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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 167 FREE Email: [email protected] SE1 residents urged to start growing plants and vegetables for Octavia Hill centenary show “We are really looking forward to bringing under-14 sections) Bankside Open Spaces Trust is • Best SE1 Sunflower (under-14s) inviting SE1 residents to grow together the many different individuals and groups • Paper garden which can be created on the day working on Edible Bankside gardens, and at the (under-14s) flowers and vegetables or make • Best Octavia Hill Pelargonium (adult & under-14 same time honouring the work of the great open sections). home produce for a flower show spaces campaigner, Octavia Hill, who helped make Plug plants can be potted up and collected in celebration of Octavia Hill a this area green for the people who live here,” says at Red Cross Garden during the May Festival on century after her death. BOST director Helen Firminger. Friday 11 May. If you cannot make the May Festival “We hope as many people as possible can join event please get in contact with Agnes at BOST us.” to collect your plug plant from Red Cross Garden For more information, if you’d like seeds or while stocks last. help growing your flowers or vegetables – or if you would like to know where your nearest Edible Bankside garden is – you can contact Nicola or Hej at BOST on 020 7403 3393 or [email protected] Full instructions for how to enter the show, as well as details of judges and prizes, will soon be available at www.bost.org.uk The show, which is open to entries from individuals and groups, will have 12 categories: • A seasonal SE1 grown floral display in a small vase – judged for presentation and variety • Best SE1 September Display – vegetable and fruit display in a bowl or basket The Flower and Vegetable Show on Friday 14 • Most Unusual SE1 Vegetable eg unusual shaped September is a tribute to the Southwark Flower carrot • SE1 goes Exotic – home grown fruit or vegetable Show Octavia Hill regularly held at Red Cross display eg okra, melon, tomatillo Garden over a century ago. • Best home produce entry – eg quiche, carrot cake, chutney (must contain at least some SE1 ingredients) Hill was a prominent social reformer and • Most interesting arrangement – container with SE1- founder of Red Cross Garden and the National grown flowers and vegetables eg in a shoe , tea cup, toy etc. (adult & under-14 sections) Trust. • Biggest SE1 Pumpkin – or squash or marrow or other With four and a half months to go, BOST member of the gourd family. • Best painting or drawing of a local flower or garden is urging local residents to start growing in (adult & under-14 sections) preparation for the big day. • Best photograph of a local flower or garden (adult &

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Most of the big and www.brams.org.uk Bill Clinton in Waterloo successful local firms Southwark Civic Awards Bill Clinton and Gwyneth Paltrow do when This year’s Southwark Civic are coming to the Old Vic Awards will be presented at St Tunnels on Tuesday 22 May for a they have George’s Cathedral on Saturday fundraising event for the Clinton something to 12 May. The ceremony will Foundation. say and they include the granting of the freedom of the borough to a Oasis Jubilee Buntathon would like us range of distinguished local To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond to give a sharp people, including historian Jubilee, Oasis is hoping to set a Stephen Humphrey and new Guinness World Record to edge to it. Beormund Community Centre’s create the world’s longest line of Coral Newell. At the same bunting at its Jubilee Jamboree PRINT ceremony HHJ Roger Chapple, event on Waterloo Millennium COPIES senior judge at Inner London Green on Monday 4 June. 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Fax 020 7403 5411 www.facebook.com/jubiloo walworthsociety.co.uk May 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Participants in the Act of Remembrance healthy eating and nutritional advice photographic art. The festival provides will include a representative of the and find out more about how to stay amateur and semi-professional Mayor of Southwark; the Russian healthy with advice on blood pressure, photographers with the opportunity What’s On ambassador and ambassadors and cholesterol and body mass index. Visitors to exhibit their work, gain professional representatives from other CIS can relax with taster massages from a feedback and to join a thriving embassies; British and Russian Second trained physiotherapist. There will be community of photographers. May World War veterans; standard bearers information and advice on alcohol, drug  Full info at se1.net/11964 from UK veterans organisations, the Drill and sexual health awareness as well as Comprehensive local listings Squad of the London Nautical School specialist advice from local charities and St John’s Waterloo and other individuals and organisations organisations including British Heart 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 supporting the memorial. The short Foundation, and Mind (mental health). www.stjohnswaterloo.org ceremony will include brief addresses  Full info at se1.net/12530 from key participants, the sounding of Special events Mint Street Park Saturday 26 May the Last Post and a two minute silence. PENTECOST FESTIVAL SPONSORED Archbishop’s Park  Full info at se1.net/11762 Southwark Bridge Road FIREWALK Carlisle Lane Hotel Elephant Friday 25 May 10am-12.30pm; £15 (reg fee); £50 (sponsorship) 77-85 Newington Causeway PLAYING AT MINT STREET Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 May Hot foot it to Waterloo and set fire to THE BIG BUZZ AND FLUTTER hotelelephantgallery.blogspot.com 4pm-6pm; free your fears by walking barefoot over red- 11am-1pm; free Live music, childrens’ sports and a chance A series of four fun weekends for all Friday 4 May to talk about the changes proposed for hot coals. You’ll receive a full two-hour the family - learn about beekeeping and BREATHE LIVE ART Mint Street Park. Refreshments, bouncy training session and then perform your wildlife and help plant a bee-friendly 8pm-1am; £4 castle etc. amazing fire walk in front of friends Performance art, sonic art, live music, lavender hedge for the park bees. They  Full info at se1.net/12495 and family. Participants must commit to installations, films and DJs. The event need more food so they can make more raising at least £50 for Christian Aid to will showcase local artists and bands plus Morley College honey. Wildlife stalls, jigsaws, a drawing help communities in poverty get out of recent graduates from London College 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 area, honey biscuits, mosaic making plus poverty. of Communication alongside some more www.morleycollege.ac.uk refreshments for volunteers.  