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To 2pm-5pm; £4 per child; £7 per adult Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre see all this spectacle light lovers can 7.30pm; £1 Design and make an array of glittering 108 Stamford Street T 020 7620 0544 AGM of the Southwark & Lambeth gather for the switching on ceremony www.coinstreet.org Christmas decorations, novelties, cards Archaeological Society and presidential which coincides with a night of festive and gifts. Booking is essential on 020 Thursday 6 December lecture by Dennis Turner. Christmas shopping across the Southbank 7940 8783 or [email protected]. SOUTH BANK FORUM 3570 Old Operating Theatre, Museum Centre and festive songs sung by the Foyles 7pm-9pm Voicelab choir. 7pm Sophie Dahl signs and Herb Garret Festival Riverside, South Bank T 020 7437 5660 Network Rail will talk about the imminent copies of her new novel. www.foyles.co.uk works on the South Bank associated 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 with Thameslink. Insp Mark Hedgecox www.thegarret.org.uk Southbank Centre Square Saturday 1 December will report on his team’s work to tackle Saturday 8 December Belvedere Road FAMILY FUN DAY 3560 anti-social behaviour in Waterloo. SE1 A DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS PIE 3514 www.southbankcentre.co.uk 10am-4pm; free United will update the forum on their 2pm; £5.25 (conc £4.25, child £3); family Free festive entertainment and treats. achievements in 2007 and future plans. £12.95 Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 December Mince pies and mulled wine. SLOW FOOD UK CHRISTMAS Victorian sickness and health as seen Harris Academy Bermondsey through the pen of Charles Dickens. MARKET Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 3474 london.iwm.org.uk Mince pies and refreshments. 11am-8pm 55 Road T 020 7237 9316 Daily 10am-6pm; free www.harrisbermondsey.org.uk Inaugural slow food market in London Saturday 15 December in association with Slow Food UK. Saturday 1 to Sunday 2 December Monday 3 December FRANKINCENSE & MYRRH: A The Christmas market will feature Saturday 8 to Sunday 9 December BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL’S HERBAL HEALTH 3515 outstanding fresh and preserved foods, 3341 COUNCIL 3354 2pm; £5.25 (conc £4.25, child £3); family 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm as well as sustainably produced craft 7pm £12.95 An actor talks about the truce of 1914. Demonstration of old herbal remedies. products - both local and countrywide. Meeting for Riverside, Grange & wards. Sure Start, extended Make your own herbal shower gel. The Slow Food Movement believes that Saturday 15 to Friday 21 December GREETINGS FROM THE FRONT 3343 schools and plans to transform the Tate Pacific Playhouse the food we eat should taste good; that Collection Store in Mandela Way. it should be produced in a clean way 11am-4pm 5-6 Playhouse Court, 62 Road that does not harm the environment, Design and make Christmas cards for www.pacificplayhouse.com your friends and family. Talks & lectures animal welfare or our health; and that Tuesday 11 December food producers should receive fair Saturday 22 to Sunday 23 December THE MARVELLOUS NEW ZEALAND compensation for their work. Thursday 27 to Monday 31 December MAGIC LANTERN SHOW 3015 WIZARD OF OZ 3344 Calder Bookshop Southwark Cathedral 7pm; £3 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 Rarely seen images and views of old New London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Meet Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and www.calderpublications.com Zealand with focus on Maori culture and www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ the Lion. communities. With Dr Ian Conrich of the Thursday 6 December London Aquarium Centre for New Zealand Studies. Saturday 8 December BAUDELAIRE’S FLOWERS OF EVIL 3426 6.45pm; £6 (conc £4) Shakespeare’s Globe CHRISTMAS MARKET 3525 County Hall T 020 7967 8000 www.londonaquarium.co.uk Readings from Roy Campbell translations. 