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Your cultural life in and around Walthamstow No.26 • April 2015

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f you have any preconceptions of what the Walthamstow Historical Society’s Centenary Anniversary Lecture might be like - warning minors and those of a sensitive disposition please look away now - they probably wouldn’t include liberal references to “bollocks on stilts”. Lord Peter Hennessy, local resident, top author, journalist and BBC Radio 4 regular was sharing his impressively unstuffy personal take on what on earth a Prime Minister is for, all laced with entertaining indiscretions from several recent incumbents. In case you’re wondering the aforementioned appendages on stilts, a phrase I think coined by Alistair Campbell, refers to ‘views deserving contempt’. Amazingly the lecture was being given one hundred years to the day and in the same magnificent hall in Walthamstow Central Library as the inaugural meeting. There were even descendants from the 35 attendees of the very first lecture in the audience of 160 people this time. I wonder if that lecture was as entertaining as ours? Anyway I heartily recommend you join the Society, or at least attend some of the fascinating and entertaining walks they arrange around town throughout the summer. I’d like to thank Chingford Historical Society this month too. Member Angela Wagstaff has been invaluable and generous with her research into the life and work of Walthamstow-born Walter Henry Booth, creator of the world’s first comic book adventure hero (see page 16). Another Walthamstow first for our growing collection! This month has seen the 10,000th listing on the E List website! The website and associated app has been going for a year now, and has been modified a few times to cope with the sheer amount of listings it has to handle. If you ever hear anyone complaining they can’t find anything to do locally then you know where to direct them. Finally, it’s slightly odd to my mind that the interior designers of Walthamstow Empire haven’t made any reference to Waltham Forest’s amazing film heritage. Admittedly the screens are fantastic but the bland entrance lobby could be anywhere. What is great though is to see the Empire showing support for local film director Peter Domankiewicz by screening his first feature Tea & Sangria for a week, beginning 24 April. It promises to be good fun so please go along and show the Empire that we back local talent too. See page 7 for more details. Paul Lindt, Editor editor@theelist.co.uk

Walthamstow based film maker at the Empire Graham Larkbey & the Escape Committee What the Eye Sees by John Walsh Bags of Style – Burgoyne London Comic book artist, Walter Henry Booth A place to wet your whistle Take part in Green Open Homes weekend Allotments – Our little piece of green The Mall – When kids take over… Wilcumstowe Times – A Rural Idyll Local Hero - Sarah Chase of Grow Your own Theatre Walthamstow Diary The Magpie

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COVER STAR

Static STATIC is the creative output of Londonbased image makers Tom Jackson and Craig Evans who have been producing limited editions and original works in-house and by hand since 2006. Their work is known for its blend of graphic and patterned imagery created through a combination of screen printing and mixed media techniques, STATIC’s work is constructed from found visual imagery as well as symbols and signifiers from modern culture which they continue to apply to a wide range of

surfaces, including wood, metal, perspex and glass. Since 2010, STATIC have been producing layered glass works which have been exhibited in the UK, Japan, Singapore, Italy, the US, India and Russia. In 2013 a selection of pieces from their ‘Phantasms of the Living’ show was added to the private art collection of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family and in 2014 they were commissioned by Activision to create a unique Camo pattern for the release of the new Call Of Duty AW game launch. An accompanying video can be seen at www.welikestatic.com.

Recently they’ve become founding members of Wood Street Walls (WSW), a project in Walthamstow (where Tom lives) connecting local and international artists with uncared for walls, bringing street art to E17. WSW’s ultimate aim is to form a creative hub in the Wood Street area where, in exchange for affordable rent, artists put on free monthly workshops.

Completing several walls so far, with more planned for the next few months, STATIC’s first wall in E17 was opposite the Wild Card brewery in the Ravenswood industrial estate. This has now been moved to a more permanent home at the Wynwood Café next to The Bell, where they also painted the front wall of the pub with fellow artist Teddy Baden.

Their most recent wall is a supersized version of ‘Game On’ on Victoria Road (off Fulbourne Road), which they released as a 10 colour screen print with a percentage going towards the WSW project which is now sold out! STATIC are currently working towards a show in Japan as well as a couple of other exciting projects. To support the WSW project see page 5.

If you’d like to see more of STATIC’s works or to find out more please check out their website www.welikestatic.com or email them at: enquiries@welikestatic.com


ART

BOOKS

CRAFTS

DANCE/FITNESS

FAMILY

FILM

GARDENING

HISTORY

MUSIC

FOOD

SHOPPING

THEATRE/COMEDY

This month in town

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Wednesday 1 Creative Writing Group The Epicentre, Harrow Green Community Library, 41 West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ Monthly group helping you develop your skills with expert help, grow in confidence and publish a collection of some of the work. 6.30-8.30pm. FREE. Deborah on 020 8257 1144 or hgcl.groups@outlook.com www.harrowgreenlibrary.wordpress.com Steven James Adams What’s Cookin’, Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB The Broken Family Band & Singing Adams frontman, Steven James Adams continues to produce brilliantly emotive urban folk music. 8.30-11pm. FREE with a collection. Stephen Ferguson 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk WMG: Fakery William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP WMG Lates are our after-hours events for adults. This month, inspired by the questions of authenticity raised in Yinka Shonibare’s work, we explore “fakeness” in popular culture through art, music and poetry. No need to book. 6.30-10.30pm. FREE. 020 8496 4390 wmg.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk

Thursday 2 Wild Card Spring Beer Festival Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ Enjoy a selection of craft beers from London’s finest breweries. Featuring street food vendors, live music from the Ragged String Band and guest DJ’s. 5pm-12am. FREE entry. Jaega 07851 770981 jaega.wise@wildcardbrewery.co.uk www.wildcardbrewery.co.uk Red Imp proudly presents Sick Squid Comedy Easter Special Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Three headline acts tonight: Ben Norris, Mary Bourke and Pierre Hollins. Susan Murray is your MC. All this for six quid. Doors 8.30pm, show 9-11pm. £6. Susan Murray 020 8509 3880 susanmurray2002@yahoo.co.uk www.redimpcomedy.com/ Events marked

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Spring Show Pictorem Gallery, 383 Hoe Street E17 9AP Preview evening for exhibition of ceramics, paintings, prints and drawings by Lucy and Jack Rickards. 6.30-8.30pm. FREE. Avtar/Surinder 020 8520 0340 www.pictoremgallery.com JJ Adams - Personal Appearance Images in Frames, 59 Wood Street E17 3JX Urban artist JJ Adams makes a personal appearance. 6-9pm. FREE. 020 7998 4729 art@imagesinframes.com www.imagesinframes.com Easter Celebration Services Greenleaf Road Baptist Church, 4 Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ 8-8.30pm. FREE. https://greenleafbc.wordpress.com

Good Friday 3 Wild Card Spring Beer Festival Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ As Thurs 2 except 10am-midnight Easter Celebration Services Greenleaf Road Baptist Church, 4 Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ 10.30-11am. FREE. https://greenleafbc.wordpress.com Acoustic music gig with Theo Le Délice, 114 Hoe Street E17 4QR An evening of acoustic music from pop to folk and rock. A programme of French and English songs for your pleasure! 8-11pm. FREE. Sousou Jedlickova 020 8521 0606 ledelicee17@yahoo.co.uk www.ledelicee17.co.uk Krix Panx / The Simon Theobold Band Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Solo loop station artist Krix Panx and the old style 70’s blues-rock of the Simon Theobold Band. 8.30pm start. £5 on the door. http://lunalounge.info Jazz, Soul & Motown Night The Function Room, 3 The Avenue, Highams Park E4 9LB Nag’s Head band Shelley & the MPGs play classic live jazz, soul and Motown. 8.30-10.30pm. £5 Shelley 07903271877 shelley@alphabeck.co.uk

Saturday 4 Easter Bake & Cafe Greenleaf Road Baptist Church, 4 Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ Children’s activities with an Easter story art display, cafe with delicious homemade cakes, toasted sandwiches and snacks. Plus an Easter baking competition so please bake a cake and join in the fun! 10am-2pm. FREE entry. https://greenleafbc.wordpress.com Blackhorse Market Blackhorse Workshop, 1-2 Sutherland Road Path, E17 6BX A monthly street food and makers’ market with design and craft and great activities for kids. 10am-4pm. FREE. Harriet Warden 020 8531 1612 info@blackhorseworkshop.co.uk www.blackhorseworkshop.co.uk/market Easter Egg Trail Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Follow carefully placed clues around Vestry House Museum and claim a free chocolate egg as your reward! 10am5pm. FREE, just drop in. 020 8496 4391 vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house Wild Card Spring Beer Festival Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ As Thurs 2 except 10am-midnight WVRA Monthly Gardening Day Meet at Village Square on corner of Orford and Eden Roads E17 9NJ Sweeping up leaves, cutting back bushes and flowerbeds around the Village. 10.30am-1.30pm. FREE. Helen Lerner 07814 042499 helen@walthamstowvillage.net Bunny Bonanza! Various venues: Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road E10 7HU Leyton Library, High Road E10 5QH Walthamstow Library, High Street, E17 7JN Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA Go hopping mad with our Easter bunnyinspired arts and crafts! Create rabbit ears, bunny bunting and more! 11am12pm. FREE but booking essential. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

Live Music Night with BB Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG A truly swinging 40’s-50’s set of rockabilly blues led by the crushing Miss BB. 8pm. FREE. http://lunalounge.info Live Music The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Our ecelectic live music ranges from country fiddle players to nerdy moody Indie acoustic guitar singers. 8pm1am. FREE. 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com King Salami & The Cumberland Three / The Fuzillis / Beach Coma What’s Cookin’, Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Freakbeat garage blues and rock’n’roll triple bill. 8.30-11.30pm. FREE with a collection. Stephen Ferguson 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk The Bluetone Groovers The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Debut outing of Bluetone Groovers’ new self-penned blues material. 9-11pm. FREE with collection. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

Easter Sunday 5 Easter Egg Trail Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Details as Sat 4 Wild Card Spring Beer Festival Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ As Thurs 2 except 10am-10pm Easter Celebration Services Greenleaf Road Baptist Church, 4 Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ 10.30-11am. FREE. https://greenleafbc.wordpress.com Jazz and Soul Night Upstairs at The County Arms, 420 Hale End Road, Highams Park E4 9PB Nag’s Head band Shelley & the MPGs play classic live jazz, soul and Motown. 8.30-10.30pm. £5 suggested donation Shelley 07903 271877 shelley@alphabeck.co.uk http://soul-screamers.webs.com

Northcote Karaoke The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Road E11 4EL Come and sing your woes away with a cocktail & our fun karaoke crowd. 8pm-12am. FREE. 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com

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The Friends of Highams Park present

BLACKHORSE WORKSHOP 1-2 SUTHERLAND RD PATH, WALTHAMSTOW E17 6BX

(For under16’s only)

Come and join in this free event. Can you find a hidden golden ticket? Wear your Easter Bonnet to be entered into prize draw! (Prizes for under16’s and Adults). Many prizes, including, family ticket to Paradise Wildlife Park, and Kidspace Romford. Refreshments available to purchase.

Introducing Your New Local Trophy Pet Foods Free Home Delivery Service To Walthamstow

WIN a FREE bag TROPHY PET FOOD for your dog or cat!

Answer the following question correctly, complete form below and return to: Trophy Pet Foods Lea Valley, 41 Aubrey Rd, Walthamstow, E17 4SL. Or Email Name, Address, Tel. Answer To TrophyLeaValley@Gmail.Com Open to E17 residents only. Entry Deadline 30th April 2015 Q. What type of dog is shown on this ad? Is It: English Red Setter / Pug Answer______________

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CUSTOMER GIVEAWAY!! Every Entrant will recieve a complimentary sample of pet food. Please tick here if you do not wish to recieve promotional inforamation from the company running this competition. Winner will be contacted by phone. All entries will recieve a free sample of Trophy Pet Foods to compare with your current pet food.

