Village Raw - ISSUE 1

VILLAGE RAW
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THE RAW: The latest local
happenings and things to do
WOMEN ONLY: Female artists
explore the role women have
played in Highgate’s history
CRAFTING THE FUTURE:
Local crafters championing
handmade products
VILLAGE SOUNDS:
Q&A with local musicians
Gabriella Swallow and Luke Eira
CREATIVITY IS POWER:
Rickardo Stewart discusses
youth provision and outreach
IN LIMBO: Photographer
Dan Bridges captures the essence
of Hornsey Town Hall
AN UNDERTONE OF HARMONY:
Chriskitch’s Chris Honor discusses
the importance of harmony
WALK AND TALK (AND EAT):
Reporter Aimee Charalambous
experiences Walk and Talk Club
Welcome to Village Raw, a new culture magazine for Crouch End, East Finchley,
Highgate, Muswell Hill and surrounding areas. The magazine will feature the most
interesting and exciting stories about the community’s makers and doers, writers
and thinkers, art and culture, food and drink, and health and wellbeing. It’s a
positive celebration of our culture and an introduction to some of our neighbours.
We’ve realised while producing this first issue just how much there is going
on in our area. And although we want to write about everything, the magazine
has a limited number of pages – we’re having to exercise huge amounts of
patience and balance in what features we’ll run and when. This is a nice problem
to have though, and we look forward to celebrating our local culture and
creativity for years to come.
And that’s where you come in. While Village Raw is free, and we want to keep
it that way, there is a cost to producing it. Our contributors are professional journalists,
designers, photographers, and members of the local community, and we
want to be able to continue to pay them for their hard work in bringing this magazine
to you. We value them because we value you, the reader, you are who this
magazine is for and about. If you enjoy this first issue of Village Raw then please
consider subscribing – it will ensure we can stay in print.
Lastly, you wouldn’t be reading this without the support of both our generous
Kickstarter backers and our contributors. This isn’t a magazine driven by
press releases, but one where our writers venture into the community, meet
and talk to people, and report on what they find. We really want to delve deep
into our community – and give you the raw facts.
Please get in touch to let us know what you think of the magazine and tell
us what you want us to cover in future. Also keep an eye on our website for
additional content. We hope you enjoy the first issue!
David and Luciane
www.villageraw.com
Subscribe today at villageraw.com/subscribe and never miss an issue.
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PHOTO BY DAN BRIDGE
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THE HERBAL HOME: The herbal
essentials that every home’s
medicine chest should have
THE LAST STRAW: N8’s war on
single-use plastic
NOT YOUR USUAL SALAD:
A recipe from the Sustainable
Supper Club
ILLUSTRATION: Sprwarner
celebrates the first issue
PRESS CLUB: This issue is edited
by Highgate Primary School’s
Newspaper Club
VILLAGE ESSAY: Mina Aidoo
writes On Being Human: Learning
to Feel Again
THE VILLAGE GREEN:
Sunnyside Community Gardens
VILLAGE RAW
EDITORS
Luciane Pisani
David Reeve
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Luciane Pisani for Studio Moe
EDITORIAL ADVISER
Patrick Steel
CONTRIBUTORS
Mina Aidoo, Dorothy Barrick, Charlotte Broadribb,
Aimee Charalambous, Highgate Primary School
Newspaper Club, Nati Morris, Charlotte Nash, Ola
Nwakodo, Carla Parks, Alicia Pivaro, Emma Withey.
ILLUSTRATION
Em (themossyhill.com)
Sprwarner (facebook.com/sprwarner)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dan Bridge (danbridgephotography.co.uk)
Kate Kuzminova (katekuzminova.com)
David Reeve (designstudio.moe)
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Village Raw June/July 2018
Cover image by David Reeve (The Haberdashery, N8)
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Village Raw is printed in N2 by J G Bryson
THANKS TO:
Vasso Anagnostopoulou, The Archer, Chris Arnold,
John Austen, Chloe Barker, Rosie Bilton, Tony Carr,
Amanda Carrara, Michael Corkett, Chris Currer,
Michelle Eshkeri, Julia Hines, Yoshimi Kanazawa,
John McAlister, Muswell Hill Creatives, Jackie and
David Percy, Adriane Pisani, Alison Roberts, Alex
Rochford, Nick Saich, Mathew Sawyer, Asa Taulbut,
Bernardo van de Schepop, Siri Zanelli.
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