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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 160 FREE Email: [email protected] White Cube opens this month White Cube has announced that its new gallery in the former The Minotaur: Recall warehouse on Bermondsey art & restaurant Street will open on 12 October. The gallery will open six months after ’s at Old Vic Tunnels planning committee approved the conversion of the disused warehouse for use by White Cube. The new Bermondsey space is bigger than either of White Cube’s existing Hoxton and Mayfair galleries. The Old Vic Tunnels underneath “The opening of White Cube Bermondsey is an The ‘South Galleries’ will provide the principal Waterloo Station will this month affirmation of the ongoing strength of London as a display area. Three smaller galleries, collectively known creative hub and the next chapter in White Cube’s as the ‘North Galleries’, will feature an innovative new host an exhibition of intepretations history,” says gallery owner Jay Jopling. programme of exhibitions. of the Minotaur myth by “I’m immensely excited by the opportunities it At the centre of the building there is a gallery of contemporary artists. will give us to expand the range and ambition of all 81 square metres entitled ‘9 x 9 x 9’. The artists have been commissioned by Steve aspects of our programme, not least the chance to An auditorium will allow White Cube to present Lazarides whose 2010 Hell’s Half Acre exhibition make even more quality exhibitions with world-class an education programme, artists’ films and lectures. in the tunnels attracted 10,000 visitors. artists.” The inaugural exhibition will be ‘Structure & Participants include Stanley Donwood, White Cube originally intended to use the Absence’, a group show which “uses Chinese scholars’ Jonathan Yeo, Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington, warehouse for storage but soon realised it had potential rocks as an organising device to take a fresh look Doug Foster, 3D, Ian Francis, ATMA, Michael as a space for public exhibitions. The company has at contemporary abstraction”. It includes work by Najjar and Lucy McLauchlan. a 15-year lease on the site which was previously Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Damien Hirst, Sergej There will also be a 120-cover restaurant with earmarked for a large residential development. Jensen, Brice Marden, Gabriel Orozco, Sterling Ruby, food cooked by Michelin-starred chefs. Architects Casper Mueller Kneer have overseen Robert Ryman and Jeff Wall. • Monday 10 to Tuesday 25 October at the Old the conversion of the 1970s warehouse to include The launch of White Cube Bermondsey has been Vic Tunnels. Admission £5 (under-16s free) timed to coincide with the Frieze art fair. three exhibition spaces, storage, private viewing rooms, • theminotaur.co.uk an auditorium and a bookshop. • www.whitecube.com

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There will been transforming the public realm with also be games, story-telling and a story Royal Festival Hall colour, rhythm and artistic form with the orchard for the whole family to enjoy. Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 aim to make London beautiful. This social Special events See also Apple Day Choral Eucharist at www.southbankcentre.co.uk enterprise allows fine artists to work Bankside Pier (page 5) alongside artisans, students, community  Full info at se1.net/11595 Thursday 6 October volunteers and beginners. Bankside NATIONAL POETRY DAY LIVE  Full info at se1.net/11620 Delfina Clore Ballroom; 1pm-6pm; free Sunday 23 October 50 Bermondsey Street T 020 7357 6600 Simon Armitage heads this celebration, St George the Martyr OCTOBER PLENTY www.thedelfina.co.uk hosted in conjunction with the Poetry Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 From 12 noon; free Society, with pop-up poetry, poetry www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk October Plenty is an Autumn harvest Wednesday 5 October bingo, Michael Rosen, Jackie Kay, Glyn celebration held annually in Southwark. FREE RETAIL BREAKFAST SEMINAR Maxwell and more. Friday 28 to Saturday 29 October Beginning on Bankside, by Shakespeare’s 8am-10.30am; RSVP shane@  Full info at se1.net/11592 LONDON PHOTO FESTIVAL Globe, the event mixes ancient seasonal teamlondonbridge.co.uk; free The Crypt; 10am-7pm; free customs and theatre with contemporary David West, principal consultant with Southbank Centre Square The inaugural festival aims to provide festivity, joining with historic Borough Premier Retail Marketing, will lead Belvedere Road amateur, enthusiast and semi-professional Market. a two hour marketing workshop that www.southbankcentre.co.uk photographers with the opportunity to  includes creating an effective marketing Full info at se1.net/11679 exhibit and sell their work while also plan, research, SWOT analysis, customer Friday 14 to Sunday 16 October Bermondsey Square perception and shop displays. CHEESE & WINE FESTIVAL gaining valuable professional feedback.  Bermondsey Square  Full info at se1.net/11619 Fri & Sat 11am-8pm (Sun 11am-6pm) Full info at se1.net/11599 www.bermondseysquare.co.uk Garden Museum Dozens of cheese and wine related Theatre Square stalls as well as tutored tastings and Saturday 29 October Road T 020 7401 8865 demonstrations from renowned experts BOO! www.gardenmuseum.org.uk www.nationaltheatre.org.uk From 10am; free and passionate individuals throughout Bermondsey Farmers’ Market will be the weekend. Saturday 8 to Tuesday 11 October Saturday 8 October  open from 10am as usual with apple THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE BIG Full info at se1.net/10770 AVIVA BIG PICTURE POP UP STUDIO 10am-6pm; free juicing and apple bobbing. At 5.30pm HARVEST PARTY Friday 28 to Sunday 30 October there is an open-air film screening of 10.30am-5pm; normal charges apply: £7 CHARCUTERIE & COMPANY Fancy having your own fashion-mag style Casper the Friendly Ghost followed at (conc £6; under-16s free) Fri & Sat 11am-8pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun shoot, seeing your portrait up in lights 8pm by Ghostbusters. Celebrate harvest and localism and to and helping street children, just by taking  12 