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Welcome to the 65th issue of Wharf Life. We’re trying out something new – one of the challenges people face in Canary Wharf is navigating the estate so we’re making use of navigation tool What Three Words to help. Just scan the QR codes with pink outlines for exact locations...

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56 Discover the work of east London-based author Jane Austin, who recently launched her second novel – Renegade – and is a member of the Canary Wharf Book Group, based at the Idea Store in Churchill Place janeaustinauthor.com Scan this code to read our interview with Jane a wharf-life.com and find out what she’s working on now want more? @wharflifelive

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Fancy a bit of whiff whaff – head over to Union Square at Wood Wharf in the new part of the estate and make use of the free tables and equipment on offer.

Designed by the Art Of Ping Pong, these brightly coloured facilities are staffed by stewards and are available on a firstcome, first-served (should that be first serve?) basis. A walk over is also an excellent opportunity to discover this emerging area which is also being used for film screenings (see Page 9) and already has the attractions of MMy Wood Wharf and Emilia’s Crafted Pasta on hand.

If you’re on the Wharf visiting the newly minted farmers’ market, why not pop up to Crossrail Place Roof Garden for some free live music? Canary Wharf Group has teamed up with Busk In London to bring a series of emerging artists to the lush surroundings of the park.

The remaining performers are The Laura Holland Duo on June 18, Simeon Hammond Dallas on June 25, John Clapper on July 2, Emma Withers Duo on July 9, Atticus Blue on July 16, Lea Barrufato (pictured) on July 23 and Jide Kuti on July 30. All of the gigs are free to attend.

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s I continue in my column to demystify sustainability for Wharf Life readers, this time I’ve chosen the topics of “climate change” and “net zero carbon commitments”. The term “climate change” refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

Since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver behind these shifts, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

These emissions have led to rising temperatures, something that’s contributed to intense droughts, water scarcity, sea level rise and other negative consequences for the planet.

“Net zero carbon commitments” refers to a state in which the carbon emitted into the atmosphere is balanced by its removal from the atmosphere.

In other words, engaging in that process means that organisations are working towards preventing any carbon output from their activities, with carbon offsetting being a last resort.

According to targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement, there are only 28 years remaining to reach global net-zero emissions and prevent warming greater than 1.5C. The Paris Climate Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that came from COP21, a conference where 197 world leaders committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, so limiting global warming.

At Canary Wharf, we know that our greatest impact comes when we work together to tackle the issues that face us.

As part of this, we have developed our Net Zero Carbon Pathway, which sets out tangible steps to balance the estate’s emissions by 2030, bringing our tenants and supply chain on board.

This commitment has been reinforced by a series of science based targets that are intended to align us with the goal of 1.5C warming explained above.

As a result, we can embed strong sustainability management in our road to net zero.

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how the art of Lothar Götz brings multifaceted depth to Canary Wharf’s Pride activities

by Jon Massey

P

eople walking down the Riverside Steps from Westferry Circus may not notice them at all. Those turning round or going up might take them for a pleasing geometric arrangement of brightly coloured shapes. Few, it’s fair to say, will immediately associate the pink triangles with the Nazis’ persecution of gay and bisexual men and transgender women.

“They were made to wear pink triangles in the concentration camps,” said artist Lothar Götz, who created the artwork, titled Upbeat for Canary Wharf’s celebration of Pride Month in June.

“When I was in my 20s, we all discovered what happened in Nazi Germany. As a gay man, I would most likely have ended up in a camp and that was quite a daunting thing to understand.

“That was why in the 1980s we were wearing pink triangles as a reference to what happened.

“I like pink as a colour, it’s important to me and very much linked to the gay identity and while I didn’t want to make a piece that singled that colour out, if people notice it as a reference that clearly celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community’s achievements then that is great.”

It’s that broad mission that spells out the scope of three works Lothar has created on the estate after being commissioned by Canary Wharf to mark Pride.

His other two pieces – Jump and Elector-Rainbow – can be found on the Reuters Plaza steps up to One Canada Square and in Crossrail Place. All three use colours drawn from the Progress Pride Flag, a symbol created in 2018 that builds on the traditional rainbow to embrace the wider LGBTQIA+ community.

Forest Gate resident Lothar, who works from a studio in Stratford, first visited Canary Wharf as a student when only One Canada Square and a collection of

As a gay man, I would most likely have ended up in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany – quite a daunting thing to understand Lothar Götz, artist

Above, Lothar’s Upbeat can be found at Riverside Steps, while ElectroRainbow, left, is at Crossrail Place for the rest of June

comparatively low-rise buildings had been constructed.

“That was long before I moved here – there were only a few tower blocks, but it’s always been an area that’s fascinated me,” he said.

“In those days it felt very artificial so it’s interesting to see how it’s becoming more and more lively all the time.

“When I first moved to London and saw Canary Wharf again, I couldn’t have dreamt that it might be a space where I could do a site-specific installation.

“When I was a child, growing up in Grünsberg in Bavaria, I didn’t know the word for being gay – it didn’t really exist there.

“Then later there was the idea of coming out and I didn’t know what that was either – gay culture was something that very much only happened in gay bars.

“Moving from a provincial town to a city where you could go and actually meet people who were like you was fantastic – that this was normal was such a major achievement.

“I got married six years ago at Chelsea Town Hall and I found it tough going down those iconic steps – it was so emotional.

“That you have installations like this celebrating Pride, in places like Canary Wharf, which are continued on Page 8

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Artworks created by Lothar in celebration of Pride across the Canary Wharf estate Lothar grew up

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Work by Fox Fisher and Lewis Hancox, including an excerpt from ASL, above, is available to print for free throughout June

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or June, Canary Wharf Group has arranged a Pride takeover of its Short Story Stations at Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Jubilee Place and Canada Place.

The estate has teamed up with trans artists Fox Fisher and Lewis Hancox, who have created three comics available to print for free at the terminals until June 30.

Fox is a brown, queer, pansexual, nonbinary, trans-masculine artist, author and filmmaker and creates LGBTQIA+ positive illustrations and movies through My Genderation, an organisation they cofounded with influencer, filmmaker and author-illustrator Lewis.

The latter is known for his online comedy characters British Mum and Laura Prinny Queen and makes work to entertain with the aim of incidentally educating his audience.

Wharfers can print Fox and Lewis’ work by choosing and pressing one of the three buttons on the Short Story stations to access the following: ● One Minute - See illustrations by Fox about Michael Dillon, a trans man born in London in 1915 ● Three Minute - Get an excerpt from ASL, an autobiographical story about Lewis’ troubled teenage years ● Five Minute - Print collaborative illustration Maisie’s Quest featuring work by both Fox and Lewis

● Flip the page over for details of Canary Wharf’s celebration of queer cinema with screenings at Union Square - Page 9

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associated with power and money is quite amazing – it’s so important for the whole LGBTQIA+ movement.

