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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 166 FREE Email: [email protected] St George in Southwark Festival 6th annual multicultural celebration This month’s St George in Southwark Festival is a multicultural celebration of England’s patron saint. There are many places in Southwark with St George connections – and St George’s Day is also celebrated by many of the borough’s communities from around the world. The St George in Southwark Festival, now in its sixth year, brings together local groups for a long weekend of fun, artistic and reflective celebrations. The festival will open on Saturday 21 April with a fun day from 2pm at St George the Martyr Church in Borough High Street. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday at 12.30pm Mental Fight Club presents the Great Southwark Dragon Quest – a family-friendly opportunity to explore the many depictions of George and the Dragon in and around The Lions part theatre company, known for their Borough High Street. seasonal open-air events around Bankside, will present The festival service is at 11am on Sunday 22 April in their short play The Ballad of St George and the Dragon St George the Martyr Church. Borough Market is hosting which can be seen at several locations on Monday a community open day on Sunday afternoon from midday. afternoon. Both St George’s Cathedral and Southwark Photo credit: Nick David A Dragon Cafe at St George the Martyr crypt will be Cathedral are hosting performances of the twelve minute Elephant & Castle Shopping open morning and afternoon on Monday 23 April. This is play. There is an ‘after school’ show in Red Cross Garden at Centre this month hosts a series a Mental Fight Club initiative and plans for its regular cafe 3.45pm. The final performance is to be outside St George of screenings of an unusual events are being revealed on the day over dragon soup and the Martyr Church at around 5.45pm. The day closes with a St George’s Day meditation film about the regeneration of celebration cakes. in the church. Morris dancers will also be out and about the area. Artist, shaman and Also on the day there will be a Barcelona-style book around Bankside and Borough Market. showman Marcus Coates has sale in Southwark Cathedral’s churchyard. At 2.30pm in the cathedral Arthur Smith and friends will present their • For the full festival programme see the website: made a feature-length film annual celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday in word and www.stgeorgefestival.org.uk as part of his residency with song – this year with a nod to the bicentenary of Charles • Follow on Twitter (twitter.com/GeorgeSouthwark) Nomad. See listing on page 3. Dickens’ birth. and Facebook (facebook.com/southwarkfestival)

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Mental Fight Club presents The Great Southwark Dragon Quest for Adults & Children Leaving daily, 12.30 pm from St George The Martyr Church, (right opposite Borough tube). Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd & Monday 23rd April. Led by John Constable & Katie Nicholls to find the Georges & Dragons hidden in and around Borough High St. Finishes 2.00 pm. Booking advised. £3 donation per person, for those who can afford it. To book email [email protected]. Call Declan on 07813 900062

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London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 @of twothe hours Crypt of non-stop of St Zumba.George Also the  MartyrFull info Church at se1.net/12355 opposite Boroughwww.southwarkcathedral.org.uk tube station Special events including a ‘healthy food’ cooking Setchell TRA Hall class for 10-20 people in a 10 chef’s am school - 4 pm, Monday 23rd April 2012Monday 23 April Borough Market Hazel Way kitchenCome taught & have by a Latin a cuppaAmerican &chef, a delicious bite to eat. Dragon SoupCELEBRATING & St George’s SHAKEPEARE AND 8 Southwark Street DICKENS 5-a-side indoor soccer training, cricket Saturday 14 April www.boroughmarket.org.uk Cakestuition, tableon the tennis menu. and swimming. Explore theJUMBLE creative SALE space; words, images,2pm; performances,free Fitness trainers will be available to Rick Jones, Jane Jones and Arthur Smith Saturday 7 April 2pm-4pm; 20p give individual cross‘son training et lumiere’ and gym projections. 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Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Sunday 22 April www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/12359 Elephant and Castle SONNET SUNDAY 10am-4.30pm; free Saturday 21 April Sunday 22 April Thursday 12 to Thursday 26 April Open day to launch the theatre’s ST GEORGE FESTIVAL FUN DAY ST GEORGE’S DAY VISION QUEST: A RITUAL FOR ambitious Globe to Globe Festival, The Crypt; 2pm-5pm; free 12 noon-4pm ELEPHANT & CASTLE where all 37 Shakespeare plays will be Community-focussed event to celebrate Thu-Sun 6.30pm, 8pm & 9.30pm; £5.95 performed in 37 different languages Come and discover what St George St George’s Day with music and cookery Artist, shaman and showman Marcus over six weeks. In a further celebration means to some of Southwark’s diverse demonstrations for the whole family. Coates presents his feature-length film of language, Sonnet Sunday will offer a communities. With dance, music, food Part of St George in Southwark Festival - part documentary, part performance, once in a lifetime opportunity to see all and gardening.  