noon-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/11597 see and share what’s been growing in This celebration of the world of part? Aviva is offering the opportunity to Borough Market Lambeth this season. charcuterie brings together a range be made up like the stars and snapped  Full info at se1.net/11667 of artisans, importers and enthusiasts. by two of the world’s most renowned 8 photographers, Clive Arrowsmith and www.boroughmarket.org.uk Lower Marsh The best British traditions (some near forgotten) are represented, alongside Jillian Edelstein, as part of its ‘You are the www.lowermarshmarket.co.uk Sunday 23 October new continentally styled offerings Big Picture’ campaign. Up to 100 people APPLE DAY Thursday 6 October accompanied by the very finest hams, each day will have the opportunity to Jubilee Market; 12 noon-4pm; free LOWER MARSH MARKET sausages and terrines from Europe. be photographed by Arrowsmith and This family celebration of the apple RELAUNCH EVENT Whilst the pig is undoubtedly the star Edelstein. 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Learn how to identify different this history and examine less visited • Update on Jubilee Gardens project monster portraits. Come and have fun. themes from this global conflict. Free fruit trees, how to harvest the fruit and All materials supplied and inspiration New Year’s Eve plans for 2011 and what to do with it afterwards. drop-in activity suitable for all ages with feedback on issues from 2010’s provided by members of the Royal parental supervision.  Full info at se1.net/11669 Watercolour Society. event Part of Black History Month • Hear the proposals for Olympic Part of The Big Draw  Thursday 27 October  Full info at se1.net/11643 Full info at se1.net/11630 ‘look and feel’ across South Bank CHANGING BOUNDARIES: • Hear about the development of DESIGNING UPLIFTING SPACES Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 October Design Museum premises next to the National 6.30pm; £15 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 WAR HORSE: MAKING A SCENE Theatre Studio on The Cut Maggie’s Centres for cancer care www.designmuseum.org 11am-11.45am, 12 noon-12.45pm, • Hear about plans for the proposed are stirring debate around the 2pm-2.45pm, 3pm-3.45pm; free Mary Seacole memorial at St interplay between wellbeing, the built Sunday 23 October Take part in a series of free family Thomas’ Hospital environment and landscape design. The FAMILY DRAWING TOUR workshops and get the chance to design  Full info at se1.net/11171 centres are also all but unique in the 2.30pm; booking essential; free and make your own shadow puppets, Waterloo Action Centre way landscape design and architecture Grab a pencil and join an illustrator on depicting key scenes from the story of work together to create a therapeutic a family tour through This is Design. For War Horse. 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 environment. Flora Gathorne Hardy and www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk ages 7+. Paper and pencils provided.  Full info at se1.net/11629 Lily Jencks will discuss this and compare Part of The Big Draw their respective projects for Maggie’s.  Jerwood Space Wednesday 19 October Full info at se1.net/11644 WATERLOO COMMUNITY  Full info at se1.net/11672 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 East Street Library DEVELOPMENT GROUP www.jerwoodspace.co.uk 7pm 168-170 Old Kent Road T 020 7703 0395 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Regular public meeting of the group Saturday 22 October that monitors proposed developments london.iwm.org.uk THE BIG DRAW in Waterloo. Hear from the developers, Saturday 22 October Saturday 8 October DRAW A STORY 1pm-3pm; free ask questions and help to shape the Free drop-in workshop with Jerwood FOR KING AND COUNTRY?: BLACK 2pm-3.30pm community’s response. TROOPS IN THE BRITISH IMPERIAL Create a picture book for children, draw Drawing Prize 2011 artists Kasia  Full info at se1.net/10364 Depta-Garapich, Lottie Jackson-Eeles ARMED FORCES your own story and celebrate the work 12.30pm-2pm; free of famous children’s book illustrators. and Brendan Lyons. This will be a fun afternoon of devised drawing activities Many people are surprised that there Part of The Big Draw Talks & literature were Jamaican Spitfire pilots in the which will involve moving, thinking and  Full info at se1.net/11641 Second World War. The African/Caribbean making. Garden Museum presence in Britain’s Imperial forces Henry Wood Hall Part of The Big Draw Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk goes back much further. This interactive Trinity Church Square  Full info at se1.net/11642 audio-visual presentation will explore www.hwh.co.uk John Harvard Library Thursday 13 October this often hidden history including filmed Sunday 30 October FOOD ON OUR DOORSTEPS: THE interviews with First World War Jamaican 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 veterans, the role of British West Indies CREATIVE:SPACE www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries INVISIBLE FOOD WORKSHOP 11.45am-1pm & 2.45pm-4pm; £6 (child £4) 2pm; booking essential; free Regiment in Palestine and the African These 75-minute events are unique, fun Saturday 22 October So many plants that we consider to be troops in Burma in the Second World and interactive music concerts specifically DRAW A STORY weeds are perfectly edible and nutritious. War. Free talk, no booking required but please arrive in good time. designed for disabled children and their 11am-4pm This invisible food workshop will help families. 