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Celebrating 5 years as the essential monthly guide to what’s on in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk July SE1 Issue 61 July 2003 in Free Tate Tower developers win planning appeal A 20-STOREY residential prepared on the basis that and commercial skyscraper planning permission for is set to be built next to Tate the development would be Modern in Hopton Street after obtained.” troubled developers London In September 2001 Tate Town plc won their planning director Nicholas Serota, appeal. commenting on the original The plans – vociferously 32 storey plans, described opposed by Bankside the development as “an residents – were rejected by opportunistic attempt to Southwark Council in October cash in for private gain on last year. the public benefits that have Unless there is a legal been created” in recent years challenge to the validity of on Bankside, dismissing the decision this month, the the inclusion of affordable scheme consisting of 19 flats, housing in the plans as a 9 key worker units, restaurant “cynical move”. and office space will go Architecture critic ahead. As we went to press Rowan Moore, writing in the opponents were due to meet Evening Standard , says that to consider any last minute “developers are treating the moves. Tate’s boost to the area as John Dodwell, Finance a Klondike, to be mined for Director of London Town, all it is worth” and adds that SDP Leader David Owen and Liberal Leader David Steele said: “I am delighted by the the tower will “blight the feature in cartoon show A Short History of Political Virginity successful outcome to the approach to the museum, and at Gallery 33. See listing on page 5. planning inquiry and pay will obstruct the views and tribute to the hard work of daylight of people who live our professional advisors. As nearby”. the joint venture company Moore also described TEACHERS Turn to page 4 for two which owns the site is the planning inquiry as great competitions treated in the London Town a “magnificent parade of end the term at consolidated accounts specious argument”. Bramah as a quasi subsidiary, the The site is a former MUSEUM Win tickets to Everest at the BFI London underlying value of the Victorian stables which Southwark Street Hopton Street development until recently was occupied London Bridge IMAX Cinema is incorporated in the 2002 by David Mussett paper www.bramahmuseum.co.uk and the RSC’s plays at London Town Group accounts. merchants. the Old Vic Theatre The 2002 accounts were •www.londontownplc.co.uk FRANK HARRIS This Month and COMPANY page 5 RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT Suspendu at 57 York Road, South Bank, London SE1 7NJ fa projects 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk in Bear Gardens

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The central London walk links Hall, above the new Saatchi herself as she will be in As funding is not yet in Borough with the tiny Blewcoat Gallery, with the Houses of Scotland. Afterwards the place it has been suggested School in St James’s making a 7 Parliament providing the Princess is due to visit the that the Cannon Street mile circular walk. The outward backdrop. Royal Festival Hall. walkway may have to be route is down Nancy’s Steps The show features The bridge ceremony is called the Diamond Jubilee and along Bankside to cross the celebrity interviews, Johnny being held on the upstream Bridge. The next jubilee is due Millennium Bridge for a view of side of Hungerford Bridge to be held in 2012. SE1. Ball in the studio and roving The return is over Lambeth reporter Danny McCall. Guests where the walkway offers •www.jubileebridgelondon.com Bridge and back along the main have included Jonathan Ross. 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PARK STREET CLOSURES LONDON DUCK TOURS PIZZA EXPRESS OPENS UNICORN GO-AHEAD The Borough Café has London Frog Tours has Pizza Express has The go-ahead has been shut after 41 years changed its name to opened on Bankside. given for the Unicorn in business. Maria London Duck Tours. The restaurant is Children’s Theatre in Moruzzi, the second The explanation is that occupying two floors of Tooley Street. The £11m generation to run the the amphibious craft, Benbow House between project has recently Park Street café known first used in D-Day New Globe Walk and received £1m from the to film stars, closed the landings, were first Bear Gardens opposite London Development door last month. Nearby called DUKWs. The Shakespeare’s Globe. Agency which matches Petit Robert restaurant, yellow Frogs, or Ducks, Over its first weekend funds raised by Unicorn owned by Robert Didier, are stabled opposite trading many customers supporters. Chairman has also closed. Both Lambeth North Station