The Fete on the Village Green, Eastway, with the Wick Curiosity Shop.

Included a programme of walks, talks, tours, a tea dance, art installations, boxing, open studios, school fairs, a boulder, gardening, Eton Manor Boys Club, roof top art. The Festival theme was 'local produce' and celebrated the lives and the life in Hackney Wick.

All were free events!

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The Wick Curiosity Shop is an eclectic collection of local produce, memorabilia, oral history, songs and stories from or about Hackney Wick. On the day of the Hackney Wick Festival 2008 the shop will offer a rich mixture of displays and performances, bringing together the weird and the wonderful found in Hackney Wick. The Wick Curiosity Shop is produced by artists public works and Pudding Mill River.

A wide range of other venues hosed activities that took place during the Hackney Wick Festival. The other venues to visit included, Mabley Green, The Hackney Wick Community Centre, St Mary of Eton Church, SPACE Artist Studios, Gainsborough School, and Leabank Square.