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Easter Sunday 5 continued The Musical Aquarium Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Jerome and Lindsay play some eclectic music for your Sunday lunchtime listening pleasure! 1-4pm. FREE. Jerome 07931 507760 jerome@jeromelanderson.com www.jeromelanderson.com

Easter Monday 6 Wild Card Spring Beer Festival Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ Details as Thurs 2 except 12-10pm Shorts On Tap & Stow Film Lounge presents Women In Revolt Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR First in a series exploring female filmmaking: a selection of extraordinary short works depicting, describing and challenging the very essence of being a woman. Doors: 7.30pm, films 8pm, close 10pm. Tickets: £5. Pre-book at www.stowfilmlounge.com or on the door if not sold out. 07910 643987 The Great Highams Park Easter Egg Hunt The Highams Park, Tamworth Avenue IG8 9RF Easter egg hunt in the Highams Park. Refreshments, face painting, prizes and balloons. 2-4pm. FREE but some activities will incur charges.

Tuesday 7 The Election: Author Event with Eleanor Levenson Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Eleanor reads and discusses her picture book for young children that explains through a fun story what an election is and how voting works. 11am-12pm. FREE but booking essential. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

Wednesday 8 Holiday Fun for Everyone! Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Enjoy a lively range of arts and crafts activities linked to the Museum displays. 10.30am-3pm. FREE, just drop in Sharon Trotter 020 8496 4391 vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house The Election: Author Event with Eleanor Levenson Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Details as Tues 7 April except change of venue and time. 2-3pm. Events marked

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CRAFTS

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FAMILY

FILM

Grow Your Own Theatre Presents Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, 53 Hoe St E17 4SA Three plays Welcome To Sunnydale, The Hall of Lost Things & Beanies created and performed by GYOT’s 10-14s, 14-18s and adult groups. £4, £3 conc . www.growyourowntheatre.co.uk

Thursday 9 Colour Me Happy Xylonite Arts, 12 Winchester Road E4 9LN An evening of colouring-in for adults! Hosted by the brilliant Jennie Caminada of Cheekyhandmades fame. Materials provided and tea, coffee and bikkies on tap. BYO booze. 7-9pm, £5, booking essential. info@xylonitearts.com www.xylonitearts.com Creative Kids: Victorian Costume William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP Celebrate William Morris’s birthday with party games, songs, prizes and decorating birthday treats. In partnership with Lloyd Park Children’s Centre. 10-11.30am, repeated 1-2.30pm. FREE but booking essential. 020 8496 4390 wmg.bookings@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk E17 Puppet Project Presents: In the Shadow of the War North Chingford Library, The Green, Station Road E4 7EN We explore the stories of WW1 in new and innovative ways; learn through interactive presentations then create your own shadow puppets with the help of experienced puppeteers! 2-4pm. FREE but booking essential. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

Friday 10 An audience with Ben Aaronovitch Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Join the conversation with author Ben Aaronovitch as we discuss Rivers of London the Cityread London 2015 book. 6.30-9pm. FREE but booking essential. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library Little Boat: Little Trip to Brazil Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Well known and beloved Latin tunes and songs delivered by Little Boat in a new and distinctive way. Expect beautiful jazz improvisations and soft, velvety vocals. 8pm. FREE. https://soundcloud.com/little_boat http://lunalounge.info

Stow Film Lounge presents Withnail & I (1987, Cert 15) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Black comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann as two unemployed, actors who take a trip to the country that quickly turns into a nightmare, thanks in large part to Withnail’s uncle Monty played by Richard Griffiths. Doors: 7.45pm, film 8.30pm. Bar until 12am. Tickets: £8.50/£6.50 (conc). Ticket & food £14 (pre-book only) Pre-book at www.stowfilmlounge.com or on the door if not sold out. 07910 643987 Gay Meet-up - 1st Anniversary The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Celebrating our First Anniversary at the Nag’s where it all started. 8-11pm. www.meetup.com/Walthamstow-GayMeetup

Saturday 11 E17 Puppet Project Presents: In the Shadow of the War Details as Thurs 9 April except changes to times & venues. Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA 10am-12pm Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton E10 7HU 4-6pm

Seedlings Drama & Making Club: Flowers Fantastic The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Grow Your Own Theatre’s activity sessions for 3-6 year olds. Creating flowers, inspiring adventures and their very own stories. 10am and 11am. £6 each or £10 for two children. Sarah 0774 034 3240 www.growyourowntheatre.co.uk/ book-here.html The Makers Yard Spring Fair & Open Studios 54 Shernhall Street E17 9HP Open Studios weekend to introduce two new members and offer an eclectic selection of retro collectables, original artwork and homemade refreshments. 12-5pm. FREE. Yvonne Overton 07791 028307 themakersyard@gmail.com www.themakersyard.com The Poetry Room: Word Games and Writing with Ian O’Rielly Leyton Library, High Road, Leyton E10 5QH The Poetry Room is a new space for those with an interest in poetry. Come and make this a room of your own! 3-4.15pm. FREE entry. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

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FOOD & DRINK

GARDENING

Folk Night The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH New monthly folk night. Sing, play or just listen to lovely acoustic folk music. Free and open to all. Cafe open with tasty snacks, cakes and drinks. 7-11pm. www.hornbeam.org.uk The Most Lovable Figure The Epicentre, 41 West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ Talk on rebellious George Lansbury, a christian socialist and pacifist and 1930s Labour Party leader. He went on to crusade against war by visiting Hitler and Mussolini. 7.30pm buffet (please bring something) 8pm talk, followed by questions. FREE but donations welcome. 020 8555 5248 info@newsfromnowhereclub.org.uk Elisa / Emilie Rachel Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Elisa is a French singer songwriter plus Emilie Rachel who’s influenced by Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Eyre. 8pm. FREE. https://soundcloud.com/elisap-2 http://lunalounge.info Funk & Disco Night The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Our funk and disco night returns with the most gentlemanly of DJ’s taking a turn on the decks. 8pm-12am. FREE. Tuesday Roberts 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com Alkatraz The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Uncompromising punk/garage. Think late 60’s meets Iggy Pop. 9-11pm. FREE with collection. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

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HISTORY

Sunday 12 Adire: Indigo Textiles Amongst the Yoruba (Film Screening) William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP Discover the traditional textile art of Adire, indigo resist dyed cloth made in Yorubaland, Nigeria. After the screening Lucille Junkere will discuss her practice and interest in the Yoruba way of making patterns with indigo. 2-4pm. FREE but booking essential. 020 8496 4390 wmg.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk Dad & Baby Massage and Yoga Health Works, 111a Hoe Street E17 4RX Dad and baby bonding with some great stretches and songs. Learn how to calm your baby and so other any colicky problems, bowel issues, teething etc. 10.30am-11.30am. £10 includes free baby massage oil for new dads. Jo 07587 638154 joredmonde17@gmail.com www.thehealthworks.co.uk Walthamstow Family Bike Club Meet at the Ancient House Orford Rd/Church Lane junction E17 9RW A friendly marshalled exploration of local open spaces and back street routes with a reviving cafe stop midafternoon. 1-5pm. FREE. Paul 020 8530 0648 paul.gasson@gmail.com Family Activity: Treasured Memories Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Be inspired by memories in the Everyday Muslim exhibition to create your own memory mug with artist Sba Shaikh. 1.30-4pm. FREE, just drop in 020 8496 4391 vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house

MUSIC

SHOPPING

The Makers Yard Spring Fair & Open Studios 54 Shernhall Street E17 9HP Details as Sat 11 April Andy Irvine at Walthamstow Folk Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA One of the great Irish singers, his voice gets to the very soul of Ireland. Andy was hailed as “a tradition in himself.” 7.30-10.30pm. £8, £7 conc 07740 612 607 info@walthamstowfolk.co.uk www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk The Acid Drops The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Resident psychedelic jazz/funk band (not many venues can say that!) The Acid Drops return to end the weekend with a howl of sax and guitar synth. 9-11pm. FREE with collection. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

Monday 13 Stowtellers – The Walthamstow Storytelling Club St Mary’s Welcome Centre, 8 Church End E17 9RJ Evening of traditional stories of plants, fruit and trees, told by Stowtellers members and guests. All welcome to listen, email us if you’d like to tell a story. 7.30-9.30pm. £3, £2 conc stowtellers@yahoo.co.uk Club Mellow 18-30s Men’s Group ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN For gay, bisexual or trans* men. 7-9.30pm. £2. 020 8509 3898 info@elop.org www.elop.org

COMEDY/THEATRE

Tuesday 14 Bricks and Tricks: Spring Fever Leyton Library, High Road, Leyton E10 5QH Create a springtime scene with working model farm, as we are joined by master architect of the miniature Rob Spinks and his billions of bricks. Suitable for ages 5+. 11am-12.30pm. FREE but booking required. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library Bricks and Tricks: Spring Fever Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton E10 7HU Details as above except change of venue and time. 2.30-4pm Who is Buried in Leyton St Mary’s Church? Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road E17 4JP Talk by local historians on the lives and times of some of the people interred at St Mary’s Church, Leyton. Wheelchairaccessible venue. 8-10pm. FREE no booking necessary. Mark Carroll 020 8530 4755 mcarroll@waitrose.com www.wffhs.org.uk

Wednesday 15 Growing in Small Spaces: National Gardening Week with OrganicLea St Johns Church Hall, Leytonstone High Street E11 1HH Don’t have a big garden? Don’t Worry! Many vegetables grow well in containers, so you can still grow your own food. 12.30-2pm. FREE but booking required. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

Since our first mural in November, with this month’s E List cover artist Static, Wood Street Walls have erected seven artworks - you can see them all on our Facebook page. We’re now planning our first workshops with East Thames and The Soul Project and have 3 new huge walls planned.

To help us create future murals in Walthamstow and build on our offerings of community workshops and future workspace plans please support us by donating at:

www.woodstreetwalls.co.uk/donate To suggest new wall spaces, tweet @woodstreetwalls using the hashtag #wallspace

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Wednesday 15 continued Change Champions Workshop Programme The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Sessions to support champions in the We Love Low Cost Living Campaign and other local people interested in starting a community project to grow/ share/nurture resources. 6.30-8pm. FREE but please book a space. grace@hornbeam.org.uk

Thursday 16 Arts Social Xylonite Arts, 12 Winchester Road E4 9LN Come and meet like minded creative souls! Final opportunity to discuss plans for The Highams Park Festival of Culture before the submission deadline on 24 April. 7-9pm. FREE. info@xylonitearts.com www.xylonitearts.com Walthamstow in 1915 – Magic Lantern Show Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH To mark the Centenary of the Walthamstow Historical Society Gary Heales re-creates the illustrated talks enjoyed by the Society’s first audiences using an antique magic lantern and slides from the Museum’s important historic collection. 2-4pm. £1.50, members FREE. walthamstowwalks@mz48.myzen.co.uk www.walthamstowhistoricalsociety. org.uk or 07792 750017 Revelation: Exhibition by Jean-Pierre Mas Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA What lies beneath the ordinary? Revelation is an effort by the artist to uncover the intrinsic beauty inherent in everything. The exhibition takes you on a journey where the ordinary is, in fact, extraordinary. 6-9pm. FREE. Jean-Pierre Mas jp@jpartworks.com www.jpartworks.com Neighbourly Knit & Stitch Significant Seams 131 Wood St E17 3LX A social group of those who like to make, we share (& show off!) what we are working on, and have a laugh. We always have community projects on offer too. 7-9pm. £3 020 8521 4244 admin@significantseams.org.uk http://www.significantseams.org.uk How Life Moves Calderon Road E11 4EU Experience a beautiful meditation practice that will relax you, deepen your body awareness, and may even change your life! 7-9pm. £10. Booking essential as spaces limited Kimaya 07801 142000 kim.soulsister@gmail.com www.dakinikimaya.com Events marked

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CRAFTS

DANCE/FITNESS

Did we Dream it?: Dave Fouler’s Band Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Quality jazz. 8pm. FREE. http://lunalounge.info

Exhibition at

Blackduke Vintage

83 Grove Road, Walthamstow E17 9BU

ArtSmart: Rivers Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA ArtSmart Workshops present an exciting mixed media workshop for ages 7-11 exploring the theme of rivers. 11am-12.30pm. FREE but booking essential. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

