosipho Hlela from Zenzele Arts and make beautiful animals with beads.
Family Journeys
Saturday 4th March 2006 1-4pm
Bring in a photo of your family or draw a picture and explore your family’s journey to Hackney.
This workshop will explore themes from the Turkish Cypriot platform exhibition ‘By Invitation Only’.
TOYS: Toy Theatres
Saturday 1st April 2006 2pm - 4pm
Make toy theatres inspired by our exciting exhibition.
Easter Holiday Workshop: Teddy Bear's Picnic
Thursday 6th April 2006 2pm-4pm
Bring along your favourite toys and create your own teddy bear's picnic.
Easter Holiday Workshop: Moving Toys
Thursday 13th April 2006 2pm-4pm
Make pop up people and toys with moving wheels.
Celebrate Chinese Style
Saturday 29th April 11am - 1pm
Start off your weekend with a lion dance and other fantastic Chinese cultural activities.
TOYS: Junk Toys
Saturday 6th May 2006 2pm-4pm
Be inspired by our exhibition and use recycled materials to create your own fantastic toys.
HALF TERM FUN: Crazy Games
Thursday 1st June 2006
2pm-4pm
Play board games from around the world with the guys from Universal Board Games.
TOYS: Finger Puppet Fun
Saturday 1st July 2pm-4pm
Create felt finger-puppets inspired by our toys exhibition.
Summer Holidays Events 2006
Meet Under the Tree: Art & Craft Thursday 27th July 2-4pm
Join in a creative workshop using natural materials from London Fields to create a sculpture. Meet at Hackney Museum at 2pm ready for a visit to the park.
Meet Under the Tree: Art & Craft
Thursday 3rd August 2-4pm
Creative workshop with Anna.
Meet Under the Tree: Dance, Drumming & Storytelling
Saturday 5th August 2-4pm
Join in a loud and fun filled workshop with Ngozi and the gang from Dakrobi Arts.
Meet Under the Tree: Wild Man of the Woods
Thursday 10th August 2-4pm
Discover magical stories and songs with the Wild Man of the Woods.
Meet Under the Tree: Storytelling
Thursday 17th August 2-4pm
Stories under the tree with Sandra Agard.
Meet Under the Tree: Art & Craft
Thursday 24th August 2-4pm
Create beautiful and unusual decorations to hang in our tree with Heather.
Meet Under the Tree: Mr Beetle
Thursday 31st August 2-4pm
Discover magical stories and songs with Mr Beetle.
Meet Under the Tree: Michael Rosen
Saturday 2nd September 2-4pm
Stories under the tree with writer and broadcaster, Michael Rosen.
Carnival Events
Carnival Cacophony: Drumming and Fire EatingSaturday 7th Oct 2-4pm
Celebrate the launch of Family Learning Week with Ngozi Fulani and Sofora Group from Gambia. Join in Gambian drumming and dance and see fire eating.
Carnival Capers: Half Term Fun
Thursday 26th Oct 2-4pm
Explore the colourful costumes and masks in the exhibition and join in carnival crafts with local artist, Jo Beldham.
Horticultural Heritage: Half Term Fun
Friday 27th Oct 2-4pm
Celebrate local children’s creative botanical activities with Free Form Arts Trust.
Carnival Crazy
Saturday 4th Nov 2-4pm
Enjoy the colourful costumes and masks and join in carnival crafts with the carnival groups who made the exhibition.
Winter Wonderland
Saturday 2nd Dec 2-4pm
Try out art techniques and create winter scenes with local artist Gbenka Ilumoka.
Evening Events for adults and over 16's 2006
‘Departures and Arrivals’Thursday 9 February 2006 6-7:30pm
Book launch and exhibition of ‘By Invitation Only’ opening.
'I used to Live in Cyprus'
6:30-8:00pm
Talk with Nilgrun Arif, Erim Metto, and Melek Kazim
Treasured Toys
Thursday 23th March 2006 6:30-8pm
Catherine Howell, Collections Officer of the V & A Museum of Childhood will be talking about the collections of games, dolls, teddy bears and other strange things from this world renown Museum. Find out about the 80 Dolls houses and toys played with and loved by children from all over the world.