12 noon-5pm; free New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Daily 10am-6pm; £13.25 (child £9.75) www.shakespeares-globe.org Christmas market organised by the Crockatt & Powell Friends of Southwark Cathedral. Live Saturday 15 December to Sunday 7 January 119 Lower Marsh T 020 7928 0234 Tuesday 4 December music, raffle, plus mince pies, jams and SANTA & FRIENDS 3591 www.crockattandpowell.com POOR BABY STORIES? SHAKESPEARE stalls with unusual presents. There will Visit Santa in his Christmas grotto. Fun ADAPTED FOR CHILDREN 3178 Tuesday 11 December be plenty of activities to keep children packs and Christmas scratch-card quizzes, 7pm; £5 (conc £4) plus daily Christmas story readings. POETRY PARLOUR 3352 Professor Laura Tosi. entertained and busy including face 7pm; £4 inc. rum punch and black cake painting, Teddy tombola, home-made Morley College Caribbean party with calypsoes, parang fairy cakes and sweets, plus party bags 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 music, caribbean black cake and rum punch. Music of goodies. www.morleycollege.ac.uk HMS Belfast Saturday 15 December Saturday 15 December Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 Church.co.uk SATURDAY MORNING FAMILY hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk THE FINNISH CHOIR 3466 CONCERT 3524 1a Kennington Road 2pm; free 10.30am-12.30pm; £9 (child £6, family Wednesday 19 December The Sinfonia Soi Orchestra from Finland [2+2] £20; free THE ARCTIC CONVOYS 1941-1945 Friday 14 December conducted by Jani Siven plus stalls selling Morley’s Gospel Choir, plus Tudor Tunes - 3590 RIFFS AND FRAGMENTS 3557 traditional mulled wine and Finnish early music on early instruments. 6.30pm; £12 (conc £10) from 020 7940 8pm; £2; quote SE1 offer and get £1 off pastries. BBQ with Finnish sausages in SW 6320 Music from Gavin Osborn & The Old Operating Theatre, Voluntary Butler Scheme, poetry from Churchyard. A talk by Captain Richard Woodman. Museum and Herb Garret Tim Wells & Wayne Smith. Morley College The Scoop 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Guy’s Chapel www.thegarret.org.uk More London Riverside 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 www.morleycollege.ac.uk Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Street www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Saturday 1 December THE APOTHECARY SHOP: HOLIDAY Wednesday 5 December Thursday 6 December Friday 14 December HERBAL 3513 HEALTH & NUTRITION AT LUNCHTIME CONCERT 3362 CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS 3394 2pm; £5.25 (conc £4.25, child £3); family £12.95 CHRISTMAS 3520 1pm; free 6pm Take on the role of the Apothecary’s 1pm; free Zhanna Tonaganyan (Violin) and William Sing-along carols in The Scoop. Assistant. Suitable for children aged 5-12. Lecture by Sheila Donnelly. Cale (Piano). Brahms, Beethoven & Ravel. Blackfriars Wine Bar Need a Database? 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Mince pies and mulled wine. Saturday 15 December 7pm New Year’s Eve Service. ROBERT CROWLEY 2841 6.30pm Candlelit service of Advent music Tuesday 11 December 1.05pm; free and readings. Welsh Chapel ACCORDIONS AT MORLEY 3397 Organ recital. 90 Southwark Bridge Road 1.05pm-1.50pm; free Wednesday 5 December St John’s Waterloo Popular accordion club based at Morley. ST NICHOLAS SERVICE: CHRISTMAS Sunday 16 December Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 TREE LIGHTING 3526 Royal Festival Hall CAROL SERVICE 3465 www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 5.30pm Marking the launch of the Better 11am All welcome at this carol service. Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Bankside’s annual ‘Bring & Buy a Better www.southbankcentre.co.uk Friday 7 December Christmas’ appeal. Followed by the LINN LILLSUNDE & IAN lighting of the . Comedy Saturday 1 December RICHARDSON 3588 CLOSE UP WITH NATALIE CLEIN 3369 1.10pm; free Tuesday 18 December 4pm in the Ballroom; free Violin and piano. 