The summer musical juggernaut that is the All Points East festival returns to Victoria Park this Friday 17th August, for 10 days of global and local superstars across multiple stages.

Kicking off with Kaytranada, Tems and friends on the first night, with hip hop on Saturday from the likes of Loyal Carner, Andre 3000 and Nas, and then Mitski (pictured above) headlining Sunday alongside Beabadoobee, TV Girl and masses more, it brings huge talent line-ups to our doorstep.

Last minute final tickets can still be purchased here.

The Wick has also put together a handy guide to all the artists appearing across the next two weekends and their social media pages for you to delve into and discover ahead of the shows.

🕺🏻 Meanwhile, In The Neighbourhood also returns to the festival site 19th - 22nd August, open from midday to 9pm each day. It’s the totally free mini-festival aimed at giving something back to locals for graciously hosting the main events in their Park. Expect loads of things to see, do and try, from free yoga classes to football with West Ham United Foundation, and a whole host of kids fun activities to samba school workshops for grown-ups. Not forgetting the BBC Radio 1Xtra stage promising massive line-ups and hot new musical talent, too.

See you in the sunshine over Vicky Park, then… 🌞

🐵 Who’s Holding Who Up is a new exhibition reminding us that we human are very much part of natural world too. Artist Michel Debono has been working in sculpture since 1964 to depict deforestation and the effect it causes to the animals that live there. This new show, opening at Indra Gallery on September 7th, is a multi-sensory experience of sound, touch, vision and smell, as you walk through the deepest reaches of mankind’s self reflection.

🌏 Sugar House Island’s Hypha Gallery 2 is currently showing an evocative collection of installations, film, painting, photography, and mixed-media works by 20 emerging artists from the Royal College of Art at new show Ripples. The exhibition challenges conventional narratives around decoloniality, and how it can be analysed in contemporary times through both personal and communal lenses. There’s a program of artist talks every Friday throughout the exhibition period (16th, 23rd, and 30th August, 7-8 pm).

🥊 Scandal is a pop-up art and music festival taking place at Fabwick this Friday 16th August. The event is participatory installation where you enter a boxing ring with an integrated AI photo booth, so expect to get fully involved in the project of “resolving conflict through creativity and art, and creating a space where rebellious ideas merge and triumph.”

🏀 The neighborhood's very own 7,500 capacity indoor arena, The Copper Box, has just been nominated for two prestigious gongs at November's upcoming London Venue & Catering Awards: ‘Best Event Venue for 1,500+ Attendees and ‘Best Venue Space in the City’. The recognition marks an exciting period for the venue, which hosts the 12th Anniversary edition of Revolution Pro Wrestling on Saturday August 24th, following by a gig by hip hop royalty Fat Joe and The Lox (Oct 23rd) and the Ultimate Tennis Showdown Grand Final (6th-8th December) over the coming weeks.

⛓️‍💥 Bruk Therapy is a night of musical celebration that embraces a harmonious blend of Soul, Jazz, House and Future Beats at Grow this Saturday 17th August. DJs Donsurf and Abiba alongside residents Cengiz and Entek will drop a lively soundtrack with a special focus on the captivating world of Bruk and Broken Beats.

🪓 Axe range Skeeters are celebrating their 4th birthday this Saturday 17th August with 50% all bookings made for the day, £5 sample sessions, drinks deals at the bar, a DJ, raffle and loads more - use the code BIRTHDAY50 on their website to grab a place, with a percentage of proceeds going towards UNRWA offering support of the emergency in Gaza.

The mighty Giant Steps is back at The Bath House this Sunday 18th August with a Cosmic Roots Festival takeover ahead of the 2024 edition of the festi next month. Expect a mix of residents and tasty special guest spinners, all livening up your afternoon into evening on that custom-built soundsystem.

🍺 Talking of the pub, The 1st Annual Lord Napier Star Beer Festival takes place this ​​​​​​​Sunday August 18th. Tickets are FREE, but you’ll need to buy tokens to try samples, thirds or halves of eight guest beers, including Drop Project, East London Brewery, Great Beyond Brewing, Mammoth, Gravity Well and more.

☕ The neighbourhood’s latest dedicated coffee hangout is about to open in the corner unit of creative workspace Eat Work Art’s new Lockside Studios building. Simmos Coffee will be pouring Asian-inspired speciality coffees alongside tasty treats, while also hosting exhibitions and events, all at 5 Skippers Yard, all kicking off in late August.

🎪 Sustainable Wallis Road business hub The Loop is participating in the Open House Festival 2024, throwing its doors wide to the general public for the first time to come and discover all the phenomenal circular economy businesses working inside. Thursday 19th September, 5pm-9pm. The Loop also still has an offer of pop-up stall space out front for local entrepreneurs, and with the sun out, it’s a prime spot. It costs just £50 a day for the pitch, with no minimum period. Ethical and circular businesses are preferred, although all welcome. Email: [email protected] for info and bookings.

🆕 SEEDED is a five-month part time residency programme for East London-based creative practitioners and thinkers to explore ideas relating to their socially-engaged practice. UCL East and other East Bank partners work closely with the selected individuals, who also get £6k funding to support the residency. The focus themes this year will be social justice, inclusion and accessibility in the arts, the built and the natural environment, or community engagement. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 17th September.

🪴The Olympic Park’s SHIFT innovation catalyst is currently seeking London-based SMEs working on solutions to the sustainability challenges facing our food systems to join the next Future Industries Demonstrator challenge. If you are successful, you’ll have the chance to rapidly scale your innovation, with the opportunity of receiving up to £25,000 plus access to local co-working spaces and tailored support. Applications close on September 8th.

🏢 Urban Frontiers is a pop-up exhibition from SHIFT and UCL exploring the new technologies and approaches to data that will shape the way we live, but are often invisible. These curated artefacts show how startups, researchers and communities are already building tomorrow's city and include physical solutions that will act as the building blocks of our cities, digital solutions tackling pressing issues, and experimental interventions straddling both the physical and digital. It runs Fri 23rd and Tues 27th August at UCL East’s One Pool Street building.

🫂 For nearly a decade, Wick Award has been creating opportunities for young people, building community connections and improving wellbeing for all in the area. Now they are planning to establish a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) to continue this vital work for the future. To be as open and inclusive in the process as possible, everyone is invited to a meeting on Tuesday 24th September from 6.30pm-8pm at Gascoyne 2 Community Hall where you’ll have a chance to share your priorities for Wick Award's future initiatives, learn more about the CIO plans and connect with other locals and groups looking to address the community’s most pressing needs.

🚧 Work will recommence on the Hackney Yards building site behind Hackney Wick Overground station on August 19th, with mitigation and monitoring measures in place to deal with the ‘nuisance odours’ and make sure levels do not become unsafe. You can find out more in the FAQ’s here, although their dedicated community engagement website doesn’t yet have the latest (August) newsletter posted to it.