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The essential monthly guide to what’s on in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk April SE1 Issue 58 April 2003 in Free Thumbs up for C-Charge MORE THAN three-quarters of now often enjoy a clear run those responding to a poll on down Farringdon Street and the SE1 community over into website are in favour of the SE1. Transport for London Congestion Charge. has issued guidance to bus This figure reflects the managers allowing them to views in other parts of central ignore the timetable rather London although the scheme than keep buses waiting. is thought to have been less •Bristol Industrial Museum’s successful around King’s 105-year-old Daimler Cross on the boundary. which hasn’t been on the A massive 77% replied road since 1947 has had a “yes’ when asked ‘Has the penalty notice for evading congestion charge had a the congestion charge in HOLY WEEK begins in . positive impact on life in SE1?’ London Road, SE1. The Cathedral’s Palm Sunday Procession will begin in the Just 12% said “no” whilst 13% car has a maximum speed Market at 11am on Sunday 13 April. After the blessing of were undecided. of only 15mph. TfL said palms and the reading of the Gospel, the procession will Many people report buses “It would be ridiculous to make its way along Bedale Street for the Sung Eucharist. running faster than before expect there are not going the charge. Routes 63 and 45 to be individual errors.” The Coronet reopens at last LONDON’S MAJOR new as well as live performances. space, and entertainment, for then derelict Coronet in 2001. dance-to-arts venue opens in It will also provide a versatile an eclectic young audience He approached theatrical SE1 at Easter. home for regular club nights, looking for something fresh, entrepreneur and founder The Coronet, the three live music, art house cinema individual, exciting and, of the production company screen ABC Cinema which screenings and special above all, stimulating.” Gekko, Dominic Madden, closed in 1999, opens its events. Not Cricket, a student who acquired the venue and doors on Easter Eve Saturday Angela Reed who is design collective from funded the redevelopment, 19 April. overseeing the relaunch Central St Martins, has with The Pure Group’s The run-down venue, of the Coronet says: “The been appointed as ‘artists- management and consultancy dating from the 19th century recreation of the Coronet in-residence’. Not Cricket arm contracted to oversee and known to Charlie Chaplin, is being driven by a team is working on film, video, renovation work and provide has been restored to its 1920s drawn from the club, cinema photography and illustration ongoing management. Art Deco glory. and theatre industries who installations for the The restored interior will The cinema tradition all share a vision of a space completed venue. be unveiled to invited guests continues with the opening that blurs the boundaries Jeremy Millins, Managing qt a party a week before the of a 572-seater raked of traditional club and arts Director of The Pure Group, official opening. auditorium for film screenings cultures. We are creating spotted the potential of the •www.coronet-london.com FRANK HARRIS This Month and COMPANY page 7 RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT Holy Week and 57 York Road, , London SE1 7NJ Easter church 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk services

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Sign up for a weekly email bulletin with SE1 news & events www.SE1direct.co.uk APRIL 2003 2 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 St George’s set for restoration… April in SE1 ST GEORGE the Martyr St George’s and the Church ADVERTISING in Borough has received Commissioners. 27 Blackfriars Road For details of our competitive £250,000 lottery funding to The replacement building London SE1 8NY rates call us for a rate card enable the historic church to will have the ground floor on 020 7633 0766 or email prepare its restoration plans. reserved for community use TEL 020 7633 0766 [email protected] However, to provide but most facilities are to be FAX 020 7401 2521 its own share of funding provided in St George’s crypt. EMAIL [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS WEB www.inSE1.co.uk To receive the next 12 issues the has had to sell St George’s, which has by post in the UK please send its Halls in Lant Street for a dangerous ceiling, is © 2003 Press a cheque for £6 to the address redevelopment. The proceeds expected to be both filled and www.banksidepress.com above, made payable to in SE1. of selling the building, the surrounded by scaffolding Please specify starting issue. former St Michael’s Church, when the major work begins EDITOR is being divided between next year. Leigh Hatts LISTINGS Details of events to be PRODUCTION EDITOR considered for inclusion next …but St George’s Day is postponed James Hatts month should be sent by 22 ST GEORGE’S Day is being Sunday 27 April with a Sung April to the Listings Editor at held late this year as it falls Eucharist at 10.30am followed CONTRIBUTORS the above address, or by fax on Easter Wednesday. by a bring-and-share lunch. St Sarah Bryan or email. Farouk Campbell The day has been officially George’s Cathedral is waiting Anne Critchley DISCLAIMER moved to the following until next month and keeping Crystal Lindsay Every effort is made to ensure Monday but SE1’s two major the day on Friday 9 May. Brittany Luck the accuracy of our listings events are on different dates. This year is the 1700th Marion Marples and features but all details St George the Martyr, anniversary of St George’s are subject to alteration by one of the first churches to death in his Palestine PRINTED BY venues and organisers and no Copyprints Ltd, responsibility can be accepted be dedicated to England’s homeland. 1 Talbot Yard, SE1 1YP for any inaccuracies. patron saint, is celebrating on •www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk Shard of Glass in Insurance crisis CALL the YARD inquiry to start for attractions THE PUBLIC inquiry to LEADING ATTRACTIONS determine the future of the along the riverside are being Most of the big and Tower plan affected by the terrorism successful local firms opens on Tuesday 15 April at threat. Not only are visitor Bankside House. If approved numbers down and security do when the building in front of measures being increased they have will but insurance premiums are something to be the tallest in Europe. The rising. Southwark Cathedral 1000 foot high glass tower has been informed that say and they has been designed by Renzo additional cover against acts would like Piano who will give evidence of terrorism will this year on the first day. English cost £16,000. The Cathedral us to give a Heritage is due to oppose Chapter has decided that sharp edge the plan. there can be no greater to it. •Bankside House (the LSE protection than faith and that halls of residence) is in to speculate with money the Sumner Street behind Tate cathedral does not have is PRINT Modern. an inappropriate response to COPIES •www.londonbridgetower. the threat. REPORTS com •www.dswark.org/cathedral BROCHURES Communication of all kinds Blackfriars Wine Bar