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Saturday 15 October Full info at se1.net/11201 Part of The Big Draw  Full info at se1.net/11668 MOTHER COUNTRY: BRITAIN’S HMS Belfast  Full info at se1.net/11640 BLACK COMMUNITY ON THE HOME Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 Unicorn Theatre Thursday 13 October FRONT 1939-45 hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk THE CULT OF THE LOST GARDEN 12.30pm-2pm; free 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 6.30pm; £15 Stephen Bourne’s illustrated talk will Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 October www.unicorntheatre.com Why are we so enchanted by gardens highlight some of the forgotten Britons WHAT LIES BELOW which have vanished? asks Christopher featured in his book including the 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-4pm; Entry Saturday 8 October community leaders Dr Harold Moody GOAL! THE BIG DRAW Woodward, director of the Garden included in general admission price Museum. And how do ephemeral and Learie Constantine. Also included 11am-6pm; free What lies beneath the battle cruiser HMS masterpieces live on in the memory? will be Esther Bruce (Stephen’s adopted An exciting day of free art and craft Belfast? From shopping trolleys to Roman  Full info at se1.net/11670 aunt), black evacuees, singer Adeladie coins, the unique quality of the Thames activities and workshops. Paint a Window Hall, bandleader Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson mud has preserved and will continue to of Wonder, help knit a winter scarf for Thursday 20 October (who was killed in an air raid in London), preserve whatever we drop throughout Spike the friendly Unicorn, plus many OUR PLOT: TEN YEARS OF BBC broadcaster Una Marsen, and black the centuries. Rubbish or archaeology? more fun-filled activities. A great ‘hands- ALLOTMENTEERING senior citizens who Stephen interviewed This creative event will explore the on’ day for visitors of all ages. 6.30pm; £20 about the home front in Africa and history below the ship. 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Part of Black History Month Woolfson & Tay Rose Theatre Exhibition  Full info at se1.net/11633 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 Comedy John Harvard Library www.woolfsonandtay.com www.rosetheatre.org.uk 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 The Horse www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Wednesday 12 October Monday 31 October THE MAKING OF LONDON: 122 Westminster Bridge Rd T 020 7928 6277 DEAD CITY: HALLOWE’EN AT THE www.horsebar.co.uk Monday 10 October SEBASTIAN GROES ROSE BLACK BRITAIN ON SCREEN 7pm; £5 Meet 7pm at Southwark Underground Thursday 13 October 5.15pm-6.45pm; booking advised; 020 Sebastian Groes is joined by Maureen Station; £12 (conc £10); booking FINGERS ON BUZZARDS: THE 7525 5492; free Duffy and others for the launch of his essential IMPROVISED PUB QUIZ The BFI has a rich collection of films book The Making of London. Did you know that you live in a city of 8pm-10pm; £5  portraying the African and Caribbean Full info at se1.net/11584 demons? Where the Shadow People Improv comedy meets pub quiz in this presence in the UK, from early cinema watch your every move? Are you aware Wednesday 19 October game show where the audience’s wrong to recent film and TV. These are freely of how many people you meet on a daily answers can win them prizes. available for six days a week at the LONDONERS: CRAIG TAYLOR basis must be phantoms of the murdered 7pm; £5 (conc £3)  Full info at se1.net/11634 Mediatheque, a public viewing facility. dead? Boo Tours and the Rose Theatre Craig Taylor launches his book Londoners: Tony Warner of Black History Walks in present a night of frightening Hallowe’en The Miller The Days And Nights Of London Now - As collaboration with David Somerset of the fun: ghost stories, weird tales, fortune 96 Snowsfields BFI Southbank will present a selection Told By Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It And Long For It. A book about telling and traditional Hallowe’en games. www.themiller.co.uk of excerpts from key titles as well as the people, not the places as witnessed Walk the streets of the haunted city, then introducing the groundbreaking and Monday 3 October by Canadian Craig Taylor who became hear about the real ghosts of Bankside’s ongoing African Odysseys programme at fascinated by the question ‘what kind of oldest theatre. HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH BAG BFI Southbank. person ended up in London?’.  Full info at se1.net/11674 8pm-10.30pm; £5 on door (£3 online)  Full info at se1.net/11683 Inder Manocha and Jessica Fostekew.  Full info at se1.net/11585 Southwark Mysteries New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall  Full info at se1.net/11650 106 The Cut Monday 10 October Tuesday 4 October Guided walks THE OUTLAW BOROUGH STAND UP FOR THE FIRST TIME Tuesday 11 October Blitzwalkers Meet 6.45pm for 7pm in Tabard Street 8pm-10pm; free EXCAVATIONS AT HOLYWELL piazza near St George’s; £7 (conc £5) www.blitzwalkers.co.uk An exciting mix of comedy newbies PRIORY First of three guided walks with local performing stand up for the first time 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 Sunday 9 October writer John Constable, author of The ever, and experienced comedians Lecture by Hana Lewis from Museum BERMONDSEY’S BLITZ Southwark Mysteries and Secret Bankside performing new material for the first of London Archaeology. A Southwark & Meet 11am at Bermondsey Underground - Walks In The Outlaw Borough. Learn time. Different line up every month. Lambeth Archaeological Society event. about the medieval Liberty of The Clink:  Station, Jamaica Road SE16; £8  Full info at se1.net/11662 Full info at se1.net/11419 Join Neil Bright to explore the tragedy prisons, taverns, theatres, bear-pits - Rose Theatre and heroism of one of London’s most and brothels, or ‘stews’, licensed by the Monday 10 October heavily bombed boroughs. Hear how church. 