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Sunday, December 18th 2011 Elements of surprise: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Venue: Assembly Hall, Stoke Newington Town Hall, Stoke Newington Church Street, London

N16 0JR

Elements of surprise: Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Hackney Proms present a family-friendly, Sunday morning
concert in the Assembly Hall of the beautifully refurbished
Stoke Newington Town Hall.

In this original programme, period-instrument ensemble
Battuta explore the four Classical elements—Air, Fire, Earth
and Water—and their representation in the Baroque period.
Thunder, lightning, storms at sea and the fiery descent into
hell are depicted in thrilling music by Rameau, Rebel and
Telemann, and the more earthly delights of nature by Vivaldi's
most famous work, Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).

Hackney Proms are relaxed, informal Sunday morning
concerts, with coffee and croissants available at the interval.
Children are welcome.

For tickets and more information about Hackney
Proms and Battuta, visit www.hackneyproms.co.uk

Ticket prices:

Adults: £12 • Children over five: £5 • Children under five: free
Senior citizens, full-time students, disabled & unemployed: £8

To book tickets:

Online: www.hackneyproms.co.uk

In person: Bridgewood and Neitzert, 146 Stoke Newington

Church Street, N16 0JU

The Workshop, 77A Lauriston Road, E9 7HA

Broadway Bookshop, 6 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ

Or pay by cash or cheque on the door

Upcoming Events and Local News

Our latest newsletter has been sent out to over 80 email addresses and the number is slowly climbing which is good news! You can also read them here on the blog - just click on the Newsletter heading above.

A few dates for the diary this month:

Last chance to catch -

- Concrete Skin - 
5th - 27th November

Address: Unit A, Leswin Place.

This autumn BHVU Gallery presents Concrete Skin, an exhibition exploring domestic dynamics and ways in which our behaviour within the home is motivated by social expectations. Concrete Skin brings together four internationally recognised artists whose selected works explore the intimate and emotional experiences that we often struggle to put into words.

For more information on this please visit their website www.bhvu.co.uk

This Saturday sees the first of the School Winter Fairs:

- Benthal School Winter Fair - Saturday 26th November 1.30-4pm

- Jubilee School's winter fair is on Friday 9th Dec 3.30 - 5.30 pm,

- William Patten School Winter Fair is on Saturday 11th December from 12.30 - 3.30pm

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- West Hackney Recreation Ground

Do you want to get involved in the future of West Hackney Recreation Ground?

Come along to a meeting of the West Hackney Recreation Ground User Group

The next WHUG meeting with mince pies and mulled wine is on

Monday 5th December at St. Paul's Church Hall. 7.30pm start.

Everybody welcome.

St Paul's Church, Hackney Council and Groundwork are worikng together to bid for the second stage of Heritage lottery funding to transform the park and surroundings of St Paul's Church.

Please contact the User Group on whrgusergroup@gmail.com or 07794 637870 for more information. We want to hear your views and get more local residents involved with the park.

From one User Group to another, it's good to hear from Clissold Park User Group that the Mansion House and Cafe will finally open on the 3rd January.

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If you haven't discovered it yet - go take a peek at The Chocolate Factory Open Studios....

- The Chocolate Factory Open Studios Weekend - 3rd/4th December 11am-6pm; Private View - Friday 2nd 6.30-9pm all welcome!

Farleigh Place, N16 7SX www.chocolatefactoryn16.com

Good news from Hackney Unites about the Sainsbury controversy:

Stoke Newington has been up in arms about the proposals for a massive Sainsbury development in Wilmer Place. Now, following intense local pressure from the community, the developer of the Wilmer Place site has shelved their original plans and is developing new proposals. We also have confirmation that the housing association One Housing will not now be involved in the development. The new proposals will be subject to public consultation before the developer submits a planning application. This is fantastic news, although it does not guarantee that the revised proposals will be acceptable, it does demonstrate that as a community we can have an influence on what happens to our area. Hackney Unites will continue to work with the Stokey Local campaign, but you can get more info from their website: http://stokeylocal.org.uk/latest-news/

...and finally a word of warning from one local Tyssen Road resident:

'I'd just like to alert everyone in the area to something that happened to me last week. I was at home, having just seen my daughter off to school. the doorbell rang and and I answered it. There stood a stocky-looking guy in a high-viz jacket, apparently rather agitated, who told me that he was doing some work on the road on the high street and they had gone through a gas pipe and didn't know how many houses were affected - would I run the tap to check my gas supply was OK? I went down to the kitchen and did as he asked. By the time I got back to the door, having shouted back that the gas was fine, he was gone. And so, as it turned out, was my iphone which had been on the hall shelf.

I failed to ask for ID; someone I told this story to suggested as an alternative simply shutting the door in their face while making the check, and then reporting back to them. It's not how most of us would choose to behave towards other people, but this kind of experience does make one more wary of doorstep requests.

Anyway, please be alert to lightfingered, opportunist, bogus workmen. This one probably won't risk returning to the area, but others may.'