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Timothy Salter Blow the wind Until Saturday 3 March southerly: Cold blows the wind Wednesday 7 to Tuesday 27 March THE SHALLOW END Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 MOON ON A RAINBOW SHAWL www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Campion Never, weather-beaten sail Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; Bob Chilcott Weather Report Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 £10/£14/£18 Thursday 1 March Cecilia McDowall Shipping Forecast Errol John’s 1953 play is directed by Doug Lucie’s biting satire that attacks SIMON GRISDALE: PIANO RECITAL (London premiere) Michael Buffong. It depicts a vibrant, the mercenary agenda in the UK’s media. Day Chapel; 7pm; £8 (conc £5); advance Part of the Brandenburg Spring Choral cosmopolitan world that is as harsh as it Directed by Sebastien Blanc. Designed by tickets 020 7202 2152 Festival. is filled with colour and warmth. Kev Rice. 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Susan is a long-term supermarket discussions. Children are welcome but £10/£16.50/£22.50 (airline-style) checkout operator from Oldham. She’s must be accompanied by an adult. Tate Modern Glenn Carter and Robyn North lead the never had to give much thought to role  Full info at se1.net/12223 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 cast of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel’s models until she gets promoted and www.tate.org.uk/modern award-winning musical. Kentucky, 1925. is forced to adopt one. Oscar winning Shortwave Cinema Floyd Collins, soon to be acclaimed as the actress and international star Helen 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Monday 12 March ‘greatest caver ever known’, dreams of Mirren is an unlikely choice, but Susan’s www.shortwavefilms.co.uk NIGHT AND THE CITY: COMMUNITY finding fame and fortune underground. life changes dramatically when she starts FILM CLUB When a cave-in leaves him trapped to ask herself, ‘What would Helen Mirren Friday 2 to Thursday 8 March Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments 55 feet below the earth’s surface, the do?’ This one-woman comedy play stars BEGINNERS from 6.30pm); free to members media circus above ground makes a very Anita Parry and is written by Josie Melia Fri/Sat/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £8 (conc £7) A 1950 masterpiece of film noir, a story personal tragedy a national sensation. and is directed by Peter Ellis who is When Oliver meets the irreverent and of small time gangsters, corruption and  Full info at se1.net/12046 probably best known for playing Chief unpredictable Anna, this new love floods betrayal. Set against the backdrop of Oliver with memories of his father, who, a war-torn London, the film’s finale Wednesday 7 March to Saturday 14 April Superintendent Brownlow in ITV1’s The Bill. He is married to Anita and this is the following the death of his wife of 45 takes place on aderelict site that later SHIVERED years, came out at the age of 75 to live a would become the Festival of Britain. Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14, first time he has directed her.  Full info at se1.net/12001 full, energized, and tumultuous gay life Director: Jules Dassin Duration: 92 £18 - which included a younger boyfriend, min (black & white) Membership of Olivia Poulet, best known as Tory Wednesday 28 March to Saturday 14 April Andy. Starring: Ewan McGregor, the Community Film Club is aimed at staffer Emma Messinger in The Thick of MONTY & MIRABELLA: THE LITTLE Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent. those living in Southwark and Lambeth. It, stars opposite Joseph Drake in the THINGS Director: Mike Mills. To become a member (it’s free) email world premiere of Philip Ridley’s play. times vary; £9 (conc £70; family tickets  Full info at se1.net/12308 [email protected] or join A young couple are moving into their available at door. new home. A soldier is being held Step into a storybook world of Friday 9 to Thursday 15 March  Full info at se1.net/12285 hostage. Two boys are searching for imagination and investigation as Monty WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN monsters. All these things are connected and Mirabella take you on a musical Fri/Sat/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £8 (conc £7) by both family and time but what story uplifting slapstick journey. They love to Tilda Swinton delivers a superb Exhibitions can be told when family and time are play, they love to laugh, they love to performance as Eva, a woman who puts broken? Covering over twelve years, it dance and