took advantage of ther Ronald Spinney says businesses had been and enter the Thames at good weather to dine that a further £2m is operating under the the drawdock alongside on the terrace. This is expected to be raised shadow of plans for the MI6 building. the fourth Pizza Express by the 2005 opening. Thameslink 2000. www.londonducktours.com branch in SE1. www.unicorntheatre.com JULY 2003 4 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Shakespeare’s Globe theatre Theatre New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Cinema www.shakespeares-globe.org Old Vic BFI London IMAX Cinema ‡ review Waterloo Road T 020 7369 1722 Until Monday 18 August The Bullring, South Bank T 020 7902 1234 www.oldvictheatre.com www.bfi.org.uk/imax Merry Wives of Windsor DIDO QUEEN OF CARTHAGE Screenings daily 10.30am-9.30pm; £7.10 at the Old Vic Until Saturday 23 August Call or see website for dates; from £5 (conc £5.95; child £4.95) CORIOLANUS Marlowe’s rare and poetic play, drawn from Virgil’s Aeneid, explores the themes MISTRESS ALICE Ford and 7.30pm; £10-£37.50 EVEREST (U) Shakespeare returns to the Old Vic with of exile, fortune and divine love. See competition below Mistress Meg Page are the this production directed by David Farr. knowing Merry Wives who Young, valiant, proud and brave, Caius Until Saturday 27 September GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS 3D (U) scheme to test their husbands’ Marcius is an unequalled warrior in battle RICHARD II Academy Award-winning director and fidelity and to marry off and rewarded with the title Coriolanus for Call or see website for dates; from £5 master storyteller James Cameron takes his services to Rome. Directed by Tim Carroll and starring Mark you back to the site of his greatest delectable daughter Anne Page Rylance (Richard II), Liam Brennan (Henry inspiration - the legendary wreck of the to the best suitor. Apart from Until Saturday 23 August Bolingbroke). Titanic. the husbands the male roles THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR are comic led by the portly but 7.30pm; £10-£37.50 Until Saturday 27 September INTO THE DEEP 3D (U) vain Sir John Falstaff, down on See review on this page. RICHARD III A magical underwater world. Enjoy a his luck and seeking a rich wife. Call or see website for dates; from £5 close shave with a shark, play hide and Readers can save £10 on £35 and £30 Directed by Barry Kyle with an outstanding seek with the sea lions and marvel at the The post-war austerity setting tickets on all performances Monday- performance by Kathryn Hunter as Richard richness of life beneath the waves. did not really add much to the Thursday until 24 July. To book call the III in the all female cast. production except for the 1940s Old Vic Box Office on 020 7369 1722 and ______PULSE: A STOMP ODYSSEY 2D (U) costumes of the wives. The quote “in SE1 Offer”. This offer is subject Shakespeare’s Globe Education Centre The creators of Stomp take the IMAX plot and counterplots develop to availability and cannot be used with Park Street T 020 7401 9919 audience on a spectacular global journey, www.shakespeares-globe.org carefully like a house of cards any other discount. paying tribute to the people and the ______rhythms of the world that inspired the and the whole collapses in the Royal National Theatre Sunday 20 July original show. Pulse includes the KODO second half with a roistering South Bank T 020 7452 3000 EDWARD IV (II) drummers of Japan and a 200 piece encounter at Halloween in www.nationaltheatre.org.uk 3pm; £8 (conc £7) rhythm section in Salvador, the film also Windsor’s woods of all the Staged reading of early play (1599) by features sights and sounds from India, Thomas Heywood. characters with elves, fairies Until Wednesday 20 August Africa, Spain, the UK and North America. HENRY V ______and witches and a disguised Olivier Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 Southwark Playhouse SPACE STATION 3D (U) Falstaff. He is ridiculed, suitors A charismatic leader in the flush of youth 62 Southwark Bridge Rd T 020 7620 3494 The first-ever live action IMAX movie to find they have been tricked and commits his troops to war. The risks www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk be filmed in space. Using incredible 3D Anne Page is carried off by her are huge; the cause debatable; and technology the film tells the amazing story true love. Finally the husbands bloodshed certain. Adrian Lester takes the Tuesday 1 to Saturday 26 July of the greatest engineering feat since a title role. THE PROVOKED WIFE man landed on the moon. are reunited with their Merry Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6; Mon all Wives and one supposes they Until Monday 25 August seats £5) CYBERWORLD 3D (PG) live happily ever after – or until