“When I was shown the steps and places they wanted me to create pieces for, I honestly couldn’t believe it. That it would be possible for me to make work in celebration of Pride in these locations, where people would be going up and down, doing their business and it would be part of normality, well I found that very touching.”

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othar began his career as a student of aesthetics before moving to London to study painting at the Royal College Of Art. Inspired by a childhood love of building sites as Bauhausstyle dwellings were erected in the town he grew up in, his work has often related to, or been directly applied to, architecture.

“I found those bungalows especially interesting when they ere not finished, he said. “ s soon as they were, they were just living spaces, not the abstract fantasy spaces I’d used them as.

“That has informed my later work, including the pieces I’ve created in Canary Wharf.

“I try to highlight the spaces themselves – the steps, for example, are not just functional.

With the colours it’s a bit like the e ect of a red carpet for a specific event – you change the space and it’s that quality that interests me.

“It s similar to the ay a s and bunting for the Jubilee change a village green into something di erent.

Lothar said the quality of the pieces he produced for Pride was of fundamental concern to him.

“I always want to leave how people respond to my works pretty open,” he said. “I wanted to do a series of serious artworks that were somewhere in between ein immediately identifia le as works for Pride and simply art in their own right.

“I think that when you look at them, you notice that the colours are Pride colours, but it was also important to me to say that people aren’t just gay in June.

“There are still hurdles in life for LGBTQIA+ people – perhaps not as many as there were but they are still there. I hope people pause and think a little bit, that I’ve created something that’s subtle. That’s why the darker elements are in the work.

“My work is abstract, but it always has stories behind it.

Electro-Rainbow, for example responds to the large panels it is on – the architecture.

“But the kaleidoscope of the colours makes reference to club

A Wharfer climbs Reuters Plaza Steps, decorated with Lothar’s Jump

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Lothar stands with his piece, Electro-Rainbow, at Crossrail Place

than would have been possible hen I had my first relationship.

“Upbeat is really a response to the architecture and takes the pyramid on top of One Canada Square as one of its dominant elements.

“But again, you have those Progress Pride Flag colours and the lozenge shapes that are similar to the facade of Newfoundland and the blue and white lozenges on the avarian a , hich is where I’m originally from. That is an abstraction of the shapes the clouds make. With this piece, I wanted to describe the feeling you et hen yo step o the oat and walk up that stairway to Heaven.

It’s very beautiful.” ● Lothar’s works are on show in Canary Wharf until the end of June as part of the estate’s wider celebration of Pride Month.

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I think you notice that the colours are Pride colours. I hope people pause and think a little bit, that I’ve created something that’s subtle Lothar Götz, artist

culture – the dancing, the lights and the colours – which has been very important in the history of gay liberation, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

“Jump is about the jumps in progress that have been made – the steps it is on are quite big but they’re still dwarfed by One Canada Square above them.

“It’s a reminder that as a gay man I still need a safe space because it’s still a big thing to come out, but that there have been these jumps. My love and relationship have a completely di erent level of acceptance no

Detail from Upbeat, which takes inspiration from the steel pyramid atop Canary Wharf’s One Canada Square

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ood Wharf’s newest open space has been kitted out with a big screen and deckchairs, ready for a series of queer cinema nights. Starting at 7pm and free to attend, the films have been selected as part of the estate’s celebration of Pride month. Audience members will need to bring smartphones and headphones to watch the films on the dates below: ● June 8 - If you’re quick off the mark, you can catch The Birdcage in which a cabaret owner and his drag queen companion put up a straight front so their son can introduce them to his fiancee’s right wing parents (15). ● June 15 - In Carol, an aspiring photographer develops a relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York (15). ● June 22 - Perhaps laying the ground for recent Oscar-winner The Power Of The Dog, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of shepherds Ennis and Jack whose relationship is complicated when they both marry their girlfriends (15). ● June 29 - And finally, The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert sees two drag performers and a trans woman travel across Australia to perform cabaret (15).

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how Nate Whitehill created Cryptoslate to help people discover the delights of crypto

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ow does one become a cryptocurrency millionaire? Since Bitcoin emerged in 2009 and investment became possible, it’s a question that’s been either idly or actively present in an increasing number of minds.

With a blizzard of coins now traded it’s a world of complexity where invention and innovation are pushing at the edge of what’s possible in terms of digital finance. rices rise, crash and rise again. Stablecoins lose their stability and you can be certain the next idea or gimmick is just around the corner.

For Nate Whitehill, this everchanging story and the global thirst for information about it, has made him a millionaire in a di erent sense.

An entrepreneur for the last 18 years, the 38-year-old grew up just outside Seattle.

Encouraged by his grandfather and father to take business seriously, by 18 he was coding on the internet and starting ventures with his friends.

A Wordpress user since 2006, by 2008 he was building blogs for corporations and discovered the joy of being able to work from anywhere remotely as well as blogging about his own endeavours.

He then went on to create Highlighter.com – a platform for students and professors to annotate individual passages of text so they could have online discussions around particular words or phrases.

“We raised about $750,000 and ran that company until 2013,” said Nate. “By 2015 I had really discovered Bitcoin in a serious way. My friend in Seattle told me to download Coinbase, and the price was about $270 for a Bitcoin.

“So very early on I fell down the rabbit hole – it’s more of a black hole in the sense that people who fall into the crypto space never escape – I was on it for life.

“As I got into crypto, I started spending a tremendous amount of time on websites like Coindesk, which are like data analysis sites.

At the time I realised I could

Nate lives and works in Canary Wharf after relocating to London from Seattle Image by Jon Massey

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build a version of this, combining qualitative and quantitative elements, and have everything interlinked together in Wordpress.

“So I stopped the consulting I was doing at the time and started building the site – this was in 2017 and we launched in December.”

Still in Seattle at the time, Nate as co-founder and CEO of Cryptoslate rode the bull market of 2017 as prices for cryptocurrency soared and an increasing demand for information saw his site grow to about 150,000 monthly visitors.

“At this time I was also taking a really strong interest in the global implications of this technology and where previous digital

We think of the site as a crypto-discoverability engine – we have a combination of news, data and a directory Nate Whitehill, Cryptoslate

innovations had happened,” said Nate.

“I could see it happening around the world, especially in places like the UK. “So I started researching international conferences which would be interesting to attend, but then I realised there was so much happening in London and Gibraltar. So, in February 2018 I e over to London and then do n to i raltar for a fintech conference.”

Having presented at the conference, Nate found the international blockchain scene to his liking and decided to relocate to London, moving to Canary Wharf and creating a UK entity to

work alongside Cryptoslate’s US business.

He said: “I came here on the endorsement of Level39’s startup visa to join Canary Wharf’s tech community. My view was that it contained the best of what was happening in London in an area that’s quite unlike the rest of the city. I fell in love with Canary Wharf, with London and with Level specifically, hen I sa this vision of what life could be like and the opportunities that would present themselves here.