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH BAG www.rosetheatre.org.uk Bermondsey’s popular mayor was killed  Full info at se1.net/11600 8pm-10.30pm; £5 on door (£3 online) on the heaviest night of the Blitz and Norman Lovett and Manos Kanellos. Monday 10 October how a police station cleaner won the Monday 17 October  Full info at se1.net/11651 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE British Empire Medal. Learn about THE DICKENS THEATRE, SHOREDITCH AND HOW IT air-raid shelter life with evidence Meet 6.45pm for 7pm in Tabard Street Tuesday 11 October COMPARES TO THE ROSE THEATRE of these shelters 70 years on. Plus the piazza near St George’s; £7 (conc £5) FAT KITTEN VS. THE INFLATABLES 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6) near destruction of Surrey Docks and From Marshalsea Prison to ‘Nancy’s AND THE SCAT PACK Julian Bowsher on new information the aftermath of this. Walk finishes at Steps’: Charles Dickens’ childhood 8pm-10pm; £5 gained from the archaeological dig at . encounter with the Borough’s Victorian Improvised comedy smack down with The Theatre in Shoreditch. Shakespeare  Full info at se1.net/11415 underworld. Fat Kitten and The Inflatables competing worked there and at the Rose built just  Full info at se1.net/11601 for laughs, followed by The Scat Pack Sunday 16 October ten years after The Theatre. Julian will improvising an entire movie based on LONDON BRIDGE AND THE CITY IN Monday 24 October explain the exciting new developments your suggestions with their smash hit THE BLITZ THE GHOST WALK and the look at the two sites’ similarities Edinburgh show Lights! Cameras! Meet by the wooden cross in southern Meet 6.45pm for 7pm in Tabard Street and differences. Improvise! churchyard of Southwark Cathedral, piazza near St George’s; £7 (conc £5)  Full info at se1.net/11676  London Bridge; £8 Haunted pubs, a Borough magician, a Full info at se1.net/11663 Shakespeare’s Globe This walk led by Neil Bright examines female gladiator, Cross Bones Graveyard the City’s great fire raid of 29 December Monday 17 October New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 and the spookiest stretch of the Thames. HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH BAG www.shakespearesglobe.com 1940 and other big raids of 1940/41. Look  Full info at se1.net/11602 at the evidence that still remains, plus 8pm-10.30pm; £5 on door (£3 online) Tuesday 11 October the walk is supported by contemporary Dave Fulton and Prince Abdi. SCENT ON STAGE photos, eyewitness accounts and one or Church services  Full info at se1.net/11652 7pm; £12 (conc £10) two surprising tales. The walk finishes at Professor Evelyn Welch of Queen Mary Blackfriars Bridge (north side). Christ Church Southwark Tuesday 18 October THE MUSIC BOX CABARET University of London will look at the role  Full info at se1.net/11416 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 8pm-10pm; £5 of smell in the sixteenth and seventeenth John Harvard Library www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk centuries and the importance that  Full info at se1.net/11664 perfumed goods played both on and off 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Thursday 6 October www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Monday 24 October the stage. HARVEST THANKSGIVING HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH BAG  Full info at se1.net/11645 1.10pm-1.50pm Saturday 8 October Lunchtime harvest thanksgiving service 8pm-10.30pm; £5 on door (£3 online) SOUTHWARK BLACK HISTORY Wednesday 19 October with the Portcullis Singers. Henning Wehn and Tom Craine. WALK   Full info at se1.net/11653 FESTIVAL OF THE SPOKEN NERD: 11am; free Full info at se1.net/11412 SHAKESPEARE, SCIENCE AND THE A guided walk through nearly 300 years Sunday 9 October Tuesday 25 October SENSES of the black presence in Southwark. 7pm; £12 (conc £10) HARVEST FESTIVAL EUCHARIST DO NOT ADJUST YOUR STAGE AND Part of Black History Month 9.30am THE MAYDAYS The Festival of the Spoken Nerd  Full info at se1.net/11682 trio tackle the themes of senses and  Full info at se1.net/11413 8pm-10pm; £5 Shakespeare using comedy, science and London Trails An improvised television schedule from Southwark Cathedral Do Not Adjust Your Stage and special live experiments. Presented in association londontrails.wordpress.com London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 with the London Science Festival and guest improv group The Maydays all the New Scientist magazine. Sunday 2 October www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk way from Brighton.  Full info at se1.net/11646 BERMONDSEY WALK WITH OLD  Full info at se1.net/11665 MAPS Sunday 23 October APPLE DAY CHORAL EUCHARIST The Old King’s Head 2pm; £8; email [email protected] Monday 31 October 11am Kings Head Yard, 45-49 Borough High Street to book HUNGRY MILLER’S COMEDY LAUGH BAG T 020 7407 1550 Join Ken Titmuss for a walk with old Apple Day and Bible Sunday choral 8pm-10.30pm; £5 on door (£3 online) www.theoldkingshead.uk.com maps round the one time leather-making Eucharist. The preacher is Dr Richard online) district that is also one of the oldest Burridge, Dean of King’s College London. Dan Antopolski and Ian Cognito. Thursday 13 October neighbourhoods in London. Explore a Followed by fun and games in the  Full info at se1.net/11654 ALEISTER CROWLEY IN RUSSIA landscape of old industrial buildings, churchyard with the Ministry of Fun. See 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) even older houses and pockets of open also Borough Market Apple Day listing Talk by Geraldine Beskin. A South East space with stories to tell. on page 3. Music London Folklore Society event.  Full info at se1.net/11574  Full info at se1.net/11383  Full info at se1.net/11499 1901 Arts Club Metropolitan Tabernacle Welsh Chapel Waterloo Library 90 Road 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 Elephant & Castle T 020 7735 7076 www.1901artsclub.com 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 www.metropolitantabernacle.org welshchapel.com www.lambeth.gov.uk Wednesday 19 October Sunday 9 October Sunday 9 October Thursday 13 October SOUTHWARK BLACK HISTORY HARVEST THANKSGIVING LUNCHTIME CONCERT WATERLOO LIBRARY BOOK GROUP WALK 11am 1pm; £7.50 (booking essential) 6.30pm; free 11am; free Bilingual English-Welsh service with Shiry Rashkovsky (viola). The performers The group is reading Goodbye to Berlin A guided walk through nearly 300 years talk on Lesotho by Gwenallt and Non in this series have been selected from the and A Single Man, both by Christopher of the black presence in Southwark. Rees. Eschoir will also be taking part. All 2011 Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Isherwood. Part of Black History Month welcome. award winners.  