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Menier Chocolate Factory Monday 28 March 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 exhibition children are encouraged www.menierchocolatefactory.com Special Events by graphic designers to develop their EASTER MONDAY FUNDAY 11am; free typographic skills by planning, designing Friday 4 March and producing three-dimensional A short service for families and children ENGAGE: BATTLE followed by an Easter Egg Hunt in the signs for their homes. Children must 6.30pm; free Bankside Open Spaces Trust Cathedral Garden. be accompanied by an adult. Booking Chaired by Michael Billington. Leading King James Street T 020 7261 1009 essential on 020 7940 8782 or education www.bost.org.uk playwrights duel with each other to @designmuseum.org Talks & Meetings persuade the audience that their chosen Sunday 20 March Florence Nightingale Museum dramatist is the greatest of all time. You GREAT VEGETABLE GIVEAWAY decide who wins. 12 noon-3pm at Diversity Garden, St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Calder Bookshop Old Operating Theatre, Museum Library Street Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; weekend 10am- Free plants, soil, seeds, ideas and advice 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 & Herb Garret 4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20) to help you grow your own vegetables www.calderpublications.com 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 71882679 www.thegarret.org.uk on your balcony or patio. For all Bankside Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 March Thursday 3 March and Borough residents. UNSUNG HEROES: MEDICAL GEORGE MOORE: A LITERATURE OF Saturdays 12 and 19 March MARVELS HUMANITY Wednesday 23 March SCIENCE, MAGIC AND MEDICINE FAMILY PLANTING 1 & 2pm; £5.80 (child £4) 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) 2pm; free (booking essential) Science Week show for all the family run John Calder gives a brief introductory 10am-3pm at Little Dorrit Park, Redcross Two talks and a walk by Dr David by the team from the Science Museum. talk followed by readings by actors. Way Leaback as part of National Science Trails and prizes. Week. These two illustrated talks will A wide new area of soil needs small Thursday 10 March hands and big ones to help turn it into HMS Belfast tell of how science-based medicine grew THE WORLD OF WILLIAM over 200 years at hospitals like Guy’s and a lovely flower border. Make your mark Morgan’s Lane T 020 7940 6300 BURROUGHS for the future. St Thomas’ towards the more effective hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) treatment of local patients. After the Capital & Counties John Calder, who first introduced second talk those present will be offered Saturday 12 to Monday 28 March Burroughs to the British reader, talks www.capital-and-counties.com SCIENCE WEEKENDS a short guided walk to illustrate the local about an American writer, much reviled, setting of the above period and events. 11am and 2pm; £7 (conc £5; child free whose fiction exposed the realm of the Friday 4 March & Sat 5 March with adult) Rotherhithe & Bermondsey KING’S REACH CONSULTATION drug-addict, beat culture and modern Covering all aspects of the curriculum, bohemianism. Local History Group Fri 4.30-7.30pm & Sat 9.30am-12.30pm the onboard science weekends attempt at London Nautical School, Stamford Time & Talents Centre, St Mary Church Street, SE16 to bring science to life, relating fact and Thursday 17 March www.kingstairs.com/rotherhithe Street theory to the workings and operation of Exhibition of plans involving adding four LORD SUTHERLAND ON ARTHUR a Naval warship. MILLER Wednesday 30 March floors to IPC tower and redeveloping MUSEUM OF GARDEN HISTORY adjoining ground. Imperial War Museum 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) One of the most active members of the 7:45pm; free to members Corsica Studios Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 House of Lords, Stewart Sutherland is Hugh Jenkins on the unique SE1 museum www.iwm.org.uk in the former church of St Mary-at- 5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle a distinguished academic, author and Saturdays 5 & 12 & Sundays 6 & 13 March legislator. Followed by discussion. Lambeth, next to the main gate of Thursday 10 March THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Lambeth Palace. PERCEIVE! 