“Since I have been here, all my hopes and dreams have been exceeded in terms of the network of people I have met, so in hindsight, it’s been the best decision I have ever made. Having been here a year and a half, I remain passionate about London in general and Canary Wharf as a place to live – I plan on being here a long time.”

In that time Cryptoslate has grown to attract more than a million monthly readers, with Nate aiming to raise $4million to expand its operation.

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from Page 11 Nate says Cryptoslate’s aim day we cover anything from 10 to 15 stories, created by a team of writers mostly in the western European region, but also around the world. We cover issues our a dience finds compellin .

“A lot of the time it will be stories about all of the bad events happening, like the hacks and the scams, because we really want to paint an accurate picture of what’s happening with cryptocurrency.

“We don’t think of ourselves as trying to sell ‘hopium’ – the idea people will feed nonsense to each other with the hope of making short-term gains through investment.

“Something that makes us unique compared with other coin sites is that we combine the qualitative and the quantitative to give readers a more accurate picture.

“When you go to a Cryptoslate article about Bitcoin, for example, you’ll not only see the content of the article, you’ll also see a press chart about what Bitcoin actually is, with the opportunity to click through and learn more about it from a qualitative perspective.

is not to tell investors what to buy, but to help them understand the market

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“We also do that with our directory of people, products, companies, places and events.

“We also have a strict con ictof-interest policy, so any time a writer holds an asset they are writing about, they have to check a box and there’s a disclaimer at the bottom of the article. The goal is always to be as transparent and honest as possible.

“I am not editorially involved, personally – I’m a step away – but we don’t discourage our writers from investing in crypto. In fact, we think that, if people are using the products, they have a better understanding of how to accurately depict them.”

Cryptoslate is actively looking both for strategic investors and to hire writers in London as it grows. It gets about 90% of its revenue from advertising, while 10% comes from its subscription service. Cryptoslate d e o ers greater analysis, longer stories and is designed to give global investors a better understanding of the market.

“We always try to discourage trying to tell anyone what they should buy, what is a good or bad investment decision, trying to be as objective as possible, but doing it in a more comprehensive way through CryptoSlate Edge,” said Nate. “The idea behind cryptocurrency is to create an alternative financial system for the orld, and that’s absolutely coming true.

“Increasingly the traditional financial system is fi rin o t ways that it can participate in the crypto economy.

“Just the other day Fidelity announced that it would be o erin itcoin in pensions, for example.

“Increasingly the crypto industry is going to become part of our daily lives over the next decade. “ eople ill e sin di erent decentralised protocols and crypto currencies without even realising.

“In the same way that someone may not understand how the internet works, but will use Facebook and Instagram, so it will be the same with crypto technologies over the next decade.

“In five years yo co ld pay by scanning a QR code which connects to your Bitcoin wallet and that’s how you pay for something. These are just some of the things that will be huge for society.”

And Cryptoslate will be there to help its readers and subscribers navigate that future.

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Cost of the chickpea dahl with pea and sour onion bhaji, carrot thoran, fresh coconut relish, coconut yoghurt and dabbadrop ginger jam

Chris, right, meets The Queen at Buckingham Palace as Creative Virtual receives its award

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s we celebrated The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, I couldn’t help but reminisce on meeting Her Majesty and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace in July, 2017.

Our company had won The Queen’s Award For Enterprise: Innovation, and Peter Behrend, our chief technology officer, and I got to attend the celebration. It was an evening and award I will never forget – such a wonderful and proud moment.

And being a five-year award, it’s also great that it’s lasted to the Jubilee. Steadfastness, consistency and leading by example are characteristics that are often attributed to Queen Elizabeth II. During 70 years on the throne, she has certainly faced some challenging times.

When I think about the single thing that has gotten our company through difficult times, it’s the solid long-term relationships we have built with our customers and colleagues as well as each other – similar, no doubt, to the way As I travel the the long-term global bonds the Queen has world, it’s fantastic formed have been the foundation of her to see the warmth success. and admiration As I travel the world, it’s fantastic to see the people have for warmth and admiour monarch ration people have for our monarch. The Chris Ezekiel, Creative Virtual Queen is the ultimate ambassador for our wonderful nation and the Commonwealth – it’s incredible to think she has had 14 Prime Ministers during her reign.

The Jubilee gave us all a great moment to contemplate the achievements of our nation during the Queen’s time on the throne and to feel very proud and patriotic.

This summer our company will release a significant new version of our software that’s been over two years in the making. It’s been forged from long-term customer relationships and is a platinum release in a Platinum Jubilee year.

I wish Her Majesty all the best following the celebration of her ongoing reign.

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Worth every syllable, this complex and rewarding dish from Caravan is a riot of different flavours and textures that, while expensive, nevertheless delivers on its promise of quality

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this way done

why a chickpea dahl at Caravan in Canary Wharf is the ideal counterpoint to the venue’s spare decor

by Jon Massey

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ith an interior that features stripped bare concrete walls and an impressive collection of indoor plants, Caravan’s Canary Wharf branch has slipped almost imperceptibly into commuters’ lives.

Located in Reuters Plaza on the main route into Canada Place, this blend of cafe, restaurant and bar does everything from coffee to cocktails in an intensely

unpretentious way. It feels like part of that clutch of all-day establishments that have emerged in recent years – like Grind and Gentleman Baristas – thriving as attitudes to fixed mealtimes have become more relaxed.

The message of the place is that those operating it are far more concerned with the quality of what’s in the cups and on the plate to bother too much about painting the walls.

Perhaps there’s some truth to it after all. While £16 feels a little steep for a bowl of vegetables (plus £2.50 for some halloumi) the

a real depth and richness to my chickpea dahl with pea and sour onion bhaji, carrot thoran, fresh coconut relish, coconut yoghurt and dabbadrop ginger jam.

As its name suggests, it’s a dish that’s a riot of complex tastes and influences that combine to reward the diner for their time and trouble in reading it on the menu.

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£66.65

Cost of the VIP seat, meet and greet package for Race Chaser Live

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things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

STAGE | One Track Minds The live storytelling event returns as notable people explain exactly what one song meant to them and how it changed their lives.

Jun 30, 7.30pm, from £7, wiltons.org.uk Where?

Half Moon Theatre Limehouse

drag Look out for Race Chaser Live as the hit drag podcast comes to an east London stage

in pursuit of

join Alaska 5000 and Willam for Race Chaser Live at Troxy in Limehouse

by Jon Massey

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xpect plenty of extra as Alaska 5000 and Willam bring their hit podcast to a Limehouse stage for a live recording.

Breaking out of the studio to meet fans face-to-face, Race Chaser Live is set to be captured at Troxy on July 5 between 7pm and 11pm.

Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race will enjoy plenty of showbased discussion plus some hot gossip, a few special guests and plenty of glitter.

