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Ball of newspaper Giant upside-down purple cow to be rolled along coming to the South Bank Bankside streets A temporary performance UBS Openings: The venue in the shape of a Long Weekend offers giant cow will spend four days of dramatic seven weeks at the live events and free, Hungerford Car Park interactive activities at on the South Bank this Tate Modern during the summer. late May bank holiday. Udderbelly has been a fixture The Turbine Hall will be at the Edinburgh Festival for the taken over by a reconstruction of past three summers and this year it Robert Morris’s seminal 1971 Tate is coming to new pasture on the car installation. Visitors cannavigate the park between the Royal Festival Hall space by climbing, see-sawing and and Jubilee Gardens. sliding around the huge interactive E4 Udderbelly will graze on the sculptures and objects including South Bank from 27 May to 19 July beams, tunnels, ramps and rollers. as part of Southbank Centre’s summer Michelangelo Pistoletto season. Joan Rivers will launch the will create a large sphere out of venue with five nights of stand-up newspapers from around the world shows. “It’s extraordinary to look at and young people. to be paraded through the streets. The rest of the programme a fantastic venue in which to watch The Hungerford Car Park site has The artist encourages the public includes include Tom Tom Crew, a show. We hope that our affordable been used for a variety of events over to join the globe of newsprint in a David O’Doherty, Rhod Gilbert, season of live entertainment, in the years. Local campaigners would procession leading to the gallery. Camille, Jason Byrne, Clive James, conjunction with Southbank Centre, like to see Jubilee Gardens extended The House of Fairy Tales, Gina Yashere, Reg D Hunter, Jimeoin, will excite and entertain people of all right up to the railway viaduct but the a child-centred, artist-led project Katy Brand, The Terrible Infants, ages and interests. British Film Institute has ambitions to established by Gavin Turk and Scroobius Pip and Beardyman with “And we hope that the unique create a new film centre on the site to Deborah Curtis, hosts a village fete ticket prices ranging from £10 (with atmosphere of Udderbelly and its replace BFI Southbank. with a twist. Taking over the lawns £7 concessions) to £30. surrounding Pasture will add to an In 2005 and 2006 plans for a in front of Tate Modern, they will “Our Udderbelly venue was already thriving Southbank Centre temporary summer ‘beach’ on the offer games, workshops, puppetry designed to be an accessible space site this summer.” car park failed to materialise after and storytelling to children of for all audiences,” say Ed Bartlam Southbank Centre is working planning wrangles and contractual all ages and their families, plus a and Charlie Wood, directors of with Underbelly to set up a venue disputes. Maypole made of recycled materials. Underbelly. management training programme for • www.underbelly.co.uk • See listing on page 3 Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds
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The films will be judged September 2000 and 31 August Most of the big and by a celebrity panel including Old 2001. Contact 020 7407 2600 Vic chief executive Sally Greene successful local firms or [email protected] and Daniel Kaluuya from E4 do when teen drama Skins. The awards for information. they have ceremony will take place during Waterloo Comedy Club something to the BFI Jazz and Film Weekender at BFI Southbank in mid-June. A new comedy club has launched say and they Closing date 29 May. Details at at The Horse in Westminster would like us www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm Bridge Road every Thursday from 8.30pm. Tickets are £6.50 on the to give a sharp Christian comedy door with a two-for-one deal edge to it. As part of the London-wide for people who work in Waterloo Pentecost Festival Waterloo- (proof of local employment PRINT based charity Christian Aid is required). 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Friday 15 to Sunday 17 May Wednesday 20 May Saturday 16 May May MUSEUMS AT NIGHT THE VIRGIN ACTIVE SQUARE MILE SHOOT LONDON: 6pm-8pm; Free on Friday & Sunday BRIDGE RELAY A NOVEL ADVENTURE Comprehensive local listings nights; normal admission charge £5.80 A relay race over a one mile course Turbine Hall; 11am-7pm; £50 team ticket (conc £4.80, family £16) on Sat night during which runners will scale the for four people, booking required On Friday and Sunday evening there is heights of Tower Bridge. Using Potters Shoot London is back with a brand new a chance to visit the museum free of Fields Park as the start/finish and format. You’ll still need a digital camera, Special events charge. On Saturday evening you can transition area, teams of 10 runners from but this time teams will hit the streets meet the Lady with the Lamp herself as each firm will each take to the 1-mile around Tate Modern to build part of an Bermondsey Square Hotel she takes you on a guided tour of the circuit through one of London’s primary adventure story. At the end of the day a Bermondsey Square T 0870 111 2525 museum by lamp light. landmarks. storyboard of everyone’s images will be www.bermondseysquarehotel.co.uk Full info at se1.net/6815 Full info at se1.net/5738 displayed on a big screen in the Turbine Hall, and prizes are awarded for the best Monday 11 May Garden Museum Friday 29 to Sunday 31 May photography. CONSERVATIVE BBQ RECEPTION Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 TASTE OF ASIA Full info at se1.net/6506 7pm-9pm; £30 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Times TBC; free Asian food festival by the Thames. Ross Barbecue on the terrace at the newly- Friday 22 to Monday 25 May Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 May Burden will organise the cookery demos UBS OPENINGS: THE LONG opened Bermondsey Square Hotel RIOT OF ROSES and Anjum Anand, celebrated BBC chef, WEEKEND with Bermondsey & Old Southwark 10.30am-5pm; £6 (conc £5) will be there to cook some tasty dishes. A programme of dramatic live events Conservatives. Special guest speaker: The museum will be filled with a Entertainment on the performance and free, interactive activities. . The Howard Flight (former MP for Arundel breathtaking display of roses supplied stage and a range of travel and other Turbine Hall will be taken over by and South Downs and ex-Shadow by Robert Mattock. Mattock’s Roses will companies participating. a reconstruction of Robert Morris’s Cabinet member). Visit www. also be sold and will set the theme for a Full info at se1.net/6717 seminal Tate installation. First created southwarkconservatives.com for booking series of related activities including a talk for his 1971 show at the Tate Gallery, it Red Cross Garden and further