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BUILDING THE CRIB SERVICE 3470 Tuesday 11 December Shakespeare’s Globe Wednesday 5 December 4pm Service for children and families. A FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER 3605 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 CAROLS 3568 Monday 24 December 8pm; £6 (conc £4) www.shakespeares-globe.org 7pm; £10 on the door or in advance MIDNIGHT MASS 3471 Richard Herring, Benny Boot, Mark Allen, Timmy Manners, Marc MacGonagle. MCs Thursday 6 December Carols for choir and congregation. In 11.30pm Preacher: Bishop of Southwark. aid of Friends of Florence Nightingale Alexis Dubus & Sy Thomas. A CONCERT FOR WINTER 3497 St George’s RC Cathedral 1pm; free (booking via communitytickets@ Museum. Wine and mince pies. Tuesday 18 December shakespearesglobe.com) Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 THE FALLING DOWN WITH www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Southwark schools and groups bring Church services LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT 3606 songs and music to the Globe stage. 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Sunday 23 December 3542 UP THE ARTS COMEDY 3504 INFORMAL CAROL SERVICE 3633 11.30pm Carols and readings followed by 8.30pm; £6 (conc £5) Wednesday 12 December 6.30pm A service suitable for all ages. Christmas Mass at midnight. Ronnie Golden, John Smith, Frank Sanazi, CHRISTMAS CONCERT 3586 Followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Lenny Peters and Paul Ricketts (MC). Tuesday 25 December 7.30pm; £10 (conc £7) Tuesday 25 December CHRISTMAS DAY FAMILY MASS Wednesday 5 December Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals 3544 PARISH COMMUNION 3634 10am Celebrant: Archbishop of Southwark. ELECTRIC MOUSE 3408 Music Society. 9.30am Communion for all ages. 8.30pm; £6 (conc £3) Monday 31 December Richard Herring, Gary Colman & Joey Page. 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Wednesday 5 December to Saturday 6 January Advanced Graphics London THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 Until Thursday 15 February KANT 3567 www.calderpublications.com 7.30pm (also 9.30pm Fri & Sat); £7-£20 www.advancedgraphics.co.uk WAR HORSE 1936 Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free (airline-style) Until Sunday 2 December Olivier Theatre; £10-£39.50 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/1936 Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult classic Until Saturday 22 December HEDDA GABLER 3610 unfolds in the sprawling labryrinth Tue, Fri, Sat 7pm; Sun 2pm; £8 Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, ONE OVER ONE 3451 within the railway arches under London New and recent monoprints. By Henrik Ibsen. A production by King’s adapted by Nick Stafford. Bridge Station. College students. Bankside Gallery Until Wednesday 28 February Unicorn Theatre 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Friday 7 to Saturday 8 December WOMEN OF TROY 3249 147 Tooley Street T 08700 535500 MY DARLING 3427 www.banksidegallery.com Lytellton Theatre; £10-£39.50 www.unicorntheatre.com Daily 11am-6pm; free 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6) Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/3249 Tamara Hincho performs, a one act play Adapted by Don Taylor, Katie Mitchell Until Sunday 2 December HOW TO BEAT A GIANT Until Sunday 2 December based on the Chekhov short story directs this great tragedy, originally 2951 Times vary; £9.50 (conc £6.50) IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT 2632 written by Euripides. Australian artists. Friday 14 to Sunday 16 December What would you do if a giant appeared in your room? For ages 7+. SHORT ARTHUR MILLER PLAYS 3613 Monday 10 December to Saturday 31 March Tuesday 4 to Sunday 9 December 7.30pm; £6 (conc £4) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 2801 Tuesday 11 to Sunday 30 December THIS IS ME: THE ART OF CHILDREN 2633 Danger, Memory! & Two Way Mirror performed Olivier Theatre; £10-£39.50 HANDA’S SURPRISE 2952 Art by children and young people. by Peter Marinker and Doreen Mantle. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/2801 Be transported to another world full of the rich colours, sights and sounds of a Wednesday 12 December to Thursday 25 January Until Monday 17 December With Zoe Wanamaker and Simon Russell Kenyan Village.. For ages 2+. THE MINI PICTURE SHOW 2634 THE SECOND LADY CHATTERLEY Beale. Directed by Nick Hytner. Small works. 