Full info at se1.net/11596  Full info at se1.net/11681  Full info at se1.net/11410  Full info at se1.net/11666 October 2011 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Southwark Cathedral Simon Wilkinson creating an interactive by Buddug James Jones. Music and Book by Joseph Stein. Music and lyrics by experience in which the audience Movement by Joe Darke. Stephen Schwartz. Based on “La Femme London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 participates in a film using video goggles  Full info at se1.net/11308 du Boulanger” by Marcel Pagnol and www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk and headphones. Jean Giono. Staged and directed by Part of Merge Festival Tuesday 4 to Saturday 29 October Michael Strassen. Saturday 8 October THE TAMING OF THE SHREW SINGING THE BIBLE: A MUSIC DAY  Full info at se1.net/11517  Full info at se1.net/11503 FOR ALL Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Tue/Wed/Thu 1.30pm; Menier Chocolate Factory £16 (conc £14) 10am-4.45pm; £10 Tuesday 18 October to Tuesday 22 November Robin Norton-Hale directs Shakespeare’s Marking the 400th anniversary of the 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN www.menierchocolatefactory.com classic comedy in a new production set in King James Bible, the cathedral and TEXAS modern-day Brixton. the Royal School of Church Music Until Saturday 12 November  Full info at se1.net/11604 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £17 present a multi-choice workshop day TERRIBLE ADVICE Starring Sarah Lark. to encourage all who wish to see music Tue-Sat 8pm; Sun 3.30pm; £29.50; meal Tuesday 25 October to Saturday 19 November  Full info at se1.net/11680 flourish in church worship and which deal £37 (22-28 Sept £25; meal deal £32) DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA explores music inspired by the Bible. Scott Bakula joins Sharon Horgan, Andy The Vault; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; Waterloo Station Booking forms can be downloaded from Nyman and Caroline Quentin in the £8, £13, £18 Waterloo Road www.southwark.anglican.org world premiere of Saul Rubinek’s new Written by John Patrick Shanley and  Full info at se1.net/11591 comedy directed by Frank Oz. directed by Ché Walker. Until Sunday 9 January  Full info at se1.net/11379  Full info at se1.net/11590 THE RAILWAY CHILDREN Saturday 15 October Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Thu/Sat/Sun 2.30pm; BACH MASS IN B MINOR National Theatre The Old Vic £22.75-£49.75 7.30pm; Tickets from 020 8788 1031 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Leading the cast as Perks is comedian and All Saints Putney’s 1885 Singers and 1885 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.oldvictheatre.com Orchestra conducted by Alison Hunka. broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke.  Full info at se1.net/11389 Until Wednesday 9 November Until Saturday 26 November  Full info at se1.net/10870 THE KITCHEN THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN Young Vic Thursday 27 October Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £12-£30 WORLD ATTILIO PERISSINOTTI Arnold Wesker’s extraordinary play Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 7.30pm; Tickets 020 7582 9088 premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 £10-£49.50 www.youngvic.org Pianist Attilio Perissinotti plays music by and has since been performed in over 30 John Crowley directs J M Synge’s composer Giovanni Allevi. countries. Directed by Arnold Wesker. irreverent comic masterpiece starring Friday 28 October to Saturday 22 January  Full info at se1.net/1139  Full info at se1.net/11313 Niamh Cusack, Ruth Negga and Robert HAMLET Sheehan. Mon-Sat 7.30pm + matinees; £10-£29.50 Tuesday 25 October to Saturday 22 January  Full info at se1.net/11502 Ian Rickson directs Michael Sheen in his COLLABORATORS first Shakespearean role since 1997. Theatre Unicorn Theatre Cottesloe Theatre; ; £12-£32  Full info at se1.net/10842 Bankside Mix John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Canvey Street a lethal game of cat and mouse through www.unicorntheatre.com www.banksidemix.co.uk which the appalling compromises and Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 October Cinema humiliations inflicted on any artist by Tuesday 11 to Wednesday 12 October UNDER A FOREIGN SKY Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre those with power are held up to scrutiny. Times vary; £11 (conc £9) CARAVAN THEATRE Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon AND THE BIRDS FELL FROM THE SKY This play asks what happens to young 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 Russell Beale, Stalin. migrants when they try to start again. www.coinstreet.org 12 noon-4pm; free  Full info at se1.net/11609 This tiny theatre housed in a 1970s For ages 13+ Friday 21 October vintage caravan plays host to theatre Rose Theatre  Full info at se1.net/11647 director Silvia Mercuriali and film director KITE RUNNER 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 Tuesday 18 to Sunday 23 October 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £4; Simon Wilkinson creating an interactive www.rosetheatre.org.uk experience in which the audience CALL MR ROBESON info from Laura Cowell on 020 7021 Times vary; £11 (conc £9) participates in a film using video goggles Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 October 1600 or [email protected] and headphones. PRIME CUTS A rollercoaster journey through Paul A Coin Street neighbourhood film Robeson’s remarkable and eventful Part of Merge Festival 19:30; £6 (conc £5) club screening. After spending years in life, highlighting how his radical  Full info at se1.net/11518 Staged readings of Tracy Keeling’s new California, Amire returns to his homeland activism caused him to be disowned and play inspired by the August riots. in Afghanistan to help his old friend Bankside riverside walkway  disremembered, even by the leaders and Full info at se1.net/11675 descendants of the civil rights movement. Hassan whose son is in trouble. Bankside  Full info at se1.net/11431 Tuesday 11 to Saturday 29 October  Full info at se1.net/11648 Tuesday 4 to Wednesday 5 October Tate Modern THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE Until Sunday 30 October CARAVAN THEATRE Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 (conc £10) INGEBORG KROG BILLY THE KID Bankside T 020 7887 8888 By Gareth Pilkington. Directed by Dimitri times vary; £13 & £19 (conc £8 & £12) www.tate.org.uk/modern 12 