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Throughout July London’s largest Bastille the Marlborough Day festival will be Playground in Union held in Bankside and Street will host a wide The Waterloo Festival at St John’s returns for its Borough Market on range of sports activities second year celebrating the neighbourhood and its Saturday 14 July. for local schoolchildren, rich diversity past and present – this time with the The programme includes a families and residents. waiters’ race, pétanque, table football, Bankside Open Spaces Trust theme of ‘War and Peace’. a hat making workshop, story telling, From Thursday 12 to Tuesday 17 July St John’s Waterloo is the hub for has organised the Pop-Up Mini face painting, a bike surgery and a series of events ranging from classical music concerts (see page 5) to guided Olympics which will feature walks (see page 5), a community fete (turn to page 4), art workshops (page 4) gastronomic film screenings. football, hockey, netball, basketball, and a tea dance (page 4). Borough Market will showcase badminton, Zumba, tai chi, The Waterloo Festival is intended to cater for all ages, encompassing the its French traders and host a French- running, table tennis and cycling. local community as well as a wider audience. themed demonstration kitchen. “Transforming Marlborough The festival also draws together the work of the artistic organisations based Street entertainment including Playground has been a long-term at St John’s, including Futures Theatre Company, Southbank Mosaics and promenading performance artists and mission for us and this month it Southbank Sinfonia. musicians will bring the streets to life. will become a reality,” says Tim Local schools will take part in music, art and theatrical workshops during The festival will end with an Wood, chair of BOST. the festival. Visitors to the events will be encouraged to contribute to a symbol open-air party around Borough “Not only will it become a of peace in the form of a dove as part of an organic artwork coordinated by much cleaner, greener space in an Market (6pm-midnight). artist-in-residence Clare Abbatt. urban environment, but it will also “The Président Bastille Festival At the festival funds are being raised for The Poppy Factory which helps give SE1 access to a wide range of promises to be an unforgettable wounded, injured and sick ex-servicemen and women find meaningful sports that previously may have celebration during an extraordinary employment in the communities where they live around the UK. The second been inaccessible.” summer for the capital, bringing beneficiary charity is the Amos Trust which promotes justice and hope for • Join the opening ceremony from together families and food lovers forgotten communities. 3.30pm on Thursday 5 July alongside London’s French-speaking • Find the full festival programme at www.stjohnswaterloo.org/waterloofestival • www.bost.org.uk communities and Francophiles for a Follow @waterloofestiv on Twitter •To volunteer your time or book • great day out,” says Peter Williams, • Through our sister website www.London-SE1.co.uk we are delighted to be a sports session contact 07939 chief executive of Better Bankside. festival’s official media partner. 593062 or [email protected]. •.www.bastillefestival.co.uk
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Morley College Clare Abbatt, artist-in-residence. In the crypt, join a mosaic making workshop 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 with Southbank Mosaics. Children & family Talks & literature www.morleycollege.ac.uk Part of Waterloo Festival HMS Belfast St John’s Waterloo Tuesday 3 July Full info at se1.net/12833 Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 OPEN ENROLMENT DAY hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk www.stjohnswaterloo.org 4pm-8pm Sunday 15 July COMMUNITY FETE £14; senior citizen and student conc Come along to the college’s open day £11.20; under-16s free Monday 16 July and find out more about what Morley Churchyard; 2pm-5pm; free IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN A WORLD OF can offer you. You will have the Face painting, splat the rat, music from Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 July DIMINISHING RESOURCES? opportunity to meet tutors and ask around the world, cakes, tombola, bric- POINTS ON A COMPASS 6pm; £5 questions about courses, tour the college a-brac, exhibition of local history, plants, 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-4pm Discussion chaired by Loretta Minghella, and view the facilities, visit departments tug-of-war, egg and spoon and more Find out more about the countries, chief executive of Christian Aid. and enrol on the day for courses that activities for all ages. cultures and journeys HMS Belfast has Panellists are Tom Coghlan, defence take your interest. correspondent of The Times, Revd Rana Part of Waterloo Festival made whilst in service. This free informal Full info at se1.net/12823 event is suitable for all ages but only Khan, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Full info at se1.net/12832 interreligious dialogues assistant and Potters Fields Park with parental supervision. Entry included Tabard Gardens Oliver Ramsbotham, former professor Tooley Street in general admission price. of peace studies at Bradford University. www.pottersfields.co.uk Tabard Street Full info at se1.net/12678 The biggest challenge for peace in the Imperial War Museum 21st century is competition for resources: Saturday 14 to Sunday 15 July Saturday 14 July RIOJA TAPAS FANTASTICAS Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 land, water, fossil fuels. The panel will PEACE DAY discuss whether a peaceful world is Sat 12 noon-8pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; london.iwm.org.uk 10am-6pm; free possible, and if so, how? free Annual event held in memory of David Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 July Part of Waterloo Festival A spectacular variety of red, white and rosé wines from some of Rioja’s most Idowu and other victims of violent BUILD THE TRUCE FAMILY ACTIVITY Full info at se1.net/12828 famous vineyards will be available for crime. Football tournament (10am-1pm) 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm; free Waterloo Library you to taste as you make your way followed by speeches, music, poets, Take part in a series of discussion, art and writing activities looking at why wars 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 around the vibrant wine and tapas stalls. dancers etc (12.30pm-6pm) on the stage. www.lambeth.gov.uk Savour a diverse selection of tapas from Plus hot food, games, bouncy castle and happen and how they are brought to an London’s finest Spanish restaurants who face painting. end. Linked to the new Build the Truce Tuesday 10 July will recreate the famous tapas streets of Full info at se1.net/12778 exhibition. Free drop-in activities for all HERITAGE LIBRARY SESSION the Rioja region where you can go from ages with parental supervision. 