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“IT IS a sad day for Bankside” said Tate developers appealed and an inspector Justice Collins ruled: “The inspector Director Sir Nicholas Serota on hearing held a public inquiry and overturned the has not erred in his approach to the that the 20 storey development is to rise council’s decision. balancing exercise required by the alongside Tate Modern. BROAD had argued that earlier planning legislation.” Members of Bankside Residents for planning procedure was so flawed that Speaking later Sir Nicholas said: Appropriate Development have lost their objectors did not get a fair hearing, and “The public invested £135m in the High Court bid to halt the scheme in that planning permission for the block creation of Tate Modern. The tower will Hopton Street. should be quashed. have a detrimental impact on the quality An appeal by residents who fear their They had also argued that their right of the space that surrounds it and the homes will be blighted by the project to the enjoyment of their property under approach to the gallery for millions of was rejected by the High Court. the European Convention on Human visitors each year, not to mention the The site, once a paper warehouse, Rights would be breached if the tower impact on nearby homes.” was sold to developers Town for is built. It was argued that it would Members of BROAD are considering £7.6 million in December 2000. Planning significantly affect residents at Bankside whether to take the case to the Court of permission was refused by Lofts and Falcon Point. Appeal. Council in October 2002. But the Whilst expressing sympathy, Mr •www.londontownplc.com MP takes up SE1 postal service complaints Royal visit NORTH SOUTHWARK & Many of those present television researcher working THE QUEEN and the Duke MP Simon reported cheques, credit on a programme about lost of Edinburgh are visting Hughes has met London SE1 cards and books going astray. mail and SE1’s high level of the Bankside Gallery in Forum contributors suffering One person brought along a dissatisfaction with Royal Hopton Street on Wednesday from the poor postal service. letter which had just arrived Mail. afternoon 18 February. This During the meeting at having been posted three The MP is due to call is the Queen’s first visit to the Blue Eyed Maid, Simon months ago. another meeting at the end Bankside since the opening Hughes recalled that he A number of the SE1 this month when the Royal of Tate Modern four years officially opened the Mandela residents confirmed that they Mail will be invited to respond ago and marks the 200th Way sorting office a decade were now using addresses of to complaints and the results anniversary of the Royal ago. He has promised to relatives or offices outside of an eight day monitoring Watercolour Society now make a return visit with the the area for important letters. exercise. based at Bankside Gallery. list of complaints which he is In one case this involves a six •See www.London-SE1.co.uk Her Majesty last visited the also making available to the mile round trip for collection. for updates on the gallery in 1980 soon after the Post Office Chairman. Also present was a campaign. Society moved from Piccadilly. FRANK HARRIS This Month and COMPANY page 4 RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT Win tickets to Of 57 York Road, South Bank, London SE1 7NJ Mice and Men at 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk the Old Vic

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One in Southwark Street was built in 1895 by George Jennings of nearby Holland Tree planting in Great Dover Street Street who exported WCs to THE GREAT Dover Street Pupils from the school green the streets, housing Argentina. This was the time Greening Project was have undertaken workshops estates and schools within when church crypts were cleared of bodies. Following a mass launched last month with a with Trees for London’s the area which is bounded reburial from St George the number of Dawn Redwood educationalist Dragana Rakas by Harper Road, New Kent Martyr, a notice went up: “Dry trees being planted along about the importance of trees Road, Tower Bridge Road, basement to be let – apply Field Bartholomew Street. in the urban environment Snowfields/Newcomen Street, & Sons.” The charity Trees for and have helped chose the and Borough High Street. 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SE1 Snippets > > > > > FLOWERS for Weddings, funerals DESMOND TUTU AWARDS AHOY? ST VALENTINE’S DAY WORKPLACE ART MOVES Archbishop Desmond The Anchor & Hope St Valentine’s Day is Chris Barlow of & all occasions Tutu is preaching at in The Cut has been being observed at Workplace Art has Southwark Cathedral’s shortlisted in two Southwark Cathedral stepped down as Chair Candlemas Eucharist categories for the Tio on Saturday 14 of the Bankside Traders Don’t forget at 11am on Sunday 1 Pepe Carlton London February with a special Association. This February. Archbishop Restaurant Awards Valentine’s Day service follows the relocation Valentine’s Day Tutu, once a curate in next month. The pub for the newly wed and of his company from the Southwark Diocese, relaunch last year those preparing for Southwark Bridge Road Saturday 14 February is Visiting Professor in qualifies it for Best New marriage. The Royal to Shoreditch. The new Post Conflict Studies Restaurant as well as School of Church Music office and exhibition DENISE’S FLORIST for this term at King’s London Gastropub. This Southern Singers space is in the landmark 168 Great Suffolk Street College London. See year The Anchor & Hope will be singing the Tea Building in 020 7403 0067 Church Services listing is the only shortlisted St Valentine choral Shoreditch High Street. on page 6. SE1 restaurant in the evensong at 4pm. See Mike Hill of Utobeer is •www.dswark.org awards. listings on page 6. acting BTA chair. Open Saturday 14 February

