Multi-talented musician Juwon Ogungbe, a British-Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, is set to perform a composition with influences drawn from folk, township jazz, popular and art music genres from South Africa. for more information visit www. juwonogungbe.com Walk the Wick Walking tours of Hackney Wick’s art quarters are being held this week. www.creativewick.com/tours Out & About News in brief Stepney writer’s Radio 4 play coup A STEPNEY writer has had a play commissioned for a coveted slot on BBC Radio 4. Community Service, written by Jonny O’Neill, is being adapted for the regular Afternoon Drama slot. O’Neill, 29, said: “The play is set in Bow Magistrates’ Court and offers a taste of modern-day east London. I’m just excited to have my work heard on such a big platform.” In what marks a busy period for the writer, O’Neill’s second EastEnders episode is set to air on Monday, April 27. WWII fundraiser MILE End’s independent cinema, Genesis, is teaming up with the Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust for a party to raise funds for the monument. This Friday, April 17 the picture house is inviting guests to dress in ’40s wartime attire for the bash, which starts at 7pm in Bar Paragon. The Swing Dance Society is set to perform live and there will be a screening of Somi De Souza’s short film I Remember, I Remember, along with a Q&A with the director. Tickets cost £10 (including a free drink) and can be booked at www.genesiscinema.co.uk or by calling 7780 2000. £5 from each ticket will go to the Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust, which still needs funds to complete, and then maintain, the memorial in Bethnal Green Gardens for the 173 victims of the Tube station disaster in 1943. Acme Studios boss JONATHAN Harvey, co-founder and chief executive of the historic Acme Studios in Bow, has announced he will stand down next year. Since 1972 Harvey and David Panton have led the organisation, which provides affordable studio space for artists. Harvey has overseen the charity’s rise from two derelict shops – on Devons Road, Bow – to 16 properties and 620 studios today. Greg Wohead – Celebration Florida Yard NOW that’s what we call theatre BY JAMES MARTIN A TEN-WEEK feast of theatre is about to open in the East End. NOW ’15, at The Yard in Hackney Wick, is an annual festival which aims to bring the best of new contemporary theatre to east London. For 2015, The Yard has paired ten established artists with ten bright prospects for the future – as weekly double-billed shows play back-to-back. The festival opens on the evening of Tuesday, April 14 with Reformation 9, by the performance duo Luther & Bockelson. After an interval, they are followed by Drunken Chorus’ Just Like Larry Walters, which uses as its inspiration the story of the man in 1982 who tied 45 helium balloons to his garden chair and flew up into the sky. All the productions are a result of an open call-out for new talent who wished to have their works seen at the Hackney Wick hub. As well as the plays, postshow discussions and talks will be held along with live music performances. On Saturday, April 25, Exeunt Magazine hosts an afternoon debate ahead of the General Election on May 7. The discussion, which costs £6 to attend, includes the community theatre company London Bubble. In past years, The Yard’s call-out has included Alexander Zeldin’s Beyond Caring – based on the hot topic of zero hours contracts – and Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams. The latter has been transferred to the National Theatre and is being made in to a television drama. NOW ’15, curated by Jay Miller, runs at The Yard Theatre, Unit 2A, Queen’s Yard, Hackney Wick from Tuesday, April 14 until June 20. Tickets to double-bill shows are £15 and it’s £10 for one. Most of the theatre shows start at 7.30pm and run from Tuesday until Saturday each week. For a full list of participants, shows and events in the festival visit www.the yardtheatre.co.uk Rare screening at Wilton’s April 17, is one of the final parts of South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour, a nationwide programme of cinema to commemorate the 20th anniversary of South African democracy. Live music will be provided by Juwon Ogungbe on piano, marimba and mbira. Siliva the Zulu will be shown at Wilton’s in Graces Alley, Wapping on Friday, April 17 at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 from www.wiltons.org.uk Faces of 15 East End families THE essence of 15 east photographs. Stills were created Previously, in 2013, Photospeak London families has over a period of 12 weeks by created 50 photographic been captured in a new members of the families of portraits of east London mixed-form exhibition those involved in the display. women and interviewed more at Mile End Park. The PhotoSpeak project was than 100 women to find out Me You Us, which opens at the led by artist Liz Clough, photographer their hopes for a future park’s Art Pavilion on Thursday, Jacqueline McCullough generation. April 16, features a collection of and theatre practitioner Leanne The Me You Us exhibition portraits, self-portraits and McLeish. runs at the Art Pavillion in Mile End Park, Clinton Road, E3, from this Thursday until Friday, April 24. For more information call 7364 3115 or visit photospeak blog.wordpress.com (Left) Sid photographed by Mark Bettis A LONG lost film based on the tale of a romantic rivalry in an African village is being shown this week at Wilton’s Music Hall. Siliva the Zulu is an hour-long picture depicting the daily life and rituals of the Zulu natives – blended with a scripted story. The silent movie was directed by the Italian film maker and explorer Attilio Gatti in southern Africa in 1927. This rare screening, on Friday, 13 – 19 APRIL 2015 N E W S F R OM TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 21
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