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Bloc (Autumn Street) Bloc’s Autumn Street Studios is a 500-capacity warehouse home to some of London’s most exciting and ambitious club programmes. No space currently available, but please join our waiting list here Big Local supports, challenges, trains and encourages people and groups to develop and take ownership of the programme in their local area. is a respected underground music venue in Hackney Wick, with a 550 capacity. Shapes Warehouse Hackney The Gascoyne 2 Community Lunch is a free-lunch with no strings attached. laughs Benson. Harnessing the collective voice of local stakeholders, it has proved to be a powerful vehicle that enables local organisations to thrive, overcome barriers to sustainability and keep abreast of important local issues within an ever changing external environment.‘
“Like all insurance policies, it had an awful lot of exclusion clauses—and one of them was that if we admitted culpability for it, then we as directors wouldn't have been able to claim the insurance. Mall Grab Weekender: Friday tickets. Baixada del Molí, 7, AD500 Andorra la Vella. It is a locally driven approach to help communities fulfill their ambitions and make their local areas better places to live.
And because we'd had three very successful festivals at [holiday camp] Butlins, people were knocking on our door a bit, and saying, 'do you want to go up to a 15,000 festival? Sip a few bottles of Magners cider, stand in [east London's] Victoria Park, have an edgy brand experience." “By then we were really scheming,” Hull says, “wondering if we could actually earn a living out of this.” So they called up Pontins, “put on our most grown-up, middle-class accents,” and just about got away with it— Here are these peculiar relics from a failed utopia, built for the 1950s nuclear family, before cheap flights changed the way British people take their holidays—and before anyone had even thought of After five years of running Bloc, they started to consider moving on again. Bloc kept quiet, and speculation about what had happened got wilder, and the online response angrier. “It should have been on the other side of the site. No space currently available, but please join our waiting list here This means that some of the money distributed in each area can come back to Big Local and be reused in the local area again and again. It has a capacity of around 500, has a big square dancefloor and … No space currently available, but please join our waiting list here. White Post Cafe is a contemporary, multi-use space.
Hackney Wick Boulder Project.
"I hate splitting hairs about it,” says Benson, “because I feel fucking bad about it, we both do.
From the first Bloc Weekend in 2007, organised when Hull and Benson were just 22, the festival has boasted some of the most forward-thinking artists playing techno, house, electro, dubstep, hip-hop, and the more experimental, mind-melting outer reaches of electronic music. Leof. Wick Award is a Big Local project, funded by the National Lottery to support local initiatives and help people grow good ideas.Hackney Wick is a vibrant and diverse area on the edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, west of the Lee Navigation.It straddles the boundary between the London Borough of Hackney and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is bisected by the A12 link to the Blackwall Tunnel.It’s situated at the southern tip of Hackney Marshes and 15 minutes from Hackney Central – the historic centre of the Hackney Wick has its own Overground station, with links to Highbury & Islington and Central London to the west, and the regenerate bustle of Stratford and the high-speed rail link to the east. But all was not well with the site. Book a table reservations@silolondon.com. With about two weeks to go until Bloc 2012, with over 10,000 tickets sold, it became clear the second stage on the site, a 3,000-plus capacity arena, would not be ready—the entire site would have to be redesigned, with a tent replacing the half-built second stage, next to the main stage. No space currently available, but please join our waiting list here. What was previously a disused wasteland by the River Thames, was to be run on a short-term basis by Shangri-La, the team responsible for running the widely acclaimed after-hours section of §10 Boat Rave (Past) MONDAY 8 JULY 2019
It has a large Atrium venue adjoining. "Yeah, when the fuck did that happen?" Benson explains: “In 2011 there was lots of chatter about this new venue in London, being established for the Olympic summer. Riverbank Wharf E3 / SPACE AVAILABLE.
“We set it up on a credit card. 117 Wallis Rd, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LN.
Enquire about holding shoots & events at this riverside warehouse location Situated directly between hardware stores, and the looming, silent grandeur of the now largely unused London 2012 Olympic stadium, lies a converted warehouse that contains the offices of electronic festival
After three or four hours of a sporadically intense Friday night, with an increasingly inebriated and unsettled crowd of thousands coming up against bottlenecks, Bloc took the decision to evacuate and ‘soft close’ the site, stage by stage. Hearing it from Benson and Hull’s point of view, it's hard to argue with the safety-first decision. Everyone is welcome to attend and share a hot and healthy meal preparedFood parcels, medication delivery and more – how Wick Award is supporting vulnerable residents during the coronavirus outbreak. The Gatehouse E3 / SPACE AVAILABLE.