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YOU MAY have always wondered Council will put up 20 blue plaque being placed on the The opening hours are where the names such as plaques to celebrate the Copyprints building is high 7am to 10pm daily and the Southwark, Marshalsea, Roupell, people, places and events not only among customers late opening has attracted or Bear Gardens originated as that shaped the history of but also visitors. Support residents. Sainsbury’s plans street names. John Wittich’s the borough. The choice is by has come from Canterbury book (Shire Publications, £5.99) another branch for Borough uncovers the mystery and public ballot which closes on itself and America. Indeed High Street and a larger store history of numerous streets in Monday 7 April. so great is interest that a in Stamford Street next year. the SE1 area. Election posters depicting ballot box has been set up at Meanwhile Marks & Spencer Wittich’s fascinating Mary Wollenstonecroft, Copyprints. will open a Simply Food explanations and refrences Charles Dickens and Michael Other SE1 names among outlet at Waterloo Station are superbly detailed. Some Caine have appeared around the 50 candidates include this month. street names that would seem straightfoward-looking may turn SE1 including Southwark William Blake, Octavia Hill •Join the debate about out to be a surprise. The reader Station. and Michael Faraday. Votes shopping in SE1 at can take a stroll down the lanes Excitement is high at can be cast online via the www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum or alleys of Saxon times and Copyprints Business Centre Southwark Council website. •www.sainsburys.co.uk relive the history of their area. in Talbot Yard where staff and Meanwhile BBC Talent •Waterloo Road Post Office, From the SE1 area, Wittich customers are campaigning is looking for actors in SE1 on the corner of Stamford gives an enthralling account of the origin of Marshalsea Road, for . The interested in appearing in a Street, will close on Friday which was named after the business, just off Borough modern day Canterbury Tales. 11 April. “There are too prison in which Charles Dickens’ High Street, stands on the •www.southwark.gov.uk many branches in urban father was housed, Marshalsea site of the Tabard Inn where •www.copyprintsltd.co.uk areas” said Head of Area Prison. Chaucer set the opening of •www.bbc.co.uk/talent Kevin Ray. This book is both entertaining and educational. Any SE1 or London resident alike Saatchi Gallery SE1 to gain new SE1 artist on should own a copy of this walk down the streets of times past. opens this month university? BBC London •www.inSE1.co.uk/books SARAH BRYAN MODERN ART collector THE ELEPHANT & Castle DAVID BEGIE, whose Charles Saatchi will open his may be home to a second distinctive work can be seen new gallery in County Hall on university. The London at Gallery Different in Shad [ SE1 Direct ] Tuesday 15 April. The opening College of Printing is applying Thames, has his giant hand show is a retrospective of for university status as part sculpture Mixignal on show works by Damien Hirst. of the London Institute. The in the BBC London newsroom The weekly email Exhibitions from Tracey Emin, request to the Privy Council in Marylebone High Street. newsletter from Sarah Lucas and Jenny Saville for upgrading follows the The work hangs from the the ‘in SE1’ team will follow. Institute’s aquisition of the ceiling above an atrium and Saatchi, who made his large site alongside Tate is being seen from different fortune in advertising, has Britain on the north bank to angles during live BBC www.SE1direct.co.uk said: “The extraordinary house Chelsea College of London News broadcasts rooms in County Hall will Art. South Bank University in the early morning and make an interesting setting has a growing presence in at 1.30pm, 6.30pm and for works like Hirst’s shark the London Road-Newington 10.25pm. His work can also and Emin’s bed.” Causeway triangle on the be seen in Colorado and a Like Tate Modern, the Elephant’s north side. Hampshire church. gallery will remain open until •www.linst.ac.uk •www.davidbegbie.com 10pm on two nights a week. •www.privycouncil.org.uk •www.bbc.co.uk/london SE1 Snippets > > > > >

CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIPS CHORUS MUNDI WOMEN BANKSIDE TRADERS AGM Outgoing Bankside Waterloo-based Chorus Richard Truss, Bankside Traders Open Spaces Director Mundi flies to Nice Vicar of St John’s Association held its Vicky Lawrence has this month to give Waterloo, is one of AGM at Shakespeare’s been awarded a performances in Holy 204 priests backing Globe. Chris Barlow of Churchill Fellowship Trinity, the historic the Priests for Women SE1 Gallery, re-elected to study community English Church, and Bishops campaign. chairman for 2003- land management in St Peter’s Church. The “We can see no reason 4, reported on the America. Also receiving singers will be in the why we should not appointment of a Small a Fellowship is South of France from have women bishops, Business Development of Southwark Colin Thursday 24 April to and we want them as Co-ordinator as part Slee who will look at Thursday 1 May. The soon as possible” says of a drive to provide homelessness and recently sung Canon Truss. The aim business back-up. faith perspectives Rachmaninov Vespers is to obtain the suport Guest speakers from worldwide. at a Greek Orthodox of at least half of all Better Bankside gave a •www.bost.org.uk Church. Anglican clergy. presentation. APRIL 2003 4 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 just a simple play about adultery, the play Theatre examines the nature of what makes one Cinema theatre particular human unfaithful, the reason BFI London IMAX Cinema ‡ review The Cut T 020 7369 1722 we sacrifice for marraige, and the price of The Bullring, South