The monthly guide to South Bank events from Vauxhall Bridge to St Saviour’s Dock in SE1 Issue 26 August 2000 Free Late opening at Enjoy Summer on SE1 attractions Discover senses of the South Bank wo SE1 attractions have here’s plenty going on in formed an unlikely alliance T place in Waterloo SE1 this summer. to offer visitors late night T The Coin Street Festival opening this month. continues in August (see page Throughout August the 2) with Colombianos, Indian London Dungeon and the Summer and Waterloo Jive Tower Bridge Experience will events. The South Bank be welcoming visitors until Centre’s Blazing festival and last admission at 8pm. Visitors the National Theatre’s Watch to either attraction during this Space season combine to August will receive a discount aterloo will come to shop, a surgery and a gallery ensure that there is plenty of voucher for the other venue life on Sunday 13 which will be used to present free entertainment on the valid between 6pm and 8pm. August when the video, photography, W South Bank (highlights on This offer provides a great Young Vic and The Space performance, sculpture, page 2). opportunity to visit the new Project present the climax of soundscapes and more. Many other attractions are Great Fire of London feature at six months of work on their Other events include offering holiday activities – see the Dungeon (although the community arts project. Southwark Cyclists’ Beating page 8 for a full guide. Judgement Day boat ride to Senses of Place will the Bounds ride marking out •See our web guide at face a firing squad at Traitors’ celebrate the Waterloo area the boundary of the Waterloo www.London-SE1.co.uk/summer Gate may not be to everyone’s through the five senses of Kite area (meet 2pm at the taste) and take in the views of sight, hearing, touch, smell Young Vic), as well as live the river and the GLA building and taste. Participants are music and street performance. Olde Summer’s construction site from the invited to “grab a map” from Many restaurants, cafés Wakes & Revels walkways at Tower Bridge, 45 the Young Vic between 12 and shops will be open he Lions part theatre metres above the Thames. noon and 6.30pm and go on a specially for the event, with company – best known for •Tower Bridge has a special “journey of the five senses”, Cubana in Lower Marsh T their Bankside festivals October evening walkways-only price visiting the five transformed offering brunch for £9.95 Plenty, Twelfth Night and May of £3.50 for adults and £2.50 spaces along The Cut and (children £4.95) with free fresh Games – returns to SE1 this for children. Lower Marsh. The organisers ground coffee. month for the Olde Summer’s •www.thedungeons.com have secured the use of five •Further information from the Wakes and Revels, a “new-old •www.towerbridge.org.uk venues including a house, a Young Vic on 020 7928 6363 theatre festival” commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe. The Mayor announces £320 million SE1 transport boost Bank Holiday event on Monday 28 August will s we went to press Mayor major development at The money will also fund combine ancient and Aof London Ken Vauxhall Cross, the chaotic development of the Cross Elizabethan customs and Livingstone announced south-western gateway to SE1. River Partnership’s plans for a revelries with Tudor verse funding of £320 million for The complex road junction will new light rail (tram) system drama. transport projects in south- be reconfigured and made linking Peckham, Stockwell •Call the box office on 020 central London. more pedestrian-friendly and a and Camden via Waterloo. 7401 9919 for prices and A large portion of the new “superstation” will link •www.crossriverpartnership.org booking details. funding will be spent on a tube, rail and bus services. •www.london.gov.uk •www.shakespeares-globe.org This Month page 3 Book Review:
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Royal National Theatre South Bank Centre in SE1 Special Events South Bank T 020 7452 3000 South Bank T 020 7960 4242 Borough Market Every Tuesday, Friday & Saturday Blazing, the South Bank Centre’s summer Southwark Street T 020 7407 1800 MUSIC IN THE SQUARE festival, runs until 31 August. Some of this 27 Blackfriars Road Tue & Fri 6.15pm; Sat 5pm; Theatre Square; free month’s highlights are shown below. Call the London Every Friday and Saturday The National’s programme of foyer music number above for the full programme or see BOROUGH FOOD MARKET moves outside for the summer with an www.blazing.org.uk SE1 8NY Fri 12 noon-6pm; Sat 9am-4pm; free international programme of calypso, jazz, More and more producers are participating in latin and more. The August programme Friday 4 August TEL 020 7633 0766 the Borough Food Markets. includes music from Spain, Russia and South DANCE CARIBBEAN DANCE FAX 020 7401 2521 Africa. 