noon-4pm; free Devdariani. Neil Bennun is a writer and performer. Adapted from the hit novel by Michael  Full info at se1.net/11677 Monday 3 October Ingeborg Krog is derived from the Morpurgo. research for Neil’s new book Bad Magic: Southwark Playhouse  Full info at se1.net/11287 COMMUNITY FILM CLUB: THE HAPPY FAMILY Assault Sorcery, Mind Weapons and the Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Tuesday 25 to Sunday 30 October Tantric Lemon of Revenge (Random www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments VIDEK’S SHIRT from 6.30pm); free to members House). Housed in a 1970s caravan, Times vary; £11 (conc £9) Until Saturday 22 October Because of the building work for the making it possibly the smallest mobile The Puppetellers present a much loved theatre space in London, performances BOUND 1951 Festival of Britain, the Lord family is The Vault; Mon-Sat 7.30pm Sat 3pm; £8, traditional Slovenian children’s story will be staged for audiences of not more by Fran Levstik. An intimate interactive told to evacuate their home on the South than six people at a time. £13, £18 (airline-style) Bank. They stoically cling to the property Bound follows the fortunes of six storytelling piece for 2-5 year olds Part of Merge Festival involving puppetry, song, live music and and after a week without water or  Full info at se1.net/11516 trawlermen from Devon as they embark light they are on the point of surrender on one final voyage. Compelled by lots and lots of joining in.  when the Government capitulates. 1952 Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 October the threat of bankruptcy, fishing Full info at se1.net/11649 comedy film directed by Muriel Box. CARAVAN THEATRE trawler ‘The Violet’ is forced out into Union Theatre AND THE BIRDS FELL FROM THE SKY treacherous weather. Competing against Membership of the Community Film Club 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 is aimed at those living in Southwark and Thu 12 noon-4pm; Fri & Sat 3pm-7pm; the overpowering force of nature, the www.uniontheatre.biz free tribulations of life with the opposite Lambeth. To become a member (it’s free) This tiny theatre housed in a 1970s sex and each other’s egos. Will they Until Saturday 15 October email [email protected] or vintage caravan plays host to theatre lose more than a way of life? Written THE BAKER’S WIFE join at door. director Silvia Mercuriali and film director and Directed by Jesse Briton. Designed Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 3pm; £15  Full info at se1.net/11624 + SOUTH BANK FORUM + Kate Hoey MP, Simon Hughes MP, and your local Councillors invite you on: Thursday 20 October 2011, 7-9pm Coin Street neighbourhood centre, 108 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH + DIAMOND JUBILEE RIVER PAGEANT Charcoal grills, Balti specials, sea food, Murgh Update on the plans for the Queenʼs Diamond Jubilee River Pageant on 3 June 2012 + JUBILEE GARDENS UPDATE delicacies, Gosth specials, Biryanis and Shabzi Update on Jubilee Gardens project + NEW YEARS EVE 2011 side dishes. Choice of 9 rice delicacies. News Yearʼs Eve plans for 2011 and feedback on issues from 2010ʼs event

+ OLYMPIC LOOK AND FEEL Open daily 12 noon to 2.30pm & 6pm to 11.30pm Hear the proposals for Olympic ʻlook and feelʼ across South Bank

+ HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY, THE CUT Fully licensed & air conditioned Hear about the development of premises next to the National Theatre Studio on The Cut

+ MARY SEACOLE MEMORIAL, ST THOMASʼ HOSPITAL 48 Kennington Road SE1 7BL Hear about plans for the proposed Mary Seacole memorial in front of St Thomasʼ Hospital near Lambeth North Station & Imperial War Museum To book space at the free crèche: 020 7202 6918, [email protected]

020 7928 4153/9553 www.imperial-tandoori.co.uk YOUR LIFE, YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, YOUR SAY October 2011 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 of design on the modern world, whilst commissioned by the National September and professional musicians. Located in also exploring the consequences of 11 Memorial & Museum, produced a disused office block near Borough Exhibitions design and how it shapes our lives and an extensive series of photographs Market, this is the first time New York contemporary culture. The collection reflecting on the emotional power of artist Ted Riederer has brought his Advanced Graphics London has been in storage for more than five what remained after 9/11. With a lifelong internationally acclaimed installation to 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 years and during this period it has been interest in questions of human memory London. Part of Merge Festival www.advancedgraphics.co.uk catalogued, conserved and documented. and meaning, Torres’ work centres on the  Full info at se1.net/11461 Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/9962 concept that it is through the remains of history that memory remains. Poppy Sebire Gallery Wednesday 5 October to Saturday 5 Until Sunday 6 February  Full info at se1.net/11329 Copperfield Street November DESIGNERS IN RESIDENCE Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free TIM MARA Showcasing the work of young designers Friday 7 October to Sunday 17 April  Full info at se1.net/11418 at the beginning of their careers. The SHAPED BY WAR: PHOTOGRAPHS Friday 7 October to Saturday 12 November Alma Enterprises exhibition will include a programme BY DON MCCULLIN BLOODLINES: JAMES ALDRIDGE of events, offering the designers the £7 (conc £6) A selection of large paintings, 38-40 Glasshill Street opportunity to interact and engage with The largest ever UK exhibition about the watercolours and sculptural work. www.almaenterprises.com  Sat & Sun 12 noon-6pm or Fri by the public, whilst using this platform life and work of one of the world’s most Full info at se1.net/11608 appointment; free as a test-bed for ideas, designs and acclaimed photographers. Purdy Hicks Gallery innovations.  