I Love Hackney - Exhibition
I Love Hackney started as a Hackney Museum exhibition celebrating our Borough and the people who live and work here. The exhibition ran from 15 November 2005 to 20 February 2006
It featured 11 local people and why they felt passionately about Hackney. To illustrate their feelings each person chose an item from the Museum’s collection, previously unseen by the public.
Hackney’s Mayor Jules Pipe said: ‘Hackney is a place of contrasts and contradictions. It is exciting, challenging, pretty, grand, humble, edgy, historical and bursting with creativity and energy. I Love Hackney Hackney puts our borough’s unique character, culture and heritage into the spotlight
Sophie Perkins of Hackney Museum, said: ‘We at the Museum decided to tell Hackney’s real story by inviting people who live or work to here tell us what they love about the borough. We spoke to a variety of people from a signwriter, to an African arts performer to a policeman to a poet.’
Here are some comments from participants in I Love Hackney:
Hackney is fast.
Adisa, verbaliser and performance poet
What people sometimes miss about (Hackney) is that some of the best things by any standards are here. They imagine that the best things need to be in Kensington or Hampstead. The lamb I have bought in the shop on Ridley Road...you could schlep all the way to Selfridges and not get anything as good.
Michael Rosen, author and broadcaster
In Hackney, there are lots of immediate touches with the past and lots of real, great touches with the future.
Brian Walker, signwriter and performer
You can (walk) across Hackney keeping almost completely to open spaces which is a pretty powerful thing to say about a place in London.
Anne Woollett , Member of the Hackney Marsh Users Group
I like doing what I do in Hackney. Everyone wants to know, they have a thirst for knowledge.
Ngozi Headley-Fulani Performer of African arts and culture
Page updated: 18 Jan 2008