3419 Network Theatre Saturday 1 December to Sunday 28 January Sun 5pm; Mon 7pm; £8 (conc £4) The Bargehouse 246a Lower Road DUCK! 2953 The Bookshop Theatre Company present Times vary; £14.50 (conc £9.50) Barge House Street T 020 7401 2255 www.networktheatre.org www.oxotower.co.uk a dramatised reading of this second Bold new take on a classic story. Ages 7+. version of DH Lawrence’s classic novel. Daily 11am-6pm; free Wednesday 5 to Saturday 8 December Union Theatre THE KITCHEN Thursday 20 December 2019 Tuesday 11 to Monday 31 December 7.30pm; £8 (conc & local residents £7) 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 SEEING IS BELIEVING: POVERTY IN ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3428 www.uniontheatre.org 6.45pm; £6 (conc £4) Amateur production of Arnold Wesker’s THE UK 3243 Developed by Barnardo’s. Three actors perform Lewis Carroll’s play. Wednesday 5 December to Saturday 13 January classic story. The Old Vic THE UNION OF SHORTS: THE BEST BFI Southbank County Hall 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 OF THE BUNCH! 3642 Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 www.oldvictheatre.com Wed-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12, £10, £8 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Riverside Building, County Hall, Belvedere Road Five of the best short plays premiered at Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free www.londoncountyhall.com Tuesday 4 December to Sunday 21 January the Union over the past decade. CINDERELLA Until Sunday 4 February Until Sunday 14 January 2450 Young Vic Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; Sun 1pm & PATRICK KEILLER: THE CITY OF THE WHO STOLE ? 3539 FUTURE 5.30pm; £10-£40 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 3262 Fri/Sat/Sun 5.30pm & 7pm; £12 (children www.youngvic.org Explore archive film and old maps on big £10) Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/2450 screens. See Victorian film of Blackfriars, A Christmas tale like no other. Three Stephen Fry’s Cinderella is a tale of Until Saturday 15 December Tower and Westminster bridges. ghosts from times past have kidnapped passion, jealousy, cross-dressing, injustice, THE BROTHERS SIZE 2421 Santa, planning to take his place on chocolate, madness, cruelty, ice cream, 7.45pm (Sat 4pm); £15.50 City Hall . hatred, revenge, jelly, unrequited love, By Tarell Alvin McCraney. Lyrical and The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 envy, tarts, forgiveness, music, laughter, passionate drama. www.london.gov.uk Menier Chocolate Factory hope, redemption and love. Cast includes Mon-Fri 8am-8pm; free Until Saturday 20 January 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 Pauline Collins (fairy godmother) and Until Friday 7 December www.menierchocolatefactory.com THE MAGIC FLUTE IMPEMPE Sandi Toksvig (narrator). YOMLINGO 2422 TEAM PHOTO 3596 Images of workers who built Channel Until Saturday 8 March Rose Theatre Exhibition In repertory; £21.50 LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/2422 Tunnel Rail Link to St Pancras. 3061 56 Park Street Joyfully playful version of Mozart’s opera. Until Tuesday 11 December Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £25 www.rosetheatre.org.uk (meal deal £32.50) BEHIND THE SEEN 3597 Until Saturday 20 January Youth experience of domestic violence. Terry Johnson makes his musical theatre Until Saturday 15 December A IKRISMAS directing debut. The story of Albin and MEAT 3400 KHEROL 2423 Monday 10 December to Friday 5 January Georges, two middle-aged lovers who 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 Dec; £10 In repertory; £21.50 COOLTAN ARTS 3598 run a transvestite nightclub in St. Tropez. By Matt Harris. Based on the short Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/2423 Images and artworks from participants at National Theatre story ‘Desire and the Black Masseur’ by A genre-busting musical adaptation of this Southwark mental health charity. Tennessee Williams. Charles Dickens’ perennial favourite. Sunday 16 December to Friday 5 January South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk FLOURISH 3599 St Anne’s Church Hall Movie highlights Vibrant paintings by children who are in Until Wednesday 3 January Thorburn Square care or in foster homes. CHATROOM & CITIZENSHIP 3502 Wednesday 5 to Saturday 8 December Cottesloe Theatre; £10-£29 Tate Modern 151 Road T 020 7525 2163 Two plays about teenage lives. THE SWAN PRINCESS 3125 