10.15am-5.45pm; free Borough Market on the web: A fun filled day giving an insight into the rich [email protected] www.londonslarder.org.uk Every Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday folk culture of the Caribbean. Storytelling, ______TAKING TO THE STREETS music, dance, drama, drumming, nursery EDITOR Leigh Hatts Coin Street Festival 1.15pm & 6.15pm; Theatre Square; free rhymes, panel discussions, headwear South Bank T 020 7401 2255 Theatre, comedy & music from around the workshops all feature in the day’s TEAM James Hatts world. Highlights include: programme. Francis James Sunday 13 August Wed 2 & Thu 3: Zirk Theatre A small army of musical, military marching Saturday 5 August Matthew Brooke COLOMBIANOS 2-6pm; Bernie Spain Gardens; free men. DANCE-CINEMA with V-TOL Marion Marples The UK debut of Circo Para Todos direct from Wed 30 & Thu 31: Utopium 10.15am-6pm; free Farouk Campbell Cali in Colombia with a preview of their Once upon a time, A lavish, modern fairy tale Ground-breaking integration of dance with circus-theatre show prior to its run on the starring Barbie, Snow White, Tintin and Action music, text, visual design and film. © 2000 Bankside Press Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Man. Sunday 6 August PRINTED BY Sunday 20 August Every Friday FUSION 4 ALL Copyprints Ltd, INDIAN SUMMER CELEBRITEAS 10am-6.30pm; free 1 Talbot Yard, 2-7pm; Bernie Spain Gardens; free 2.30pm; Terrace Café; £7 inc cream tea A day of jazz-influenced dance. London SE1 1YP Coin Street’s Mela boasts classic Asian music Theatrical guests talk about their work and and dance. answer questions over a cream tea. Chaired Thursday 10 August by Al Senter. BLAZING WITH THE SUN KING Advertising Sunday 27 August Fri 4: Philip Franks 10.30am-6.45pm; free WATERLOO JIVE Fri 11: Bill Nighy Spend a day discovering Baroque dance with 2-6pm; Oxo Tower Wharf; free Fri 18: Dinah Sheridan Michael Holmes, Nicola Gaines and For details of our The South Bank swings again! Featuring the Fri 25: Jane Asher Christopher Tudor together with members of competitive rates call Ray Gelato Giants and the Sugar Foot the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. for a rate card on 020 Stompers. Friday 4 & Saturday 5 August 7633 0766. ______WATERLOO SUNSET: STREETS ALIVE Saturday 12 August Rose Theatre Exhibition 10.15pm; Theatre Square; free F.R.E.S.H! 56 Park Street T 010 7261 9565 Life on the street presented in a fusion of 10.30am-7pm; free Subscriptions image, music and stories. Workshops and performances exploring To subscribe for 12 Saturday 19 August South Asian dance. SUMMER CRAFT FAIR Saturday 19 August issues please send a 2-7pm; £1 WATERLOO SUNSET: FRISCHES THEATRE Sunday 13 August cheque for £5 to the Stalls offering traditional arts and crafts, URBAIN THE BALLROOM BLITZ address above, made including silversmithing, jewellery, pottery, 10.15pm; Theatre Square; free 10.30am-late; free payable to in SE1. watercolours, stained glass, ceramics and An explosion of pyrotechnics, music and A day of ballroom dancing hosted by Peggy picture framing. Staff dressed in Elizabethan dance as five Faustian dervishes on stilts whirl Spencer. Listings costume will be on hand to answer questions in a flamboyant and demonic procession. about the Rose site. The musical programme continues until the end Details of events to be A full guide to Watch this Space events can be of the month. The new Rose Theatre Trust website is at: found on the National Theatre website at considered for inclusion www.rosetheatre.org.uk www.nt-online.org See page 5 for Artstation. in the next issue should be sent by 16 August to the Listings Editor at Never miss an issue of the above address, or in SE1 Blackfriars by fax or email. Wine Bar Please note Get a copy delivered each month to your home or office The South Bank’sinvites best kept secret Every effort is made to you to discover the charm of an ensure accuracy but all authentic details are subject to Subscribe today for just £5 a year WINE B A R alteration – no We have an extensive range of over responsibility can be 100 accepted for any Send us a cheque for £5 payable to in SE1 different wines from the Old and New inaccuracies. World South Bank Luncheon and snacks available in SE1 Subscriptions, 27 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NY Open 10am till late Monday to Friday Many other events take place each month at the South Bank Centre. Full details can be found in the Centre's own Morley College publications and at www.sbc.org.uk Step up to Higher Education at Morley Next Month • Thames Festival The Languages and Humanities Department at Morley offers stairways to HE via A • Friday is Faraday Levels or Access. Study English, Film Studies, French, Spanish, Italian at A Level and • Car Man at the Old Vic Media Studies, Philosophy, Journalism, Literature, History and Film Studies through our • Great River Race Access programme • Urban Design Week • London Open House Details from Murray Rowlands 020 7450 9235 or Julia Rollitt 020 7450 9236 • Oyster & Seafood Fair • Museum Of reopens AUGUST 2000 in SE1 www.London-SE1.co.uk 3 Wellingtons Book HEALTH CLUB & BEAUTY SALON Review Pubs of the Improve your confidence to feel River Thames