Full info at se1.net/12361 part art, part archive - exploring the 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets performed Part of St George in Southwark Festival major transitions currently taking place in over 25 different languages, in  Full info at se1.net/12430 Cross Bones Graveyard at Elephant & Castle. presents addition to those featured in the festival. Redcross Way Mentalvision-quest.eventbrite.co.uk Fight Club Alongside the sonnet marathon, there Saturday 21 to Monday 23 April www.crossbones.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/12380 will be an international food market in THE GREAT SOUTHWARK DRAGON the Underglobe as well as live music. 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The George Inn St Mary Magdalen 77 Borough High Street Children & family Bermondsey Street Talks & literature www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Saturday 14 April Bankside Gallery Calder Bookshop HIDDEN WONDERS MYSTERY HUNT: 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Friday 13 April 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 THE SINS OF SOUTHWARK www.banksidegallery.com CLASSICS WITH MY BABY: THE ART www.calderbookshop.com 1pm; suggested fee £10; booking Daily 11am-6pm; free OF SONG essential www.hiddenwonders.co.uk 10.30am (eat cake and mingle from Monday 16 April Explore the dark past of Bankside and Friday 13 April 10am); adults £10 (children free) at the IRISH HUMOUR: CALDER’S THEATRE OF LITERATURE Borough, solving clues to reveal the truth YOUR LONDON: FAMILY ART door 7pm; £7 (conc £5) behind a Dickensian crime. Come as a WORKSHOP Featuring Norbert Meyn (tenor), Philippa 11.30am; free John Calder’s monthly presentation. team or join one at the start. The hunt Mo (violin) and Miaomiao Yu (piano). lasts about two hours. A fun day for children and families. Led Flann O’Brian, Joyce, and other wits. In From performances in the major halls  Full info at se1.net/12266 by Royal Watercolour Society artists who association with Cockpit Theatre. will help you get creative and paint a of Europe, Norbert Meyn (tenor) brings  Full info at se1.net/12079 The Goldsmith you a programme of art songs from the panorama of what you see around you New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall 65 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7593 1312 just outside the gallery - St Paul’s, the classical masters. Hear of a child’s longing Millennium Bridge, Shakespeare’s Globe, for Spring (here was Mozart in 1791 106 The Cut Sunday 1 April the River Thames, the new Blackfriars stuck in Viennese snow); flowers and Tuesday 10 April A WARDROBE SPRING FLING Bridge and the City over the river. burning love (Haydn felt this long before SAMPLE SALE  EXCAVATIONS OF ROMAN Full info at se1.net/12282 Elvis); the hurly-burly of roaring cannons WORKSHOPS AT 8-10 MOORGATE 12 noon-5pm and ships at sea (Haydn again) and tales 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 In celebration of mellie j cleaning out her Downside Centre of wandering spirits... The classical series Lecture by Alison Telfer from Museum closet for Spring, designer samples from Coxson Place, Druid Street T 020 7939 7400 for babies and toddlers this month opens of London Archaeology. A Southwark & LAGA of Spain will be featured at this www.downsidecentre.com its doors to children of all ages for this Lambeth Archaeological Society event. one day event on the second floor of the Wednesday 4 April  Full info at se1.net/11425 pub at 75 per cent off retail prices. Easter holiday concert. EASTER ANIMAL ANTICS  Full info at se1.net/12130  Full info at se1.net/12379 9.30am-12.30pm; £20; booking required St John’s Waterloo Various locations 020 7939 7400 or 07729 455486 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Face painting, refreshments, games, www.stjohnswaterloo.org Public meetings Monday 23 April yoga, arts and crafts.  Tuesday 17 April THE BALLAD OF ST GEORGE & THE Full info at se1.net/12405 Bankside Community Space FRIENDS ACROSS FAITHS? DRAGON Imperial War Museum 18 Great Guildford Street T 020 7928 3998 JUSTICE, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY 2.30pm at St George’s Cathedral Primary Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 6pm; free School, Lambeth Road; free london.iwm.org.uk Monday 16 April Talk by Rt Revd Richard Cheetham, 3.45pm at Redcross Garden, Redcross Daily 10am-6pm; free BANKSIDE RESIDENTS’ FORUM: Bishop of Kingston. First of the Isaiah Way; free OPEN FORUM Community’s ‘Just Good Friends?’ season 4.45pm in Southwark Cathedral Friday 6 to Sunday 15 April 6.30pm of reflections on friendship, justice and Millennium Courtyard, Montague Close MEET THE FAMILY  Full info at se1.net/12432 spirituality. The Isaiah Community meets 5.45pm in Tabard Street Piazza next to 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm; free every Tuesday at 6pm to pray for love St George the Martyr Find out more about the Allpress Family, Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre and justice in the world. Open-air theatre with the Lions part. the Stockwell family who feature in the 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600  Full info at se1.net/12423 Featuring our hero St George and a new exhibition, A Family in Wartime. www.coinstreet.org magnificent dragon created by the Through hands-on activities discover how Tuesday 24 April company, the Ballad celebrates our the family coped with the difficulties Thursday 19 April RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: national day in 12 exciting musical of living on the home front during the SOUTH BANK FORUM A NEW KIND OF JUSTICE minutes. Second World War. Free drop-in activities 7pm-9pm 6pm; free Mark Woodruff, The Monument Trust. Part of St George in Southwark Festival for all ages with parental supervision. Quarterly meeting for