Wed-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; £8 (conc Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.southwark.gov.uk www.tate.org.uk/modern Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free Until Thursday 25 January £5) from 07789 071369 PRESENT LAUGHTER 2799 Pantomime follows the story of a princess Monday 10 December Until Saturday 17 February Lyttelton Theatre; £10-£39.50 transformed into a swan and the young BENd IT LIKE BECKHAM SILK, SQUALOR AND SCANDAL: Alex Jennings plays Garry Essendine in prince who must defeat the wicked 7pm; free to club members HOGARTH IN LONDON 3402 Noel Coward’s play directed by Howard wizard to save her. Performed by Quay Community Film Club. Join on the night More than 20 Hogarth engravings. Davies. Players local amateur dramatics group. or email [email protected] Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk The Dental Practice Friendly hall Tower Bridge Road We can offer help with all your for hire dental problems between Waterloo & Nervous patients, NHS patients, fee-paying A Quality Conference Venue Southwark stations patients and private patients - all are welcome LSBU's Keyworth Centre provides a variety of facilities ranging from a 230-seat event theatre to 10-seat Ideal for health and We offer Cosmetic Dentistry, Tooth Whitening, Metal-free meeting rooms. Many rooms have full AV equipment, beauty courses, meetings, fillings, crowns, bridges, and catering is available too. 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Design Museum Until Sunday 13 May Nolia’s Gallery 2 SE1 Gallery WAR ARTISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 2858 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 Upper Studio, 1 Crucifix Lane T 020 7357 8999 www.designmuseum.org British artists document conflict. www.noliasgallery.co.uk www.se1gallery.com Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Jerwood Space Tue-Sun 12pm-7pm; free Daily 11am-7pm; free 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Until Monday 10 December Until Saturday 15 December Until Thursday 1 February www.jerwoodspace.co.uk THE POWER OF 3 3601 TEEPEE GLASS 3437 MATTHEW WILLIAMSON 1161 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Three artists. Eight glass artists’ work from jewellery to A unique success story within the British 10am-3pm; free windows to installations. fashion industry. Novas Contemporary Urban Centre Until Sunday 9 December SoBo JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 Friday 7 December to Sunday 25 March 7357 6469 83 Tower Bridge Road T 020 7403 5080 JEAN PROUVÉ 2741 2007 3367 www.novas.org/contemporary-urban-centres The radical, functional and inspiring work Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Until Saturday 22 December of the French designer and engineer. Until Sunday 9 December LUCY NAUGHTON 3413 POINT A TO B 3499 Friday 7 December to Saturday 6 January Mon-Fri 8am-6pm; Sat 9am-5pm; free f a projects Essential movements of parkour. CHRISTMAS FAIR OF Avant-garde surreal photographic self- 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings CONTEMPORARY OUTSIDER ART portraits set in derelict, desolate spaces. www.faprojects.com 3535 Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; free 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, Southwark Cathedral www.llewellynalexander.com cards and more. London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Until Saturday 13 January www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ SERBAN SAVU 3089 Octavia House Daily 8am-6pm; free Until Wednesday 5 December Young Romanian painter. 235-241 Union Street NINE MAN SHOW 3460 Until Sunday 7 January Florence Nightingale Museum Oils, pastels and watercolours. Until Monday 31 December RACHEL AND EDITH SLEE: JOURNEY St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 CLIMATE OF CHANGE 3332 IN EASTERN TIBET 3461 www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Monday 10 December to Tuesday 9 January EDNA BIZON Daily 11am-5pm; free Paintings, drawings and photographs. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 3533 Artists in all disciplines exploring the New still life and animal works in oil. 10am-4.30pm; £5.80, conc £4.80, family £16 issue of climate change in disused office Tate Modern Menier Gallery building near Southwark station. Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Until Sunday 23 December www.tate.org.uk/modern HOSPITAL VOICES: STORIES FROM 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Old Operating Theatre, Museum Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat www.menierchocolatefactory.com/gallery NIGHTINGALE TO NOW 2073 and Herb Garret 10am-10pm; free Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free A history of care at Guy’s and St Thomas’. 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Until Sunday 7 January The Hayward Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 December www.thegarret.org.uk CERULEAN SKIES Daily 10.30am-5pm; £5.25 (conc £4.25, THE WORLD AS A STAGE 1044 Belvedere Road T 020 7921 0813 3623 Henrie Haldane and Phil Conrad. child £3); family £12.95 £7 (conc £5.50) www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts An exploration of the rich historical Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat till 10pm); Wednesday 12 to Saturday 22 December Until Saturday 15 December relationship between visual art and theatre. £8 (seniors £7; conc £5; under-16s £4); NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS, OPERATIONS OF SOUND 3516 under-12s free SCULPTORS & PRINTMAKERS 2697 Site-specific exhibition. Until Sunday 21 January LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1043 Until Sunday 30 December More London Riverside Oxo Tower Restaurant, £10 (conc £8) THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE 1465 Tooley Street Bar & Brasserie First major survey of her work. Use and translation of photographic imagery. www.morelondon.com Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7803 3888 Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk the.gallery@oxo Until Friday 26 January Until Sunday 7 January Oxo Tower Wharf, T 020 7401 2255 Until Thursday 18 January SPORT IN THE 21ST CENTURY 3395 PHILIPPA BOGLE 3592 www.oxotower.co.uk KLARA LIDEN 3280 Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Black and white photographs. Daily 11am-6pm; free Daily 10am-6pm ( Fri -10pm); free In the Hayward Project Space Morley College Poussin Gallery Until Sunday 2 December 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 BT BUSINESS ESSENCE OF THE HMS Belfast Block K, 175 Bermondsey St T 020 7403 4444 www.morleycollege.ac.uk www.poussin-gallery.com ENTREPRENEUR 2007 3244 Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free Winners photographed by Perou. 7940 6300 Until Wednesday 12 December hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk LONDON POTTERS EXHIBITION 3600 Until Saturday 22 December Wednesday 5 December to Sunday 7 January Summer 10am-6pm, Winter till 5pm Mon-Fri 11am-6pm (Thu -7pm); Sat JOHN PANTING REDISCOVERED 3019 TSUNAMI: FACE TO FACE 3245 (last admission 45 minutes before close); 12pm-4pm Three years on from the tsunami, people £9.95 (under-16s free) All pieces are for sale. Purdy Hicks Gallery whose lives were torn apart have taken Museum of Garden History 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 part in a unique photography project. Until Tuesday 9 January www.purdyhicks.com EYEWITNESS FALKLANDS 2415 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (wed 7pm); Sat & Tower Bridge Exhibition Photographic exhibition www.museumgardenhistory.org Sun 12 noon-5pm; free Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 Tue-Sun 10.30am-5pm; voluntary charge Imperial War Museum www.towerbridge.org.uk £3 (conc £2.50) Until Friday 21 December Daily 9.30am-5pm; £6 (conc £4.50; child £3) Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 CLAIRE KERR 1702 london.iwm.org.uk Until Friday 21 December Until Monday 31 December Daily 10am-6pm; free POSTCARDS FROM THE PARK 3482 RKB Gallery GREETINGS FROM TOWER BRIDGE 3323 Winning photographs from the national 61 Union Street 100 years’ worth of views and messages Until Sunday 7 January ‘Postcards from the Park’ competition. www.rkburt.co.uk/gallery from postcards of Tower Bridge. THE FALKLANDS 1671 Experiences and personal memorabilia. National Theatre Monday 3 to Friday 14 December Union Gallery South Bank T 020 7452 3000 BRISTOL FINE ART 3602 57 