details. Or tel 07500 582126 by garden historian Jenny Potter whose was closed down due to the ‘unbridled to reserve a table. new book on the cultural history of the Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 enthusiasm’ and ‘exceptionally exuberant Full info at se1.net/6713 rose will be published next year. www.bost.org.uk and energetic participation’ it excited in Full info at se1.net/6323 visitors. Visitors will be able to navigate Bernie Spain Gardens Friday 8 May Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park the space by climbing, see-sawing and ANNUAL MAY FESTIVAL sliding around the huge interactive Upper Ground Lambeth Road 3.30pm-6pm; free www.coinstreet.org sculptures and objects including beams, Join the maypole dancing, wear Victorian tunnels, ramps and rollers. One of the Saturday 9 May costumes, get your face painted, listen to Saturday 2 to Monday 4 May key figures of Arte Povera, Michelangelo VICTORY DAY ACT OF stories and more. More information call Pistoletto will be creating a large sphere SLOW DOWN - ARTISTS AT WORK! REMEMBRANCE 020 7403 3393 or [email protected] 2pm-6pm; free out of newspapers from around the Soviet War Memorial; 11am Full info at se1.net/6828 world to be paraded through the streets Come and enjoy the relaxing pursuit of The Mayor of Southwark, veterans Royal Festival Hall of Southwark. creating works of art. All are welcome. minister Kevan Jones MP, the Russian Full info at se1.net/6728 You can be a pavement artist, join a Ambassador HE Yury Fedotov, Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 collaborative collage, or watch painters representatives from other CIS embassies, www.southbankcentre.co.uk The Scoop at the easy easels. Guided by artists from British Second World War veterans and More London Riverside other individuals and organisations Friday 1 May the Skylark Galleries. Part of Slow Down LONDON SINGS OUT! www.morelondon.com/scoop.html London supporting the SMTF will lay wreaths at Festival Riverside 12 noon; free Friday 1 May Full info at se1.net/6599 the Soviet War Memorial. Full info at se1.net/5784 Join the open-air launch of the Various THE LAUNCH OF GET FIT FOR FREE! Borough Market Voices London Festival - hosted by Sandi 12 noon-2pm; free Hankey Hall Toksvig - and witness the South Bank Launch of a programme of free fitness 8 Southwark Street Hankey Place bursting into life with song. Various classes which will be held in The Scoop Voices is a four-day showcase of singing every Wednesday morning from Friday 1 May Tuesday 19 May talent from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual 7.30am between May and August. Over DEPTFORD JACK IN THE GREEN FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS CLUB and Transgender (LGBT) community. lunchtime come down and watch or join 11am outside the Market Porter, Stoney 11am-1pm Full info at se1.net/6546 in the outdoor fitness classes. Street Following on from the successful Full info at se1.net/6832 The Deptford Jack in the Green will tea party in the Community Garden, Saturday 2 May return to the Borough this May Day. Blackfriars Settlement and Tate Modern JUSTIN FASHANU DAY Monday 4 May Clore Ballroom; 1.30pm; free ORIGINS: FESTIVAL OF FIRST Full info at se1.net/6810 invite you to a Plaque Making Workshop. Help create some plaques using found Various Voices is marking Justin Fashanu NATIONS OPENING CEREMONY Christ Church Garden materials from the banks of the River Day, the day designed to highlight the 2.30pm; free issue of homophobia in sport, with Join performers from the First Nations 27 Blackfriars Road Thames which will be displayed in the international choirs singing football of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Community Garden next to Tate Modern. Light refreshments available. anthem ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ on the the USA as they celebrate the opening Thursday 28 May Full info at se1.net/6850 banks of the Thames at approx 2.15pm. of Origins: Festival of First Nations. In OPENING OF NEW WILDLIFE Full info at se1.net/6817 a spectacular welcoming ceremony, Lambeth Palace Garden London’s own Maori group, Ngati GARDEN Lambeth Palace Road Southbank Centre Square Ranana, greet the visiting artists in their 2.30pm-4.30pm; free www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace Belvedere Road traditional way. An afternoon of children’s activities with www.southbankcentre.co.uk Full info at se1.net/6811 a wildlife theme with arts and crafts Saturday 30 May including pebble painting, a butterfly NATIONAL GARDENS SCHEME Friday 1 to Monday 4 May Sunday 17 May hunt, Southwark Play Bus to include YELLOW BOOK OPEN DAY SLOW FOOD MARKET ORIGINS: FESTIVAL OF FIRST games and badge-making, and a visit 2pm-5.30pm; £3.50 (children free) Daily 12 noon-8pm NATIONS CLOSING CEREMONY Lambeth Palace Garden is one of the Wholesome, seasonal food from more 2pm; free from a bee keeper with bees. Event is oldest and largest private gardens in than 40 stalls offering fresh, sustainable First Nations artists join with young to celebrate the creation of the wildlife London. Residence of the Archbishops and traditionally prepared produce. The people from the capital in a celebration border and the installation of new of Canterbury since the end of the 12th market will be a monthly fixture outside of Truth and Reconciliation, Respect for Southwark Parks interpretation signage. century. Refreshments available. the Royal Festival Hall this summer. the Earth, History and the Future. 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Golden Hinde Topolski Century Thursday 28 May ROBERT GRAVES Children & family St Mary Overie Dock T 0870 011 8700 Concert Hall Approach 7pm; £6 (conc £4) www.goldenhinde.org www.topolskicentury.org.uk Extracts are read from Goodbye to BFI Southbank All That, Graves’s memoir of the First Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 Saturday 23 May Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 May World War and his most famous work, www.bfi.org.uk/southbank FAMILY OVERNIGHT LIVING HISTORY DIFFERENT SHADES OF BRITAIN as well as from Lars Porsena, the author’s 2pm-5pm; free 5pm-9am; £39.95 tongue-in-cheek treatise lamenting the Sunday 3 May In May Topolski Century celebrates An unforgettable Living History decline of swearing and foul language CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG the 58th anniversary of the Festival of Experience. After an afternoon and in England. FILM FUNDAY Britain. Come and see Great Britain Full info at se1.net/6847 Workshop from 11am; screening from evening of activities on board the through Feliks Topolski’s eyes. Draw 12.30pm; Workshop free to ticket- ship, children and parents have the sketches inspired by his art. For children Design Museum holders for 1pm screening opportunity to sleep on the gundeck of all ages. Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Take inspiration from Chitty and design amongst the cannon. Full info at se1.net/6822 www.designmuseum.org your own extraordinary car - it might Full info at se1.net/6337 fly or swim or hop or even take you Friday 8 May into the future! With the usual mix of Imperial War Museum Public meetings DESIGN MEETS DISABILITY competitions and prizes come along to a Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 7.15pm; £15 car-crazy adventure at BFI Southbank and london.iwm.org.uk Bermondsey Village Hall Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6654 make your Sunday go with a bang bang! Daily 10am-6pm; free Kirby Grove T 020 7378 1078 Graham Pullin challenges the distinction Full info at se1.net/6744 made between designing for disabled Cuming Museum Saturday 2 to Monday 4 May Thursday 7 May people and designing for everyone else. WE ARE ALL BORN FREE MUTUAL SOLUTIONS FOR Full info at se1.net/6654 151 Walworth Road T 020 7525 2332 11am-5pm SOUTHWARK’S HOUSING www.southwark.gov.uk 7.30pm Friday 15 May Drop-in art activity. PENNY SPARKE ON THE MODERN Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 May Full info at se1.net/6365 Panel discussion with David Rodgers, GIRAFFES AND OTHER ANIMALS author of the recent Co-operative Party INTERIOR policy pamphlet “New foundations: 7.15pm; £15 2.30pm-4pm; free Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 May unlocking the potential for affordable Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6655 Find exotic animals in the Cuming VOICES: ORDINARY PEOPLE, Museum and use the storyboxes - full homes” and Val Shawcross, Co-operative Penny Sparke will launch this new EXTRAORDINARY TIMES and Labour Party London Assembly series of design history lectures with an of books, puppets and games - to 1pm-2pm explore stories from around the world. member for Lambeth and Southwark. examination of the development of the Meet veterans from the Second World Discover what Southwark used to be like Chaired by Cormac Hollingsworth. modern interior. and find out about some unusual past War or more recent conflicts and learn Full info at se1.net/6802 Full info at se1.net/6655 about their experiences. residents. Make animals for the museum St George the Martyr Fashion & Textile Museum zoo and help to draw giant a picture of Full info at se1.net/6366 Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Southwark. There’s no need to book - www.ftmlondon.org just turn up on the day. All children must Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 May Monday 18 May be accompanied by an adult. NATURE OF THE BEAST Friday 8 May Full info at se1.net/6785 11am & 3pm PUBLIC MEETING ON PROPOSED LICENSING SATURATION POLICY IN JEWELLERY IS ENCHANTING, Design Museum Turn tanks into dinosaurs and aircraft BOROUGH & BANKSIDE JEWELLERY IS GOSSIPING into insects. 6.30pm-8pm; £8 (conc £6) inc glass of Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 The Crypt; 6.30pm wine and exhibition entry www.designmuseum.org Full info at se1.net/6367 In March the council’s licensing committee decided that there is Sofia Bjorkman is one of the founders of Sunday 3 & Sunday 31 May Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 May sufficient evidence of late-night crime Platina, the influential Stockholm Gallery VROOM VROOM! MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK and disorder to consider the introduction for contemporary jewellery. 2pm-5pm; £4 per child; accompanying 11am & 1.30pm of a saturation policy to help deal with Full info at se1.net/6245 adults free; booking 020 7940 8783 An interactive drop-in session using the local cumulative impact in the Museum of the Royal See the world’s first 100% electrical artefacts for families looking at the myth Borough and Bankside area. This would Pharmaceutical Society vehicle and then design your own and reality of the First World War. make it more difficult for businesses to model car and race it around the 1 Lambeth High Street T 020 7572 2210 Full info at se1.net/6368 gain licences to sell alcohol locally. A www.rpsgb.org.uk/museum fantastic model track. Students from the consultation period is open till 29 May; renowned vehicle design course at the Saturday 23 to Sunday 31 May have your say at this meeting. Wednesday 13 & Thursday 28 May Royal College of Art. For ages 5 to 11. Full info at se1.net/6805 HEALING HERBS: Full info at se1.net/6556 TELLING STORIES 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm BEHIND THE SCENES Florence Nightingale Museum Working with illustrators and story tellers Wed 2pm-3pm & Thu 6pm-7pm; booking St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 young visitors will have an opportunity Talks & literature essential 020 7572 2210 or museum@ www.florence-nightingale.co.uk to explore ideas about war and conflict. rpsgb.org; free Calder Bookshop Herbs have been the basis of medicine in Drop in art and story telling. 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 this country for centuries with techniques Saturday 9 May CELEBRATE FLORENCE Full info at se1.net/6369 www.oneworldclassics.com for using them changing little since NIGHTINGALE’S BIRTHDAY Morley College Anglo- Saxon times. See examples from 10am-4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.80, family Thursday 7 May the collection and try your hand at being £16) 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 UGO FOSCOLO: SEPULCHRES a herbalist yourself. Come along and work with an artist www.morleycollege.ac.uk 7.30pm; £6 (conc £4) Full info at se1.net/6229 to design your own birthday message Alessandro Gallenzi reads from the and picture to Florence Nightingale and Saturday 23 May Italian, while the translator JG Nichols New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall decorate a giant birthday cake made FAMILY CONCERT reads from his English translation and 106 The Cut from papier mache! Emma Cons Hall; 10.30am-12.30pm; explains the wider context to Foscolo’s Full info at se1.net/6842 £9 (children £6; group [2 adults & 2 poetry. Tuesday 12 May children] £20) Full info at se1.net/6845 ENTERTAINMENT IN SOUTH Saturday 9 May Morley’s long-standing series of concerts LONDON: ITS HISTORY & Thursday 14 May MEET MARY SEACOLE for adults and children of all ages. Music ARCHITECTURE Learn all about Mary Seacole, design THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER TS 7.30pm; £1 in the Wind and Lyra Greek Dancers. your own passport and then go on a trail ELIOT POEMS Lecture by Brian Bloice on the history of which will lead you to Mary Seacole who Each concert is in two parts combining 7pm; £6 (conc £4) entertainment venues in south London. will stamp your passport and tell you all music and dance with a drinks break in John Calder selects and introduces the A Southwark & Lambeth Archaelogical about her life. the middle. best of TS Eliot’s work. Society event. Full info at se1.net/6843 Full info at se1.net/5249 Full info at se1.net/6846 Full info at se1.net/5163 Indigo Blackfriars Spice chain Wine Bar