1pm-5pm; free Thursday 24 March Southwark & Lambeth RAYMOND QUENEAU: A MAN OF 7pm-10.30pm; £5 (conc £3) Turn tanks into dinosaurs and aircraft Archaeological Society One night exhibition aiming to challenge into insects. ALL LITERATURES perceptions of Southwark. Young 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Community Room, 106 The Cut photographers show how regeneration From Friday 18 March The actor Sean Barratt and others reads extracts from Queneau’s work. Tuesday 8 March has different transforming effects within THE CHILDREN’S WAR RECENT LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SE1. Accompanied by a documentary 10am-6pm; free Thursday 31 March & HISTORICAL WORK screening and live music. Marking the 60th anniversary of VE Day 7.30pm; £1 (refreshments from 7pm) and the end of the Second World War, JEFF NUTTALL: A RADICAL ARTIST St Hugh’s 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Melissa Melikian on Roman Cemetery at this major exhibition will look at the Lant Street, Faye Simpson on her work as Rainbow Building, 32 Crosby Row home front in Britain through the eyes A discussion on his life and career follows readings of his work by actors. community archaeologist at the Museum of children. of London and Richard Buchanan on Wednesday 16 March Fashion and Textile Museum JUMBO JUMBLE SALE Saturday 19 March to Sunday 3 April how the Museum of Garden History was 10am; 20p (includes free refreshments) EASTER EGG TRAIL 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 founded. www.ftmlondon.org St Hugh’s Church Sale Shop is having a 10am-6pm; free Waterloo History Group big clear out! All items priced from 5p to Wednesday 2 March Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road 50p. Clothes, household linens, crockery, Saturday 19 March to Sunday 3 April NON-DESIGNED FASHION toys, games and general bric-a-brac. SILENT WITNESS 6.30pm; £7 (conc £5) including entry to Tuesday 1 March 11am-4pm; free West Bermondsey Community Forum the current exhibition; booking required A HISTORY OF THE OLD VIC Communal art project looking at the The roles of the ‘tribal’, the social, THEATRE T 020 7403 9683 experiences of children in wartime and and street fashion have always been 2pm; free [email protected] the loss of childhood. All ages welcome enormous in the creation of new looks. Ned Seago, stage door manager at the with parental supervision. Thursday 24 March Ted Polhemus, universally acknowledged Old Vic, offers an entertaining insight SPRING FESTIVAL Menier Chocolate factory as the expert on street and contemporary into the history of this famous theatre 12 noon-7pm at REPA and Dickens tribal style gives the talk. and an opportunity to contribute your 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 own memories and reminiscenses. Square Park; free www.menierchocolatefactory.com Come and celebrate Spring and REPA’s Wednesday 9 March Refreshments provided. new, fully-accessible community space Tuesday 22 to Thursday 24 March & Thursday FASHION AND THE CULT OF and adventure playground. Find out 31 March to Saturday 2 April CELEBRITY Monday 7 March about new and established youth and ENGAGE - WILD LUNCH FUNSIZE 6.30pm; £7 (conc £5) including entry to NECROPOLIS RAILWAY community projects. Get involved with Call for time; free the current exhibition; booking required 2pm; free the West Bermondsey Community Forum. Six short plays for children under ten. Celebrities are more influential than ever Mark Hyder on the direct railway service in creating the look of the moment: the from alongside the Westminster Bridge Have your say at the world-famous Morley College Talkaoke! Activities, fun and games for sales of a garment can mushroom in the Road Post Office to Brookwood burial all ages. Community flower planting Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7450 1889 wake of a celebrity shot. The lending ground in Surrey. www.morleycollege.ac.uk and gardening clubs. Music and of clothes to celebrities is a powerful Waterloo Library entertainment. PR tool How does this impact on the Saturday 12 March 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 FAMILY CONCERT industry? Discussion panel includes Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director of the www.lambeth.gov.uk 10.30am; £4 (child £1) Children Telegraph and James Sherwood, writer Southbank Sinfonia. Includes Scottish Monday 7 March for the Herald Tribune, Financial Times dance. HISTORY IN YOUR LUNCHTIME and The Independent. 1pm-2.30pm; free Old Operating Theatre Design Museum International Brigade Memorial Trust To mark International Women’s Day local Museum & Herb Garret 28 Shad Thames T 0870 833 9955 www.international-brigades.org.uk poet Tamar Yoseloff reads from her new www.designmuseum.org 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7188 2679 collection Barnard’s Star (published by www.thegarret.org.uk Saturday 12 March Enitharmon) and discusses with local Saturdays & Sundays THE CRIMES OF FRANCO history librarian Anna Robinson the YOU ARE HERE Saturday 5 March significance that history, London and BREAK YOUR LEG AND DIE! 2.30pm at Imperial War Museum; free 2-5pm; £6 (child £4) Professor Paul Preston gives the Len being a traveller abroad have on her 2pm; £4.75 (conc £3.75, child £2.75) Drawing on the inspiring and ingenious Crome Memorial Lecture. work. 