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 Until Sunday 25 February www.nationaltheatre.org.uk David Miller and Anthony Seymour. www.union-gallery.com MY BOY JACK Foyers open Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free 3324 Royal Festival Hall Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12 noon-5pm; free The full story of Rudyard Kipling’s only son John who was killed in 1915. Until Saturday 8 December Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Until Saturday 3 March LINBURY BIENNIAL 3103 www.southbankcentre.co.uk RICHARD LEAROYD 3485 Until Sunday 1 April 12 finalists display their stage designs. Until Tuesday 16 January WEAPONS OF MASS Until Saturday 3 March VOLUME COMMUNICATION 1672 Until Saturday 13 January 3159 ANDERS KRISAR 3486 Tue-Sun 11am-8pm; free £7 (conc £6; student £4; children free) DAZZLE 3246 Iconic posters from WWI to Iraq. Contemporary jewellery for both men Visual artist Sam Winston explores the Waterloo Gallery and women is for sale. www.zone-d.com Poetry Library’s collection. 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 9080 A CARING CHURCH AT LAST! www.waterloogallery.co.uk + SOUTH BANK FORUM + Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm Christ Assemblies Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 December Kate Hoey MP, Simon Hughes MP, and your local Councillors invite you on: KATE B HALL’S CHRISTMAS BAZAAR opens at Waterloo SE1 Thursday 6th December, 7.00pm–9.00pm 3534 NEW VENUE: Coin Street neighbourhood centre*, 108 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH Affordable art work, hand-made Join us every Sunday 10am-12pm *To take a tour of the new centre please arrive at Reception at 6.40pm prompt greetings cards, designer jewellery and T-shirts for sale. www.katebhall.com Join us to have your say at the last Forum before Christmas, and then relax and soak up the seasonal spirit with mince pies and mulled wine from 8.30pm. This is an opportunity to speak For: informally with the MPs and local Councillors. Monday 10 to Saturday 15 December PRECOCIOUS LANDS 3603 • Joyful Worship Topics will include: • Life Changing Messages 16 Central St. Martin’s undergraduates. + THAMESLINK PROGRAMME – 3 YEAR CLOSURE OF RIVERSIDE WALKWAY • Genuine Care and Warm - Peter Nelson from Network Rail will talk about the imminent works on the South Bank Friendship associated with the development at Blackfriars station. Prayer and God’s Presence • + HOTSPOTS OF ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN WATERLOO INCLUDING ST JOHN’S CHURCH ELECTRICIAN - Mark Hedgecox, Safer Neighbourhoods Inspector, will report on his team’s work to tackle anti-social behaviour in the area. Conference Hall Christian Alliance Housing Association + SE1 UNITED YOUTH FORUM No job too small! - Natalie Bell, Jacob Whittingham and young people from SE1 United will update the Secker Street (off Exton Street) Forum on their achievements of 2007 and future plans. 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Sarah Freeman and Sarah Leahey-Benjamin provide useful recipes for This is Spanish look at London. Alejandro Bahamon, a leading architect in cooking food you can buy in Borough Market. Barcelona, writes about key buildings. Their suggestions are made following visits to the farms represented in the Highlighted are the best of types such as the contrasting National Theatre market. The book also has a useful record of the market history which recognises and Shakespeare’s Globe; The Hayward Gallery, Design Museum and Tate the recent role of George Nicholson as chair of trustees. But for this book his role Modern; Lambeth Palace and the bridges. There is unfortunately some muddle is that of photographer. His black and white shots include one taken thirty years about the location of the original Globe Theatre (which the author places on ago as well as during last year’s 250th anniversary. George too visited the farms Butler’s Wharf) but the pictures by Basque photographer Inge Clemente show which results in delightful pictures such as the Highland cattle in Lancashire, the buildings at their best. geese being rounded up in Leicestershire, snoozing wild boar in Cumbria and deer in Devon. This book is an exciting confirmation that Borough Market really Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year does sell real food. The next issue of ‘in SE1’ will be published on Monday 7 January Eye: The story behind the London Eye