in ÔshapeÕ for the summer mong the 158 pubs Aworthy of mention We would like to help you in our modern health club in Mark Turner’s Pubs or pamper you in our beauty salon or holistic centre of the River Thames are Open to non-members some in SE1. Doggett’s 020 7401 8616 by Blackfriars Bridge has now been open for 101 Lower Marsh ¥ SE1 7AB 2 minutes from Waterloo Station almost 25 years and had two relaunches. The Founders Arms was SE1 Snippets in SE1 is on the move opened by the Dean of ATHEDRAL IGHLIGHTS ERRY IGH ARES St Paul’s in 1979. The C H F H F in SE1 has recently moved into a new office at Southwark Cathedral is The Bankside Pier saga Anchor began as a beer Christ Church in Blackfriars Road. Please note our offering Highlight continues. Last month house on the Bishop of new contact details: Tours this summer, White Horse introduced Winchester’s estate. The enabling locals and a new Tate Modern- in SE1 Old Thameside Inn is visitors to find out more London Eye shuttle not old but is located in about the historic between Bankside and 27 Blackfriars Road building, now emerging Waterloo Millennium London SE1 8NY the Pickford’s Wharf from scaffolding after Piers. But the fares warehouse which once restoration work. The (£4.90 return) make the Tel 020 7633 0766 housed spices. Borough tours, which cost £1 per service useless for Fax 020 7401 2521 Market’s Market Porter, person, start at 2.15pm Londoners. Meanwhile Email [email protected] although away from the and 3.15pm Monday- Thames Leisure has Southwark Tales competition water, is included. It Saturday until 16 added a Bankside stop has better food than September. for its circular cruise those with a view. This •www.dswark.org from Tower Pier. outhwark Heritage Association and Southwark SFestival have teamed up to organise a Pilgrim well illustrated book CAN YOU HELP? HALL OF SHAME? Tales Competition to mark the 600th anniversary of covering five counties Two Waterloo-based County Hall’s FA Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. Entrants are invited to might tempt readers community theatre Premier League Hall of compose a tale of up to 1000 words telling the story beyond St Saviour’s groups are looking for a Fame has quietly closed Dock in winter to visit new base. The groups its doors . Opened by of pilgrims returning to Southwark from Canterbury. The competition is open to anyone Rotherhithe’s need a space for 30 United Attractions with Blacksmith’s Arms with people on a Friday a fanfare in June 1999, with a Southwark connection and the stories will be evening for rehearsal the Hall of Fame failed judged in three categories (under 14s, under 18s its heated footrail. and a performance to draw sufficient and over 18s). Prizes range from a £300 travel •Pubs of the River venue with seating for numbers of visitors voucher for the under 14 winner to a holiday in Thames by Mark up to a hundred people. despite offering many Cape Cod, Boston and Plymouth in the USA for the Turner (Prion £14.99) If you can help please reduced price ticket over 18 winner. Some of the best entries will be LEIGH HATTS contact Ruth Sanderson deals. Rumours suggest read by guest speakers during the Southwark on 020 8463 0490 or that FIFA may take over Deborah Dowdall on the premises for a new Literature Festival. Closing date: 30 September. •Details from freespace.virgin.net/trepalac.dakins/ WORKSPACE 020 8291 3845. football attraction. OPPORTUNITY
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Shakespeare’s Globe Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside 62 Southwark Bridge Road Cinema T 020 7401 9919 T 020 7620 3494 BFI London IMAX Cinema Review Royal National Theatre The Bullring, South Bank South Bank Saturday 12 August to Friday Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 T 020 7902 1234 Davina’s Landed T 020 7452 3000 22 September August at Union Theatre THE ANTIPODES OR, THE CLOCKWORK Until further notice Until Wednesday 23 August WORLD UPSIDE DOWN Tue-Sat 2pm; also Wed & Thu INTO THE DEEP (3D) BLUE/ORANGE Call for dates & times; £5-£26 11am & Sat 7pm; £5 (conc £3) Mon-Fri 3.45pm; Sat & Sun By Richard Brome. Peregrine New adaptation of Philip bsent for two years, Cottesloe Theatre; from £12; 2.30pm & 7.30pm phone for dates Joyless has been driven mad by Pullman’s book. A chilling and Davina returns. At Dive into the magic of the ocean A Joe Penhall’s new play set in a his obsessive desire to travel the romantic story about the magic and swim with the sharks. a birthday celebration London mental hospital. world, so his family bring him to of the imagination, self-sacrifice her friends reminisce, London where a doctor sets and love. For children 8+. One MYSTERIES OF EGYPT about curing him by pretending hour workshops follow the 2pm trying to rationalise her Until Monday 28 August Mon-Fri 2.30pm; Sat & Sun 6.15pm HOUSE/GARDEN to take him to the Antipodes (the performance on Tuesdays, departure and return, Omar Sharif stars in this Lyttelton & Olivier Theatres; from world upside down) where Thursdays and Fridays. exploration of Egyptian myths. utilising her as the loci £9; phone for dates lawyers beg not to be paid, deer ______of all their narrative, Alan Ayckbourn’s linked plays pursue the hounds and women Union Theatre ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD are performed simultaneously. rule the men. 204 Union Street DIMENSION (3D) fantasy, wishes and T 020 7261 9876 Mon-Fri 12 noon, 6.15pm & memories, navigating Until Sunday 10 September Until Saturday 2 September 8.45pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon, 5pm & THE TEMPEST Until Saturday 19 August the audience through a HAMLET 8.45pm. Also Fri & Sat 10pm convoluted tale of the Lyttelton Theatre; from £9; phone Call for dates & times; £5-£26 THE EMIGRANTS With thrilling 3D effects, the current mixed with the for dates Vanessa Redgrave plays Prospero. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £8.50 (conc eccentric professor and his robot Directed by John Caird. £6.50) past. Ben Duke's sidekick take you on a magical Until Saturday 23 September Slawomir Mrozeck’s play reveals journey. direction and script Until Saturday 2 September THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN the goings on in the basement gives us a tense, ALL MY SONS Call for dates & times; £5-£26 flat of two exiles. AFRICA: THE SERENGETI The Globe’s new production of ______Lyttelton Theatre; from £9; phone Mon-Fri 1.15pm, 5pm & 7.30pm; discordant and funny this neglected masterpiece. Full Autumn 2000 for dates Sat 11am, 1.15pm & 3.45pm; Sun drama centred around a review next month. Arthur Miller’s first great success. 1.15pm & 3.45pm sensitive taboo subject. •The Car Man at the Old Vic Experience the great migration The entire cast turned From Friday 25 August Until Sunday 24 September •Julius Caesar and The Three of over 2 million wildebeest. KEN CAMPBELL’S HISTORY OF HAMLET Musketeers at the Young Vic in a refreshing, ______COMEDY – Part 1: Call for dates & times; £5-£26 £6.75 (child £4.75; conc £5.75) energetic and credible With Mark Rylance as Hamlet. Spring 2001 Ventriloquism Add-on feature £4 performance. The Cottesloe Theatre; from £12; • at the Old Vic production, music and phone for dates See pages 1 & 2 for the Olde Lulu See page 8 for details of summer • at the Young Vic lighting melded to form Hilarious new one-man show. Summer’s Wakes and Revels. Le Costume holiday events a good play that left the audience continually From the publishers of in SE1 guessing as to the in eventual resolution. the FAROUK CAMPBELL CALL YARD The SE1 Directory Shop www.London- Most of the big and Focus SE1.co.uk/directory successful local firms do Brindisa is back in Borough when they We are developing a have here was much something to Tregret when Brindisa left Park Street database of SE1-related say and they where its regular would like us Saturday open days websites had proved very to give a popular. However, sharp edge although the wholesale unit has moved south to it. there is now a Brindisa Make it your first port of presence in Borough Market. Not only is the call for PRINT Spanish food stall open COPIES every Saturday but also REPORTS Tuesdays to Fridays. A BROCHURES lunchtime favourite is the hot Chorizo Our Cellar Communication sandwich (£2). The Restaurant & Wine Bar of all kinds vegetarian alternative is the Espárragos con 47-49 Borough High Street Copyprints Ltd Romesco sandwich London SE1 BUSINESS (£2.50). Also in stock is CENTRE organic extra virgin olive oil (£5.50). 020 7407 3451 1 Talbot Yard •Borough Market SE1 1YP •T 020 7403 6932 Open 11am-11pm •11am-3pm Tue-Thu; 5 days a week 11am-6pm Fri; 9am- 4pm Sat Speciality: Italian food Phone 020 7407 2079 LEIGH HATTS Fax 020 7403 5411 AUGUST 2000 in SE1 www.London-SE1.co.uk 5
Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings SE1 Gallery Exhibitions The Cut T 020 7620 1322 64 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7401 9494 Theatre Bankside Gallery Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Mon- Fri 10am-5.30pm; free 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Focus Tue-Fri 10am-5pm (Tue 8pm) weekends 1-5pm; Until Saturday 2 September Until Friday 25 August £3.50 (conc £2) NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY 3x3: PART 1 London Lives at This legendary annual show of rejects from Painters Pennie Elfick, Louse Hardy and Bankside Gallery Until Sunday 13 August the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is now ceramicist Yoko Imada show their work. WATERCOLOUR C21 in its tenth year. More than 1200 paintings by ______The second year of this open watercolour over 900 artists are featured in the constantly Tate Modern ondon, and SE1 in competition. changing exhibition. Bankside T 020 7887 8008 Sun-Thu 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 8pm); free Lparticular,has Thursday 17 August to Sunday 10 www.lafp.dircon.co.uk acquired many new September ______Until Sunday 26 November landmarks in the past LONDON LIVES Museum of Garden History THE UNILEVER SERIES – LOUISE few years. This Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 BOURGEOIS See Exhibition Preview. exhibition of paintings ______Sun-Fri 10.30am-5pm; free (donations welcome) Bourgeois’ large-scale sculptures dominate Delfina Project Space the Turbine Hall. and prints for sale by 51 Southwark Street T 020 7357 6600 Until Sunday 20 August members of the Royal Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; free TEXTILES AND TRADESCANTS Until Sunday 26 November Watercolour Society Creative embroidery by Anna Griffiths and HERZOG & DE MEURON: 11 STATIONS and the