The London ALBERT ARMS Society City Churches Gladstone Street 21-22 Smith Close off London Road SE16 5PB Drawings by Paul Middleton of all 41 offers private accommodation within churches in the Square Mile UNDER NEW a very sheltered housing unit for with profiles by Leigh Hatts MANAGEMENT elderly people who are reasonably fit but who no longer wish or feel Family run pub with able to live alone. Two meals are £8.99 friendly atmosphere provided daily. Residents are welcome for long or Available from Calder Bookshop, Riverside Home cooked Sunday lunch short term stays to suit their own Bookshop and Southwark Cathedral Shop or situations and the needs of their post free from Bankside Press Open all day families, for example, for holidays. 27 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NY 020 7021 0792 More information phone www.londoncitychurches.com Brenda Crawley 020 7231 5946 FEBRUARY 2004 4 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 theatre Theatre WIN TICKETS Cinema Old Vic Steinbeck’s classic Æ novel is brought to life BFI London IMAX Cinema review The Cut T 0870 060 6628 at the Old Vic by Joe The Bullring, South Bank T 020 7902 1234 www.oldvictheatre.com 2004 season at McGann and Andrew www.bfi.org.uk/imax Schofield who create Screenings daily; 10.30am-9.30pm; £7.50, Tuesday 3 February to Saturday 3 April the roles of Lenny and Shakespeare’s Globe George in Jonathan (conc £6.20; child £4.950), OF MICE & MEN Church’s extraordinary Shakespeare’s Globe Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Tue & Thu 2.30pm; production. MYSTERIES OF EGYPT 2D (U) THE 2004 £7.50-£35 season runs from Friday 7 May to We have 5 pairs of tickets to give away Float down the lush Nile and soar over John Steinbeck’s play, set against the worth £70 each. Answer the following the Valley of the Kings, as stars Omar Sunday 26 September exploring backdrop of America’s Great Depression, question and send your entry on a Sharif and Kate Maberly explore the latest the theme of Star-Crossed Lovers transfers from the Savoy Theatre. Starring postcard to the address on page 2 or by email to [email protected] by discoveries and uncover many of the in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Joe McGann and Andrew Schofield. George Monday 16 February. mysteries that surround these ancient Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Lenny are determined to buy a small peoples. farm of their own after years of ekeing What are the names of the two main and Measure for Measure. out a living as itinerant farm workers. The characters in Of Mice and Men? Romeo and Juliet will be GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS 3D (U) two friends soon discover the flip side of If you are not a lucky winner, with every Academy Award-winning director and staged with clothing, music, their American Dream and the friendship full price ticket you purchase (£35) master storyteller James Cameron takes is tested to its limits. The Birmingham you can bring a child for free! Of Mice dance and settings from and Men runs from 3 Feb until 3 April, you back to the site of his greatest Shakespeare’s time. Much Ado Repertory Theatre’s production is directed Mon-Sat, 7.30pm; Tues + Thu 2.30pm inspiration - the legendary wreck of the by Jonathan Church. (offer excludes Saturday evening Titanic. About Nothing will be performed performances, children must be 16 by a company of women players. and under). Call the The Old Vic box Sunday 8 February office on 0870 060 6628 and quote EVEREST (U) The other plays will be by JUST A MINUTE ‘newspaper offer’. The dramatic true story of a team of companies of men and women. 6pm; £6 climbers who fifty years ago found hope, This season the Globe is BBC Radio 4’s devious panel game is Thursday 12 February to Tuesday 30 strength and triumph in the wake of working is staging fundraising now 35 years old and a recording is March tragedy. being made at the Old Vic. Julian Clary events for the Samaritans in their DEMOCRACY and Clement Freud, amongst others, are Lyttelton Theatre; 7.45pm; £10-£34 SPACE STATION 3D (U) 50th year. Globe artistic director kept in check by the chairman Nicholas Michael Frayn’s political comedy set in The first-ever live action IMAX movie to Mark Rylance said: “Working Parsons. Tickets are available from the Old German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s office. be filmed in space. Using incredible 3D with Samaritans, who respond Vic box office. Story of his seemingly loyal assistant technology the film tells the amazing story every minute of every day and ______who also had a secret devotion to