🛻 Monster Jam tickets up for grabs! 🛻

This Saturday, July 13th, see the much anticipated return of Monster Jam to the London Stadium, and The Wick has three pairs of tickets to give away to fast-acting readers.

It’s a full-throttle family-friendly afternoon cheering on the massive stunt trucks and their world-class athlete drivers as they attempt backflips, donuts and catching seriously big air as they roar around at 70-miles-per-hour in dirt track races.

To enter the draw for tickets, simply refer a friend (or friends) to this newsletter using either the button or your unique referral code below.

As soon as they sign up, you’ll both be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets - so the more friends you invite, the more chances of winning 😉

We’ll pick the winners at random on Thursday lunchtime, so you’ll need to be quick… Good luck!

CIG meets this Friday morning. All welcome…

🍰 Victory Park hosts the East Village Summer Fete next Saturday, July 20th, boasting some of the best street food trucks from across the city at the Urban Food Fest, alongside a range of fun family activities like a petting zoo, arts and crafts station, face painting and balloon animals.

🪢 ArtSect Gallery’s Rope Jam is a monthly space to learn and practice the art of Kinbaku - Shibari, where new and seasoned practitioners will always learn new ties, make new friends and share rope love. Different aspects of Shibari are explored each time in a sober, and supportive environment, the next event taking place this Sunday afternoon 14th July, at Algha Works.

👩🏼‍🎨 Just a short bike-ride away, this Friday and Saturday (12th & 13th July) Leyton Rd open studios is a rare opportunity to connect with talented artists and experience their work up close as the 18 painters, framers, photographers and sculptors working at Bow Arts’ Leytonstone-based studios open their doors to showcase and sell their work direct.

🛋️ Sprawling throughout the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park multi-storey car park at Here East, The Giant London Flea Market is now officially the capital’s largest such indoor market, hosting over 100 of the finest peddlers of preloved bargains in vintage home decor, and just £2 to get in. Sunday 14th July.

🧠 At the One Pool St campus of UCL East you’ll find free exhibition Memory Work, exploring the themes of memory and showcasing the research of the Urban Lab Steering Committee. Look out for special events. Runs until 16th August. 

🥳 There are still a few last minute tickets for the return of the epic Multi Multi this Saturday July 13th; the neighbourhood’s midsummer mini-festival from the Secretsundaze crew, taking over loads Hackney Wick’s venues day into night. Big news for the 2024 edition is that the event will see the waterfront garden at Hackney Bridge transformed into one of the many dancefloors, with a 1,500 capacity - the first time the impressive outdoor space has been used in this way. Expect things to be lively.

🎛️ It’s the second in the month-long series of São Paulo-meet-London hi-NRG baile club, Chi-town house and hammer-and-tongs techno parties from Colour Factory resident BADSISTA & Friends on Friday 12th July This week the friends are C.FRIM dropping genre-hopping, high-octane curveballs and LCY with the ominous techno.

💚 The crowdfunder for zero waste restaurant Silo’s forthcoming fermentation factory, to be built at The Loop on Wallis Road, smashed through it’s £10k target late last week. We’d like to think the reminder to pledge we ran in this newsletter may well have helped nudge it over the line, and if you haven’t got involved yet, there are still a few hours in which you can get involved in a trailblazing circular economy project, with decent rewards for all who do, too.

😃 A brand new daily happy hour has launched at Cafe Mai at Schwartz Wharf on the canalside. It runs from 5pm - 7pm and includes two-for-one on all cocktails and aperitivos, bottles of house red or white wine for just £20 or five bottles of beer for £20.

🏃🏽‍♀️ Social running club Run Dusty have two things at the core of their mission: getting people mentally and physically fit via a weekly 5-8km group run, and then supporting a different local brewery each month with a well earned pint (or two) straight after. All this month their home is Queen’s Yard’s Howling Hops, where you can just rock up any Thursday at 7pm to join in, there’s a bag drop - and your first pint is free! Plus there’s a special Dusty Rat Race this Saturday 13th too.

Bow Arts are seeking a Curator: Programmes & Engagement. The role is an exciting opportunity to develop and grow their unique and creative events programme, which is focused on audience development and engaging communities. Apply by Monday July 22nd.

🧑🏾‍🎨 Creative workspace provider Arbeit have launched application for their ReRooted Residency at Trowbridge Gardens, focused on community engagement and sustainability. All London creatives, either individuals and collectives, working in ecology, sustainability and/or nature, are invited to propose work that will be made and installed in the new north garden space. Submit your eco-friendly ideas for the garden, and they will cover all artists' workspace, fees, and production costs. It will run Aug-Nov '24 at Trowbridge Gardens. Apply by Sunday July 21st.