Royal Society of Until Sunday 10 September Margaret Mary Griffiths (no relation). The first exhibition devoted to the works of NEW YORK PROJECTS the Swiss based architects responsible for Painter Printmakers 14 New York artists are spending the summer Thursday 24 August to Sunday 17 converting Bankside Power Station into Tate will convey artists’ in London, living and working at Delfina in September Modern. personal responses to FIFTY YEARS A POTTER Bermondsey Street. A variety of their work is these exciting displayed at the new Delfina Project Space. Ceramics by the Eeles family of potters from Until Sunday 3 December ______Mosterton in Dorset. BETWEEN CINEMA AND A HARD PLACE developments. Design Museum ______Multimedia survey of graphic art at the end of Highlights will include Shad Thames T 020 7378 6055 Percy Miller Gallery the twentieth century (admission £3). Joe Winkelmann’s 39 Snowsfields T 020 72074578 Daily 11.30am (weekends 10.30am) -6pm; £5.50 etchings of the London (conc £4) Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free See page 8 for details of summer workshops ______Eye and Shakespeare’s Until Sunday 15 October Until Saturday 2 September the.gallery@oxo Globe under YOUR PRIVATE SKY: BUCKMINSTER FULLER DRAWING Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 construction, and a Group exhibition. Daily 11am-6pm (8pm during Burning); free Assesses the vast range of his ideas and work. series of works created www.designmuseum.org Percy Miller Gallery has a new website at Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 August inside Bankside Power ______www.percymillergallery.com RING OF TIME – PETER RA Station before its Eckersley Gallery – London College of Printing ______Paintings, sculpture and a conversion to house Purdy Hicks Gallery performance/installation. Elephant & Castle T 020 7514 6500 Tate Modern, offering Mon-Fri 10am-6pm-6pm; free 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & Sun 12 Saturday 12 to Monday 28 August an insight into the Monday 7 to Friday 18 August noon-5pm; free BURNING building’s industrial CERTIFICATE IN PRINTMAKING Exciting, new and innovative work in clay by past. TECHNIQUES Until Friday 15 September twelve ceramic artists, plus paintings by NEW WORK Daniel Dixon-Smith and jewellery by Kerstin •See listing on this page Until Thursday 31 August Exhibition includes work by Rachel Budd, Haigh. CREATIVE MEDIA PROGRAMME Arturo Di Stefano, Felim Egan, Hughie ______O’Donoghue and others. Wednesday 30 August to Sunday 10 Eating & Hayward Gallery September South Bank Centre T 020 7921 0971 www.purdyhicks.com COUNTDOWN 2000 Drinking Daily 10am-6pm (Tue/Wed 8pm) £6 (conc £3.50) ______Photographic exhibition. Royal Festival Hall ______Second Fish! for Until Sunday 17 September South Bank Centre T 020 7960 4242 Tom Blau Gallery South Bank FORCE FIELDS: PHASES OF THE KINETIC Daily 10am-10.30pm; free 21 Queen Elizabeth Street T 020 7378 1300 This remarkable exhibition brings together 40 Mon-Fri 9am-6pm; free pioneering artists whose work uses Friday 4 to Tuesday 29 August ans of the Fish! diner movement, energy, space and time. See page ARTSTATION Until Friday 4 August Fin Borough Market 8 for summer holiday events. Level 2 & Waterloo Foyer GROWING UP BLACK A gigantic installation made from over a A photographic exhibition by Dennis Morris. will be pleased to hear www.hayward-gallery.org.uk kilometre of white paper and gumstrip. Free that the group’s fourth ______daily activities for children. Thursday 10 August to Friday 1 September restaurant opens this Imperial War Museum GOLD RUSH month in SE1, at the Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 www.sbc.org.uk Athletes photographed by Jason Bell. other end of the Daily 10am-6pm; £5.20 (conc £4.20; children, ______senior citizens & after 4.30pm free) Royal National Theatre The Walk Gallery Millennium Mile. South Bank T 020 7452 3000 King Edward Walk T 020 928 3786 Situated behind County Until Monday 27 November Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free Mon-Sat 11.30am-6pm (Thu 1.30-7pm); free Hall, opposite Travel SPITFIRE SUMMER Inn Capital, Fish! will Marking the 60th anniversary of the events of Monday 7 August to Saturday 9 September Until Saturday 5 August 1940. 21 YEARS OF THE GREENWICH SUMMER SHOW 2000 be well located for PRINTMAKERS Paintings, prints, paper-cuts and sculptures all visitors to the London www.iwm.org.uk Limited edition prints on the theme of time. feature in this major summer exhibition. Eye and Dalí Universe and within easy reach of the Royal Festival ¥ local Hall and National Theatre. Tony Allan, chairman of owners ¥ national BGR plc, describes County Hall as a “fantastic location” ¥ international where Fish! has “every opportunity to do well”. ¥ newspaper back issues •3b Belvedere Road •T 020 7234 3333 •Daily 11.30am-3pm & 020 7407 8800 ¥ member of the Despatch Association 5.30-11pm (Sun 10pm) •www.fish-diner.co.uk AUGUST 2000 6 www.London-SE1.co.uk in SE1 Web Music Walks & Tours F EATURE Watch Hay’s Galleria Shakespeare’s Globe Tooley Street T 020 7940 7770 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 What’s cooking Exhibition listing Every