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Jane Amelia Parker: designer/maker
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. How well do you know London? Not just the quickest way to get to the Angel or down to the river, but all its layers of history? Holloway local Jane Parker...
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Hanisha Solomon: singer
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Where did you get your lucky break? Hanisha Solomon is big in Ethiopia – her Ethio-jazz, reggae and soul songs are always on the radio taking a social...
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Kate Calvert: Archway community star
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. What makes communities get to know each other better? Kate Calvert, Founder of the Better Archway Forum, travel writer and all round rabble-rouser mixes...
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Molly Gorell Barnes: teaching assistant/Mollypopcards
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Do you find it hard to give a one word answer when someone asks what you do? If so you are probably under 30 years old or a freelance. Molly Gorell Barnes...
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Linda Plater: Village of Islington co-ordinator
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. How well do you know Islington? Do you know it well enough to know that it’s a name for places outside north London and a media corner of Manchester too?...
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Hannah Kalmanowitz: Stuart Low Trust manager
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Does living somewhere for decades give you a better connection with the place? Does it make you want to do more for it, or less? Hannah Kalmanowitz, who...
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Anna Colquhoun: culinary anthropologist
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. How do you learn to cook? One way might be to join a cooking class run by Highbury local Anna Colquhoun, a trained chef who teaches cooking and runs a...
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Anne Weyman: u3a dynamo
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Islington University of the Third Age (iu3a) has been giving retired and semi-retired Islingtonians plenty to think about and do since it was started a...
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Judith Kleinman: musician & Alexander technique teacher
Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. What are you like? Same as you were when young or very different? Musician Judith Kleinman is a proper north Londoner – artistic and community minded who...
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Jessica O’Neill: behind the PhD
Everyone has a story. Would-be professor of dark hearts and self-styled Ripperologist Jessica O’Neill mixes her PhD research with community engagement. As a result she is a fabulous person to lead...
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Hedera Vetch: wildlife gardener
Everyone has a story. Take a photo journey around Hedera Vetch’s tiny shared N5 garden to gain an understanding of life in Islington from the wildlife’s point of view. This post also has a request to...
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Jennifer Yong: founder Jenius Social
Everyone has a story. Tucked behind Holloway Tube off Hornsey Street is a chic, airy space designed for greeting, meeting and eating. You can hire the kitchen; learn how to judge coffee like a pro;...
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Chloe Holmes: Elizabeth House centre director
Everyone has a story. Elizabeth House – part of Islington’s community hub network*– is getting a spring makeover that looks set to see even more locals making use of the classes, classrooms and...
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Stephanie Leonard: community organiser
Everyone has a story. Stephanie Leonard hopes to turn 50 young people into community organisers. Here’s how she’s doing it in Islington and Camden by empowering first-, second- and third-generation...
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Nabila El-Ahmadi: multi-tasking mum
Everyone has a story. Despite looking after four school-aged children and having a demanding job, Islingtonian Nabila El-Ahmadi, 36, manages to be a school governor, Arsenal fan and get to her...
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Valerie Goode: ethical fashion at Kitty Ferreira
Everyone has a story. Want to know what ethical fashion is? Valerie Goode of ethical fashion label Kitty Ferreira reckons city dwellers want an outfit that makes you look good and will take you from...
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Ivy Allan Freeman: Islington memories from 1933
Everyone has a story. Perhaps it is because Ivy Allan Freeman has been living in the US for nearly 50 years that her memories of growing up near King’s Cross – with the sound of horses’ hooves on the...
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Tara Button: buy me once campaigner
Everyone has a story. Tara Button wants MPs to bring in a simple law that stops companies making products built to break – and she’s asking us to help her by signing a 38 Degrees petition that got...
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Susan Oudot: Corrie writer with a passion for Milner Square
Everyone has a story. Write what you know is advice for new writers – but Susan Oudot, bestselling author and series writer of more than 50 episodes of ITV’s Coronation Street, has used this maxim to...
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Caroline Dent: Death Cafe co-ordinator
Everyone has a story. Artist and end of life doula Caroline Dent has brought the Death Café to Finsbury Park’s Blighty Café. Join the Death Cafe to talk about all the taboos and fears we have about...
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