Zoe Paskett
Hackney Gazette
United Kingdom
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Penguin celebrate International Women’s Day with a pop up bookshop selling only books by women
From March 5-9, Penguin is partnering with Waterstones to open the bookshop, which will feature works from Malorie Blackman, Zadie Smith, Malala Yousafzai, Caitlin Moran and Margaret Atwood → Read More
Jessica Butcher and Anoushka Lucas on Sparks and taking control of writing women
The Hackney and Dalston based actor and musician talk to Zoe Paskett about a new musical starring a young woman navigating through a messy, complicated and relatable life → Read More
All Points East: New support announced for The National at Victoria Park festival
New acts have been added to the support line up for headliners The National at All Points East festival this summer. → Read More
All Points East: Catfish and the Bottlemen to headline at Victoria Park festival on June 1
Catfish and the Bottlemen are the final headline act to be announced for the new All Points East festival in Victoria Park this summer. → Read More
Lemn Sissay’s Hackney Christmas Dinner for care leavers: ‘It’s about respect’
Christmas can be a difficult time for care leavers, says Lemn Sissay. That’s why he decided to start organising Christmas dinners for them → Read More
Essex Road: A view of the street from Tintype
Essex Road IV exhibition returns to Tintype gallery, with films from eight artists about the area → Read More
Malik Nashad Sharpe choreographs nationalism, gun violence, sexual assault and non-binary
At Hackney Showroom, $elfie$ by Malik Nashad Sharp, aka marikiscrycrycry, talks about issues of nationalism, gun violence and the black, queer aesthetic → Read More
Phoenix Rising, The Big House, review: ‘Intelligent, magnetic and raw with emotion’
Essential viewing at the Smithfield Meat Market, this play tells a harrowing tale of life after care → Read More
Jessica Townsend talks about the fantastical world of Nevermoor and Morrigan Crow
The Australian writer and former Primrose Hill local’s first novel is already marked out for a movie and is delighting audiences worldwide → Read More
Dancer Ruth Brill talks choreographing for Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Aladdin is at Sadler’s Wells October 31 – November 2. The triple bill of Arcadia, Le Baiser de la fée and ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café is November 3 – 4 → Read More
Hair producer Katy Lipson: ‘It’s as shocking and out there as it was back then’
Producer Katy Lipson tells Zoe Paskett about the 50th anniversary production of Hair: The Musical and its legacy, and following in Sonia Friedman’s footsteps → Read More
Photography exhibition sees refugees ‘Claiming a New Place on Earth’
At Protein Studios in Shoreditch from October 10 to 15, the exhibition features the combined work of photographer Caroline Irby and journalist Veronique Mistiaen → Read More
Rae Morris: ‘This is the most relaxed I’ve ever felt onstage’
Rae Morris performs at Islington Assembly Hall on Thursday (September 28) → Read More
Darren Chetty talks The Good Immigrant, lived experience in the classroom and white discomfort
Darren Chetty is on a panel at Archway With Words with writers Kieran Yates and Wei Ming Kam → Read More
Cloudesley Square strays stand up to fat cats
The Cats of Cloudesley Square sees a group of felines go up against a property developer to save the church they live in → Read More
Marcel Theroux on The Secret Books and “the mother of all fake news”
Theroux will speak at the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival about his new work The Secret Books, which tells the story of Nicolas Notovitch. Or one version of the story... → Read More
GRRRL power at Hackney’s Folklore unites women around the world
A new production project from In Place of War is bringing musicians from all over the world to form an electronic band together. → Read More
Cressida Bonas talks taking on Sonia Brownell, the girl from the fiction department
Cressida Bonas stars as Sonia Brownell in Mrs Orwell, the story of George Orwell’s second and last marriage, at Islington’s Old Red Lion Theatre in August → Read More
King’s Head Theatre Queer Season: Coming Clean with A Boy Named Sue
Queer Season returns to the King’s Head and Zoe Paskett talks LGBTQI+ theatre with Adam Spreadbury-Maher and playwright Bertie Darrell → Read More
Jonathan Freedland: ‘The most creative two words in the English language are: what if’
Author and journalist Jonathan Freedland talks to Zoe Paskett about his new book, To Kill the President under nom de plume Sam Bourne → Read More