Tuesday & Friday Every Saturday at RSJ? websites JUST RHYTHM GLOBE WALKSHOPS BY LIZ BOSSLEY 6.30-8.30pm; free Meet 10am in the Globe Foyer; £6 (conc £5; Tue 1: Venus Edge students £4) Ever wonder what goes on his month we are Fri 4: Mark Armstrong Actor-led exploration of Bankside and its behind the closed kitchen Tlooking at the range Tue 8: Mark Armstrong Shakespeare connections. Includes a short of arts listings search Fri 11: Mark Armstrong tour of the theatre. door of your local eatery? engines which has Tue 15: so long angel ______Fri 18: so long angel Southwark Cathedral Now you can find out. emerged on the Web. Tue 22 Venus Edge Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 Hidden away in a warehouse One of the most Fri 25: so long angel kitchen at 115 Wootton comprehensive sites is ______Monday to Saturday thegallerychannel.com St John’s Waterloo HIGHLIGHT TOURS Street, Ursula Ferrigno, Waterloo Road T 020 7366 9279 2.15 & 3.15pm; £1 – I particularly like the See SE1 Snippets on page 3 for full details of Italian/Irish chef, archive search facility. Every Wednesday these new tours. demonstrates the chaotic Ananova’s Going Out LUNCHTIME CONCERTS creativity of Italian cooking site at 1.10pm; donations welcome; refreshments Talks & Lectures Wed 2: Julia Williams & Yuki Wake (pianos) at her cookery workshops. ananova.com/whatson has Wed 9: Chie Matsumoto (piano) Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Using recipes learned at her replaced PA’s useful Wed 16: David Conway (guitar) Garret grandmother’s knee in her native Eventselector site, but Wed 23: David Farmer (classical accordion) 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 Campagna, Ursula, author of the search options have Wed 30: David Crown (baritone) ______Sunday 6 August Bread and Truly Italian, juggles a been improved. Regular Southwark Cathedral THE WEEKES LETTERS: A YEAR IN THE mouth-watering selection of exhibition-goers will be Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 LIFE OF ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL, 1801 fresh ingredients. As the finished familiar with the New 2.30pm; £3.25 (conc £2.25; child £1.60) dishes emerge from the Exhibitions of Every Monday Dr John Ford of the Worshipful Society of ORGAN RECITAL Apothecaries on the unique set of letters maelstrom of chopping and Contemporary Art 1.10pm; free (donations welcome) between a medical student and his physician kneading, she bombards her bimonthly leaflet, and The recitals on 7 & 21 August form part of father, providing a vivid insight into the the audience with advice on how to the website at Peter Wright’s Bach 200 series. life and medicine of St Thomas’ Hospital at cut onions without tears, how to www.newexhibitions.com the dawn of the 19th century. Every Tuesday recognise male and female is every bit as good. MUSIC RECITAL See page 8 for details of events for children aubergines and how to taste test Unfortunately the 1.10pm; free (donations welcome) the best Italian oils. A qualified listings on Contact the cathedral for programme details. www.thegarret.org.uk dietician, Ursula also gives londonart.co.uk (whose advice on healthy eating, while stickers are much in Railway arches to be brightened up adding an extra spoonful of evidence across the SE1 cream to the pot or another area) are much more dollop of oil to the salad. difficult to search and Perched on high chairs, navigate. clutching recipes in one hand •For details of and a procession of wines from exhibitions in SE1 the RSJ restaurant in Coin Street check out in the other, guests sample each www.London-SE1.co.uk of the dishes destined for sale in FRANCIS JAMES the RSJ café in Stamford Street. Find out about After a summer break, the workshops recommence on 20 advertising with September with four weekly sessions on pane, antipasto, pasta and zuppa. The workshops SE1 begin at 6.45pm and last until in ew street lighting and 401 by the Union Theatre in Nuplighting is planned for Union Street is likely to be the around 9pm, by which time even first to include a lightwork, the heartiest of appetites has Call the railway arches in Union and Great Suffolk Streets which form highlighting the arch number, by been satisfied. The sessions cost the Station to Tate link. New Ron Haselden. The figures 401 £30 each, with a 20% discount for paving now guides pedestrians are planned for the south side to booking two or more. 020 Further details from Sally or from Southwark Station into be visible from the café entrance Sumner Street. The brick Arch to the theatre. Ursula on 020 7633 0881. 7633 •www.rsj.uk.com 0766 Morley College or email Lifelong learning for adults in the London area [email protected] Course Guide 2000 Ð 2001 Bramah’s Courses for adults who fancy a change, want to realise a dream, try something new, learn a new skill, Good stretch their mind, exercise their body, meet new people, have fun, relax and enjoy life. Morning for your copy of the Course Guide telephone 020 7401 8298 (24 hr answerphone) Coffee or email: [email protected] Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT Tel 020 7928 8501 Fax: 020 7928 4074 Butler’s Wharf Email: [email protected] Web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk 020 7378 0222 AUGUST 2000 in SE1 www.London-SE1.co.uk 7 16 Winchester Walk, London SE1 9AQ Tel 020 7403 7474 ¥ Fax 020 7403 7493 ¥ Email [email protected]