Steve Rose • Black Dog Publishing £24.95 Local news you may have missed Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books londonse1 This is a splendid and beautifully produced photographic book capturing community website the excitement of the Eye’s appearance at the end of the 1990s. Southwark marks John Plaque commemorates history But there is plenty of text from the foreword by Richard Rogers to the clever Harvard’s 400th anniversary of old Blackfriars station technical details. Remembered are those who supported the concept when it was “I am thrilled to be with you in this year to Sir William McAlpine, chairman of the unpopular including the late Stewart Steven, editor of Evening Standard, whose celebrate gloriously the four hundredth Railway Heritage Trust, visited Blackfriars anniversary of John Harvard’s baptism,” Road last month to unveil a plaque marking bold pages are reproduced here. the restoration of the facade of the former Revd Professor Peter Gomes of Harvard Blackfriars railway station. University told the Sunday morning ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk Political London congregation in Southwark Cathedral. ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk Race to save unique John Fletcher portrait Richard Tames • Historical Publications • £18.95 Restricted access to Borough Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books The National Portrait Gallery has launched tube station an appeal to save the only known portrait Borough underground station on the from life of Bankside resident John Fletcher. The prolific author and London historian is also an expert on government Northern line will be exit-only during ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk so he is well placed to write this history packed book. weekday peak hours for the next year whilst He recalls Jack Cade’s rebel HQ at the White Hart in Borough High Street major lift works are carried out. Animatronic statue ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk An animatronic statue that reacts to and in 1450 and anti-Catholic rioters occupying St George’s Fields in 1780. By imitates the people around it has been then Southwark’s MP was Henry Thrale, landlord of the Anchor on Bankside. unveiled in Bankside’s Sumner Street. Bermondsey is highlighted for having London’s first woman borough councillor, Skills minister visits Fashion & ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk Ada Salter, and the only statue of a local politician, the first mayor Colonel Textile Museum Bevington. Skills minister David Lammy has visited SE1 has Britain’s best Newham College’s Academy for Fashion, breakfast and curry Textiles and Jewellery at the Fashion and Canteen and Champor-Champor The Little Book of London Textile Museum in Bermondsey Street. restaurants won the cooked breakfast and ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk curry categories of the UK Best Dishes David Long • Sutton • £9.99 competition run by Restaurant magazine. Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Honorary doctorate for Sir ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk Terence Conran Covers removed from St This is a book of fun facts. Pickle Herring Street SE1 is listed for its strange Sir Terence Conran, founder of the name although it has disappeared under the More London development. George’s Circus terraces Design Museum and leading light in the The protective wrap is being peeled off the In the Barrow Boy & Banker the author claims “it’s increasingly difficult to revitalisation of Butler’s Wharf, was last historic Georgian terraces on London Road tell one from another”. Also provided are handy dates for annual gun salutes in month awarded an honorary doctorate by and Borough Road as stabilisation work the Pool of London. Apparently the rarely fired guns on HMS Belfast are trained London South Bank University. reaches completion. …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk on Barnet. www.luckners.com

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