Adult Learners' Week
Discover the world on your doorstep
Saturday 20th May 2006
10am-12noon and 2pm-4pm
Drop in between 10am-12noon and 2pm-4pm and join in a workshop with Conservators and Find Specialists from the Museum of London. Bring along your own objects and finds or discover mystery objects from Hackney Museum and Museum of London collections. There is no need to book for this FREE drop in workshop. Call Hackney Museum on 020 8356 3500 for more information.
Creative Writing Workshop in conjunction with Centerprise
Thursday 25th May 2006
5pm-8pm
Pop along to Hackney Museum and join in a creative writing workshop with local African Caribbean writer, Dreeda Say-Mitchell. Dreeda is a published author and she will be helping you to develop your creative writing skills using the Museum displays. This workshop is FREE but must be booked in advance. Call Hackney Museum on 020 8356 3500 for more information and to book your place.
Young at Heart Festival
Creative Writing Workshop in conjunction with Centerprise
Tuesday 13th June
2pm-4pm
Pop along to Hackney Museum and join in a creative writing workshop with local writer, Norma Cohen. Norma will be helping you to develop your creative writing skills using the Museum displays. This workshop is FREE but must be booked in advance. Call Hackney Museum on 020 8356 3500 for more information and to book your place.
Abolition 07 Information Evening
Thursday 12th October 6pm-8pm
We’d like to invite you to an open evening at Hackney Museum to hear what we are planning for the 2007 Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Meet our panel of speakers and tell us your ideas. No need to book.
Exhibition Talks
Dominican Carnival: Bann Mové
Thursday 19th October 6-8pm
Discover the history of the Bann Mové and see costumes, drums and head dresses from the African Dominican Cultural Forum.
One Spirit & Amnesty International
Thursday 9th November 6-8pm
To accompany our One Spirit exhibition speakers from One Spirit and Amnesty International will be discussing the impact of the death penalty on society.
Adult Workshops
Carnival Memoirs
Celebrate Black History Month with published poet Nicole Moore from Words of Colour Productions. Do you remember when you first went to Carnival either as a young person or an adult? Look at our locally made costumes and masks in the Museum’s Carnival exhibition, discover the importance of storytelling and create your own carnival memoir.
This session will run on Saturday 14th October from 2-4pm.
Moving Stories
Develop your creative writing skills with local writer Norma Cohen. Using the carnival exhibition, the Museum theme of immigration and its focus on the richly diverse communities of Hackney as inspiration, you will develop your own piece of creative writing. You will also be given the opportunity to present your work to an invited audience if you wish.
Three FREE sessions will run on Wednesday 8th, 15th & 22nd November from 4-6pm culminating in a presentation of rehearsed readings and dramatisations to an invited audience from 4-6pm on Wednesday 29th November.
Family Events 2005
Family Maps
Saturday 2nd July 2005
1pm-4pm
Make your mark on a world map in this fun and colorful art workshop with Lucy. Explore where in the world your family is from and create your own family map.
Saz, Davul, Cepik & Halay
Saturday 25th June 2005
1–4pm
Join in this Kurdish music and dance workshop and learn to play saz (stringed instrument) and davul (drum). Dance cepik and halay in a live performance at the end of the workshop.
Family Trees
Thursday 2nd June 2005
1–4pm
Do you love making collages and drawing pictures?
Do you love computers?
Then we need your help…
For the summer holidays we are going to create a colourful new game for Hackney Museum’s computers that will record your family’s roots on a world map.
In the family tree workshop Anna Dyke and Ruth Zialor will help you to create colourful pictures of your family that could be used in the computer game. We will also be getting messy and making a giant paper tree. So come along, help create art work for our computers and make sure your family’s faces are included.
Evening Events for adults and over 16's 2005
Kilim Weaving
Thursday 2nd June 2005
5-7pm
Discover the traditional Kurdish craft of Kilim (carpet) weaving and the sybolism behind the patterns created in this workshop run by Roj Women's Association.
Family Events 2004
Chinese Calligraphy
Saturday 4th December 2004 1- 4pm
This event is free, for all the family and on a drop-in basis. Discover how Chinese writing looks like the words it is describing and make your own Chinese calligraphy scroll.
Hackney Sayings
Thursday 18th November 2004 1- 4pm
This event is free, drop in and for all ages Come and record your own sayings to be added to the video projection in the exhibition.