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St John’s Waterloo Saturday 12 March The Warehouse Live Music Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 JOHN ARMITAGE MEMORIAL 13 Theed Street T 020 8670 0032 www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk CONCERT www.thewarehouselondon.co.uk 7.30pm; tickets from 020 7638 8891 The Bridge Every Wednesday The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Wednesday 9 March Cambridge conducted by Stephen ROMANTIC GENERATIONS Weston Street T 020 8964 0290 LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1.10pm; free Layton. 7.30pm; £12 Easter Monday 28 March Wed 2: Southbank Sinfonia soloists Stephen Wray continues his piano recital Wed 9: Southbank Sinfonia soloists Wednesday 16 March series playing Chopin and Liszt. TSUNAMI APPEAL PARTY HIGHGATE SCHOOL CONCERT 7pm; £8 Wed 16: Southbank Sinfonia soloists 7.30pm; £6-£10 Classic jazz to a cappella vocal Every Thursday Mozart’s Requiem and Mozart piano Church Services arrangements, as well as motown bands, concert in A major K488. jazz pianists, soul singers, and big bands. SOUTHBANK SINFONIA RUSH HOUR The aim is to raise £10,000. CONCERT 6pm; free Friday 18 March Christ Church Christ Church Southwark Thu 3: Hindemith Horn Concerto MONTEVERDI VESPERS 7.30pm Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 Thu 10: Copland and Britten www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 Goldsmiths Choral Union conducted www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Thu 17: Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite by Brian Wright. Contact: Honorary Sunday 6 March Wednesday 23 March Sunday 20 March Secretary: 01923 778779 MOTHERING SUNDAY HOLY WEEK MUSIC PALM SUNDAY SPRING CONCERT 9.30am 1.30pm; free 7.30pm; £12 (conc. £10) Saturday 19 March Holy Communion. Children welcome. Portcullis Singers. Fauré’s Requiem, Cantique de Jean PASSIONTIDE CONCERT Racine & Tantum Ergo; Brahms’ How 7.30pm; £5 (conc £3) Palm Sunday 20 March Museum of Garden History Lovely are thy Dwellings and Vaughan Eve of Holy Week concert by Southwark PROCESSION Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Williams’ Five Mystical Songs. Soloists: Cathedral’s Merbecke Choir. Music 10am www.museumgardenhistory.org Sarah Moule Soprano and Graham Kirk includes Crucifixus Pro Nobis (Kenneth Procession to St John’s for Eucharist. Baritone. Organist Anthony McCarthy. Leighton) , Miserere (Allegri), and Saturday 12 March Conductor Matthew Altham. Box Office: Sonata on the 94th Psalm (Reubke). Thursday 24 March YOUNG PIANIST LAUREATES 020 8699 3309. MAUNDY THURSDAY CONCERT Good Friday 25 March 7pm 7.30pm; £10 Southwark Cathedral THE CROSS Last Supper Holy Communion with feet Five young pianists from around the London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 6.30pm; £12 (conc £10) washing. world. www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral Music and readings for Good Friday performed by the Choir of Southwark Royal Festival Hall Friday 25 March Every Monday Cathedral. To reserve seats phone 020 GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE South Bank T 020 7921 0600 ORGAN RECITAL 7367 6700. 12 noon www.rfh.orguk 1.10pm; free Preceded by walk from La Salette Church Thursday 31 March Monday 7 March Mon 7: Stephen Disley Mon 14: Peter Wright EAST UNION CHOIR Sunday 27 March LAMBETH SCHOOLS MUSIC 1.30pm; free FESTIVAL Mon 21: no recital (Holy Week) EASTER DAY EUCHARIST Visiting choir from California. 9.30am 7pm; free (subject to availability) Mon 28: no recital (Easter Week) Southwark Rooms The performance by around 500 Lambeth Wednesday 2 March Most Holy Trinity Church primary school children of Initiation CHARTERHOUSE CONCERT 60 Southwark Street Dockhead T 020 7237 1641 Songs by composer Juwon Ogungbe, 7.30pm; £15 from 020 7357 7733 opt 4 specially commissioned for Africa Remix . Prunella Scales and Timothy West Tuesday 1 March Wednesday 2 March St George’s RC Cathedral introduce classics from Vaughan JAZZ DUOS MEMORIAL MASS Williams, George Gershwin and Cole 8-11pm; £4 (£3 for performing 7.30pm Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 musicians) Sixty years ago tonight the last V2 rocket www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Porter. The Collegiate Singers directed by Andrew Millinger with Stephen Disley In the Basement bar, singers and hit Bermondsey destoying the church, on the organ and the Charterhouse instrumentalists from the audience step priests’ house and Sisters of Mercy Saturday 19 March up to accompany the house pianist in ORGAN RECITAL Young Musicians. In aid of Charterhouse- convent and killing the parish priest and in-Southwark. www.charterhouse-in- improvised duos. Founder Brigitte Beraha two assistants. Mass is celebrated in the 1.05pm; free also sings. Cathedral organ scholar Mark Ellul. southwark.org.uk replacement Sixties church.