Music in the Dark Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA French-Mexican acoustic guitar duo JP & Leonardo bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music. The sequences in the dark will wow your senses. An ultimate sound experience! 8-9.30pm. £9, £7 conc 079 6850 4888 info@musicinthedark.net www.musicinthedark.net Marcus Bonfanti / Tommy Hare Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Winner British Blues Awards 2013 & 2014 and frontman of legendary band Ten Years After, Marcus Bonfanti has “a powerful, gutsy voice” Robin Denselow, The Guardian. Tommy Hare in support. 8-10.30pm. £7, £9 on the door stephen@janussounds.com www.janussounds.com The Party Cats Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG 60’s, Motown, soul, funk and Beatles cover band. 8.30pm. FREE. http://lunalounge.info

Saturday 18 Dyeing Workshop: Adire William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP Part of African Textiles Season. Learn about natural indigo dye and create your own fabric to take home. This one-day workshop looks at the art of Adire, resist-dyed textiles made in Yorubaland, Nigeria. 10-4pm. FREE but booking essential. 020 8496 4390 wmg.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk Music in the Dark Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA Details same as Fri 17

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Revelation: Exhibition by Jean-Pierre Mas Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA Details as Thurs 16 except 6.30-7.30pm

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Weekends 11.00 am - 6.00 pm Saturday 18th April - Sunday May 17th Paintings and Ceramics by Linda Green and Textiles, Paintings and Sculptures by Saskia Huning www.lindagreenarts.co.uk www.huningdecorations.co.uk

Celebrating Heritage: Project Launch and Theatre Workshop Walthamstow Library, High Street, E17 7JN Spare Tyre Theatre will kick start Khyal Arts’ heritage project, taking you on an exciting and magnificent journey into your own tapestry of personal heritage. 3-4.30pm. FREE but booking required. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library Cowbell / The Sweat What’s Cookin’, Leytonstone Exservicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Cowbell ooze 60s soul with R&B vigour and vitality. 8.30-11.30pm. FREE with a collection. Stephen Ferguson 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk Louise Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Heartfelt jazz vocalist, hailing from the weather-beaten coast of Norway. 8.30pm. FREE. http://lunalounge.info Abdoulaye Samb & Minnjiaraby The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Senegalese Afro/Blues inspired by Fula and Mandinka cultures among many others. The name of the band means ‘the love of mixing’, which expresses the richness of Senegalese traditions and ethnicities. Not to be missed. 9-11pm. FREE. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

Sunday 19 Fund Raising Concert for St Mary’s Bell Restoration St Mary’s Church, Church End E17 9NP Afternoon of intriguing musical arrangements of well-known tunes including Cole Porter and Puccini whilst supporting our bell restoration appeal. 2.30-5.30pm. £8, £5 conc. Katherine Marshall 07790 038706 marshall.e17@gmail.com

Club Mellow Rainbow Families ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Opportunity for LGBT parents and carers with children of all ages to socialise and build support networks, and offering children opportunity to meet other LGBT families and develop a positive sense of self and identity. We meet at various venues, contact for current details. 3-5pm. £2 per adult, £1 per child. ELOP 020 8509 3898 info@elop.org www.elop.org Revelation: Exhibition by Jean-Pierre Mas Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA Details as Thurs 16 except 3.30-4.30pm Music in the Dark Blackhorse Lane Studios, 114 Blackhorse Lane E17 6AA Details as Fri 17 except 5-6.30pm Jazz at The Bell The Bell Pub, 617 Forest Road E17 4NE Live jazz and grooves from some fine jazz musicians. 8pm. FREE. Lucy Ward at Walthamstow Folk Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Since her last visit Lucy has firmly established herself as one of the key young folk performers in the country. Great songs and wonderful charisma. 7.30-10.30pm. £7, £5 conc 07740 612 607 info@walthamstowfolk.co.uk www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 20 Club Mellow Women ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN A space for lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans* women. 7-9.30pm. £2. ELOP 020 8509 3898 info@elop.org www.elop.org

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Mark Olson What’s Cookin’, Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Special one-off ticketed show with Jayhawks/Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers founder Mark Olson. 8.30-11pm. £12, advance tickets available. Stephen Ferguson 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk Blues at the Rose & Crown Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA An evening of live blues hosted by the Battered Saucepan Blues Band and guests. 8.45-11pm. FREE. Alan Cohen 07762 083384 adcohen50@yahoo.com

Wednesday 22 14th Real Ale Festival Waltham Forest Sports & Social Club, Town Hall Grounds, Forest Road E17 4BQ An East Anglian Odyssey. 20 real ales, ciders & perries with food available. 5-11pm. £2 or FREE to club and CAMRA members. Ray Spalding 020 8527 3944 www.wfsocialclub.org.uk Floral Art Evening Walthamstow Cricket Club, 48a Greenway Avenue E17 3QN Floral Art Society monthly meet-up with visiting demonstrators, in-house workshops and social events. 7.309.45pm. £7, members £2.50. Ann Young 020 8531 8178 walthamstowfloralart.wordpress.com Cale Tyson What’s Cookin’, Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Cale Tyson is a young, critically acclaimed country singer/songwriter from Nashville. 8.30-11pm. FREE. Stephen Ferguson 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk

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Thursday 23 Highams Park Live The County Arms, 420 Hale End Road, Highams Park E4 9PB An acoustic evening of live music, poetry and live literature. A platform for songwriters, poets and storytellers to engage with local people. New performers and audience members always welcome. 7.30-11pm. FREE. Nigel Mear 07730 985 615 info@highamsparklive.co.uk www.highamsparklive.co.uk St George’s Day celebrations The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Celebrate St George’s day here with live music & traditional grub. Special offers on good English Ale, cider and cocktails. 2pm-12am. FREE. Tuesday Roberts 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com 14th Real Ale Festival Waltham Forest Sports & Social Club, Town Hall Grounds, Forest Road E17 4BQ Details as Wed 22 except 12-11pm Los Otros at The Vic The Victoria, 188 Hoe Street E17 4QH Enjoy the mellow sounds of jazz standards with Los Otros at The Victoria. Who will be our mystery guests this time? 9-11.30pm. FREE. Julia Clarke 07801 756863 juliajubilada@gmail.com

Friday 24 14th Real Ale Festival Waltham Forest Sports & Social Club, Town Hall Grounds, Forest Road E17 4BQ Details as Wed 22 except live music after 7pm from the Bikini Beach Band. 12pm-12am Stow Film Lounge presents Get On Up (2014, Cert 12A) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A chronicle of James Brown’s rise from extreme poverty to become the Godfather of Soul, one of the most influential musicians in history. Doors: 7.45pm, film 8.30pm. Bar until 12am. Tickets: £8.50/£6.50 (conc). Ticket & food £14 (pre-book only) Pre-book at www.stowfilmlounge.com or on the door if not sold out. 07910 643987 The Bevvy Of Blues Jam The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG The monthly blues jam with house band The Bluetone Groovers and a host of amazingly talented jammers is going from strength to strength. 8-11pm. FREE. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

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Walthamstow-based director Peter Domankiewicz is premièring his first feature film at our very own Empire Cinema Tea & Sangria is a comedy about a British guy who goes to Madrid to live with his Spanish girlfriend, loses her and has to find out the hard way what life is Spain is really like. It premièred at the Dinard Festival in France - where coincidently some E17 folk saw it - to packed houses and a fantastic reception, which persuaded Empire Cinemas to take the unusual move of giving this low-budget movie, with no star names, a chance. Apart from directing his semiautobiographical film, Peter also produced, wrote and stars in it (not to mention doing the music). If you want to find out how, he will be holding a Question and Answer session after the screening on Saturday 25th April. Tea & Sangria is screening from Friday 24th April at the Walthamstow Empire. Tickets can be bought at the cinema or online. Advance booking is recommended, especially for the Q&A session. Let’s encourage Empire to do more of this kind of thing! http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/synopsis/tea__sangria/f4440 You can find the film on Facebook and Twitter. To get a taste of the movie and Spain, watch the trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kUzk5Vgo3g

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Friday 24 continued Scarlet Realm / The Blazing Zoos / The C’r’Bs The Plough & Harrow, 419 Leytonstone High Road E11 4JU Live New Wave pop-punk, alt-country and rock in the Sinbin tonight. 8-11.30pm. £4, or £3 before 8pm. info@ploughE11.co.uk http://ploughE11.co.uk

Saturday 25 Stow Kids Film Lounge presents Penguins Of Madagascar (2014, Cert U) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A spin-off of the popular Madagascar film series, this is an animated action comedy about four covert penguins who must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world. Doors: 10.30am, Activity Session, Film 11am, Close 1pm. Tickets: £5.50 child, £11 child party package, £4 acc adult, under 2’s free Pre-book tickets: www.stowfilmlounge. com or on the door if not sold out. 07910 643987 Laugh Out Loud & Soul 2 Dance Finals The Soul Project, 245 Wood Street E17 3NT A party for 8-14 year olds allowing drama students, comedians and video sketchers to entertain the community. Try to make people laugh out loud or just relax and watch our dance competition. 12-3pm. FREE. Cassie or Rani 020 8045 4523 www.tspyouthspace.weebly.com Family Day: London’s Mighty River William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP On the last Saturday of every month we pack the Gallery full of fun activities for families to make and do together. This month, experiment with new and unusual ways to represent the Thames in art. Drop-in event for families of all ages. 1-4pm. FREE 020 8496 4390 wmg.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Wood Street Village Fete Wood Street Plaza, Wood Street E17 3HX A community celebration of St George’s Day. Music, entertainment, stalls and more. 12-4pm. FREE. Tim Gill admin@woodstreetfirst.org http://woodstreetfirst.org

Live Acoustic Set The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Sara Robalo fuses Daft Punk with acoustic geek in that beautiful way that can not be rivalled. 8pm-12am. FREE. Tuesday Roberts 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com

Library Takeover! Sign Up Day Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN A once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a training programme for 11–18 year olds to give you the skills to run exciting creative events in your library and beyond. 2-4pm. FREE. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

The Saturday Session Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ Balearic, leftfield & disco sounds all night from DJs Pete Fowler & Eastern Front Soundsystem. 6-11pm. FREE. https://twitter.com/easternfrontdjs

The Poetry Room: Share and Create Leyton Library, High Road, Leyton E10 5QH The Poetry Room is a new space for those with an interest in poetry. Come and make this a room of your own! 3-4.15pm. FREE. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library Tea & Sangria: Film Premiere and Q&A Session Empire Cinemas, The Scene, 267 High Street, Walthamstow E17 7FD Premiere screenings from 24-30 April of festival hit indie comedy about an Englishman experiencing life & love in Madrid. This special screening features Q&A with its Walthamstow director/actor Peter Domankiewicz. 6-8.30pm £8 Fork to Fork Seasonal Supper Club The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Delicious, healthy & tasty food – locally sown, grown, picked & cooked. We cater for all special dietary requirements – please alert us to them when you book. 7.30-11pm. 3 courses for £15! www.hornbeam.org.uk

Tuesday 21st April 2015 2pm until 4pm Waltham Forest Social Club Waltham Forest Town Hall, Forest Road, E17 4JF

St. George’s Day Celebration Entertainment including Raffle Tickets

Tickets £6.50

Menu Pie, Mash & Liquor Sausages & Mash Jellied Eels & Crabsticks

If you would like to book a place contact Tommy Anderson 0750 6733392

The Outbursts The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Punk with a smile on its face - well, a knowing sneer. Brilliant songs that mercilessly lampoon the pompous and the self-important. High energy fun. 9-11pm. FREE. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk Kitchen Sink Drama Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG Country funk punk band combining danceable guitar grooves with thoughtful, witty lyrics. 8.30pm. FREE. http://lunalounge.info