Full info at se1.net/12513  established artists. Full info at se1.net/12544  Full info at se1.net/12551 Friday 18 May Waterloo Library Borough Market FREE TASTER SESSIONS James Clerk Maxwell Building Various times; booking essential; see 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 8 Southwark Street www.lambeth.gov.uk 57 Waterloo Road website; free www.boroughmarket.org.uk www.kcl.ac.uk As part of Adult Learners’ Week the college is offering an afternoon of free Tuesday 8 May Sunday 20 May Tuesday 1 May HERITAGE LIBRARY SESSION FOOD + ART taster sessions providing the opportunity DR BIKE to try out a number of activities 10.30am-12 noon; free 12 noon-4pm 5.30pm-7.30pm; free including crochet, photography, creative Join the Living Memory heritage project Borough Market has teamed up with Bring your bike along to Lambeth writing, yoga, African drumming, jazz for a library session with a focus on local Southwark Arts Forum to stage a one- Council’s Dr Bike event in the piazza dance, public speaking, Italian and much artists and art work. day festival of food, art and music. opposite BFI IMAX and get a free safety   more. 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Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 Saturday 19 May Wednesday 2 May  Full info at se1.net/12479 www.bost.org.uk THE SOLDIER CHALLENGE BOST ECOHOUSE OPENING Lambeth Palace Garden Friday 11 May Waterloo International; ; £50 per person 3.30pm-5.30pm; free MAY FESTIVAL (in teams of 2, 3 or 4) Bankside Open Spaces Trust is holding a Lambeth Palace Road www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace 3.30pm-5.30pm; free A fundraising challenge event that gives launch event to celebrate its new green Maypole dancing, flower craft activities, you the chance to experience some building, which will be the centre of Saturday 19 May Victorian dresses to try on and face of London’s most famous sights in a operations for all the trust’s community NATIONAL GARDENS SCHEME painting. completely new way. From the event gardening, volunteering, and parks OPEN DAY  Full info at se1.net/12461 village in Waterloo station, you and your work across SE1. The public will be 2pm-5.30pm; £4 (children free) South Bank Riverside Walkway team mates will be sent out onto the invited to look round the building from Lambeth Palace garden is one of the streets with one mission - to complete as 3.30pm with speeches at 4.30pm. BOST oldest and largest private gardens in The Queen’s Walk near Gabriel’s Wharf many of 35 military-inspired checkpoints will be offering tours of the EcoHouse, London. Site occupied by Archbishops as you can in four hours. From abseiling handing out plants as part of the Edible of Canterbury since the end of the 12th Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 May Bankside community project and running century. Formal courtyards with historic ANIMAL ART FAIR at the Oval to an obstacle course in children’s activities. white fig (originally planted 1555). 11am-6pm; £10 (£8 in advance); children the moat of the Tower of London, you  Full info at se1.net/12504 Parkland-style garden with mature trees, & concessions free will get exclusive access to some of the woodland and native planting, pond, From recycled metal sculptures capital’s best known landmarks. In aid of Design Museum hornbeam allée. Also formal terrace, through African art and artists to ABF The Soldiers’ Charity Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 summer gravel border, scented chapel sporting watercolours you will find an  Full info at se1.net/12494 www.designmuseum.org encyclopaedic array of talent covering garden and beehives. Home-made teas Woolfson & Tay available. every price range. Previously held at Friday 4 May  Full info at se1.net/12226 Fulham Palace, this year’s fair is taking 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 DESIGN OVERTIME: SHOE AND TELL place on the South Bank close to www.woolfsonandtay.com 6pm-10pm; £7.50 in advance; £11 on London South Bank University Gabriel’s Wharf. the door London Road Building  Full info at se1.net/12270 Wednesday 2 May Footwear-themed late night opening at www.lsbu.ac.uk SOUTHWARK LGBT MONTHLY the Design Museum. St George the Martyr 7pm-9pm; free Wednesday 2 May  Full info at se1.net/12568 Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 Southwark LGBT Network hosts a panel LIVEWELL FAIR www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 11am-4.30pm; free discussion on LGBT wellbeing chaired by Dr Jonty Heaversedge, co-author of ‘The Lambeth Road A variety of stalls will offer visitors of Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 May all ages and abilities the opportunity LONDON PHOTO FESTIVAL Mindful Manifesto’, with speakers from Wednesday 9 May to take on fitness challenges in the The Crypt; Thu 10am-7pm; Fri 10am-late; 4in10, SLAM and others talk about being VICTORY DAY ACT OF fitness suite with the chance to win Sat 10am-8pm; free happy and proud despite life’s ups and REMEMBRANCE personal training sessions, understand The London Photo Festival aims to downs. Expect a lively discussion. 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The Isaiah Community meets artist Marcus Reeves, poet Malika Imperial War Museum  Full info at se1.net/12078 every Tuesday at 6pm to pray for love Booker, editor and publisher Kadija Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 and justice in the world. (George) Sesay, performance poet Zena Florence Nightingale Museum london.iwm.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/12425 Edwards, and Patrick McIntosh. Daily 10am-6pm; free St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374  Full info at se1.net/12514 www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Tuesday 15 May Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 May LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR: JUSTICE BUILD THE TRUCE FAMILY ACTIVITY Thursday 17 May FOR AN UNJUST WORLD Guided walks 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm; free FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND 6pm; free Take part in a series of discussion, art and MARY SEACOLE: NURSE AND Talk by Sarah Henderson, SPEAK Archbishop’s Park writing activities looking at why wars DOCTRESS Network. Part of The Isaiah Community’s Carlisle Lane happen and how they are brought to an 6.30pm; £12 from katie@florence- ‘Just Good Friends?’ season of reflections end. Linked to the new Build the Truce nightingale.co.uk or 020 7620 0374 on friendship, justice and spirituality. Thursday 24 May exhibition. Free drop-in activities for all Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole  Full info at se1.net/12426 ARCHBISHOP’S PARK WALK ages with parental supervision. were both important 19th-century 7.30pm; £3 donation to Friends; booking  Full info at se1.net/12533 figures, but Nightingale has been under Tuesday 22 May essential 020 7021 1600 l.reynolds@ attack for some 30 years, while Seacole is OLYMPIC PEACE: A VISION OF St Mary Magdalen coinstreet.org now being treated as “the real angel of FRIENDSHIP Join the Friends of Archbishop’s Park for Bermondsey Street the Crimean War”. In this lecture Dr Lynn 6pm; free a one hour guided tour exploring the www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk McDonald will explain the differences Talk by Catriona Robertson, London heritage of this lovely Victorian park. between these two women and their Boroughs Faiths Network. Part of The  Full info at se1.net/12454 Friday 11 May contributions, Nightingale as nurse, Isaiah Community’s ‘Just Good Friends?’ CLASSICS WITH MY BABY public health and hospital reformer, and season of reflections on friendship, Tuesday 29 May 10.30am (eat cake and mingle from Seacole as doctress, businesswoman, justice and spirituality. SPRING HISTORY WALK 10am); adults £10 (children free) at the voluntary first aid worker and author.  Full info at se1.net/12427 Meet 11am outside Lambeth Palace door  Full info at se1.net/12467 gateway; free This month’s concert features flautist Tuesday 29 May Take a stroll through the park in the Saleta Suarez Ogando from Seville. A Old Operating Theatre, UBUNTU: I AM WHAT I AM company of Lambeth’s archivists. This classical concert series for babies and Museum and Herb Garret BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE one-hour tour through the park and the toddlers, performed by award winning 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 6pm; free surrounding streets takes in the history international artists (and local mums) www.thegarret.org.uk Talk by Revd Joanna Udal, Archbishop’s of Lambeth’s church and palace and the Miaomiao Yu and Philippa Mo. Secretary for Anglican Affairs. Part links with the poet and artist William  Full info at se1.net/12131 Friday 18 May of The Isaiah Community’s ‘Just Good Blake who lived close by. SURGERY BY GASLIGHT Friends?’ season of reflections on  Full info at se1.net/12465 6pm, 7pm and 8pm; £9 (conc £8) friendship, justice and spirituality. Public meetings  Full info at se1.net/12546  Full info at se1.net/12428 Bermondsey Underground Station Jamaica Road Waterloo Action Centre Saturday 19 May The Old King’s Head 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 OMINOUS APPARATUS: ANATOMY Kings Head Yard, 45-49 Borough High Street Sunday 27 May www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk OF AN ARTIST T 020 7407 1550 BERMONDSEY’S BLITZ 7pm; booking essential; free www.theoldkingshead.uk.com 11am; £8; booking essential info@ Wednesday 9 May Scottish contemporary sculptor blitzwalkers.co.uk WATERLOO COMMUNITY Claire Barclay is working with the Old Thursday 10 May Join Neil Bright for a guided walk DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL Operating Theatre for a special evening THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM exploring the tragedy and heroism of MEETING tour launching the museum’s 50th LILLY one of London’s most heavily bombed 7pm anniversary celebrations. Medical objects 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) boroughs. Regular public meeting of the group that and architecture will assume another Nigel Hoyle talks about the colourful  Full info at se1.net/12365 monitors planning and development dimension through the eyes and analysis life of William Lilly, one of the foremost issues in Waterloo. Hear from the of this futuristic compelling award astrologers of the 17th century. A South St Thomas’ Hospital developers and help to shape the winning artist. A show and tell tour East London Folklore Society event. Westminster Bridge Road community’s response. presenting some of the most unusual  Full info at se1.net/12556 www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk  Full info at se1.net/12217 medical objects once used within this Waterloo Library unique hospital’s remains. Friday 18 May  Full info at se1.net/12547 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 HISTORICAL TOUR OF ST THOMAS’ www.lambeth.gov.uk HOSPITAL Talks & literature Southwark Cathedral 10.30am; £3; booking essential 020 7021 Monday 14 May Ability Media Centre London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 1600 or email [email protected] THE LEGACY OF EDEN WITH NELLE 56 Southwark Bridge Road T 08456 717173 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Led by Wendy Mathews. Participants www.abilitymedia.org DAVY must be able to use the stairs. Thursday 3 May 7pm; book on 020 7926 1075 or email  Full info at se1.net/12508 Thursday 3 May REBELS WITH A CAUSE? YOUNG [email protected]; free THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE PEOPLE IN CONTEMPORARY Nelle is an exciting new voice in the UK 6pm; Charity donation to the ‘Campaign SOCIETY literary world. Having used education Comedy Against Living Miserably’ on the door Garry Weston Library; 7pm-8.30pm; free to escape an abusive and impoverished Deptford-based artist Paul Malone takes Public forum with Kids Company founder childhood she has gone on to carve a The Horse you on a unique and controversial tour Camila Batmanghelidjh, Live Magazine career for herself in the publishing 122-124 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7928 6277 of the Universe. editor Celeste Houlker and Natalie Ross world. Her debut novel is described www.horsebar.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/12503 from the Prince’s Trust. as a wonderfully Gothic read and has  Full info at se1.net/12469 received high praise. A Lambeth Readers’ Friday 11 May Calder Bookshop & Writers’ Festival event. WHY THE LONG FACE? 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 St John’s Waterloo  Full info at se1.net/12358 8pm; free www.calderbookshop.com 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Free Friday night entertainment with www.stjohnswaterloo.org Woolfson & Tay Gagster’s Paradise. Stephen Bailey, Monday 14 May 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 Jim Campbell, Samantha Hannah, Jon INDEX ON CENSORSHIP: CALDER’S Tuesday 8 May www.woolfsonandtay.com Williams, Richard Todd, Tom Davis, THEATRE OF LITERATURE I WAS IN PRISON... Damien St John, Andrew West, Simon 7pm; £7 (conc £5) 6pm; free Friday 11 May Caine and Steph Peart. MC: Barry Ferns. John Calder’s once-a-month Talk by Dame Anne Owers, chair LIFE STORIES CAFE  Full info at se1.net/12256 presentation. 