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Bond's Victorian Fun Fair Be there on Chaucer night with your guests Potters Field Friday 4 to Monday 14 August The 600th anniversary of Chaucer's for us here in Southwark" death falls on Thursday 26 October and says Festival Artistic Director Mandela in SE1? the main national celebration on the day Mich•le McLusky. ÒIt seems Exploratory talks are taking highly appropriate that the place to see if the is to be in Southwark. performance takes place at exhibition of Nelson Southwark Festival is delighted to be able to stage on Southwark Cathedral which Mandela's life, due to be the night Canterbury Pilgrims which was composed is just a stone's throw from permanently located on in 1930 by George Dyson. He set his choral work to the site of the Tabard Inn Robben Island, can be a poem by the 15th-century Scottish poet William where the famous pilgrimage shown in Southwark. Long Dunbar who had read Chaucer's story of the began.Ó Walk to Freedom is currently in Denmark and it pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury. DysonÕs The gala concert is an version was a favourite work amongst English choral has been suggested that the opportunity for Southwark British venue could be in societies but it is rarely performed in its entirety by businesses to be involved by bringing clients and the orchestral and choral ensemble that it was written SE1. Any ideas about the guests to a unique occasion and Southwark Festival best venue will be welcome for. On Chaucer's anniversary the full work will be has prepared a corporate hospitality package which on 020 7403 7474. heard in Southwark Cathedral just yards away from will provide a relaxing and enjoyable evening. After a where Chaucer's tale began. champagne reception guests will take their seats at Just Rhythm The English Festival Orchestra with the Choir of the front of the nave for a performance of This monthÕs programme of the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, under the Canterbury Pilgrims. Fine French wines and canapŽs relaxing evening music at HayÕs direction of Martin Neary, will perform with will be served during the interval and afterwards Galleria distinguished soloists Robert Tear, Stephen Roberts Tue 1: Venus Edge there will be an opportunity to meet the performers. Fri 4: Mark Armstrong and Gillian Keith, who has recently been awarded the To discuss specific requirements for you and your Tue 8: Mark Armstrong Kathleen Ferrier prize. Fri 11: Mark Armstrong guests to be associated with this special event phone Tue 15: so long angel "I am thrilled that we will stage Canterbury 020 7403 7474. Fri 18: so long angel Pilgrims this year on the 600th anniversary of the Mark the date Thursday 26 October in your diary Tue 22 Venus Edge death of Chaucer, whose work has such a resonance Fri 25: so long angel now! 6.30-8.30pm; free Bankside Traders’ Association Update BTA goes from strength to strength Copyprints, City Bike & Williams Lynch join ¥ London Bridge plans ¥ Successful SE1 Gallery event More SE1 businesses are joining BTA looks ahead the model should phone 020 7403 7474. the thriving Bankside TradersÕ Association. With the growth in business activity in Among the latest is Copyprints, the business Bankside and Borough, as well as the centre for print, copies, reports and proposed London Bridge Station shopping brochures, in Talbot Yard (020 7407 2079) mall plans, the BTA is planning to off Borough High Street. Copyprints has announce a new appointment to enable been celebrating its 40th anniversary. traders to be able to take advantage of fast www.copyprintsltd.co.uk moving changes in SE1. Full details in next Another new member is City Bike month's in SE1. Couriers (020 7407 8800), a member of the Despatch Association, who provide a local, All members of the Bankside TradersÕ national and international service. Association are to have the opportunity of Meanwhile, Williams Lynch (020 7407 an early view of the revised London Bridge 4100) in Bermondsey Street is the third Station redevelopment proposals. Those estate agent to become a member. wishing to attend the briefing and inspect
The Association works to represent the interests of traders and For further details contact: Bankside Traders’ Association, small businesses in the Bankside, Borough and London Bridge c/o Southwark Festival Association, areas. Membership costs £40 per year. The Association 16 Winchester Walk, SE1 9AQ management group meets regularly and organises a number of Tel: 020 7403 7474 events during the year. Email: [email protected] AUGUST 2000 8 www.London-SE1.co.uk in SE1