Bank T 020 7902 1234 www.oldvictheatre.com individual choices. www.bfi.org.uk/imax Simply Heavenly ______Screenings daily 10.30am-9.30pm; £7.10 Young Vic Until Saturday 19 April Southwark Playhouse (conc £5.95; child £4.95) KING LEAR 62 Rd T 020 7620 3494 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; from £12.50 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk INDIA: KINGDOM OF THE TIGER 2D (U) SITTING WAITING for Simply Fast paced production of Shakespeare’s Follow the Bengal Tiger through its Heavenly to begin one is already Lear. Performed by the English Touring Until Saturday 5 April breathtaking homeland-India, a country in a Harlem bar. Opening night Theatre and starring Timothy West. THE WEDDING painted by countless cultures, colours was on St Patrick’s Day so it ______Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £5 and faces. seemed appropriate for Paddy’s First ever English translation of the dark, absurdist comedy by Cuban playwright Bar to be emblazoned across the South Bank T 020 7452 3000 INTO THE DEEP 3D (U) www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Virgilio Pinera. Pinera’s study of social Into the Deep takes you into a magical back. At the interval one felt like pride and etiquette revolves around lovers under water world. Enjoy a close shave walking over to the counter and Until Saturday 5 April who back out of a wedding with a shark, play hide and seek with the asking for an ice cream. PERICLES sea lions and marvel at the richness of life Although it was more than Olivier; 7pm & 7.15pm; £10 Monday 14 April to Saturday 3 May beneath the waves. thirty minutes before the songs Yukio Ninagawa’s Japanese production MONGOOSE of Shakespeare’s play. Please note: The Mon-Fri 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6) PULSE: A STOMP ODESSEY 2D (U) started this is a fast moving entirety of the play is in Japanese with Ted, a lonely middle aged farmer, comes to The creators of Stomp take the IMAX show. The actors are not well- no simultaneous translation, though a terms with the death of his lifelong friend, audience on a spectacular global journey, known which makes the simple full plot synopsis is provided. Ninagawa a talking mongoose, in Peter Harkness’s paying tribute to the people and the story even more engrossing. visited the National with his celebrated dark new comedy. Sitting amongst his rhythms of the world that inspired the Jess Semple is a hard working productions of Macbeth and Medea in junk and memories, the farmer unfolds a original show. Pulse includes the KODO 1987. disturbing story of how Mongoose came to drummers of Japan and a 200 piece fellow living in a tiny rented stay and how he changed Ted’s life forever. rhythm section in Salvador. The film also room and tempted by a local Wednesday 2 April to Saturday 17 May ______features sights and sounds from India, good time girl. But his real love SCENES FROM THE BIG PICTURE Union Theatre Africa, Spain, the UK and Norh America. is a young lady living in another Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 rented room. This is the 1950s 24 hours. 20 characters. 40 scenes. www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk CYBERWORLD 3D (PG) Belfast City. An urban story. This Come face to face with your favourite so although this show has lots of tantalizing intro is for a new play by Owen Until Saturday 12 April characters - Bart and Homer Simpson, ‘Z’ bedroom scenes there is no sex. McCafferty, who was the winner of the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE from Antz, and Phig the sassy cyber babe. Instead the poverty and farce Paines Plough/Granada Award 1999. The Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6.50) are cues for songs and stunning cast includes Kathy Kiera Clarke, Ruairi Tempers ignite in Henrick Ibsen’s absurdist HAUNTED CASTLE 3D (PG) dance from the bar regulars. Conaghan, Chris Corrigan, Darren Healy, comedy when a small town doctor and Join Johnny as he enters the mysterious Watch the barman; he never Packy Lee, Karl Johnson, Gerard Jordan, Minister of the Baths learns that the castle. Aoife McMahon, Eileen Pollock, Frances baths are contaminated. In the name of stops working. Tomelty, Harry Towb and June Watson. truth and cleanliness, the doctor sets out THE LION KING 2D (U) •Simply Heavenly continues to alert the townspeople of the danger. Phone for times; £9.50 (conc £7; child £7) until Saturday 12 April. Wednesday 9 April to Saturday 31 May However, other leaders in the town have a Disney’s popular tale which follows the •www.youngvic.org JERRY SPRINGER different agenda. The intricate problems fortunes of a young prince in exile. •See listings on this page Lyttleton Theatre; 7.45pm; 10£-£34 of small town community are revealed in An opera about a talk show? Richard this tale of propaganda, persuasion and T-REX: BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS 3D (U) LEIGH HATTS Thomas, composer for the opera, said politics. Come nose-to-nose with the largest and of the show: “It’s got tragedy. It’s got most realistic dinosaur ever to appear on violence. There are people screaming at Tuesday 15 April to Saturday 3 May a movie screen. eating each other and you can’t understand what RANDOM ACTS OF MALICE out they’re saying. It’s perfect for opera.” Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6.50) SPACE STATION 3D (U) � Beginning life at Battersea Arts Centre, Perfect Ambiguity presents the London The first-ever live action IMAX movie to be Deja Vu the concert version was the hit of the première of Alan Fraser’s award-winning filmed in space. Edinburgh Festival 2002. new play shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Rd New Writing Award. This tense thriller is Friday 11 April Friday 25 April to Monday 12 May directed by Steve Harper. AFTER DARK: LORD OF THE RINGS - THE THE LOCAL area is awash HONOUR ______FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING with cafes and bars - too Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£25 Young Vic 8.30pm; £7.50 & £6.50 (conc £6.20 & much so many residents may UK première of Joanna Murray-Smith’s 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 £5.70) insightful play showing the failure of a www.youngvic.org Frodo Baggins and his friends must begin feel. However, “new kid on marriage. Cast includes Eileen Atkins a quest to save middle earth. the block”, Deja Vu at 137, and Corin Redgrave. The play poignantly Until Saturday 12 April Westminster Bridge Road, examines the effects of one