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SbS performs Theatre Tuesday 8 May to Friday 1 June Free Friday night entertainment with SAINT JOAN an unconducted programme alongside Gagster’s Paradise. Ryan Cull, Darren Menier Chocolate Factory Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12 (conc Walsh, Pete Starr, Ian Smith, Alex principal players of the Academy of St 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 £10) from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@ Perry, Pete Dillon-Trenchard, Samantha Martin in the Fields. www.menierchocolatefactory.com rosetheatre.org.uk Hannah, Andrew West, Simon Caine and  Full info at se1.net/12298 By George Bernard Shaw. This Steph Peart. MC: Damien St John. Until Saturday 12 May production celebrates the 600th EDUCATING RITA  Full info at se1.net/12257 Thursday 17 May anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc. Tue-Sat 8pm; Thu, Sat & Sun 3.30pm;  Full info at se1.net/11995 The Miller RUSH HOUR CONCERT £29.50 6pm; free 96 Snowsfields Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney star Shakespeare’s Globe www.themiller.co.uk A tribute to jazz pioneer Michael Garrick in Willy Russell’s modern classic, directed New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 with musicians from the Guildhall School by Tamara Harvey. www.shakespearesglobe.com Tuesday 1 May of Music and Drama jazz department.  Full info at se1.net/12250 HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB  Full info at se1.net/12299 Until Saturday 9 June 8pm-10pm; £5 Wednesday 30 May to Sunday 12 August GLOBE TO GLOBE Improvised musical from Music Box, TORCH SONG TRILOGY Friday 18 & Saturday 19 May times vary; tickets from £5 followed by improvised storytelling from Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50; ARDENTE OPERA 37 international companies will present Story Bag. meal deal £37.00 all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 37  Full info at se1.net/12399 7.30pm; £22 (conc £18; student £10) Harvey Fierstein’s comedy-drama tells the different languages. A programme to mark the 150th poignant story of an outsider’s search for  Full info at se1.net/12545 anniversary of the birth of Frederick love and acceptance. With David Bedella and Sara Kestelman. Directed by Douglas Southwark Playhouse Delius. Alexander Soares performs Music Hodge. the revised three-movement version Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 1901 Arts Club  Full info at se1.net/12482 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk of the Piano Concerto, followed by a 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 National Theatre www.1901artsclub.com concert performance of the composer’s Until Saturday 5 May final opera, Fennimore and Gerda, in South Bank T 020 7452 3000 BLACK FIGHTS WITH DOGS www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Wednesday 16 May Philip Heseltine’s English translation. The Vault; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; LUNCHTIME RECITAL £9, £13, £17 Conducted by Julian Black. 1pm; £7.50 (booking essential) Until Monday 28 May This production is the first London revival Jessica Zhu (piano). Part of the  Full info at se1.net/12496 MISTERMAN of Bernard-Marie Koltes’ play in over 20 Philharmonia Orchestra’s Martin Musical Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£40 years. Translated by David Bradby and Scholarship Fund lunchtime recital series. Thursday 24 May UK premiere of Enda Walsh’s play. Maria M Delgado. Directed by Alexander  Full info at se1.net/11814 RUSH HOUR CONCERT  Full info at se1.net/12563 Zeldin. 6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12242 Southwark Cathedral Wednesday 2 May to Saturday 2 June Free after-work concert with Southbank London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 TRAVELLING LIGHT Sinfonia. Enjoy a complimentary glass of Until Saturday 12 May www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12- SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER wine while you listen. £47.50 ME Friday 25 May  Full info at se1.net/12300 Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; ULLERN CHAMBERCHOIR and fascinating tribute to the Eastern £10/£14/£18 7.30pm; free Saturday 26 May European immigrants who became major 20th anniversary production of Frank The Oslo choir performs a cappella music THE BEST OF BRITISH players in Hollywood’s golden age. With McGuinness’s play with Billy Carter as by famous Norwegian composers from 7.30pm; £12 (under-19s £5) Antony Sher as Jacob. Edward, Robin Soans as Michael and the romantic era represented by Grieg,  Full info at se1.net/12561 Philharmonia Britannica. Joseph Timms as Adam. Directed by via traditional Norwegian folk music to Jessica Swale. contemporary church music.  Full info at se1.net/12493 Until Saturday 9 June MOON ON A RAINBOW SHAWL  Full info at se1.net/12404  Full info at se1.net/12357 Potters Fields Park Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 Wednesday 16 May to Saturday 9 June Saturday 26 May Tooley Street Errol John’s play, written in 1953, depicts THE HAIRY APE A TALE OF TWO CITIES: VOICES OF www.pottersfields.co.uk a vibrant, cosmopolitan Trinidad that Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14, LONDON AND FLORENCE is as harsh as it is filled with colour and £18 7.30pm; £20, £18, £15 Friday 18 May warmth. With unflinching theatrical force and London Oriana Choir’s concert will UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN  Full info at se1.net/12564 explosive lyricism, Eugene O’Neill feature music by Orlando Gibbons, CALIFORNIA TROJAN MARCHING Until Saturday 23 June explores the tragedy of a forgotten Morten Lauridsen, John Harle, Lionel voice and the perennial human need Bart, Giles Swayne, Eric Whitacre, BAND COLLABORATORS 4.30pm-5.30pm; free Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 to belong. In its first major London Ian Stephens and Ralph McTell. An revival in 25 years, The Hairy Ape exploration of city life over the centuries, One-hour programme of popular music John Hodge’s play set in Stalin’s Russia. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon offers a startlingly relevant story in focusing on Florence and London. performed by a top marching band. an atmospheric and muscular new  Full info at se1.net/12555  Russell Beale, Stalin. Full info at se1.net/12470  Full info at se1.net/12562 production, directed by Kate Budgen. St George the Martyr  Full info at se1.net/12243 Wednesday 23 May to Saturday 21 July Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 The Old Vic www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk Dance ANTIGONE Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 Thursday 17 May Woolfson & Tay By Sophocles, in a version by Don Taylor. www.oldvictheatre.com LUNCHTIME RECITAL 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 Jodie Whittaker plays Antigone and Until Saturday 9 June 1pm-1.40pm; free www.woolfsonandtay.com Christopher Eccleston is Creon. THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Piano and cello recital including works by  Full info at se1.net/12565 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Chopin and Shostakovitch. Friday 25 May Rose Theatre Exhibition £12-£49.50  Full info at se1.net/12477 Eve Best returns to The Old Vic in John SHIM SHAM TAP JAM: HAPPY 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 St John’s Waterloo BIRTHDAY BOJANGLES www.rosetheatre.org.uk Webster’s Jacobean tragedy directed by Jamie Lloyd. Webster’s poetic 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 7pm; £7 masterpiece tells the dark and bloody www.stjohnswaterloo.org Until Friday 4 May Join Nada, Avalon and other tap dancers THE COMEDY OF ERRORS story of the recently widowed Duchess Thursday 10 May for a special tribute to Bill ‘Bojangles’ Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12 (conc as she struggles to retain strength and RUSH HOUR CONCERT Robinson and International Tap Day. £10) from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@ dignity in the face of death. 6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12522 rosetheatre.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/12314 londonse1 Some recent [ SE1 Direct ] community website forum topics

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The Old Vic Tunnels and depravity of Stevenson’s vision. The Bicha Gallery results will be a thrilling and, at times, Leake Street terrifying ordeal. Exhibitions 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 oldvictunnels.com  www.bicha.co.uk Full info at se1.net/12369 Anise Gallery Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free Sunday 20 to Sunday 27 May Waterloo East Theatre EPIDEMIC 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 www.anisegallery.co.uk Friday 25 May to Sunday 17 June 7pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm; epidemic@ Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; free SIGNALS oldvictheatre.com to be notified when www.waterlooeast.co.uk Signals, Colin McCallum’s exhibition of tickets are available; free Tuesday 8 to Sunday 27 May Until Sunday 20 May new paintings, refers to the subliminal In this extraordinarily ambitious THE BEEKEEPER SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL and visual overload of our consumer community project on obesity and society. The work is inspired by the Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 4pm; £15 (conc ILLUSTRATION mental health, based on interviews collective experience of contemporary £12); Fri 11 pay what you can night More than 40 pieces of work from 25 with over 250 Londoners, Old Vic New artists spanning techniques from living. Voices (OVNV) has assembled a company Blackeyed Theatre presents the world  Full info at se1.net/12523 premiere of Michael Ashton’s play traditional watercolours and pencil of more than 120 volunteers aged 16 sketches through to photography and to 60 from across London, from first directed by Adrian McDougall. Based Cuming Museum on real life at Auschwitz, this is the computer-generated images. time performers to novice backstage  Full info at se1.net/12518 151 Walworth Road SE17 T 020 7525 2332 and technical staff. Ten new songs incredible story of two men, the nature www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum referencing Ska, reggae, gospel and of power and the strength of the human Architecture Foundation Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free jazz will collide with contemporary spirit. Magdalen House, 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 Tuesday 22 May to Saturday 27 October dance by emerging choreographer John  Full info at se1.net/12475 7084 6767 Ross. Book and lyrics by Morgan Lloyd www.architecturefoundation.org.uk FACT INTO FICTION: CHARLES Malcolm. Music and Lyrics by Suzy Davies. Young Vic Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free DICKENS - A SOUTHWARK Based on an original concept by Steve 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 CHILDHOOD Winter. Directed by Alexander Ferris. www.youngvic.org Wednesday 9 May to Saturday 9 June Dickens’s experiences of the Borough  Full info at se1.net/12548 SHIFTS: BOOM, BUST AND BEYOND area during his time there in 1824. The Until Sunday 13 May An evocative, polemical exhibition places, people and living conditions he Unicorn Theatre WILD SWANS illustrating the far-reaching impacts experienced during his short time in the 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Times vary; £10-£29.50 of new economic circumstances on area provided inspiration and context www.unicorntheatre.com This first-ever stage version brings architecture’s recent past, troubled to many characters and narratives together Jung Chang with playwright present and unknown future. in his later writing. The exhibition Until Saturday 19 May Alexandra Wood, director Sacha Wares,  explores these key locations, such as the HOW TO THINK THE UNTHINKABLE Full info at se1.net/12519 designer Miriam Buether and Beijing Marshalsea Prison, St George the Martyr times vary; £15 (children £10; conc £12) ASC Gallery video artist Wang GongXin. Church and Mint Street workhouse and Ryan Craig’s visceral new play captures Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road how they influenced his novels. The the passion, danger and moral deadlock Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk  Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free exhibition will use objects, artworks of the story of Greece’s most famous Full info at se1.net/11790 and illustrations from the museum’s teenager. Set in the aftermath of a Until Thursday 3 May collection to map Dickens’ experiences bloody civil war, Antigone fights for Monday 21 May to Tuesday 12 June NICK TURVEY and how they informed his writing. what she believes is right. Is it right to WindowSpace; 24 hours  Full info at se1.net/12214 question or defy those in authority when THE SUIT Times vary; £10-£29.50 A confrontational installation, titled “Do Design Museum we know they’re wrong? I Know You?”, hacks the mechanisms of  Full info at se1.net/12559 In the dusty heat of a 1950s South Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 African township, a young worker spatial control to reveal the faultlines opening in political space. www.designmuseum.org Until Sunday 20 May returns home to find his wife in bed  Full info at se1.net/12472 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission THE MAN WITH THE DISTURBINGLY with her lover. The lover escapes, leaving 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); SMELLY FOOT behind his suit. The only revenge the Until Friday 18 May Under 12s free times vary; £15 (children £10; conc £12) husband takes is to instruct his wife to APPLE AND PEAR: JOHANN ARENS Based on the Greek classic by Sophocles, treat the suit as an honoured guest. But Tuesday 1 May