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The London Eye and There’s plenty of the South Bank will choice for families remain the focus of looking for a seasonal the capital’s New theatre treat this Year celebrations, the Christmas. Mayor has confirmed. Goat & Monkey, with Mayor of London Boris acclaimed writer Toby Hulse, Johnson last month approved returns to Southwark Playhouse plans to fund the annual firework to present their unique take on display at midnight on 1 January the traditional pantomime Jack for a further three years. and the Beanstalk. Faced with mounting costs Cinderella is the main for security and stewarding, City seasonal show at the Unicorn Hall officials considered scaling Theatre in Tooley Street. back the event or holding a On the South Bank The Shed ticketed celebration of the New at the National Theatre presents Year but eventually concluded This month dance company Rambert moves to its The Elephantom: adapted from that the current free open-access the popular children’s book by event at the current location was new purpose-built home on the South Bank. Ross Collins, this hour-long show the best option. To celebrate the company will be hosting a series of events connecting for the whole family features a The Greater London people with leading industry professionals and taking them to the heart of life-size elephant ghost puppet. Authority claims that 250,000 the creative process. From Monday 2 to Saturday 14 December, Rambert Waterloo East Theatre is will be throwing open its doors and inviting the public to explore the people gather to watch the hosting Scrooge and Marley, a company’s purpose-built, state-of-the-art facilities where visitors can tour fireworks in designated viewing two-man show based on Dickens’ the building, watch rehearsals, observe artists at work and take part in areas between Lambeth and A Christmas Carol. classes. Blackfriars bridges, with a further Local am dram group the Workshops will be on offer for people of all ages, experienced dancers 300,000 people assembling in the Quay Players present Jack and the and those who are completely new to dance. area. Beanstalk (set in Bermondsey) at Many of the events are already fully booked but some spaces are still • For details of road closures Greenwood Theatre. available – see www.rambert.org.uk for details see www.london.gov.uk • See listings on pages 5 & 6
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Garden Museum Red Cross Garden theatre’s history and architecture, and gain access to some of the non-public Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 What’s On spaces inside. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk www.bost.org.uk Full info at se1.net/15004 Sunday 1 December Friday 13 December December DIGGIN’ DESIGN YULETIDE CELEBRATION 10.30am-5pm; £3 3.30pm-5.30pm; free Children & family Comprehensive local listings Artists’ and makers’ fair showcasing Join Bankside Open Spaces Trust for carol all things sustainable, eco-friendly and singing, the switch-on of the Christmas Imperial War Museum tree lights, hot refreshments and mince home-grown. Stalls of festive foods and Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 flowers, photography and jewellery, pies, festive stories and activities. www.iwm.org.uk/london Special events ceramics and textiles. Vauxhall City Farm Full info at se1.net/15038 Bankside Pier will bring some of their animals. Setchell TRA Hall Friday 20 to Tuesday 31 December Full info at se1.net/14985 Hazel Way A WARTIME CHRISTMAS Sunday 5 January London Eye 11am-4pm (closed 24/25/26 Dec); free TWELFTH NIGHT South Bank T 0870 5000 600 Saturday 7 December Visit the A Family in Wartime exhibition CHRISTMAS FAIR 2.30pm www.londoneye.com over Christmas and find out what An annual seasonal celebration with 2pm-4pm; 20p London was like for children during The Lions part theatre company. It Tuesday 31 December A Longfield TRA event with cake stall, is a celebration of the New Year, NEW YEAR FIREWORKS bric-a-brac, clothes, raffle, tombola etc. the Second World War in this fun and mixing ancient seasonal customs midnight 1 Jan; free Full info at se1.net/15036 instructive craft activity. Children will Annual fireworks display centred on with contemporary festivity. It is free, Southwark Cathedral learn about the London skyline during accessible to all and happens whatever the London Eye. DJ set continues till the Blitz, making gifts and decorations London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 the weather. The procession ends at the 12.45am. within the A Family in Wartime space www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk George Inn in Borough High Street. Full info at se1.net/15052 itself. Lower Marsh Saturday 7 December Full info at se1.net/14585 Full info at se1.net/14987 Bermondsey Square Lower Marsh CHRISTMAS MARKET www.lowermarshmarket.co.uk 12 noon-5pm; free St Mary Magdalen www.bermondseysquare.co.uk This Friends of Southwark Cathedral Bermondsey Street T 020 7357 0984 Friday 6 & Saturday 7 December event features around 30 stalls in a www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Friday 6 December CHRISTMAS MARKET CHRISTMAS ANTIQUES AND marquee in the Millennium Courtyard, 11am-3pm offering a wide variety of festive gifts Wednesday 18 December VINTAGE NIGHT MARKET Featuring many weekday traders, the and food. BACH TO BABY: MEET THE 3pm-11pm market will also be joined by crafts and The Friday morning antiques market gifts stalls and the return of the popular Full info at se1.net/15049 TRUMPETS holds a special evening event for Morley College makers’ stall. Father St Thomas’ Hospital 10.30am (coffee from 10am); £10 Christmas. With live blues and jazz. Christmas will be in residence in the new Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7188 7188 (children free) Full info at se1.net/15055 piazza outside Cubana between 3.30pm www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk It’s a family fanfare! Introduce your and 5pm on Friday and from 12 noon Cathedral Square Thursday 5 December family to the Trumpets. Meet Piccolo, to 2.30pm on Saturday. Visits to Santa’s B-flat and Fanfare Trumpet. Discover Montague Close Grotto cost £2. CHRISTMAS MARKET Central Hall; 11am-3pm how their family and music has changed Until Sunday 1 December Full info at se1.net/14989 There will be a wide range of stalls throughout the ages - from Baroque to TASTE GEORGIA! Monnow Road Baptist Church including cakes and home produce, the modern day. Suitable for both under 11am-11pm; free Monnow Road books, jewellery & cosmetics, toys, linens 5s and under 95s Four-day celebration of Georgian www.mrbc.co.uk and gifts. Annual fundraising event for culture, food and wine. the Friends of St Thomas’ Hospital. Full info at se1.net/14626 Saturday 7 December Full info at se1.net/15015 CHRISTMAS FETE Full info at se1.net/15024 Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre 11am-4pm Tower Tandoori Public meetings 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 Games, raffle, cake stall and other 74-76 Tower Bridge Road T 020 7237 2247 www.coinstreet.org attractions. www.towertandoori.co.uk Beormund Community Centre 177 Abbey Street T 020 7237 9313 Saturday 14 December Full info at se1.net/15047 