Sunday 26 Highams Park Jumble Trail Xylonite Arts, 12 Winchester Road E4 9LN Join the trail and find arts, crafts, junk and treasure along the way! Follow via your phone or pick up a map from Xylonite Arts. 11am-3pm. FREE. info@xylonitearts.com www.facebook.com/events/ 497603660378035 BeBop Baby The Trades Hall, 17 Hoe Street, E17 4SB (entrance in Tower Hamlets Road) A daytime BeBop dance party for all the family. Live music, face painting & more. Buggy parking, baby changing, friendly people. 1-4pm. £4 or earlybird family tickets online. Hannah, Mandy, Ben 07813 156140 bebopbabydance@gmail.com www.bebop-baby.co.uk Forest Philharmonic Concert: Holst’s The Planets Walthamstow Assembly Hall, Forest Road E17 4JD Orchestral concert featuring Holst’s The Planets, Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture and Bourgeois’ Tuba Concerto No.2. Conductor: Mark Shanahan and tuba: David Carter. Free pre-concert talk 5.30pm. 6.30-8.30pm. £10. Balcony £15 (concs £12), Stalls £10 (concs £8, under-26s £3). Family ticket (stalls): one adult and one child £10 tickets@forestphilharmonic.org.uk www.forestapril15.eventbrite.co.uk Events marked

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Relaxed Afternoon Jazz The William Morris Bar, 807-811 Forest Road E17 4JD Cool Blue Note era jazz from the Paul Kaufman trio, plus occasional guest. Enjoy great food, wines, ales and company while chilling out in this fabulous warm and stylish bar. 1.304.30pm. FREE. Paul 07801 429782 paul20002009@hotmail.com Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar at Walthamstow Folk Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA By popular demand we’re delighted to present this astonishing young duo who have exploded onto the scene in the last year or so. A guitar and fiddle duo for the 21st century. 7.30-10.30pm. £7, £5 (conc) 07746 612 607 info@walthamstowfolk.co.uk http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 27 Reading Club Violetta Cafe, 487 Leytonstone High Road, E11 4LJ Monthly meet-up over tea or coffee to chat about a text chosen by club members. It could be a book, an excerpt from a novel, a poem or a newspaper article. 10-11.30pm. FREE. Ros Kane 020 8555 5248 hgcl.groups@outlook.com harrowgreenlibrary.wordpress.com

Tuesday 28 Rivers of London with the Ad Hoc Reading Group Leyton Library, High Road, Leyton E10 5QH Come along for an interesting, social evening as we add our voice to the London-wide exchange about the Cityread London 2015 book by Ben Aaronovitch. 7-8pm. FREE. Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library

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Wednesday 29 Dave Manington’s Riff Trio Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Inventive, forward-looking jazz that subtly pushes the envelope whilst remaining thoroughly accessible. 8.3011pm. £8, £5 conc Ray Spalding 0208 5273944 www.wegottickets.com/event/309955 www.e17jazz.com/whatson

Thursday 30 Music in the Village St. Mary’s Church, Church End E17 9RJ Fitzwilliam String Quartet perform quartets by Beethoven, Sibelius, Nielsen and Glazunov. 7.30pm.£13, £6.50 conc, on the door. 020 8223 0772 VillageMusic@WalthamSoft.com Wine Tasting The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Tasting wines from around the world, with Sean Pines. 7-9pm. £12 seanpic@aol.com PUNdamental Sinbin at The Plough & Harrow, 419 Leytonstone High Road E11 4JU Bringing Top Club Comedy to your door step with top comedy names! 7.45-10.30pm, £7. Neil Black ennarrbee@hotmail.com facebook.com/PUNdamentalComedy

Every week/Whole month Saturdays Family Storytime The Epicentre, Harrow Green Community Library, 41 West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ For children 3-11 years old to enjoy stories with their parents and carers. Local storytellers, including Jane Grell will share the magic of storytelling and build confidence in reading aloud. 2-4pm. FREE. Ros 020 8555 5248 hgcl.groups@outlook.com www.harrowgreenlibrary.wordpress.com Events marked

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Bakers Arms Book Group The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH An informal and friendly book group. Tea, coffee, wine available. New members welcome, just turn up. 7.30pm. www.hornbeam.org.uk

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Sundays NEW Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum 10 South Access Road E17 8AX Fascinating museum devoted to the technology and industrial history of the area with emphasis on the transport and manufacturing innovations which have taken place in the Lea Valley. Housed in a Victorian waste water pumping station, the museum is still under refurbishment. No booking necessary.11am-4pm. FREE Peter Spence 02085211766 pumphouse12@hotmail.co.uk www.walthamstowpumphousemuseum. org.uk

Until 19 April NEW Krix Panx Analogue & Digital Photography: The Explosion of My Trip Winns Gallery, Aveling Centre, Lloyd Park, Winns Terrace E17 5EQ Seen the one-man-loop-tastic-genius live? Know he was a photographer? Presenting: both analogue & digital photography from his mystical homeland Mexico to his new home London. Be immersed in the explosive journey he shares with you. 2-5pm. FREE. Krix 07582430230 krixpanx@hotmail.com www.krixpanx.com

Sundays Don’t let Sunday’s DRAG The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Feisty comedy and music in this weekly drag cabaret. 6-8.30pm. FREE. Tuesday Roberts 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com

Until 29 April NEW Purveyors of Print Xylonite Arts, 12 Winchester Road E4 9LN An exhibition of works in print created by local, national and international artists. Weds-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, 4th Sunday of the month 12-4pm. FREE. info@xylonitearts.com www.xylonitearts.com

Thursdays Lloyd Park Volunteer Gardening Meet William Morris Garden (near Forest Road gate), Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP We meet every Thursday to help keep the new William Morris Garden looking lovely with Lloyd Park’s Head Gardener. 10am-1pm. FREE. 020 8496 3000 or email ellie.mortimer@walthamforest.gov.uk

Wednesdays Priory Court Gardening Club Priory Court Community Centre, 11 Priory Court E17 5NB We want to encourage people of all ages to enjoy the benefits of growing their own food so if you would like to get involved and join our volunteers please get in touch! Beginners welcome. 2.30-4.40pm. FREE. 020 8531 9990

Until 7 June Yinka Shonibare MBE: The William Morris Family Album William Morris Gallery, Forest Road E17 4PP The Gallery’s first major commission: a Morris-inspired photographic exhibition by Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare MBE. Weds-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE. www.wmgallery.org.uk/whats-on

Until 17 May NEW We Weren’t Supposed to Stay & Other Stories Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH An exhibition by Everyday Muslim, a community heritage project creating an archive of British Muslim life. It explores the shared experiences of everyday life, with a special focus on Waltham Forest. Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE Carien 020 8496 4391 carien.kremer@walthamforest.gov.uk www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house

16-23 April NEW If Not Now The Mill, 7 - 11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Portraits of older people by photographer Michael Whelan, working with the charity Contact The Elderly to raise awareness of the isolation and loneliness which can occur. Tues-Thurs 10am-7pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-2pm. FREE. 020 8521 3211 www.themill­coppermill.org info@themill­coppermill.org

24-30 April NEW Tea & Sangria: Film Premiere Empire Cinemas, The Scene, 267 High Street, Walthamstow E17 7FD Premiere screenings of festival hit indie comedy about an Englishman experiencing life & love in Madrid. Special screening on Sat 25 features Q&A with its Walthamstow director/ actor Peter Domankiewicz. 6-8.30pm £8, £6 Seniors, All tickets £5 Tuesdays

Until 17 May NEW Timeless Blackduke Vintage, 83 Grove Road E17 9BU Exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Linda Green and textiles, paintings and small sculptures by Saskia Huning. Sat -Sun only 11am-6pm. FREE. Until 25 April NEW Spring Show Pictorem Gallery, 383 Hoe Street E17 9AP Ceramics, paintings, prints and drawings by Lucy and Jack Rickards. Tues-Sat 9am-5.30pm. FREE. Avtar/Surinder 020 8520 0340 www.pictoremgallery.com Saturdays North Star Velo Meet at corner of Browning Road & Bushwood Road, Leytonstone E11 3AY Typical rides are 40-50 miles including a coffee stop. See website for more information. 8.30am-1.30pm. FREE. www.northstarvelo.com

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Until 30 April Rose Richardson: Map Artist Walthamstow Central Library, High Street E17 7JN Visually striking hand-drawn Map Art of ancient and modern London including our very own Walthamstow. Imagine you are flying over a city. Experience the beauty of London as you have never seen it before. Mon-Sat 9am-7pm, Sun 10am-4pm. FREE. rose.richardson@rocketmail.com www.rosemapartist.com Until 11 April Grow Your Idea The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA A new exhibition to showcase the extraordinary success of activities and groups hosted at The Mill, the Walthamstow community project which opened in 2011 to support ideas driven by local residents. Tues-Thurs 10am-7pm. Fri-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 11am-2pm. FREE. www.themill-coppermill.org.uk Sundays Walthamstow Cricket Club Sunday Fun Walthamstow Cricket, Tennis & Squash Club, 48a Greenway Avenue E17 3QN A fun general knowledge and music quiz for all with cash and beer prizes and food in the interval. 8.3010.30pm. £1 each. Paul 07891 739454 p.harringtonmoore@btinternet.com Tuesdays Cheeky quiz night The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Cheeky quiz that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The winning team have the option of writing a round for the following week! 7.30-10pm. £1 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com Wednesdays Leyton Technical Quiz Night 265B High Road, Leyton E10 5QN £50 cash prize, bottle of wine for runners-up, spot prizes and cumulative bonus rollover prize too. 8pm. £2 each. 020 8558 4759 leytontechnical@anticlondon.com http://leytontechnical.com 7-17 April NEW Easter Holidays at Brooks Farm Brooks Farm, Skeltons Lane Park, Leyton E10 5BS Eggtastic Easter holiday fun at Brooks Farm! There will be chicks hatching, lambs jumping, Easter egg hunts, arts and crafts, outdoor cooking and much more! Disabled parking available. Booking required as spaces limited. 10am-4pm. £2 Alison Andrews 020 8509 4636 brooksfarm@forestymca.org.uk http://forestymca.org.uk/brooksfarm

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Wednesdays NEW International Conversations Le Délice, 114 Hoe Street E17 4QR Share your language and learn another by talking with people while drinking coffee or eating pastry! 6-9pm. FREE. Sousou Jedlickova 020 8521 0606 ledelicee17@yahoo.co.uk www.ledelicee17.co.uk Wednesdays Club Mellow Youth Group ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road E17 9BN A space for lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans young people aged 13-21yrs who want to meet up with others in a friendly, supportive environment away from the scene. 6-9pm. £1. Claire 020 8509 3898 or info@elop.org Thursdays Club Mellow LGBT Social ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road E17 9BN A weekly afternoon social support space for lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans people who want to meet up with others in a friendly, supportive setting. 2.30-4.30pm. £2. info@elop.org http://www.elop.org Tuesdays Pub Quiz The Bell Pub, 617 Forest Road E17 4NE Hosted by local celebrity Rowan McIntyre. Come flex those brain muscles every Tuesday night for your chance to take home the money! 8pm. £1.50 www.belle17.com Thursdays Club Mellow Baby & Toddler Group ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road E17 9BN A welcoming, inclusive drop-in for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* parents and carers and their babies and toddlers offering opportunity to network and socialise with other LGBT families in a safe, friendly setting. 11am-1pm. £2.50, little ones FREE. 0208 509 3898 or info@elop.org Fridays Blackhorse Friday Supper Blackhorse Workshop, 1-2 Sutherland Road Path E17 6BX Join us for an unforgettable evening with a vegetarian 3 course set dinner, craft beers and hand-picked organic wines, accompanied by amazing records. Booking advised. 7pm-12am. £15. Amir Mousavi 07427 663799 volstreetfood@gmail.com http://vollondon.com

Saturdays OrganicLea market stall with Transition Leytonstone Between St John’s Church & Matalan, High Road, Leytonstone E11 1HH As above. 10.30am-3pm. www.transitionleytonstone.org.uk