of the greatest engineering feat since a night to those of us who face in Royal National Theatre East Germany. Transferring from RNT’s man landed on the moon. South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Cottesloe Theatre where it enjoyed an isolation some obstacle to our www.nationaltheatre.org.uk acclaimed run. The Daily Mail called it HAUNTED CASTLE 3D (PG) emotional well-being, we at the “best new play” of 2003. A 3D visual extravaganza as you join Globe have found a partner in Until Saturday 31 January ______Johnny, a young musician who has our own work to gather people MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA Southwark Playhouse inherited an imposing castle from his late Lyttelton Theatre; 6.15pm; £10-£34 62 Southwark Bridge Rd T 020 7620 3494 estranged mother. However, when he together in a beneficial space of Helen Mirren plays Christine Mannon and language and communication.” www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk visits his inheritance, he discovers that Eve Best her daughter in Eugene O’Neill’s things are not as they appear. •Booking opens on Monday 12 mighty epic, based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Friday 14 to Saturday 28 February •T 020 7401 9919 CALCUTTA KOSHER BUGS! 3D (U) •www.shakespeares-globe.org Until Saturday 6 March Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6; Mon £5) A bug’s eye view of the fascinating PLAY WITHOUT WORDS In a crumbling Calcutta home, two sisters universe of insects, magnified up to Lyttelton Theatre; 7.45 pm; £10-£34 are forced to come to terms with their 250,000 times their normal size and in 3D. A vibrant, wicked satire of class conflicts mother’s secret history. In this funny and Narrated by Judi Dench. community and sexual desire set in Swinging Sixties moving play, award winning writer Shelley î London and told exclusively through Silas examines how family and culture, MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (15) focus movement and music. time and distance, influence our sense 8pm (Fri-Sun 9pm); £12.50 (conc £11.50) of who we are. Set in the Indian Jewish The final explosive chapter in the Multiple Sclerosis Until Saturday 20 March community, it explores conflicts between Wachowski Brothers’ groundbreaking International Federation HIS DARK MATERIALS PART I old and new, east and west, tradition and film trilogy presented on the UK’s largest Olivier Theatre; 7.30 pm; £10-£34 truth. Matinées on Saturdays 21 and 28 screen with a six-channel audio system. A journey through worlds familiar and February at 3pm. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS unknown. For Lyra and Will it’s a International Federation has ______CYBERWORLD 3D (PG) coming of age and transforming spiritual Union Theatre Sat & Sun 12.15pm & 3.20pm been in SE1 for several years. experience. Their great quest 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Come face to face with your favourite The charity focuses worldwide demands a savage struggle against the www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk characters as they leap out of Britain’s attention on a disease which most dangerous of enemies. biggest screen. Until Saturday 14 February affects 85,000 people in the UK Until Saturday 20 March alone. MS is one of the most THE WINDMILL (THE LIFE OF PETER KIEN) Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 February HIS DARK MATERIALS PART II Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £9.50 (concs available WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO & common deseases of the central Olivier Theatre; 7.30 pm; £10-£34 - call for details) JULIET (12) nervous system. Symptoms, Second part of this epic production with a New drama by Gloria Tessler, based on 9pm; £7.50 (conc £6.20) caused by damage to fatty tissue cast of more than 30, including the life of her second cousin, Czech- St Valentine’s special screening of Baz that protects nerve fibres, very Timothy Dalton and Patricia Hodge. Jewish artist and librettist Peter Kien, who Luhrmann’s romantic film starring Clare widely and, for some, include composed the opera Emperor of Atlantis. Danes and Leonardo di Caprio. Until Saturday 27 March ______progressive paralysis. THE PILLOWMAN Young Vic Cinema Furore at The Coronet MSIF leads the global MS Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 23 New Kent Road T 020 7701 1500 movement, promoting global A writer in a totalitarian state is www.youngvic.org www.cinemafurore.com research, stimulating active interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities Friday 27 February to Saturday 10 April New programme in March. exchange of information, and to a number of child-murders that are providing support for new and THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH ______happening in his town. A new play by Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £17 until 3 Mar (conc National Film Theatre existing MS societies. Martin McDonagh. Cast includes Nigel £8.50) South Bank MS societies and people Lindsay. A play by Thornton Wilder written and set www.bfi.org.uk/nft interested in the MS movement 1942 New Jersey when it won the Pulitzer Until Tuesday 30 March Prize. This is the world of Mr and Mrs Until Sunday 29 February are joining