to Sunday 8 July A new installation by emerging artist CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN specially adapted for young audiences how long can she endure this cruel and Johann Arens. Christian Louboutin’s exquisite shoes, by Nancy Harris and directed by Ellen pitiless sentence? Directors Peter Brook  Full info at se1.net/12364 McDougall. Is it best to be truthful and and Marie-Helene Estienne team up with their trademark glossy red soles, are a unique fusion of craftsmanship, risk not getting something, or trick the with a company of international actors, Bankside Gallery engineering and sculpture. This other person in to doing what you think singers and musicians to recreate Can 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 is right? exhibition is the first comprehensive Themba’s hauntingly beautiful fable. www.banksidegallery.com  Full info at se1.net/12558 Daily 11am-6pm; free presentation of Louboutin’s work in  Full info at se1.net/11791 the UK. It explores how, over the past Union Theatre Wednesday 2 to Monday 7 May twenty years, Christian Louboutin has 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 SNAP!: WOMEN ARTISTS WORKING transformed the design of the shoe. www.uniontheatre.biz Cinema TOGETHER  Full info at se1.net/11773 Until Saturday 12 May Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre South London Women Artists (SLWA) present the second major exhibition Until Sunday 15 July BABES IN ARMS 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £18 of members’ work which will cross www.coinstreet.org reference contemporary female art with Showcasing the most innovative and Set in a 1950s Summer stock theatre, progressive designs from around the Babes in Arms follows a young group Friday 18 May the history of feminism.  Full info at se1.net/11111 world, spanning seven categories: of apprentices as they try to mount a THE GARDEN: COIN STREET Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, musical revue. A show full of humour NEIGHBOURHOOD FILM CLUB Friday 11 May to Saturday 9 June Graphics, Digital, Transport and Product. and heart. 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £4 inc The Olympic Torch was last month  ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER- Full info at se1.net/12283 refreshments PRINTMAKERS: ANNUAL chosen as the overall winner. From the ashes of the Los Angeles  Full info at se1.net/11772 Wednesday 16 May to Saturday 16 June EXHIBITION JEKYLL AND HYDE riots arose a lush, 14-acre community Prints made using the long established Fashion & Textile Museum garden, the largest of its kind in the processes of etching and relief printing Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £20 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 (conc £18) United States. Now bulldozers threaten to the more contemporary uses of its future. Documentary exploring the www.ftmlondon.org Set in London, and based on Robert photographic and digital technology. Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £7 (conc struggle between urban farmers and Louis Stevenson’s Victorian novella, it is  Full info at se1.net/11112 £5); under-12s free the City of Los Angeles and a powerful the story of Dr Henry Jekyll, a brilliant Bermondsey Project Space and yet troubled scientist, and his developer. Contact Laura Reynolds for Until Saturday 16 June obsession with the darkest recesses of more information on 020 7021 1600 or 46 Willow Walk DESIGNING WOMEN: POST-WAR the human condition. Morphic Graffiti’s email [email protected] www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios BRITISH TEXTILES Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; free production promises to uncover the grit  Full info at se1.net/12505 Beginning with Lucienne Day’s Calyx Until Sunday 13 May pattern of 1951, featured at the Festival DAVE PEARSON: BYZANTIUM AND of Britain and moving through the BEYOND 1960s and into the 1970s, this exhibition When the artist Dave Pearson died in will explore a unique British brand of Next month SE1 2008 he left behind a colossal body modernism that influenced the world. in of work - well over 15,000 paintings, Over 100 works from the collection of drawings and prints - in a ramshackle Jill A Wiltse and H Kirk Brown will be on Highlights include: studio in Lancashire. For months after his display. death the fate of the work hung in the  Full info at se1.net/11753 • Queen’s Diamond Jubilee balance, but a small group of his friends gallery@oxo and family were determined to rescue Oxo Tower Wharf, T 020 7021 1686 • London Festival of Architecture it from destruction and oblivion. They www.coinstreet.org formed a trust to acquire and restore Daily 11am-6pm; free • Open Garden Squares Weekend the studio and to preserve and make accessible this important work, much of Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 May • Poetry Parnassus which has never been exhibited. LONDON: A CELEBRATION  Full info at se1.net/12373 Handmade in Britain presents a selling • Borough Road Gallery opens exhibition showcasing work by British Friday 25 May to Sunday 17 June designer-makers. • Sundowner at Tower Bridge NATURE TRANSLATED: CHARLES  Full info at se1.net/12274 MARCH • Hike & Bike the Borough Charles March - who under the name Wednesday 16 May to Sunday 3 June Charles Settrington was a leading CULTURE IN STONE • North Lambeth Parish Fete advertising photographer - marks The work of three artists who celebrate his return to photography with this the art of Shona sculptures by combining next issue available Friday 1 June exhibition. ancient cultural heritage with aspects  Full info at se1.net/12557 of contemporary life. Shona sculptures May 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 are a timeless signature of the Shona Jacob’s Island Gallery Nolia’s Gallery Saturday 19 May to Saturday 30 June movement, representing the people and CITY LIGHTS: JOHN DUFFIN culture of Zimbabwe. The three artists 10-11 Shad Thames T 020 7407 8850 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 John Duffin is one of the leading interpret themes of everyday life and www.jacobsisland.co.uk www.noliasgallery.co.uk printmakers and painters in Britain. New comment on cultural barriers, as well as Thu-Sun 12 noon-5pm; Daily 1pm-6pm; free work focusing on London tube and rail many aspects of life in the 21st century. Until Saturday 12 May stations and city vistas all depicted in the  Full info at se1.net/12275 Until Wednesday 2 May RESPONSIVE EYES NOBODY LIKES US: PHOTOGRAPHY unique overhead viewpoints Duffin is Garden Museum Anthony Antonellis, Paul B Davis, AND FINE ART acclaimed for.  