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Southwark Cathedral have won numerous individual prizes: St John’s Waterloo Pei-Jee was Symphony Australia Young London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Guided walks Performer of the Year in 2001 and in Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk 2008 was selected for representation by www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Bankside Community Space Young Concert Artists Trust. Pei-Sian was Wednesday 6 May 18 Great Guildford Street Commonwealth Musician of the Year Thursdays 7, 14 & 21 May PUBLIC FORUM in 2007 and won the Gold Medal and RUSH HOUR CONCERT ON JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT Friday 8 May First Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League 6pm-7.15pm; free MEDIEVAL SOUTHWARK Garry Weston Library; 7pm Music Competition. Free after-work music with Southbank 5.30pm-7pm; RSVP to b.oshaughnessy@ www.twincellists.com Sinfonia. Avoid the rush, grab a Public Forum with the Bishop of bbk.ac.uk or 020 7631 6627; free Full info at se1.net/6165 complimentary glass of wine and enjoy Southwark, Rt Revd Tom Butler, talking Learn about the palaces, monasteries on Justice and Development. and inns of the Borough. Better Bankside BFI IMAX some great music. Full info at se1.net/6313 Full info at se1.net/6797 is working in partnership with Birkbeck Charlie Chaplin Walk T 0870 787 2525 College to arrange these walks. www.bfi.org.uk/imax St Thomas’ Hospital Full info at se1.net/6794 Westminster Bridge Road Saturday 9 May Comedy www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Friday 22 May LA CENERENTOLA TUDOR AND STUART SOUTHWARK THE MET: LIVE IN HD The Old King’s Head Monday 11 May 5.30pm-7pm; RSVP to b.oshaughnessy@ 5.30pm; £25 (conc £18) 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 A FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FOR bbk.ac.uk or 020 7631 6627 ; free BFI IMAX brings live opera to the biggest www.theoldkingshead.uk.com THE 21ST CENTURY Learn about entertainment and spectacle screen in Britain in crystal-clear high- in Bankside’s playhouses and arenas. Thursday 7 May Governors’ Hall; 6.30pm; £8 from the definition. Full info at se1.net/6795 museum or on the door Full info at se1.net/5549 UP THE ARTS COMEDY 8.30pm (doors 8pm); £8 (conc £6) To mark the launch of Florence BFI Southbank Christ Church Southwark Lineup includes Simon Day and Shazia Nightingale: The Woman and Her Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 Mirza. Paul Ricketts (MC). Legend by Mark Bostridge in paperback. www.bfi.org.uk/southbank www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk A fundraising event for the Florence Full info at se1.net/6399 Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 May Nightingale Museum Monday 18 May The Ship SOUTH BANK GUIDED WALK LUNCHTIME PIANO RECITAL Full info at se1.net/6569 Meet 2pm under Waterloo Bridge; free 1.10pm-1.50pm 68 Borough Road T 020 7403 7059 The Old King’s Head Free guided walk exploring the South Grace Mo, fellow of the Guildhall School Bank and Bankside. Part of Walk of Music and Drama. Friday 1 May 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 London’s ‘Spring into Summer’ weekend SHIP OF FOOLS www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Full info at se1.net/6707 of free walks across the city. 8.30pm; £3 Full info at se1.net/6807 Shakespeare’s Globe Thursday 14 May Robin Pentecost and Douglas Davern, City Hall New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Nelson de Gouveia, Andi Osho, Shelagh THE HAUNTED LONDON www.shakespeares-globe.org UNDERGROUND: WHAT LIES The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Martin, MC Elise Harris. BENEATH? www.london.gov.uk Saturday 16 May Full info at se1.net/6710 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) JAZZ AT THE GLOBE Sunday 31 May Friday 15 May Talk by Alan Brooke and David Brandon. UnderGlobe; 8pm; £19.50 with three- TOWER BRIDGE TO GREENWICH course dinner; ent only £5; booking SHIP OF FOOLS South East London Folklore Society. GUIDED WALK 8.30pm; £3 via 020 7928 9444 option 2, or info@ Full info at se1.net/6289 Meet 10.30am or 11am outside City Hall; swanattheglobe.co.uk Aliens Ate My Schnitzel, Daniel Banks, The Roebuck free; online registration at The first Swan at the Globe club night in Chuquai Billy, Robert White, Mark www.walklondon.org.uk the UnderGlobe features two 45 minute Restuccia and Elise Harris. 50 Great Dover Street T 020 7357 7324 6.5 mile guided walk along the Thames sets per artist; featuring one of the most Full info at se1.net/6844 www.theroebuck.net Path from City Hall through Bermondsey brilliant young sax players Alex Garnett and Rotherhithe to Greenwich. Part of and the New Ambassadors and Simon Southwark Playhouse Wednesday 27 May Walk London’s ‘Spring into Summer’ Harris the quirky songwriter, whose fiery BANG SAID THE GUN weekend of free walks across the city. Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 gypsy jazz virtuosity, is played out in an www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk 8.30pm; £3 Full info at se1.net/6808 exceptional trio. Stand-up poetry. Plus the world-famous Full info at se1.net/6829 Sunday 10 May Vodka shots open mic spots. STAND-UP FOR STROKE Friday 29 May Full info at se1.net/6513 Church services 7.30pm; £12.50 FITZROVIA RADIO HOUR Christ Church Southwark Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6743 Topolski Century UnderGlobe; 8pm; £19.50; ent only £5; A night of stand-up comedy from some Concert Hall Approach 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 booking via 020 7928 9444 option 2, or www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk of the UK’s finest comedians in aid of www.topolskicentury.org.uk [email protected] the InterAct Reading Service, a charity Thursday 21 May One-off event in the UnderGlobe Tuesday 19 May ASCENSION DAY SERVICE arranged by the Swan at the Globe dedicated to supporting stroke recovery. LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP 1.10pm restaurant. The Fitzrovia Radio Hour acts With Patrick Monahan, Shelagh Martin, 7pm-10pm; £12 (students £10) or 6 Ascension Day Eucharist with music by out its ‘live radio show’ to the crowd, Neil D’Souza, Shazia Mirza, Maureen exploring the mystery of speed and time sessions for the price of 5 Portcullis Singers. Younger and Stan Stanley. Full info at se1.net/5935 with four witty and quirky sketches. Full info at se1.net/6743 First in a series of workshops. Whether Full info at se1.net/6830 you are an experienced artist or new to Vinopolis life drawing, come and be challenged Southwark Cathedral Music 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 