South Bank and  Full info at se1.net/12424  Full info at se1.net/12431  Full info at se1.net/12390 Waterloo residents convened by Kate Waterloo Library Globe Education Sackler Studios Hoey MP and Simon Hughes MP. The Old King’s Head  Full info at se1.net/12330 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 Park Street/Bear Gardens 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 www.theoldkingshead.uk.com www.lambeth.gov.uk www.shakespeares-globe.org Southwark Council Thursday 12 April Wednesday 11 April Tuesday 3 to Saturday 14 April www.southwark.gov.uk THE DREAM SPACE THAMESLORE: MERMAIDS, PIRATES LAMBETH COOPERATIVE LIBRARIES AND THINGS THAT GO SPLASH IN CONSULTATION 11am & 2pm; £8 (family £25) Wednesday 25 April Families can enjoy enchanting 60 THE NIGHT 10am-12 noon BOROUGH & BANKSIDE minute storytelling performances as 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) Do you want to ‘coproduce’ the library COMMUNITY COUNCIL part exploring the magic and mayhem 7pm; venue to be announced Tony Malone will be talking about the service in Waterloo? FInd out more at lore and contemporary traditions of of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Meeting for residents of Cathedrals Lambeth Council’s consultation on the water-folk, journeying from the coast performances are designed for children and Chaucer wards. Learn about local creation of a borough-wide network of aged 5 and upwards. Created especially to the estuary to the tidal and beyond. projects and talk to your councillors and cooperative libraries. for children and their families, The South East London Folklore Society.  Full info at se1.net/12212 Dream Space explores the illusion and neighbours. Final Borough & Bankside  Full info at se1.net/12362 meeting before merger with Walworth. Woolfson & Tay mystery of one of Shakespeare’s best Waterloo Library loved and funniest plays through a  Full info at se1.net/10938 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 www.woolfsonandtay.com mixture of performance and puppetry.  Full info at se1.net/12391 Thursday 26 April www.lambeth.gov.uk BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY Wednesday 4 April Shortwave Cinema Thursday 12 April SOUTHWARK LGBT MONTHLY COUNCIL 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 7pm; venue to be announced DICKENS, LAMBETH AND THE 7pm-9pm; free RIVER THAMES www.shortwavefilms.co.uk Meeting for residents of Riverside, Southwark LGBT Network welcomes 7pm; free Remi F and Jules Enever to its monthly Saturday 21 April Grange and South Bermondsey Dickens the novelist, Dickens the social and networking events for a HAPPY FEET TWO wards. The theme is Olympics legacy, journalist and Dickens the social Reggae / Rock Blue / Latin / Ska Punk 11am-1am; £4 per child; accompanying sport and leisure. Final Bermondsey reformer: the man came to Lambeth performance with a queer twist. Free tea adult free meeting before planned merger with in many guises. Lambeth Archivist, & coffee. Kids’ club screening. Rotherhithe. 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ELEPHANT LOST AND FOUND  Full info at se1.net/12433 Cowle, Adam Belbin, Christian Elderfield, 11am (meet 10.45am) outside Cuming Andrew West, Steph Peart, Simon Caine, Wednesday 25 April Woolfson & Tay Museum, 151 Walworth Road SE17; £7 Andrew West and Damien St John. MC: IMPROV COMEDY SMACKDOWN (conc £5) Dan Green. 8pm-10pm; £5 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 This walk around Elephant & Castle and Monthly improv smackdown continues to www.woolfsonandtay.com  Full info at se1.net/12255 the Walworth Road explores the sites divide friendships as teams of (previously of the old pubs and music halls, the zoo The Miller friendly) rival improv teams battle to the Friday 6 April and pleasure gardens, and much more death. LIFE STORIES CAFE: TRUE 96 Snowsfields - from Georgian times through the Blitz www.themiller.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/12403 STORYTELLING EVENT to the latest redevelopments. Rediscover 7pm; £5 long lost places and famous or forgotten Monday 2 April Quarterly storytelling event returns with residents - from Charlie Chaplin to Austin HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH Music an opening session on theme of ‘Womb.’ Osman Spare. Led by John Constable, BAG Featuring: Writer-performer, singer- author of The Southwark Mysteries and 8pm-10.30pm; £5 (students/online £3) 1901 Arts Club songwriter and cabaret artist Marcus Secret Bankside. No advance booking. Gordon Southern and Tom Craine. 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 Reeves, writer/poet Malika Booker, Please arrive early to be sure of a place.  Full info at se1.net/12030 www.1901artsclub.com literary activist, editor and publisher  Full info at se1.net/12374 Tuesday 3 April Wednesday 18 April Kadija ‘George’ Sesay, performance Tuesday 17 April HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB LUNCHTIME RECITAL poet Zena Edwards and poet/publisher THE DICKENS 8pm-10pm; £5 1pm; £7.50 (booking essential) Dorothea Smartt. Booking advised. 7pm (meet 6.45pm) at Tabard Street Short-form games and scenes from Mikhail Petrov (cello). Part of the  Full info at se1.net/12331 Piazza next to St George the Martyr; £7 Arthur, followed by an improvised Philharmonia Orchestra’s Martin Musical (conc £5) television schedule from Do Not Adjust Scholarship Fund lunchtime recital series. Tuesday 17 April In 1824, Charles Dickens’ father was Your Stage.  