Full info at se1.net/12552 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Thomas Lock, Sara Ludy, Mike Ruiz, Lucy Photography by Dean Adrian Tanner and www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Stokton, Mark Titchner, Artie Vierkant. illustration by Mate “Entenn” Jako. Tate Modern Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of  Full info at se1.net/12315  Full info at se1.net/12409 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) Lambeth Palace www.tate.org.uk/modern Until Wednesday 2 May Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Until Sunday 24 June Lambeth Palace Road MUSICIAN ON CAMERA GARDEN OPEN TODAY: www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace This includes work by David Sinclair, the 10am-10pm; free 300 YEARS OF GARDEN VISITING original photographer for Ronnie Scott’s. Tuesday 1 May to Saturday 14 July Until Sunday 13 May The story of our love affair with other Also featured are pictures of Echo & the ROYAL DEVOTION: MONARCHY NO LONE ZONE people’s gardens. From a travelling Bunnymen. AND THE BOOK OF COMMON The exhibition takes its name from a artist’s sketch of Henry VIII’s palace at  Full info at se1.net/12452 PRAYER military term designating an area where Richmond - the earliest drawing of an Tue-Fri 11am-1.30pm & 2pm-5pm; Sat Friday 4 to Wednesday 9 May the presence of just one person is not English garden in existence - to Vita 11am-4pm (last entry 1 hour before Sackville-West’s private photographic BEAUTIFUL DAYS: HYE OCK JEON allowed. closing); £12 (conc £10); under-17s free  Full info at se1.net/12304 albums of Sissinghurst, this exhibition This exhibition traces the close Hye Ock Jeon developed her painting explores the centuries-old British skills by herself starting at the age of relationship between royalty and Until Sunday 27 May tradition of opening gardens to the 40. She is a member of Korean Fine Art religion from medieval to modern ALIGHIERO BOETTI: GAME PLAN public. times. It tells the story of the Book of Association (KFAA) and has had three  Full info at se1.net/12240 solo exhibitions in Korea and many £10 (conc £8.50) Common Prayer and its importance in The first large-scale retrospective of George and Jorgen national life. This story is illustrated with group exhibitions internationally.  Full info at se1.net/12451 Boetti’s work to be held outside Italy in 9 Morocco Street books, manuscripts and objects, many over a decade. www.georgeandjorgen.com of which have royal or other important Saturday 5 to Wednesday 9 May  Full info at se1.net/12053 Wed-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; Sun provenances. BLACK IS WHITE, WHITE IS BLACK  12 noon-5pm; Full info at se1.net/12201 A group exhibition of works from every Until Tuesday 5 June Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings angle of creativity. Curated by Nolia. YAYOI KUSAMA Thursday 3 to Sunday 27 May £10 (conc £8.50) 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322  Full info at se1.net/12498 WILL CORWIN: MOUNT ZION Yayoi Kusama’s pioneering work spans The show explores the notion of www.llewellynalexander.com Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Saturday 12 to Wednesday 16 May over six decades and this exhibition prophesy through sculpture: the A WAKE highlights the artist’s moments of most conceptual choices people make Until Saturday 5 May This exhibition is put together by intense innovation. in choosing what they think divine THE LONDON ART SHOW: PEOPLE, a collective of artists in memory of  Full info at se1.net/12052 communication will look like. He is ARCHITECTURE & ATMOSPHERE creatives souls who are no longer with interested in the objects often involved The city of 2012, its people, its us. Until Sunday 9 September in revelation: tablets, talking bushes, architecture and its atmosphere,  Full info at se1.net/12499 DAMIEN HIRST angels, and in particular, the person captured by artists who know and love Old Operating Theatre, Museum £14 (conc £12.20) involved in the revelation itself. The first substantial survey of Damien  one of the greatest capital cities of Full info at se1.net/12517 the world including Holly Brodie, Roy and Herb Garret Hirst’s work ever held in the UK. Hayward Gallery Connelly, Lisa Graa Jensen, Nancy Petley- 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679  Full info at se1.net/11290 Jones, Adrian Sykes, Yanko Tihov, Nadia www.thegarret.org.uk Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 Daily 10.30am-5pm; £5.90; conc £4.90; Unit 24 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts Tsakova and Robert Wells. child £3.40; family (2+4) £13.80 Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm);  Full info at se1.net/12139 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 unit24.info Make Space Studios Until Thursday 17 May £4.50; under 12 free) Mon-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu & Fri Newnham Terrace TALES OF MYSTERY & MEDICINE: 10am-6.30pm; Until Sunday 13 May www.makespacestudios.co.uk ROBERTO LARI Italian illustrator and graphic novel artist Until Saturday 12 May DAVID SHRIGLEY: BRAIN ACTIVITY Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 May British artist David Shrigley is best known Roberto Lari exhibits a selection of his PHOTO-SOUP BBC PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB stylish gothic stories of phantoms and A collaborative project that allows artists for his humorous drawings that make Simulator Gallery; Thu 12 noon-8pm; amputations. to disseminate their work and ideas witty and wry observations on everyday Fri: 12 noon-5pm, Sat: 11am-5pm; Sun  Full info at se1.net/12392 without the the need to fit mainstream life. Spanning the upper galleries of the 11am-4pm; £2 Hayward Gallery, the show includes new Fifth annual exhibition showcases a Poppy Sebire Gallery curatorial agendas. artwork and site specific installations. unique and varied portfolio of work  Full info at se1.net/12525  Full info at se1.net/11325 All Hallows Hall T 020 7928 3096 achieved by club members during the www.poppysebire.com Vitrine Gallery last year. Until Sunday 13 May Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12468 Bermondsey Square JEREMY DELLER: JOY IN www.vitrinegallery.co.uk Until Saturday 5 May EVERYTHING More London Riverside 24 hours; free This mid-career survey provides a fresh BOO RITSON: ON THE WAY TO THE Tooley Street OCEAN overview of his multi-faceted work, in www.morelondon.com Thursday 3 to Monday 14 May which he explores compelling social A series of mixed media works that EDDIE PEAKE: BIRTHDAY PARTY and cultural territories while alternately Until Sunday 13 May investigate the relationship of identity A ‘performing’ installation constructed taking on the roles of artistic producer, WHAT ON EARTH? WALLBOOK OF and representation to place. from neon and print works.  