Monday 2 December www.beormund.co.uk CHRISTMAS BAZAAR More London Riverside TOWER BRIDGE ROAD CHRISTMAS FAYRE 12 noon-3pm Tooley Street Wednesday 11 December www.morelondon.com 6.30pm-10pm; free Tombola, raffle, face painting, cakes, SOUTHWARK CYCLING SUMMIT nearly new toys and books, festive music Hosted by local Indian restaurant Tower and more. Money raised goes towards Wednesday 11 to Sunday 15 December Tandoori in conjunction with Southwark 6.30pm-8.30pm; RSVP equipment for the nursery. For more CHRISTMAS MARKET Council, the free fayre will showcase [email protected] 11am-6pm information contact Sarah Morgan on a number of local businesses with pop Southwark Liberal Democrats have Stalls from around 25 mainly local 020 7021 1675 or s.morgan@coinstreet. up stalls inside the restaurant. Tower organised a summit to discuss road businesses including fashion, gifts, food org All welcome. Tickets to see Father Tandoori will also provide a traditional safety and facilities for cyclists. The and more. Father Christmas and his Indian banquet free of charge to Christmas £2. reindeer will be dropping in for a day event will bring together cyclists from visitors. There will be a live band and Full info at se1.net/15037 visit on Thursday and there will be live look out for Santa’s reindeer who will be across the borough for discussions and Emma Cons Gardens music. dropping in. workshops on a number of bike-related topics. It will feature a closing speech The Cut Full info at se1.net/14898 Full info at se1.net/15046 Morley College Young Vic by Cambridge MP Julian Huppert who Friday 6 December 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS SWITCH- 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Group on Cycling at Westminster. Simon www.morleycollege.ac.uk www.youngvic.org ON Hughes MP and London Assembly 5.30pm-6.30pm; free Sunday 1 December Tuesday 17 December member Caroline Pidgeon AM are also Join Waterloo Quarter BID for the WINTER FAIR TOUR OF THE YOUNG VIC switching on of the Christmas tree lights expected to be present at the summit, 11.30am-3.30pm; free 2pm-3pm (meet 1.50pm); booking which is being organised by local Liberal opposite The Old Vic. There will be Arts & craft stalls, performances, family essential on 020 7021 1600 or email carol-singing and free hot sangria from activities and delicious food and drink all [email protected] Democrat councillors. 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Links Community Centre Sunday 22 December Tuesday 24 December CAROL SERVICE BUILDNG THE CRIB 353 Rotherhithe New Road SE16 6.30pm 4pm Comedy Wednesday 4 December Full info at se1.net/15057 The Christmas story is told as children The Horse & Stables BERMONDSEY & ROTHERHITHE Monnow Road Baptist Church help to build the crib. Carols and fun for the whole family. 122-124 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7928 6277 COMMUNITY COUNCIL Monnow Road www.horsebar.co.uk 7pm www.mrbc.co.uk Full info at se1.net/15074 Meeting for residents of Grange, Wednesday 11 December Sunday 15 December Riverside, South Bermondsey, Surrey Tuesday 24 December WATERLOO COMEDY CLUB Docks, Rotherhithe and Livesey wards. CAROL SERVICE MIDNIGHT MASS 6pm 7.45pm; £15 The theme is crime and safety: building a 11.30pm Carols by candlelight followed by mulled Christmas Show Headlined By Kevin stronger community. Christmas begins with the midnight Eldon With Support From Brian Gittins, wine and mince pies. Full info at se1.net/13864 celebration of the Eucharist. Doors open Addy Van der Borgh and Tom Bell. Full info at se1.net/15048 at 9.30pm. Southwark Cathedral Full info at se1.net/15051 Full info at se1.net/15072 Talks & literature London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Bargehouse www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Wednesday 25 December Music CHORAL EUCHARIST Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Sunday 1 December 1901 Arts Club www.coinstreet.org THE ADVENT PROCESSION 11am 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 6.30pm Full info at se1.net/15073 Wednesday 11 to Sunday 15 December Carols and readings for the season of www.1901artsclub.com ANGELS AREN’T JUST FOR St Anne’s Bermondsey Advent. Tuesday 3 December CHRISTMAS: A FESTIVAL OF Thorburn Square T 020 7237 3950 FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS Full info at se1.net/15043 www.stannesbermondsey.org.uk PICCADILLY Times vary; Adult show £5; Family Wednesday 4 December 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6) show £3.50 from http://fairytalefestival. ST NICHOLAS DAY CHRISTINGLE Sunday 15 December One of the pinnacles of British silent eventbrite.co.uk SERVICE CHRISTINGLE SERVICE cinema, E A Dupont’s Piccadilly (1929) is a The Crick Crack Club returns to the South 5.30pm-6.15pm 6pm sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething Bank. Expect unbowlderish fairytales, Better Bankside has teamed up with Christingle Service with Nativity play. with sexual and racial tension. The through Norwegian tricksters, Finnish Southwark Cathedral and Borough Chinese-American screen goddess Anna creation myths, irritable goddesses, wild Market to organise this seasonal service Full info at se1.net/15021 May Wong stars as Shosho, a scullery twins riding goats and Baba Yaga to and celebration for local businesses and Tuesday 17 December maid in a fashionable London nightclub Beezlebub getting a mythic makeover families. The annual Christingle Service OPEN AIR CAROLS whose sensuous tabletop dance catches and Morgana jousting across giant will begin at 5.30pm with carols and the the eye of suave club owner Valentine lighting of traditional Christingle candles 6.30pm chessboards... Wilmot. The live and entirely improvised made by local children. Following the Come & sing carols in Thorburn Square. Full info at se1.net/15062 piano accompaniment is provided by service the congregation makes its way Full info at se1.net/15019 New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall to Borough Market for the switching Costas Fotopoulos. 106 The Cut on of the market’s Christmas tree lights. Tuesday 24 December Full info at se1.net/15075 Refreshments will be served. MIDNIGHT COMMUNION Tuesday 10 December 11.30pm Thursday 5 December Full info at se1.net/15016 30 YEARS BEFORE THE MASTHEAD: ERATO PIANO TRIO: CHRISTMAS HALF A LIFETIME AS EDITOR OF Thursday 5 December Full info at se1.net/15022 WITH FRIENDS THE LONDON ARCHAEOLOGIST MERCY SHIPS CAROL SERVICE Welsh Chapel 7.30pm; £18 (conc £15) PUBLICATION 7.30pm; email [email protected] 90 Southwark Bridge Road Programme of chamber music including 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); non- Mercy Ships UK is a 35 year old global welshchapel.com works by Haydn, Suk, Beethoven, Bruch, members £1 charity operating the world’s largest Piazzolla and Mozart. Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological charity hospital ship, The Africa Sunday 15 December Full info at se1.net/15076 Society AGM followed by presidential Mercy, and providing free medical CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE lecture by Clive Orton, emeritus and humanitarian aid to the world’s 11am Tuesday 10 & Thursday 12 December professor of quantitative archaeology poorest people. The Rt Revd Christopher Sing carols in Welsh and English. MARTIN, IZZY & ALEX at UCL. Chessun, Bishop of Southwark, will be 7pm; £20 giving the address. Full info at se1.net/15040 Martin Prendergast (piano) and singers Full info at se1.net/14571 The Old King’s Head Full info at se1.net/14760 Izzy Smith and Alex Knox present an Monday 16 December Guided walks informal festive concert in aid of the 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 Stonewall charity. The programme www.theoldkingshead.uk.com MAYOR OF LONDON’S CAROL SERVICE Tabard Street piazza includes works made famous by Frank Thursday 12 December 7pm Tabard Street Sinatra, Elton John, Billy Joel and the WINTER TALES AND SONGS Londoners are invited to join leading Beatles and will feature songs from 8pm; £2.50 politicians and City Hall staff for this Sunday 8 & Monday 9 December Wicked and Moulin Rouge and pieces Pete Castle tells tales and sings folk annual carol service. OUR MANOR by Sondheim, Tim Minchin and Victoria songs at this South East London Folklore Full info at se1.net/15042 Sun 2.30pm (meet 2.15pm); Mon 7pm Wood, amongst others. Society event. (meet6.45pm); £9 (conc £8); advance Tuesday 17 December Full info at se1.net/15077 Full info at se1.net/15018 CATHEDRAL SING-IN booking recommended Evelina London Children’s Hospital 12.45pm Discover the wild, weird and wonderful secrets of the place you live or work St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7188 7188 Sing carols and traditional Christmas www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Church services songs. A celebration for the whole on this pre-Christmas walk around the Christ Church Southwark community. Borough and Bankside with local writer Friday 13 December 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 Full info at se1.net/15070 and performer John Constable. Pubs, CAST OF MAMMA MIA www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk ghosts and hidden alleyways... Chaucer, 4pm; free Sunday 22 & Monday 23 December Shakespeare and Dickens... Theatres, Thursday 19 December CATHEDRAL CAROL SERVICE The cast of the long-running hit show bear-pits and medieval ‘stews’... From LUNCHTIME CAROL SERVICE 6.30pm will perform a special concert of 1.10pm Traditional pattern of Lessons and Carols the Romans to the birth of acid house highlights from the world famous With the Portcullis Singers. with readings from the King James music and Bankside’s emergence as musical. Dance, jive and meet the cast Version of the Bible. No tickets required. London’s new cultural quarter. after the show. Full info at se1.net/15056 Full info at se1.net/15071 Full info at se1.net/15033 Full info at se1.net/14966 Sign up to receive Next month our weekly in se1 se1 email newsletter www.se1direct.co.uk Merry Christmas
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Guy’s Hospital Saturday 7 December Monday 23 December is thrilled to have a ghost-elephant living NORMAN HARPER: ORGAN RECITAL MERBECKE CHOIR in her house. He makes life so much Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 1.15pm; free (retiring collection) Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free more fun! But Elephantoms are a bit www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Norman Harper performs Messiaen’s La Southwark Cathedral’s Merbecke Choir too big for houses and before long, he’s Nativité du Seigneur. draws its members from local students, causing a lot of trouble. Adapted by Ben Wednesday 4 December Full info at se1.net/14603 young professionals and former Power and co-directed by Finn Caldwell NATALIE COYLE choristers and regularly performs at and Toby Oli. Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free St John’s Waterloo services and concerts at the Cathedral, A classically trained soprano, Natalie 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 and has toured nationally and abroad. Full info at se1.net/15061 joined Classic BRIT Award winners BLAKE www.stjohnswaterloo.org Until Sunday 27 January at the end of their 2012 UK tour. She Full info at se1.net/14965 FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT has performed three times at Wembley Friday 6 December Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 Stadium to sold-out crowds of over RAINFALL, MOONLIGHT AND Dance Georg Kaiser’s 1912 German Expressionist 85,000 - most recently, the Rugby League ANGELS masterpiece explores the tragedy of 1.10pm; free Tetley’s Challenge Cup Final, where she Guy’s Hospital an ordinary man who steps outside Short recital of flute and piano music sang ‘Abide with Me’ and ‘God Save the Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 his humdrum life and, over the course with Colleen Muriel and Manuel Villet. www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk of one crazy, alienating day, destroys Queen’. Natalie is patron of Breathe. Programme includes Beethoven’s himself. Adam Godley leads the cast in Full info at se1.net/14970 Moonlight Sonata, new music by Colleen Wednesday 11 December this new version by Dennis Kelly, directed Wednesday 11 December Muriel and flute arrangements of advent AKADEMI by Melly Still. AKADEMI carols. Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free Akademi presents the best of South Full info at se1.net/15068 Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free Full info at se1.net/15006 Asian dance in a programme bringing Akademi presents the best of South Until Sunday 3 February Saturday 7 December together emerging and more THE LIGHT PRINCESS Asian dance in a programme bringing WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC experienced artists. British-based with together emerging and more ORCHESTRA Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12, international roots, these artists provide £26, £33, £38, £48 experienced artists. British-based with 7.30pm; £13 (conc £8) on the door or a fresh take on traditional Indian dance A new musical with music and lyrics by international roots, these artists provide £10 (conc £7) in advance styles, showing a mix of bold and Tori Amos and book and lyrics by Samuel Benjamin Britten centenary concert. a fresh take on traditional Indian dance original choreographies. Adamson, directed by Marianne Elliott. A Britten Piano Concerto - Soloist Jonathan styles, showing a mix of bold and dark fairytale about grief, rebellion and Oshry Rimsky-Korsakov, Scherezade Full info at se1.net/14971 original choreographies. the power of love. Copland ‘Rodeo’ Conductor: Jonathan Full info at se1.net/14971 Butcher Theatre Full info at se1.net/14707 Wednesday 18 December Full info at se1.net/14979 Southwark Playhouse MERBECKE CHOIR Greenwood Theatre Friday 13 December 77-85 Newington Causeway T 020 7407 0234 Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free 55 Weston Street T 020 7188 2682 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Seasonal music. Southwark Cathedral’s GALLERY SINGERS CHRISTMAS Merbecke Choir draws its members from CONCERT Until Saturday 7 December local students, young professionals and 7pm; £6 in advance; £8 on the door Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 December TROUT STANLEY The Gallery Singers present an evening former choristers and regularly performs JACK AND THE BEANSTALK The