Tag: Chats Palace

  • 30 April 1978

    40 years ago today – Red Saunders recollects the RAR Victoria Park Carnival: On Sunday 30 April 1978, 80,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square, and danced their way through the East End to Victoria Park in Hackney for the first big Rock Against Racism Carnival Against the Nazis. RAR had emerged in reaction to an alarming […]

  • From Pop Art to Community Arts

    It has been an absolute joy to work with Peter Young on a film ‘From Pop Art to Community Arts: Hackney in the 1970s-80s’ commissioned for A British Museum Partnership exhibition ‘Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today’. This special exhibition explores the influence print movements have had on Hackney. Starting with […]

  • Poster exhibition at Chats Palace

    Friday May 31st – Launch of the poster exhibition at Chats Palace from The Fragile Archivists Come to the launch + live music the very day the Building turns 100!   more details here     community arts / free form / chatsworth road / music hall / inclusive theatre / homerton grove adventure playground / pensioner’s club / christmas shows / social benefits / disability arts / cabaret / political […]

  • A link to the past

    in a response to 1913 photo… Fragile Archivists record the visit of Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe to Chats Palace © Asya Gefter

  • What is Chats Palace?

    Very excited to launch our new blog about the Chats Palace archival project I am working on together with Peter Young from Photochats – http://whatischatspalace.wordpress.com © Hackney Archives. Library (now Chats Palace) opening 1913

  • BYB at Chats Palace this summer

    Brooksbys Youth Booth Arts Organisation (coordinator Lauren Mills) runs an affordable playscheme at Chats Palace throughout the summer holidays for children who attend Hackney schools. Healthy breakfasts and snacks, trips and outings, arts and educational activities. Lauren and her team of local volunteers: © Asya Gefter See more on http://www.bybarts.org

  • One Good Thing About Music

    Opening of the photography exhibition by David Corio at Chats Palace. I escaped all the hard work and was left with pleasant tasks such as designing a flier and helping Peter Young to hang the frames. One Good Thing About Music is an exhibition of photographs of some of the world’s most influential international musicians […]