as they do anything could her ambitions and career aside to raise Anise Gallery unpicks the story of two families and happen, and probably will, as they her son Kevin. The relationship between 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 then re-weaves it into something new discover “The Little Things”. A brand mother and son is difficult from the very www.anisegallery.co.uk and startling. Seven people, one war, a new interactive family show for the first years. When Kevin is 15, he does Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; free derelict car plant and mysterious lights young and young at heart. Written by something irrational and unforgivable in the sky all come together in the Essex Sarah Redmond. Original Score by Dan in the eyes of the entire community. Eva Saturday 10 March to Wednesday 18 April new-town of Draylingstowe, where the Gillingwater. Directed by Sarah Redmond grapples with her own feelings of grief MASKED view from green hills once offered hope and David Lucas. and responsibility. Based on the million- Solo exhibition by rising South London and prosperity for all. Directed by Russell  Full info at se1.net/12306 selling prize winning novel by Lionel artist Tess Greig. Bolam. Shriver. Director: Lynne Ramsay. Starring:  Full info at se1.net/12267  Full info at se1.net/12244 Young Vic Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller.  Full info at se1.net/12309 ASC Gallery The Old Vic 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 www.youngvic.org Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Friday 16 to Thursday 22 March Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free www.oldvictheatre.com Tuesday 6 to Saturday 24 March WARRIOR GOING DARK Fri/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £8 (conc £7) Until Sunday 4 March Until Saturday 10 March The Clare; 8pm; Wed & Sat 3pm; £15 Two estranged brothers are drawn to CHRIS KONING: SKETCHBOOK NOISES OFF After their production of Kursk, theatre enter a mixed martial arts tournament, Window Space Gallery; 24 hours Mon-Fri 7.30pm; matinees Sat & selected company Sound&Fury return to the one a military veteran looking for a This space marks the beginning of an days 2.30pm; £12-£49.50 Young Vic with Hattie Naylor’s innovative way to escape his troubled past, the investigation into the painterly, cultural Lindsay Posner directs Michael Frayn’s new show about the mysteries of the other a struggling teacher who needs and political language of historical backstage comedy. Cast includes Robert night sky. How far can you see? A mile? the prize money to support his family. English cartoons and printmaking. Glenister and Celia Imrie. A hundred miles? Or to the furthest As they progress through the contest,  Full info at se1.net/12225  Full info at se1.net/11758 shores of the universe to a far away both emerge as likely winners - putting galaxy? As a narrator in a planetarium, their relationship to the ultimate test. Until Friday 9 March Saturday 17 March to Saturday 9 June it’s Max’s job to ask the cosmic questions. Director: Gavin O’Connor. Starring: Tom TIC TAC TOE THE DUCHESS OF MALFI But in a society polluting the night sky Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte. The curators Darren O’Brien and Peter Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; with light and happier to explore the  Full info at se1.net/12310 Flack present three sets of work by £12-£49.50 stars in a waxworks museum he feels artists James Viscardi, Aki Ilomaki and Eve Best returns to The Old Vic in John increasingly out of place. When his Friday 23 to Thursday 29 March collaborators Shaun Doyle and Mally Webster’s Jacobean tragedy directed life is suddenly turned upside down, SNOWTOWN Mallinson. by Jamie Lloyd. Webster’s poetic Max discovers that understanding the Fri/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £8 (conc £7)  Full info at se1.net/12123 masterpiece tells the dark and bloody universe requires a different kind of An intense, highly acclaimed thriller, story of the recently widowed Duchess Bankside Gallery vision. Snowtown marks the arrival of a major as she struggles to retain strength and  Full info at se1.net/11707 new filmmaking talent. Disenfranchised 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 dignity in the face of death. teenager Jamie Vlassakis suffers www.banksidegallery.com  Full info at se1.net/12314 Until Saturday 31 March horribly at the hands of his half-brother. Daily 11am-6pm; free Union Theatre BINGO Salvation seemingly arrives in the form Mon-Sat 7.30pm + matinees; £10-£29.50 of John Justin Bunting, who moves in Until Wednesday 14 March 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Southwark resident Patrick Stewart takes with Jamie’s mother and becomes RWS CONTEMPORARY www.uniontheatre.biz the lead in Edward Bond’s dramatic a surrogate father figure. However, WATERCOLOUR COMPETITION  Full info at se1.net/11108 Until Saturday 10 March take on the final chapter of the life of Bunting gradually draws in James to his PATIENCE Shakespeare. own twisted, sick world. 