Audiences will be treated to

live musical numbers, a bit of “eye candy” – whatever that means – and, of course, some high quality drag as the stars chit and chat through it all.

While standard tickets start at £31.45, a VIP seat, meet and greet package is also available for those who want to get up close and personal with the stars from 5.30pm.

Go to troxy.co.uk for more information Scan this code for more on Race Chaser Live at Troxy

STAGE | Handa’s Surprise Suitable for ages 2-5, this charming tale takes audiences to Kenya as Handa journeys to see her best friend Akeyo in the next village.

Jun 23-25, times vary, £7, halfmoon.org.uk Where?

Tobacco Dock Wapping

EVENT | UX London Featuring some of the biggest names in user experience design, this is a chance for the UX community to come together again in person.

Jun 28-30, 9am-5.30pm, £1,850, tobaccodocklondon.com

flash back

Find wines and food from Portugal as Festa opens at Tobacco Dock from June 24-25.

Born of a desire to share the cutting edge of Portuguese innovation, ticketholders can meet 54 producers at the Wapping show festawine.co.uk Scan this code to read our interview with Festa co-founder Max Graham at wharf-life.com want more? @wharflifelive

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by Laura Enfield

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Years working with east London communities for Take Stock Exchange

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fter a two-year pause, it feels like the world is suddenly surging forward. But are we ready to face the future when we’ve barely processed the past and are scrambling to keep up with the present? a e toc chan e is o erin a chance to re ect on this e traordinary moment in time, which we are all experiencing but in wildly di erent ays.

The community storytelling company, consisting of Nick Cassenbaum, Olly Hawes and Anna Smith, has been out in Poplar talking to older LBGTQIA+ men, gardeners and young people about what they are feeling as they try to get on with their lives.

They will combine the stories with others from across London for You, Me, The World And This Moment – a free event set to be held at Poplar Union on June 19 from 12.45pm to 3pm.

“Previously our projects have really been strictly location-based,” said Olly. “But this one is focused on the experience of the pandemic and of living right now.

“We got the feeling that straight after lockdown people were going to be told: ‘Move on now. We have to get back to normal’.

“But we want to provide a space for people to re ect on this moment in time and experience what they need to.”

Anyone can get a ticket, go along to the event, share a meal, and watch a performance crafted from the stories the collective has gathered, accompanied by a live musician.

Nick said: “We believe the arts can be something everyone participates in and enefits from, one way or another.

“What that means for us is tryin to tal to as many di erent people as we can, with as wide a range of experiences as we can.

“Then we enable those people to re ect, to develop their o n ideas, share them with other people and use that to help them move through their lives but also make that community stronger.

From left, Olly, Anna and Nick of Take Stock Exchange, a name that has nothing at all to do with banking

Take Stock Exchange’s performance of You, Me, The World And This Moment is set to take place at Poplar Union on June 19

One of the strengths of this project is it allows people to have the experience they want. It reveals stories that want to be revealed Olly Hawes, Take Stock Exchange

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moment making and taking a

why community storytelling company Take Stock Exchange wants people in Poplar to stop, reflect and share how they are feeling about the state of their world I hope we’re going to see more work like this in the future.”

Drama graduates Olly and Nick met at Exeter University and formed the company in 2013.

They wanted to do something involving the arts that had a direct impact on people’s lives.

They started with a grant of for their first pro ect You, Me, The World And Wanstead and have gone on to work on 12 large pro ects and n mero s smaller ones across east London.

Of course, it’s not as simple as rocking up somewhere, putting on the kettle and sitting down for a heart-to-heart. nna oined as a prod cer a fe years a o and is the one ho finds the pathway into communities, organises the meet-ups and applies for funding.

In the past, they have worked with The Yard Theatre, Stratford Circus, Rich Mix, Culture Mile, The Barbican, Barnsbury Housing Association, Poplar HARCA, Poplar Union, Artsdepot and Vision Redbridge.

Anna said: “We always have one key partner in the area we’re working in that already has some connections to local groups.

“We will start having conversations with people and perhaps et a tip-o a o t another ro p.

It’s a lot of word-of-mouth and following that chain of people who know people.

“It’s about embedding yourself, even though it’s for a short period of time, in a particular area and getting to know the connections and the networks that exist.”

The group reinforces this by always travelling to meet their s ects.

Anna said: “I think that allows people to feel comfortable enough to open up more than they would do if they were invited to a random conversation in an unfamiliar location.”

Olly and Nick are the ones who then go out and talk to people and begin to build a sense of what conversations need to be fostered.

“A lot of the time we’re working

in quite unpredictable situations,” said Olly.

“Sometimes we’ll turn up to a place and we don’t know if there are going to be three people there or 30.

“We don’t know if they are going to be happy that we’re coming or not. So we have to have quite a clear plan in mind, but then e really, really e i le.

“One of the real strengths of the pro ect is it allo s people to have the experience they want.

It reveals stories that want to be revealed.

“These conversations are already bubbling, but perhaps haven’t been connected to one another or haven’t been shown to be part of a wider whole. “ Olly said he and Nick often spent hours discussing the conversations and how they related to each other and the wider world.

“The idea is that we build a dialo e thro h di erence, he said.

“The end result is people get a little bit of an insight into the lives of people they share a geographic space with, but who they might not necessarily interact with in their everyday lives.

During lockdown they took their conversations to Zoom, launching a podcast to share the results.

The trio also completed a location-foc sed pro ect in oplar during the pandemic and said it felt important to return.

Olly said: “Lockdown gave some a moment of calmness and peace but we were still in the midst of this really disorientating experience.

“And we’re still not out of that.

We ve st moved to a di erent stage of it.

“Giving people the chance to sit and re ect is somethin that has almost universally been appreciated at every workshop we’ve done.

“One of the most common things that we’ve heard is people saying: ‘I still I don’t know what

to make of all this. I feel like my world has changed massively, but I still can’t really work out how’.

“We’ve heard that from primary school kids and much older people and every age bracket in between, from people in a variety of di erent circ mstances. “ r o no is to ta e all that material and create stories that are based on these events and communicate them in a truthful, clear way. That’s the big challenge of this pro ect.

They began holding workshops for You, Me, the World And This Moment in the Spring after receiving funding from the Arts Council and Poplar Union.

Nick said having the pandemic as the theme has enabled people to connect more quickly.

“When we’re focusing on location, people can tend to keep it very light and not go into the personal,” he said.

“So there is learning here for us that I thin ill definitely filter into f t re pro ects. lly said “When e first started doing this work, it was in response to the idea that despite the fact we live in a world that is seemingly more connected, people feel a sense of disconnection more and more. We were trying to remedy that.

“Now, we live in a world that has been turned upside down by the pandemic. And that uncertainty is at the heart of this pro ect.

“The pandemic has been this unifying experience but everyone has had really diverse experiences within it that we’re trying to connect. So, in our own small way, we’re trying to reunite this part of London.”