together on Friday THE PERMANENT WAY 27 February for the MS Global Antrobus, a remarkable family who have BETWEEN RESTRAINT & PASSION Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 survived every catastrophe throughout British Cinema of the 1920s had an Dinner Party. The SE1 event – The sensational new play by David Hare history by ‘the skin of their teeth’. With a effervescent energy despite the post- just one of thousands of that will which before it even reaches London new Ice Age on its way, dinosaurs on the war depression. The cinema was young, be taking place across the globe is influencing government. Hare, who front lawn and the end of the world due in and innovative, with real stars, such as – is in the Garry Weston Library has now been asked to advise on Tory 24 hours, will they be so lucky this time? the clean-limbed Ivor Novello and the transport policy, chronicles the disastrous at Southwark Cathedral with In our world of American supremacy and vivacious Betty Balfour. The bfi National path to railway privatisation. This tale of imminent ecological disaster, the day of Film and Television Archive have been food and wine, art and music. British mismanagement should attract Wilder’s philosophical comedy has come rescuing over the years these genuine •200 Union Street many from across the river in Westminster again. A Young Vic production directed treasures, and now present them for the •www.msif.org and Whitehall. by David Lan and sponsored by British first time. JOAN COLES Airways. FEBRUARY 2004 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 5

Imperial War Museum Saatchi Gallery Exhibitions Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 County Hall T 020 7823 2363 exhibition Arch Gallery www.iwm.org.uk www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk ¢ 37 The Cut T 020 8211 0958 Daily 10am-6pm; free Daily 10am-8pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); £8.50 review (conc £6.50) www.archgallery.co.uk Until Sunday 18 April Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free Women at War at the WOMEN & WAR Until Sunday 14 March Imperial War Museum £7; (conc £5) CHAPMAN BROTHERS: RETROSPECTIVE Thursday 12 February to Tuesday 9 March A major exhibition, the most ambitious ANOTHER SUCH PLACE Second main exhibition at new gallery. of its kind ever mounted on this theme, ______FROM BOADICEA in 60 AD Paintings by D J Roberts. telling the story of servicewomen, nurses, ______Southwark Cathedral Refectory to Kate Adie in the Iraq War land girls, factory workers, secret agents, Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 of 2003, British women have Bankside Gallery pilots and peacekeepers from the First 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 www.dswark.org/cathedral been participating in wars as World War to the present day. See review Daily 10am-5pm; free www.banksidegallery.com on this page. leaders, nurses, reporters, Tue-Fri 10am-5pm; weekends 11am-5pm; ______pilots, and critics. The exhibition free Until Sunday 14 March Jerwood Space ADEMOLA AKINTOLA makes the point that the First Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Friday 6 February to Sunday 7 March The second exhibition features work and Second World Wars were www.jerwoodspace.co.uk by the former resident artist at Charles in many ways ‘catalysts for THEN & NOW Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun 1-6pm; free Celebrating the bicentenary of the Royal Dickens School. change in social, political, and ______Watercolour Society. Until Sunday 15 February military attitudes…[and] in the ______Tate Modern ELIZABETH PRICE Bankside T 020 7887 8008 years since 1945, women have City Hall First in the Jerwood Artists Platform series. Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 www.tate.org.uk been able to achieve a level of Includes a sphere of brown packing tape. Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free www.london.gov.uk equality with men that would once have been unthinkable’. Wednesday 25 February to Sunday 28 Until Saturday 28 February Tuesday 3 to Friday 27 February March This is a thought-provoking NEW YOUNG EUROPEANS FIVE ANGELS FOR THE MILLENNIUM GRAHAM HUDSON A key installation by Bill Viola. claim, and the exhibition does Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Graham Hudson’s first London show Ambitions and personal testimonies from draw our attention to the combines political comment with a Until Sunday 21 March legions of women whose war- young people are exhibited alongside poignant effect. portraits by photographer Carl Cordonnier. THE WEATHER PROJECT related achievements (before, ______Olafur Eliasson’s Turbine Hall installation. ______Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings during, and since the world Design Museum The Cut T 020 7620 1322 wars) make them stand out T 0870 833 9955 Thursday 5 February to Sun 25 April www.llewellynalexander.com DONALD JUDD head-and-shoulders above www.designmuseum.org Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); Full retrospective of this American artist their contemporaries. The - Minimalist and great colourist exhibition itself is a collection £6 (conc £4) Until Saturday 21 February PICTURES UNDER £1000 of memorabilia, boasting a Until Sunday 29 