Sutton Team Ministry Christ Church St Barnabas St Nicholas

Supper Talks 2017

Friday evenings at St Nicholas Community Hall, starting with supper at 7pm. Cost £8 per person.

Friday, 24 March Cécile Schnyder – L’Arche – How to live community well enough? L’Arche Community is a Christian, international community in which people with and without learning disabilities share daily life together. We work together, share a house together, pray together, go to the pub together, but it is not always easy. We are people like you, people with different abilities, different opinions and different ideas. So how do we live community? This evening will bring you a short introduction to the life of Jean Vanier (founder of L’Arche) and L’Arche international. As a long- term member of L’Arche I will tell you something about our community in and introduce you to some of my friends. Together we will discover what it means to live community.

Friday, 19 May Charlotte Steel – What does it take to make a community farm? Charlotte Steel, General Manager will tell us the story of Sutton Community Farm, one of London's largest community food growing spaces right here in our borough. The journey began back in 2010 when the idea of a local farm was first conceived. Now, just over six years later, Sutton Community Farm supports over 3,000 volunteers and visitors every year, delivers freshly harvested VegBoxes to over 230 local households and grows over 14 tonnes of organically produced vegetables. . Friday, 21 July An Evening with Linda Regan and Brian Murphy Join well-loved comedy actor Brian Murphy and his wife, actress and crime novelist Linda Regan, as they look back at their careers in film, theatre, television and fiction-writing. Brian Murphy was an original member of ’s , a jobbing actor in the 1960s and early 1970s, he was cast in the role which would make him a household name, as the lazy and scheming George Roper. He played opposite ’s

Linda Regan (photograph copyright John Gaffen of White Windmill Photography) and Brian Murphy

Mildred in first , with Richard O’Sullivan, and Sally Thomsett, and then , both hugely successful series, from 1973 until 1980. Later he appeared in . Born into a theatrical family, Linda Regan has been a professional actress all her working life. Best remembered as April, the love- struck Yellowcoat, in the smash hit BBC sitcom Hi-De-Hi, Linda has worked extensively in television, appearing in both comedy and drama series. Linda is also a successful crime writer, her work frequently set in the sleazy underbelly of the entertainments industry.

Friday, 10 November Ian Gledhill – Transport for the Masses A general history of the once ubiquitous tramcar, with a special look at the trams that used to be seen on the streets of Sutton.