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Our Lady of La Salette Church Thursday 24 March Until Tuesday 29 March 35mm theatrical version. The Matrix MASS OF THE LORDS SUPPER A DREAM PLAY Melior Street T 020 7407 1948 Reloaded (15) and The Matrix www.rc.net/southwark/londonbridge-lasalette 7.30pm Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-27 Revolutions (15) are seen in spectacular Followed by watch to midnight. A new version of Strindberg’s experiment IMAX DMR; digitally re-mastered. The Good Friday 25 March in surrealism by Caryl Churchill. Coincides Matrix Reloaded starts at 12.30am and PROCESSION OF WITNESS Friday 25 March with Tate Modern Strindberg exhibition. The Matrix Revolutions at 3.30am. The 11am GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY programme ends at approximately Good Friday Procession of Witness from 3pm Until Saturday 2 April 5.40am. Prize draws and free tea and Our Lady of La Salette via the riverside HIS DARK MATERIALS coffee. with a series of stations to hear Passion Saturday 26 March Olivier Theatre; 7.15pm; £10-£35 passages read. Ends at Christ Church, EASTER VIGIL Based on the novels by Philip Pullman. Friday 18 & Saturday 19 March Blackfriars Road at 12 noon. 8.30pm There are two performances of three LORD OF THE RINGS Blessing of Easter fire by Archbishop, hours on different nights which must be 8.30pm; £10 for one film, £15 for two; St John’s Waterloo readings and first Mass of Easter. booked at the same time. £25 for all three Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 The Shunt Vaults All three Lord of the Rings films will www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Sunday 27 March be screened in their original theatrical EASTER DAY CHORAL MASS Joiner Street T 020 7452 3000 35mm versions (not IMAX or IMAX DMR) Sunday 6 March 11.30am www.shunt.co.uk with the image will fill approximately MOTHERING SUNDAY one third of the giant screen. The Two 10.30am Theatre Until Saturday 25 June Towers (12A) starts at midnight and TROPICANA Return of the King (12A) at 3.30am. Palm Sunday 20 March Thu, Fri & Sat 8.30pm; £20 (conc £10) The programme ends at approximately PROCESSION & EUCHARIST The audience for this ‘live event‘ is 6.50am. Prize draws and free tea and 10am starting at Christ Church, Menier Chocolate Factory asked to wear clothes suitable for dusty coffee. Blackfriars Road 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 conditions and be ready to move about www.menierchocolatefactory.com the vast 70,000 square foot space. Cinema Furore at the Coronet Friday 25 March 28 New Kent Road T 020 7701 1500 GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION Southwark Playhouse Tuesday 1 to Sunday 27 March www.cinemafurore.com 10am MERCURY FUR 62 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7620 3494 Procession to Waterloo Station for www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk SUNDAY CINEMA DOUBLE-BILLS service on concourse. Followed in church Tue-Sat; 8pm; matinée Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £10 Film 1 at 4pm; Film 2 at 7pm - live music by Stations of the Cross at 1pm. Until Saturday 5 March in the interval; £2 Second production in Paines Plough’s THE SHY GAS MAN This Other England season at the Menier. Cinema Furore returns to the Coronet Sunday 27 March 7.30pm; £12 (conc & Mon £8) with its 42 ft screen and Dolby digital EASTER DAWN SERVICE Philip Ridley’s play is presented as a co- A play by Gill Adams presented by production with Plymouth Theatre Royal. surround sound. The start of a fortnightly 5.30am Sweetheart productions. programme of Sunday double-bills. Southwark Cathedral Tuesday 29 March to Sunday 24 April Licenced bar, live bands, DJs. PYRENEES Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 March Sun 6: Motorcycle Diaries & Bad London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 THE BIGGLESWADES www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral Tue-Sat; 8pm; matinée Sat & Sun Education 3.30pm; £10 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8) Sun 20: Brief Encounters: the Best of Brian Biggleswade and his wife at home Palm Sunday 20 March By David Greig. A co-production with British short films & The Aviator The Tron, Glasgow, directed by Vicky on the edge of England and barricaded PROCESSION & CHORAL EUCHARIST against an unknown enemy. Weird panic The Old Vic 11am Featherstone. takes over on the macabre fringes of The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Palm procession from Borough Market to Network Theatre Englishness. New play by Torben Betts. Southwark Cathedral www.oldvictheatre.com Off Waterloo Rd under station T 020 7582 8400 In association with Birkbeck University www.networktheatre.org of London. Sundays Thursday 24 March AMERICAN ANTHEMS THE LORD’S SUPPER EUCHARIST Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 March Tuesday 15 March to Saturday 2 April 2.30pm; £7.50 6.30pm MOJO WILDE TALES The Old Vic and Curzon Cinemas present Eucharist followed by vigil to midnight. 