man’s decision SIMPLY HEAVENLY Saturday 12 April certainly cheers up a rather to renounce his marraige vows and begin Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £19 (conc £10) AFTER DARK: LORD OF THE RINGS - THE dreary corner of North Lambeth. living with a much younger woman. Not See review on this page. TWO TOWERS 9.15pm; £7.50 & £6.50 (conc £6.20 & Its bright interior is attractively £5.70) furnished throughout in Buy theatre tickets online: www.inSE1.co.uk/theatre Even more dangers await the courageous terracotta and blue, with band as the deadly Uruk-hai Orcs march simple wooden furniture. The to destroy cities for Saruman. owners are French-Algerian SE1 Shad Thames spacious 1-bed flat • £250,000 • no chain Sunday 13 April and this small cafe certainly GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS SCREENING has something of the feel of Rare chance in Kitchen has new washing machine, 6.30pm; £15 (conc £11) France. The food though is Square: finely-decorated flat gas cooking hob and sink/taps plus James Cameron presents a tour through neither French or Algerian alas, dishwasher, fridge, freezer, microwave the actual wreckage of the Titanic. but the standard cafe fare of in elegant low-rise estate and electric oven. Following the screening, Cameron will baked potatoes, English salads which comes onto the market then speak about the documentary in a live Guardian interview. and omelette and chips. What Exclusive use of very large loft storage least in the whole Shad area is an unusual feature. ______a missed opportunity! The Thames Conservation Area. National Film Theatre coffee is good however, and for Discreet celebrity neighbour. Top quality elegant fitted furniture South Bank T 020 7928 3232 £2.20 you can buy a “French installed with much care and thought. www.bfi.org.uk/nft Property consists of breakfast” of a large coffee or Fitted carpets and central heating. Wednesday 2 April to Wednesday 16 April chocolate with croissant, pain double bedroom with fitted Car park space included. Estate is just LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL au chocolat or croquet. Regular wardrobes, large lounge/dining See website www.llgff.org.uk for times; costumers get a 10% discount. outside the congestion charging zone, £12.00 opening and closing gala; Worth checking out. room, bathroom with bath/ protected by private clamping service. screenings £7.50 (conc £5.70). •T 020 7633 9441 shower and toilet, entrance A variety of films, shorts and To view, pls contact Mrs Beckett on documentaries from around the world •Mon-Fri 7am-6pm & Sat 9am-6pm hall with two cupboards, fully 020 7357 8280 (BT) or 07763 560 will examine gay and lesbian interests, ANNE CRITCHLEY fitted kitchen. 769 (mobile) lifestyles and issues. APRIL 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 5

Imperial War Museum Percy Miller Gallery Exhibitions Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 39 Snowsfields T 020 72074578 exhibition Bankside Gallery www.iwm.org.uk www.percymillergallery.com ¢ 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Daily 10am-6pm; free Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free review www.banksidegallery.com Tue-Fri 10am-5pm (Tue -8pm); San & Sun Until Sunday 27 April Wednesday 9 April to Friday 9 May Manolo Blahnik 11am-5pm; £3.50 (conc £2) ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE Design Museum £5 (conc £4) An exhibition of film installations by Grace Until Monday 21 April Major exhibition on twelve WWI soldier Weir inspired by the French philosopher ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY SPRING poets . Gilles Deleuze. Weir uses natural beauty HAVE YOU ever wanted to EXHIBITION of clouds, water and wind to convey her look into the detailed mind of The warm works of Jane Carpanini RWS Thursday 10 April to Monday 26 May ideas. a visionary shoe designer? If will be featured to celebrate her 25th LANGLANDS AND BELL ______you visit the Design Museum’s anniversary of election to the RWS. Includes digital still and video footage Printspace exhibition of the designer ______of two weeks in Afghanistan. Highlights 2 Bear Gardens T 020 7261 9200 Design Museum include Osama Bin Laden’s former home www.print-space.com Manolo Blahnik you can see Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 and a visit to the High Court. Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; free why these exquisite and elegant www.designmuseum.org ______shoes are legendary. With no Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); Jerwood Space Until Wednesday 23 Apri formal training, Blahnik truly is £5.50 (conc £4) 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 ANITA KLEIN a genius who has perfected the www.jerwoodspace.co.uk New etching and drypoint works. Wednesday 9 to Monday 14 April Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; Sun 1-6pm; free ______artistic expression of his craft. GREAT BRITS: NEW BRITISH DESIGN IN Purdy Hicks Gallery The presentation examines MILAN Wednesday 2 to Sunday 27 April 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 every detail of the stages of An exhibition showcasing the work of four IAN WHITTLESEA www.purdyhicks.com design.The majority of the British design stars of the future. Includes As a part of the Jerwood Artists Platform Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & exhibit is a timeline of shoes. Mathias Bengtsson, Tord Boontje, Daniel to promote emerging artists. Includes Sun 12 noon-5pm; free You can see fabulous styles from Brown and Sam Buxton. text paintings describing two different journeys of the greats Charles Darwin and Until Saturday 26 April the early 1970s to current trends Until Sunday 20 April Paul Cézanne. ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI of Blahnik’s famous stiletto. The MARS GROUP ______One hundred works covering 40 years. exhibition is concluded with a 70th anniversary celebration of the Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings ______video montage of clips from Sex Modern Architectural Research think-tank. The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Tate Modern and the City, the programme Features Basil Spence and Erno Goldfinger. www.llewellynalexander.com Bankside T 020 7887 8008 Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free www.tate.org.uk which brought the word Until Tuesday 11 May Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free “Manolo’s” into our vocabulary MANOLO BLAHNIK Until Saturday 5 April as slang for irresistibly stylish First ever retrospective of shoe designer JEREMY BARLOW-ONE MAN SHOW Until Monday 5 May shoes. Being coveted by Manolo Blahník’s collection of sexy shoes. Major exhibition of over 85 new oils of MAX BECKMANN everyone from Madonna to Kate Italy and France. £8.50 (conc £6) Until Sunday 1 June Major exhibition. Moss, Manolo Blahnik has truly SUPERSTUDIO – LIFE WITHOUT OBJECTS Saturday 10 April to Tuesday 3 May ______created an imaginative world of The Italian design group Superstudio A MILLION BRUSHSTROKES the.gallery@oxo refined and unique design. showing their avant-gard architecture and The annual exhibition of over 900 Wharf T 020 7401 2255 •Design Museum, Shad Thames technology. miniatures by 120 artists. Portraits, www.oxotower.co.uk •See listings on this page animals, landscapes, still lifes in oil, Daily 11am-6pm; free SARAH BRYAN Until Sunday 29 June watercolour and pastel. DESIGNER OF THE YEAR ______Thursday 3 to Sunday 13 April The works showing are all competing McHardy Sculpture Company HIGH SOCIETY for a £25,000 cash prize, which will be Shad Thames T 020 7403 7555 Sculpture and photographs. shopping announced in early June. www.mchardy-sculpture.com ¹ focus ______Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon- Thursday 3 to Monday 21 April fa projects 5pm; free WALKING ACROSS WATER Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 Includes works inspired by the Millennium Shelley Thomas www.faprojects.com Until Sunday 13 April Bridge and Hungerford Footbridge. Gabriel’s Wharf Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm AGI COHEN Retrospective of bronzes produced by Wednesday 16 to Sunday 27 April “MOST PEOPLE think Until Friday 25 April Agi Cohen during her illness and recovery URBAN PHILOSOPHY blacksmiths are for shoeing VIDEO INVITATIONAL period. Tim Brown’s raw street imagery. A programme of single-screen projections ______horses,” laughs Shelley Thomas, showing some of the most significant Menier Chocolate Factory Friday 24 April to Sunday 11 May owner of a new shop in Gabriel’s international work in video made by 51-3 T 020 7407 5388 CUFUDDLED Wharf. However, a horseshoe is emerging artists from the last 2 years. www.menier.org.uk Showcasing the work of four artists. the last thing one would notice ______Wed-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun 11am-4pm; free among her beautifully adorned Florence Nightingale Museum Wednesday 30 April to Sunday 11 May Road T 020 7620 0374 Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 April WOMEN AND WAR wrought iron pieces. www.florence-nightingale.co.uk UN-AFFORDABLE ART FAIR Photojournalist Jenny Matthews’ visual The shop’s selection ranges Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 11.30am- Alongside art works starting at £2003+ diary of women’s lives in times of war. from candlesticks that look like 4.30pm; £4.80 (conc £3.80) will be hundreds of fairly priced items in ______modern art pieces (£40-£50) to the Expanding Imagination section. Union Projects (formerly Essor Gallery) the heart-covered double bed Until Friday 25 April ______1 America Street T 020 7928 3388 ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS Morley Gallery www.essorgallery.com frame (£2,950) which dominates Five proposals for a new Florence 61 W’ Bridge Rd T 020 7450 9226 Daily 11am-5.30pm; free the shop. Nightingale Museum by New Zealand www.morleycollege.ac.uk Thomas was origninally architectural students. Until5 April: Mon - Fri 11am - 6pm, Until Saturday 12 April trained as a jeweller but says her Thursday until 7pm,Sat 12noon - 4pm KILLING FRIENDS work “simply became bigger.” Until Saturday 2 August From 7 April: Mon- Fri 10am - 5pm; free Julian Hoeber’s recent work. Note the new She has certainly been able UNSUNG HEROINES name for this gallery. to take more artistic licence, An exhibition focused on the lives of nine Until Thursday 17 April ______London women who followed Florence TOKYO GLAMROCK The Walk Gallery creating a £35,000 Christmas Nightingale to the Scutari hospitals. An installation of Hiroyuki Matsukage’s 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 tree for a Save the Children Includes memorabilia, medals and parts of photographic images and Muneteru www.walkgallery.com charity project and also forging the uniform worn. Ujino’s posters and sculptures. Mon-Sat 11am-6pm (Thu -7pm); free installment art pieces for ______Gallery 33 Museum of Garden History Until Saturday 5 April various areas of London. She 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 LONDON GROUP says she is willing to take any Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free www.museumgardenhistory.org As part of the London Group’s 90th commission, constructing pieces Daily 10.30am-5pm; donation £2.50 (conc anniversary four members present their as varied as decorative furniture, Tuesday 1 to Friday 25 April £2) masterpieces. handrails, curtain poles and even MARTIN S WERTHEIM GOULD FRSA A unique exhibition of watercolour Tuesday 1 to Wednesday 30 April Sunday 27 April to Saturday 17 May handcuffs. and pen & wash works capturing the PROMENADE ADRIAN BARTLETT • Open Wed-Sun afternoons. architecture, sights and sounds of A series of black and white photography New works of prints, woodcuts, and • www.shelleythomas.co.uk Brighton. by Bastian Fischer. drawings. BRITTANY LUCK APRIL 2003 6 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Friday 5 April business Music WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC Special Events ORCHESTRA Cinema Organ Society Berkeley Homes 7.30pm; £9 (conc £6) watch Edric Hall (SB University), Borough Rd Lambeth Coll, Tooley St T 020 7861 3171 $ Jonathan Butcher conducts. Sibelius www.cinema-organs.org.uk Furniture Union symphony no.5; Vaughan Wiliams The Lark Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 April ascending and Tippett Symphony no.1. Hopton Street Saturday 12 April PLANS EXHIBITION SPECIAL RECITAL Thu 3pm-7pm; Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am- 7.30pm; £6 Monday 14 April 1pm; free REARRANGING FURNITURE Richard Openshaw and Mark Laflin on the CONCERT Exhibition of development plans for 4pm; £10 (advance 020 7377 7792) can be a dynamic and room- Mighty Wurlitzer organ from the Trocadero college and car park site adjacent to The Choir of St Margaret’s Westminster, in New Kent Road. Potters Field. changing experience, unless the Kneller Hall Fanfare Trumpeters and ______the furniture is being moved to Thomas Trotter on the organ with a Southwark Cathedral City Hall