February Until Sunday 23 May A mixed exhibition of selected British CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI warehouse’s worth of uniforms THE SMITHSONS artists. worn by women over the ages, A celebration of Alison and Peter Smithson £8 (conc £6) First major exhibition of works by interspersed with medals, who were among the most influential and Thursday 26 February to Saturday 13 controversial architects of the 50s and Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). Around paintings, photographs and March forty sculptures using marble, limestone, 60s and contributed to the development KEITH NEW - ONE MAN SHOW recruiting posters. of Pop Art. bronze and wood. Large dramatic landscapes in acrylic and ______•Daily until Sunday 18 April mixed media. the.gallery@oxo MARLIES MORSINK Until Sunday 21 March ______THOMAS HEATHERWICK Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Morley Gallery www.oxotower.co.uk How to spend £30,000 on “things you’d 61 W’minster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 9226 shopping like to live with”. Daily 11am-6pm; free www.morleycollege.ac.uk Á Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 12-4pm; free focus Until Autumn Friday 6 to Sunday 22 February HISTORY OF MODERN DESIGN IN THE THE NATURE OF PANIC Pathfinder Bookshop Until Wednesday 18 February A walk through fear in pictures and words HOME IN AND THRO’ OR SOMEWHERE The Cut Objects from archives and a look ahead by Patrick Olszowski & Sophie Petit- THEREABOUTS Zeman. A look at panic attacks. with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Drawings by Angela Eames and Gary KARL MARX, Malcolm X, jazz ______Woodley. fa projects Friday 27 February to Sunday 14 March and surrealism are all the ______subjects of books sold by Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 Percy Miller Gallery A TASTE FOR LIFE www.faprojects.com 39 Snowsfields 020 7207 4578 Photographic exhibition celebrating the Pathfinder Bookshop. The Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12 noon-4pm 10th anniversary of Fairtrade. longest established shop in ______www.percymillergallery.com The Cut, Pathfinder publish Until Saturday 13 March Union Projects ELSEWHERE 53 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 and distribute left wing books Until Friday 5 March including their biggest bestseller Tjebbe Beekman, Arjan van Helmond and THE COMMONS www.unionprojects.com Geerten Verheus. David Moore’s photographs of the empty Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12 noon-5pm the Communist Manifesto. Karl ______chamber of the House of Commons. Marx has certainly influenced all Fashion & Textile Museum ______Until Sunday 22 February our lives for good or ill. 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 Purdy Hicks Gallery FINAL CUTS The shop also organises www.ftmlondon.org 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Work by Katharina Grosse, Bernhard Martin, Marco Papa and Roberta Silva. regular political meetings with Tue-Sun 11am-5.45pm; £6 (conc £4) www.purdyhicks.com Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & Curated by Milovan Farronato. subjects ranging from the war Until Monday 1 March Sun 12 noon-5pm; free ______in Iraq to the problems of British MY FAVOURITE DRESS The Walk Gallery dairy farmers. Their varied Dresses chosen by respected designers. Until Saturday 7 February 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 customers include students ______www.walkgallery.com RACHEL BUDD from Southwark College, patrons Gallery 33 New work. Oil on canvas. Mon-Fri 10.30am-6.30pm; free 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 of local restaurants and the Friday 13 February to Saturday 20 March Monday 2 to Friday 20 February Young Vic, van drivers (for some Wednesday 18 to Friday 27 February STRAITS OF MEDINA FOUR AT THE WALK mysterious reason) and people ECHOES OF THE GREAT WAR Works by the gallery’s most popular artist, Cive Burton, John Crossley, C. Moray de seeking the background to the Somme: photographic images of the Great Arturo di Stefano. Morand and Neil Weerdmeester of the War by Tony Linforth Hall. London Group formed in 1913. latest world crisis. ______Holidaymakers often buy ______Royal National Theatre ______Hayward Gallery South Bank T 020 452 3400 Waterloo Gallery books on Cuba because they 14 Baylis Road T 07940 546 768 South Bank Centre T 020 7921 0600 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk are curious to know the politics www.hayward.org.uk Daily; free Mon-Fri 12-7pm; free behind the tourist image of Daily 10am-6pm (Tue & Wed 8pm); £9 (conc £6) Monday 2 February to Saturday 20 March Tuesday 3 to Friday 13 February sunshine and salsa. RAW MATERIALS RAPE •T 020 7401 2409 Thursday 26 February to Sunday 16 May From concept to opening night: how the Photographic exhibition. Work by Myriam •Mon-Fri 10am-7.30pm (Sat 5pm) ROY LICHTENSTEIN NT’s workshops brought Philip Pullman’s Zubiran and Matt Karlsson. Not suitable ANNE CRITCHLEY Major show about the Pop Art pioneer. trilogy to the Olivier. for children. FEBRUARY 2004 6 ww.