DANCE/FITNESS Saturdays OrganicLea market stall The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Organic and local sustainably grown fruit, vegetables, homemade bread, jams and preserves. Healthy Start vouchers can be used. 10am-3pm. www.organiclea.org.uk/we-sell-food/ our-market-stall Mondays Sing at The WO The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Join our fast growing community choir. Absolutely no auditions. All abilities welcome. Inclusive, informal and fun. 7.30-9pm. £7 or £6 in advance, taster session free. Laura 07813686980 singattheWO@gmail.com Wednesdays Natural Voices Choir: Leyton St Mary’s Parish Hall, 72 Lindley Road, Leyton, next to Murco pertrol station. E10 6QT Launch night for funky new choir in Leyton. Sing your heart out and make new friends. Enquire for further details and sign up now. 7.30-9pm. First session FREE, £8 thereafter. Lizzy 07950 204338 naturalvoices@hotmail.co.uk www.naturalvoices.co.uk Wednesdays & Thursdays Natural Voices Choir Sessions Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A fun funky choir for adults of all abilities during term time. Check website for more details and for information on sessions for other age groups. 7.30-9pm. £8 per session Lizzy 07950 204338 naturalvoices@hotmail.co.uk www.naturalvoices.co.uk Thursdays The Mill Voices – Sing for Pleasure & Health The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Non-auditioned adult group for anyone wishing to enjoy the positive effects of singing. 7.30-9pm. £2, £1 (conc) Marina TheMillVoices@hotmail.com Tuesdays East Side Jazz Club Tommy Flynn’s, Upstairs at 692 High Road, Leytonstone E11 3AA Weekly modern jazz club featuring the UK’s best jazz musicians in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere with plenty of seating. The music room has its own bar with real ale. 8.30-11pm. £6 cash on the door only. First floor, stairs access only. Clive Fenner 020 8989 8129 eastsidejazzclub@gmail.com http://eastsidejazzclub.blogspot.co.uk

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Sundays Karaoke Night Lord Raglan, 199 Shernhall Street E17 9HX Beat the blues and come and have a cheeky Sunday session. Prima Donnas will be laughed at, all talent welcome! 8-11.30pm. FREE. Archie or Maureen 020 8520 2145 www.facebook.com/lordraglane17 Sundays The Jazz Roast The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Every Sunday JB Jazz invite fellow jazzmeisters to sit in on their laid back vibe. The perfect accompaniment to The WO’s excellent Sunday roasts. 1-7pm. FREE. Roast optional, from £7. events@the-wo.co.uk www.the-wo.co.uk

Classes/Courses Mondays E17 Swedish Bygga Bo Café, 18 Chingford Road, E17 4PJ Learn Swedish on these beginners/ intermediate courses. Relaxed and fun for adults. Classes at 2pm, 7.30pm or 8.45pm. £10 (£60 for six classes). Christian Karlsson 07958 471083 chris@e17swedish.com www.e17swedish.com Tuesdays English Conversation Group The Epicentre, Harrow Green Community Library, 41 West Street E11 4LJ Improve your English, boost your confidence, increase your vocabulary and become more fluent. There will be opportunities to cook together and to visit some interesting places. 10am12pm. FREE. Ros 020 8555 5248 hgcl.groups@outlook.com www.harrowgreenlibrary.wordpress.com

For regular events that will fall on a bank holiday, please check with venue before setting out Wednesdays 15 April-20 May NEW Meditation and Mindfulness Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU 6 week course teaching ways to bring meditation and mindfulness into your day to day life. With clear instruction, lots of practical experience and reflection in class and optional background reading. See website for more information and to book a places are space is limited. 7-9pm. Six sessions for £65 or £95. Rebecca 07985 956361 stowsangha@gmail.com www.stowsangha.co.uk/programme.html

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Thursdays Women Learn Self-Defence KAPAP Style Lea Bridge Library , Lea Bridge Road, Leyton E10 7HU 4 week course. Learn simple, effective skills to defend yourself in everyday situations. Please note that this is a women only class, but will be led by a male tutor. 11am-12.30pm. FREE. 020 8496 3000 www.wflibraries.eventbrite.com Saturdays Waltham Forest Bilingual Group The Limes Community and Children’s Centre, 6 Somers Rd E17 6RX Workshop and drop-in advice and play session for parents raising their children bilingually. Discuss language choices and strategies, or just pop in for a coffee and a chat. 3.30-5.30pm. FREE. Claire Thomas 07770 860038 info@wfbilingual.org.uk www.wfbilingual.org.uk Alternate Sundays 12 & 26 April Life drawing Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Create original art in front of a life model. All materials provided. Advance booking essential. 3-5pm. jonathan.ellis@mac.com or text 07980 713819

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Thursdays until 21 May Kids Art Club The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Fun art club with five themed sessions for 3-8 year olds. 3.30-5pm. £1. 020 8521 3211 info@themill-coppermill.org www.themill-coppermill.org Tuesdays Significant Seams, 131 Wood St E17 3LX 020 8521 4244 admin@significantseams.org.uk www.significantseams.org.uk Sew & Tell: ESL with Zelda (term time) Come along and learn English (and sew!) in a friendly environment. 10am-1pm. £3. Kids knitting club Join us for a great after-school activity. 4-5pm. £5. Wednesdays Significant Seams (as above) Stories & Sticking Craft activity and story time for toddlers and their adults with Kaye. 10.30-11.30am. £3. Mending club Friendly group sharing the joy of making and making it up when it goes a lil’ wrong! 1-3pm. £3. Kids’ craft club Good citizenship and creative making at our community space on Wood St. 4.30-5.30pm. £5

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Thursdays Significant Seams (as above) Supportive Sewing Circle A welcoming group who stitch & knit, socialise and make, brightening the week. We always have at least one community project on the go so anyone can join in, with or without a current project. 1-3pm. £3. Neighbourly Knit & Stitch A social group of those who like to make, we share (& show off!) what we are working on, and have a laugh. We always have community projects on offer too. 1-3pm and also 7-9pm on 16 April. £3 Mondays & Wednesdays until 1 April Five String Banjo for Adults Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Dick Smith teaches 5-string banjo classes in 3 finger bluegrass style picking for adults. 1 hour classes Mondays 7.30pm, Wednesdays 6.30pm. £12.50 or £10 per class when term booked in advance. Violaine Bailleul 07745 052525 info.banjosmith@gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk

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Mondays until 18 May Five String Banjo for Beginners As above except Mondays 6.307.30pm. £12. Dick Smith 07903 419691 info.banjosmith@gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk Tuesdays & Thursdays (term time) Strung Out: Violin groups for Adults Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Fun violin group for adult enthusiasts of all levels, with a professional musician whose work spans from the West End to Womad. Please book in advance. 1 hour classes, Tuesdays at 6.30pm Easy, 7.30pm Early Stages, Thursdays at 7pm Intermediates and 8pm for Beginners. £10. Violaine 020 7018 2927 strungout@shapeshifter-productions.com www.shapeshifter-productions.com Mondays Life drawing The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Come and join this lovely life drawing class. Easels and boards available. 7.30-10pm. £8.50, no booking needed. walthamstowlifedrawing@googlemail. com Events marked

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Saturdays & Mondays Ukulele Classes Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Learn the ukulele with an experienced, professional musician in a fun and relaxed environment. Saturdays: One hour sessions at 10.30am, 11.30am (Advanced), 12.30pm (Improving beginners). Mondays: 8.30-9.30pm (Beginners/ Improvers) All £10. Violaine Bailleul 07745 052525 info.banjosmith@gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk Sundays The Drawing Room Ricco’s Cafe, 64 High Street E17 7LD Develop your observation and drawing skills. These weekly meetings consist of themed lessons to explore a range of different ideas and techniques. Price includes coffee, tea and cake. 10am-12pm. £12.50, first session £5. Spaces limited so booking essential Marc Summersgill 07738114358 marc@marcsummersgillpaintings.co.uk Mondays NEW Life Drawing in Leytonstone The Plough & Harrow, 419 Leytonstone High Road E11 4JU Untutored life drawing sessions, poses up to 45 min long. Spacious venue, relaxing atmosphere, friendly and sociable. Drop in any time during session as no pre-booking needed. Free art materials, tea and biscuits. 7.309.30pm. £6. Jennifer Wolf 07792 892405 J_wolfmail@yahoo.com Thursdays The Mill Voices – Sing for Pleasure & Health The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Non auditioned adult singing group for anyone who wishes to enjoy the positive effects of singing. 7.30-9pm. £2, £1 (conc) TheMillVoices@hotmail.com

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Fridays from 24 April Walthamstow Children’s Choir The Peterhouse Centre, 122 Forest Rise (nr Wood Street) E17 3PW For ages 5–11, over 7s particularly welcome. Children learn to sing together and about vocal development and musicianship. But most importantly they have fun! 4-5.30pm. £3, £5 for two siblings. Charlie Furniss 07795 025635 e17childrenschoir@gmail.com Saturdays E17 Guitar Clubs Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Fun guitar lessons for adults and children of all abilities. Juniors: ages 7 and upwards. Different levels & times. Five 30min lessons £44. Adults: Multi-skill groups. Beginners welcome. From 12 noon. Five 30min lessons £44, or drop-in £10. Christian Karlsson 07958 471083 chris@stunningmusic.com www.e17guitar.com Thursdays Acoustic Showcase The Village Pub, 31 Orford Road E17 9NL Weekly acoustic sets of covers and originals performed by talented London musicians in the warm and friendly atmosphere of the Village Pub. To perform please contact Gabriel. 8-11pm. FREE. gabriel4music@gmail.com Thursdays Tiny Tempo Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Fun introduction to musical conceptsusing singing, instrument playing, listening and dancing! With guitars, ukuleles, and a lot of energy, fun is had by all. 9.30-10.30 for under 18 months, 10.30-11.30 for 18 months and older. £5 for one child, £8 for two. www.hornbeam.org.uk

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Thursdays Community Choir for Parents & Childminders St Michael & All Angels Church Hall, Northcote Road E17 6PQ Easy to learn, powerful, uplifting harmonies and songs from all around the world. Bring your baby & toddler along and a will to sing. No experience necessary. 10-11am. £6. Stephanie 07805 429570 east17singers@gmail.com

For regular events that will fall on a bank holiday, please check with venue before setting out Saturdays B.I.G. Gospel Choir All Saints Church, Church Avenue, Highams Park E4 9QD Join this friendly and dynamic choir who were recent finalists of Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2014. Bring water to drink. 4.30-6pm. £5 plus annual membership. Lisa Herbert 07757924648 leece@ntlworld.com http://bigchoir.co.uk Mondays (term-time) Woodcraft Folk Walthamstow Woodchips Venue varies, Epping Forest / Higham Hill E17 4BT Parent-led group for children aged 4-6. We believe in peace, sustainability, social justice, friendship, children’s rights and co-operation. We explore the forest, play games, make things, tell stories, sing songs, go camping and more. Venue alternates between the forest and a local hall. 5.30-6.30pm. £20 a term (£10 low/unwaged) . e17woodchips@gmail.com http://woodcraft.org.uk/

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Fridays Waltham Forest Green Gym Meet outside The Stables in Lloyd Park Green Gyms are fun and free outdoor sessions where you will be guided in practical activities such as planting trees and sowing meadows. Unlike other conservation projects, the emphasis is very much on health and fitness to suit all abilities. 10.45am2pm. FREE. Gareth 020 8533 8022 gg-waltham-forest@tcv.org.uk www.tcv.org.uk/greengym Mondays Toddlers & Tea The Northcote, 110 Grove Green Rd E11 4EL Grab a pot of tea or a vino whilst the kids make a mess with the playdough. 12.30-3pm. FREE. 020 8518 7516 tuesday.northcotee11@yahoo.com Wednesdays (term-time only) Brownies in Wood Street Peterhouse Community Centre, 122 Forest Rise E17 3PW Brownies is for girls aged 7-10. We meet once a week and do lots of fun activities and games. We also have a variety of trips and weekends away. Please email/call to express interest and find out more. 6.30-8pm. £2. Lottie 07740 985479 22ndwalthamstow@gmail.com www.girlguiding.org.uk Tuesdays and Thursdays Magic Box: Interactive storytelling sessions Mothers Hub, 133 Wood Street, E17 3LX Drop-in for 2ish- to 5-year olds. What’s inside the Magic Box today? Join a host of different characters, from Dahlia the Dinosaur to Captain Wonkynose, as they lead you on exciting and interactive storytelling adventures! Coffee and cake included. Tues 4-5pm, Thurs 10-11am. £4 or £6 for 2 kids Lottie magicboxe17@gmail.com