120m Director: Friday 23 March to Saturday 21 April Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Su 2pm & 6pm; £18  Full info at se1.net/10843 Justin Kurzel. Starring: Daniel Henshall, ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY (conc £15) Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris. SPRING EXHIBITION Thursday 15 March to Saturday 7 April  Full info at se1.net/12311 Sasha Regan’s latest all-male production AFTER MISS JULIE  Full info at se1.net/11109 of Gilbert & Sullivan show. A satire on 7.45pm (Wed & Sat matinee 2.45pm); the British aesthetic movement of the Friday 30 to Saturday 31 March Bermondsey Project Space £17.50 (previews £10) 1870s, Patience is the story of coy lovers, WUTHERING HEIGHTS 46 Willow Walk Natalie Abrahami, co-artistic director and ridiculous poetic jousting for the Fri/Sat 8pm; £8 (conc £7) www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios of The Gate, directs Patrick Marber’s attention of a pretty young milkmaid A bold new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; passionate tragedy. classic novel. A Yorkshire hill farmer on who has no interest in poetry, all  performed with typically British humour Full info at se1.net/11623 a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy Until Sunday 4 March and sparkling music. on the streets. He takes him home to ART IN CRISIS  Full info at se1.net/12105 live as part of his family on the isolated Work by past and present members Cinema Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an of Crisis Skylight London, exploring obsessive relationship with the farmer’s Tuesday 13 March to Saturday 7 April Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre personal journeys of homelessness. HOW’S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? daughter. Director: Andrea Arnold.  Full info at se1.net/12233 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Su 2pm & 6pm; £14 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson. Roger Milner’s surreal comedy follows www.coinstreet.org  Full info at se1.net/12312 Design Museum one man’s efforts to realise his destiny, Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Friday 16 March St George the Martyr whatever the world throws at him. www.designmuseum.org CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS: Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Channelling the spirit of Monty Python COIN STREET NEIGHBOURHOOD and The Goons, Milner’s engaging www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); FILM CLUB Under 12s free and witty play is laugh-out-loud funny 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £4 Saturday 17 March and surprisingly touching. Last seen in including snacks, wine and soft drinks FILM FUGITIVE London in 1966, the original West End Until Saturday 14 April Cave of Forgotten Dreams follows an THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI SIR TERENCE CONRAN: THE WAY production transferred to Broadway exclusive expedition into the nearly 8pm (doors open 7pm); £14 (conc £7.50) and provided Patricia Routledge with a WE LIVE NOW inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, Candlelit screening of the gothic silent The Design Museum marks Sir Terence breakout role. home to the most ancient visual art movie accompanied by pianist Wendy  Full info at se1.net/12106 Conran’s 80th birthday with a major known to have been created by man. It’s Hiscocks. Audiences will be greeted by exhibition that explores his unique Waterloo East Theatre an unforgettable cinematic experience a team of themed fugitives. Usherettes impact on contemporary life in Britain. will serve delicious handmade cupcakes, Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 that provides a unique glimpse of the Exhibition now extended till mid-April. www.waterlooeast.co.uk pristine artwork dating back to human brownies and popcorn. A pop-up bar  Full info at se1.net/11176 hands over 30,000 years ago - almost will be serving mulled cider, alcoholic Until Sunday 25 March twice as old as any previous discovery. hot chocolate and a variety of other Until Sunday 15 July WHAT WOULD HELEN MIRREN DO? Contact Laura Reynolds for more drinks. Part of Film Fugitive’s Pull Up A DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 3pm; £15 information on 020 7021 1600 or email Pew season of film screenings in London Showcasing the most innovative March 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 and progressive designs from around Imperial War Museum Morley College Tuesday 6 March to Monday 16 April the world, spanning seven categories: WITHIN A MILE: LES WILLIAMS Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 61 Westminster Bridge Road 020 7928 8501 Refectory Graphics, Digital, Transport and Product. london.iwm.org.uk www.morleycollege.ac.uk Local sketches and paintings.  