7th June 11am - 4pm

V22 Studios

OPEN STUDIOS in Ashwin Street & Ashwin Yard! Meet the artists, see their amazing work, and have a nosy round the longest running V22 building.

6th June 11am - 4pm

V22 Studios

V22 artists will be selling original prints, ceramics, paintings, textiles, sculptures and more in our upcoming ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR.

We will be opening the doors to our Ashwin yard in Dalston’s cultural quarter on Saturday 6th June. Come down to see what our artists have been making in their studios and support London’s creatives.

5th June - 25th June

Print House Gallery

Studio Upstairs is a charity providing therapeutic community art studios in Dalston, Croydon and Bristol and supporting people who experience ongoing emotional and mental health
difficulties.

‘Brushes With Reality’ is a group art exhibition bringing together artworks made by members, team and volunteers from their Dalston studio. The exhibition celebrates the rich diversity of artistic practice that takes place at Studio Upstairs.

Private View 4th June 

Special Weekend Opening for Hackney Art Week:
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June  11am-5pm.

Opening times
9am-5pm
Monday - Friday

26th May 7pm - 10pm

Dalston Curve Garden

Dizraeli, now performing under the name Diz Undone, Diz continues to push boundaries in music and lyricism, with a cascade of new music coming in 2026 as part of his Love & Rage project, in his words “a collection of protest and world-building music, made to inspire fury, action and real change”.

For Woodburner, Diz brings guitar, percussion, beats and songs from across his career, with unswerving humanity and a masterful sense of the absurd.

7th May - 13th June

Arcola Theatre

A wry and poignant portrait of ageing, loneliness and friendship in 1970s London, adapted by Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey (Orbital) from Barbara Pym’s beloved novel.

6th May - 6th June

Arcola Theatre

Set in the women’s bathroom of a London club, this Fringe Theatre Award-winning comedy-drama is an ode to the women who hold your hair back, hype you up, and sometimes just hand you loo roll.

2nd May - 28th May

Print House Gallery

Bootstrap tenant Charlie Peel is launching Map-Editions.com with an exhibition of his maps aligning present-day Hackney with its historic landscape from 100+ years ago. See Lower Clapton, Stoke Newington, Dalston, Shoreditch, and Homerton in parallel time — where lost buildings, vanished fields, and shifting streets come back into view.

The maps are large format, fine art archival prints in a limited edition of just 25 for each artwork. 

1st May 6pm

Print House Gallery & Dalston Curve Garden

Join us for the launch of Hackney History Festival 2026! Hosted at Bootstrap and Dalston Curve Garden with a preview of a map exhibition about historic Hackney called ‘This Place Then’ and short taster talks from many of the speakers featured in the festival. We’ll also hear from Charlie Peel, the exhibition’s cartographer, and David Williams, CEO of Bootstrap about their work and have some drinks and space to mingle. Cost includes first drink and snacks, with a paid bar after that.

10th April - 2nd May

Arcola Theatre

Reframing Euripides’ classic text for a modern world and proving "that even the oldest stories can feel alive" (Theatre & Tonic ★★★★ ), this is a story of sacrifice, parenthood and the human cost of war.

21st, 22nd & 23rd April

Cafe Oto

Over 3 nights, Adam will bring together 9 projects, including groups formed during Adam’s early years such as Diastolic Murmurs (formed with Richard Crow in 1985 during electro-acoustic research within Phillip Wachsmann's legendary Electronic Music Studio) through Secluded Bronte (with Richard Thomas) and the very new Duvel Mortgage (with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson). Each night will be hosted by our in house gremlin Jackson Burton, and will (hopefully) also feature a special guest, tbc.

24th April 7pm

Cafe Oto

Sacrifice Zone returns night shaped by artists working at the edges of music, performance and image - from Lord Tusk’s strange and ecstatic underground world, to YEAH YOU’s unruly absurdist reworking of the family unit through electronic dirt-pop, public disruption and anti-spectacle. At its centre is Sacrifice Zone, the collaborative endeavour of Susu Laroche and Josef Kurtz, whose practices move through 16mm film, multidisciplinary performance and darkly psychedelic sound.

2nd April - 2nd May

Arcola Theatre

Two strangers find love during World War II in this “irresistible heart-warmer... a delightful romcom through letters” (The Guardian ★★★★) from Olivier Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig.

17th March 7pm - 9pm

Dalston Curve Garden

This weaving project is all about slowing down, playing with colour and texture, and discovering how simple techniques can build into something beautiful and personal.

18th March 7pm -9pm

Arcola Theatre

Our young theatre makers extend an invitation to follow a group of schoolchildren who discover a mysterious door… Jumping into new realms, they meet unlikely characters and overcome unexpected obstacles.

19th March 6pm & 8:30pm

Dusty Knuckle Bakery

Join the iconic Londis N16 family for a supper club takeover in the bakery.

The menu is inspired by their recent trip to India - the cafes, thali restaurants and meals they shared at home with family.

12th March - 28th April

Cafe Oto

eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music.

Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.

12th March - 28th April

Print House Gallery

Cake Architecture take over the gallery bringing a small piece of their event series exploring space, sound & surface.