Full info at se1.net/11813 AFTERKLEIST ANORATORIO  Full info at se1.net/12395 imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea St John’s Waterloo 7.30pm; Free but booking advised Prison. This walk explores Dickens’ A Four Second Decay Production Wednesday 4 April Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 childhood encounter with the Victorian PROJECT TWO AND AUSTENTATIOUS featuring Marcia Farquhar, Ella Finer, underworld, visiting the places which www.stjohnswaterloo.org 8pm-10pm; £5 Matthew Fink, Ernst Fischer, Joe Hales, cast a shadow over his entire life and Two person improv featuring Chris Thursday 19 April inspired scenes in novels from Little Justin Hunt, Robbie Jack, Flora Pitrolo, Mead and Jon Monkhouse, followed RUSH HOUR CONCERT Dorrit to Oliver Twist. Led by John Maggie Pittard and P A Skantze. by Austentatious the improvised Jane 6pm; free Constable. No advance booking. Please  Full info at se1.net/12338 Austen novel. Free after-work concert with Southbank arrive early to be sure of a place.  Full info at se1.net/12400 Sinfonia. Enjoy a complimentary glass of  Full info at se1.net/12375 wine while you listen. Church services Old Operating Theatre, Museum Monday 9 April  Full info at se1.net/12296 and Herb Garret HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH Southwark Cathedral BAG Friday 20 April 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 8pm-10.30pm; £5 (students/online £3) FLUTEMUSIC London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.thegarret.org.uk www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Ed Aczel and Rosie Wilby. 1.10pm; free Join Colleen Muriel (flute), Eric Stevens Friday 6 April  Full info at se1.net/12031 Wednesday 4 April VICTORIAN HEALTH WALK (piano) and Keith Long (baritone soloist) CHORAL EVENSONG Tuesday 10 April for a lunchtime programme of light 11am; £8; booking essential HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB 3.30pm-4.30pm The walk covers fascinating aspects of classics, serious classics, folk songs, hymns 8pm-10pm; £5 and some new music. Sung by the Girls’ Choir and lay clerks. the historic development, health history Improvised musical followed by  and heritage of the area. Southwark’s Full info at se1.net/12121 Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Please be improvised storytelling. location at the south end of London seated before 3.15pm to be part of the  Full info at se1.net/12396 Thursday 26 April broadcast. Bridge has made it a key strategic RUSH HOUR CONCERT  Full info at se1.net/12415 development site since Roman times. Wednesday 11 April 6pm; free Suitable for all ages. HAPPY PLACE Southbank Sinfonia after-work concert.  Full info at se1.net/12393 8pm-10pm; £5  Full info at se1.net/12297 Guided walks Music and comedy from acalimed musical Saturday 7 April comedy duo Horse and Louis, as they Friday 27 April London Trails KING CHOLERA WALK present their pick of the London cabaret LUNCHTIME RECITAL 11am; £8; booking essential 1.10pm-1.50pm; free londontrails.wordpress.com circuit. A tour of the London Bridge area  Full info at se1.net/12401 Thai/Swiss pianist Nina Leo plays Debussy, incorporating the reports of the Saturday 7 April Bach-Busoni and Liszt. infamous diseases that threatened the Tuesday 17 April  Full info at se1.net/12377 WATERLOO WALK WITH OLD MAPS lives of the working poor of London. HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB 11am; £8 (conc £6); email kentitmuss@ Death by infection, death by water. 8pm-10pm; £5 yahoo.co.uk to book  Full info at se1.net/12394 Short-form games and scenes from Theatre Join Ken Titmuss for a walk with old Arthur, followed by debut solo show The maps round the neighbourhood that lies Roezone. Menier Chocolate Factory beyond the South Bank. Comedy  Full info at se1.net/12397 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060  Full info at se1.net/12363 www.menierchocolatefactory.com The Horse Wednesday 18 April Rose Theatre Exhibition 122-124 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7928 6277 SHOTGUN IMPRO Until Saturday 21 April 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 www.horsebar.co.uk 8pm-10pm; £5 ABIGAIL’S PARTY www.rosetheatre.org.uk “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” style fast- Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50 Friday 13 April paced comedy improvisation, with no (conc £27); meal deal £37 Monday 9 April WHY THE LONG FACE? rehearsal, preparation or script. All based Mike Leigh’s play is directed by Lindsay A TOUR OF ELIZABETHAN 8pm; free on audience suggestion. Posner, with Jill Halfpenny as Beverly. BANKSIDE WITH THE ROSE Pat Cahill, Chris Mayo, Tony Cowards,  Full info at se1.net/12402  Full info at se1.net/12113 Samantha Hannah, Andrew West, Sahar 7pm; £15 (conc £12) from 020 7261 9565 Mihardi, Sunna Jarman, Simon Caine, Tuesday 24 April Wednesday 25 April to Saturday 12 May or [email protected] Steph Peart. MC: Damien St John. HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB EDUCATING RITA Explore the Liberty of the Clink.  Full info at se1.net/12254 8pm-10pm; £5 Tue-Sat 8pm; Thu, Sat & Sun 3.30pm;  Full info at se1.net/11991 Improvised karaoke where some of the £29.50 londonse1 Some recent Prestige Dry Cleaners community website forum topics 2-hour service available Excellent Alterations St Mary Magdalen park Peregrine falcons service at a Keys cut while you wait Gyms in SE1 or SE16 Shoe repairs Supermarket overcharging ..and dozens more topics price you can Bankside assault afford Open Monday-Friday 8.30am-6pm Bear Gardens 8 storey hotel join the debate at Borough Market www.London-SE1.co.uk Tanner Street Park Anyone lost a rabbit? 