Go to poplarunion.com or takestockexchange.co.uk for more information

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what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

The Space Westferry Road

STAGE | Snowflake Hanna Winter lives up to her name with a one-woman comedy show aiming at resolving centuries of inherited trauma for everyone (promise).

Jun 21-25, 7.30pm, £15, space.org.uk Where?

Poplar Union Poplar

WORKSHOP | Queer Joy And Euphoria Non-binary writer Tabby Lamb will show you how to draw out a full narrative or theme from the point of inspiration and turn it into a piece to be proud of.

Jun 26, 2pm-4pm, free, poplarunion.com Where?

Craft Central Isle Of Dogs

WORKSHOP | Upcycled Tribal Neckpiece Join maker Laura Labo who will show you how to create a striking piece of jewellery using upcycled bicycle inner tubes for that rubbery look.

Various dates, 6pm-8pm, £37, craftcentral.org.uk

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Find out how The Trampery, Trilogy Real Estate and the University Of The West Of Scotland have all come together to create The Greenhouse at Republic in Blackwall to support startups and local businesses thetrampery.com Scan this code to read our interview with The Trampery and Greenhouse resident Chair Disco Collective want more? @wharflifelive

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by Laura Enfield

T

he unique patterns running along the blades made by Holly Loftus are created by hammering together layers of softened steel.

She likens the ancient Japanese process to making pastry.

“It’s like a croissant, but instead of layers of pastry and butter, it’s layers of steel that get laminated by folding them on top of each other over and over,” said the 33-year-old.

“I use heat and pressure and just literally smash them together and they fuse. It makes an edge that is really sharp and long-lasting.”

Like the knives she creates at Cockpit Arts in Deptford, Holly forged her career through sheer force. She is the only woman she knows of working professionally in the male-dominated field and her hand-forged knives, which cost about £300, sell out every month.

When she happened upon the notion of bladesmithing in 2010, she was a community worker on holiday in America.

The Lewisham resident was oth e iled and a ed hen she stumbled across a hobbyist knifemaker at work. “ hat as the first time that I really thought about knives being made outside of a factory and I remember grilling him about how he made them,” she said.

“It sparked an interest in me, t the first five years of the journey into making knives was only in my head. I couldn’t even fi re o t ho to et started, because it was so alien to me.”

Her uncertainty deepened when she was unable to track down any professional knifemaking courses in the UK at the time. Self doubt made her question whether she could leave her job, helping pensioners and homeless people, which she’d started as a teenager growing up in Dublin.

“I was excited about making knives, but it took a while for me to feel like I could just give myself permission to make something,” said Holly. “A part of that was because I had done something

In the UK there are no professional routes into knife-making. No apprenticeships, no schools where you could go to learn it Holly Loftus, Loftus Knives

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The number of knives hand-crafted by Holly in an average week Holly says she has never met another professional female knifemaker and is happy to break

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blades beautiful

how the woman behind Loftus Knives forged her own path in the male-dominated industry of crafting an edge

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Holly spends about a tenth of her time forging and the rest honing the blades and

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see

handles of her knives Where?

Canada Water Theatre Canada Water

POETRY | Off The Chest An inclusive, spoken word and poetry night, featuring sets from two highly-acclaimed writers and a chance for any poet to take to the stage.

Jun 23, 7pm, donations, canadawatertheatre.org.uk I felt was socially useful and that transition has een di c lt sometimes.”

She spent hours scouring internet forums and watching videos, but the nudge to take action only came when a friend bought her a one-day knifemaking course.

“I didn’t really think that I co ld ever fi re o t ho to do it, because there are so many aspects, di erent tools and materials and that seemed mental to me,” she said.

“On the course, we just forged a very basic knife, but I decided I as oin to fi re o t ho to start pursuing it. Before then it all seemed really abstract, so it took away that mental block I had.”

She still had a hard road to follow to turn it into a career.

“In the UK there’s no professional route into knifemaking,” said Holly. “There’s no apprenticeship, no school where you could go to learn it.”

The only vaguely related course she co ld find as a City nd Guilds in forgework in Scotland.

Six months later, she quit her job and headed up there.

“I didn’t make any knives, but that’s where I learned to forge using a hammer, which felt like a good foundation,” she said.

“When I passed, it was really satisfying and gave me the confidence to apply for or in the field.

She landed a job with Blenheim Forge where she spent three years learning how to make their apanese-in enced itchen knives, using their workshop in her spare time to practise and refine her s ills.

“I was really open with them about why I was there and that my plan was to make my own knives. I think they actually believed in me more than I did.

“Even though the forging co rse ave me a lot of confidence, sometimes when I was

actually trying to make knives they were so bad it would knock me down. But Blenheim were really encouraging and, over those years, I got so much better.”

In 2020 everything changed.

Holly applied for and won the Coc pit rts e y r st Craft cellence ard, allo in her to move into the Deptford studios with a year of subsidised rent.

“Without that award, it would have been impossible to go full-time because having the workspace isn’t enough,” she said. “There’s so much equipment that you need. Having that year meant I could set up properly and get better and get faster on my own.”

Today Holly’s knives are in such high demand that she only releases them in batches every month through a newsletter.

Each knife is handmade using steel from apan and he eld and native wood supplied to her by tree surgeons.

“I have pieces from around where my workshop is or I have quite a lot from Hackney at the moment,” said Holly. “The way I work means I can do things a factory never would because it o ld e really ine cient to have a tiny piece of a tree from a small street in London. But I can pick out those more interesting, unusual timbers and have enough for a few handles.

“I like hardwoods like cherry and apple. They’ve often been felled because of a fungal species that creates these patterns in the wood. I put the pieces through a process that stabilises them y p llin resin thro h to fill the spaces. It means I can use these them even though they’re partially rotten.”

Holly usually has 30 knives at various stages in her workshop and said they were made to be comfortable for home cooks to use, especially women.

“Lots of women I speak to are

afraid of how sharp they are and don’t trust themselves to be able to use a sharp knife,” she said.

“That’s something I really want to change, because it’s been so satisfying for me to become comfortable with them and I think having a really sharp knife changes how you feel about cooking, it makes it so much easier.

“When I was growing up, the sharpest knife in my house was one of those plastic-handled steak knives and it was sliding about all over the place and made my whole experience of cooking stressful. I would just resort to choosing recipes without chopping – or use a blender.” olly said she as terrified of choppin a fin er o hen she first started ladesmithin , t after t o years at Coc pit, she finally feels confident and is proud of what she has achieved.

“It’s amazing. Sometimes I have to really remind myself of that, because I can get so sucked into the details of really wanting to make the best work I can,” she said. “I haven’t allowed myself to re ect on this efore, t it feels important to, now. This is what I wanted and now I’m doing it.”

Go to loftusknives.com

Where?

The Albany Deptford

STAGE | Sun And Sea Staged on an indoor beach, this work will loop for several hours with audiences watching dozens of performers from the venue’s balcony.

