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Category Archives: Community stuff
She’ll be apples
The London Orchard Festival takes place Sunday week in the green heart of King’s Cross – Camley Street Natural Park. London Orchard Project, the charity organising the event with the London Wildlife Trust ask: “Ever sampled a Merton Wonder apple, … Continue reading
Wild New Territories celebrates urban wildlife in KX
Wild New Territories is an exhibition showing new visual art, media and performance works that explore the interplay between the urban and the wild. The artists are a broad cross-section of award winning and emerging, artists from a variety of geo-political … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Community groups, Kings Cross N1C, railwayslands, Noticeboard
Tagged Alma Tischler Wood, architecture, Art, Bo Myers, Brunswick Square, Camley Street, Charities, Community, Cornelia Wyngaarden, Dana Claxton, Diego Samper, Edgar Heap of Birds, Foreign Investment, Gillian Wearing, Glenn Lewis, Gordon Cheung, Henry Bragg, Jamie Griffiths, Kathy Kenny, Kings Cross, Local groups, Mars Kaliszewski, Max Kimber, Michael Landy, Michael Morris, Regent's Canal, Ron den Daas, The Foundling Museum, Urban wildlife, Vincent Trasov
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Calling all community groups in King’s Cross!
Back in April community groups working within a half mile of the perimeter of KX Station got together to talk about how we can get the best from the new developments happening here. We came up with some great ideas, … Continue reading
Hot corner: ‘revolutionary socialists’ open centre
The neighbourhood may well be cementing – or re-cementing – its status as a leftie hotbed lately with the opening of Firebox, an events space and café run by Counterfire, who describe themselves as a group of revolutionary socialists. Opening … Continue reading
The Sparkplug gets Evening Standard support
Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund “London is a shameful tale of two cities. In the richest capital in Europe almost half our children live below the poverty line. “These children and their families – the Dispossessed – are cut off from … Continue reading
Posted in Community groups, Young People
Tagged abandoned bicycles, bikes, cycle repairs, Cycling, Dispossessed Fund, Evening Standard, Mechanics, Motorbikes, Motorcycles, neet, The Sparkplug, youth
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The Calthorpe Project invites your comments
The Calthorpe Project’s vision is to transform a disused part of our site (highlighted in the image below/attached) into a multi-purpose building that will bring benefits for the local community and small businesses. Our aim is to create an attractive, sustainable and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Community groups, Sports, Wildlife and Nature, Young People
Tagged Arup, Calthorpe Project, community gardening, Gray's Inn Road
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What’s in a name? The Neighbourhood Forum for KX
I’ve watched from afar the birth pains of a neighbourhood forum for King’s Cross. Those first, seemingly small, steps for any organisation are always difficult and often painful, and this is no different. Neighbourhood forums are an initiative of the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Community groups, Planning, Licensing and Regulation
Tagged Neighbourhood Forum, planning
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