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A TASTE OF HACKNEY at your
fingertips.
Savour the spirit, smell and
stories of one of Hackney’s most treasured markets with this groundbreaking
smartphone app.
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A Different Drum Productions will be
launching the ‘A Taste of Hackney’ app and celebrating the end of its
intergenerational digital heritage project, A Taste of Hackney, with an all day
event on Ridley Road Market.
The event will take place on Saturday 16th
June 2012 from 9.30am – 5pm with a variety of free arts activities and food
tasting on offer for all the family.
There will be various stalls where people
can watch live cooking demonstrations featuring recipes from around the globe,
all made from produce bought from the market. Families will also be invited to
make their own Eton Mess with food specialists Social Kitchen providing a
summer twist on a classic English recipe. Cake decorating workshops will also
be taking place.
Pupils from Colvestone Primary school
will be leading a treasure hunt and poetry workshops. Pensioners from Agewell UK will also be
on hand to take people on a personal, guided tours, sharing their memories of
the market and local area and collecting tasty ingredients along the way.
There will also be a photography exhibition
along the market where the audience can stop and listen to oral history
interviews and interact with the app.
About the Project
For the last 8 months Year 6 pupils from
Colvestone Primary School, Hackney and pensioners from Agewell Computer Club,
AgeUK Hackney have taken part in an innovative intergenerational digital media
project. A Taste of Hackney saw the group work with local arts organisation A
Different Drum Productions CIC to investigate the history of Ridley Road Market
through sound, film and photography.
The project tells the story of immigration
in the area through the variety of produce available from market. Starting from
the markets’ humbles beginnings in the mid-19th century, its evolution from
1900 to 1950 when its goods reflected the local Jewish community, to its
present day person reflecting Turkish, African and West Indian influences,
Ridley Road Market has always reflected the different communities that have
made the borough home.
The app features panoply of audio tracks
revealing the hidden stories, tales of lost practices, poetry and oral
histories woven into captivating audio soundscapes that will immerse the
listener into an intimate world through the eyes of the market. Hundreds of
images capture the essence of the market, interactive games and videos of
recipes all created by the group will propel the user back to the past in an audio-visual
adventure.
All content on the app has been devised to
take the listener beyond the familiar - to discover the untold stories of the
borough’s past, as told by the people that live and work there. By placing
people at the heart of the project A Taste of Hackney will achieve a truly ground-breaking
synchronization between people and place.
The A Taste of Hackney app will be
available on Android and iPhone and free to download. The accompanying website
will launch in May 2012.
ENDS
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For further information, please contact
Sam Schneider, Project Manager, A Taste of Hackney
E: sam@adifferentdrumproductions.com
Tel: 020 7288 4554/ 07432736116
Find us on Twitter:
@a_differentdrum
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