10.30am; free bar to bar sampling a speciality dish and The Goodlife Centre Full info at se1.net/12535 Library session with a focus on local glass of delicious local wine in each. 122 Webber Street writers. Come and take part in Full info at se1.net/12278 www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk discussions about famous writers from Royal British Legion Public meetings the area. Part of Living Memory heritage project Sunday 22 July Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre 199 Borough High Street REPAIR CAFE Full info at se1.net/12510 www.britishlegion.org.uk 2pm-5pm; free 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 www.coinstreet.org Sunday 8 July A project first launched in Holland to POPPYWALK 2012 encourage communities to repair, Thursday 5 July Church services Get up, get out and get walking before reuse and recycle their possessions and SOUTH BANK FORUM Southwark Cathedral the rest of the world arrives for the reduce the volume of what is thrown 7pm-9pm Olympics. This popular family day out London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 away. Visitors are encouraged to bring Meeting for South Bank residents www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk will show you, in 10 km, just some of their broken items from home for convened by Simon Hughes MP and Kate what our great capital city has to offer assessment, and if deemed repairable Hoey MP. Agenda includes an update Tuesday 10 July - plenty of history and fun. Bring the on how the Olympics will affect the CHORAL EVENSONG TO MARK dog, family, friends and colleagues to by the organisers, they can start making their repairs in the Repair Cafe. DIY and South Bank; Brian Dickens will provide THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE help find answers to the quiz along an update on the Black Prince Trust electrical experts from The Goodlife GREAT FIRE OF SOUTHWARK the way. Starts and finishes in Borough Community Hub and Braeburn Estates, 5.30pm Centre will be on standby to advise and High Street with proceeds to the Royal developers of the Shell Centre, will Representatives of the borough of British Legion. For an entry form, contact a selection of tools and materials will be present the latest proposals There will Southwark and the London Fire Brigade Rebecca Pride on 020 3207 2272 or email made available for use on the day. also be a screening of a short film by gather to commemorate the great fire [email protected] Full info at se1.net/12816 Jack Thurston about the many activities which destroyed the priory in 1212 Full info at se1.net/12792 The Shard at the Waterloo Action Centre. Plus your and to dedicate new standards for the Southwark Cathedral opportunity to raise local issues from London Fire Brigade. This service will be London Bridge Street the floor. followed at 7.30pm by fireworks from London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.londonbridgequarter.com www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Full info at se1.net/12569 the tower of the Cathedral. Full info at se1.net/12607 Thursday 5 July Southwark Council Saturday 28 July PEAL OF BELLS SHARD INAUGURATION LIGHT AND www.southwark.gov.uk Sunday 29 July 10am LASER SHOW CHORAL EVENSONG A simultaneous peal with St Paul’s 10.15pm; free Monday 2 July 3pm Cathedral and Westminster Abbey to Central London will be lit up by a BOROUGH, BANKSIDE & The Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish mark the start of the Olympic Games. spectacular light and laser show to WALWORTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL Churches gather with the Cathedral congregation to celebrate the Olympics. Each tower will ring a peal of at least mark the formal inauguration of 7pm at Amigo Hall, St George’s Cathedral, Lambeth Road Full info at se1.net/12554 5000 changes. Europe’s tallest building, The Shard. Full info at se1.net/12802 First meeting of the newly merged St John’s Waterloo A combination of 12 lasers and 30 community council for Cathedrals, St John’s Waterloo searchlights will light up the night Chaucer, East Walworth, Faraday and 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 www.stjohnswaterloo.org 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 sky over the capital at approximately Newington wards. The meeting is an 10.15pm to mark the building’s external www.stjohnswaterloo.org Elephant & Castle regeneration special, Sunday 15 July completion. Earlier in the day the Duke including updates on the Heygate Friday 13 July FESTIVAL EUCHARIST AND of York and the prime minister of Qatar Estate redevelopment, plans for the INTERFAITH WORSHIP TEA DANCE will visit the building for the formal leisure centre site and news of the new 2pm-4pm; free; RSVP philippaowen@ 10.30am ceremony. Elephant & Castle community fund. A Preacher: Revd Rana Khan, Archbishop googlemail.com 020 7582 0755 or chance to put your questions directly to 07932 744539 Full info at se1.net/12817 of Canterbury’s interfaith adviser. The Cllr Peter John, leader of the council. service will include readings on war and Tea dance led by Ragroof Theatre Westminster Bridge Company with songs by Blackfriars Full info at se1.net/12638 peace, and prayers from faith traditions around the world. All welcome. Nightingales. Tea and cakes available. Thursday 12 July All welcome. Saturday 14 July Part of Waterloo Festival SPARE THE BEARS BERMONDSEY & ROTHERHITHE Full info at se1.net/12827 Part of Waterloo Festival COMMUNITY COUNCIL PETA is calling on animal rights Full info at se1.net/12830 7pm at Southwark College Bermondsey supporters to join a 5km walk carrying Saturday 14 July campus, Keetons Road SE16 their teddybears round central First meeting of the newly merged Guided walks DROP-IN ART WORKSHOPS London - starting on the South