Still angry after all these years! Some people mellow with age. Others don’t. “Not Dead Yet” is the title track of the new CD release by Walthamstow band Graham Larkbey & the Escape Committee - a full-on blast of protest against political let-downs both past and present. Said Graham: “It’s an old cliché that people get more complacent and conservative with age. I’d been thinking “I don’t feel like that at all – I’m just getting angrier!” and bang – out came the song. Basically it’s saying “We’ve believed in the ideals, we’ve gone on marches and stood on picket lines for them, successive politicians and Governments have lied to us

and let us down… we may not be in the first flush of youth anymore but we’re not giving up, and you’d better listen to us ‘cos we’re not dead yet!”. Other tracks are a bit more laid-back and include a cover of the soul classic “The Dark End Of The Street”. The 5-track CD is available for £4 (inc postage) from Graham Larkbey, 35 Carr Road, London E17 5ER. For further info on the band, pictures, gigs etc, check them out at www.theescapecommittee.info, www.facebook.com/escapecommittee, or email the.escape.tunnel@gmail.com

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Mondays & Thursdays (term time) Bongalong: Music, Movement & Make Believe St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF Fun music sessions using singing, dancing, let’s pretend and wonderful percussion instruments. Sessions for Under 5s and their carers at 10am, 11am, additional session on Mondays at 1.30pm. Sessions for Under 1s at 1.30pm and 2.30pm on Thursdays. £5.25. Booking essential. fiona.bongalong@gmail.com 07811460282 www.bongalong.co.uk Wednesdays Hola Chicos - Spanish Sessions Mothers Hub, 133 Wood Street, E17 3LX Introduce babies and toddlers to Spanish through songs, games, music and fun activities. No Spanish necessary although the group is also suitable for Spanish speaking families. Ages 0-5. Just drop-in. 10-11am. £5 Alex Brandon 07528 385986 alexjanebrandon@gmail.com www.facebook.com/holachicosspanish Fridays (term-time) Acting Bugs The Peterhouse Centre, 122 Forest Rise (nr Wood Street) E17 3PW Drama and storytelling classes for children: ACTING BUGS for children aged 3 to 4. DIDDY BUGS for the under 3s stimulates the senses through story based sessions. 9.50-11.30am. First class FREE. £7 per session paid half termly, £6.50 per session when paid termly. 50% discount for siblings. Samantha 07903 459497 info@actingbugs.co.uk www.actingbugs.co.uk Saturdays French Classes The Salvation Army, 434 Forest Rd E17 4PY Come and sing with us in French! Saturday French Club for children aged 4+. Two 1 hour drop-off classes: 10am for non-French speakers, 11am for French speakers. 10am-12pm. £8. Free trial. 20% off for siblings. Sofia 07574044184 sofia.bouceddour@yahoo.fr http://laccent.weebly.com Saturdays Bongalong: Early Risers St Mary’s Welcome Centre, 8 Church End E17 9RJ Up early on a Saturday morning? Come along to Early Risers-fun, creative music sessions for children Under 5 and their carers; singing, dancing, fab instruments, snacks and a story. Dropin, term-time only. 8.30-9.15am. £6. £10 for 2 children, older siblings £3. fiona.bongalong@gmail.com 07811 460282 www.bongalong.co.uk

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Mondays & Wednesdays Capoeira Classes Walthamstow Leisure Centre, 243 Markhouse Road E17 8RN Capoeira is a unique Brazilian art-form that combines martial arts, dance, music and acrobatics. It exercises all the muscle groups and the mind! All levels welcome. 6.15-7.30pm. £9 per class, first class FREE. Child & Student discounts available. 07462 745158 sacimaculelecapoeira@gmail.com http://sacimaculele.com Mondays Clare’s Dance Class United Reformed Church Hall, 58 Orford Road E17 9QL A fun dance class for ladies in the Stow! Learn different dance styles & iconic routines from musicals & pop videos such as Thriller! Beginners welcome. 8.30-9.45pm. £8 drop-in/£6 term rate. Clare Farow 07939 125014 clarefarrow2@gmail.com Mondays NEW Jive and Lindy Hop Course for Beginners Walthamstow Trades Hall, 17 Hoe Street (entrance in Tower Hamlets Road) E17 4SB This six week course will teach you the basic moves to dance 6 count jive to the music of the 40s and 50s. 7.30-8.30pm. £11.50 or £55 for the course. Jerome Anderson 07931507760 jerome@jeromelanderson.com www.jeromelanderson.com Tuesdays Swing Patrol Sinbin at The Plough & Harrow, 419 Leytonstone High Road E11 4JU Weekly swing dance classes. No experience or partner necessary! 6.308.30pm. £8. 020 3151 1750 www.swingpatrol.co.uk Tuesdays Swing Patrol Sinbin at The Plough & Harrow, 419 Leytonstone High Road E11 4JU Weekly swing dance classes. No experience or partner necessary! 6.308.30pm. £8. 020 3151 1750 www.swingpatrol.co.uk Tuesdays Tai Chi for Self Defence Waltham Forest Disability Resource Centre, 90 Crownfield Road, Leyton E15 2BG New, free class. All welcome, however we particularly welcome people with a disability and the elderly. Full support will be available for those who need it. 1.30-2.30pm. FREE. WFDRC 020 8534 1589 reception@wfdrc.org.uk http://wfdrc.org.uk

What the Eye Sees a poem by John Walsh inspired by the above photograph by Paul Tucker for last year’s Art Trail The daily ritual: shaving, shoes polished, pressed trousers, the tie, breakfast at eight, the walk on the promenade. My carapace. What your prying eye does not see is the synaptic sparking, the hormone swirl the dreams, the secret worlds of loves and longings. John Walsh is an active member of Forest Poets and drives his granchildren to distraction with all his poems. Find Forest Poets on Facebook and Twitter @ForestPoets

Highams Park Festival of Culture We are looking for expressions of interest from artists, performers, poets, musicians, writers and all round creative souls, for the first ever Highams Park Festival of Culture. The Festival dates are Thursday 9 July – Sunday 26 July, A Facebook call has been set up at https://www.facebook.com/ events/1551265658456104. Please spread the word! Lots of events are already in the pipeline, but we want as many local people/organizations/groups as possible involved, filling the period with an excellent selection of events and happenings for all the community!

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Tuesdays NEW Women-only Flow Yoga: Foster Hall, Wellesley Road E17 8JZ Circular Flow Yoga combining asanas/ postures to create a sequence to flow in, to deepen the stretch & more importantly the internal awareness. 7.15-8.15pm. £10 drop-in, £35 for 5 or £50 for 8. sherene@circularflowyoga.co.uk www.circularflowyoga.co.uk Tuesdays Pilates The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Please book in advance. 6.30-9pm. £12 or £55 for 6. Galina 07748 654124 Wednesdays Women’s Morris Dancing: Beginners Evenings St. Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road, E17 3JF Blackhorse & Standard Morris invite women 18 to 70(ish!) to a fun & friendly evening learning traditional English Morris dances. Musicians (male or female) also welcome. 8-10pm. FREE. Wendy 020 8527 2926 www.blackhorseandstandard.org.uk

Wednesdays Low Cost Dynamic Yoga Leyton Yoga, 691 High Road Leyton, First Floor (above USSR) E10 6RA A slow-flowing, dynamic yoga class, leading to deep relaxation. Open to all levels. Just drop in. 11am-12pm. £6. leytonyoga@gmail.com www.leytonyoga.com Wednesdays NEW Vestry Tots St Mary’s Welcome Centre, 8 Church End E17 9RJ Fun interactive dance classes. Develop your child’s confidence, self expression, spatial awareness, balance and rhythm. 1.30-2pm. £4.60 or £49.50 per term. Lyndsey ward 07886 800639 www.vestryschoolofdance.co.uk Wednesdays Walthamstow Sports Hub Walthamstow Academy , Billet Road, London E17 5DP A multi-sport hub night for ages 12-18 including football, badminton, table tennis and inclusive street dance all in a fun, safe environment. Come down and get involved, you don’t want to miss out! 5-7pm. £1 per class. Tau Roberts 07534 945885 walthamstowsportshub2015@gmail.com

Thursdays Post-Natal & Baby Yoga Friends Meeting House, Bush Road E11 3AU Post Natal Yoga to help get your body back in shape after your birth, focusing on problem areas. Baby Yoga to help aid digestion, flexibility and relaxation with fun stretches & swings, for babies from 6 weeks to 12 months. 10.45am12pm. £10 drop-in. josettayoga@hotmail.co.uk 07554 440499

Saturdays NEW Celebrating Heritage: Dance Performance Project Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton E10 7HU Led by Khyal Arts, this is an exciting opportunity for everyone aged 10+ to explore ideas about their heritage through dance. 2-3.45pm FREE Book via www.wfculture.eventbrite.com or call 020 8496 3000 or visit your nearest library.

Fridays Yoga Class Tommy Flynn’s, 692 High Road, Leytonstone E11 3AA Friendly class to improve your strength, alignment and flexibility. Poses modified to suit all levels. The perfect way to start the weekend! Drop in class, no need to book. Please bring a yoga mat. 10.30-11.30am £8, first class £5 if you quote EL1 Rosalba 07966 960 949 Rosalba@tiscali.co.uk

Saturdays Donation Yoga For All Levels United Reformed Church, 58 Orford Road E17 9QL A friendly Saturday morning class for all levels. Yoga to boost immunity, strengthen the body, release deep tension and promote relaxation. All equipment provided. 10.30-11.45am. Donation, pay what you can afford. Sarah Rush 07815120792 enquiries@yoyoga.co.uk www.yoyoga.co.uk

Sundays NEW Wynwood Runners Wynwood Art District, 2A Chingford Rd E17 4PJ Social running group. All welcome. No one left behind! 5-10k route decided by popular vote. 9-10am. FREE.

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Bags of Style Walthamstow may already be the home of those who make and create, but with the launch of her new handbag range – Burgoyne London - Desiree Pringle is hoping to make it a fashion forward postcode too… The E List sent Karen Dunn to find out more. So, how are your bags different from the competition? I want to create a fashion look, which is aspirational, but doesn’t take a month’s wages to buy. I was lucky that I already had good relationships with suppliers who would do short runs for me and I decided to work with quality PU rather than leather because it not only looks great, but it’s good for the environment too. Quality is key. Forget spending £10,000 on a Balenciaga bag because Walthamstow resident Desiree Pringle’s new range of handbags will give you the arm candy of your dreams for a fraction of the price. The former fashion buyer has taken the leap to set up her own business designing a line of on-trend handbags, under the name Burgoyne London, which she hopes will bring a pop of colour to the borough.

What’s your design process? I want to make bags that are on trend, but have a clean edge to them with just one or two design features to catch the eye. I draw inspiration from statement jewellery by designers like Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent and apply the famous Coco Chanel quote: “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off” to my designs too.

Who would you like to see carrying your handbags? To see someone like Alexa Chung or Rachel Weisz with one would be amazing, but the biggest buzz for me would be seeing regular people using them. There’s nothing like the kick of seeing someone on the tube or on the street with a bag I’ve designed because I know they’ve picked it and parted with their hard–earned money for it.

To buy Burgoyne handbags visit: www.burgoyne.london or follow Desiree’s journey on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ burgoynelondonhandbags

Hi Desiree, your new handbag range looks amazing, but what made you decide to start your own business? Ever since I moved to the UK from Ireland 17 years ago I’ve worked as an accessories buyer for lots of high street stores from Coast to LK Bennett. While it was great fun developing brands, I couldn’t really put my own stamp on the designs. When I was made redundant last year it gave me the push to finally follow my heart and start my own business. Has living in Walthamstow inspired your business in any way? Definitely. There’s so much energy and new places popping up all the time. It’s really inspiring and made me feel it was realistic to give it a go too. It felt like the right place to start Burgoyne, especially as there are already fledgling fashion businesses here like milliners and fashion designers too.

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Armed only with a pencil our hero gave chase… Walter Henry Booth was a prolific comic book artist of immense imagination who knew exactly how to tell thrilling stories for children. His most famous creation is the boy detective and special agent Rob the Rover, whose adventures are acknowledged to be the world’s first comicbook adventure hero. Jonathan J Elliot examines Booth’s llife and legacy.

by Amalgamated Press and the winds of change were blowing through the company. Booth needed to make his mark. In 1920, newly married and at the age of 31, he struck gold.