ELMINA’S KITCHEN Vanbrugh’s classic Restoration comedy Come face to face with your favourite the next whiff of suspicion of Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 with Jane Robbins (star of Heartlands) and characters - Bart and Homer Simpson, ‘Z’ infidelity. The Yardies are eating up Hackney and Simon Merrells (from London’s Burning). from Antz - as they leap out of Britain’s Digger’s protection smacks more of threat ‘Two seats for a Tenner’ offer on 1 and 2 biggest screen. MARION MARPLES than promise. How can Deli save his July. Matinées Saturdays 19 and 26 July. at son when temptation looms so large on 2.30pm. www.theprovokedwife.co.uk with Murder Mile? with Wednesday 9 July WIN inSE1 Until Monday 8 September GALA EVENING WIN inSE1 JUMPERS 7pm; £45 Win a pair of tickets Lyttleton Theatre; 7.45pm; £10-£34. Fund-raising gala performance of The Win a pair of tickets David Leveaux directs a cast including Provoked Wife. Evening includes wine, to The Merry Wives of Simon Russell Beale. music and food by Tas Pide. to Everest at the BFI Windsor or Coriolanus ______London IMAX Cinema Until Tuesday 30 September Union Theatre 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 JERRY SPRINGER - THE OPERA Fifty years on from the first We’ve teamed up with the Lyttelton Theatre; 7.45pm; call for dates; www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk Royal Shakespeare Company, £10-£25 ascent of Mount Everest, this currently performing two Much acclaimed show. Not suitable for Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 July film is the dramatic true story of Shakespeare plays at children even if they watch the TV show. THE DEAD OF WINTER a team of climbers who found Waterloo’s Old Vic Theatre. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) hope, strength and triumph in Until Thursday 2 October UK première with an entirely American the wake of tragedy. Everest POWER company. A highly absorbing and moving takes audiences across creaking For your chance to win, Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 drama asking the audience to question simply send your answer, their own truths and convictions dealing icefalls and gaping chasms, A new play about the rise and fall of up dangerous, towering cliffs, with your name and contact Nicolas Fouquet, chief financier to Louis with freedom, justice and forgiveness . through a harrowing rescue details, to: RSC Competition, XIV and creator of the chateau which ______inspired Versailles. The Warehouse and into the danger zone of in SE1, 27 Blackfriars Road, Mandela Way T 0845 120 7543 oxygen-thin altitude. Narrated by London SE1 8NY (or email Thursday 10 July to Saturday 4 October www.rsc.org.uk Liam Neeson and with music by [email protected]) before 5pm EDMOND George Harrison this is a film to Thursday 17 July with the Olivier Theatre; 8pm; call to check dates; Tuesday 22 July to Saturday 9 August move and inspire. answer to this question: £10 PERICLES 7.45pm (also matinees Sat/Sun); £14 Kenneth Branagh makes his NT debut in We have 10 pairs of tickets to give the title role of this play by David Mamet. Cardboard Citizens, the homeless people’s The Old Vic, at first called the theatre company and RSC artistic director away to our readers. For your Royal Coburg Theatre, opened Until Tuesday 28 October Michael Boyd present a new version of chance to win, simply send your in which year? HIS GIRL FRIDAY Shakespeare’s Pericles interweaved with answer to: Everest Competition, Olivier Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 asylum seeker stories. in SE1, 27 Blackfriars Road, a) 1816 Adapted from The Front Page by Ben ______London SE1 8NY (or email Hecht and Charles MacArthur and the Young Vic [email protected]) before 5pm b) 1833 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 film produced by Columbia Pictures, Thursday 17 July with the answer c) 1914 this tale of politics, media, and murder www.youngvic.org conglomerates at a wedding banquet. to this question: Two lucky winners will be drawn from the Until Saturday 9 August correct answers received. One will receive Tuesday 15 to Tuesday 22 July HOBSON’S CHOICE In what year was the first ascent a pair of tickets to Coriolanus, the other SHELL CONNECTIONS Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £19 (conc £9.50) of Everest? will win tickets to The Merry Wives of 7pm; £10 Tanika Gupta’s new version of this 1916 Windsor. The editor’s decision is final and no comedy sets the play in modern day correspondence will be entered into. Ten new plays over seven nights (except The winners will be drawn from the correct Sunday) in this youth theatre celebration Salford, giving a new generation a chance answers received. The editor’s decision is in Lyttelton and Olivier Theatres. to enjoy