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 St George the Martyr Southwark Cathedral music Music Borough High Street T 020 7407 2796 Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 www.dswark.org/cathedral Ø Cinema Organ Society www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk matters Edric Hall, LSB University, Borough Road Every Thursday Every Monday www.cinema-organs.org.uk Borough Music School LUNCHTIME RECITALS ORGAN RECITAL 1pm; free 1.10pm; free Sunday 15 February needs your help Thu 5: Royal Academy of Music students Mon 2: Colin Walsh ORGAN CONCERT Thu 12: (tenor) Mon 9: Tom Corns 3pm; £6 Kevin Loe EVERY SATURDAY (and Monday Thu 19: (organ) Mon 16: Ashley Grote Howard Beaumont on the Mighty Wurlitzer David Adkins Thu 26: Mon 23: Stephen Disley after school) children gather from the Trocodero cinema in New Kent Guildhall School of Music at Charles Dickens School Road. students ______Every Tuesday for both individual and group ______St John’s Waterloo MUSIC RECITAL St George’s RC Cathedral musical activities. The school Waterloo Road T020 7928 2003 1.10pm; free Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Tue 3: gives individual lessons up www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Trinity College Wind Ensemble to examination grade 4, in www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Tue 10: Royal Academy students Sunday 8 February Tue 17: Gavriella Goldman (French horn) keyboard, violin, clarinet flute, Every Friday GREEK CONNECTIONS Tue 24: Abigail Wragg & Benjamin Wragg guitar (and brass if requested). LUNCHTIME RECITALS 6.30pm; £7 (conc £5) 1.05pm There are also recorder and Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra Friday 20 February Fri 6: Tatjana Kaminska (violin) & Toms percussion groups. Places are in conducted by Peter Stark with soloists GOLDSMITHS’ SINFONIA & CHORUS Ostrovskis (piano) great demand. Eleftheria Kotzia and Efi Christodoulou. 7.30pm; £8 (conc £5) Fri 13: Louisa Gard (flute) Includes UK première of Theodore Brahms: Tragic Overture, op. 81; German Parents and friends hear Fri 20: Marie Faubert & Jo Siebert Antoniou’s Concert Fantasia for violin and Requiem, op. 45. Conducted by Tim their work at the end of term Fri 27: no concert chamber orchestra. www.erso.org.uk Hooper. concert. There are solo, small ______group and recorder group Thursday 19 February The Warehouse items, and the children gain VESPRES DU COMUN Saturday 21 February Theed Street T 020 7228 8854 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6) WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC www.thewarehouselondon.co.uk great confidence in performing, Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir ORCHESTRA besides demonstrating to directed Stephen Jackson. Students from 7.30pm; £9 (conc £6) Sunday 8 February parents and friends what they the Organ and Composition Faculties Elgar: Cello concerto with soloist Marie CONVERSATIONAL CONCERT can do. Many pupils have present a concert based around Marcel Macleod; Bernstein: Symphonic Dances 3pm; £15 (conc £12; child £8) progressed to more advanced Dupre’s epic organ work and Naji Hakim’s from West Side Story; Bernstein: Candide Chamber music is brought to life by young music making at the Centre ‘Ave Maris Stella’. Overture and Maxwell Davies; Maxwell’s presenter Karl Lutchmayer. Includes Reel. Conductor Jonathan Butcher. Kenneth Hesketh’s Cautionary Tales for Young Musicians at Morley and Phillip Neil Martin’s new Inducing College, or been offered Darkness. individual lessons when they reached secondary school. Wednesday 25 February Tuesday 3 February The Music School was set up Church Services ASH WEDNESDAY CHORAL EVENSONG Our Lady of La Salette & St Joseph 7.30am, 12.30pm & 6pm 5.30pm in 1995, chiefly for primary age Mass on the first day of Lent. Also at 6pm With the Worshipful Company of Glaziers. pupils who wished to learn an Melior Street T 020 7407 1948 www.rc.net/southwark/londonbridge-lasalette on Tuesday. Followed by Candlemas procession. instrument but whose parents ______could not afford private tuition. Wednesday 25 February St John’s Waterloo Wednesday 11 February However, funders do not ASH WEDNESDAY Waterloo Road T020 7928 2003 SPRINGBOARD CELEBRATION seem to see that learning music 12.35 & 8pm www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 7.45pm A Celebration of mission and the work is a continuous process. Once Mass on the first day of Lent. ______Sunday 8 February of Springboard which for ten years has one course or programme St George the Martyr YOUTH SERVICE been seeking to renew the Church for has been offered, the funding Borough High Street T 020 7407 2796 10.30am evangelism. Attended by Archbishops of stops, but the children want www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk Sunday morning worship. Canterbury & York and Archbishop George to go on learning. Unless Carey. Sunday 1 February Wednesday 21 February further funds are available by ASH WEDNESDAY Saturday 14 February March, the school will have to EUCHARIST & CHRISTINGLE 10.30am 12.30pm & 7pm ST VALENTINE’S CHORAL EVENSONG close or reduce its operation The Parish Eucharist includes the Holy Communion services on the first day 4pm considerably. Ideas for funds Christingle Service of Lent. A St Valentine’s Day service for newly weds and support are welcome; and ______and those preparing for marriage. if you wish to hear the children St George’s RC Cathedral Southwark Cathedral Lambeth Road T020 7928 5256 Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 Wednesday 25 February perform, the concert is on www.dswark.org/cathedral www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk ASH WEDNESDAY Saturday 27 March at 11am at 8.15am & 12.45pm Sunday 1 February Charles Dickens School. Tuesday 3 February Eucharist on the first day of Lent. 