by a range of poses over the course of London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.vinopolis.co.uk the evening. Tutor Eddie Armer (Tudeley 1901 Arts Club www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Art Group) is on hand should you like 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 Saturday 9 May Friday 29 May some help or guidance. Feel free to bring www.1901artsclub.com MONTEVERDI: SACRED & PROFANE LAUGHTER LOUNGE your own materials. Drawing boards 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door Monday 18 May 7.30pm; £8 at the door will be available and cartridge paper is PEI-JEE NG & PEI-SIAN NG New Renaissance Voices directed by Bruce Monthly comedy night at the Bankside for sale. Advance booking is essential 7.30pm; £15 inc glass of wine Saunders sing Missa ‘In illo tempore’ , wine tasting attraction. Tonight’s lineup: as places are limited; email education@ The Hattori Foundation for Music motets and madrigals including Lamento Ian Stone, Geoff Boyz and Philiberto. MC topolskicentury.org.uk and the Arts’ monthly concert series. d’Arianna. Lee Canterbury. 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May 2009 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Tuesday 19 May to Saturday 11 July force of love as a means of reconciliation. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Full info at se1.net/5763 Dance Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Exhibitions Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6481 The Scoop HMS Belfast Baltic Marianne Elliott directs. . More London Riverside Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 Full info at se1.net/6481 www.morelondon.com/scoop.html 74 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 1111 hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk www.balticrestaurant.co.uk Until Monday 27 July Wednesday 27 to Sunday 31 May Until Saturday 30 May Saturday 16 May TIME AND THE CONWAYS ROMEO & JULIET BATTLESHIP BOOGIE STEVE HOLLINGSHEAD Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10-£41 6pm; free 7pm-11pm; £15 (conc £12) from 020 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5836 12 noon-11pm; free Shakespeare’s timeless tale of ill-fated 7940 6320 Rupert Goold directs the first production SE1 based photographer Steve Learn some of the dance steps from the of a play by Priestley at the National love is given a fresh twist in the open air Hollingshead displays B/W local 1940s while listening to some of your since An Inspector Calls in 1992. by The Pantaloons. With a cast of just photographs and projections. favourite tunes on the Quarterdeck of Full info at se1.net/5836 five actors playing twenty roles, original Full info at se1.net/6594 this historic battleship. live music, audience interaction and a Bankside Gallery Full info at se1.net/6814 Shakespeare’s Globe plethora of silly hats. New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Full info at se1.net/6491 www.banksidegallery.com Young Vic www.shakespeares-globe.org 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Unicorn Theatre Daily 11am-6pm; free www.youngvic.org Tuesday 5 to Saturday 23 May THE FRONTLINE 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Until Sunday 3 May Friday 8 to Saturday 23 May In repertory; £5-£30 www.unicorntheatre.com ANITA KLEIN: ITALIAN ANGELS PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6128 52 paintings of angels painted in Italy. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; £22.50 By Ché Walker. Directed by Matthew Friday 8 May to Sunday 7 June Full info at se1.net/6199 (previews £15) Dunster. Twenty three actors overlap in TWELFTH NIGHT Friday 8 May to Sunday 7 June The Young Vic leaps into the world of this fast-paced exuberant tale bringing Times vary; £16 (conc £10); previews £6 dance in a trail blazing co-production A new production of one of ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER- modern Camden onto the Globe stage. PRINTMAKERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION with Sadler’s Wells. Director Daniel Full info at se1.net/6128 Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies - and Kramer brings Modest Mussorgsky’s Original printmaking & new techniques. a great introduction for any student Full info at se1.net/6200 classic piano suite to life in a dance Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 May about to start studying his plays. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS theatre production with choreographer Full info at se1.net/6085 Bargehouse Frauke Requardt and poet James Fenton. 7.30pm; £5, £15, £20 This is a scaled down production playing Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Full info at se1.net/6238 Union Theatre www.coinstreet.org for just four nights at the Globe before Daily 11am-6pm; free embarking on a nationwide tour of 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 www.upandcoming.webeden.co.uk Theatre open-air venues. Until Sunday 10 May Full info at se1.net/6390 Calder Bookshop Until Saturday 16 May BEHIND BASRA LITTLE BOY Iraqi photojournalist Essam al-Sudani 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 Until Sunday 23 August ROMEO AND JULIET Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 (conc £10) depicts the daily life of ordinary Iraqis. www.oneworldclassics.com In repertory; £5-£30 A new play by Tommy Kearney about Full info at se1.net/6732 Tuesday 19 to Friday 29 May Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6127 standing up for what you believe in set BFI Southbank LOVE BITES Dominic Dromgoole directs his in Merseyside 1982, Berkshire and Japan. Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 Wed/Thu/Fri 7.45pm; £9 (conc £7) from first production of Shakespeare’s Full info at se1.net/6630 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank www.ticketsource.co.uk/lovebites heartbreaking tale of fated young lovers. Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free A series of six two-hander short plays, all Full info at se1.net/6127 Wednesday 20 May to Saturday 13 June set in different hotel rooms. Each play is COMPANY Friday 8 May to Sunday 5 July based on love in some way, be it break Saturday 30 May to Saturday 10 October Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 3pm; £15 RADIO MANIA: AN ABANDONED ups, first dates, affairs or anniversaries. AS YOU LIKE IT WORK This is a night of entirely new writing: In repertory; £5-£30 (Tue £10) Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s A commission by British artists Iain all pieces are produced specifically for Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6129 Forsyth & Jane Pollard who have created the event. Thea Sharrock - who has become a big 1970 Broadway musical. a new 3D video installation. Full info at se1.net/6789 name in the theatre world since her Full info at se1.net/6631 Full info at se1.net/6821 stint as artistic director of Southwark Menier Chocolate Factory Playhouse - makes her Globe directorial Young Vic City Hall 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 debut. Cast includes Naomi Frederick and 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 www.menierchocolatefactory.com Laura Rogers. www.youngvic.org www.london.gov.uk Full info at se1.net/6129 Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free Until Saturday 20 June Until Saturday 9 May ROOKERY NOOK Southwark Playhouse YOU CAN SEE THE HILLS Until Thursday 14 May Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Tue-Sat 7.45pm; £10 CITYSCAPES LONDON previews £20; standard £25; Sat matinee www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Matthew Dunster’s razor sharp, infinitely Large photographs of London’s skyline. £15 Full info at se1.net/6724 Terry Johnson returns to the Chocolate Tuesday 5 to Saturday 30 May moving one-man play returns to the Factory to direct the Ben Travers farce. THE EXQUISITE CORPSE Young Vic after a sell-out debut last Design Museum Full info at se1.net/6528 Mon-Sat 7.30pm ; £8-£18 autumn in the Clare. Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6644 National Theatre Full info at se1.net/6237 www.designmuseum.org An interactive play of hidden stories and Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission South Bank T 020 7452 3000 the ways we understand them written by 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); www.nationaltheatre.org.uk five young Welsh writers. First performed Under 12s free at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Movie highlights Until Thursday 21 May Full info at se1.net/6644 Keyworth Centre Until Sunday 17 May BURNT BY THE SUN HUSSEIN CHALAYAN Keyworth Street Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10-£41 The Old Vic Chalayan is renowned for his innovative Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5833 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 use of materials, meticulous pattern Thursday 7 May By Peter Flannery, from the screenplay www.oldvictheatre.com cutting and progressive attitudes. by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam THE LION MOUNTAINS: A JOURNEY Open till 7pm on final three nights. Until Saturday 9 May Ibragimbekov, directed by Howard THROUGH SIERRA LEONE’S HISTORY Full info at se1.net/5720 Davies. DANCING AT LUGHNASA 7pm; book via 020 7358 4183 or Full info at se1.net/5833 Mon-Sat 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm); [email protected]; free Until Sunday 14 June £15-£46 Community Cinema screening. This is a BRIT INSURANCE DESIGN AWARDS Until Tuesday 2 June Brian Friel’s bittersweet reflection of documentary about a journey to Sierra Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster won this DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE rural Ireland in the thirties. Leone seen through the eyes of Louis year’s prize. See all shortlisted entries. Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£29 Full info at se1.net/5761 Full info at se1.net/5990 By Christopher Marlowe. Directed by Buckley - a 25-year-old Jamaican English James Macdonald. Saturday 23 May to Saturday 15 August man who was born and grew up in Fashion & Textile Museum THE CHERRY ORCHARD Full info at se1.net/5834 England. Followed by Q&A with Louis 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 In repertory with The Winter’s Tale; Buckley and producer Chester Yang. www.ftmlondon.org Until Wednesday 17 June £15-£46 Full info at se1.net/6840 Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £5 DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5762 (conc £3); under-12s free Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Sam Mendes returns to the London stage Tate Modern to direct a formidable group of actors in Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5835 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Until Sunday 17 May an ocean-spanning double-bill of revered By Wole Soyinka. www.tate.org.uk/modern SWEDISH FASHION Full info at se1.net/5835 classics under the Bridge Project banner. 13 fashion designers who challenge the The transatlantic company take the stage Monday 11 May stereotypical picture of Swedish fashion Until Tuesday 30 June in Olivier Award-winner Tom Stoppard’s DEFENCE OF THE REALM: as blonde, functional and minimal. ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE new version of Chekhov’s daring, droll Full info at se1.net/5480 Olivier Theatre; In repertory ; £10-£30 meditation on bourgeois materialism and COMMUNITY FILM CLUB Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5832 what remains in its wake. Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments Garden Museum A riotous journey through four waves Full info at se1.net/5762 from 6.30pm); free Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 of immigration from the 17th century A cold war thriller set in and around www.gardenmuseum.org.uk to today. Saturday 23 May to Saturday 15 August Westminster starring Gabriel Byrne Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Full info at se1.net/5832 THE WINTER’S TALE and Greta Scacchi. Membership of month); £6 (conc £5) In repertory with The Cherry Orchard; the Community Film Club is primarily Wednesday 13 May to Wednesday 8 July £15-£46 Tuesday 12 May to Monday 31 August THE OBSERVER Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/5763 aimed at those living in Southwark and THE HIGHGROVE FLORILEGIUM Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£31 The disintegrating royal friendships and Lambeth. To become a member email 75 watercolours of plants and trees at A new play by Matt Charman directed by inklings of adultery of Shakespeare’s rich [email protected] or join Highgrove commissioned by the Prince of Richard Eyre. tragicomedy provide a magical testament at the door. Wales from leading botanical artists. Full info at se1.net/6480 to the follies of hasty judgement and the Full info at se1.net/6544 Full info at se1.net/6321 WHAT’S ON IV