Bank 2pm-4pm; free (contribution to cost of community council for Grange, Riverside, Bernie Spain Gardens near Westminster Bridge - to protest materials welcome) South Bermondsey, Surrey Docks, Upper Ground Open to adults, young people and against the Ministry of Defence’s Rotherhithe and Livesey wards. www.coinstreet.org children, participants can join different use of Canadian black bear skins for Full info at se1.net/12639 guardsmen’s headgear. Wednesday 18 July workshops throughout the afternoon. Waterloo Action Centre REVEALING THE RIVER NECKINGER In the church, workshops will be run by Full info at se1.net/12822 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 6.15pm; £12; booking essential (£2 www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk discount if you wear blue) The Neckinger is one of London’s lost Wednesday 18 July rivers, buried beneath the streets, Follow us ELECTRICIAN WATERLOO COMMUNITY its course links key areas within the DEVELOPMENT GROUP neighbourhood of Southwark’s Bankside. No job too small! 7pm On this walk you will uncover layers of on Twitter Regular public meeting of the group that social history and cultural curiosity, and 07850 767283 monitors planning and development find out about the controversies that issues in Waterloo. Hear from the still linger along its route. Join Tom 020 8761 6012 developers and help to shape the Bolton, author of London’s Lost Rivers: @se1 community’s response. A Walker’s Guide. Part of a series of [email protected] Full info at se1.net/12219 accompanied participatory investigations July 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5 into London neighbourhoods - you put Friday 13 July the art in by participating - produced KREUTZER QUARTET by Andrew Stuck from the Museum of Dance Music 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8) Walking. Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Southwark Cathedral The Kreutzer Quartet sets up a dialogue Full info at se1.net/12757 with Martin Ellerby’s new work using Elephant and Castle London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 music from the 19th, 20th and 21st Southwark Cathedral www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Monday 9 to Saturday 14 July centuries. All three works that they have London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 chosen explore ideas of correspondence, www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk THE PUBLIC HOUSE Monday 2 July Unit 237; Drop in Tue-Sat ORGAN RECITAL of distance, of exile, and new life. Sunday 15 July 10.30am-6.30pm; free; plus evening 1.05pm; free Dvorak’s quintet was inspired by his INTER FAITH WALK ticketed events Recital by Greg Morris to celebrate time im the small Czech community The Public House is a week-long event 9.15am-4pm (meet at Southwark the 300th anniversary of John Stanley, of Spillville, Iowa, a home very far of installations, performances and Cathedral education centre); free London composer and organist. from home. Elliott Schwartz, who has Guided walk visiting Bevis Marks choreographic experiments inside pioneered new music in Maine for many an empty shop unit in the Elephant & Part of City of London Festival Synagogue, East London Mosque and the Full info at se1.net/12538 years, offers a quartet inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist centre in Manor Place, Castle Shopping Centre. With the help collection-sculpture of Louise Nevelson, of design trio Wignall & Moore and Walworth. South London Inter Faith Friday 6 July who was exiled from Kiev to Maine visual artist Anna Sikorska, Hiru Dance Group has encouraged and supported LONDON GAY MEN’S CHORUS early in the 20th century. Leos Janacek’s coordinated inter faith walks this year Organisation is transforming a large shop front into a furnished living room CELEBRATES WORLD PRIDE astounding Second Quartet ‘love letters’ immediately before the Olympics and 7.30pm; free (suggested donation £10) succeeds in bringing together the hopes Paralympics. The aim is to use this time, which will act both as a performance space and a welcoming environment to Concert suitable for all the family. and tragedy of the Europe unfolding when the global spotlight is on London, sit down with a cup of tea. The Public Musical highlights include A Nightingale around him in its short span. to celebrate the multi faith character House will host five day-long artist Sang In Berkeley Square, Over The Part of Waterloo Festival of London and to demonstrate, by residencies and one evening programme, Rainbow, Sondheim’s Our Time and Full info at se1.net/12837 walking and talking together, the inter performed on six consecutive nights. Free Sunday, Wagner’s Pilgrim’s Chorus faith collaboration that is taking place. tea and biscuits will be served all day and and Leonard Bernstein’s sensational Saturday 14 July Participants should dress modestly. Heads there will be drinks in the evenings. Make Our Garden Grow with soloists LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH: THE should be covered and shoes removed Part of Big Dance Hannah Pedley and Amanda Forbes. MERIDIAN SINGERS where required. Bring a vegetarian Full info at se1.net/12795 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8) picnic. LGMC’s charity partner for the concert is Kaleidoscope who work around Choral music and reflections for peace Full info at se1.net/12783 Sunday 15 July and inter-faith in modern times with the BIG DANCE BUS the world to promote diversity and Living memory heritage project 12 noon-4pm; free respect for all regardless of sex, sexual Meridian Singers. Programme includes The Big Dance Bus - an old London orientation or gender identity. the world premire of Orlando Gough’s Tuesday 10 July Routemaster - is coming to the Full info at se1.net/12794 Waterloo Canticle ‘Love is Strong as OUTER SPACES WALK Elephant to showcase the thriving Death’, specially commissioned for the 6pm; free; booking essential 020 7021 dance communities in Southwark Monday 9 July Waterloo Festival, setting poetry from 1600 or email [email protected] and to participate in the celebration ORGAN RECITAL Beirut alongside words from the Song Guided walk exploring the spaces of Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of 1.05pm; free of Solomon sung in Hebrew and Arabic, between buildings and how they are independence. Watch professional Organ recital by Peter Wright reflecting