4 Milroy Walk, Stamford Street Borough book group 020 7633 9607 April 2012 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney star Roger Milner’s surreal comedy. Wednesday 18 to Thursday 26 April Until Sunday 15 July in Willy Russell’s modern classic, directed  Full info at se1.net/12106 OSLO, AUGUST 31ST DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012 by Tamara Harvey. Wed 18/Wed 25/Thu 26 8pm; £8 (conc Showcasing the most innovative and  Full info at se1.net/12250 Wednesday 18 April to Saturday 12 May £7) progressive designs from around the BABES IN ARMS From critically acclaimed director Rose Theatre Exhibition world. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £18 Joachim Trier comes a film about one  Full info at se1.net/11772 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 Set in a 1950s Summer stock theatre, man’s attempts to reconcile his past. www.rosetheatre.org.uk Babes in Arms follows a young group  Full info at se1.net/12387 Drawing Room of apprentices as they try to mount a 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street Tuesday 3 April to Friday 4 May musical revue. Friday 20 to Sunday 29 April www.drawingroom.org.uk THE COMEDY OF ERRORS  Full info at se1.net/12283 THE DEEP BLUE SEA Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12 (conc Fri 20 12 noon; Sat 28/Sun 29 8pm; £8 Waterloo East Theatre £10) from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@ (conc £7) Until Saturday 28 April rosetheatre.org.uk Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) leads a FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER: Regarded by some as Shakespeare’s first www.waterlooeast.co.uk privileged life in 1950s London as the DRAWINGS play, The Comedy of Errors comes to The beautiful wife of high court judge Sir First solo exhibition in the UK. Rose Theatre Bankside for the first time. Thursday 12 & Friday 13 April William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale).  Full info at se1.net/12356  Full info at se1.net/11994 OLIVER TWIST  Full info at se1.net/12388 7.30pm; £10 Fashion & Textile Museum Southwark Playhouse In addition to powerful drama, comedy Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 and fast-moving action, the TNT 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 www.ftmlondon.org www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk production has been highly praised for Exhibitions Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £7 (conc its capella score by the composer Thomas Anise Gallery Until Saturday 14 April £5); under-12s free SHIVERED Johnson. Directed by Paul Stebbings. 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938  Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14, Full info at se1.net/12413 www.anisegallery.co.uk Until Saturday 16 June Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; free £18 Until Saturday 14 April DESIGNING WOMEN: POST-WAR Olivia Poulet, best known as Tory staffer MONTY & MIRABELLA: Until Wednesday 18 April BRITISH TEXTILES Emma Messinger in The Thick of It, stars THE LITTLE THINGS MASKED A unique British brand of modernism opposite Joseph Drake in the world times vary; £9 (conc £70; family tickets Rising South London artist Tess Greig. (1950s-1970s) that influenced the world. premiere of Philip Ridley’s new play. available  Full info at se1.net/12267  Full info at se1.net/11753  Full info at se1.net/12244 Step into a storybook world of ASC Gallery gallery@oxo Wednesday 11 April to Saturday 5 May imagination and investigation as Monty Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 BLACK FIGHTS WITH DOGS and Mirabella take you on a musical Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road uplifting slapstick journey. Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free www.coinstreet.org The Vault; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; Daily 11am-6pm; free £9, £13, £17  Full info at se1.net/12306 Until Friday 18 May The first London revival of Bernard-Marie Young Vic APPLE AND PEAR: JOHANN ARENS Until Sunday 1 April Koltes’ play in over 20 years. Translated 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 A new installation by Johann Arens. THE GLAXOSMITHKLINE SHIFTING by David Bradby and Maria M. Delgado.  PERSPECTIVES 2012 Directed by Alexander Zeldin. www.youngvic.org Full info at se1.net/12364  A photographic exhibition created Full info at se1.net/12242 Until Saturday 7 April Bankside Gallery to challenge commonly-held Wednesday 18 April to Saturday 12 May AFTER MISS JULIE 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 misconceptions about people with SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER 7.45pm (Wed & Sat matinee 2.45pm); www.banksidegallery.com Down’s syndrome. ME £17.50 (previews £10) Daily 11am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12271 Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; Natalie Abrahami, co-artistic director of The Gate, directs Patrick Marber’s Until Saturday 21 April Wednesday 4 to Sunday 15 April £10/£14/£18 ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY 20th anniversary production of Frank passionate tragedy. ALL THAT GLISTERS  Full info at se1.net/11623 SPRING EXHIBITION Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society. McGuinness’s play.  Full info at se1.net/11109   Full info at se1.net/12277 Full info at se1.net/12404 Friday 13 April to Sunday 13 May The Old Vic WILD SWANS Tuesday 24 to Sunday 29 April Garden Museum Times vary; £10-£29.50 NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 The very best of contemporary British Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.oldvictheatre.com This first-ever stage version brings www.gardenmuseum.org.uk together Jung Chang with playwright figurative painting.  