7.30pm; £7.50 (conc £.6.50) Mon-Fri 7.30pm; Sat 3 & 7.30pm; £12 a season of double-bill DVD projections Issues of power, violence, trust and abuse (conc £8; Mon £6) Friday 25 March during the run of National Anthems on are interwoven in this sublimely dark Key Productions presents Oscar Wilde’s stage. GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY OF THE The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, THREE HOURS comedy from award winning writer Jez Sun 6: When Harry Met Sally & Sidewalks Butterworth and set in Fifties’ Soho. The Nightingale and the Rose and more of New York 12-3pm adapted by Simon Vinnicombe. Original Workshop for children available. The Old Vic Sun 13: Paris, Texas & Memento Music by Deborah Pritchard. Sun 20: Raging Bull & Ali The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Saturday 26 March www.oldvictheatre.com Union Theatre EASTER VIGIL 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Exhibitions 8pm www.uniontheatre.com With Baptism and Confirmation. Until Saturday 23 April NATIONAL ANTHEMS Tuesday 8 to Thursday 24 March Sunday 27 March Mon-Sat 7.30pm, Wed & Sat 2.30pm; SETTLING DUST Baillie Gallery £10-40 EASTER DAY CHORAL EUCHARIST Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 5pm; £10 (conc £5) 1a Copper Row Tower Br Piazza T 07711 255613 11am See review on page 7. Entropy Ink presents a new play by www.bailliegallery.com St George’s RC Cathedral Royal National Theatre Ciaran McConville. A CBS Producer and Wed-Sun 12 noon-6pm cameraman arrive in a southern Sudanese South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 town to research an interview. Until Sunday 20 March www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk www.nationaltheatre.org.uk RELAUNCH EXHIBITION Abstract landscapes by Mark Johnston Palm Sunday 20 March Saturday 5 March to Saturday 18 June Cinema THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA and townscapes by Jennifer Irvine. PROCESSION & MASS Gallery has relocated from Rotherhithe. 11.30am Lyttelton Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£35 Procession from the Amigo Hall. A new English version by David Hare Bankside Gallery of Lorca’s play. Cast includes Penelope BFI London IMAX Cinema 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Sunday 20 March Wilton. The Bullring, South Bank T 0870 787 2525 www.banksidegallery.com OSCAR ROMERO ANNIVERSARY www.bfi.org.uk/imax Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Wednesday 23 March 3.30pm Stations of the Cross led by Archbishop of FIX UP Friday 11 & Saturday 12 March Thursday 3 March to Sunday 3 April Southwark to mark the 20th anniversary Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£27 THE MATRIX TRILOGY ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY of Oscar Romero’s assassination. Followed New play by Kwame Kwei-Armah set in 9.30pm; £10 for one film, £15 for two; New work for sale (£200-£5000) by RWS by Make Poverty History card signing Tottenham and London exploring race £25 for all three members. Featured artist is Salliann and roots with wit. The Matrix (15) is seen in its original Putman. londonse1 A month in the life of the London SE1 forum community website Let it snow, let it snow... 70-storey skyscraper for the South Bank Wild’s Rents/Long Lane Lunchtime grub Pool of London Lighting Inexpensive space required for self defence course Unreliable Builders Shoe Shop Bermondsey Street Audition Space in SE1 Daytime Tennis The Marigold, Bermondsey Jubilee Gardens Consultation Boiler replacement Lloyds cash machine on Tower Bridge Rd Electrician Stolen Allegro :-( Metro Central Heights Residents parking near Bermondsey Street The Fort Cornwall Club, Cornwall Road Cross Bones Graveyard Burgled! New map of London Former Czar Bar Cat care in the community! Primary Schools - how do you rate ‘em? Netball Looking to rent a two bedroom place London Road derelict buildings Builder - there must be one here somewhere! 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County Hall Riverside Suite Hayward Gallery Museum of Garden History Royal Festival Hall South Bank South Bank T 020 7960 5226 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 South Bank Daily 10am-6pm; free www.hayward.org.uk www.museumgardenhistory.org www.sbc.org.uk Daily 10am-6pm (Wed 8pm; Fri 9pm); £7 Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary fee £3 Daily 10am-10pm; free Thursday 3 March to Tuesday 3 May (conc £2-£5) Monday 50% off (conc £2.50) CHINA YESTERDAY, TODAY & Monday 7 March to Monday 11 April TOMORROW Until Sunday 17 April Until Friday 1 April SALON AFRIQUE Multimedia exhibition which brings AFRICA REMIX DEAD RECKONING A vibrant and colourful lounge-style together photographs of modern See review on page 7. Marking the 250th anniversary of venue, with a contemporary African feel. China, documentaries on Chinese life, a Imperial War Museum Captain William Bligh of Bounty fame As well as revealing a range of artistic retrospective look at Zhou en Lai and a who lived in Lambeth Road and is buried responses, it plays host to a programme display of 60s and 70s political posters. Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 next to the museum. of free public events and performances. www.iwm.org.uk Design Museum Daily 10am-6pm; free National Theatre The Saatchi Gallery 28 Shad Thames T 0870 833 9955 South Bank T 020 7452 3400 County Hall, Belvedere Road T 020 7928 8195 Until Monday 2 May www.designmuseum.org www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk Daily 10am -6pm (last admission WILLIAM ORPEN: POLITICS, SEX Daily 10am-11pm; free Sun-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat 10am- 5.15pm); £6 (conc £4) AND DEATH 10pm; £8.75 (conc £6.75) £5 (conc £4; children free) Until Saturday 5 March Until Monday 25 April Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk SHOW ME! TELL ME! Until May PASSING THE BATON The extraordinary creativity of children THE TRIUMPH OF PAINTING PART 1 Until May from around the world. Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk The conductor’s baton reinterpreted by D-DAY 40 of the world’s leading designers. 60th anniversary of D-Day landings. Until Saturday 2 April Southwark Cathedral Refectory Until Sunday 15 May RAW MATERIALS London Bridge Until Sunday 31 July YOU ARE HERE Learn how the NT’s workshops brought www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral GREAT ESCAPES Philip Pullman’s trilogy to the stage. Daily 10-am-5pm; free The history of information design. £6 (conc £5; child free) Saturday 5 March to Sunday 19 June Ingenious and audacious escape attempts Old Operating Theatre Until Sunday 6 March DESIGNER OF THE YEAR by WWII Allied prisoners. Museum & Herb Garret DAVID HEPHER Help to choose the winner of the £25,000 Jerwood Space 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7188 2679 Recent work. national design prize at this exhibition www.thegarret.org.uk 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 of the work of the four nominees: Daily 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (conc £3.75, Tuesday 8 March to Sunday 15 May www.jerwoodspace.co.uk child £2.75) TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (AND BACK) design stratagist Hilary Cottam, product Daily 10am-6pm; free designer Jasper Morrison, Penguin Books Series of photos by professional Until Tuesday 22 March photographer and Mental Fight for Great Ideas and the textile designers Until Sunday 13 March IN LOVING MEMORY Timourous Beasties. Club member Stephen Burrows. RADICAL ART A photographic exhibition and video www.into.org.uk/mentalfightclub Royal Academy Schools graduates installation by Valentina Lari. Until Sunday 27 November organised by Professor Brendan Neiland. Tate Modern DESIGNING MODERN LIFE Plateaux Gallery How design has transformed modern life. Laura Bartlett Gallery Bankside T 020 7887 8008 1 Brewery Sq, Tower Br Piazza T 020 7357 6880 www.tate.org.uk Eye Candy Gallery 22 Leathermarket Street T 07771 803606 www.plateaux.co.uk Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free www.laurabartlettgallery.com Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat-Sun 12pm-6pm; 2a Crucifix Lane T 020 7357 0772 Wed-Sat 12-6pm; free free Until Monday 28 March www.eyecandygallery.co.uk BRUCE NAUMAN Mon-Sat 10.30am-7pm; free Until Saturday 12 March Until Thursday 31 March Turbine Hall sound installation. ALISON MOFFET & ADAM Until Tuesday 31 March HUNGARIAN GLASS HUMPHRIES A debut exhibition of Hungarian glass. Until Monday 2 May WINTER 2005 EXHIBITION JOSEPH BEUYS: ACTIONS, VITRINES, Abstract and semi-abstract art. Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Poetry Library ENVIRONMENTS f a projects The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Royal Festival Hall T 020 7921 0943 German artist considered one of the most www.llewellynalexander.com www.poetrylibrary.org.uk influential figures in contemporary art. 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free Tue-Sun 11am-8pm; free www.faprojects.com Until Sunday 15 May Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; free Until Friday 11 March Until Monday 28 March AUGUST STRINDBERG: PAINTER, MAUREEN JORDAN, FRASER KING A DARKLING PLAIN PHOTOGRAPHER, WRITER Until Saturday 5 March Landscapes of the Dordogne and ARJAN VAN HELMOND New artwork by Stephen Raw. A prolific writer of novels and plays and Californian poppies. a radical painter of his time. New paintings Purdy Hicks Gallery Thursday 17 March to Saturday 2 April 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 the.gallery@oxo Friday 18 March to Saturday 23 April JEREMY BARLOW CONSTRUCTED WORLDS www.purdyhicks.com Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Over 75 new oil paintings by this Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & www.oxotower.co.uk Works on paper by US artists. landscape artist. Sun 12 noon-5pm; free Daily 11am-6pm; free Fashion & Textile Museum Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery Until Monday 7 March Friday 4 to Sunday 13 March 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 51 Southwark