‘Hannah Trapnell and the Story of On London Fields’
Saturday 13th November 2004 1-4pm
This event is free, for all the family and on a drop-in basis. A workshop to learn about the community opera On London Fields through storytelling, singing and a chance to design your own opera costume.
‘Wild man of the woods’
Saturday 6th November 2004 1 – 4pm
This event is free, for all the family and on a drop-in basis. Discover the magical stories of the Green Man and find out the origins of phrases like ‘faster than Jack Robinson’
‘Raining cats, dogs and fishing rods’
Saturday 2nd October 2004 1 - 4pm
This event is free, for all the family and on a drop-in basis. As part of ‘The Big Draw’ come and illustrate your favourite phrase or idiom. Your drawings will be animated and then added to the exhibition.
It’s a Noisy Summer at Hackney Museum It is going to be a noisy summer at Hackney Museum. During the summer holidays we will be discovering dance, storytelling, drumming and DJing from around the world. All Hackney Museum summer events are free for all the family. There is no need to book for these drop-in workshops, just turn up at the museum every Thursday afternoon throughout the summer holidays from 1pm-4pm and join in the fun.
Dance Fever: Bhangra and Bollywood
Thursday 19th August 2004 1pm -4pm
Discover Bhangra and Bollywood dance moves with Dimple Nakum in this loud and fun workshop.
Noisy Pictures: ‘Raining Cats, Dogs and Fishing Rods’
Thursday 29th July & Thursday 12th August 2004 1pm-4pm
Contribute to our next exhibition on phrases with professional animator Anna Dyke. Bring along some funny sayings and turn them into cartoons which will be computer animated and shown in the next exhibition.
Musical Stories: Dakrobi, Africa in Performance
Saturday 7th & Thursday 26th August 2004 1pm-4pm
African and African-Caribbean drumming, storytelling and dance with Ngozi Fulani.
Mix n’ Scratch: DJ workshop
Thursday 5th August 2004 1pm-4pm
Find out how to mix and learn turntable tricks from DJ Rachel Harvey, who has played on top venues throughout Australia and London.
Swing!
Saturday 3rd April 2004 1- 4pm
Learn how to do the Swing and Lindy-hop dances with the Cotton Clubbers in this family workshop.
Traveller’s stories
Saturday 1st May 1- 4pm
This event is free, for all the family and drop in. Come to hear stories told about travellers and travelling to celebrate Museums and Galleries Month
Miniature life in a Matchbox
Saturday 5th June 2004 1 - 4pm
Make a world fold out of a matchbox and then fold back in…
Shadow Pictures
Saturday 7th February, 2004 1 – 4pm
For this workshop, participants will bring in a favourite object to be made into photograms. This means that the object will be put on photosensitive paper and an impression of the object will magically appear on the paper when it is exposed to light.
Evening Events for adults and over 16's 2004
Events for adults in collaboration with Centreprise Literature Development Project
Creative Writing Workshops with Martina Evans
Wednesdays 17th & 24th November and 1st December 2004 1pm - 3pm
Show case event: Thursday 9 December 5.45pm - 7.45pm
Using the exhibition as inspiration, novelist and poet Martina Evans will help draw out everyday sayings through exciting and enjoyable creative writing activities. These workshops are free and open access but please register in advance. To register or for further information please contact CLDP on 020 7249 6572
Painting by Albert, 8, of the Farsi phrase ‘End of the dark night is bright’, for the animation in the ‘Raining Cats, Dogs and fishing rods’ exhibition.
Rhyme and Reason
Thursday 25th November 2004 6:30 – 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 12 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum. Breis is a south London based MC, who works in both English and Yoruba. He will be performing his latest work and discussing his inspiration from Big Daddy Kane to Ella Fitzgerald
Speaking Creole
Thursday 21st October 2004 6:30 – 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 12 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum. Dr Joan Anim-Addo from the Caribbean Centre at Goldsmiths College will be talking about the origins of the Creole language.
Rabbiting David ’ockney
Thursday 23rd September 2004 6:30 – 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 12 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum. Discover the history of cockney rhyming slang including the Jewish influences ofon many of the phrases that are common today
Hackney Entrepreneurs
Thursday 22nd April 2004 6:30 – 8pm
A unique opportunity to find out how three very different businesses started in Hackney and to share your own experiences. Guest speakers are Steve Pope, founder of publishing company ‘X Press’; Das Sreedharan founder of the Rasa restaurant chain and Marva Antoine founder of the dress designers ‘House of Antoine Ltd’.