the play’s sharp wit and charm. final. No correspondence will be entered into. JULY 2003 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 Bankside Gallery www.iwm.org.uk www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk ¢ 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Daily 10am-6pm; free Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); £8.50 review www.banksidegallery.com (conc £6.50) Tue-Fri 10am-5pm (Tue -8pm); San & Sun Until Sunday 7 September Suspendu 11am-5pm; £3.50 (conc £2) PAINTING CASERTA RED Until Sunday 31 August at f a projects Hughie O’Donoghue, who exhibits at DAMIEN HIRST Friday 4 to Sunday 27 July Purdy Hicks, has a major exhibition tracing Retrospective of Brit art’s enfant terrible. WATERCOLOUR C21 the wartime experiences of his father. See ______THE BEAR Gardens was once The challenge for watercolour in the Purdy Hicks listing. Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition a theatre and a bear pit. Now 21st century showing that it is as much a ______Bankside T 020 7902 1500 the very site is occupied by f a medium for now as video and installation. Jerwood Space www.shakespeare-globe.org projects which attracted a large ______171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Daily 9am-5pm; £8 (conc £6.50; child crowd, including Sir Nick Serota, The Bargehouse www.jerwoodspace.co.uk £5.30) Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 3610 Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; Sun 1-6pm; free to the champagne launch of www.oxotower.co.uk Friday 11 July to Sunday 12 October Suspendu. Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Sunday 20 July SHAKESPEARE’S RIVALS: PLOTTING AND This exhibition, part of the JOCELYN CLARKE PLAYING AT THE ROSE Made in Paris season sponsored Friday 4 to Monday 7 July Jocelyn Clarke’s first major solo exhibition Rare manuscripts, artefacts and original by the Institut Français, brings RESPONSE/ABILITY of her small canvases. documents revealing the business of Goldsmiths’ communications students’ ______producing plays in Shakespeare’s London. together photography, video, summer show. Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings ______film and sound work. This The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Tate Modern month’s entertainment is very Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 July www.llewellynalexander.com Bankside T 020 7887 8008 slow moving, and even thought MOVING IMAGE Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free www.tate.org.uk provoking, compared with the Ravensbourne College student show. Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free previous offerings here. Fiorenza ______Until Saturday 30 August Design Museum NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY Until Monday 25 August Menini’s film Untitled records Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 Some of the 11,000 paintings not selected HENRY MOORE: PUBLIC SCULPTURES in real time the interval of 28 www.designmuseum.org for the RA’s Summer Show come to The Around twenty works in the Turbine Hall. minutes between the fall of the Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); Cut. first and second Twin Towers on £5.50 (conc £4) ______Until Sunday 7 September 11 September. Filmed by chance Morley Gallery CRUEL AND TENDER Until Sunday 27 July 61 W’minster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 9226 £10 (conc £8) from Brooklyn in a single take, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES www.morleycollege.ac.uk First major photography exhibition at Tate the image is slowly obscured The history of the video game. Mon-Fri 111am-6pm; Sat 12-4pm; free Modern. Portraits, interiors, landscapes by smoke and dust. Guillaume and cityscapes. Leblon’s silent film April Street Until Sunday 14 September Until Saturday 19 July takes the viewer slowly down the THE PETER SAVILLE SHOW REFLECTIONS ON WATER Until Sunday 28 September Explores his work as creative director of Works by Jacqueline Morreau. FIVE ANGELS FOR THE MILLENNIUM flooded River Somme past half- Factory Records. ______A key film and video installation by Bill immersed houses and trees. Museum of Garden History Viola. It’s a bare gallery but it takes Until Sunday 21 September Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 at least an hour to appreciate the WILD SILK www.museumgardenhistory.org Until Sunday 26 October exhibits. Tord Boontje is commissioned by Hermès Daily 10.30am-5pm; donation £2.50 (conc PAUL McCARTHY LEIGH HATTS to decorate the atrium and facade. £2) Sculptures on the riverside. ______Until Sunday 26 October Until Friday 4 July the.gallery@oxo A CENTURY OF CHAIRS TRADING PLACES Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 community A chance to sit on landmark