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Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT, tel: 020 7450 1889 fax: 020 7928 4074 Email: [email protected] web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk FEBRUARY 2004 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 7 Southwark Community Councils Special Events www.southwark.gov.uk Events for Children southside City Hall Design Museum Wednesday 4 February diary c Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Shad Thames T 0870 833 9955 www.london.gov.uk BOROUGH & BANKSIDE COMMUNITY www.designmuseum.org COUNCIL IT’S NOT healthy exercise every single day at Colombo Street Saturdays 7 & 21 & Sundays 8 & 22 7pm at Charles Dickens School, Lant Sundays February Street COVER STARS sports centre. 2004 started with OPEN DAY Monthly meeting at the now regular 2-5pm; £6 (child £4; family £16) a splendid banquet in the space Sat 9am-1pm; Sun 2-6pm; free venue. Children create their own magazine covers usually used for exercise. A chance to see inside the Greater London featuring themselves beside a London The Seniors New Year Party Wednesday 11 February Authority’s headquarters, including the landmark. Children must be accompanied was a huge success with roast London Assembly chamber and London’s BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL by an adult. Booking essential on 020 Living Room which has panoramic views. 7.30pm at Aylwin Girl’s School, Southwark 7940 8782. turkey as the main course The café in the basement will be open. Park Rd ______and guests enjoying excellent Monthly meeting at the now regular Florence Nightingale Museum table service provided by the See page 5 for details of this month’s venue. Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7620 0374 instructors and donors including exhibition at City Hall ______www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Southwark Council Deutsche Bank. Raffle prizes ______included another meal – at the London SCARE Falcon Point, Hopton St T 020 7525 5000 Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February St John’s, Waterloo Road T 020 7932 1121 www.southwark.gov.uk SWEETHEARTS & SURGEONS nearby Oxo Tower. 11.30am-4pm; £4.80 (child £3.80) Thursday 12 February Monday 2 to Friday 6 February Find out about Florence’s many admirers. * * * AIR TRAVEL SEMINAR RIVERWALK CONSULTATION Adult tours focusing on the darker side of 10am - 4pm; free 6.30pm; free one of Florence’s suitors. Find out about SE1 CHURCHGOERS marked A seminar on the environmental cost of North Falcon Point and Riverside Walk 19th-century surgery and see gruesome air travel. Speakers include Tony Juniper, Landscape Proposals Exhibition surgical objects shown by our special the Week of Prayer for Christian Friends of the Earth executive director, showing suggested landscape guest from the Old Operating Theatre and Unity by going on a five mile and a spokesperson from the Ministry of improvements to the riverside west of Herb Garret. Art workshops making your walk to pray in each others Transport. Peter Day (Radio 4) in the chair. Tate Modern. Council officers will be in own Victorian style Valentine’s card. Trails attendance on Tuesday afternoon. The churches. A London & Southwark Churches Action and prizes available. Free for families in At La Salette Church in Re The Environment event. Project Manager is Mavernie Buchanan. the Waterloo area. Supported by Waterloo Community Regeneration Trust. Melior Street the ecumenical ______pilgrims were welcomed with Pool of London [ SE1 Direct ] Imperial War Museum a recording of church bells www.pooloflondon.co.uk Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 echoing round the mountains at www.iwm.org.uk La Salette in France. The little Friday 6 February church alongside Guy’s was GUN SALUTE The weekly email Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February built in 1861 and named after 1pm newsletter from DO TOUCH THE EXHIBITS A Royal Salute to mark the 52nd 11.30am & 2.30pm; free the French town which had just anniversary of the Queen’s accession is the ‘in SE1’ team A chance to handle and learn more about become a new pilgim centre fired across the Thames from the Tower artefacts from the First and Second World following an apparition of Our of London by the Honourable Artillery Wars. All ages welcome with parental Lady. Company. Best vantage points are City supervision. Hall frontage and Tower Bridge. www.SE1direct.co.uk It was fascinating to learn Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 February that today the SE1 La Salette WOMEN ON PARADE has a 300 strong congregation 11am-3.30pm; free and both SE1 cathedrals have Meet actors in role and find out about recorded a rise in church women’s contribution to the war effort in both the First and Second World Wars. All attendance. ages welcome with parental supervision.