Street MARIANNITA LUZZATI www.ftmlondon.org JAMES BULLEN DESIGN www.menierchocolatefactory.com Terra de Ninguém (No Man’s Land). Tue-Sun 10am-4.45pm; £6 (conc £4) A textile retrospective 2000-2004 Mon-Sat 10am–6pm; free featuring forty designs. Friday 11 March to Monday 4 April Until Saturday 25 June Thursday 17 to Sunday 24 April ZANDRA RHODES: A LIFELONG SEANCE AND OTHER Wednesday 16 to Monday 28 March SYLVIA GUIREY: A LIFE IN ART PHOTOGRAPHS BEHIND THE SMILE LOVE AFFAIR WITH TEXTILES Retrospective of paintings 1968-1997.. See review on page 7. German photographer Katherina Mayer. ‘The tsunami of tourism’ photographs. Morley Gallery Florence Nightingale Museum Ritter/Zamet The Walk Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7450 1826 2 Bear Gardens T 020 7261 9510 St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 www.morleycollege.ac.uk www.ritterzamet.com www.walkgallery.com www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; weekend 10am- Mon-Fri 10.30am-6.30pm 4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20) Until Saturday 19 March Until Saturday 19 March Thursday 3 to Thursday 24 March Until Saturday 30 April SEIBER 100 YEARS ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET THE LONDON GROUP: IN SEARCH CALAMITY UNPARALLELED An exhibition celebrating the centenary SERVICE OF A THEME 2 150th anniversary of the Crimean War. of the composer, innovative teacher and First solo exhibition in the UK by Jean- Wendy Taylor, Richard Kemp, Susan musician Seiber. Francais Moriceau and Petra Mrxyk Haire, Peter Love. 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The first half of Dennis The new exhibition presents a but by far the worst were the A Lifetime Love Affair with McIntyre’s grimly fascinating wealth of art of all types from electronic pieces. Not all of Textiles is the Fashion & play seems like an extended Africa and African expatriates. these were bad, but many were Textile Museum’s major version of ‘Great Bores of The exhibition contains some simply ridiculous. By far my exhibition of founder Zandra Today’. pieces of striking beauty and favourite was the random pile Rhodes’s dresses and prints. Socially awkward Ben Cook significance, but for the most of electronics in one corner of The exhibition includes gatecrashes the designer but part is plagued by the standard the gallery. examples of her stunning soulless home of newly arrived fare of modern art. As near as I could tell, what ensembles and unique textiles. model couple Arthur (Steven Some of the better I at first took to be a pile of Rhodes, who never studied Weber) and Leslie (Mary Stuart pieces include the works of maintenance supplies was, in design, and does not follow Masterson) to an upwardly photography on the first floor, fact, a piece on display. Among fashion conventions, pulls mobile neighbourhood of and also a few of the more several TVs buried in the pile, all ideas for her designs from Detroit. Not content with giving interesting and yet not too playing eccentric videos, there rather mundane objects such as a cash value to their whole disturbing sculptures. There is was also a projector sitting on a buildings and plants. lifestyle, Ben, played by Kevin a wealth of this, much of which cheap plastic chair and throwing Though she released her Spacey as a slow burning fuse, is created from rubbish, bits of one of these images onto a piece first collection in 1969, her takes control of all their lives. metal, or in one case a vast stack of what seemed to be bubble breakthrough design was the The pace quickens in of gas cans. However, while wrap taped to the wall. innovative “73/44”, a very the second half, when guilt some are cunningly crafted, Despite the outlandish, flattering dress with a deep collar and inadequacy ratchet up others are, well…vast stacks of ludicrous, or simply crude and elegant sleeves. She has since the tension. Ben’s underdog gas cans, and little more. nature of many of the facets of built on and transformed this personality begins to disintegrate One of the most intriguing this exhibition, it is perhaps still simple and graceful design. The and basic primal and territorial pieces is a chair, a simple squat worth a trip to the Hayward, exhibition succeeds in showing aggression takes over, goading metal thing, ugly and functional. if only to see another side of Rhodes’s evolution as she has Arthur into a fight. Leslie’s What is striking about it though Africa, one that is never found incorporated ideas from ethnic past life as a cheer leader comes is not its construction, but its in the news or on TV. clothing and punk attitude. back to remind her of earlier substance, as it is made from NATHAN FAYARD WILL WEIR freedoms. The subplot of guns, bombs and grenades dangerous fire surfaces and her collected after the sixteen years londonse1 Read the full flame coloured dress then seems of civil war that plagued the community website story online to make sense. The play ends artist’s home country. www.London-SE1.co.uk as the gatecrasher at last takes Further into the exhibition, Mystery stabbing at Elephant Blackfriars Bridge death: bus driver his leave, with all lives turned the displays get by far more Wetherspoons jailed upside down. bizarre, going from the standard Police are appealing for any witnesses A judge said that controversial road or information concerning a stabbing in markings were a “contributory factor” in the MARION MARPLES fare of a 2 metre long canvas Wetherspoons at the Elephant and Castle death of cyclist Vicki McCreery as he jailed that looks as if was scribbled on Friday 11 February. bus driver Michael Duncan for a year. 