Hula Hooping Fun!

HULAFIT with Anna the Hulagan @  The Old Firestation, Stoke Newington !

Starting October 15th 2013, 1-2pm , £5

Hoops provided, all abilities welcome, drop-in

Hula Hooping is not just child's play!  With years of experience Anna can teach you how to get fit, get sweaty, tone up and get more coordinated, and keep you smiling with the ultimate fun exercise - HulaFit !  

Anna has been at the heart of all things hula in London for the last 6 years...she is the creator of the London Hula Hoopers network, the curator of London Hoop Fest (a week long festival celebrating all things hoop-related, with children and adult workshops and shows!), and, as well as teaching adults every day, and in schools across the country, she is also an international performer.  Recently, however, along with her husband, Anna is developing HulaFit, a fitness-based class using heavy hoops and cardio routines.

For more info please contact Anna directly at annathehulagan@Gmail.com  or hulafituk@gmail.com

07545499618 

www.annathehulagan.com

www.londonhoopfest.com

www.youhoop.co.uk

Local Open Studios Weekend - Leswin Place

5 local artists will be exhibiting their work over one weekend only. 

Old Fire Station N16 - Studio Available

Brendan Devlin, the Building Development Manager at The Old Fire Station has contacted to let us know about the availability of space in the building:

A spacious studio (169 square feet) available now which would suit an artist, start up company, group of writers or similar.

The ad is on their current website :

Available now! A Studio has become available on the second level of the building, overlooking Leswin Road, facing East so getting all of the morning sun. It is approximately 169 square feet and is £300 per month and available immediately . 

We are looking to engage local people who, in broad terms, can offer benefit through their activities to the community of Hackney; and we are interested to hear from anyone who thinks the space and the building might be right for them. 




Please contact Brendan Devlin on info@oldfirestation.org or 07440 38 36 46

Thinking of getting fit this winter, without a trek to the gym?
There is a great drop in yoga class held at the OFS on Monday nights run by Jane Miller you can find out more about Jane and her classes here

There is also the potential to set up new hoola hoop classes at OFS. If interested please contact Brendan with preferred times and dates - might be a fun way to keep fit and warm this winter!

A Note from Timeline

Dear All,
I am writing on behalf of TimeLine and Revd. Niall Weir, Rector of St. Paul’s West Hackney, because we are so pleased to be able to tell you about All Our Stories - a national project we have been chosen to help take part in. It is a chance for all of us to put the history and heritage of the a part of Hackney on the national map.

We are collecting up stories and memories of the West Hackney area, to create an online book that will be full of fun and facts about our own history and heritage – as individuals and as a community. Some of the stories, collected from archives will be from a very long time ago – even before the time of Queen Victoria - and others are much more recent, from people who enjoy sharing their memories and showing younger generations how things used to be in the place they live in now. Some of your stories are telling us about some of the journeys that led you or your family to Hackney – plenty more of those very welcome!

We thought that you might like to take part as you or your group probably have some fabulous stories of times gone by – whether it is the 1930s or the 1990s, things will be different nowadays! So we are sending this round robin email to let you know about it the project - we have attached some links which tell you more:

1. All Our Stories – an outline of the project (and an invitation to a Memory Catcher day in September) ;
2. A map of the West Hackney area –so you know where we are talking about;
3. How to send in your West Hackney stories;
4. Safer Streets and Celebrations – some pages for the book with very old stories about the early days of the West Hackney Church, quizzes and pictures;
5. Three Memory Joggers – these ones are about schools, weddings and journeys – just to get you thinking. We can send these to you as Word documents so you can use them to put stories on – just let us know if you would like them.

It would be great if you wanted to join in: why not send us your memories, or maybe you would like to do some research in the archives and tell us what you find. If you would like to help collect up people’s stories, that would be very useful too. And do pass this on to other people and we’ll see what we come up with.

The national project needs us to move fast, and we hope to collect a lot of the stories by mid-October – so we are hoping people can put their thinking caps on in September!

With very best wishes,
Camilla Camilla Loewe Editor/Co-ordinator TimeLine
PO Box 44684 London N16 0XY
Telephone 07947 667652
www.timeline.org.uk

The LARA LUNCH - Sunday 14th July

LARA will be hosting its 4th annual big lunch / picnic on Sunday 14th July 1-4pm.
We are back at the West Hackney Recreation Grounds this year (soon to be transformed! Watch out for further info)
It's always a very friendly affair, a chance to meet your neighbours, share some fantastic food and enjoy the sunshine (we wish!) 

We're hoping to have a few sporting activities, with the usual classics - sack racing, 3 legged, egg and spoon etc.
It's a completely free event, although donations on the day will be most welcome!

Bring a picnic blanket and food to share and come and have some fun.

We will be setting up from 11am so if anyone is willing to come and lend a hand - we've got miles of bunting to put up and chairs and tables to lay out.
Please just let us know or we'll just see you there.

The LARA quiz night is here!
This Wednesday - to see how it went last year look here
The place was packed so please arrive on time to get your table.

See you there!