Monday 16 to Sunday 22 February A WOMAN’S WORK… Advertise here 11am-4pm; free A practical art activity based on the poster collection on the theme of women’s 020 7633 0766 work in wartime. All ages welcome with parental supervision. [email protected] Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 February VOICES 11.30am & 2.30pm; free A chance to meet veterans from the Second World War and more recent conflicts. All ages welcome with parental supervision. ______Sure Start West Bermondsey 40 Tabard Street T 020 7407 2586 www.surestart.gov.uk

Saturday 28 February SATURDAY MORNING DROP-IN 10am-12pm; free Open day at Bermondsey Village Hall for all local families with at least one child 0 - 4 years. Sure Start is the Government’s programme to deliver the best start in life for every child by bringing together early education, childcare, health and family support. London SE1 news • features reviews • forum www.London-SE1.co.uk FEBRUARY 2004 8 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Tuesday 3 February Talks & Meetings DESIGN HISTORY Guided Walks & Tours More to read 7pm; £120 for six nights Calder Bookshop Original London Walks First night of Design History course. Six on the web 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 london.walks.com T 020 7624 3978 www.calderpublications.com nights spread over two months. ______Day??? www.London-SE1.co.uk Fashion and Textile Museum Thursday 5 February DARKEST VICTORIAN LONDON 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 CLOVIS: A METAPHOR FOR OUR TIME Meet 11.30am Monument Station’s Fish www.ftmlondon.org web News 6.45pm; £4 (conc £2) Street entrance; £5 (conc £4) Michael David and Sion Probert read Victorian Street people and poverty on Wednesday 11 February Wi-Fi access coming to Waterloo and Dedwydd Jones’ play about two men two sides of river. MARKETING & SELLING - BUYERS & trapped in the basement of an building. A ______TREND FORECASTERS BT Openzone wireless internet access discussion with the author follows. Pied Piper Walks 6.30pm-8pm; £5 (conc £3.50) will be available at Waterloo and London T 020 7435 4782 Who sets the trends? How much power Bridge stations in the coming months. Thursday 12 February Monday 4 February do buyers have? A look at the relationship ...full story on the website AN EVENING WITH BORGES THE LAMBETH WALK between retailers and designers. 6.45pm; £4 (conc £2) Meet 10.30am Lambeth North stn; £5 (conc £4) SoBo brings coffee and art to Tower Extracts from the work of Jose Luis Borges A madhouse, a workhouse and a pottery. Bridge Road read by the actor Peter Pacey. and writer, Wednesday 25 February London’s first and only combined art translator and journalist Gustavo Arteles. STYLISTS & ART DIRECTORS - CREATIVE Wednesday 5 February gallery and espresso bar has arrived in COLLABORATIONS WAYLAID IN WATERLOO Tower Bridge Road, the brainchild of Jam Thursday 19 February 6.30pm-8pm; £5 (conc £3.50) Meet 10.30am Lambeth North stn; £5 (conc £4) Factory resident Peter Leonard. BECKETT’S MURPHY Creating a look; the work of stylists, art Explore a network of back streets. 6.45pm; £4 (conc £2) directors, photographers and designers ...full story on the website Friday 6 February The most significant sections of the - being a part of the creative process - can this be taught or is it an instinctive skill? BERMONDSEY TO ROTHERHITHE Queen’s Bargemaster resigns over comic novel read by three actors much Meet 10.30am London Bridge Station Marchioness row associated with Samuel Beckett’s work. ______Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological Society Tooley Street exit; £6 Ken Dwan, co-owner of Lambeth Pier- Explore two villages in this all day walk. based Tidal Cruises, has resigned Thursday 26 February Hawkstone Hall, Road as Queen’s Bargemaster over his TIM WATERSTONE AND THE LITERARY Saturday 7 February connection with the Marchioness BOOKSHOP Tuesday 24 February SECRET SOUTHWARK pleasure boat which sank near 6.45pm; £4 (conc £2) ROMAN AMERICA STREET Meet 10.30am Borough Stn; £5 (conc £4) Southwark Bridge. Tim Waterstone created a new type 7.30pm; £1 (refreshments from 7pm) Squares, cottages and industry. ...full story on the website of literary emporium that could cater Mellissa Melkian talks about the recently to every taste, but at the height of its discovered Roman cemetery in America Saturday 28February success, things went wrong. He talks of Street. JUBILEE LINE FULL DAY TOUR web Discussion his career with John Calder. ______£8; call to book ______South Bank Christian Studies Centre Look at architecture & surrounding areas. www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum Design Museum St John’s Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2796 Shad Thames T 020 7940 8783 Booking essential on all walks - Children’s activities www.designmuseum.org Monday 10 February ______- SoBo AGE OF FAITH & REASON Shakespeare City Walk - Simon the Tanner Monday 2 February 6.30pm-8pm; £2.50pm (all six evenings T020 8348 9022 - Waterloo house featured on Channel 4 THOMAS HEATHERWICK £12) ‘Grand Designs’ 7.15pm; £10 Launch of course led by lecturer Every Monday & Friday - Intimidation in supermarket car parks Designer, sculptor and architect talks Moire Dowell on aspects of medieval SHAKESPEARE WALK - Development and Planning legislation about his latest work. Christianity. Meet 11am Blackfriars Station exit 8; £6; …join the debate on the website Shakespeare’s City haunts.

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