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WICK SESSION 1
COLLECTIVELY WICK
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm till late
A Wick Development Trust and trust in development.
There is no Development Trust in Hackney Wick or the surrounding
area. With so much speculative and top-down development descending
on Hackney Wick we want to take a moment and brain storm
alternatives for a collective community driven development of
public spaces in Hackney Wick.
Speakers include:
Christopher King - Mabley Meadow
Fiona Fieber - SPACE
Caitlin Elster - muf
Trenton Oldfield - TINAG
Bonnie Wong - East London Development
WICK SESSION 2
GROUNDS FOR CULTURE
Friday, March 4, 2011, 7pm till late
Wick Session Number 2 will bring together artists currently working
on projects or setting up initiatives in Hackney Wick. A friendly
and informal exchange between practitioners with a passion for
Hackney Wick.
Speakers include:
Hilary Powell
Nina Pope / Somewhere
Neville Gabie
Chris Dorley-Brown
Join us for a week of talks, walks and viewings at the
Wick Curiosity Shop in Hackney Wick, organised by public
works. The WICK CURIOSITY
SHOP focuses on current activities and programmes including
self-initiated, commissioned, informal and formal projects. The
programme splits into three groups of events:
The Way We Walk,The Way
We Make and The Way We
Talk
For a pdf timetable click here or scroll down for more details.
10 Felstead Street, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT
Tuesday March 1 - Sunday March 6
Opening times from 11am - 7pm*
(*open later for evening events)
Guests are welcome to join the Hackney Wick Curiosity Shop with their stories, ideas and proposals. More events are added daily as we are approaching the week so please check our website for updated programmes or just drop in when in the area. All events are free of charge - Places on the walks are limited, reserving a place is recommended. You can do so by emailing info@wickcuriosityshop.net or message us on Twitter @wickcuriosity or find us on facebook.
THE WAY WE WALK
A series of Walks from the wick
By public works in collaboration with ……
The walks Programme is part of the 'Wick
Curiosity Shop - Route Book' project by public works. It is one of 6
temporary art projects commissioned by London Thames Gateway Development
Corporation for London Borough of Hackney (LBH) and
London Borough of Tower
Hamlets (LBTH). The 6 temporary commissions are curated by
muf architecture/art.
Walking the Press
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A walk from Abbey Gardens
to the Wick Curiosity Shop in Oslo House, where we will be moving
the mobile press which produces seed bombs. The seed bombs will be
used for the Sunflower Avenue walk (see below). Get an introduction
to the beautiful Abbey Gardens and enjoy a slow walk into the Wick
via the Greenway pushing, pulling and talking all things gardening
and the Wick.
The walk will be lead by Andreas Lang and take approximately
1.5 hours and leave from Abbey Gardens. Bakers Row E15 3NF.
Check www.abbeygardens.org
for directions.
Printers Paradise
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 3pm
'Printers Paradise' was the informal name of the dense cluster of
printers and related industry spread around the Wick and along the
Carpenters Road. With the changes sweeping through the area and
through the print industry only a few outposts of Printers Paradise
remain. Join us on a walk tracing the former glory, meet some of
the printers and visit some of the print workshops still active in
Hackney Wick.
The walk willbe lead by Andreas Lang and Gemma Drake take
approximately 1 hour and will leave from The Wick Curiosity
Shop, 10 Felstead Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9
5LT.
The walk will contribute to an on-going project by Gemma
documenting the changing print industry in and around Hackney
Wick.
Friday Fish Walk
Friday, March 4, 2011, 3pm
It is Friday afternoon and what better way to spend it than joining
the Curiosity Shop on a walk to show you where one could pick up
the best fish in the Wick! Along the way we will fly post pictures
and posters, which have been made on-site at Oslo House earlier in
the week.
The walk will be lead by Polly Brannen and take approximately
40 minutes and will leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop, 10 Felstead
Street, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT
Sunflower Avenue Seed bombing walk
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 11am
Sunflower Avenue connects Mabley Green to Victoria Park cutting
straight through the heart of Hackney Wick. It is a Local
Initiative by Lea Bank Square Purple Garden to establish a planted
connection between the two local parks. Seed Bombs specially
designed and made in the Wick Curiosity Shop will be used to
replant hundreds of sunflowers while strolling along the Avenue.
The walk will be lead by Andreas Lang and take app. 1 hour and
will leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop, 10 Felstead Street, Oslo
House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT ending at Mabley Green
The Way We Walked
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 2pm
Following the footsteps of one of the most popular yearly walks in
the Wick - the Christmas swim - we will walk together to retrace
the 'Otters Swimming Club' days, with giant posters and hot dogs on
the way!
The walk will be lead by Polly Brannanand take app. 1 hour and
will leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop, 10 Felstead Street, Oslo
House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT
Off the Track
Brigand boys, Monkey Parades and Clarnico Girls
Sunday, March 6, 2011, 4pm
Monkey Parades were popular from at least the
1840's and were a British working class institution, which probably
started life in the crowded urban centres. This courting
congregation that saw men and women lavishly dressed to impress was
rife in Hackney in 19th Century. The walk will retrace a visual
journey of the Wick by George Sims, a journalist during the height
of the popularity of Monkey Parades in the late 1800s. Participants
are invited to dress to impress and the ladies are invited to wear
lavish hats (designed by the ladies at the Wick) ending with a
drink on Mabley Green.