Full info at se1.net/11319 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Until Sunday 6 November  Full info at se1.net/9963 Jerwood Space www.purdyhicks.com RICHARD GRAYSON: THE Drawing Room Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free OBJECTIVIST STUDIO 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 A work that uses texts from the writings 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Friday 7 October to Monday 7 November of Ayn Rand as its starting point. www.drawingroom.org.uk Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free 10am-3pm; free BETTINA VON ZWEHL: MADE UP  Full info at se1.net/11621 LOVE SONG AND OTHER WORKS Architecture Foundation Until Sunday 13 November Until Sunday 30 October A series of 34 miniature profile portraits, THE PERIPATETIC SCHOOL: JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE each showing the same female subject, 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 inspired by the artist’s residency at the www.architecturefoundation.org.uk ITINERANT DRAWING FROM LATIN The largest and longest running annual Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free AMERICA open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Victoria and Albert Museum. This group of artists from across Latin  Full info at se1.net/10860  Full info at se1.net/11301 Until Saturday 29 October America share an engagement with the Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Southwark Cathedral JUST THE FLIP SIDE OF THE WALL landscape, whether urban or rural. (Post Works) creates a new environment  Full info at se1.net/11497 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk within the Project Space that will act as a www.llewellynalexander.com Fashion & Textile Museum Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Cathedral daily 8am-6pm; Refectory frame for a series of events that explore Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & Sun the relationship between architecture, 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 www.ftmlondon.org Saturday 1 to Saturday 22 October 10am-6pm; free the city and performance. SUSAN BOWER & TINA MORGAN  Full info at se1.net/11606 Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £7 (conc £4); under-12s free  Full info at se1.net/11236 Until Monday 24 October CREATION & FALL: DIANA GREEN ASC Gallery London Glassblowing Until Saturday 22 October Diana Green’s 21 etchings with text Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road 62-66 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 2800 depicting Creation and Fall according to Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free TOMMY NUTTER: THE REBEL ON THE ROW www.londonglassblowing.co.uk the Book of Genesis in the King James Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Until Friday 21 October When Nutters opened in 1969 on Savile version of the Bible. Row, the staid and traditional world of  Full info at se1.net/11386 DOUG JONES: CAETERIS PARIBUS Wednesday 5 to Sunday 23 October London-based artist Doug Jones works bespoke tailoring entered a new era. MELT  Full info at se1.net/10011 Until Monday 21 November on an impressive scale, using domestic The show features work by many of THE FOUR EVANGELISTS: craft and consumable goods all within Garden Museum the world’s most respected glass artists SCULPTURES BY SOPHIE DICKENS site specific installations. and celebrates the launch of Angela Inspired by the Book of Kells and the  Full info at se1.net/11476 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Thwaites’ book Mouldmaking for Glass. ‘four living creatures’ described in the Bankside Gallery Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of  Full info at se1.net/11474 Book of Revelation, Sophie Dickens has 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) Menier Gallery sculpted four symbols of the Evangelists.  Full info at se1.net/11387 www.banksidegallery.com 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Sunday 3 April FROM GARDEN CITY TO GREEN www.meniergallery.co.uk Tate Modern Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Friday 7 October to Saturday 5 November CITY Bankside T 020 7887 8888 The many visions, designs and projects www.tate.org.uk/modern ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY Monday 3 to Saturday 15 October AUTUMN EXHIBITION that have inspired the ‘green city’ Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat DRAW 11: THE SOCIETY OF 10am-10pm; free Members’ latest work. movement over the last 150 years. GRAPHIC FINE ART 90TH ANNUAL  Full info at se1.net/11105  Full info at se1.net/11466 OPEN EXHIBITION Thursday 6 October to Sunday 9 January Bermondsey Project Space The society exists to promote fine GERHARD RICHTER: PANORAMA Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 drawing skills. The exhibition theme this £12.70 (conc £10.90) or £14 (conc £12) SE1 Studios 46 Willow Walk year is ‘Graffiti’. There will be 20+ ‘Big www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts including Gift Aid Draw’ events - drop-in demonstrations, Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); Spanning nearly five decades, and £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 workshops and ‘meet the artist’ sessions. coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Friday 7 to Sunday 30 October £4.50; under 12 free) Part of The Big Draw this is a major retrospective. NAOMI PRESS: A RETROSPECTIVE  Full info at se1.net/11465  Full info at se1.net/9966 A show for a very distinguished senior Until Sunday 9 January Morley College sculptor, until now very little known in PIPILOTTI RIST Tuesday 11 October to Monday 11 April Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is one of the 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 TACITA DEAN: THE UNILEVER Britain because she has spent most of www.morleycollege.ac.uk her career in South Africa and the United world’s leading contemporary artists, SERIES acclaimed for her innovative video Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until German-based British artist Tacita Dean States. 