Reinventing the radio by Trevor Baylis
Thursday 17th June 2004 6:30 – 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 16 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum. Trevor Baylis is the inventor of the wind-up radio that has become an essential across the world. Trevor will be coming to Hackney Museum to talk about his experiences as an inventor and how he got the radio into mass production.
Matchbox toys
Thursday 13th May 2004 6:30 – 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 16 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum. Nick Jones, a Matchbox Toy collector and enthusiast, will be talking about the history of Matchbox Toys and what special details to look out for when collecting them.
Discovering the collection
Thursday 5th February, 2004 6.30 – 8pm
This event brings together the photographers who discovered the collection, Bridgit Anderson and Jim Four, with James Arthur Eason, an American descendant of the Eason family. The photographers will talk about their extensive work to conserve, document and print the collection. Eason, a photographic archivist himself, will tell us about his research into the Eason family history.
Victorian Music Halls
Thursday 15th January, 2004 6.30 – 8pm
The Victorian East End set the stage for many of the music halls which had their heyday during the time of Arthur Eason’s photography studio. Some of Eason’s portraits include amateur performers who would have been part of the music hall circuit. Max Tyler, Historian of the British Music Hall Society, will give an overview of the British music hall tradition.
Events for Job Seekers In collaboration with ‘Getting London Working’, Hackney Museum is hosting a series of workshops to help you to get a job. All the workshops in this series are free. There is no need to book, but participants should arrive promptly for a 10am start.
Getting Back to Work
Thursday 1st April 10 - 1pm
This workshop will look at how to get back into work and to find a job.
CV Writing
Thursday 6th May 10 - 1pm
We will work with you to improve your CV and will then print copies of it for you to take home.
Interview Techniques
Thursday 10th June 10 -1pm
Using a video camera we will help you to improve your interview techniques
Family Events 2003
‘Spinning Tales’
1pm – 2.30pm and 3pm – 4.30pm Saturday 3rd May 2003
Interactive African Caribbean storytelling, games and drama by Hackney based storyteller Sandra Agard. This is for all the family and a drop in workshop.
Discover Hackney Week at Hackney museum - 19th – 25th May 2003
‘The Travelling Archive’
3pm – 5pm Wednesday 21st May 2003
‘The Travelling Archive’ is currently being developed in Hackney. Come and contribute to the archive, try out the equipment and tell us what you think. Suitable for children aged 7 –11years old and their parents and carers. This is a drop in workshop.
‘The Travelling Archive’
3pm – 5pm Friday 23rd May 2003
‘The Travelling Archive’ is currently being developed in Hackney. Come and contribute to the archive, try out the equipment and tell us what you think. Suitable for children aged 7 –11years old and their parents and carers. This is a drop in workshop.
‘Taking a log for a walk’
1pm – 2.30pm and 3pm – 4.30pm Saturday 24th May 2003
Fun with words and poetry inspired by Hackney Museum's objects, particularly our Anglo Saxon log boat, with Hackney based storyteller Sandra Agard.
‘From Horner to Homer’
1pm - 4pm Saturday 7th June 2003
Early toys, such as the Zoetrope and Thaumotropes, create animated scenes in a similar way to modern animations like the Simpsons. This is your chance to make your own animated moving toy.
‘Let your eyes deceive you’
1pm – 4pm Saturday 5th July 2003
How were the earliest moving pictures made? Come and find out and make and take home your own moving picture.
Free DJ workshops for 12 to 18 year olds throughout the summer
Thursday 31st July, Thursday 7th August, Thursday 14th August and Thursday 21st August. 2003
For four Thursday afternoons in July and August there will be a series of free DJing workshops for 12 to 18 year olds. These workshops will explore the starting points for being a DJ from understanding the equipment to cutting tracks. It is essential to pre book as there are a very limited number of places on this series of workshops so please ring 020 8356 2545.
'Can It'
Saturday 6th September 1- 4pm, Saturday 2nd August 1- 4pm, Wednesday 13th August 1- 4pm 2003
Make a time capsule inspired by those sent out to space with the Explorer mission. Create five things that say everything about you, what's important to you, where you live, your lifestyle and ambitions.