Little; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; of Christmas cheer including festive at services and concerts at the Cathedral, 7.30pm; matinee Sat 2.30pm; £14 (conc £16 (conc £14) performance pieces and audience £12) The UK premiere of Claudia Dey’s and has toured nationally and abroad. participation. The singers are supporting Bermondsey-based am dram group acclaimed play directed by Matt Full info at se1.net/14972 Save The Children’s Christmas Jumper the Quay Players bring their annual Steinberg. Set in Tumbler Ridge, British Southwark Cathedral Day and all choir members will be pantomime to a bigger and better Columbia, Grace and Sugar Ducharme wearing their finest seasonal jumpers venue. All is not well in panto land. are infamous twins marked by tragic London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 to the concert and donating £1 to www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk The evil giant Blunderbore rules over events from their past: their triplet died the charity. Audience members are Ye Olde Bermondsey with an iron fist. in the birth canal, and on their twentieth Tuesday 3 December encouraged to dress likewise and there Jack, Jill and the other inhabitants of birthday their mother was killed while GKT MUSIC SOCIETY: A CHRISTMAS will be a prize for the best Christmas the village live in perpetual fear of what their father was split in half by lightning. CELEBRATION jumper. There will be donation buckets will happen to them if they cannot As if this wasn’t bad enough, each year at the concert for Save the Children and 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6) in advance; £12 pay their punitive taxes. Jack and the on their birthday Grace finds a dead all profits from ticket sales will be going body. But this birthday will be different (conc £8) on the door Beanstalk stars a host of your favourte to Save the Children too. pantomime characters, and the well- - it’s lucky 30! GKT Music Society is the collective Full info at se1.net/15035 known show tunes and pop songs will Full info at se1.net/14944 name for Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ have you tapping your toes all the way medical school’s orchestra and choir. The Thursday 19 December up to Christmas. Written for the Quay Wednesday 11 December to Saturday 5 society can trace its history back many HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION Players by West End writer and director January years, and was once briefly directed by CHRISTMAS CHAMBER CONCERT Ian McFarlane. THE LAST MARCH Vaughan Williams. This year’s Christmas 7.30pm; £20 The Little; Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; concert is directed by Clare Clements and A Christmas chamber concert to raise Full info at se1.net/14988 £16 (conc £14; family £50) features Rhianwen Pugh on the harp. funds for a human rights charity working Menier Chocolate Factory Dog sleds, icy adventure, and a bitter The concert will include music by Britten, with survivors of human rights abuse. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7378 1713 race to the end; Tinder Theatre presents Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as Amy Norrington, Katharine Gowers, www.menierchocolatefactory.com the thrilling comedy of Captain Scott’s many traditional carols with audience Alasdair Beatson and James Boyd will last daring bid to conquer the South perform works by Mozart, Beethoven Until Saturday 23 February Pole. Using spirited humour, frantic participation. CANDIDE and Schumann. physicality and of course bucket loads of Full info at se1.net/15044 Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50- revitalising tea, Tinder Theatre will tell Full info at se1.net/15013 £37.50 the story - from its hopeful beginnings Wednesday 18 December St Thomas’ Hospital Leonard Bernstein’s musical comedy LONDON CONCERTANTE full of promise and adventure, to its Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7188 7188 starring Jackie Clune, James Dreyfus, bleak snow swept end. 7.30pm; £14, £19, £24, £28 from 020 www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Fra Fee as Candide with Cassidy Janson, 8378 5163 Ben Lewis, Scarlett Strallen and David Full info at se1.net/14798 London Concertante perform Bach’s Monday 2 December Thaxton. Friday 6 December to Saturday 12 January Brandenburg Concertos by candlelight. SAMBOSSA JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Director / Violin: Fenella Humphreys Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free Full info at se1.net/14781 The Large; Mon-Sat 7pm; Sat 2.30pm; A programme of Bach masterpieces, Sambossa presents all the sounds National Theatre £16 (conc £14; family £50) combined with works by Vivaldi and & rhythms of Brazil in a small band South Bank T 020 7452 3000 This Christmas, Goat & Monkey, with Mozart. format. Compact but powerful, with www.nationaltheatre.org.uk acclaimed writer Toby Hulse, returns to music ranging from sultry bossa nova & Southwark Playhouse to present their Full info at se1.net/14903 grooving afrofunk to blistering samba. Monday 16 December to Friday 11 January unique take on the traditional Christmas St George the Martyr PROTEST SONG pantomime. Journey with Jack through Full info at se1.net/14962 The Shed; Times vary; £12/£20 Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 a raucous world of magical beans, milk www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk Monday 9 December A new monologue by Tim Price, directed squirting cows, tap dancing mice and, of TREBLOS WIND QUINTET by Polly Findlay, with Rhys Ifans playing course, giants! All the classic ingredients Thursday 19 December Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free the role of Danny. Danny sleeps rough of the seasonal panto with more than a FREE LUNCHTIME RECITAL An exciting ensemble and winners of on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. Has few surprises A show for everyone aged 1pm-1.45pm; free the Breathe-Ideas Tap ‘New Performers’ done for years. Then one morning he 7 to 107. Thomas Humphreys (baritone) performs brief, Treblos formed whilst studying at wakes to see a canvas city being erected the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. in front of him. And Danny finds himself Full info at se1.net/14797 songs by Brahms and Schumann. The Old Vic Followed by refreshments. They have performed for HRH the Duke swept up in the last occupation of of Kent and the Lord Mayor. Their London. Tim Price’s funny and savage 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 Full info at se1.net/15017 programme includes pieces by Ligeti, monologue explores the reality of the www.oldvictheatre.com St George’s Cathedral Hindemith and Debussy. Occupy movement. Based on a true story, the account of an unlikely hero allows Friday 6 December to Saturday 23 February Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Full info at se1.net/14963 FORTUNE’S FOOL www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk us inside a remarkable political moment. Monday 16 December Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Full info at se1.net/15063 £11-£75 Thursday 5 December NATALIE COYLE Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Turgenev’s PARKINSON’S UK