and readings on peace and war from used. performances and take part in free the City and the Hanseatic League. different traditions. Full info at se1.net/12511 workshops. Part of Big Dance Part of City of London Festival Part of Waterloo Festival St John’s Waterloo Full info at se1.net/12782 Full info at se1.net/12539 Full info at se1.net/12829 Millennium Bridge 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Wednesday 11 July Monday 16 July www.stjohnswaterloo.org Bankside I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT THE MARTIN TRIO Friday 13 July Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 July 3.30pm; free 8pm; £5 WATERLOO WALK: FOUR CORNERS The award-winning youth choir of St The Martin Trio (Southbank Sinfonia STAMFORD STREET AND THE CUT Thu & Fri 1pm & 6.30pm; Sat 6.30pm; Remigius Dsseldorf performs sacred alumni) play works by Brahms, Debussy, 11am; £5 (conc £3) free songs in English, German and Latin. Purcell and Mendelssohn. Starting from and finishing at St John’s 60 conservatoire dancers present new Full info at se1.net/12824 Part of Waterloo Festival Waterloo, taking in the development of choreography by Nina Rajarani, Bawren St George the Martyr Full info at se1.net/12838 the printing industry around Stamford Tavaziva, Ponciano Almeida and Lea Street, the Roupells of Lambeth, social Anderson. Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 Tuesday 17 July housing around The Cut, the effects of Part of City of London Festival www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk SONGS OF LOVE AND LOSS Full info at se1.net/12540 the Blitz, The Old Vic and the prostitute Saturday 7 July 1pm; £5 scandals along Cornwall Road. Siobhan Davies Studios BOROUGH CHAMBER CHOIR: Festival favourite Viv Munday returns Part of Waterloo Festival THE POWER OF MUSIC to sing songs about war and peace, Full info at se1.net/12834 85 St George’s Road www.siobhandavies.com 7.30pm; £12 (conc £10) including music from World War I and Saturday 14 July Borough Chamber Choir with World War II by Weill, Tchaikowsky and WATERLOO WALK: Sunday 15 July instrumental ensemble. Programme Butterworth. FOOTFALL includes works by Handel, Weelkes, Part of Waterloo Festival STAMFORD STREET AND THE CUT 11.30am-5pm; free 11am; £5 (conc £3) Elgar, Parry and Mozart. Full info at se1.net/12839 Traipse, meander, tip-toe or strut Starting from and finishing at St John’s to Siobhan Davies Studios for a wide- Full info at se1.net/12791 Waterloo, taking in the development of Friday 27 July ranging event exploring and celebrating St John’s Waterloo FLUTEMUSIC the printing industry around Stamford the act of walking. Footfall presents 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 1.10pm; free Street, the Roupells of Lambeth, social newly commissioned performance and www.stjohnswaterloo.org Join Colleen Muriel (flute), Eric Stevens housing around The Cut, the effects of film works, an audio walk created with the Blitz, The Old Vic and the prostitute (piano) and Keith Long (baritone soloist) scientists, an interactive installation, and Thursday 5 July scandals along Cornwall Road. for a lunchtime programme of light a lively artist’s talk. The event includes RUSH HOUR CONCERT Part of Waterloo Festival the new dance piece choreographed classics, serious classics, folk songs, hymns Full info at se1.net/12836 6pm; free and some new music. by Matthias Sperling, Walking Piece, Free after-work concert with Southbank a film by dance film artists Straybird, Full info at se1.net/12122 Monday 16 July Sinfonia. Enjoy a complimentary glass of and an installation by emerging artists Tower Bridge Exhibition WATERLOO WALK: Sin Goldby and Sandy Dobson which wine while you listen. Mozart Symphony ALL CHANGE AT WATERLOO combines dance, sound design and visual No.36 in C major De Falla El Amor Brujo Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 11am; £5 (conc £3) arts. These will be followed by a talk by Ballet Suite www.towerbridge.org.uk Starting from and finishing at St John’s the artists involved, including Siobhan Full info at se1.net/12302 Waterloo, covering Waterloo Bridge, Davies and David Hinton who will discuss Sunday 8 July music halls, The Festival of Britain, their new film. Part of Big Dance Thursday 12 July LIVE MUSIC SCULPTURE Waterloo Station and the regeneration Full info at se1.net/12650 SOUTHBANK SINFONIA 7pm-9pm; free around Jubilee Gardens, the Shell Centre 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8) Innovative composer and musician The Scoop and Elizabeth House. Amid the atrocities of war, art often Samuel Bordoli will be using the Part of Waterloo Festival More London Riverside flourishes. Few artists have shown structure of Tower Bridge to play with Full info at se1.net/12835 www.morelondon.com/scoop.html greater defiance and strength in wartime the ways in which music is perceived. than opera composer Richard Strauss. Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 July Watch musicians play along the length BIG YOUTH DANCE WEEKEND The opening concert of the Waterloo of the high-level walkways, 42 metres Comedy 11am-4pm; free Festival features his music and some of above the Thames. the great operas he so loved, performed The Horse Sadler’s Wells hosts two days of youth Part of City of London Festival dance performances. Part of Big Dance by Bury Court Opera and the young Full info at se1.net/12541 122-124 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7928 6277 Full info at se1.net/12603 professionals of the Southbank Sinfonia, www.horsebar.co.uk who bring their own remarkable zeal to Welsh Chapel Wednesday 4 July the music. The Gestapo threatened to 90 Southwark Bridge Road WATERLOO COMEDY CLUB harm Strauss’s Jewish grandchildren if welshchapel.com 8pm; £19 (conc £15) Sign up for he did not comply with Hitler’s wishes. Father Ted star Ardal O’Hanlon will He bravely continued to write the music Saturday 21 July be flying in from Dublin to perform a our weekly he wanted, writing works of radiant THREE CONTRASTING CHOIRS: IN special show at Waterloo Comedy Club optimism at the darkest hour, including CONCERT supported by Mitch Benn who will be email updates the sextet from his opera ‘Capriccio’ 7.30pm; £10 from 07763 768499 or performing an exclusive Edinburgh and his very last piece, the ‘Duett- [email protected] preview. Also on the bill: Alison Thea- se1direct.co.uk Concertino’. Concert by Cor Meibion Gwalia, Cor Skot and McNeil and Pamphilon. Part of Waterloo Festival Merched Cymry Llundain and Eschoir. Full info at se1.net/12684 Full info at se1.net/12826 Full info at se1.net/12818 July 2012 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1