Hayward Gallery Events for Children South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road T 020 7960 4242 SE1 in Brief BFI London IMAX Cinema Until Friday 4 August & Monday 21 to Friday 25 August South Bank T 020 7902 1234 FAMILY DROP-IN WORKSHOPS LONDON EYE TOPS POLL 10.30am-1pm; £1 per child The British Airways Until Friday 1 September Make sculptures and drawings in these great informal workshops. London Eye has been 3D MAGIC: HANDS-ON MASK & ANIMATION WORKSHOPS Mon-Fri 11.30am-5.30pm; free with IMAX film ticket voted top London Until Friday 18 August In the first floor foyer of the cinema. All children should be BOOKABLE WORKSHOPS attraction in an internet accompanied by an adult. poll conducted by the 2-4.30pm; £4; booking essential on 020 7960 4242 Make your own still and moving sculptures. Open to over 12s on London Tourist Board. www.bfi.org.uk/showing/imax E Mondays, 10-12 year olds on Tuesdays and 7-10 year olds on ______Thursdays. TATE EXPLORERS Florence Nightingale Museum ______If you are visiting Tate 2 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7620 0374 Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret Modern with children this 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 Until Sunday 3 September summer the gallery is FLORENCE’S TRAVELS ACTIVITY SHEET offering a series of free Wednesday 2, 16 & 30 August Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 11.20am-4.30pm; included in child’s PILLS, POTIONS, POISONS printed trails called admission ticket (£.3.60) Explorers. Each trail 2.30pm; £3.25 (conc £2.25; child £1.60) Gather evidence from around the museum about the countries Hands-on herbs and pill making in the apothecary’s garret. focusses on a different Florence Nightingale visited, then use the information to draw a suite of galleries. Available picture of life in these countries during the Victorian era. Your picture Wednesday 9 & 23 August from the information desks will be displayed in the museum and you will receive a small souvenir. VICTORIAN SURGERY in the Turbine Hall and on 2.30pm; £3.25 (conc £2.25; child £1.60) On Bank Holiday Monday 28 August admission is free to all. Demonstrations of surgery without anaesthesia. Level 2. ______E HMS Belfast Contact the museum for details of further events through the summer MILLENNIUM QUILT Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7407 6434 Southwark Diocese’s 44 ______Shakespeare’s Globe foot Millennium Quilt Until Sunday 3 September New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 featuring all churches in BATTLE DAMAGE! the diocese is hanging Special Summer Quiz Trail Sheets: 50p Saturdays 5, 19 & 26 August during August in The Captain is in urgent need of volunteers to help save the ship. Are CHILD’S PLAY you prepared to take on the challenge to learn all that you can about 2-5.30pm; £9; event takes place in the Education Centre, Bear Gardens Southwark Cathedral. St HMS Belfast during your visit? Take part in this special summer quiz George’s Borough High Active introduction to Shakespeare’s work for 8-11 year olds. trail and receive a certificate welcoming you as a fully-fledged member ______Street can be found near of HMS Belfast's ship's company! Suitable for 7-14 year olds. the floor. Look for the bus Southwark Playhouse 62 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7620 3494 near the bottom right hand www.hmsbelfast.org.uk corner. ______Until to Friday 4 August E Imperial War Museum CLOCKWORK – THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE! Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 ARCHBISHOP RUNCIE Call Tom Wilson on 020 7652 2224 for details Free summer daytime workshops for 8-11 year olds in Southwark, Tributes have been paid Saturday 5 to Monday 28 August locally to Archbishop leading up to the Playhouse’s summer production (see page 4). IF THE INVADER COMES ______Robert Runcie who was 12noon, 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm; booking essential; one of SE1’s famous Tate Modern £5.50 (conc £4.20; children, senior citizens & after 4.30pm free) Sumner Street T 020 7887 8000 residents. Fond memories Travel back in time to the 1940s. You can meet a Land Girl, see a of him visiting Christ Spitfire and a Hurricane and join a Home Guard patrol. Suitable for 8- Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Church more than once 13 year olds. STARTERS from Lambeth Palace were 2-3.30pm; free www.iwm.org.uk recalled when his death Lively workshops run by the Tate artist team for children over 5 years. was announced last month. E ENTER THE UNKNOWN The Museum of the Unknown opens in the Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf in September, and the curators are looking for people with an unusual object that they have been unable to identify for display in the exhibition. Visitors will be invited to label objects and say what they think they are. Call 020 7928 1255 for details. ALL AROUND THE CITY www.stirlingackroyd.co.uk E BANK HOLIDAY OPENING Opening hours for attractions may vary on THE CROWN & CUSHION FOR OFFICE EQUIPMENT Monday 28 August – 133 Ð 135 Westminster Bridge Road please check before setting out. Food served 7 days a week Bramah’s Sunday lunch 12 till 5pm Good Parties catered for Morning Function room available Ð no charge Coffee Free disco available for large parties Tel 020 7928 4795 LUDGATE OFFICE EQUIPMENT LIMITED Butler’s Wharf Fax 020 7803 0573 31 BEAR LANE LONDON SE1 0UH 020 7378 0222 TEL: 020 7928 2871 FAX: 020 7620 2958