Jun 23-Jul 10, times vary, thealbany.org.uk Where?

The Brunel Museum Rotherhithe

EVENT | Enchanted City Rotherhithe’s Tom Chivers hosts an exploration of his book London Clay: Journeys In The Deep City, with guests Helen Gordon and Siddhartha Bose.

Jun 30, 7-9pm, £5, thebrunelmuseum.com

diary date

meet the makers ● See Holly’s work up close at Cockpit Summer Festival And Open Studios in Deptford from June 17-19.

Entry is free and visitors will be able to meet a variety of crafters in their workspaces and talk to them about their processes.

For full details go to cockpitstudios.org

Join Scratchworks Theatre Company at Canada Water Theatre for The Sisters Grimm as Brunhilda and Mitzi take audiences on a rollicking, rhyme-laced journey through the true story of fairytale on June 25 canadawatertheatre.org.uk Scan this code to book tickets for the 12.30pm or 2.30pm shows on a pay-what-you-decide basis want more? @wharflifelive

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take a breath

by David Lefebvre Sell

£77

Price of a standard ticket for The Burnt City at Woolwich Works. A limited number of tickets for Greenwich residents are made available for £25 and rush tickets at the same rate are also released periodically. VIP experiences are also on offer for £125

how The Burnt City combines richly detailed sets with expressive dance to transport audiences in Woolwich

by Jon Massey

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How do we keep growing up?

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ersonal growth is frequently hard. That might be why so many people seem to stop doing it in their early 20s, but why is this the case and what can be done about it?

In our teens we all make certain decisions and discoveries about who we are and want to be – a sort of personality project – and these decisions form the drive for the better part of our lives.

But in midlife we find, perhaps, we have fallen short of our lofty ideals and goals, or we have failed even more thoroughly, despite our success.

We might have achieved everything that we set out to do and yet find ourselves distressingly incomplete. The cliché of the male midlife crisis is just the way that some men come to deal with that awareness. But let he who has never looked up “hair loss treatments” cast the first stone.

So how do we keep growing up? Obviously it starts with the willingness to do so and often only with We need to support from others. normalise the idea The people around us are sometimes that someone invested in us staying the same. When one might need to person changes in a question their life relationship, then the other person is also path at middle age required to change.

David Lefebvre Sell This can create conflict and resentment, but growing together in a relationship leads to a deeper experience of trust and mutual fulfilment.

Part of the problem is that we need to normalise the idea that someone might need to question their life path at middle age. There might be things you always wanted to do, but were told to abandon in the interest of more practical achievements.

There may even be parts of your personality that have been repressed in order to fit into society – childhood trauma, for example, or the overwhelming desire to quit your job in the city and buy a food truck. Change is inevitable, but growth is not. But it beats going through your whole life with a terrible haircut. I’m looking at you, Boris.

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Performers pop up round almost every corner, quickly attracting masked watchers

eviewing immersive experiences can be fraught with difficulty – especially when the show is expected to run and run. The last thing one wants to do is to ruin the performance for somebody else by littering the write-up with spoilers.

So anyone who wants to go to The Burnt City at Woolwich Works on the Royal Arsenal Riverside development, in blissful ignorance of what lies ahead should look away now.

Staged by resident company Punchdrunk inside three of the five buildings that make up the blossoming arts centre, the show begins with the bagging of phones and a gentle, destabilising entry via a series of apocalyptic exhibition spaces.

Disjointed voiceovers talk about the ancient Greeks, their gods and the prevalence of human sacrifice. At some point, we all don white masks, converting us from individual audience members into a sort of de facto Greek chorus, silently taking everything in.

Having read up a bit about the show, I’m vaguely aware The Burnt City is inspired by the fall of Troy. I either pick up from the intro (or somewhere else) that what’s coming is something to do with Greek king and Troy-botherer-in-chief, Agamemnon and how he killed his daughter – Iphigenia – to appease the goddess Artemis.

But in terms of concrete narrative, that’s about as much as I get. From those little, dark, claustrophobic rooms, our group of masked watchers is disgorged into a disorientating landscape of eerily-lit sackcloth, complete with little encampments to discover.

We stumble about, trying to find our way, startled by each other’s masked faces as we pick through knick-knacks, notebooks and writing desks before arriving at a grand central space.

This is dominated by two oversize steel tank traps and it’s here we find our first performers. The masked gather round the maskless as we watch what they do.

The majority of the show is conveyed through the medium of dance. The audience and performers remain silent, with the watchers completely free to roam where they wish.

This leads to an odd, repetitive dynamic, where every dancer is trailed by masked figures bearing witness in the hope that they’ll see something interesting.

Often what’s happening is unclear to me. It’s hot, I’m sweating under my mask.

At one point I follow a girl who might or might not be Iphigenia as she’s killed and then carried to what may be the underworld, stripped and put into a red dress.

Later, a latex-faced chap appears to murder a naked man in a shower. Then there’s a lengthy scene in a bedroom and, further on, what might be a Bacchanalian dance in a nightclub in honour of the Minotaur. If the intention was to present a fever dream of unsettling, confusing tableaux, it’s mission accomplished.

And perhaps that’s the point.

It doesn’t really have to make sense, but rather adds up to a layered, sensory adventure of sound, light, colour and movement – not something that can be easily understood.

Punchdrunk deserves much praise for its staging. The world it has created is rich, labyrinthine and filled with detail. I’m struck that no matter how much I lose myself in it, that round every corner, there’s almost always something happening – a performer shouldering past or climbing up the outside of a staircase.

Without exception the dancers are superb. Lithe and pained as they twist through whatever sliver of story they’re supposed to be portraying.

The weakness of this approach, however, is that – with sweat from the mask stinging my eyes as yet another expressive shape is thrown – when the neon showing the way to the bar appears, I’m extremely grateful for the relief of both the drink and the boisterous drag cabaret within.

So much so, that going back out for more feels like a sisyphean task.

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Masked members of the audience are free to explore the world of The Burnt City as dancers perform their slivers of story, with enough to fill up to three hours of discovery

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inside deep

STAGE | The Slow Songs Make Me Sad Chloe Bezer presents clowning, heartfelt storytelling and raucous cello songs as she strives to make a mark, deal with the big stuff and leave a legacy.

Jun 25, 7.30pm, £12, greenwichtheatre.org.uk Where?

Woolwich Works Woolwich

TRY | Dreamachine Promising an immersive experience like no other, the pop-up at Woolwich Public Market uses light and music to stimulate the brains of participants.

Jun 20-Jul 24, times vary, free, woolwich.works Where?

The O2 Greenwich Peninsula

Scan this code to find out more about The Burnt City

It’s not always clear what’s happening in front of you

GIG | Alanis Morissette Celebrating 25 years since the release of her seminal album Jagged Little Pill, the Canadian singer songwriter arrives on her 2022 tour. Beth Orton supports.