CHRISTMAS Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free Monday 9 December to Saturday 12 January THE ELEPHANTOM savagely funny play is directed by Lucy CONCERT A classically trained Soprano, Natalie joined Classic BRIT Award winners BLAKE The Shed; Times vary; £12 Bailey, in this new production which 7pm; £12.50-£25 including mulled wine at the end of their 2012 UK tour. She Adapted from the popular children’s stars Iain Glen and Richard McCabe. and mince pies from 020 7963 9319; has performed three times at Wembley book by Ross Collins, this funny and A pair of newlyweds arrive at their quote SE1OFFER and get half price side Stadium to sold-out crowds of over festive hour long show for the whole country estate to be welcomed by aisle seats 85,000 - most recently, the Rugby League family features a life-size elephant ghost Kuzovkin (Iain Glen), the penniless This Christmas concert will be hosted BBC Tetley’s Challenge Cup Final, where she puppet and is staged by the creative gentleman-in-residence. Their wealthy News presenter Jane Hill. The line-up sang ‘Abide with Me’ and ‘God Save the team behind War Horse. The story of one and mischievous neighbour Tropatchov includes award-winning soprano Juliette Queen’. Natalie is Patron of Breathe. little girl and her larger-than-life friend (Richard McCabe) calls by for a seemingly Pochin and the Wessex Male Choir. is brought to life with puppetry and innocent celebratory lunch. Fuelled by Full info at se1.net/14964 Full info at se1.net/14941 theatrical ingenuity. At first, the little girl champagne the proceedings degenerate, December 2013 6 WHAT’S ON IV twitter.com/se1 in se1 leading to a shocking revelation with dead. To begin with... Starring George America. with Sodiq set up a football team on far-reaching consequences. Fortune’s Fouracres and James Swanton. Directed Full info at se1.net/15081 their council estate in Peckham, and Fool was last produced on Broadway in by Andrew Brock. made a film in 2008 celebrating Sodiq’s Friday 6 to Thursday 12 December 2002 with Alan Bates and Frank Langella, Full info at se1.net/14996 dream of studying medicine. At the time both winning Tony Awards. This Old Vic JEUNE ET JOLIE he said he didn’t want to end up in jail. production marks its West End debut. Young Vic Times vary; £9 (conc £8) This new film revisits the past and is all 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Intriguing look at a contemporary about turning points and the choices we Full info at se1.net/14981 www.youngvic.org seventeen year old Parisian girl, who Unicorn Theatre make. Followed by a public conversation after a first, clumsy sexual encounter, with filmmaker Adeyemi, Barry and 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Until Saturday 21 December seeks more than mere gratification, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Margaret Mizen, and His Honour www.unicorntheatre.com by becoming a part time prostitute. Judge Roger Chapple, the Recorder of Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Contains scenes of a sexually graphic Southwark. This is a free event with a Tuesday 3 to Sunday 29 December £10-£35 nature. Subtitled. voluntary collection for the Mayor of ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE UK premiere of Kander and Ebb’s Southwark’s Charity Appeal for Evelina CHRISTMAS provocative musical The Scottsboro Boys Full info at se1.net/15082 Times vary; £16 (conc £13; under-21s London Children’s Hospital. directed by five-time Tony Award winner Friday 13 to Thursday 19 December £10) Susan Stroman. The true story of nine THE COUNSELOR Full info at se1.net/15032 Originally written for his two daughters young black men, aged between 12 Times vary; £9 (conc £8) in 1823, Clement Clarke Moore’s much- and 19, travelling on a train through Ridley Scott directs a very powerful cast loved ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931 in search that includes Cameron Diaz and Javier Exhibitions is still read to millions of children around of a new life. By the end of their journey, Bardem. A twisted thriller about how 1 Doyce Street the world today. The Unicorn’s delicate their lives had been changed forever by one man’s greed will be the downfall 1 Doyce Street adaptation directed by Douglas Rintoul the devastating effect of a single lie. Two of many. will inspire audience members young white women falsely accused the nine Full info at se1.net/15083 Fri & Sat 10am-5pm; free and old to leave a few extra mince pies of rape. Even though one of the women for St Nick this Christmas Eve. Age guide: later recanted her accusation, and in Saturday 21 to Tuesday 24 December IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Until Friday 13 December For under 5s spite of a total absence of evidence, the HQ Times vary; £9 (conc £8) Full info at se1.net/14678 boys were convicted. Their subsequent Artist Alannah Currie aka Miss Pokeno trials and appeals, lasting seven years, A film that needs no introduction, the Until Sunday 6 January presents an installation creating the deeply divided the nation. nation’s number one Christmas treat. CINDERELLA When a good man feels driven to the headquarters of a militant feminist group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Times vary; £16 (conc £13; under-21s Full info at se1.net/13913 edge, help is on hand from the most Resistance. £10) Wednesday 4 to Saturday 21 December unlikely source. A dazzlingly original take on one of the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Full info at se1.net/15087 Full info at se1.net/15058 best-loved fairytales of all time. Directed The Maria; 7.45pm (Sat matinee 1 Tanner House by Sally Cookson. When Ella’s mother Friday 13 December to Thursday 3 January 2.45pm); £10 & £19.50 Tanner Street dies, she is brought up by her devoted Improbable’s Phelim McDermott directs KILL YOUR DARLINGS and loving father who teaches her the 11am-6pm; free the internationally acclaimed duo Mat Times vary; £9 (conc £8) names and calls of the woodland birds Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, one Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz in an adult Friday 6 to Sunday 15 December that surround her home. But when her fairy-tale of a natural born freak and of the leaders of America’s beat poet BERMONDSEY AND BEYOND father marries again, Ella’s peaceful life an American beauty queen who got generation. The very heart of New York New prints by Richard Miller, textile is turned upside down by a host of new married. Contains full male and female in the late 1940s is vividly portrayed art by Jenny Sherriff and drawings by and unpleasant relations. It appears nudity. Recommended for ages 16+. as he mixes with Jack Kerouc, William David Fryer. All three artists have strong her only allies are the feathered friends Burroughs and their coveted circle of connections to the Bermondsey Street who roost in the trees, but they are Full info at se1.net/14892 intimates. area. no ordinary birds... Nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013, Cinderella: A Full info at se1.net/15084 Full info at se1.net/15029 Fairytale’s quirky visual style, crystal- Cinema Friday 20 December to Thursday 3 January Anise Gallery clear storytelling and original live music Shortwave Cinema NEBRASKA 