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Station ������������������������ Ken Livingstone visited Borough Tube moving can be painless Unicorn poised for £500k boost from station on Monday to see for himself Southwark Council the results of the multi-million pound � �������������������� Southwark Council leader Nick Stanton and refurbishment of the Northern Line station. � ������������������������ Sir Alan Ayckbourn have toured the Unicorn ����������������� Theatre building site in Tooley Street as the Bermondsey surgery wins National council looks to contribute £500,000 to the Carers Award � ��������������� unique theatre for children. 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MARCH 2005 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW BOOK REVIEW London Peculiars Eccentric London Peter Ashley • English Heritage • £14.99 Tom Quinn • New Holland • £14.99 Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Peter Ashley’s catalogue of claim that the decorative Most of the entries in the of Aragon had stayed in the “curiosities in a capital city” pineapples which adorn Lambeth South & South East London house two centuries earlier is benefits from a suitable Bridge are a reference to the chapter of Tom Quinn’s glossy also unlikely; although it has random arrangement of nearby burial of the Tradescants, coffee-table guide to all things been suggested that she landed themes and sections. widely associated with the eccentric in the capital are in on Bankside when she arrived Local peculiars include introduction of the fruit into SE1. from Spain, it is more likely that the alcove from a previous this country. He claims that Quinn explains how the she stayed at nearby Winchester manifestation of London the decorations are in fact pine Bethlehem Hospital – now Palace. Bridge which now resides on cones, “a symbol of hospitality home to the Imperial War Doggett’s Coat and Badge a lawn at Guy’s Hospital. The from at least Roman times”. Museum – became a “sort of Race is another “eccentricity” grotto outside the church of The white Coade stone lion circus or amusement park”, featured in the book, along the Precious Blood in O’Meara by Westminster Bridge opens described by one commentator with the George Inn in Borough Street is described as an the section entitled “Big animals, as a trip “guaranteed to amuse High Street and the Anchor on “unexpected antidote to the small people“. Ashley reminds and lift the spirits”. Bankside. teeming life of Southwark … us that it is the largest of the Unfortunately the entry for Quinn also recounts the tale the kind of thing we would three red-painted lions that once County Hall and the “bizarrely of 18th-century “Southwark expect to see at a rural French adorned the Lion Brewery which wonderful“ Saatchi Gallery is a Miser” John Elwes, buried in the crossroads”. stood a little further downstream little out-of-date, most of the graveyard of what we now know The ferryman’s seat in Bear until the Second World War. Brit art having been moved out as Southwark Cathedral. Gardens is a natural candidate Ashley tracks the Necropolis in favour of this year’s series Whilst most Londoners will for inclusion in a book of this Railway from the remains of its devoted to painting. probably find something they type. London terminus in Westminster The author perpetuates didn’t know in this book, it it Roupell Street gets a spread Bridge Road to the grassed-over the widely disputed myth that is hard not to conclude that it to itself, the author clearly a platforms at Brookwood. Christopher Wren stayed at is a rather superficial survey of fan of the street’s evocation of London Peculiars is a delight Cardinal’s Wharf on Bankside London oddities which fails to “another London”. to browse and an inspiration to during the construction of St do justice to the magnificent Ashley debunks the popular explore the city. Paul’s. His claim that Catherine eccentricity of the city. igloo Flowers for Maison Brillant all occasions www.MaisonBrillant.co.uk Contemporary and fabulous flower shop in Bermondsey Street, near London Bridge. Authentic French artisan bakery We carry a wide range of flowers, jewellery, plants, now open at Gabriel’s Wharf glassware and chocolates. 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