Jun 28-29, 7pm, from £64, theo2.co.uk

flash back

Get in quick – Notflix: The Improvised Musical is set to arrive at Greenwich Theatre on June 11 with the all-female cast making up a show from scratch based on suggestions from the audience. Show 7.30pm, tickets £15 greenwichtheatre.org.uk Scan this code to read our interview with Emma Read, one of the stars of Notflix, online at wharf-life.com want more? @wharflifelive

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by Laura Enfield

T

he concrete jungle is “where dreams are made of” according to Alicia Keys’ song New York. But for Nicola Micah the Big Apple simply provided the inspiration for her Royal Docks reality.

The Londoner was living it up in Manhattan with her husband – banking by day and soaking up all the city had to o er y ni ht “We moved to New York in our late 20s and loved it,” she said.

“For me, the whole point of being there was to be in the centre of everything.

“But we knew we wanted to start a family and I didn’t want to do it there. We knew we wanted to move back home.”

By 2019 she was back – running ed lin caf Little dson around the corner from Thames Barrier Park and raising her newborn son. It was a huge transition, but one Nicola makes seem as natural as breathing.

“In New York, brunch is such a big part of the lifestyle and I’ve always loved food - working in a bank wasn’t really me,” she said.

“So I decided I was going to have a look into it and see if there were any units around. When I did, I quickly realised we needed to go for it because there were some available.

“I knew if we waited we might miss out or other places might move in and then there would already be competition.

“Then I got pregnant, unexpectedly, and that really pushed us to do it. I could have moved back to the UK and got a job in banking, but I wanted to do something I really loved.” icola named Little dson to “bring a little slice of New York to Royal Docks” and juggles running it with raising her three-year-old son afi. he caf , in tar oard Way, is open seven days a week until 4pm ith a sta of and the men is very much inspired by the brunch scene in Manhattan while also including some English classics.

Dishes include banana and caramel pancakes (£11), a brekkie bagel (£8) with scrambled egg, cheese, chives, turkey bacon or smoked salmon, and the popular dson re y plate ith turkey bacon, two eggs, hash ro n, dson eans, sa t ed mushrooms and sourdough toast.

Nicola said: “When we were planning I was thinking about what kind of place people would go to regularly, not just once every two weeks. I wanted to choose the best thing to do in terms of being able to survive.

“Our food is the kind people want to eat every day, because it’s

not really greasy. I like to keep the menu fresh and change it every few months for people who come quite regularly.”

Royal Docks is no Manhattan – the population is still small – but Nicola said that was the draw for her.

“Before we went to New York we were living in the area, so we knew it really well but there was literally nothing there,” said the 32-year-old.

“Then they started developing it and all the ats ere p t p and I thought it was a great opportunity to open something related to food, because there’s nothing else around there.”

She and her husband left the area to move Stateside after he landed a role ith financial services company Moody’s. Data analyst Nicola had previously or ed for antander and C and then found work with Citi an . When they decided to return, Nicola used her financial s ills to create a business plan, carried out market research to build her brand and organised the lease, all from across the pond.

She said of husband Salem: “I’m pretty sure he was freaking out inside, but he was really supportive of it and he always has been. When we opened, he was in between two jobs, so was able to help out a bit, which was great because our son had just been born.”

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Proportion of orders from the Royal Wharf café that are made through Deliveroo

Nicola says the secret of her success is having a team who are as passionate about the business as she is

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how the owner of Little Hudson gave up banking and set up a café in the Royal Docks, all while raising a child icola la nched the caf in September 2019 with her six-month-old strapped to her chest.

“My son has grown up in the caf , said the ec ton resident.

“When everything was being put together, we set up a play area for him in the ac and, hen e first opened, I had just started weaning him, so he had avocado and bits from the menu, which was fun.”

Nicola is now pregnant again but setting up the business is

not an experience she is keen to repeat.

“It was probably good that I as ite naive a o t the caf beforehand,” she said. “I can’t even imagine being able to do it now while raising two children.

“The beginning was so intense, getting everything right, getting the processes right.

“When you’re new, you really want to make sure that every customer is happy so that they come back.

“I didn’t realise how intensive it would be, but in hospitality if your main driver is to make lots of lots of money, then it’s not the best sort of industry for you.

“Even though it’s stressful with ups and downs and a pandemic and everything, I actually genuinely do love it, especially now we’ve got a really supportive team and people who actually care about the business. “ hat ma es s ch a di erence and we have a lot less stress now.”

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Brioche French toast with fruit, maple syrup, homemade honeycomb and mascarpone cream, £10

When we were planning I was thinking about what kind of place people would go to regularly, not just once every two weeks

what’s on

things to do, places to go, people to see Where?

University of East London Royal Albert Dock

Nicola Miah, Little Hudson

Hash browns, with melted cheddar, sweet chilli jam, smashed avocado, jalapeños, cherry tomatoes, red onions and lime juice

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Six months after opening, the UK went into lockdown and the café was forced to shut. It was a strange time for Nicola.

“Looking back it was actually quite nice, because I had my son so we were able to kind of spend that quality time together,” she said. But it was really upsetting shutting the café.

“We kept the community involved by doing supply boxes with fruit and veg, milk, eggs, o r, yeast, read and co ee. We delivered them to people’s doors using a little trolley. No-one in our area could get anything because we only have a small Sainsbury’s, so the queue would literally wrap around the whole development.

“When we reopened, we actually had a lot of support then from people who bought from us.

All those same customers came in, which was really nice.”

Nicola said lockdown also forced Little Hudson to launch on Deliveroo, which has prompted her to consider opening a dark kitchen.

“Delivery has just blown up since the pandemic, it is about 15% of the business.

“Sometimes, on weekends, we have to s itch it o eca se it s so busy already in the café.

“I didn’t think people would order brunch for delivery, but they do, especially at weekends.

“I’ve been thinking about doing some sort of delivery kitchen and maybe expanding other parts of the business as well to do more cakes for events and celebrations and expand the catering side.”

The café is open seven days a week until 4pm and has just launched a burger night on Fridays from 6pm-9pm. Nicola is also looking into holding live music events in the future.

So does she want to expand to another location now she is expanding her family?

“Maybe,” she said. “But I’ll wait a little bit until my next child is a bit older.”

Go to littlehudsoncafé.com

Scan this code to find out more about Little Hudson The café opens 8am weekdays and 9am weekends

WORKSHOP | Innovation Through Sustainable Materials... gives the chance to explore the use of agricultural by-products such as hemp, sugar cane or straw as new building materials.

Jun 23, 10-5pm, £5.98, londonfestivalofarchitecture.org Where?

Custom House DLR Victoria Dock Road

WALK | Travelling Over, On And Under Water This tour explores the lesser known sites and sounds of the rapidly changing area, taking in the structures that define the docklands landscape.

Jun 25, 2.45pm, £8, londonfestivalofarchitecture.org Where?