publisher, filmmaker, collaborator, SPORT Full info at se1.net/12350  Full info at se1.net/12385 curator, parade organiser, and cultural Produced in collaboration with the Friday 11 May to Saturday 16 June archivist. Telegraph it features more than 1,000 White Cube Bermondsey GEORGIE HOPTON: THE WOUNDED  Full info at se1.net/11326 pictures and captions tracing the history TULIP 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 Imperial War Museum of sport from the ancient Olympics in www.whitecube.com 776 BC to the present day. The reverse In Georgie Hopton’s multifarious practice Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 side features editorial highlights of the she considers the fecund and the dying free london.iwm.org.uk modern Olympic movement from 1896 with a lightness of heart and a touch of Daily 10am-6pm; free to 2012, complete with Matt cartoons dark humour. Until Saturday 12 May and a championship crossword.  Full info at se1.net/12512 GILBERT & GEORGE: LONDON Thursday 24 May to Sunday 23 September  PICTURES BUILD THE TRUCE Full info at se1.net/12471 Siobhan Davies Studios Featuring works based on Evening Explore the concept of truce, from Wednesday 16 May to Friday 1 June 85 St George’s Road challenging notions about the www.siobhandavies.com Standard billboards. TIME IN TURKEY  Full info at se1.net/12280 inevitability of war, through to truce as Open-air exhibition of photographs of Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat a method of conflict resolution and what 10am-5pm; free Turkey. Until Saturday 12 May it can mean on a practical level, such as  Full info at se1.net/12553 allowing aid and medical organisations Friday 4 May to Sunday 1 July LIU WEI to enter areas of conflict which they National Theatre ANIMATED ENVIRONMENTS: PART Beijing-based artist.  cannot reach during periods of war. South Bank T 020 7452 3000 2 – GRAHAM GUSSIN Full info at se1.net/12420  Full info at se1.net/12532 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Solo exhibition focusing on painting, Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun photography and film as platforms for Until Saturday 12 May Until Friday 30 November 12 noon-6pm; free performance. MADEIN COMPANY WAR STORY: SERVING IN  Full info at se1.net/12515 Artists’ collective founded by Shanghai- AFGHANISTAN Until Monday 4 June based artist Xu Zhen. 15 personal artefacts as well as digital FESTIVAL! Southwark Cathedral  Full info at se1.net/12421 screens packed with video footage, Images of festivals and celebrations London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Woolfson & Tay images and interviews. around the world from the Corbis www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/11695 archive. Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316  Full info at se1.net/12378 Sun 10am-6pm; free www.woolfsonandtay.com Until Monday 31 December Mon-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; A FAMILY IN WARTIME Until Saturday 9 June Until Friday 18 May Learn how rationing, evacuation, war NEW WORK BY HILARY ROSEN MICHAEL GRATER: A Tuesday 1 to Sunday 27 May work and events such as the Blitz and VE Vibrant oil paintings depict the city at RETROSPECTIVE A TO Z - AN ALPHABET Day shaped everyday life and the story night illuminated by cars and the light Original drawings from books by the late Jane Colling presents her latest series of of a nation. spill from bars and clubs. children’s illustrator. original screenprints.  Full info at se1.net/12368  Full info at se1.net/12560  Full info at se1.net/12232  Full info at se1.net/12520 May 2012 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS RIVER THAMES Mayor seeks Southwark talent for HMS Belfast to reopen riverside Olympics festival HMS Belfast – which has been closed to the public since the ship’s gangway The Mayor of London has launched a search for artists, collapsed into the Thames last November companies and community groups to perform at ‘PICTURE: – will reopen on Friday 18 May. Potters Fields’, the free festival to be held in the park next to The structure collapsee because a subcontractor “cut Tower Bridge during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. through the structure of the gangway without sufficient “PICTURE: Potters Fields will be a small, non-ticketed outdoor event offering families, support”, according to a statement issued by Imperial War visitors and the local community the opportunity to watch the best action from the Olympic Museums (IWM). and Paralympic Games for free live on a big screen,” says the Greater London Authority on its Curators have organised a weekend of free events on 26 website. and 27 May to celebrate the reopening. “Visitors can grab a bite to eat, take in the “HMS Belfast shows first hand what it was like to live and beautiful view of London’s iconic Tower Bridge work on board a warship,” says director Phil Reed. “Since her and watch roving entertainment whilst they arrival on the Thames, more than 40 years ago, she has grown soak up the atmosphere in Potters Fields Park.” to be a national symbol of the efforts and endurance of sailors The Mayor has dropped an earlier who took part in the Arctic Convoys, D-Day, the Cold War proposal to rebrand the riverside gardens as and Korea. “London Park” for the duration of the event. “London hasn’t been the same in the six months that the According to documents recently iconic HMS Belfast has been closed. Its reopening has been a published by City Hall, the GLA has paid long time coming and is a cause for great celebration. And that the Potters Fields Park Management Trust just is what we plan to do – celebrate, with all manner of exciting, £1 for the use of the prime open space from fun and engaging activities and attractions on board.” mid-July to mid-September. However, under the terms of the hire agreement, the hirer will have The collapsed section of gangway was lifted out of the to meet a wide range of costs including security, litter removal and making good any damage to river last December. The new brow will be installed early this the park. month. The PICTURE: Potters Fields event will be open daily 10am-10pm during the Olympics On Wednesday 9 May the Duke of Gloucester will attend (Saturday 28 July to Sunday 12 August) and Paralympics (Wednesday 29 August to Sunday 9 a Victory Day ceremony dedicated to the Arctic Convoys in September). the Second World War. Gun salutes will be fired at 4.20pm Prospective performers have until 8 May to submit their outline application. The theme is and 7.20pm. ‘The Best of London’ and although groups and individuals from around the capital can apply, the The Princess Royal is due to visit the ship on Thursday 31 GLA says that submissions from Southwark will be particularly welcome May as patron of the Special Forces Club and commandant- • See www.london.gov.uk/picture in-chief of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

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