Full info at se1.net/11772 Daily 10am-6pm; free Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until  Full info at se1.net/12231 7pm; Sat enquire for details; Fashion & Textile Museum Until Sunday 15 April Tate Modern SHAPED BY WAR: PHOTOGRAPHS Bankside T 020 7887 8888 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 BY DON MCCULLIN Thursday 15 to Thursday 29 March www.ftmlondon.org MADE 2012 PART 1: TEXTILES www.tate.org.uk/modern £7 (conc £6) Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £7 (conc Work by adult learners from Morley £5); under-12s free The largest ever UK exhibition about the 10am-10pm; free life and work of one of the world’s most College’s thriving textile studio where Friday 16 March to Saturday 16 June acclaimed photographers. you can study screen print, machine Until Monday 9 April DESIGNING WOMEN: POST-WAR  Full info at se1.net/11319 knitting, tapestry, patchwork & quilting, TACITA DEAN: FILM: THE UNILEVER BRITISH TEXTILES feltmaking, hand knitting and other SERIES In the years immediately following Until Sunday 29 April related subjects. German-based British artist Tacita Dean ORI GERSHT: THIS STORM IS WHAT World War II a new wave of industrial  Full info at se1.net/12303 takes on the twelfth Unilever Series WE CALL PROGRESS and commercial design swept away commission for the Turbine Hall. Two recent film works by the Israeli- National Theatre the remaining fragments of the 1930s  Full info at se1.net/9967 born London-based artist that reflect on and created an innovative and modern South Bank T 020 7452 3000 individuals’ life experiences which were www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Until Sunday 27 May approach to living unprecedented in shaped by the Second World War. These the UK. At the visual forefront of this Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun ALIGHIERO BOETTI: GAME PLAN are shown alongside new photographs. £10 (conc £8.50) movement and noted for its accessibility 12 noon-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12009 The first large-scale retrospective of was the textile designs of a group of Boetti’s work to be held outside Italy in women designers: Lucienne Day, Monday 12 March to Saturday 21 April Until Friday 30 November over a decade. Jacqueline Groag and Marian Mahler. LONDON PRINTMAKERS WAR STORY: SERVING IN  Full info at se1.net/12053 These distinctive printed textiles map out AFGHANISTAN Comprising twelve of the country’s a brave new world of sophistication and Opening ten years after British troops leading professional printmakers, Until Tuesday 5 June optimism. first entered Afghanistan, the display the London Printmakers frequently YAYOI KUSAMA  Full info at se1.net/11753 features 15 personal artefacts as well exhibit together to promote their £10 (conc £8.50) gallery@oxo as digital screens packed with video work and their passion for the craft of Yayoi Kusama’s pioneering work spans footage, images and interviews. printmaking. over six decades and this exhibition Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686  Full info at se1.net/11695 highlights the artist’s moments of most www.coinstreet.org  Full info at se1.net/12313 intense innovation. Daily 11am-6pm; free Jacob’s Island Gallery Poppy Sebire Gallery  Full info at se1.net/12052 10-11 Shad Thames T 020 7407 8850 Wednesday 21 March to Sunday 1 April www.jacobsisland.co.uk Copperfield Street T 020 7928 3096 The Wapping Project Bankside THE GLAXOSMITHKLINE SHIFTING www.poppysebire.com Thu-Sun 12 noon-5pm; free 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free PERSPECTIVES 2012 www.thewappingprojectbankside.com A photographic exhibition created Thursday 15 March to Saturday 12 May Tue-Sat 10-6pm (Mon by appointment); to challenge commonly-held RESPONSIVE EYES Until Saturday 24 March free misconceptions about people with Anthony Antonellis, Paul B Davis, KISSING BALLOONS IN THE JUNGLE Down’s syndrome by presenting modern, Thomas Lock, Sara Ludy, Mike Ruiz, Lucy For his second solo exhibition with Poppy Until Saturday 31 March contemporary images. Stokton, Mark Titchner, Artie Vierkant. Sebire, Rolph presents a selection of PAOLO ROVERSI  Full info at se1.net/12271  Full info at se1.net/12315 large acrylic paintings on canvas that First solo exhibition by fashion Garden Museum Jerwood Space continue his investigation into the photographer Paolo Roversi has a focus language of collage. on his studio and Guinevere van Seenus. Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171  Full info at se1.net/12237 Also included is material from both the www.gardenmuseum.org.uk www.jerwoodspace.co.uk celebrated Nudi and Studio series. Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Poussin Gallery  Full info at se1.net/12142 month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) 10am-3pm; free 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 Unit 24 Wednesday 14 March to Sunday 22 April www.poussin-gallery.com Until Sunday 1 April 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 FROM GARDEN CITY TO GREEN TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free unit24.info CITY Ed Atkins, Emma Hart, Naheed Raza Mon-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu & Fri The many visions, designs and projects and Corin Sworn were picked from a Wednesday 21 March to Saturday 14 April 10am-6.30pm; free that have inspired the ‘green city’ 50-strong shortlist of early to mid-career GARTH EVANS: EVOLVING movement over the last 150 years. artists specialising in the moving-image CONSTRUCTIONS 1959-1980 Thursday 1 to Wednesday 28 March  Full info at se1.net/11466 as the first recipients of The Jerwood/ Early works tracing the changes in his ONE OF THESE DAYS Film and Video Umbrella Awards. concerns with sculpture as object/non- A retrospective of Ian Emes’ work over George and Jorgen  Full info at se1.net/12307 object between c 1960 and c 1980. 40 years, beginning with his association 9 Morocco Street  Full info at se1.net/12268 with Pink Floyd through to current www.georgeandjorgen.com Until Saturday 28 April installation films. Wed-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; Sun MY (WE) Siobhan Davies Studios  Full info at se1.net/12241 12 noon-5pm; London based artists Katie Schwab and Jamie George present new sculptural 85 St George’s Road Vitrine Gallery www.siobhandavies.com Friday 9 to Sunday 25 March and photographic works and a Bermondsey Square CHRIS BAKER collaborative publication, available to Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat www.vitrinegallery.co.uk Inaugural exhibition at new Bermondsey take away for free. 10am-5pm; free 24 hours; free gallery. First solo show of paintings by  Full info at se1.net/12126 Until Sunday 11 March Until Saturday 17 March recent graduate. Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings  Full info at se1.net/12287 SHANE WALTENER: DRAWN TO THE LEWTON BUS: PART TWO - 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 MOTION, WRITTEN IN SPACE, CONDITIONS Hayward Gallery www.llewellynalexander.com STITCHED IN TIME 2D and 3D work developed with the Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 New works specially designed for curator in response to the cinematic www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts Siobhan Davies Studios exploring the proposition of ‘The Lewton Bus’. Until Tuesday 6 March  Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); relationship between textiles and dance, Full info at se1.net/12249 £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 JENNY WHEATLEY making and performance, objects and White Cube Bermondsey £4.50; under 12 free) Bright watercolours inspired by the clear light, strong blue skies and the colourful their recordings. 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 Until Sunday 13 May houses of the South of France, Malta and  Full info at se1.net/12012 www.whitecube.com DAVID SHRIGLEY: BRAIN ACTIVITY the Greek Islands are alongside paintings Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; British artist David Shrigley is best known of Cumbria and Cornwall. Saturday 17 March to Sunday 1 April free for his humorous drawings that make  Full info at se1.net/11841 STILLED Friday 9 March to Saturday 12 May witty and wry observations on everyday London College of Communication Performance company Fevered life. Spanning the upper galleries of the Sleep weaves together dance, light, GILBERT & GEORGE: Elephant & Castle LONDON PICTURES Hayward Gallery, the show includes new music and photography to create a www.lcc.arts.ac.uk Multi-site exhibition. artwork and site specific installations. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm; Sat 10am-4pm; meditative cross-artform event exploring  Full info at se1.net/12280  Full info at se1.net/11325 perception, movement and stillness. Monday 5 to Thursday 15 March  Full info at se1.net/12051 Woolfson & Tay Until Sunday 13 May THE BIG PICTURE 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 JEREMY DELLER: JOY IN The CJET Photographer of the Year Southwark Cathedral www.woolfsonandtay.com EVERYTHING competition has attracted thousands London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Mon-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; A hugely influential artist for much of entrants from the UK and countries www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk of the past two decades, Turner Prize as diverse as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cathedral daily 8am-6pm; Refectory Until Sunday 11 March winner Jeremy Deller has helped to Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & Sun HOME AND AWAY: LGBT rewrite the rules of contemporary art in Italy, the United States and Canada. 10am-6pm; free LONDONERS many respects. This mid-career survey - A requirement for entry to the Aliyahgator’s series of biro and coloured the first in the artist’s career - provides a competition was that entrants do not Until Friday 6 April pencil portraits of LGBT people who fresh overview of his multi-faceted work, work as photographers. All entries had DIE HARDER: DAVID MACH currently call London their home. in which he explores compelling social to be taken on a camera phone. The The biro drawings are made from and cultural territories while alternately stunning images submitted include This dramatic sculpture by South photographic snapshots, and then taking on the roles of artistic producer, scenes of extreme poverty in India, anti- London-based artist David Mach RA coloured with coloured pencils. The publisher, filmmaker, collaborator, Government spending cuts protests in made from 3,000 coat hangers is on main influence for this style of drawing curator, parade organiser, and cultural the UK and terrorist bomb attacks in display in Southwark Cathedral during comes from Ukiyoe, meaning in Japanese archivist. Nigeria. Lent. “pictures of floating world”.  Full info at se1.net/11326  Full info at se1.net/12235  Full info at se1.net/11985  Full info at se1.net/12273 March 2012 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 LOCAL HISTORY Bermondsey health propaganda on show Films made by Bermondsey time into relative obscurity,” says Borough Council in the 1920s Angela Saward, curator at the Wellcome Collection. and 1930s to promote public “This new display gives visitors the health are at the centre of a new opportunity to appreciate some of these temporary display at the Wellcome films in a sympathetic context. The films Collection in Euston Road. together with other health propaganda materials on view here were highly Here Comes Good Health! is a small influential in shaping health policy at exhibition which examines the vision of Alfred the time as well as well-loved by the and Ada Salter, Bermondsey’s MP and Mayor, who inspired an imaginative programme of public health citizens of the borough. propaganda activities. “Many of the principles of healthy From the 1920s onwards the council sought living are now more or less universal and to bring hygiene messages to a community where we are fortunate to live in an age where privation was the norm and catastrophic but many of the privations outlined in the preventable illnesses such as diphtheria were rife. films are a distant memory.” Drawing by council architect H. Tansley of proposed public health centre in Grange Road, Under the direction of the Salters and Dr DM Crowds of up to 1,000 gathered circa 1935. The scaled-down Bermondsey Health Centre remains to this day. Courtesy of Connan, Bermondsey’s medical officer of health, for screenings which, despite the silent Southwark Local History Library and Archive. inter-titled films, were noisy affairs, the council customised a set of vans to become original plans for their Grange Road Health Centre with children singing along to the captions and ‘cinemotors’, powered by adapted lampposts as which outlined a grand architectural beacon of audience participation encouraged by speakers who a portable means of projecting a series of films modernism. As with the Salters’ hope that extolling the virtues of cleanliness and warning of introduced each film. Bermondsey would be rebuilt as a garden suburb the dangers of disease. Bermondsey council’s public health messages (some 5,000 trees were planted between 1919 and Four of these films can be seen in the display were integrated into