Hamme Building Royal Albert Wharf

ART | draw, play, act A free exhibition with drawings by architect and artist Anna Gibb that asks you to pick up a pencil and decide: Can buildings change the world?

Jun 30-Jul 10, 1-4.30pm, londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

flash back

Following the launch of the Elizabeth Line, we catch up with Excel CEO Jeremy Rees as he reflects on what Crossrail will mean for his venue, the Royal Docks and London as an international proposition excel.london Scan this code to find our interview with Jeremy Rees online at wharf-life.com want more? @wharflifelive

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unlocking the

125

Years Cody Dock’s new rolling bridge is expected to last following its installation in 2022

how Cody Dock’s 12-tonne rolling bridge will allow the regeneration project to fulfil its huge potential

by Jon Massey

T

here can be few pieces of infrastructure in the world that so succinctly represent the story and future of a project in the way Cody Dock’s rolling bridge does. Recently tested for the first time, it s the c lmination of years of or an ele ant, ro nd- rea in sol tion that s at once simple, hi hly engineered and not insubstantially bonkers.

The Gasworks Dock Partnership has, ith the help of more than , vol nteers, spent the last -and-a-half years or in to clear and regenerate an nloved patch of ind strial land on the iver Lea sed for many years as a toxic tip. ma or milestone in that pro ect ill e the re- oodin of the dock itself. With the junk cleared and the polluted sludge eneath painsta in ly removed, the GDP always knew it needed to sort out a solution to the crude dam that c rrently provides a rid e over the doc entrance, t also loc s access from the tidal aters of the river. co-fo nder and C imon yers had d ly fo nd an o -the-shelf risin asc le rid e from olland that o ld do the o rid in the ap and opening when necessary to let ships in. lannin permission as applied for and granted. But then somethin happened.

“It al ays starts ith a conversation in a p , doesn t it said homas andall- a e, desi ner of Cody Dock’s rolling bridge. “ ome ody told me imon as ildin a ne rid e, that it as a prod ct from olland and that it asn t the most interestin thin . I didn t have any or at the time I d st it my o to set p my o n practice and I approached imon and as ed if I co ld co nter-propose somethin that people o ld come and visit rather than just walk across. “ e said that o ld e fine,

because they already had plannin permission for the other bridge and I was doing it for free. “ hen I ent o to help my friend move her canal oat and spent two weeks going through locks and looking at all this ama in ictorian infrastr ct re most of it co nter- alanced and low energy.

“So I started to think about an opening bridge but one that or ed in a ay that had never een done efore. he res lt as a model for a rollin rid e, prod ced in partnership with structural engineers rice yers. perated y a hand cran , the hole str ct re inverts on trac s, raisin the foot ay hi h a ove any ships that want to gain access to the dock.

“In a way it’s the opposite of the asc le rid e, eca se that s all hydra lic li e tryin to lift somethin at arm s len th so a lot of ener y oes into it, said homas. “ his one is a very alanced system ith co nter ei hts, so it s oin to e man al yo st t rn a handle and ind it over.

“It ill e ite slo , t people ill e a le to do it themselves and hopef lly others ill come to atch it open.

While imon and the team ere immediately attracted y homas proposal, they p t it through a rigorous process of assessment to ens re it as somethin that o ld oth or at scale and could be built within budget.

“We knew we were taking ite a i ris ith somethin that s ntried to o r no led e, this is the only bridge of its ind in the orld, said imon. “ homas ave s hat e needed to convince o r oard and e decided to re-apply for plannin permission, altho h he had to ait five years for s to ive him a call and say we’d found the money and ere act ally oin to build it. That was about a year ago and he en a ed rice yers to or on it, all no in that there as a fi ed d et that e simply

Rolling bridge designer Thomas Randall-Page has seen his creation become a reality at Cody Dock

Thomas’ design features steam-bent oak runners and steel teeth that can all be easily replaced as they wear down over the decades

A cog specialist was brought in to help design each tooth to allow the bridge to roll smoothly

Images by Jon Massey

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The bridge will eventually be operated via a hand crank to allow boats to access the dock

With 400 names of those involved in its construction engraved on it, it really is a bridge of the people

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The Yard Theatre Hackney Wick

Simon Myers, GDP

couldn’t go over. From the outset, everyone was committed – there has been blood, sweat and tears poured into it, nobody has made any money but they all wanted to make it work.

“That’s really humbling – it sho s there s a di erent economy at work, one where people do things because they are passionate and excited about them – when do you get the chance to roll a 12-tonne cube of steel by hand except on a project like this? “ he rid e is the most si nificant structure here. The dock itself is important, but it’s no good if boats can’t get in and out – it’s a statement of intent that we are bold and ambitious here.

“It s o r first really i commission, it puts a marker down and it raises our game – with 400 names of those involved in its construction engraved on it, it really is a bridge of the people.”

Thomas added: “I started designing the bridge seven years a o, so to finally see it in place is both surreal and great – really amazing,” said Thomas.

“It’s better than I’d hoped. Cake Industries, who fabricated it, have been really helpful. There’s been so much goodwill in the whole team – a really collaborative and open process.

“Everyone felt like this was a project we really have to get right.

It’s something special.”

So there you have it – a £260,000 rid e that ill o cially open later this year and last for the next 125. It’s both a testament to the whole project’s collaborative nature and a gateway to a future that’s looking especially bright at present, with a the construction of a new visitors’ centre and a wash block already underway.

With repair of the dock wall progressing and pilings in place at its far end too, GDP can now plan to re- ood the doc , creatin residential moorings and a dry dock facility on-site.

Cody Dock is always looking for volunteers – go to codydock.org.uk

Left, GDP co-founder and CEO Simon Myers and right, the bridge ready to receive foot traffic

The bridge rolls on its runners to give boats sailing beneath greater clearance

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STAGE | Samskara Inspired by real-life testimonies, this fusion of hip-hop, dance and text explores black masculinity, vulnerability and the cycles of fatherhood.

Jun 27-Jul 23, times vary, from £10, theyardtheatre.co.uk Where?

Rule Zero Hackney Wick

EVENT | Zero Rules Drag Bingo Join the impeccably dressed Aidan Orange and Miss Joelle as they co-host a classic game of legs 11 where participants could win drinks or a mystery prize.

Jul 1, 7.30pm, £7.50, rulezero.co.uk Where?

Stratford Picturehouse Stratford

FILM | Elvis See Austin Butler and Tom Hanks take on a role fit for The King as Baz Luhrmann’s flick dives into the complex relationship between Elvis and Parker.

Jun 24-30, times vary, £7.50, picturehouses.com

diary date

Returning once more following the pandemic, Bow Arts is set to host its annual Bow Road Open Studios event on June 17-18 including live music, free family workshops and a makers’ market with food and drink stalls bowarts.com Scan this code to find out more about the Open Studios event, which is free to visit want more? @wharflifelive

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