7pm; Sat enquire for details;  Full info at se1.net/11455 installations. takes on the twelfth Unilever Series  Full info at se1.net/10354 commission for the Turbine Hall. Cello Factory Monday 31 October to Wednesday 16 November  Full info at se1.net/9967 Tuesday 18 October to Sunday 9 January 33-34 Cornwall Road LONDON POTTERS Unit 24 GEORGE CONDO: MENTAL STATES  Full info at se1.net/11282 Thursday 20 October to Thursday 10 November Curated by Hayward Gallery director 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 THE LONDON GROUP OPEN Ralph Rugoff, this is the first major National Theatre unit24.info EXHIBITION retrospective of the American artist South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Mon-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu & Fri The opportunity for visual artists George Condo. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk 10am-6.30pm; free working in any medium to show their  Full info at se1.net/10355 Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun work alongside members of The London 12 noon-6pm; free Friday 7 to Thursday 27 October Group. Imperial War Museum WORDS WE HAVE LEARNED SINCE  Full info at se1.net/11638 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Until Sunday 23 October 9/11 AND 7/7: CLAYTON CAMPBELL london.iwm.org.uk Campbell’s production is a site-specific Design Museum JONATHAN MILLER Daily 10am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/11311 grid of hundreds of photos. Each photo Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 shows someone holding a piece of paper www.designmuseum.org Until Sunday 30 October Until Sunday 30 October on which they have written a word they Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission ONCE UPON A WARTIME: CLASSIC LALLA WARD have learned since 9/11 and 7/7. 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); WAR STORIES FOR CHILDREN Lalla Ward returns to the National  Full info at se1.net/11605 Under 12s free £5.95 (conc £4.95; child £3.95; family Theatre with a new exhibiton. Again, £12.50) her primary theme is wildlife, but her Woolfson & Tay Until Sunday 30 October This exhibition delves into the pages of medium now includes ceramics as well as 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 KENNETH GRANGE: MAKING well-loved books, bringing five stories of the fabric of Stranded. www.woolfsonandtay.com BRITAIN MODERN war dramatically to life.  Full info at se1.net/11614 Mon-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; Kenneth Grange is one of Britain’s  Full info at se1.net/10155 free leading product designers, his career Never Records spans over five decades and his designs Until Sunday 27 November 11 Southwark Street Tuesday 4 to Sunday 30 October range from high-speed InterCity trains to WOMEN WAR ARTISTS LONDON: STORIES IN THE CITY Anglepoise lamps. First World War to the Kosovo conflict. Until Sunday 9 October A photographic exhibition featuring  Full info at se1.net/9961  Full info at se1.net/10693 NEVER RECORDS BY TED RIEDERER Kelvin Brown’s In the Shadow of Wed-Sun 12 noon-7pm; free the Shard series about Cross Bones Until Sunday 23 January Until Sunday 27 February Cut your own vinyl record at this art Graveyard, Sarah Baxter’s The Residual THIS IS DESIGN MEMORY REMAINS: 9/11 installation in the guise of a classic walk- City: London Illuminated, and Antonio A celebration of the Design Museum’s ARTEFACTS AT HANGAR 17 in record store. The ‘shop’ only stocks Olmos’ Landscape of Murder. collection, which examines the impact Spanish-American artist Francesc Torres, vinyl cut in the shop itself by the public  Full info at se1.net/11583 October 2011 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW LOCAL HISTORY Bankside: A garden for London’s Original District of Sin Clink Street David Brandon and Alan Brooke • Amberley • £20 A new project backed Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books by Time Team’s Tony Bankside tells the story of the area from the first Roman villa to the luxury flats Robinson aims to at Neo Bankside. improve the setting of the The book is strong on heritage. Borough Market is remains of claimed to have started about 1276 and those listed as Palace in Clink Street. having dined in Winchester Palace’s great hall (seen part Following a proposal by Clink ruined in Clink Street) include Simon de Montfort and Street resident David Stephens, Elizabeth I. Bankside Open Spaces Trust has For once ‘sin’ found on Bankside is put in context launched a fundraising appeal rather than exaggerated. This makes the book both more to improve the presentation and interesting and authoritative. interpretation of the remains of It seems that Bankside was always ahead in having the great hall of the Bishop of theatres and tourist attractions. Today’s hotels are merely Winchester’s London residence. a return to a thriving hospitality industry which exploited A sunken garden in a series of vistors who had been locked out of the City at curfew. oak planting boxes would help to There is good space devoted to William Shakespeare show off the rose window and gable with examples of the many local references in his plays. wall and the remnants of the palace A thorough look at the cathedral known to Shakespeare hall’s foundation walls whilst avoiding highlights a forgotten memorial to Abraham Newland damage to them. There will also be whose signature appears on the very first pound note. leaflets, interpretation boards and a At first one sees a possible mistake when our oldest knowledge. But they do question the “necessity” for the ‘Liberty of the Clink’ mobile app. hospital is called St Thomas’s but persevere and suddenly Shard and call it “corporate one-upmanship”. The pace of BOST has set up a JustTextGiving the spelling changes to St Thomas’. The authors are correct change is so fast even in the recession that the final chapter code so that individual £10 donations for it is only after the 16th century that there is a double called Reinventing Bankside is already out of date. can be sent by texting BOST11 £10 Thomas dedication: Thomas Becket and Thomas the But it is a book worth reading for it gathers together to 70070. If local companies would Apostle. much basic history and good stories. There is also a like to become a ‘Winchester Palace This 275 page hardback is written by two generous choice of key illustrations. Every new resident or Friend’, they should contact Wendy Peterborough-based authors so its lacks some inside incoming business should have a copy. 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