Full info at se1.net/11110 Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Until Saturday 9 June Alexandra Wood, director Sacha Wares, month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) THE DUCHESS OF MALFI designer Miriam Buether and Beijing Bermondsey Project Space Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; video artist Wang GongXin. Tuesday 24 April to Sunday 24 June £12-£49.50 46 Willow Walk  Full info at se1.net/11790 www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios GARDEN OPEN TODAY: 300 YEARS Eve Best in John Webster’s Jacobean Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; OF GARDEN VISITING tragedy directed by Jamie Lloyd. The story of our love affair with other  Full info at se1.net/12314 Cinema Friday 20 April to Sunday 13 May people’s gardens. Unicorn Theatre DAVE PEARSON:  Full info at se1.net/12240 Shortwave Cinema BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 George and Jorgen www.unicorntheatre.com When the artist Dave Pearson died in www.shortwavefilms.co.uk 2008 he left behind a colossal body 9 Morocco Street Until Sunday 15 April of work - well over 15,000 paintings, www.georgeandjorgen.com Until Thursday 5 April drawings and prints - in a ramshackle Wed-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; Sun THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN CROW’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS TEETH studio in the small mill town of 12 noon-5pm; Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £8 (conc £7) 2pm; £15 (conc £12; child £10) Haslingden, in Lancashire. A bold new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s A pirate story based on best selling book  Full info at se1.net/12373 Until Sunday 22 April classic novel. Director: Andrea Arnold. by Eoin Colfer. Directed by Matthew Design Museum DRIP INTO SOMETHING MORE Lenton. For ages 7+. Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson. COMFORTABLE: PADDY GOULD   Full info at se1.net/12349 Full info at se1.net/12312 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 AND ROXY TOPIA www.designmuseum.org The sculptures, drawings and video Union Theatre Friday 6 to Wednesday 11 April Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm); collage of artists and lovers Roxy Topia MY WEEK WITH MARILYN £10 (conc £9; students 6); Under 12s free 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 and Paddy Gould explore themes www.uniontheatre.biz Fri/Sat/Sun/Wed 8pm; £8 (conc £7) Director: Simon Curtis. Starring: Michelle Until Saturday 14 April of sexuality, creativity, dynamism and Until Saturday 7 April Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth SIR TERENCE CONRAN: THE WAY duality in the context of contemporary HOW’S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? Branagh, Dominic Cooper. WE LIVE NOW hetero “normative” relationships. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Su 2pm & 6pm; £14  Full info at se1.net/12386  Full info at se1.net/11176  Full info at se1.net/12288 Next month in SE1 + SOUTH BANK FORUM + Kate Hoey MP, Simon Hughes MP, and your local Councillors invite you on: Highlights include: Thursday 19 April 2012, 7-‐9pm • London Mayoral & Assembly elections Coin Street neighbourhood centre, • Cityscapes pop-up gardens 108 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH • Lambeth Palace exhibition • London Photo Festival + DISCUSSIONS ON LOCAL ISSUES • Animal Art Fair Please note there will be no crèche service available

next issue available Tuesday 1 May YOUR LIFE, YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, YOUR SAY April 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Hayward Gallery Jerwood Space Sunday 29 April to Wednesday 2 May Until Sunday 27 May NOBODY LIKES US: PHOTOGRAPHY ALIGHIERO BOETTI: GAME PLAN Southbank Centre, T 020 7921 0813 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 AND FINE ART £10 (conc £8.50) www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Photography by Dean Adrian Tanner and The first large-scale retrospective of Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun illustration by Mate “Entenn” Jako. Boetti’s work to be held outside Italy in £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 10am-3pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12409 £4.50; under 12 free) over a decade. Until Sunday 22 April Old Operating Theatre, Museum  Full info at se1.net/12053 Until Sunday 13 May TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS and Herb Garret DAVID SHRIGLEY: BRAIN ACTIVITY Jerwood/Film & Video Umbrella Awards. 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Until Tuesday 5 June British artist David Shrigley is best known  Full info at se1.net/12307 www.thegarret.org.uk YAYOI KUSAMA for his humorous drawings that make Daily 10.30am-5pm; £5.90; conc £4.90; £10 (conc £8.50) Until Saturday 28 April witty and wry observations on everyday child £3.40; family (2+4) £13.80 Yayoi Kusama’s pioneering work spans MY (WE): KATIE SCHWAB AND life. JAMIE GEORGE over six decades and this exhibition will  Full info at se1.net/11325 Thursday 19 April to Thursday 17 May highlight the artist’s moments of most New sculptural and photographic works TALES OF MYSTERY & MEDICINE: and a collaborative publication available intense innovation. Until Sunday 13 May ROBERTO LARI  Full info at se1.net/12052 JEREMY DELLER: JOY IN to take away for free from Cafe 171. Italian illustrator and graphic novel artist  Full info at se1.net/12126 EVERYTHING Roberto Lari exhibits a selection of his Wednesday 4 April to Sunday 9 September A hugely influential artist for much Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings stylish gothic stories of phantoms and DAMIEN HIRST amputations. of the past two decades, Turner Prize 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 £14 (conc £12.20) winner Jeremy Deller has helped to  Full info at se1.net/12392 www.llewellynalexander.com The first substantial survey of Damien rewrite the rules of contemporary art. Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Poppy Sebire Gallery Hirst’s work ever held in the UK.  Full info at se1.net/11326 Monday 16 April to Saturday 5 May Copperfield Street T 020 7928 3096  Full info at se1.net/11290 Imperial War Museum www.poppysebire.com THE LONDON ART SHOW Vitrine Gallery Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 The 2012 city, its people, its architecture Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free london.iwm.org.uk and its atmosphere, captured by artists Bermondsey Square Daily 10am-6pm; free Until Saturday 5 May www.vitrinegallery.co.uk who know and love it. BOO RITSON: ON THE WAY TO THE  Full info at se1.net/12139 24 hours; free Until Sunday 15 April OCEAN SHAPED BY WAR: PHOTOGRAPHS Menier Gallery  Full info at se1.net/12350 Sunday 1 to Saturday 14 April BY DON MCCULLIN 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Poussin Gallery EDWIN BURDIS: UCCICA/2012 £7 (conc £6) www.meniergallery.co.uk An installation combining real and Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 The largest ever UK exhibition about the www.poussin-gallery.com painted mannequins, murals and sound. life and work of one of the world’s most Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12383 acclaimed photographers. Tuesday 3 to Saturday 14 April TALES OF THE SNAKE & CROW  Full info at se1.net/11319 Wednesday 18 to Sunday 29 April Crow’s work explores the equilibrium Until Saturday 14 April GARTH EVANS: EVOLVING DAVID PAREDES: AT THE END OF Until Sunday 29 April which exists between the intellect and instinct. Closed over Easter weekend. CONSTRUCTIONS 1959-1980 MY THREE STITCHED STEPS ORI GERSHT: THIS STORM IS WHAT Early works by Garth Evans. A performance-installation in three acts. WE CALL PROGRESS  Full info at se1.net/12411  Full info at se1.net/12268  Full info at se1.net/12384 Two recent film works by the Israeli- Tuesday 3 to Saturday 14 April Purdy Hicks Gallery born London-based artist that reflect on BEGIN MY MUSES: JOHN White Cube Bermondsey individuals’ life experiences which were WOODMAN 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 www.purdyhicks.com shaped by the Second World War. Debut solo show by English painter. www.whitecube.com Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12009 Closed over Easter weekend. Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm;  Until Friday 30 November Full info at se1.net/12412 Until Saturday 14 April free WAR STORY: SERVING IN SANDRA KANTANEN: Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 April Until Saturday 12 May AFGHANISTAN MOONSTRUCK PHOTOGRAPHS 2009-2012 10 years after British troops first entered  Full info at se1.net/12342 GILBERT & GEORGE: LONDON Animals Asia Foundation exhibition of PICTURES Afghanistan, the display features 15 drawings and sculptures featuring moon Southwark Cathedral personal artefacts as well as digital bears and other Chinese wildlife. Multi-site exhibition at White Cube’s screens packed with video footage,  Full info at se1.net/12213 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 London galleries featuring works based images and interviews. www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk on Evening Standard billboards.  Full info at se1.net/11695 National Theatre Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat &  Full info at se1.net/12280 Sun 10am-6pm; free South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Thursday 5 April to Monday 31 December www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Until Saturday 12 May A FAMILY IN WARTIME Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm;presents Sun Until Monday 16 April Mental Fight Club WITHIN A MILE: LES WILLIAMS LIU WEI On 3 September 1939, Britain declared 12 noon-6pm; free Sculpture, painting and installation. war on Germany. For every family Paintings of places within a mile of the cathedral.  Full info at se1.net/12420 in Britain life would never be the Until Saturday 21 April The Great SouthwarkLONDON PRINTMAKERS Dragon Full Quest info at se1.net/12231 same again. Through the eyes of the Until Saturday 12 May Allpress family this exhibition tells the 12 of the country’s leading professional forprintmakers. Adults & Children Tuesday 17 April to Friday 18 May MADEIN COMPANY story of how ordinary people braved MICHAEL GRATER: A Artists’ collective founded by Shanghai- the Leavingchallenges of daily, life on the12.30 home pmfront from Full St Georgeinfo at se1.net/12313The Martyr Church, (right opposite RETROSPECTIVE based artist Xu Zhen. during the Second World War. Borough tube). Saturday 21st,Monday Sunday 16 April to Monday 22nd 4 June & Monday Prolific23rd children’s April. author Led and by illustrator.  Full info at se1.net/12421  Full info at se1.net/12368 FESTIVAL!  Full info at se1.net/12232 Woolfson & Tay JohnJacob’s Constable Island Gallery & Katie NichollsCorbis tophotographs find the ofGeorges festivals &and Dragons hiddenTate Modern in and customs from around the world. 10-11 Shad Thames T 020 7407 8850 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 around Borough High St.Full Finishesinfo at se1.net/12378 2.00 pm. BookingBankside advised. T 020 7887 8888 www.woolfsonandtay.com www.jacobsisland.co.uk www.tate.org.uk/modern Mon-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; Thu-Sun 12 noon-5pm;£3 free donation per person,Nolia’s for those Gallery who can affordSun-Thu it. 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 10am-10pm; free Until Saturday 12 MayTo book email [email protected]. Tuesday 17 to Sunday 29 April www.noliasgallery.co.uk THIS IS NATURAL: JOON KWON RESPONSIVE EYES Daily 1pm-6pm; free Until Monday 9 April Anthony Antonellis, Paul B Davis,Call Declan on 07813 900062 TACITA DEAN: FILM: THE UNILEVER Joon Kwon’s second solo exhibition is Thomas Lock, Sara Ludy, Mike Ruiz, Lucy Until Wednesday 4 April SERIES about human power, engendered by the Stokton, Mark Titchner, Artie Vierkant. QUICK IN THE MOMENT Last chance to see Turbine Hall show. daily grind of existence.  Full info at se1.net/12315  Full info at se1.net/12407  Full info at se1.net/9967  Full info at se1.net/12339