The walk will lead by Torange Khonsari and take app. 1 hour and
will leave from the Wick Curiosity Shop, 10 Felstead Street, Oslo
House, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT
THE WAY WE MAKE
A series of hands on workshops in Curiosity Shop
The Anecdotal Hair Style
Tuesday, March 2, 2011 from 2-5pm
Get your hair styled or your nails done, have a tea and chat about
the Wick. Lauren Campany will offer free hair styling and manicures
in return for some lively anecdotes about the Wick - imaginary or
real, regardless weather you live in the Wick or are on your first
visit.
Pimp your Hat
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 6pm
Join the 'ladies of the Wick' for a hat making session in the Wick
Curiosity Shop in preparation for the Monkey Parade - a courting
congregation along the Wick, which will see men and women lavishly
dressed to impress. Just bring yourselves - material is provided.
The workshop will be lead by Torange Khonsari with the WI of
Hackney Wick (TBC)
Fish Frying Posters
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 1,2,3, 2011
from 11am-2pm
Fish has been part of the Wick for a long time. Join us to make
large scale posters which will be copied and pasted during the
Friday Fish Walk. The woskhop will be lead by Polly
Brannan
Seed Bomb Pressing
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 from 1pm-4pm
Join us and our magic 10 ton press to make unique Hackney Wick seed
bombs to re-seed the Sunflower Avenue. The workshop will be
lead by Andreas Lang
THE WAY WE TALK , REMEMBER AND IMAGINE
Wick Session Number 1
Collectively Wick
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm till late
A Wick Development Trust and trust in development.
There is no Development Trust in Hackney Wick or the surrounding
area. With so much speculative and top-down development descending
on Hackney Wick we want to take a moment and brain storm
alternatives for a collective community driven development of
public spaces in Hackney Wick.
Speakers to be confirmed - Please check our website for
updates, www.wickcuriosityshop.net
Wick Session
Number 2
Grounds for culture
Friday, March 4, 2011, 7pm till late
Wick Session Number 2 will bring together artists
and activists currently working on projects or setting up
initiatives in Hackney Wick. A friendly and informal exchange
between practitioners with a passion for Hackney Wick.
Speakers to be confirmed - Please check our website for
updates, www.wickcuriosityshop.net
Wick on Film
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 5pm till late
Pop down to the Curiosity Shop on Saturday
afternoon for a film session showing a varied selection of films
from and about the Wick. While the final programme is yet to be
confirmed it is likely to include archive footage, explorations of
what is now the Olympic site and stories from the area.
Curated and hosted by Rakan Budeiri and Andreas Lang
Click HERE for full
programme
Tea Cake and
Curiosities
Sunday, March 6, 2011, 1-4pm
Join us for some free Tea and Cake on early Sunday
afternoon in the Wick Curiosity Shop and bring you photos,
anecdotes and rare curiosities to be included in the Curiosity Shop
archive. The antiques road show meets friendly chatter and deep
anecdotes about life in the Wick.
The Wick Curiosity postal service to Graz, Austria.
public
works is invited by Rotor Gallery
to present the Wick Curiosity Shop in Graz, Austria. The week after
the stay in Hackney Wick, The Shop will be journeying across the
continent where it will be participating in an exhibition entitled
CREATIVE COMMUNICATION AND ARTISTIC INTERVENTION INTO PUBLIC SPACE
organised by Rotor Gallery. The gallery is situated in a similar
social context to the shop's home in the Wick and thus this visit
aims to create a form of cultural exchange between the two areas
and the explorations which have gone on within them. As part of
this exchange the Curiosity Shop is interested in receiving
contributions from visitors who would like to pass something
(physical or not) between the two areas. If this sounds like you
pop into the shop during the week or email us via our website.
Part of the show in Graz is a two day conference on URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD CULTURES with an impressive list of speakers from across Europe - Hackney Wick will be in good company.
This Wick Curiosity Shop was originally commissioned by
[SPACE] as part of
the
Hackney Wick Festival in 2008
From documentary to fiction and the bits in between - an afternoon of films featuring Hackney Wick as the main protagonist. Stories of pleasure, discovery, loss and celebration providing a cross-section of the transformation taking place in Hackney Wick.
1. Edgeland (15:25mins) 2009
Edgeland is a film by artist Sally Mumby-Croft,
co-directed by Xavier Zapata. Shot entirely around Hackney Wick it
uses voice overs from local people to creating a great introduction
to the Wick area and the many changes it is facing from the ever
encroaching 2012 Olympic Developments.
2. The Games (17mins) 2008
A film by Hilary Powell made in 2007 before the arrival of the
ubiquitous blue fence. A surreal alternative sporting event
inspired by the DIY nature of the 1948 London Olympics, 'The Games'
sets its athletes loss on a crumbling Hackney Wick which was about
to be lost forever.
