Best Turkish Kebab - Stoke Newington

Virgin train London to Holyhead - Rugeley Trent Valley Railway Station (RGL)

on the 243 bus from shoreditch to Dalston  at Dalston

Talking Americanos  at On the 243 bus

St Stephen Bazilika at Budapest

The East London Boozer closing speech by Cymon Ecles - 5am Sunday morning 

Griffin pub closing

Vintage 1960s Black Rotary Telephone. Classic Henry Dreyfuss design. ITT Model 500 dated 1967.

The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard desk-style domestic telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from late 1949 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture.

Model 500(USA)  telephone Ring 1967

From Reich Heine Strase To Weinmiester  at Berlin

Dublin Hueston to Galway

Galway shop st

Galway Shop St - 2012

Red Gallery
In April 2010, we took over 1-3 Rivington Street, then a near-derelict building, empty for a year and a half, and made it into one of the London’s most exciting cultural hubs. We are a collective of creative individuals and organisations striving to bring together art, music and film via many varied cultural events, forging/cementing local, national and international collaborations/partnerships. At Red we offer low-cost space to artists and Internet start-ups. 

Now in its 2nd year, The Red Project continues to deliver on our ‘cultural house sitting’ remit, having transformed an empty property into one of the Capital’s landmark creative spaces. RED is designing a cultural blueprint. Drawing on previous cultural experiments, we see ourselves as part of the great tradition of creative migrants who have moved to metropolitan areas such as London's East End, in an attempt to build long-term sustainable business strategies. 

To date in the last 18 months we have already joined forces/collaborated with artists such as: Kid Koala, Radio London Salon with Calvin Harris, Gavin Turk, Soundcloud, magazines: i-D and art collectives including: House of Fairy Tales, Soul Clap, Wolf & Lamb, Adam Dant, Noriko Okaku, Le Gun, onedotzero, Bo Ningen; Institutions such as: Camberwell and Kingston Colleges of Art; East End Film Festival and Rough Trade (East), to name few.

We host exhibitions, live art, live music and club events, literary soirees, symposiums and film screenings. We also provide with MATERIAL a bookshop and are able to publish our own books. Under the ‘{ourhistory}’ banner we curate large-scale gallery shows (currently touring internationally) covering subjects as diverse as the history of acid house and the future of art in the East End, with exhibitions such as ‘20 years of Acid House’, ‘East End Promise’ and ‘East Pop’. We are a self-funding creative enterprise, independently run relying neither on private nor public backers. One of our guiding principles is to work with, and seek input from the local artistic and creative communities, to build new business models and strengthen local, national and international ties in order to further our vision of an expansive artistic culture.


{ourhistory} Project: is the creation of Ernesto Leal and its aim is to both record and archive the collective memories of the individuals who inhabit the moving places and changing spaces of the city. Through the medium of the visual arts, Our History places maximum emphasis on the experiences of those who are directly affected by the continuously changing nature of the city. It sets out to celebrate, recognise and to tell the stories of ‘those who were there’.


{ourhistoryarchives} is a collaborative project that brings together creative practitioners from all walks of life who are then invited to take part in creating {ourhistory}, East End Promise/East Pop and is a continuation of the highly acclaimed and successful ‘Our History” Celebrating 20 Years of Acid House Graphic Design Exhibition. This was an exhibition which brought together some of the most iconic graphic design, taken from the original flyers used to publicised Raves and Acid House parties over the last 20 years. 

Officially launched in November 2008 at the Londonewcastle Project Space - East London. The exhibition ran over three days, received maximum press coverage and was visited by over 2000 people. In February 2009 the exhibition moved to Selfridges Ultralounge Gallery Space as part of the ARTCORE show. Since then, {ourhistory} has travelled to the Tokyo Time Out Cafe, Shanghai’s U-Dance Studios, Brighton Pelirocco Hotel, Beijing 2011 INTRO Electronic Music Festival, Ibiza 2011 IMS & Es Vive Hotel.





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