another borough! selection of traditional and contemporary T 020 7367 6700 The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Trendy residents of SE1 will www.dswark.org/cathedral music. www.london.gov.uk be excited to find that Furniture Union is no longer planning to Every Monday Bank Holiday Monday 21 April Sunday 6 April ERNEST READ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA move from its space on Hopton LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL OPEN DAY: LONDON’S LIVING ROOM 1.10pm; free 7.30pm; £7 2pm-6pm; free Street near Tate Modern . In fact, Mon 7: Matthew Morrison (Oundle Simon Phillippo conducts. Borodin Just one opportunity this month to visit it’s getting a facelift. International Festival Prizewinner) Overture to Prince Igor; Brahms Haydn London’s Living Room at the top of City Furniture Union, owned by Mon 14: No recital (Holy Week) Variations and Shostakovich Symphony Hall, the home of London’s government Mandy Taylor-Jones, has been Mon 21: No recital (Easter Monday) No. 10. www.erso.org.uk close to Tower Bridge. Mon 28: Jonathan Vaughn (St John’s ______in the SE1 area for nearly five College Cambridge ) Monday 28 April years. The store specializes in London Marathon LONDON GAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA T 020 7902 0189 contemporary designer furniture Every Tuesday 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6) www.london-marathon.co.uk at affordable prices. However, LUNCHTIME RECITAL Peter Crockford conducts. Sissons Troilus due to recently rising rent costs, 1.10pm; free Concert Overture; Walton Prelude Richard Sunday 13 April Jones considered moving the Tue 1: Shiho Miyata (piano) III; Walton Henry V Suite and Elgar LONDON MARATHON Tue 8: Catherine Dubois (piano) & Anne Symphony No. 1. www.lgso.ndirect.co.uk gallery to a more cost effective From 10am Rayner (clarinet) of The Michael James The annual 26 mile race attracts runners location. Music Trust Wednesday 30 April from all over the world. The start is at 9am Now that rents have Tue 15: No recital (Holy Week) TWO IMPROVISING TRIOS in Greenwich and runners cross Tower stabilised, Jones is relaunching Tue 22: Sally Quantrill (flute) & Lydia 8pm; £3 & £6 Bridge during the morning and early the store with a new manager, Clatworthy (piano) Maggie Nicols (voice), caroline Kraabel afternoon. There wil also be live television Tue 29: Symposia Quartet (sax/voice) Charlotte Hug (viola) & coverage. Jane Rawlings, who plans to Veryan Weston (piano), John Edwards change the focus of the outlet ______Wednesday 2 April (contrabass), Mark Sanders (percussion). Museum of Garden History to reflect a retail emphasis. The MESSIAH ______Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 store has new later opening 7.30pm; free St Matthew’s-at-the-Elephant www.museumgardenhistory.org times and will be receiving new A performance given by students of Meadow Row T 020 450 9238 Morley College and London Guildhall Sunday 27 April ranges and a new catalogue. University. Retiring collection for RNIB. Friday 11 April Another feature of the re-launch SPRING PLANT SALE ______MUSIC FOR WIND & PIANO 10.30am-5.30pm; £2.50 will be lower prices on many St George-the-Martyr 1.15pm; free Plants, including rare and unusual furiture items. T 020 7407 2796 Lorna Twycross hills (flute & recorder), examples, for sale from leading specialist “People who live in this area www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk Michelle Witt and Joan Taylor (piano). nurseries. Programme includes Fauré Dolly Suite for ______are design aware,” says Jones. Every Thursday piano duet as well as music by JC Bach, JS Jones displays chairs in Tate Pool of London LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Bach, Otiz and Couperin. Between London Bridge and Tower Bridge Modern and also furnishes the 1pm; free (collection) ______National Film Theatre Cafe and Thu 3: To be announced Tate & Egg Live Monday 21 April provides its surrounding outdoor Thu 10: Guildhall School of Music Tate Modern, Bankside T 020 7887 8000 GUN SALUTE students www.tateandegglive.com 1pm benches. However, she says she ______wants to provide furniture that A 62 gun salute wil be fired by the St John’s Waterloo Wednesday 16 April Honourable Artillery Company from the is not only genuinely stylish but Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 DEATH & RESURRECTION to mark the Queen’s also affordable. She has items www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 7.30pm; £27 (conc £15) + booking fee birthday. Best views are from Potters ranging from vase shaped coffee Begins in St Paul’s Cathedral with a Fields and Tower Bridge. Everfy Wednesday performance of three Bach Cantatas by ______tables (£35) to a unique chaise LUNCHTIME CONCERTS the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque St Jude’s Community Centre longue (£1,100). 1pm; free (collection) Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot St George’s Road T 020 7928 9840 •65a Hopton Street Wed3: Johanna Roos (violin) & Susan Gardiner. Following the performance the Clarke (piano) •T 020 7928 5155 conductor will leade the audience across Saturday 5 April Wed 10: John Lofthouse (baritone) & •Open Wed-Sun 11am-8pm; the Millennium Bridge to Tate Modern TUMBLE SALE Magnus Gilljam (piano) where the Monteverdi Choir will perform 1-3pm; 20p Mon-Tue by appointment Wed 17: Nemoto Piano Trio Steve Martland’s Street Songs, using Raffle, cakes, clothes, bric-a-brack and BRITTANY LUCK Wed 24: Kathryn Workman (oboe) & traditional childrens’ rhymes illustrated by refreshments. Dharshini Tambiah (piano) four short animated films. Get More out of SE1! Get More out of Morley! Morley College Lifelong Learning for adults in Central London Enrol now for courses beginning late April in Visual Arts, Music, Languages, Humanities, Food, Exercise and Health, Dance and Drama, and Basic Education. There’s something for everyone at Morley College. Call or email for our course guide, or check our website for course details

Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT Tel 020 7928 8501 Fax: 020 7928 4074 General Email: [email protected] Web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk Morley College Ltd is a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 2629936. Reg Charity No. 1928623 APRIL 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 7 Sunday 27 April Church Services 10.30am ST GEORGES DAY EUCHARIST Guided Walks & Tours southside Christ Church Southwark Patronal festival. Followed by bring-and- City Secrets Walks share lunch. diary c 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 T 020 8348 9022 www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk ______Harry Handlesman has sold his St George’s RC Cathedral Mondays & Fridays penthouse on top of Bankside Sunday 13 April Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 SHAKESPEARE CITY WALK 10am PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Meet 11am exit 8; £8 Lofts for £2m. The Manhattan Congregations of St Johns’s Waterloo and Actor and researcher Declan McHugh Loft Corporation chairman Christ Church meet for blessing of plams Wednesday 2 April leads a 90 minute guided walk featuring moved in during 1998 having and reading of the Gospel. Followed by 6.30pm ANNUAL CIVIC SERVICE Shakespearean connections. redeveloped the building which procession to St John’s for Eucharist. Mayor of Southwark Denise Capstick has ______chosen St George’s Cathedral to host stands on the site of the Swan Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre known to Shakespeare. Wednesday 16 April this year’s Civic Service which has the New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 1pm HOLY WEEK SERVICE theme ‘Looking Out for Each Other’. All The yellow circular tower on With the Portcullis Singers Southwark residents are welcome and no Saturday 26 April top, designed by Piers Gough, tickets are required. SWEET LOVE REMEMBERED is probably one of the worst Thursday 17 April Meet at Globe; 6.30pm-9pm; £15-£16 Palm Sunday 13 April additions to Bankside since 7pm MAUNDY EUCHARIST (conc £12-£14) it blocks the view of St Paul’s Eucharist with Washing of Feet and 11.30am PALM SUNDAY MASS A traditional sonnet walk in celebration of Stripping of the Altar Blessing and Procession of Palms. Shakespeare’s birthday. dome once enjoyed by residents ______on the Rochester Estate. But for Friday 18 April Monday 14 April Original London Walks the Lofts’ addition there would 11am GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION 7.30pm RECONCILIATION SERVICE T 020 7624 3978 An opportunity for confession before now be a wonderful view of the Meet at St Hugh’s Crosby Row for Good cathedral from Blackfriars Road Friday walk of witness to Crossways Easter. Every Monday Church at Elephant & Castle. All welcome. DARKEST VICTORIAN LONDON across the vacant Palestra site. Maundy Thursday 17 April Meet at London Bridge Stn at 11.30am; £5 *** Sunday 20 April 11.15am CHRISM MASS Stories from the lips of real Victorians. The It’s a pity that Harry Handelsman 9.30am EASTER DAY EUCHARIST Blessing of oils and renewal of clergy walk starts exit on east side of Borough bafflingly describes his move vows. ______High Street. to Hyde Park as “moving to St Alphege ______central London”. SE1 is real King’s Bench Street T 020 7407 2796 Maundy Thursday 17 April Stepping Out 7.30pm EVENING MASS OF THE LORD’S T 020 7435 4782 central London which is why Saturday 12 April SUPPER www.walklon.ndirect.co.uk there is such concern about the 12 noon ST ALPHEGE FESTIVAL Followed by watch at the altar of repose. 33-storey London Bridge Tower. Mass for St Alphege Day celebrated early Every Sunday Good Friday 18 April The future of this plan to build due to Easter. Followed by refreshments. BROTHELS, BISHOPS & BARDS Europe’s tallest building will 3pm SOLEMN LITURGY OF THE PASSION Meet 11am Monument Station; £5 (conc Palm Sunday 13 April £4) be decided at an inquiry sitting 9.30am PALM SUNDAY MASS Good Friday 18 April Hear Bankside tales about geese that in Bankside House where the Start of Holy Week. 7.30pm SERVICE ROUND THE CROSS were not birds, stews that were not food slow-moving and inconclusive and a notorious prison in Clink Street. Thameslink 2000 hearing sat for Holy Saturday 19 April Maundy Thursday 17 April almost a year. Developer Irvine 7pm LAST SUPPER MASS 8.30pm EASTER VIGIL Saturday 5 April Maundy Thursday Eucharist. With Baptism and Confirmation by the SECRET SOUTHWARK Sellar says: “People like height”. ______Archbishop and First Mass of Easter. 10.30am Borough Stn; £5 (conc £4) Arts commentator Richard St John’s Waterloo Sauares, almshouses, cottages and Morrison warns that Southwark Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Easter Sunday 20 April industry away from the famous sites. Cathedral “will have to crouch by www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 11.30am SOLEMN MASS Main Easter Day Mass. its new neigbour like a cabbage Tuesday 8 April by a lamp-post”. Palm Sunday 13 April ______THE LAMBETH WALK 10am PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION Southwark Cathedral Meet 10.30am Lambeth North Stn; £5 *** Meet at Christ Church Blackfriars Road for Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 (conc £4) What should the Congestion blessing of palms and procession www.dswark.org/cathedral Featuring the Railway Children, the Stars Charge inspectors be doing? to St John’s for Eucharist. & Stripes and a famous pottery. Palm Sunday 13 April Apparently they should check 11am PALM PROCESSION & EUCHARIST the registration of any parked Monday 14, Tuesday 15 & Wednesday Wednesday 9 April Palm Procession from Borough Market by 16 April BYWAYS OF WATERLOO car on their handheld computer. way of Bedale and Cathedral Streets. 7pm HOLY WEEK COMMUNION Meet 10.30am Lambeth North Stn; £5 If the vehicle is recorded as (conc £4) having outstanding charges Palm Sunday 13 April Maundy Thursday 17 April A tour around a network of pretty streets 3pm CHORAL EVENSONG from previous days then 7pm COMMUNION with a lot of history. Followed by Watch to Midnight. Includes Holy Week address. clampers are called in. An in SE1 Friday 11 April reporter asked one of the team Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 April Easter Sunday 20 April & in Blackfriars Road how many 12.45pm HOLY WEEK EUCHARIST 5.30am EASTER DAWN SERVICE Meet 10.30am London Br Stn Tooley St non-payers they had found. The Eucharist and Holy Week address. First Communion of Easter followed by exit; £6 answer was “none, ever”. So the breakfast. All day walk looking at the two oldest Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 April scheme is working. villages in south-east London Easter Sunday 20 April 5.30pm CHORAL EVENSONG 10.30am EASTER FESTIVAL COMMUNION ______Maundy Thursday 17 April St George-the-Martyr 11am CHRISM EUCHARIST Borough High Street T 020 7407 2796 of Southwark presides and www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk preaches at blessing of Oils and Eucharist.

