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Oxford House & Love Bethnal Green are looking for talented storytellers who want to help us filter out the best bits about the area for the Love Bethnal Green website.

Very soon, we’ll be putting together a team who will help select & promote the town centre highlights for the website – looking at the best in art, film, music, & club nights, as well as a careful selection of brilliant bars, pubs, restaurants & businesses, & anything else that feels worthy of spotlighting.

If you’re 18+ you’re a photographer, designer, journalist, writer, poet or any other type of storyteller, & you’d like to be part of this celebration of Bethnal Green, then please get in touch with us.

Send us an email to bethnal.green@oxfordhouse.org.uk, subject line LBG, telling us your name, age & 3 things you’d love to shine a light on in Bethnal Green, & we’ll be in touch with more information very soon.

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Preview: Tue 5th September 2017, 6.30pm – 8.30pm. Exhibition & Supporting Events: Wed 6th – Sat 9th September
Venue: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London, E2 0QN. Admission is free of charge.

Revolv Collective will present its new Archives as Medium exhibition – an interrogation of the notion of the archive through the use of photography, film and sculpture – at Four Corners Gallery in East London from Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th September 2017. Alongside the exhibition, Revolv will run workshops with special guests to inform and inspire emerging artists. Admission is free of charge.

Supported by The University of Portsmouth’s Professional Practice Fund, this first exhibition by Revolv features the work of Krasimira Butseva, Laura Gowing, Vera Hadzhyiska and Lina Ivanova. Together, they challenge the purpose and function of the archive.

Joint statement by Revolv: “In this exhibition, we recreate, reinvent and preserve the archive as a medium. From social, cultural and political documentation, to new lines of construction and appropriation, visitors will see the archive change and evolve through bodies of cultural, collective and personal creative work.”

In addition to the Archives as Medium exhibition, the free workshops will include: Friday 8th September – Revolv will welcome visitors and creative professionals from Chrono Collective, Pupil Sphere and London Alternative Photography Collective to collaborate in the making of a zine. Featured artists and all involved in the production process will receive a free copy.

Saturday 9th September – Revolv will welcome Carole Evans, co-founder of Portrait Salon, Phil Serfaty, founder of Black Tower Projects, and award-winning artists Felicity Hammond and Russell Squires, to provide valuable insights into, among other things, the world of curation, how to approach galleries, applying for grants, and the benefits of working in education. The talks will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.

Tower Hamlets invites all licensed premises that are either part of the Best Bar None Scheme, or are considering it, to take part in free counter terrorism workshops presented by the Metropolitan Police as part of Project Griffin.

These workshops will be generously hosted by Best Bar None venues across the borough.

Below are a list of dates, venues and number of places available. Places are strictly limited, so please email Vincent.Fajilagmago@towerhamlets.gov.uk to book your place today.

Project Griffin is the national counter terrorism awareness initiative for business produced by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office to protect our cities and communities from the threat of terrorism

• 10am Tuesday 15th August 2017
Holiday Inn – London Whitechapel, 5 Cavell St, Whitechapel, London E1 2HP
3 places remaining

• 2pm Tuesday 15th August 2017
Holiday Inn – London Whitechapel, 5 Cavell St, Whitechapel, London E1 2HP
2 places remaining

• 10am Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Hilton London Canary Wharf, Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH
20 places available

• 2pm Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Hilton London Canary Wharf, Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH
20 places available

• 10am Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Hilton London Canary Wharf, Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH
20 places available

• 2pm Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Hilton London Canary Wharf, Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH
20 places available

On July 26th the Bethnal Green Business Forum got back together at Oxford House. It’d been a number of months since the forum had met, as we had been waiting for the signed off Tower Hamlets Town Centre Strategy to be shared with us. Now that we have that, from now up until 2022, the ambition is for the forum to play a key role in the implementation of the strategy as it unfolds, ensuring it works as hard as possible for everyone here in Bethnal Green. Oxford House will play a key role here, providing a bridge between the forum & the Borough.

At July’s meeting, the forum discussed some key ambitions from the strategy, which are listed below;

(i) Improve the existing retail offer
(ii) Develop management & leadership opportunities
(iii) Implement marketing & promotion to generate footfall; & support inward investment
(iv) Improve facilities, public realm & litter management
(v) Improve operation & sustainability of street markets
(vi) Reduce anti-social behaviour in the Town Centre

Oxford House is very keen to widen the forum, broadening representation, including people who are not just representing the business landscape in Bethnal Green, but young people, the elderly & all residents of the area. The Bethnal Green Business Forum will now therefore be known as the Bethnal Green Forum.

We will be sharing a short questionnaire in the coming days, to give you a chance to share your views on how Bethnal Green Town Centre is working for you at the moment. We’re really looking forward to receiving your results from this, as these will form part of the discussion at an inaugural Bethnal Green Forum meeting in mid-September.