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Until Sunday 6 September Guy’s Hospital IN MEMORIAM: REMEMBERING Menier Gallery Nolia’s Gallery at Thomas a Becket Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 THE GREAT WAR 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 320 Old Kent Road T 020 7701 9111 www.gstt.nhs.uk Personal stories from World War One. www.meniergallery.co.uk www.noliasgallery.co.uk Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Daily 1pm-6pm; free Until Thursday 7 May Full info at se1.net/4855 GILL HICKMAN: CELLSCAPES Until Sunday 1 November Until Saturday 2 May Thursday 7 to Wednesday 27 May Atrium 2 Bermondsey Wing FROM WAR TO WINDRUSH ART OF CONTEMPORARY MILLINERY THE DARK SHOW Textural artist Gill Hickman has created a Personal stories of the involvement of 10am-6pm; £2.50 World Art Collective presents an new series of works on canvas. International contemporary milliners. exhibition of hand-picked artists from black men and women in the world wars. Full info at se1.net/6731 Full info at se1.net/4332 Full info at se1.net/6509 around the world. Full info at se1.net/6813 The Hayward Jerwood Space Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 May Belvedere Road T 020 7921 0813 PHILIP SYMONDS Poussin Gallery 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Through a series of glittering 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £10 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun monochromatic images SE1-based www.poussin-gallery.com (seniors £9, conc £6, under-16 £4.50; 10am-3pm; free Philip Symonds captures the essence of Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free under 12 free) personality with some striking portraits Until Monday 4 May Until Sunday 31 May of people caught in a moment. Until Saturday 23 May MARK WALLINGER CURATES: THE JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY Full info at se1.net/6526 PETER STARTUP RUSSIAN LINESMAN PAINTERS Strange, austere and occasionally absurd. £9 (seniors £8, conc £6) 26 emerging artists debate what painting Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 May Full info at se1.net/6098 Last chance to see this exhibition. is, and what it may become. FINE ART PARTNERSHIP Full info at se1.net/5890 Full info at se1.net/6045 Artists include Howard Hodgkin, Henry Friday 29 May to Saturday 20 June Moore, Anita Klein and Norman Ackroyd. PAUL TONKIN: PAINTINGS Until Monday 25 May Until Monday 1 June Full info at se1.net/6790 Paul Tonkin’s paintings are analogous to jazz in their improvisatory technique. ANNETTE MESSAGER: THE ELLIE PLEVIN: FAMILY TREASURES Morley College MESSENGERS An installation of drawn works produced Full info at se1.net/6729 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Leading European contemporary artists. over the last year in several different Purdy Hicks Gallery Full info at se1.net/5891 media using frames sourced from a www.morleycollege.ac.uk charity shops, markets and boot sales. Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 www.purdyhicks.com Wednesday 20 May to Sunday 12 July Full info at se1.net/6818 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; MATTHEW DARBYSHIRE Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Project Space; free Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Until Tuesday 5 May MADE09 - PART I: Friday 1 to Saturday 30 May Darbyshire’s installation takes its 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 BARRIE COOKE www.llewellynalexander.com CERAMICS & PAPERMAKING form from the fairground or seafront Full info at se1.net/6112 attraction characterised by wobbly Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free The college’s ceramics students are mirrors, undulating floors and ball pits. regular winners of the V&A competition Tate Modern Full info at se1.net/6726 Monday 11 to Thursday 28 May ‘Inspired By’. BRUCE YARDLEY Full info at se1.net/6659 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk/modern Imperial War Museum A figurative painter who works Saturday 9 to Wednesday 20 May Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 exclusively in oils. 10am-10pm; free london.iwm.org.uk Full info at se1.net/6178 MADE09 - PART II: Daily 10am-6pm; free PRINTMAKING & BOOKBINDING London Glassblowing Work by students at Morley. Until Sunday 17 May RODCHENKO AND POPOVA Until Sunday 28 June Full info at se1.net/6660 7 The Leather Market T 020 7403 2800 £9.80 (conc £7.80) www.londonglassblowing.co.uk THE NEO-ROMANTICS AT WAR The Movieum of London The work of Aleksander Rodchenko Exploring the rise of British Neo-Romantic Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; free County Hall T 020 7202 7040 and Liubov Popova from the October art during the Second World War. Revolution of 1917 to 1929. Full info at se1.net/6358 Monday 11 May to Friday 5 June www.themovieum.com GLASS ROUTES Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Full info at se1.net/5422 Until Monday 31 August 10am-6pm; £12 (conc £10; juniors £8) A major international exhibition showing Until Monday 25 May UNSPEAKABLE: THE ARTIST AS the work of Professor Keith Cummings Until Tuesday 30 June RONI HORN: A.K.A RONI HORN WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST and his students. £7.80 (conc £5.90) How artists have responded to the THE BEATLES Full info at se1.net/6377 Rare and unseen images of the “Fab American artist Roni Horn. Holocaust from the 1940s to the present. Full info at se1.net/5423 Full info at se1.net/4856 Four” from the Getty Images collection. Full info at se1.net/6306 the.gallery@oxo National Theatre Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.coinstreet.org www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Daily 11am-6pm; free Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; free Until Sunday 10 May MAUVAIS AIR Until Saturday 16 May The daily lives and struggles of those JAMES RAVILIOUS affected by malaria. Images of rural life in North Devon. Full info at se1.net/6733 Full info at se1.net/5842 Thursday 14 to Sunday 31 May TAKEN BY STORM Until Saturday 30 May Storm Thorgerson is the creative mind ROXANA HALLS’ TINGLE-TANGLE behind some of the most famous album A series of paintings on the theme of covers in the history of popular music. Cabaret by prize-winning contemporary Full info at se1.net/6734 artist Roxana Halls. Full info at se1.net/5841 Tsuru 4 Canvey Street T 020 7928 2228 Monday 25 May to Saturday 4 July www.tsuru-sushi.co.uk LASTING IMPRESSIONS Mon-Fri 11am-9pm; In this exciting exhibition of original prints, Greenwich Printmakers celebrate Until Friday 15 May 30 years of successful association. ISLAND SERIES Full info at se1.net/6492 Works on paper by Akiko Usami. Full info at se1.net/6394 Looking ahead to June A Taste of Spain at Borough Market • Open Garden Squares Weekend • The Story of The next issue will London • Tudor River Pageant • The Leviathan be available from Project on London Monday 1 June Bridge • North Lambeth Parish Fete • Waterloo Quarter Food Festival May 2009 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 EXHIBITION BOOK REVIEW Borough High Street Wedlock as seen by William Blake Wendy Moore • Weidenfeld & Nicolson • £19.99 Impecunious MP John William Blake’s 1809 Exhibition is a new display Stoney of ‘stoney broke’ fame occupying an entire room at Tate Britain. A major was held in the the King’s feature is his painting ‘Sir Jeffery Chaucer and Bench Prison (Scovell Estate the Nine and Twenty Pilgrims on their Journey to site) until his wife died in Canterbury 1808’ which has been brought to London 1800. He was then allowed from Glasgow. to live outside