chairs. Alison Cottrell’s illustrations influenced by www.oxotower.co.uk k focus the John Tradescants. Daily 11am-6pm; free Saturday 5 July to Sunday 26 October HELLA JONGERIUS Saturday 5 July to Sunday 31 August Tuesday 2 to Monday 7 July Southwark Cathedral’s Work by the Dutch designer who is also EXHUMED GET STUFFED charity outreach the leading woman designer. Summer art exhibition featuring some of Illustration, new media and corporate ______those buried in adjoining churchyard. branding ideas EACH YEAR Southwark Cathedral fa projects ______Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 Percy Miller Gallery Wednesday 9 to Monday 13 July allocates 10% of its regular www.faprojects.com 39 Snowsfields T 020 7207 4578 PACKAGING DESIGN giving to development schemes Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm www.percymillergallery.com Surrey Institute of Art and Design students. around the world from women’s Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free ______literacy projects in Bangladesh, Until Saturday 2 August Tom Blau Gallery the Spafford Children’s Centre SUSPENDU Until Friday 18 July Queen Elizabeth Street T 020 7940 9171 in Jerusalem to HIV/AIDS See review on this page. WILLIAM COBBING www.tomblaugallery.com ______Sculptures, photographs and videos. projects in Africa. In September Fashion & Textile Museum ______Until Wednesday 16 July the cathedral will again be 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 Purdy Hicks Gallery ME, MYSELF AND THEM considering the allocation for www.ftmlondon.org 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Jo Broughton’s photographs explore a variety of local charitable Tue-Sun 11am-5.45pm; £6 (conc £4) www.purdyhicks.com female sexuality. organisations. Of particular Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & Until Sunday 2 November Sun 12 noon-5pm; free Wednesday 23 July to Saturday 9 August interest are projects working MY FAVOURITE DRESS IAN PARRY MEMORIAL EXHIBITION with SE1 people, young or old, The 20th century’s leading designers Thursday 4 July to Saturday 6 September Annual exhibitions of work by young black and white, to add to the choose their favourite dress. HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE photographers. quality of life through education, ______Celebrating 8 years of carborundum ______life skills support, visits etc. Gallery 33 printmaking by Hughie O’Donoghue. The Walk Gallery 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 Coincides with the book Painting Caserta 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 Projects which have benefitted Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Red published by Southwark’s Merrell www.walkgallery.com in previous years include Press. See Imperial War Museum listing Mon-Fri 10.30am-6.30 pm; free the Borough Music School, Tuesday 1 to Monday 14 July above. Charterhouse-in-Southwark, A SHORT HISTORY OF POLITICAL ______Until Friday 11 July Walworth Garden Farm and the VIRGINITY Royal National Theatre THE LONDON GROUP Waterloo Action Centre. Cartoons by Chris Radley from the 1980s South Bank T 020 452 3400 Third in a series Social Democrat newspaper. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk ______If you know of or are involved ______Daily; free The Waterloo Gallery with a local project please write Glass Art Gallery 14 Baylis Road T 0798 965 6770 with supporting information, Weston Street T 020 7403 2800 Monday 7 July to Saturday 13 July Mon-Sat 11am-6pm (Sat 5pm); free including details of any www.londonglassblowing.co.uk MOUNT FUJI specific funding requests, and Chris Steele-Perkins’ photographs Monday 14 to Saturday 26 July Friday 11 July to Friday 8 August show the mountain timeless and TRANSITIONS charity details to Canon Bruce HEAVENLY SCENT unchanging with the life in the foreground Jenny Campbell, Di Gairn and Kate Hall, Saunders, Southwark Cathedral, Glass perfume bottles by contemporary unrecognisably different from the 19th inspired by their Cornish links, show Montague Place, SE1 9DA. British glass makers. century. paintings, photographs and prints. MARION MARPLES JULY 2003 6 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Drummond. Advance tickets from 0871 Saturday 5 July enivronment Music 220 0220. In support of the Greenfingers WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC Appeal. www.wayahead.com ORCHESTRA Cinema Organ Society 7.30pm; £9 (conc £6) watch ™ Edric Hall (SB University), Borough Rd Tuesday 8 July Jonathan Butcher conducts Britten Four www.cinema-organs.org.uk Environmentally HIGH SCHOOL CHORALE Sea Interludes, Bartok Piano Concerto 3.45pm; free no.3 (soloist Jonathan Oshry) and Sunday 13 July friendly fashion Informal Concert by the Traverse City West Shostakovitch Symphony