Booth was born in 1889, in Walthamstow and he studied at the Walthamstow School of Art. At the age of 22 he quietly started his commercial comic book career at James Henderson and Son, a publisher in the heart of what would have been a buzzing Fleet Street.

Rob the Rover was an instant, smash hit - and was immediately put into Amalgamated’s top seller Puck where it stayed for 20 years. Rob was frequently accompanied by Joan, who insisted on coming on even the risky missions, despite Rob’s gallant reservations. There was usually a foreign assignment, a chase and of course Rob (and Joan) always prevailed.

Children’s comics then had names like Our Young Folk’s Weekly Budget. That title must have done alright, though, because shrewd Mr Henderson had bought the serial rights to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and then Kidnapped which appeared in the paper. No pressure on the young Booth to impress, then.

WH Booth’s career may have been taking off, but in 1922 his personal life took a hammering, when Elsie, his 26-year-old wife of barely three years died. The heartbroken widower took comfort in the arms of a 22 year old confectioner’s assistant called Ethel Hammerton and the following year they married.

In 1915 he devised Professor Potash who did moderately well. But Booth needed a character who would really take off. James Henderson & Son was being bought

The same year Rob the Rover went international. A Danish publishing house bought the rights to it and Booth’s opposite numbers re-created Rob as ‘Willy’.

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Danish school boys could now thrill to the same adventures and Booth was on a roll. He must now have been sufficiently highly regarded at Amalgamated to work where he liked. He and Ethel moved away from Walthamstow to the picturesque coastal town of Barmouth in Wales, where they lived in some style and he worked remotely, penning his tales with views of the Irish Sea. In the next 8 years, he created countless epic stories with wonderfully evocative titles like Orphans of the Sea, Cruise of the Sea Hawk, Captain Moonlight, The Pirate’s Secret and The Flying Boy. Booth’s readers couldn’t get enough - and nor could Amalgamated. But in 1940, disaster! Rob the Rover is killed! Not by the Evil Emperor of Atlantis, not by Martian Death Rays but by the ultimate über-baddie, Hitler himself, who causes a shortage of paper in Fleet Street. Fiend! With many of Amalgamated’s titles shut down, WH Booth had to cast around for whatever was going. He found work with Scion, a British imitator of the then hard-to-get American DC Comics. It wasn’t

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Booth’s stories are ripping yarns that fired the imaginations of a generation of children yearning for escape from the dreariness of depression era and warravaged Britain. His career spanned two world wars, lasted 46 years and he was still productive into the late 1960s.


Rob the Rover, but early superheroes like ‘ElectroMan’ and ‘Litening’ that were in vogue now. Booth proved he could move with the times, and must have been doing US-style comic strips in his 60s for readers a tenth his age. If he missed his boy detective, we’ll never know. In retirement, WH Booth turned his pen to landscapes, Tolkienesque fantasy scenes and portraits of beautiful young women, not remotely in a comic book style, but expertly rendered, full size pencil and watercolour paintings. The portraits show a sensual imagination that couldn’t be more different from the boy’s adventure material that defined Booth’s comic book work. It begs the question, how many more late Booths are out there? Is there a second,

only semi-discovered legacy of this great British comic book artist? Booth died in 1971 aged 81, in Barmouth and is laid to rest alongside Ethel. His fans in Walthamstow and Chingford are still collecting his late paintings and curating his work. The tantalising possibility remains that much more of Booth’s late-flourishing career as a portraitist is awaiting discovery, for in his final years, he paid his rent with paintings. The attics and walls of Barmouth may yet yield up more secrets. This is clearly a job for no ordinary detective… But wait! Is Rob the Rover really dead after all? Booth’s greatest creation is not to be dismissed so easily! For, long after Hitler is vanquished, Danish Willy is still fighting the good fight! Ha! After the presses in Fleet Street grind to a halt, Rob’s Danish alter-ego carries on (presumably from his island hideout, living on herring) smashing baddies everywhere in a wildly popular weekly called Familie Journalen that keeps churning out ripping yarns for another 37 years. By the end, Willy has upgraded his

biplane and is taking on the enemy with an amphibious flying saucer, but it’s pretty much Rob the Rover in Danish. And even when Familie Journalen folds, Rob/aka Willy still fights on. Since 1977, a tribute group of Danish graphic novelists has been keeping the flame alive and continues making comic strips recounting Willy’s adventures to this day and much of Booth’s original dash and energy is clearly present in its wonderfully faithful retro renditions. Jonathan and the E list would like to thank Angela Wagstaff for her kind assistance, use of the images and her excellent website on Booth http://walter-booth.webs.com and the Chingford Historical Society www.chingfordhistory.org.uk Please also check out Angela’s book remembering another artist from the area ‘Douglas Frederic Mountford: Chingford Artist, Illustrator and Teacher’ available from The Bookshop, 135 Station Road, Chingford as well as other local bookshops and from the Chingford Historical Society www.chingfordhistory.org.uk

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merchants more protection that pubs, however the much despised ‘tie’ forcing publicans to buy beer at overinflated prices will end. The pub owning giants who profited from this arrangement claim it may reduce investment but it could provide publicans and their pubs with a vital lifeline. Last year The London Drinker magazine reported that Waltham Forest has lost 62% of its pubs in the last 30 years. Walthamstow has 10 fewer pubs now than it did a decade ago. Their plight and contribution to our social infrastructure has led Waltham Forest Council to draft proposals that will use its powers more effectively in preventing a publess future.

Richard Ashman sees the varied fortunes of the pubs, past and present, around Walthamstow’s Wood Street as an illustration of a much loved institution under attack. To make his point he summons the ghosts, or better the spirits of Benny Hill, an Elvis impersonator and ‘Daisy, Daisy’ on her bicycle made for two. Photo by Simon Goodwin. Walthamstow 2030. On the 27th floor of Loakes Tower, Mini Hoelland Street, an 8-year-old boy bounds into the living room. “Dad, Dad, Barney said at school today his Grandad used to work in The Rose and Crown. What was that?” “I think it was a pub – a funny sort of place people met in to drink, eat, play music, watch comedy and do quizzes and stuff.” “Quizzes? Weird.” 18

“Yeah. They pulled one down to build this place. It was called The Goose or something. Now go and play with your hologram robot.” The 311-year old Black Lion in Bayswater made £700,000 profit in 2013 but not enough to sustain it as a pub. Last year it was sold for £27 million to a developer expected to convert it into luxury flats. Walthamstow’s rocketing property prices

haven’t quite reached these heights yet, but it’s evidence that pubs are apparently worth more as anything other than, er, pubs. Three recent debates in the House of Commons in as many months and creeping changes to the law suggests the Government are beginning to listen to campaigners trying to save a way of life in apparent free fall. There’s a long way to go. Weak planning law still gives launderettes and scrap

On a brighter note you can still prop up the bar from The Plough. Its new home is at the neon wonderland of God’s Own Junkyard, one of three new industrial-chic imbibing venues in the same estate, with neighbours including the Wild Card Brewery, voted 4th in a recent survey by The Londonist to find the best pubs in Walthamstow. A purist may argue that this former steel fabricators isn’t really a pub

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Permission is needed to convert a shop into a pub, but not the other way round, the irony of which had me crying into my pint at The Plough on Wood Street, a night before its 280year history ended on New Year’s Eve 2010. Beginning life as The Harrow, with the Plough added later, the name reflected agricultural surroundings which eventually succumbed to urbanisation. It found itself in the way of the new railway line in the 1870s so was rebuilt across the road from the station. Today it’s called Wood Street Supermarket. What would Chas & Dave and Mungo Jerry make of seeing their former gig venue selling washing up liquid and clothes pegs?


at all, but it serves ales brewed just yards from the bar and has some of that quintessential pubby atmosphere. Wild Card represents an explosion of new breweries opening recently – some fifty now exist in London alone, giving hope that a rise in the popularity of our national drink could lead to a revival of the places that serve it. Wood Street reflects the borough’s pub loss statistics well - of five a decade ago only The Flowerpot and Duke’s Head remain. If Benny Hill was still alive, I wonder if he’d fancy placing a bet at Coral book makers? This was The White Swan until 2004 – a pub Benny once performed in apparently. In 1838 it was a humble, weather boarded beer shop, rebuilt in its present, grander form 50 years later. Yes, the law does little to prevent pubs being converted into bookies either. Nearby, The Pig and Whistle

was a 1980s shop-conversion pub, closing a while ago whereas its one time ‘sister’, The Flower Pot, happily survives across the street. This has remained a thoroughly traditional boozer since its establishment in 1863 by the Walthamstow Brewery on St James Street. For rarity value, Bass ale - with that cheerful red triangle logo (the world’s first registered trade mark) - is still served on draught, possibly a hangover from the time Bass owned the pub. A reviewer recalled watching The Generation Game there in the 1970s and the surroundings remain a perfect backdrop for watching Bruce Forsyth with large sideburns and flares or episodes of The Sweeney, the latter with characters necking pints of Double Diamond in pubs like The Flower Pot. If you don’t like waiting for other punters to engage in long

winded food orders and card payments, this is the place for you. Seeing three generations of the same family singing along to an Elvis Presley impersonator warms the cockles of my heart. It may not be the first port of call for a hipster and I think that’s no bad thing. The large cobbled area in front of Wood Street’s other functioning watering hole, The Duke’s Head, was once used as a turnaround spot for buses. Dating from the 1740s the pub originally had its own brewery, providing hot water to help locals with their laundry. Wood Street Philanthropic Society originated here when a soup kitchen was set up to assist the poor. The current interior has a typical, open plan arrangement that may work well for live gigs but leaves it feeling a little soulless at quieter times.

Brooke, exuding the confidence of Victorian pub architects with a faux Tudor style of ornate, overhanging upper windows. It opened as The Greyhound and Hare, renamed in 1887 after Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick (aka Lord Brooke) who married the socialite Frances Maynard, she gave her nickname to the music hall song ‘Daisy, Daisy’. Sadly its pub future was sabotaged last year after the management lost their license over drugs and illegal hostel use at the premises. It closed, reducing the number of Walthamstow pubs to the teens and has a new owner hoping to turn it into a kind of Buddhist Temple – something the council rejected in January. There was a swimming pool round the back. Anyone fancy a dip?

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Creative homeowners and renters wanted for the Green Open Homes weekend The Hornbeam Centre is looking for homeowners and renters for the borough’s second annual Green Open Homes weekend, 16th & 17th May 2015. Images by Veronika Speigl. Have you made home improvements which have kept you warm and saved you money? If so, would you be willing to share your experience to inspire others? We’re looking for people to take part in this year’s Green Open Homes weekend on 16th & 17th May 2015. Last year over 400 visits were made to 15 homes across the borough, where energy saving measures were on show and householders were on hand to talk about the impact these had made on their homes and their fuel bills. From DIY draughtproofing to solar panels or a complete retrofit – these homes showcased a range of possible solutions for homeowners or renters looking to cut their bills and conserve resources. As one visitor during the 2014 weekend told us: ‘I arrived with no expectations – this was my first visit – and left with my brain exploding with ideas and inspiration!’ This year’s Green Open Homes weekend will bring together a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to make our homes more energy efficient, warmer and cheaper to run. From the funky to the traditional, simple to high-tech, we’re looking for creative local solutions to green living. So whether you have taken small steps (like building with reclaimed materials or using low energy light bulbs) or if you have done major work (like installing solar panels or under-floor insulation), and are willing to open your home to the public – get in touch! You would be joining a network of enthusiastic, like-minded people in an inspiring project which has the capacity to really make a difference. We’re also looking for volunteer stewards to support Green Open Homes hosts on the weekend, and spring cleaners to help our hosts get their rooms ready to show. If you’d like to be a volunteer on this project please let us know.

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Our little piece of green The joy of your own allotment is often so much more than soil deep. Mark Burton and his young family are beating the weeds and looking forward to a lifetime of tea, talk, fruit and veg.