'Shoot It'
Wednesday 30th July 1-4pm, Wednesday 27th August 1- 4pm 2003
Visit Hackney Museum's Mini Photography Studio and create a self portrait or direct a portrait of your family. Please bring a personal object to be photographed with you, it may be a toy, hat or your favourite food! A display will be created of the photographs in Hackney Museums Education Room.
'Spin It'
Wednesday 6th August 1- 4pm , Wednesday 20th August 1- 4pm 2003
Funki G is a DJ who plays in clubs across London and the South East and is coming to the museum to show you how DJ's today mix and do tricks on their turntable. This promises to be a loud and fun workshop.
‘Picture Stories’
Saturday 2nd October 2003 1pm – 4pm
Free drop-in workshop for families - We’ve all seen book illustrations, well this workshop turns the story into the illustration of the picture. Draw you own picture and then Brenda Agard will help to turn your picture into a magical story or poem.
Peculiar Portraits -Events for Children
A Cat on your Hat
Saturday 1st November 2003 1pm – 4pm
This crafts workshop will involve drawing and painting your own a
rtistic portraits inspired by the ‘Peculiar Portraits’ exhibition; including cats on heads, sailboats, Salvation Army musical instruments, Victorian lace bonnets and other wonderful props.
Christmas portrait cards
Saturday 6th December, 2003 1 – 4pm
Using the mock Victorian portrait studio in the exhibition, we have a professional photographer coming in to take portraits of visitors which can then be turned into Christmas cards just like the ones made by photographer Arthur Eason.
Evening Events for adults and over 16's 2003
Victorian Portrait Photography
Thursday 27th November, 2003 6.30 - 8pm
Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum and specialist in 19th century British photography, Martin Barnes, will put the Eason collection into context by discussing the tradition of Victorian portrait photography and the significance of poses and props in the photographs on display.
The Voice Discussion Panel
Thursday 23rd October 2003 7pm – 8.30pm
Free but must be pre-booked through Hackney Museum: 020 8356 3500 Come and listen to a discussion of Voice journalists chaired by Joy Francis from the Creative Collective.
The Voice is one of the leading newspapers covering the news from a black perspective. The discussion will centre on their working experiences and more broadly about issues around black writers and the media. There will also be a Question and Answer session.
Women writers workshop with Malika Booker
Saturday 25th October 2003 10am – 4pm
Free but must be pre-booked through Centerprise Literature Development Project: 020 7249 6572 - A workshop for women writers based on the idea of clothing, fashion and adornment, and exploring issues of self expression, repression, body image and identity. Bring with you a favourite item of clothing, jewellery, shoes, fabric etc.
Talk by Dennis Morris
Thursday 2nd October 2003 6.30pm - 8pm
This event is free and aimed at 16 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum.
Dennis Morris will be giving a talk at Hackney Museum about his life and work. He will be explaining how he became a photographer to Bob Marley and the Wailers and the Sex Pistols. He will also discuss his more recent work.
‘Gainsborough Pictures’
7pm – 8.30pm Thursday 1st May 2003
The famous Gainsborough Film Studios opened in Poole Street, Hoxton in 1924. Film historian Sue Harper charts the fortunes of the studios and Gainsborough Pictures, illustrated by clips of films.
Evening Events for adults and over 16's 2003
‘Made in Hackney’
7pm – 8.30pm Thursday 5th June 2003
Hackney is regularly used by film crews working on TV dramas, feature films, pop videos and commercials. Using TV and film clips, Jon Hardy from The Film Office will be talking about how it all works, which Hackney locations are most popular and which screen stars have found themselves working in the borough.
‘Hackney on Film’
7pm – 8.30pm Thursday 22nd May 2003
This event is free and aimed at 16 years and older. Places must be pre-booked through the museum
This event brings together some of the best documentary footage shot in Hackney. The selection includes street scenes of Shoreditch in the 1920s, and a special screening of clips from one of Britain’s earliest feature films, made in the Hackney Studios in 1916. Amanda Huntley of the London Film Archive will be presenting this unique compilation, using her expertise on the history of documentary filmmaking
Please phone 020 8356 3500 or e-mail hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk for further information on exhibitions and events.
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