3. Outfall (6:16mins) 2009
"A road movie for a road that was never built". A film by David
Knight following the Northern Outfall Sewer which heads east from
Hackney Wick. Better recognised as the Greenway, this path was long
known as an escape East away from the city and its rules being
overtaken by nature, mopeds and graffiti.
4. Olympic Stories: Hackney Wick (7:44mins)
2009
A film by Dave Hill, Francesca Panetta and David Levene which looks
at people and places which make up the stories behind the areas
where the Olympics will be taking place.
5. This Was Forever (10mins) 2008
A prize winning film from Mark Aitken and young film makers from
polkadotsonraindrops which follows the story of the Manor Garden
Allotments which struggled to hold their own before being
demolished in 2007 to make way for Olympic projects.
6. Trowbridge Blow Down (4:01mins) 1985
Two clips from BBC News covering demolitions on the Trowbridge
Estate in Hackney Wick, the initial blast was unsatisfactory and
became known as "the leaning tower of Hackney".
7. Computer Pub (2:30mins) 1965
'The Pub of The Future' a clip from Tomorrow's World featuring
trials of automated drink ordering system at a pub in Hackney Wick.
The pub in question was the Victoria (Hotel) on Eastway.
8. Coracle Regatta (3:17mins) 2006
Harry Meadows' film of his first Coracle Regatta project which took
place on the Cut outside the Eton Manor's Johnstone Boathouse. The
site of the traditional 'Christmas' swim, the artificial waterway
continues to host this informal boat race which, coincides with the
annual Hackney Wicked Festival, until 2012.
9. What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? (45mins)
2005
The story of the Lea Valley River area as it prepares to be forever
changed by the 2012 Olympics directed by Paul Kelly in
collaboration with St. Etienne. A celebration of an area which saw
the invention of plastic, petrol and the formation of the Labour
movement, the film depicts a young boy cycling around the area on
the day the Olympic decision was announced.
Filmed and directed by Paul Kelly, produced by Andrew Hinton, music
by Saint Etienne, written by Kevin Pearce and edited by Mikey
Tomkins.
The Anecdotal Hair Style and Manicure
Tuesday, March 2, 2011 from 2-5pm
Get your hair styled or your nails done, have a tea and chat about the Wick. Lauren Campany will offer free hair styling and manicures in return for some lively chat about the Wick - imaginary or real, regardless weather you live in the Wick or are on your first visit. - Bookings now taken here
Join us for a week of talks, walks and viewings at the Wick Curiosity Shop in Hackney Wick, organised by public works.
Tuesday March 1 - Sunday March 6
Opening times from 11am - 7pm*
(*open later for evening events)
10 Felstead Street, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LT
We will publish details of the programme on this website
very soon.
You can also follow us on Twitter @wickcuriosity
or find us on
facebook
The Wick Curiosity Shop will come to the Wick in early March for a week long outing. We are currently looking for an empty shop to take over. Please get in touch if you know of any exciting locations.
As part of the week long outing we will be hosting 5 walks as part of the Route Book project. Re-Planting Sunflower Avenue, revisiting Printers Paradise, Knitting our way through the wick, Take a swim in the canal and explore all things fish.
Also up and coming on the Horizon are the brand new 'WICK SESSIONS' hosted by the Curiosity Shop. Bringing together Wick based projects and the people behind it for an informal chat.
Watch this space for more or sign up to our mailing list to keep posted.
Collecting stories of the River Lea Navigation Canal between
Hackney Wick to Old Ford Lock
What can you tell us about the canal?
What do you remember?
Come and meet Chris Dorley Brown, Jessie
Brennan and Daniel Lehan who are creating new artworks about the
canal.
The event starts with a film screening which includes rare footage of Cliff Richard and The Shadows' visit to Hackney Wick in the 1960s, plus scenes from Lesney Toy Factory, Hackney's first computer pub, Kingsmead Estate and the Trowbridge blowdown. 11am to 11.45am.
Then join the artists to add your stories and contribute to the creation of a physical map of Hackney Wick from 12 - 2pm
Saturday 22nd January
11am to 2pm
Free - Refreshments provided
Hackney Museum , 1 Reading Lane, E8 1GQ
All children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an
adult.
The Cut is an oral history project led by artists and produced by SPACE. Three artists and a team of local volunteers are exploring the Hackney Cut, or Lea River Navigation Canal , and the industrial, physical and social history of Hackney Wick. By collecting stories (up to the present day) from the people who work and live alongside the canal the project will document the importance of The Cut to the community in an area undergoing huge change.
Contact: Fiona Fieber fifi@spacestudios.org.uk 0208 525 4347 www.spacestudios.org.uk
As part of 'Made in Hackney Wick' public works has secured a commission from muf architecture & art to run a project in the Hackney Wick entitled 'Route Book'.
As the landscape of Hackney Wick and Fish Island changes once again and new routes are being cut across the area, bridges being build and new connections being made we will revisit every day journeys, walks and narratives that cut through Hackney Wick and Fish Island from a very local perspective.
'Route Book' will directly contribute to - and be a continuation of the Wick Curiosity Shop. Watch this space.