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 bring this classic tale of reversed fortunes Times vary; £9 (conc £8) www.anisegallery.co.uk imaginatively to life. Age guide: 6+ 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Award winning comedy drama, that sees www.shortwavefilms.co.uk Thu-Sun 11am-5pm; free Full info at se1.net/14677 Woody, a grumbling eighty something Union Theatre Until Thursday 5 December old man, who is convinced he’s won a Until Sunday 8 December GRAVITY million dollars on an obviously dodgy GURLEY: NEW YORK AND THE 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Times vary; £9 (conc £8) lottery scam. He drags his family across WORLD OF A MILLION MICKEYS www.uniontheatre.biz Two astronauts are cut adrift when a the American Mid-West, to try and claim Gurley’s latest series of work uses New Tuesday 3 December to Saturday 5 January freak incident triggers a catastrophic it. York as its focus and inspiration. SEASON’S GREETINGS series of events which sees them floating Full info at se1.net/15085 thegurley.co.uk Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £18 (conc £16) in deep space. With Sandra Bullock and Tate Modern Full info at se1.net/14392 Alan Ayckbourn’s black comedy about George Clooney. Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Architecture Foundation a dysfunctional family set over the Full info at se1.net/15079 www.tate.org.uk/modern Christmas holiday is directed by Michael 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 Until Thursday 5 December www.architecturefoundation.org.uk Strassen. Thursday 12 December DOM HEMINGWAY Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/15041 Times vary; £9 (conc £8) IMAGINING SOUTHWARK Waterloo East Theatre Notorious cockney gangster Dom Starr Auditorium; 6.30pm-8.30pm; free; Tuesday 3 to Friday 20 December booking advised 020 7525 4985 or GOOD NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Hemingway is out after serving a 12-year [email protected] www.waterlooeast.co.uk stretch. He’s a walking time bomb on BUILDING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE the much-changed London streets, as he The Mayor of Southwark invites you Myvillages.org and Grizedale Arts Tuesday 3 to Sunday 22 December looks for the payback he’s owed. With to an evening of film and discussion. present an exhibition and accompanying SCROOGE & MARLEY Jude Law and Richard E Grant. An inspiring and thought-provoking public programme exploring building Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 4pm; £14 programme of Southwark films, in the countryside in the 21st century. (conc £11.50) Full info at se1.net/15080 including SODIQ - an award-winning Taking the form of a live project in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol - but Friday 6 to Thursday 12 December documentary by Peckham’s Adeyemi the AF Project Space, the programme as you’ve never seen it before. More THE BUTLER Michael (Grierson Sky Atlantic Best will combine debate, workshops, food than twenty of Dickens’ best-loved Times vary; £9 (conc £8) Student Documentary 2013). In 2008 and trade in a dynamic public forum characters are brought to life by just Forest Whitaker gives a towering Sodiq Adebayo dreamt of going to for the discussion of rural architectural two actors. Scrooge is settling in for performance as the man who serves 6 university and becoming a doctor. strategies. Each week of the project another lonely Christmas - just the way US presidents, as the titular butler, in this Four years later he was on trial for the will be organised around one of three he likes them. He hates turkey, despises massive US hit. From the 1920s to the murder of Sylvester Akapalara and is thematic blocks: Farms (farming and land presents, and he certainly doesn’t want election of Barack Obama, a fascinating today serving a 30-year prison sentence. use), Shops (local production and trade), any visitors. And Marley? Oh, Marley was portrait of the melting pot that is Director Adeyemi having a unique bond and Halls (buildings and public use), all londonse1 Some recent community website forum topics Every Monday we send out an email newsletter with the latest local news and a guide to events in the week ahead. Asda Sainsbury’s Blackfriars Rd ..and dozens more topics No 1 bus route Rabot 1745 join the debate at Sign up for free here: Guy’s light sculpture www.London-SE1.co.uk Tribeca Square www.se1direct.co.uk December 2013 in se1 facebook.com/londonse1 WHAT’S ON V 7 of which are relevant across both urban Design Museum Hayward Gallery and rural realms. The installation in the Until Monday 22 April AF Project Space will combine a rotating Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 DONOVAN WYLIE: VISION AS www.designmuseum.org www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts themed display, presented alongside a POWER Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); permanent collection of live projects Donovan Wylie, one of Britain’s leading 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 from both organisations. Visitors will be Under 12s free £4.50; under 12 free) contemporary photographers, explores welcomed to shop at Myvillages.org ‘s the effects of modern-day military International Village Shop and Grizedale Until Sunday 15 December surveillance. Until Sunday 13 January ANA MENDIETA: TRACES Arts’ Honest Shop from Coniston, taste DESIGNERS IN RESIDENCE one of the daily lunchtime dishes served The UK’s first retrospective of one of the Full info at se1.net/14803 The work of young designers at the most significant yet unacknowledged from the special London Larder or beginning of their careers. artists of the late 20th century. Until Sunday 28 April browse through the Bibliobox library of Full info at se1.net/13585 Full info at se1.net/14778 WAR STORY: SUPPLYING FRONTLINE international rural cultural projects. AFGHANISTAN Until Sunday 10 March Until Sunday 15 December Full info at se1.net/14649 This exhibition uses brand new material HELLO MY NAME IS PAUL SMITH DAYANITA SINGH: GO AWAY ARTHOUSE1 In a career spanning over forty years, CLOSER recently collected in Afghanistan by the 45 Grange Road T 020 7231 4321 Paul Smith has become one of Britain’s Internationally-acclaimed photographer War Story team - including photos, film, www.arthouse1.co.uk foremost designers. Dayanita Singh breaks away from the home videos and interviews - to reveal Fri-Sun 2pm-6pm; free print-on-the-wall tradition in a major the challenges of supporting the armed Full info at se1.net/13586 new body of work, presented for the Drawing Room forces on the front line. Friday 6 to Sunday 15 December first time at Hayward Gallery. Full info at se1.net/14617 RUTH DUPRé: LASHED, CRIMPED 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street Full info at se1.net/14808 www.drawingroom.org.uk AND LAID LOW Hide Gallery Until Monday 6 May Ruth Dupré makes work that is inspired Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-6pm; free 22B Leathermarket Street T 07802 535844 ARCHITECTURE OF WAR by the power of religious iconography, www.hidegallery.co.uk Artists’ responses to the impact of revealing how objects of ritual quickly Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; free Until Saturday 14 