An entertaining study of community arts projects in Hackney, Hoxton and Dalston, before hipsters and Tony Blair.

Some of Hackney's most notorious landmarks feature alongside some of the borough's much-loved institutions in this entertaining period piece about four community-based arts projects rooted in the 1970s. Long before the regeneration heralded by the arrival of Tony Blair, street artists get down with the kids on run-down council estates. Women at a print workshop in Lentall Road produce striking feminist posters and graphic designs while historic Hoxton Hall offers drama and a pensioners' lunch club.

Survey of four community arts projects in Hackney: the Freeform Performance Group; the Lenthall Road Workshop; the Hoxton Hall Adult Drama Group; the Centreprise complex in Dalston.

Looks at the work of four community based arts groups, all of whom operate in the predominantly working class London Borough of Hackney: a performance group called Freeform; a graphic design shop called Lenthal Road Workshop; a community centre with music hall
associations called Hoxton Hall; a writers' workshop and adult literacy group called Centreprise.