but ‘within the It depicts pilgrims leaving a gothic-style Tabard Inn before sunrise at the rules’ first in London Road start of their journey to Canterbury. The Southwark inn’s landlord Henry Bailley is in the centre of the painting. and then Lambeth Road. Pigeons snooze on the roof. A few local children are watching along with a According to Wendy Moore he spent mysterious bearded figure in the far corner of the inn’s entrance. The backdrop his decade of so-called freedom “evading is the City churches and the nearby countryside. the lawyers and tradesman to whom he Only a few years earlier Blake had been living in Lambeth’s Hercules Road owed money” and “pretending to suffer fits, and so probably knew Borough High Street. He certainly visited Blackfriars loss of memory and deafness”. Road. By 1809 he was living on the north side of the river and staging his Meanwhile, he was alert enough to keep his wife Polly locked in a room. exhibition in his brother’s shop in Soho. This was how he had treated his earlier wife Mary Bowes, the widowed Blake had great hopes for this painting which he loved. He was unwilling to Countess of Strathmore, after they had fallen out. Stoney had her kidnapped in sell it but expected to have a good demand for the engraving. an Oxford Street shop and held at a castle in the North East. “Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage,” wrote Blake in the catalogue of Only thanks to a loyal maid did Mary manage to escape and rescue her which just 21 copies survive. “We all pass on, each sustaining one or other of daughter hidden at the Elephant & Castle. these characters, nor can a child be born who is not one of these characters of The countess is buried in Westminster Abbey where her great, great grand Chaucer.” daughter Elzabeth was crowned Queen alongside her husband George VI. Unfortunately few people appear to have visited Blake’s only solo show On his death in 1810 Stoney was buried in the prison’s parish church St mounted in his lifetime. The Chaucer scene was eclipsed by a rival version from George the Martyr in Borough High Street. Thomas Stothard which was also issued as an engraving. This did not depict This story was the inspiration for William Thackeray’s novel The Luck of Southwark but merely showed the pilgrims going in the opposite direction on Barry Lyndon. But it is true. The only disappointment is that such an important open country. book, recording a woman’s struggle for protection from an abusive husband in However, Stothard’s engraving was dedicated to the Prince Regent with a the 17th century, can be published without an index. bilingual key to allow for sales in France. A review of the Blake exibition in The Examiner suggested that Chaucer’s Pilgrims “is in every respect a striking contrast to the admirable picture of the Local news you same subject by Mr Stothard”. Blake was furious and suspected that his Chaucer londonse1 community website may have missed painting had prompted Stothard to quickly turn to the same subject. Both pictures and their engravings are on show for visitors to compare unlike in the original 1809 exhibition. Harper Road blue crystals A vision of the future of Guy’s Blank spaces represent the lost pictures from the 1809 exhibition but shortlisted for Turner Prize Tower? curator Martin Myrone thinks that this second showing 200 years on will still Artist Roger Hiorns, who last year turned a A radical plan to give Guy’s Tower at Guy’s derelict council flat in Harper Road into a Hospital a makeover has gone on display at attract more visitors than the original exhibition. cavern of blue crystals, has been shortlisted the New London Architecture gallery. The site of the Tabard Inn in Talbot Yard, off Borough High Street, is for the Turner Prize. …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3841 marked by a blue plaque on Copyprints. …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3853 • William Blake’s 1809 exhibition is at Tate Britain on Millbank SW1 until London Christian School could Sunday 4 October; admission free. St George the Martyr take over ex-Charterhouse-in- • www.tate.org.uk/britain Community Centre launched Southwark building An independent Christian primary school • Local historian Jon Newman will lead a free guided walk around William A peal of bells rang out across Borough High Street last month after a thanksgiving could take over the former Charterhouse-in- Blake’s Lambeth on Thursday 11 June. Meet 6pm at Waterloo Library in service at St George the Martyr for the Southwark building in Tabard Street. …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3841 Lower Marsh. Event is part of Lambeth’s Readers and Writers Festival and the completion of the restoration project and Mayor of London’s Story of London season. Full listing in next month’s issue. the re-opening of the crypt as a community centre. Two still in competition for …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3852 Potters Fields cultural space This month’s Just two bidders out of the original shortlist londonse1 of four are still in the running for the cultural community website forum topics Clock ticking for Elephant & space in Berkeley Homes’ One Tower Bridge Castle regeneration as Lend development at the Potters Fields coach Bar La Vista, Tower Bridge Reasonably priced place to Lease deadline approaches park, Southwark Council has confirmed. What is there to do in SE1 eat? The councillors in charge of the £1.5 billion …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3836 with a 6 month baby? Chaucer Ward Police Elephant & Castle regeneration have told a Constancia Argentine priorities town hall committee that they are working Community garden planned for to reach a deal with developers Lend Lease bleak Melior Street plot Grill B&B recommendations by 1 July. Plans to turn an under-used space in Melior Jasmine Garden - Where can I rent a bike in …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3849 Street into a vibrant community garden are Bartholomew Street SE1? now at an advanced stage. …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3830 Bermondsey Square Hotel Local theatre director Portrait of the Queen unveiled ‘EATalia’ - Bermondsey St looking for rehearsal space by Boris Johnson at City Hall Arc Nursery now under Photography classes Cafe Traiteur has closed On the eve of the Queen’s birthday Mayor of London Boris Johnson unveiled a management of local parents Last month the Arc Community Trustees Greasy Spoon 5 mins from ...and dozens more topics photographic portrait of the monarch that will officially took over the running of the Arc Tooley Street Join the debate at hang permanently at City Hall. Nursery from Charterhouse-in Southwark. Bowaters Upper Ground www.London-SE1.co.uk …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3844 …more at www.london-se1.co.uk/n3825