the civic life of the borough: 1926) the reality was somewhat scaled down. But which takes the form of a replica ‘cinemotor’. All floats at the May Day Parade included medical four films – Health and Clothing (1928), Some and dental demonstrations; public spaces, the purpose built solarium it contained was the first Activities of the Bermondsey Borough Council (1931), including churchyards, were co-opted as parks in the country and soon replicated in other London Where There’s Life There’s Soap (1933) and The Empty and playgrounds; and garden tuberculosis shelters, boroughs. Bed (1937) – have also been published online by the allowing sufferers to sleep in the fresh air, were • Here Comes Good Health! is at the Wellcome Wellcome Collection. provided free of charge. Collection until 3 June; daily except Monday; free. “The films made by Bermondsey Borough The ambitious vision of the department of All exhibition materials are also available online. Council for its populace have alas receded over public health in Bermondsey can be seen in the • www.wellcomecollection.org Interested in londonse1 News you may community website have missed fitness swimming? £1.5 million gift to Globe’s LSBU student centre At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a Jacobean theatre appeal Work has started on the creation of London Shakespeare’s Globe has received a gift South Bank University’s new student 25-metre swimming pool and more... of £1.5 million from an anonymous donor centre at the corner of Borough Road and towards its £7 million appeal to complete Southwark Bridge Road. the indoor Jacobean theatre alongside …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5837 The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at the replica of Bankside’s famous open-air Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate playhouse. 1,000 homes could be built …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5854 above E&C Shopping Centre and corporate membership available. Up to 1,000 homes could be built above the South Bank Skylon could Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre when Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with make a comeback - in Hereford the building is redeveloped, the centre’s poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different A half-size version of the Skylon tower which owner said last month. level speed lanes and it is ideal for lane swimming. formed a prominent feature of the 1951 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5831 Festival of Britain on the South Bank could We currently have inclusive memberships ranging be constructed in Hereford. Blackfriars Road ‘dog and pot’ from £45 a month to £275 for a year’s use of the …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5852 sign to be recreated pool. A replica of a distinctive shop sign known Guy’s and St Thomas’ moves to Charles Dickens is to be installed We also have Gyms on both the Guy’s and St closer to merger with King’s at the junction of Blackfriars Road and Thomas’ sites. St Thomas’ gym also has two squash The NHS foundation trust which runs SE1’s Union Street later this year as part of the two hospitals could merge with King’s celebrations for the writer’s bicentenary. courts and a class studio which can be hired. College Hospital and the South London and …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5829 Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. For further details on membership and to arrange a …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5847 East Street Library hours cut viewing of the facilities call Patrick Hourihan on 020 East Street Library in Old Kent Road will be open for fewer hours each week from April, 7188 6641 or by e-mail [email protected] BFI Library coming to SE1 The British Film Institute has confirmed that but will open on five days a week instead of its library will relocate to the South Bank four, Southwark Council has confirmed. this summer with free access and longer …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5827 opening hours. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5844 Maggi Hambling to create Dickens sculpture in Borough Waterloo Library: what next? Artist Maggi Hambing has been Waterloo Library could have its budget cut commissioned to design a sculpture to by more than 40 per cent over the next commemorate Charles Dickens and his two years under plans set out by Lambeth relationship with the Borough which will be Council. installed next to St George the Martyr. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5840 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5826