‘Don’y try and do it all at once,’ an old hand advised us. ‘It happens every year. People wear themselves out and don’t come back.’ We would soon be observed following this advice - primarily because we didn’t have the amounts of energy others credited us with. Gradually the jungle subsided and we understood why people might give up after enthusiastically clearing plots. Hacking away undergrowth is quick and easy. Cajoling crops from the newly uncovered soil is a whole new challenge. The mistakes we made were many and varied. But with practice and neighbourly 22

advice the books we’d once consulted were replaced with a more intuitive understanding of when to sow and when to reap. (Or more accurately, when to order seedlings online, or when to get them direct from the garden centre.) We learnt to be patient and happy to enjoy our allotment whether it sent us home with carrier bags full of fruit or a few lonely berries in an optimistically large punnet. This enjoyment is not difficult to find - especially in mid-summer where long afternoons run into golden evenings. Neighbours chat across fences and share produce; friends and families sit around bar-b-ques; children hide-and-seek their way along green pathways; we watch our son taking his first steps as he reaches for his beloved raspberries. These summer days hold their own magic, but it’s the graft of the deep mid-winter that makes much of it possible when land is cleared, soil is dug and deep-rooted weeds are attacked. Now our vision for the allotment stretches not only to this spring and summer but to the years ahead when our little man

will help us plant and sow with childish wonderment. Then to the expected teenage eye-roll when he will have more exciting things on offer. And one day, we hope our young man will return occasionally to help his Mum and Dad when there’s some heavy lifting to be done. In the five years since we’ve had our allotment the amount of produce we have grown has multiplied. Thanks to our rudimentary jam making skills and a freezer we enjoy the fruits of our labour (almost) all year round. We’ve also watched many of the empty plots come back into use and a new generation of people have joined the allotment community. Most have quickly grasped that the food we take home is just one of the many benefits of having a patch of countryside in the city. If you’re interested in renting an allotment the council have several dozen plots available across the borough. For more information search for “LBWF allotments” or email: allotments@walthamforest.gov.uk

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Sarah Chase When you first meet Sarah, she can seem very quiet and even reserved but as soon as she starts to talk about her Grow Your Own Theatre and Story projects she sparks into life. She vehemently believes in the power of fun and play, the messier the better, as gamechangers for kids. She tells Paul Lindt in a world obssessed with quantifiable results, the benefits of scribbling eyes on your own paper monster cannot be overstated.

You run something intriguingly called Grow Your Own Theatre (GYOT), which I understand has little to do with gardening or scripts. Grow Your Own began as a seed of an idea! Wide awake at 3am, feeding the baby (third one), I pondered idly on twitter about whether there were creative drama classes here, where children can create their own work and show it. Unfortunately for me Stella Creasy saw those tweets and suggested a meeting with her office to get the ball rolling. I then fell into The Mill Community Centre as it was opening and the business began. The baby still needed feeding. Oops! Three years on, after so much learning and failing and trying again - I am realising that our strength lies in our approach to drama as an opportunity to play and experiment. So I am launching Grow Your Own Story to cover the therapeutic and play work I do and wondering what other things we could also grow? Grow Your Own also implies a community get-stuckin-and-hands-dirty approach, and there are 28

so many creative people who have supported or collaborated with me - Arts and Crusts cafe, Cheekyhandmades. Laura Kerry from the Art Trail to name a few. Le Delice even made us a (delicious) cake for a show! Always happy to hear from people who want to help or have an idea. So Grow Your Own Story centres around ‘play’ as being a powerful force. In parts of Scandanavia play is the principle activity in school up to ages 7 or so. What do you see as the major benefits of play? Play is essential. When we play as children, we are trying things out and getting things wrong. This helps us figure out what to do. It can also be therapeutic as our brains can work things out that we can’t articulate. My friend Renetta Fake of Mind2Play has incredible information about the neuroscience of playing. It’s also fun! Life can seem pretty stressful for teenagers. One of my youth theatre, a Year 11 student in the middle of mock exams, told me last week ‘Youth Theatre is what gets me through school at the moment’. I am honoured to provide that space. You have volunteered with the charity CareFree Kids in the past. They use the concept of play to achieve some quite dramatic results. Carefree Kids is an amazing organisation. They train volunteers

from the community to become Therapeutic Playworkers who sit with children one-to-one while the children have a space to explore using art, sand and toys. The children do all the therapeutic work and the Playworkers reflect! I found volunteering for Carefree Kids fed into not only my work as a teacher and tutor, but my parenting and life too. A really valuable experience, which I only stopped because circumstances meant I needed to find paid work. You recently started teaching drama at Frederick Bremer School a couple of days a week. As a supply teacher. When the job came up to teach a part-time maternity cover at Frederick Bremer in January I was very pleased. I had seen the TV programme [Educating the East End] and thought they seemed a real state school with very funny students. And the reality is the teachers and management do work incredibly hard, not only do they push students to achieve the best they can, they also genuinely care about their students well-being. I will be offering some intervention space for students who are disengaged, and we are talking about other projects. I do teach a few students I know from outside school and they love that they know my secret non-teacher life – as a teacher, I

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Your grew up in Barnet, north London, but had an awareness of Walthamstow from an early age. Walthamstow for me was the end of the 34 bus. A place occasionally visited because a friend of a friend lived there – and of course the home of East 17 (which as an 11 year old was very exciting). I really just knew it as a place with a big market and a dog track! After a brief university stint in South London, I came back up north… and finally east. Five years ago, I was looking with my sister for somewhere for her to move to, and liked Lloyd Park and the gallery so much I moved here. I admit, I was a little worried there wouldn’t be anything to do – I couldn’t have been more wrong. There are things to do and see everyday here, I barely leave E17 though Islington is ten minutes away! My lovely neighbours (been here 40 and 25 years) tell me that although the area has changed, the sense of community has always been here.


am Ms Chase and ensure they follow rules and make progress. Of course outside school I am Sarah… The biggest difference between my lessons and my drama classes is numbers – we have a maximum of fifteen in a GYOT class (usually 8-10) so lots of opportunities to be seen and heard. People have the chance to see the final performances from your past term this month don’t they. Our performances this term are at the Rose & Crown (my favourite pub in Walthamstow), on Wednesday 8th April. We will have three brand new shows created by the Youth Theatres (10-14yrs and 14-18yrs) and the adult theatre – yes we have drama for grown-ups! Welcome to Sunnydale is our grown-up show about an ordinary village with an extraordinary visitor, The Hall of Lost Things is by the younger Youth Theatre (10-14yrs) - a magical tale imagining where exactly those hairclips, lost kittens and keys go. The older Youth Theatre (14-18yrs) have created Beanies, a show about rival coffee shops – with a few hipsters thrown in for good measure. At time of speaking, the shows are still being created and developed – just two weeks to go. Costumes and props

still to source from Walthamstow Market, charity shops and Sell or Swap! The shows are designed to be a culmination of the term – we do improvise and we try not to worry too much. But all good fun hopefully! You can come along and see for £4/£3. Then we will be starting the next term on 6th May. You mention GYOT for us adults. Obviously we’ve a lot more inhibitions than your average 5 year old. We started in January with our (very small) adult group. I thought ‘why should the kids have all the fun?’ so we get to play too – it is hard to let go of our need to get it right and do the right thing. I am performing in this one which is way out of my comfort zone. But with lots of fast-paced games and exercises it becomes easier to be silly and of course I am very nice and gentle with you! I brought in biscuits one session so we could experiment with different ways of eating to show different characters. That was a hit! You’ve also got something planned for this year’s Art Trail with Renetta Fake (Mind2Play), and involving copious amounts of cardboard. Renetta and I are offering a drop-in playspace. I hear children tell me they miss nursery where they got

to sellotape yoghurt pots and cereal boxes together to make a robot, so that’s what we are providing! Lots of boxes, stickers and bits and no instructions. We are also planning courses for parents in play, and an adult dropin on Friday 5th June, all in my back-room, which I have to get tidy. Anyone who has been to my house knows this is a challenge. What would you like to see for the future of GYOT? It would be great to see further projects from some of the other facilitators I work with, and Grow Your Own Story intervention play projects popping up in schools. I would love a creative space near me in Lloyd Park – maybe we will see my backroom or shed theatre? Assuming the big tidy is a success of course. Finally before I let you go, is there anything else you’d like to see for Waltham Forest in the next couple of years. I would like to see a rent cap and the housing to stabilise so people can afford to stay here. I would love to see all people in Waltham Forest feeling comfortable and happy. And if I can do anything to make that happen, I will. www.growyourowntheatre.co.uk

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Walthamstow Diary Between forest and marsh lies the glorious Stow. These are the tales and meanderings of a proud resident of E17 I love when Walthamstow gets mentioned in the media, it lights E17 up like a Catherine Wheel, generating anger and pleasure in equal measure. Whenever anything is published about the motherland, you can guarantee it will soon be doing the rounds on social media. The latest piece that grabbed the attention of our hive mind was in the Sunday Times. The paper ranked us as number 36 in a list of the best places to live in the UK, and it’s fair to say that Walthamstow was keen to feedback, comments flowed like lava from a volcano. If you haven’t read it, the article was pretty standard stuff. There’s the usual comparison between E17 and Hackney, a mention for house prices, the Victoria Line and the William Morris Gallery. It tells readers that our once scruffy streets have been smartened up, and that we are brimming over with artists and all things cool. Of course, no article would be complete without a mention of the Village, and this article provides a cracker of a reference. It announces that the Village is a “conservation area with a whiff of the Cotswolds” I thought perhaps the writer was referring to the smell of cheese coming from Froth and Rind on Orford Road, but no, that was how the Village was described. This was like a red rag to a bull, the hive mind latched on to this one line of text and for want of a better phrase, let rip. A whiff of the Cotswolds is verging on the ridiculous; it is marketing babble gone mad. Silly whiffs aside, this article seemed to unite the Walthamstow lovers and the haters. Both sides of the great E17 marmite divide asked, why all the fuss? Why is Walthamstow in the top 40? If it were my choice I’d push us right to the top of the list, and I’d do that for a very simple reason, I’m happy here, and that’s the most important thing. As for whiffs of the Cotswolds, they can get right back in to whichever daft box they escaped from. www.walthamstowdiary.com

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The Magpie’s beady eyes are always on the look-out for the shiniest, funniest remarks, witty retorts and bizarre sightings to steal from the area’s streets and social media channels. Thanks this month to www.facebook.com/WalthamstowTouristBoard, Walthamstow Life, Leytonstone Life, Walthamstow Residents News and twitter.com/e17facts

According to the Institute of Psychiatry, Walthamstow’s Asda is the biggest cause of depression in East London. Walthamstow Facts Is anybody in Leucha Road having trouble with their hot water? PD: I think I’m right in saying that hot water comes in cold from outside, into your house/ flat and is made hot by your boiler, you may want to start there. MS: Not unless you live in Poland where in bigger cities you get hot water straight from huge power plants! Walthamstow Residents News The International Space Station has a special app to let astronauts know when they can see Walthamstow Walthamstow Facts Odd statue at the entrance to Maria’s Gardens, the new development on Palmerston Rd. Wonder if it was on the plans?. MM: What’s inside the little cubby-hole she’s standing on? Emergency supplies of communion wine? SA: Religious significance should afford it no more special treatment than any other mass produced ornament stuck on a piece of astroturf on top of a switching box. DA: Madonna album launch? She needs to be careful with that cape… Walthamstow Life Estates 17 recently won Stella Creasy’s “poshest toilet in an estate agents” award. Walthamstow Facts

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If you mix all the letters from the left column of Mondragone’s menu it spells out “all right, all right, everything’s gonna be all right.” Walthamstow Facts Joy Division played Walthamstow Youth Centre on Friday March 30, 1979. It says this was Markhouse Road. Question for 10 points: where was the youth centre? EL: WOW! I never knew that!!!! LD: It was next to the pub that’s now a gym FG: Used to be called the Brewery Tap. LR: It was on the site of a former school. It was knocked down and replaced by Ansar Gardens. The old gateposts are still there. FG: I was there. My hubby’s band supported them. Not too many people in attendance as far as we remember - too much cider LOL AC: They also played the Assembly Hall in ‘81. Walthamstow Life The stained mattress near Tesco on Forest Road used to be an extra in Faulty Towers. Walthamstow Facts

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