Southwark Playhouse Union Theatre Alma Enterprises Theatre Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 38-40 Glasshill Street www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk www.uniontheatre.biz www.almaenterprises.com Calder Bookshop Sat & Sun 12 noon-6pm or Fri by appointment; free 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 Thursday 5 July to Saturday 25 August Until Saturday 14 July www.calderbookshop.com MACK AND MABEL THE FIX 7.30pm (8pm during Olympics); ; Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £18 Until Sunday 1 July ALEX BAGGALEY: Until Sunday 8 July £10/£16.50/£22.50 (concessions available) SOFKA Directed by Thom Southerland. 1920s RECENT PAINTINGS When a US presidential candidate dies Nine oil paintings comprising three 8pm; £10 (conc £8) Hollywood. A time when movies were having sex with his secretary, his widow visually and thematically distinct series. A play written by Bahar Brunton and silent and cinema was magic. Mack makes it her mission to get her wayward Full info at se1.net/12657 based on Sofka Zinovieff’s Red Princess Sennett, “King of Comedy” and creator son into the White House at any cost. and directed by Sergio Amigo. Russian of The Keystone Cops, discovers Mabel Set in the 1960s and loosely based on Anise Gallery Normand, a waitress from Brooklyn, Princess, wife, mother, inmate, friend, The Manchurian Candidate, this darkly 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 casts her in his two-reelers and turns her secretary for Laurence Olivier and funny lampooning of American politics www.anisegallery.co.uk eventually a Communist, Sofka’s journey into a star. So began one of Hollywood’s Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; free most tempestuous and heart-wrenching takes no prisoners. Book and lyrics by through life was highly eventful. An John Dempsey. Music by Dana P Rowe. evening of theatre, storytelling and love stories. But life isn’t like the Until Sunday 8 July movies - ambition, dalliance and the Directed by Michael Strassen. GURLEY: BYPRODUCTS OF MY LIFE beetroot soup. Full info at se1.net/12610 impending but inevitable threat of Paintings, screen prints and etchings Full info at se1.net/12747 inspired by quintessential British change put unbearable pressure on their Waterloo East Theatre Menier Chocolate Factory relationship. Romance turns to jealousy artefacts in a celebration of Cool Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Britannia. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 as stardom invites scandal and deceit. www.waterlooeast.co.uk www.menierchocolatefactory.com Full info at se1.net/12814 Full info at se1.net/12660 Friday 13 to Saturday 14 July Architecture Foundation Until Sunday 12 August Until Saturday 21 July TORCH SONG TRILOGY THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 FINN COUNTY SPELLING BEE www.architecturefoundation.org.uk Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50; Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free meal deal £37.00 Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14, Fri & Sat 7.30pm; Sat also 4pm; £12 Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award winning £18 Las Vegas International Performing Arts Until Saturday 25 August comedy-drama tells the poignant story The UK premiere of Sebastian Barry’s Exchange bring this Broadway musical to BUREAU SPECTACULAR: of an outsider’s search for love and play is directed by Blanche McIntyre. It’s Waterloo. HEFNER/BEUYS HOUSE acceptance. Originally conceived and 1892. Lizzie Finn is a celebrated dancer. Full info at se1.net/12825 For his first solo exhibition outside Charmed by a soldier returning from performed in three acts, drag queen Young Vic North America, Chicago-based Arnold encounters passion, thrills, love the war, Lizzie becomes entangled in Canadian architect Jimenez Lai’s and loss. This intimate and powerful play an intense and passionate affair. Rich 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Bureau Spectacular will transform the is bursting with courage and sharp wit,as dialogue, humour and original music www.youngvic.org AF’s Project Space with an inhabitable and dance explore the play’s themes of installation; creating a modular home of Arnold fights for his place in the world Until Thursday 26 July and his right to happiness. With David prejudice, sexuality and belonging in ‘super-furniture’. A DOLL’S HOUSE Part of London Festival of Architecture Bedella and Sara Kestelman. Directed by this new play by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed playwrights. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Full info at se1.net/12710 Douglas Hodge. £10-£30 Full info at se1.net/12531 The Art Academy Full info at se1.net/12482 Former artistic director of the Gate National Theatre St John’s Waterloo Theatre Carrie Cracknell directs Simon Mermaid Court T 020 7401 6539 www.artacademy.org.uk 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Stephens’ new version of this Ibsen South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.stjohnswaterloo.org Thu & Fri 12 noon-6.30pm; Sat & Sun 12 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk classic, designed by Olivier and Tony noon-5pm; free Thursday 12 to Tuesday 17 July Award-winner Ian MacNeil. Until Saturday 14 July PARADISE STREET Full info at se1.net/12245 Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 July DETROIT Thu-Tue 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; £12 (conc £8) GRADUATE SHOW 2012 End-of-year exhibition by students from Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 from 020 7928 2832 the academy’s three-year Diploma in Lisa D’Amour’s brutal play makes its In the hidden crypt under the church, Cinema Fine Art. A chance for the public, gallery London premiere in a new production Paradise Street unfolds. Used as an air by Austin Pendleton, who directed its Bankside Mix owners and art collectors to spot new raid shelter and then place of worship talent and purchase work by emerging hugely acclaimed premiere at Chicago’s Canvey Street when the church was bombed during contemporary artists. On Saturday the Steppenwolf Theatre. www.banksidemix.co.uk World War II, the undeveloped and academy’s tutors will also be holding a Full info at se1.net/12714 atmospheric crypt now becomes the Monday 9 July free open portfolio clinic for emerging performance space for Paradise Street, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS artists, offering free advice and guidance Until Saturday 21 July a new play written by Futures Theatre on all kinds of art work. To book a place, 7pm; free ANTIGONE Company’s artistic director Caroline call 020 7407 6969. Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 Bryant. Free open-air movie screening. Full info at se1.net/12800 By Sophocles, in a version by Don Taylor. Part of Waterloo Festival Full info at se1.net/12716 Jodie Whittaker plays Antigone and Full info at se1.net/12831 ASC Gallery Christopher Eccleston is Creon. Tuesday 10 July Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road Full info at se1.net/12565 The Old Vic CRAZY STUPID LOVE Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 7pm; free Until Sunday 16 September www.oldvictheatre.com Free open-air movie screening. Until Friday 3 August THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS Full info at se1.net/12717 THERE IS NOT AND NEVER HAS Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£47 Until Saturday 28 July BEEN ANYTHING TO UNDERSTAND! A new play by Stephen Beresford. DEMOCRACY Wednesday 11 July A group show curated by David Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; CLASH OF THE TITANS Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan (Plastique £20-£60 Fantastique Communiqué). society drop-out Judy Haussman remains 7pm; free Sheffield Theatres’ production of Full info at se1.net/12789 in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s Free open-air movie screening. Michael Frayn’s gripping cold-war spy while holding court in her dilapidated Full info at se1.net/12718 Bankside Gallery thriller comes to London for four weeks Art Deco house on the Devon coast. only. Frayn’s sharply witty and intriguing Thursday 12 July 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 www.banksidegallery.com Full info at se1.net/12713 play is about the ambitions of an FREE OPEN-AIR MOVIE Daily 11am-6pm; free Shakespeare’s Globe inspirational politician and the forces in 7pm; free play around him, exploring the nature New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Tonight’s film will be chosen in an online Friday 27 July to Sunday 12 August www.shakespearesglobe.com of coalition government. West German poll at www.banksidemix.co.uk ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY: Chancellor Willy Brandt - one of the most Full info at se1.net/12719 PICTURING BRITAIN 2012 Until Sunday 26 August charismatic leaders in post-war politics The spectacle of the Olympiad and the HENRY V - makes history as he starts to reunite pinnacle of sporting endeavour will be In repertoire; £5-£32 Europe; but he discovers things aren’t as Exhibitions the theme of this special exhibition. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole with straightforward as they seem when a spy Full info at se1.net/12279 Jamie Parker as Henry V. is uncovered in his office and his plans 160 Tooley Street are thrown into chaos. Bargehouse Full info at se1.net/12694 160 Tooley Street T 020 7525 5000 Full info at se1.net/12549 Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 www.southwark.gov.uk www.coinstreet.org Until Saturday 13 October The Scoop open office hours; free Daily 11am-6pm; free THE TAMING OF THE SHREW More London Riverside In repertoire; £5-£32 Until Friday 6 July www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Friday 6 to Sunday 8 July Directed by Toby Frow. With Samantha RIGA FROM ABOVE FOR THE TIME BEING Spiro as Katherina. Simon Paisley Day Thursday 5 July to Sunday 5 August Part of London Festival of Architecture Winchester School of Art graduates. plays Petruchio. ORESTEIA Full info at se1.net/12706 Full info at se1.net/12645 Full info at se1.net/12695 Thu-Sun: The Trojan Horse 6.30pm; Advanced Graphics London Bermondsey Project Space Agamemnon 8pm; Orestes 9.30pm; free Saturday 14 July to Saturday 13 October To celebrate a decade of creating award- 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 46 Willow Walk www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios RICHARD III www.advancedgraphics.co.uk winning open-air theatre next to City Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; free In repertoire; £5-£32 Hall, Steam Industry Free Theatre present Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am-4pm; free Directed by Tim Carroll, designed by a rare staging of the Oresteia trilogy Until Sunday 15 July Jenny Tiramani, music by Claire van by Aeschylus - a three part epic drama Wednesday 11 July to Saturday 11 August BOW ARTS OPEN SHOW Kampen, with Mark Rylance as Richard charting Ancient Greece’s journey from MR KITCHING’S LONDON Fri 6pm-10pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon-6pm III. Roger Lloyd Pack, making his Globe chaos and war to peace, justice and the An exhibition of letterpress prints by Exhibiting artists have been selected by debut, will play the Duke of Buckingham. harmony that inspired the Olympic ideal. renowned printmaker Alan Kitching. Bob & Roberta Smith and Skye Sherwin. Full info at se1.net/12696 Full info at se1.net/12720 Full info at se1.net/12793 Full info at se1.net/12784 July 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Wednesday 25 July to Friday 10 August progressive designs from around the George and Jorgen Jacob’s Island Gallery OUTSIDE THE WHITE CUBE world. New annual exhibition in support of Full info at se1.net/11772 9 Morocco Street 10-11 Shad Thames T 020 7407 8850 Crisis, the national charity for single www.georgeandjorgen.com www.jacobsisland.co.uk homeless people, featuring the work of Wednesday 25 July to Sunday 18 November Wed-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; Sun Thu-Sun 12 noon-5pm; both emerging and established artists. DESIGNED TO WIN 12 noon-5pm; Full info at se1.net/12584 The various ways in which design has Until Saturday 28 July THE END Bicha Gallery helped athletes break records and push Friday 13 July to Friday 3 August the boundaries of what was previously CAPITAL A group exhibition that alludes to 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 thought possible. The show considers the term capital the tradition of memento mori and www.bicha.co.uk Full info at se1.net/11774 in reference to the city and money. offers a contemporary interpretation. Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free All works in the exhibition literally or Works in photography and the moving Fashion & Textile Museum metaphorically reference mortality and Friday 13 to Wednesday 25 July image by seven artists form a unique 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 the brevity and fragility of human life. BENEATH THE ARCHITECTURE OF set of immersive, embodied encounters www.ftmlondon.org Full info at se1.net/12661 BEAUTY Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £7 (conc and reflections upon London in a Photography and neon sculpture £5); under-12s free time of deep economic recession and Jerwood Space exploring society, decadence and the international attention. 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 weather by Australian artist Dr Lisa Friday 6 July to Saturday 27 October Full info at se1.net/12805 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Anderson. POP! DESIGN, CULTURE, FASHION Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Full info at se1.net/12524 New insight into 20 years of popular Hayward Gallery 10am-3pm; free Borough Road Gallery culture from one of the most Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 comprehensive private collections of www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts Until Saturday 1 September 103 Borough Road T 020 7815 5737 www.boroughroadgallery.co.uk design and fashion. Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); MATTHEW JOHNSTONE: Wed-Fri 1pm-5pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; Full info at se1.net/11754 £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 PHOTOGRAPHS & SLIDESHOWS free £4.50; under 12 free) JVA Project Space presents a newly Florence Nightingale Museum commissioned body of work by London- Until Saturday 13 October St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 Until Wednesday 11 July based artist Matthew Johnstone. A DAVID BOMBERG LEGACY: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk WIDE OPEN SCHOOL Full info at se1.net/12672 Daily 10am-5pm; £5.80 (conc £4.80, THE SARAH ROSE COLLECTION Morning, afternoon and evening family £16) Lambeth Palace First exhibition in new gallery set up to sessions Tue-Sun; £10 per session display the collection of works by David A school with a programme devised and Lambeth Palace Road Thursday 19 July to Friday 31 August www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace Bomberg and associated artists donated fuelled by the imaginations of more than to LSBU by Sarah Rose. BONE 80 leading artists from over 40 different Full info at se1.net/12771 An eclectic exhibition of around 60 Until Saturday 14 July objects exploring the rich history and countries. ROYAL DEVOTION: MONARCHY & City Hall substance of bone, across cultures, Full info at se1.net/12054 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 throughout time and between Tue-Fri 11am-1.30pm & 2pm-5pm; Sat www.london.gov.uk disciplines. Until Sunday 5 August 11am-4pm (last entry 1 hour before Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free Full info at se1.net/12804 INVISIBLE: ART ABOUT THE UNSEEN closing); £12 (conc £10); under-17s free The close relationship between royalty gallery@oxo 1957 - 2012 Until Sunday 15 July The first UK survey exhibition of and religion from medieval to modern DANCE IN FOCUS Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 artworks that explore ideas related times. Aspiring photographers worked www.coinstreet.org to the invisible, the hidden and the Full info at se1.net/12201 with acclaimed dance photographer Daily 11am-6pm; free Chris Nash and professional dancers unknown. Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Full info at se1.net/12613 to produce imaginative and thought- Until Sunday 8 July 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 provoking images capturing dance and ART IN THE WILD Imperial War Museum www.llewellynalexander.com movement Roger Hooper is a photographer who Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Full info at se1.net/12786 is passionate about wildlife and the Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 london.iwm.org.uk Cuming Museum environment. Until Saturday 18 August Full info at se1.net/12689 Daily 10am-6pm; free NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY 151 Walworth Road T 020 7525 2332 Work rejected by the Summer Exhibition www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum Thursday 12 to Sunday 29 July Until Sunday 23 September at the Royal Academy. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free THE RAGING STORM: STORM BUILD THE TRUCE Full info at se1.net/12206 THORGERSON Explore the concept of truce, from Until Saturday 27 October Fine art prints taken from original challenging notions about the Menier Gallery FACT INTO FICTION: CHARLES artwork of album covers for rock’n’roll DICKENS - A SOUTHWARK inevitability of war, through to truce as 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 bands such as Muse or Pink Floyd. a method of conflict resolution and what www.meniergallery.co.uk CHILDHOOD Dickens’s experiences of the Borough Full info at se1.net/12690 it can mean on a practical level, such as Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free allowing aid and medical organisations area during his time there in 1824. Tuesday 31 July to Sunday 12 August to enter areas of conflict which they Monday 9 to Saturday 14 July Full info at se1.net/12214 SCULPTURE AND SPORT: A cannot reach during periods of war. GOING PLACES: ESPACIO ARTISTS Design Museum CELEBRATION FOR 2012 This specially selected group of Full info at se1.net/12532 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 A collection of 30 bronze sculptural wanderers will be exploring notions www.designmuseum.org studies by 30 artists of 30 different of home and travel from a range of Olympic and Paralympic sports. Until Friday 30 November Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission WAR STORY: SERVING IN perspectives spanning the practical, 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); Full info at se1.net/12276 spiritual and emotional journeys we all AFGHANISTAN Under 12s free Garden Museum make every day. 15 personal artefacts as well as digital Full info at se1.net/12806 Until Sunday 8 July Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 screens packed with video footage, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN www.gardenmuseum.org.uk images and interviews. Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 July Christian Louboutin’s exquisite shoes, Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Full info at se1.net/11695 SLOW BURN: ABSTRACT with their trademark glossy red soles, month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) INTELLIGENCE are a unique fusion of craftsmanship, Until Tuesday 3 January 11am to 6pm; Sat 11am to 4pm engineering and sculpture. Tuesday 17 July to Sunday 21 October A FAMILY IN WARTIME THE PLANT SEEKERS Sculpture by and B E Cole and painting Full info at se1.net/11773 How ordinary people braved the The thrilling stories of some of by Roger Wilson. Works are connected challenges of life on the home front by a sense of place, process and a Until Sunday 15 July history’s most fanatical plant-hunting DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012 adventurers. during the Second World War. common interest in abstraction. 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Tuesday 24 July to Sunday 12 August Purdy Hicks Gallery Tate Modern from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008. SIGHTSEEING - LONDON: FRANK Full info at se1.net/12527 KIELY 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk/modern Unicorn Theatre www.purdyhicks.com Punchy phone booths, buses and Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 sporty cars traverse Frank Kiely’s latest 10am-10pm; free www.unicorntheatre.com exhibition. Full info at se1.net/12807 Until Friday 24 August Until Sunday 9 September Thursday 26 July to Sunday 9 September DAMIEN HIRST THE CITY: A DIFFERENT VIEW More London Riverside RALPH FLECK: NEW PAINTINGS Full info at se1.net/12810 £14 (conc £12.20) The winning images from a Tooley Street The first substantial survey of Damien photographic competition for young www.morelondon.com Royal Festival Hall Hirst’s work ever held in the UK. Londoners. Full info at se1.net/11290 Full info at se1.net/12779 Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 12 September Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 WAC Gallery TOM STODDART: PERSPECTIVES www.southbankcentre.co.uk Until Sunday 14 October 78 of Stoddart’s most striking images in Foyers daily 10am-11pm; EDVARD MUNCH: 14 Baylis Road THE MODERN EYE www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk traditional black and white format. Mon-Sat 11am-6.30pm; free Full info at se1.net/12809 Until Sunday 9 September £14 (conc £12.20) + gift aid FESTIVAL OF THE WORLD MUSEUM Major exhibition which radically Morley College reassesses the work of Norwegian Monday 23 to Saturday 28 July Designed by Wayne and Gerardine painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART 61 Westminster Bridge Road 020 7928 8501 Hemingway. Chike Azuonye showcases his recent www.morleycollege.ac.uk Full info at se1.net/12229 Full info at se1.net/12698 works inspired by African motifs, folklore Tuesday 17 July to Sunday 28 October and iconography. Tuesday 17 to Friday 27 July Shakespeare’s Globe TINO SEHGAL: THE UNILEVER Full info at se1.net/12781 MARATHON MAKE New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 SERIES White Cube Bermondsey Morley Gallery; Tue-Fri 10.30am-1.30pm; Latest Turbine Hall installation. free www.shakespearesglobe.com 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 Full info at se1.net/10844 www.whitecube.com Two weeks of free workshops at Morley 10am-5pm (Apr-Oct opens 9am); Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; Exhibition £12.50; children £8; students Wednesday 18 July to Sunday 28 October Gallery celebrating global and local links free through the making of a giant city in £11; family £35 SUNG HWAN KIM clay. A major new commission by Korean Until Sunday 8 July Full info at se1.net/12801 Until Sunday 12 August artist Sung Hwan Kim. Hwan Kim’s DAMIEN HIRST: TWO WEEKS ONE installation involves a unique form of WITHIN THE WOODEN O SUMMER Wednesday 4 to Friday 27 July story-telling which sees him interweave Exhibition to coincide with the Hirst Inspired by Renaissance, Tudor and A WOMAN OF INFINITE RESOURCE Korean culture, folklore and history, his show at Tate Modern. Jacobean paintings Rosalind Lyons own personal experiences and fantasy. open during college hours Full info at se1.net/12623 Full info at se1.net/12820 An exhibition marking the 100th Hudson’s paintings imaginatively explore themes of ambiguity and transformation. Until Sunday 8 July anniversary of the death of Morley Wednesday 18 July to Sunday 28 October Full info at se1.net/12692 BRUCE NAUMAN College’s founder, Emma Cons (1838- LIS RHODES: LIGHT MUSIC Experimental and ground breaking films 1912). Siobhan Davies Studios SUZANNE LACY: THE CRYSTAL QUILT made between 1967 and 1969. Full info at se1.net/12815 Installations of recent major acquisitions Full info at se1.net/12666 85 St George’s Road of film and performance. Poppy Sebire Gallery www.siobhandavies.com Full info at se1.net/12821 Copperfield Street T 020 7928 3096 Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat Tower Bridge Exhibition For the latest local www.poppysebire.com 10am-5pm; free Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 news and events, www.towerbridge.org.uk Friday 6 July to Sunday 23 September Until Saturday 4 August 10am-5.30pm; £6 (conc £4.20; child follow us on Twitter PENCIL AND PAPER 60|40 STARTING POINT SERIES 2012 £2.60) Three artists explore the relationship The power, subtlety, humour and Until Sunday 30 September ephemerality of the most basic of artistic between the studios’ activities and their CITIES OF THE MODERN GAMES tools: pencil and paper. own distinct practices. 26 large-scale full-colour images of all @se1 Full info at se1.net/12797 Full info at se1.net/12803 past host cities of the Modern Games, londonse1 News you may community website have missed 22 arrested in Westminster Borough Road Gallery opens Bridge gaming clampdown A new gallery devoted to David Bomberg Nearly two dozen people have been and his Borough Group of artists has arrested in a police clampdown on illegal opened at London South Bank University. 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