no.5. WURLITZER RECITAL Senior High School Chorale from Traverse WE ALL love clothes. There is 3pm; £6 Chris McPhee from Australia on the Mighty City, Michigan, USA. Wednesday 9 July nothing quite like the frisson Wurlitzer organ from the Trocadero in New ______LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1.10pm; free of a new outfit carried home Kent Road. St George’s RC Cathedral Artists to be announced. in triumph after a long day’s ______Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 shopping in the West End. But Hay’s Galleria www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Tooley Street T 020 7940 7770 Saturday 12 July sadly there is a downside to Friday 4 July LONDON GAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA www.haysgalleria.co.uk this. The bleaches and dyes RITE BRASS ENSEMBLE 7pm; £10 (conc £6) 1.05pm; free Khachaturian Masquerade Suite, Chabrier used by the fashion industry Wednesdays Programme includes Mozart’s horn Espana, Bizet Carmen Suite, Rimsky- contaminate the environment. SUMMER SOUNDS OF THE CARIBBEAN Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol. Cotton crops need lots of water, 6.30-8.30pm; free concerto in D Major. This year it is West Indian music in the a precious commodity in the Saturday 25 July Thursday 17 July Third World. And the image outdoors for the warm summer evenings. ______ORGAN RECITAL LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1.05pm; free 1.10pm; free makers have hooked young Morley College Graham Durrant, Paul Riley and Keith people into designer labels to an W’minster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Hans-Peter Retzmann. ______Jacobsen (clarinets and piano). alarming degree. www.morleycollege.ac.uk St John’s Waterloo However, textile artist Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Thursday 24 July Tuesday 1 July and fashion designer Lauren www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk LUNCHTIME CONCERT KARMA RAINS 1.10pm; free Shanley at Gabriel’s Wharf has a 1.05pm; free Wednesday 2 July Barbara & Stephen Reck (soprano & radically different approach. Her Soprano Karma Rains with pianist LUNCHTIME CONCERT guitar). clothes are not only beautiful Siobhain O’Higgins. Mozart, Britten and 1.10pm; free Lortzing and Lehar. but environmentally friendly Artists to be announced. Thursday 31 Juy as well. Lauren uses recycled LUNCHTIME CONCERT Tuesday 8 July Thursday 3 July 1.10pm; free fabrics and clothes and even THE SILVERSTONES RUSH HOUR CONCERT Ingrid Attwater, Anne Rogers & Tony furnishing fabrics to make her 1.05pm; free 6pm; free Rogers (flute, oboe and piano). unique outfits. Her clothes Mandolins, mandola and guitar. Short evening recital for commuters. ______have an organic sculptural feel St Matthew’s-at-the-Elephant Southwark Cathedral and come in beautiful earth Friday 4 July Meadow Row T 020 450 9238 Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS CHICAGO shades of moss green, crimson www.dswark.org/cathedral and deep blue. 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Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT, tel: 020 7928 8501 fax: 020 7928 4074 Email: [email protected] web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk JULY 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 7 to include planning applications and Special Events Trinity Square traffic scheme. Events for Children southside Afoxe Loni Procession Design Museum Wednesday 16 July diary c Bernie Spain Gardens Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL www.designmuseum.org 7pm at the Millpond Tenants and Southwark’s Street’s vast St Sunday 20 July Christopher House has been the THE AFOXE LONI PROCESSION Residents Association Hall, 210a Jamaica Every Sunday 3pm Road, SE16 FLY A KITE perfect set for Prime Suspect. The dramatic sound and spectacular Meeting for Grange, Riverside and South 2-5pm; £6 (child £4; family £16) Filming in the corridors of the sight of the Afoxe Loni procession moves Bermondsey ward residents. Design kites for flying by the river. former government offices along the South Bank from the Oxo Tower ______took place last month. Today’s River Thames to the London Eye and back. Up to 100 Saturday 5 July goverment buildings tend to be participants, mostly drummers dressed NATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART WEEKEND open plan and more informal. totally in white, play Brazilian street Thursday 17 July 2-5pm; £6 (child £4; family £16) percussion and carnival instruments while DOGGETT’S COAT & BADGE RACE Make objects and draw self-portraits. More discreet was the filming for the dancers, dressed in yellow and white, 12.15pm Trauma in Lower Marsh late on carry vases with fresh flowers. There will Annual race for first year watermen with Wednesdays 23 & 30 July a Sunday night. Colin Firth was be a pause for a static performance at the single sculls rowed annually since 1714 CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS on the Thames from London Bridge to seen walking through the empty Royal Festival Hall on the return. 