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In November, we partnered with Tradestars to commission local artists, with strong connections to HWFI, to create permanent artworks on the walls inside their new co-warehousing buildings located in Fish Island, giving formerly blank walls a distinctive mark to express the unique energy of this space. The Artists: Burrito (@burritoconluces_tattoo) I am Burrito, an artist…

Living Lab project with UCL East How do Creative Spaces in East London Facilitate and Enhance Enterprising Activities for Future Local Entrepreneurs?

FREE one hour art session for children to make festive decorations. They will also get a pack to make one at home too. On the 4th & 11th December The workshops will be held at Hackney Bridge in Hackney Wick Open to children Ages 5-9 (in school years 1-4) There are 18 spaces in each…

Today a new network is launched, called Collective Community Action. The current turmoil creates a golden opportunity to place communities at the heart of urban change. London needs to get serious about educating and empowering its citizens and built environment professionals to take part collectively in the way that places are made and managed. Click…

Creative Wick, in partnership with Brazilian NGO Instituto Cultural Pólen, is delivering its first Olympic Legacy project in Rio de Janeiro, less than a year after the RIO2016 Olympics. CriaAtivo Film School is a project funded by the Newton Fund Institutional Skills 2017 program from the British Council, intended to provide, during the course of…

Painting Connections In June 2015, Creative Wick started working with UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity, Institute for Sustainable Resources and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis on a research project into Hackney Wick and Fish Island’s informal sharing economy. The research led to an exhibition on Hackney Wick & Fish Island’s creative community’s unique sharing economy that took place at…