Mental Fight Club presents The Dragon Café @ the Crypt of St George the Martyr Church opposite Borough tube station

10 am - 4 pm, Monday 23rd April 2012 Come & have a cuppa & a delicious bite to eat. Dragon Soup & St George’s Cakes on the menu. Explore the creative space; words, images, performances,

‘son et lumiere’ projections. Relax in the chill-out area.

Learn more about our plans to open every Monday from 1 October 2012. For more info, email: [email protected]. Call Sarah on 07557 365959

Mental Fight Club presents The Dragon Café @ the Crypt of St George the Martyr Church opposite Borough tube station

10 am - 4 pm, Monday 23rd April 2012 Come & have a cuppa & a delicious bite to eat. Dragon Soup & St George’s Cakes on the menu. Explore the creative space; words, images, performances,

‘son et lumiere’ projections. Relax in the chill-out area.

Learn more about our plans to open every Monday from 1 October 2012. For more info, email: [email protected]. Call Sarah on 07557 365959 April 2012 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW BOOK REVIEW The History of the NME An Inner City Guide to Pat Long • Portico • £14.99 Buy this book at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Surviving The Credit Crunch Healing Factory • £9.99 NME stands for New Musical Buy this book at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Express which has been based near Blackfriars Bridge on and Winsome Duncan is a poet and singer-songwriter off for most of its sixty years. who has worked with disaffected youth. Pat Long’s thorough history recalls in some Her debut book was a poetry collection on the theme of overeating. Now detail the NME’s arrival at the new King’s Winsome, a Southwark resident for over a decade, has produced a practical Reach Tower in 1972. 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This was the tennis Sometimes she writes from experience court site on the corner of Hatfields and Meymott Street. and recalls being made redundant, having her NME did return to the north bank but in 1988 it was forced back to the salary reduced and discovering that she had an ‘corporate bosom’ to share space on the tower’s 25th floor with Mizz and Shoot. unnecessarily high phone bill. That was the year when Melody Maker went to the 26th floor abandoning its To start saving there is a simple monthly ‘pre-fab gulag’ to nature. budget plan in the book which can be used by the Now NME is in even more prestigious accommodation at the Blue Fin reader. Her message is that you should “seriously Building in Southwark Street where the author was assistant editor. consider taking your destiny into your own hands”. News you may londonse1 have missed French tuition community website Southbank Centre’s £43 million Imperial War Museum to shut makeover of Queen Elizabeth for six months from January for all levels Hall and Hayward Gallery The Imperial War Museum’s London branch will close its doors to visitors for the first Southbank Centre has announced that it is half of 2013 if Southwark Council gives the raising funds for a £43 million refurbishment go-ahead for alterations to the building. of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5897 every Tuesday and Hayward Gallery complex. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5910 First image of 36-storey tower at Elephant Leisure Centre Course Fee: £7/hour Group Tuition Valentine Place Conservation Developer Lend Lease has released the first Area created image of its proposed 36-storey residential tower on the Elephant & Castle Leisure A new conservation area has been created Teacher: Beatrice, experienced and qualified Centre site. by Southwark Council in an effort to prevent …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5896 native French speaker the demolition of an Edwardian bakery building in Webber Street. 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Intermediate: 3.30 pm-4.30 pm …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5906 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5881 Advanced: 4.45 pm-5.45 pm Councillors veto demolition of Basaveshwara bust approved for Albert Embankment Glasshill Street studios Also one evening class once a week A proposal by former Mayor of Lambeth Borough & Bankside Community Council Cllr Dr Neeraj Patil to install a bust of voted unanimously to refuse permission for 12th-century Indian social reformer the partial demolition of early 20th century Basaveshwara in Albert Embankment Also available One to One French Tuition: workshop buildings between Glasshill Street Gardens has been given the go-ahead by professional/Business and legal French : £26/hour. and King’s Bench Street. Lambeth Council. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5903 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5879