2-5pm; £6 (child £4; family £16) market. ______Chelsea. The launches following create a Design, make and decorate model cars, Bankside Gallery greater sight and wash than those in the chairs, hats and T-shirts. * * * 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 contest for the red Doggett’s coat. The fast ______Evidence that SE1 is now moving procession will pass Doggett’s pub www.banksidegallery.com Golden Hinde established as London’s arts Tue-Fri 10am-5pm (Tue -8pm); San & Sun on Blackfriars Bridge about 12.30pm. St Mary Overie Dock T 0870 ______quarter could be found by a 11am-5pm; £3.50 (conc £2) www.goldenhinde.co.uk Imperial War Museum spot check in The Times. Five Sunday 20 July Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 Saturday 19 July out of six stories in its Arts ART EVENT DAY www.iwm.org.uk OVERNIGHT HISTORY EXPERIENCE Briefing were from SE1. One 11am-5pm; free 5pm; £33; advance booking essential highlighted the new theatre Royal Watercolour Society members Saturday 26 July Spend a night on board the ship eating venue in Mandela Way at the demonstrate their work. Also launch of BATTLEFIELD ARCHAEOLOGY and sleeping like 16th-century sailors. 10am; £40 far south-east corner of SE1 2004 education programme. ______and best known for the sorting ______All-day examination of the nature of Imperial War Museum Blackfriars Settlement battlefield archaeology on the Western Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 office. Now the RSC has teamed Front. Lunch included. Advance booking Nelson Square T 020 7928 9521 www.iwm.org.uk up with Cardboard Citizens, advised. www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk Daily 10am-6pm; free the homeless people’s theatre ______International Brigades Memorial Trust company, to present Pericles Saturday 5 July Thursday 3, Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 July there. NELSON SQUARE SUMMER FAIR Jubilee Gardens T 020 8555 6674 NATIONAL CHILDREN’S ART DAY 1-5pm; free www.international-brigades.org.uk 11am-5pm; free * * * Children’s activities and entertainment in All materials provided. The opening of the Hungerford Nelson Square with sports workshops, Saturday 19 July Bridge walkways, to be called face painting, acrobats and Mr Mojo. Craft ANNUAL COMMEMORATION Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 1pm the Golden Jubilee Bridge, raises stalls, Tea Dance and ICT workshops at MESSY BEASTS questions about maintenance. nearby Rushworth Street All welcome. Ceremony honours 2,100 men and women 12-5pm; free ______who left the UK to side with Spanish Sculpture workshop. Materials provided. The big clean-up was not just in Borough Market republicans against Franco and the 526 honour of Princess Alexandra. Call for venue T 020 7837 0642 who did not return. This year’s speaker The new bridges had become www.fiveyearfreeze.org is Chris Smith MP. Event chaired by Jack Jones. All welcome. Followed by gathering very dirty with the deck covered in chewing gum. The lifts have Friday 4 July in County Hall’s Travel Inn. at Gabriel’s Wharf GM NATION? ______become unpleasant. Glass only 6.45pm; admission by free ticket Pool of London looks good if kept clean. A A chance to join in the debate about the Just drop in for a bigger operation was required implications of Genetically Modified food. Friday 4 July wonderful stress-busting to remove the graffiti from the Lord Melchett, Policy Director of the Soil FIREWORKS 10.15pm fully clothed backrub…no historic brick piers of the former Association, and Dr Dave Carmichael, suspension bridge. arable farmer and NFU member . Phone to Fireworks display on the Thames off appointment necessary, receive a free ticket. Organised by the Five Butler’s Wharf for a private event. Best just stroll in and ‘take the vantage points are Butler’s Wharf and Year Freeze in association with Borough load off’! Market. Tower Bridge. SURGEONS ______cease to operate at Southwark Community Councils West Square Residents Association Wide range of West Square, St George’s Road www.southwark.gov.uk complementary therapies Bramah Wednesday 2 July Saturday 12 July MUSEUM BOROUGH & BANKSIDE COMMUNITY GARDEN PARTY 2pm; 50p (for raffle ticket) Diane Revelle Southwark Street COUNCIL London Bridge 7pm at Charles Dickens School, Lant Street West Square’s annual Garden Party. 9 Gabriel’s Wharf Last summer meeting. Business expected Square includes mulberry trees. 020 7401 9528 www.bramahmuseum.co.uk

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