Palm Sunday 13 April Maundy Thursday 17 April 10.30am PALM PROCESSION & 6.30pm EUCHARIST OF THE LORD’S EUCHARIST SUPPER Public Exhibition Start of Holy Week. With ‘Gethsemane vigil’ to midnight. Development Plans for the Lambeth College and Adjacent Palm Sunday 13 April Good Friday 18 April Coach Park Site 6pm STATIONS OF THE CROSS 12 noon LITURGY OF THE THREE HOURS at Devotional service for Holy Week Workshop for children also available. Lambeth College, Tooley Street Good Friday 18 April Holy Saturday 19 April Thursday 3 April, 3pm - 7pm 10am GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY 8pm EASTER VIGIL Easter Vigil with Sacraments of Baptism Friday 4 April, 10am - 6pm Easter Sunday 20 April and Confirmation. Saturday 5 April, 10am - 1pm 7.30am EASTER COMMUNION Pascal ceremonies and First Communion Easter Sunday 20 April of Easter. Followed by parish breakfast in 11am CHORAL EASTER EUCHARIST For more information, contact Wyn Evans on 020 7861 3171. the crypt. With the Bishop of Southwark. APRIL 2003 8 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Sunday 20 April Kenneth Baker, speakers include Sir John More to read Talks & Meetings THE SURGEON, THE CADAVER & THE Keegan, Daisy Goodwin, William Boyd and Calder Bookshop RESURRECTIONIST Jon Stallworthy. Plus entry to Anthem for on the web 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 2.30pm; £4 (conc £3, child £2.50) Doomed Youth exhibition. An Easter Day lecture on body-snatchers Don’t forget to check out the London www.calderpublications.com who procured corpses for medical Thursday 24 April SE1 community website for news, dissection. HEROES OF GALLIPOLI features and debate Thursday 3 April ______4pm; £6-£8 SAMUEL BECKETT’S THE OLD TUNE www.London-SE1.co.uk 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) St John’s Waterloo On the eve of Anzac Day a programme Two retired soldiers meet again and share Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 of talks and rare wartime film about the www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Gallipoli campaign, 1915. Three hour City Hall champions fairtrade their memories in a comic and poignant programme until 7pm. products picture of old age. Wednesday 2 April ______Mayor of London Ken Livingstone INTERPRETING THE EUCHARIST Museum of Garden History was at the City Hall cafe last month to Thursday 10 April COMPTON MACKENZIE: MAN OF LETTERS 6.30pm; free Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 persuade Londoners to try Fairtrade A talk by James Allison. products for free as part of Fairtrade 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) ______Wednesday 23 April Fortnight 2003. Rod Prince, radical journalist and peace Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological Society THE TULIP …full story on the website campaigner, talks about the man and two actors read significant extracts from his Hawkstone Hall, Kennington Road 7pm; £10 The Independent’s gardening Archbishop lays foundation stone of work. Followed by discussion. Tuesday 22 April correspondent Anna Pavord talks about new children’s hospital CITY EXCAVATIONS the tulip as flower and decoration. Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Thursday 17 April 7.30pm; £1 (refreshments from 7pm) ______Canterbury, has laid the foundation FROM COMMUNISM TO CHAOS Report by Ian Blair on Gresham Street South Bank Christian Studies Centre stone of the new Evelina Children’s 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) Talk about the harsh reality faced by excavations which included a Roman St John’s Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Hospital at St Thomas’ Hospital. water lift. …full story on the website inhabitants in Russia and the Baltic www.southbankchristian.org.uk countries. ______Shakespeare’s Globe Tuesdays 1 & 8 April Harriet Harman backs fones4safety New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 WOMEN IN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY Solicitor-General Harriet Harman Thursday 24 April www.shakespeares-globe.org 6.30pm; £2.50 appeared in SE1 last month at a Tate THE WORLD OF VIRGINIA WOOLF Sister Judith Roberts of St Saviour’s Priory Modern launch for the new project 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) Sunday 20 April on ‘Life in community’ and in the second fones4safety, a combination recycling A summary of Woolf’s life and THE SPEARSHAKER TALK week Yvonne Craig, Formerly National Lay and community support programme. achievements together with readings from 10am-12.45pm; £15-£16 (conc £12-£14) Training Officer for the …full story on the website works such as A Room of One’s Own. Talks celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday on ‘A silent majority? A lay woman’s and heralding forthcoming theatre viewpoint’. Refreshments from 6pm. Harry Potter’s Knight Bus visits Booking is reccmmended for all events. season. ______Borough Market ______Tate Modern A purple, triple-decker bus pulled up Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 Bankside T 020 7887 3959 under the viaduct on Stoney Street Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 on Saturday; apparently en-route to www.thegarret.org.uk www.tate.org.uk www.iwm.org.uk ‘Nothing Under Water’. It may have Tuesday 8 April to Saturday 24 May looked like a radical solution for Sunday 6 April Tuesday 1 April WAYNE THIEBAUD: ARTIST’S TALK Congestion Charging, but was in fact THE HERBAL SANCTUARY WAR POETRY FORUM 6.30pm; £7 (conc £4) Harry Potter’s Knight Bus. 2.30pm; £4 (conc £3, child £2.50) 7pm; £7-£8 Continuing talks about major American …full story on the website A lecture exploring the 300 year old apothecary’s herb garret of Old St Thomas’ A question and answer session on painters of the second half of the Hospital. twentieth century war poetry. Chairman twentieth century.

HMS Belfast Events for Children Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 www.iwm.org.uk/belfast Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 THE ALBERT ARMS Saturday 12 to Monday 21 April www.banksidegallery.com EASTER EGG HUNT 10am-6pm; £5.80 (child accompanied Sunday 19 April free; conc £4.40) 020 7928 6517 FAMILY FUN DAY Easter Egg Hunt for those under 12. Every 11am-5pm; free child receives an Easter Egg. A range of activities on Easter Day aimed ______at young (and young at heart) visitors, Gladstone Street - off London-Road Imperial War Museum encouraging them to engage with the Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 near St George’s Circus current exhibition, and the works on the wall and perhaps even ‘have a go’. www.iwm.org.uk ______Saturday 12 to Sunday 27 April Thai & English EASTER EGG HUNT food served Mon to Sat St Mary Overie Dock T 0870 0118700 10am-6pm; free 12-3pm & 5.30-10pm www.goldenhinde.co.uk Follow the specially devised trail and discover eggs hidden around the Museum. Monday 17 & Monday 24 April ______Traditional Sunday Roast TUDOR SAILORS WORKSHOPS Library 1.30pm-4.30pm; Child £12, additional served from 12-5.30pm Borough High Street T 020 7407 0807 child £10 £5.95 - desserts £2.95 Travel back in time and join the crew of the Thursdays 3 & 10 April Golden Hinde to learn the ways of the sea. SURE START Ideal for 6 to 12 year olds. Good selection of 1pm; free Sharing books together event for parents, Wednesday 16 April & Wednesday 23 carers and children 0-3 years. beers, wines, spirits & real ales April ______STORYTELLING Tate Modern 11am-12pm, 1.30pm-2.30pm; £3 per child 6ft screen for all sporting events Bankside T 020 7887 3959 £1 per accompanying adult Re-live the adventures and voyage around www.tate.org.uk the world of Sir Francis Drake on board the Live music every week Every Saturday Golden Hinde through the storytelling of a ARTMIXX 16th century sailor. One hour sessions for 11am-12.30pm; Free (booking required) Sundays: Latin American from 8pm 5-9 year olds. Drawing games for children 5+ around the gallery. Join in the fun at our Tuesday Club from 6pm Sunday 20 April TREASURE HUNT Every Sunday All pints £2 All shorts £1.50 2pm; Children £2 (advance booking) START Easter egg hunt aboard the Golden Hinde. live music from 8pm to close 11am-5pm; free Search all four decks from the command Drop in event for children ages 5+.Also deck to the hold looking for the lost hoard Wednesdays 16 & 24 April. of Easter eggs.