December warfare on our surrounding landscape become fetishes and idols. The pieces in MARKING LANGUAGE Until Sunday 15 December and environments. this show - paintings, ceramics and glass Drawing Room and The Drawing Center, - circle these themes, but in expressing CONTRAST THE CITY Full info at se1.net/14264 New York, will be presenting parallel Black and white photographs, prints and the humour of sex, death, and worship, exhibitions that explore the relationship paintings. Artist Caroline Underwood Jerwood Space they also transcend such boundaries. Her between linguistic communication and and multi award-winning photographer 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 work is in the collection of the National drawing in recent art. Throughout the Paul Debois both work in monochrome, www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Portrait Gallery and the Corning Museum twentieth century, and in particular since taking nature and our relationship with Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun of Glass, New York. the environment as their central concern, the 1960s, artists have mined language 10am-3pm; free for the subject and matter of their art, with trees as a recurring theme. Full info at se1.net/15054 ASC Gallery incorporating the mode, format and Full info at se1.net/14998 Until Sunday 8 December meaning of text into their work. Imperial War Museum JERWOOD ENCOUNTERS: FAMILY Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road T 020 7274 7474 Full info at se1.net/13815 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 POLITICS www.iwm.org.uk/london www.ascstudios.co.uk/asc-gallery Fashion & Textile Museum New commissions and existing work by Daily 10am-6pm; free Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 six early career photographers. www.ftmlondon.org Until Saturday 5 January Full info at se1.net/14927 Until Friday 20 December Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £8 (conc HORRIBLE HISTORIES: SPIES IT’S ABOUT TIME £5.50); under-12s free £6.20 (children £3.30; conc £4.40) Until Saturday 14 December Fourteen artists explore the nature of Major family exhibition based on the ALEC KRONACKER: CASABLANCA time and how different timescales can Until Saturday 12 January popular children’s book series written by MOON THE GLAMOUR OF BELLVILLE Terry Dear. Visitors will be immersed into function simultaneously in an artwork. Jerwood Visual Arts presents a new body SASSOON the world of Second World War spy-craft, Full info at se1.net/14885 Bellville Sassoon was Britain’s foremost including codes and cyphers, disguises, of work by London-based artist Alec Bankside Gallery couture label from the 1960s onwards. camouflage, forgeries and gadgets. Kronacker 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 This exhibition traces the history of the Full info at se1.net/14265 Full info at se1.net/14926 www.banksidegallery.com company from the designs for high Daily 11am-6pm; free profile clients including Diana, Princess of Wales, to the influence of ready-to- News you may Friday 6 December to Sunday 27 January wear and Vogue patterns. londonse1 THE MINI PICTURE SHOW have missed Full info at se1.net/13925 community website Works on a small scale by artists belonging to the Royal Watercolour Until Saturday 12 January Will KCL sell Waterloo to pay Southwark Playhouse Society or Royal Society of Painter- FICTION IN FASHION for Canada Water campus? celebrates 20th birthday Printmakers. Watercolours and prints What have glamorous and fashionable women been reading since the 1950s? King’s College London has refused to Friends and supporters of the Southwark immediately available from £75. comment on press reports that it intends This temporary display showcases the Playhouse gathered on Sunday to celebrate Full info at se1.net/14451 paperback novels that proved most to sell part of its Waterloo campus in order the theatre company’s 20th anniversary. Borough Road Gallery popular with women readers in post- to fund its proposed new development at …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7215 Canada Water. LSBU, 103 Borough Road T 020 7815 5737 war Britain. Curated by Sarah Vine, www.boroughroadgallery.co.uk the selection of titles is drawn from …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7229 Wed-Fri 1pm-5pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; the archives of Penguin Books and is Duke of Edinburgh opens free displayed alongside glamorous designs Tesco opens in Baylis Road Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by British couture house Bellville Sassoon. A new Tesco Express convenience store Prince Philip visited Bankside last month for Until Saturday 30 March Full info at se1.net/14924 has opened at the junction of Baylis Road the official opening of the Sam Wanamaker DAVID BOMBERG: OBJECTS OF gallery@oxo and Murphy Street in Waterloo. Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. COLLECTION …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7228 Paintings and drawings from ‘A David Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street T 020 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7213 Bomberg Legacy - The Sarah Rose 7021 1686 www.coinstreet.org Collection’ and the London South Bank Shell Centre inquiry begins Daily 11am-6pm; free A public inquiry into plans to redevelop the Tribeca Square: work starts on University art collection. Shell Centre on the South Bank has begun. homes, cinema & supermarket Full info at se1.net/14579 Until Sunday 6 January …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7227 Work has finally started on the much- Ceri Hand Gallery DAZZLE@OXO The UK’s largest selling contemporary delayed Tribeca Square development at Copperfield Street T 020 7633 0918 jewellery exhibition, previously at the Eight years in jail for New Kent Elephant & Castle. www.cerihand.co.uk National Theatre, has found a new South …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7208 Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free Road rapist Bank home at Oxo Tower Wharf. A rough sleeper who subjected a woman to Saturday 7 December to Saturday 19 January Full info at se1.net/14785 a violent rape on New Kent Road has been Southwark Fire Station could jailed for eight years. CHARLIE BILLINGHAM Garden Museum host free school …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7226 Full info at se1.net/14389 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Part of Southwark Fire Station and the Core @ Nolias Gallery www.gardenmuseum.org.uk The new face of The Old Vic adjoining firefighters’ training centre could Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of 60 Great Suffolk Street T 07986 564926 The Old Vic has released an image of the become a ‘free school’, it was revealed last month); £7.50 (conc £6.50; students £3; proposed makeover for the historic theatre. coreatnolias.wordpress.com under-16s free) month. MonñFri 12 noon-6pm; Sat & Sun 12 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7220 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7206 noon-4pm; free Until Sunday 8 December PICTURING THE GARDEN Are foxes chewing through car Until Thursday 19 December Artworks exploring themes such as New petrol station vetoed by ROUTE 66 how gardens are created and designed, brake lines? Police believe that foxes may be responsible Southwark planners An exhibition set up like the highway, how they shape people’s lives, and the for a spate of incidents in which residents of Plans by Asda to open a new petrol station with pit stops on the way to eat, drink, inspiration people have drawn from the have been been turned down by Southwark browse and buy... Springfield Missouri to garden throughout history and up to the Trinity Church Square have found that the Council. Los Angeles California. present day. brake lines on their cars have been severed. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7216 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7201 Full info at se1.net/15030 Full info at se1.net/14900 December 2013 8 WHAT’S ON VI twitter.com/se1 in se1
Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 December Purdy Hicks Gallery Unit 24 EMERGING REALITIES: NATURE IN 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 THE CITY 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 www.purdyhicks.com unit24.info www.lafp.co.uk New works from contemporary Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Mon-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu & Fri artists exploring natural scenes and 10am-6.30pm; organic form. With works including Until Tuesday 8 January Until Saturday 19 January Thursday 12 to Monday 23 December A PAGEANT OF PAINTINGS painting, mixed-media and print, this TOM HUNTER: AXIS MUNDI exhibition brings together an innovative FANCY GIFTS 60 paintings by renowned artists - Liz A fascination since childhood with the re-imagining of an age-old subject. Thematic 24Design group exhibition. Balkwill, Edna Bizon, Mary Carter, Roy ancient stones that inhabit remote Featuring the work of London-based Connelly, Peter Graham, Mark Harrison, areas of South West England has led to Full info at se1.net/14901 artists Ali Maas, Anna Masters and Lucy Hunter making this remarkable series of Margaret Heath, Pamela Kay, Chris Vitrine Bermondsey Street Morton. photographs in which he explores the Kendrick, Steven Outram, Nancy Petley- 183-185 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 6496 historical and anecdotal layers existing www.vitrinegallery.co.uk Jones, Robert Wells and Bruce Yardley. Full info at se1.net/15028 within these landscapes. Wed-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/15005 Morley College Full info at se1.net/14930 Until Saturday 12 January Man&Eve 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Southwark Cathedral www.morleycollege.ac.uk PUSH AND PAINT, TOUCH AND DISPLAY 119-120 Lower Marsh Gallery Mon/Tue/Fri 11am-6pm; Wed/Thu London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 A group exhibition exploring the www.manandeve.co.uk 11am-7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; free www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk contemporary still life and its alignment Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & to the body. Until Thursday 12 December Sun 10am-6pm; free Until Saturday 14 December Full info at se1.net/15045 GREENWICH PRINTMAKERS: WAC Gallery IAIN ANDREWS: IL TEATRO DEI Until Saturday 14 December LEVIATANO PRINTS FOR PRESENTS A STONE’S THROW Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road Solo exhibition of new paintings by Iain Hand-made prints to buy from just £25. Six members of the Society of Graphic www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk 11am-6pm; free Andrews. Greenwich Printmakers have a gallery Fine Art are showing their paintings in Greenwich Market which is now in its reflecting local areas of London, Full info at se1.net/14929 Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 December 34th year. The exhibition will be open including Borough Market, Southwark NIGERIA ART SOCIETY UK: WINTER Menier Gallery during the Morley Winter Fair on Sunday Cathedral and the River Thames. The 2013 ART EXHIBITION 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 1 December. SGFA is the only national society in the A collective of UK based visual artists www.meniergallery.co.uk Full info at se1.net/14516 UK dedicated exclusively to drawing. working in diverse range of media, Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free styles and artistic expressions. Most National Theatre Full info at se1.net/14978 members received formal art training Monday 2 to Saturday 7 December South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Tate Modern from Nigeria’s leading art institutions WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: FREE www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Bankside T 020 7887 8888 and have come to the UK to further their PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun www.tate.org.uk/modern professional art practice. A variety of contemporary paintings, 12 noon-6pm; free Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Full info at se1.net/15059 prints and sculpture from a competitive 10am-10pm; free White Cube Bermondsey selection of 40 established and emerging Until Monday 7 January NATIONAL THEATRE LAMPOON Until Sunday 20 January 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 artists. MIRA SCHENDEL www.whitecube.com Uncover the story of the National from Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; £10 (conc £8.60) Full info at se1.net/15025 the early 1900s to today through rarely- free More than 250 paintings, prints and seen cartoons and caricatures, satirical Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 December sculptures by one of Latin America’s most MAKING OUR MARK: VIEWSEVEN swipes from diarists, and records from Until Sunday 22 December prolific post-war artists. MARK BRADFORD: THROUGH DARKEST ViewSeven is a group of artists dedicated the National’s own archive. Full info at se1.net/13703 AMERICA BY TRUCK AND TANK to the design and production of art Full info at se1.net/14859 Using materials found in the urban textiles or - if you prefer - textiles as art. Until Sunday 10 March environment, such as billboard sheets, Saturday 7 December to Sunday 10 February Full info at se1.net/15026 PAUL KLEE: MAKING VISIBLE posters and news print, Bradford’s TAKE A VIEW: LANDSCAPE £15 (conc £13.10) expansive, multi-layered collaged Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 December PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2013 The UK’s first large-scale Klee exhibition paintings explore the dynamics of social INVISIBLE REALITIES: LEE ALLANE Seventh annual exhibition. for over a decade. abstraction. Full info at se1.net/15027 Full info at se1.net/15002 Full info at se1.net/13704 Full info at se1.net/14865
With the CHOIR of CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 7.30pm St Mary’s, Rotherhithe St Marychurch Street, London SE16 4JE
St Mary’s is beside the river and close to Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Underground stations. The service is free and all are welcome. There will be a retiring collection to support Bede’s charitable work in the local community.
BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION 351 SOUTHWARK PK. RD. LONDON SE16 2JW Registered charity No: 303199 Registered Company No: 420386