The free monthly guide to everything that’s happening in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk April in SE1 Issue 34 April 2001 Free Nelson Mandela to Festival of Britain: visit Southwark 50 years on
NELS ON Mandela is to open for justice and almost unimaginable Southwark Cathedral’s new cloister compassion and forgiveness. It is buildings after a dedication service not inappropriate that he should on Saturday 28 April. lend his support to Southwark The former South African Cathedral as our work is dedicated President will also name a room in to expanding our ministry to an area honour of Archbishop Desmond that has always been outcast in Tutu who once served in the terms of London’s wealth, the place Southwark Diocese. to which socially marginalised A VIS IT by Princess Alexandra to St John’s “We are humbled and thrilled people have come for sanctuary and Waterloo marks the beginning of the Festival of that Nelson Mandela, probably the assistance.” Britain 50th anniversary celebrations. most outstanding man of our times, The £10.2 million development is The church, bombed in the war, re-opened in has agreed to visit us and open partly funded by a Millennium April 1951 as the Festival of Britain church just a these buildings” says Dean of Lottery grant of £4.2 million. The month ahead of the opening of the exhibition Southwark Colin Slee. “He is appeal was launched in 1999 by which also gave us the Royal Festival Hall. renowned for his suffering, passion Archbishop Tutu. The Princess is attending an anniversary service at St John’s at noon on Thursday 5 April Shakespeare’s birthday in SE1 to be followed by the opening of the Waterloo Garden of Remembrance. TO MARK Shakespeare’s birthday During the Sonnet Walks on Sunday The Festival of Britain was opened by George on Monday 23 April the Globe is 22 April twelve disguised VI on 3 May and the Royal Festival Hall will be holding a week-long celebration. sonneteers surprise walkers along having a weekend of special events marking the The festivities begin on the route, blending into the Royal Festival Hall’s birthday. The grade one Wednesday 18 April with Umabatha, background of London life only to listed building, one of the lasting monuments of the Zulu Macbeth, followed by emerge as the sonnet walkers pass. the 1951 Festival of Britain, was then the largest Sweet Love Remember’d Sonnet The walks start at Shoreditch, new building since the war. It was also the first Walks of Shakespearean surprises. where the Globe was first built, and post-war building to be listed. On Shakespeare’s birthday there is at Shakespeare’s memorial at The Royal Festival Hall has an interactive a concert at 3pm at Southwark Westminster Abbey. Walks set off exhibition about its history and future (see p5). Cathedral featuring Rick Jones from both venues every 15 minutes •Admission to the service on 5 April is by (counter tenor) and Arthur Smith from 10am to 12.45pm and end at invitation only (reader) in a programme inspired by the Globe on Bankside. Box Office: •The Festival Bible, which was among the Shakespeare’s plays and in the 020 7401 9919 exhibits in 1951, will be at St John’s. evening the Spearshaker Talk. •www.shakespeares-globe.org •www.rfh.org.uk
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page 4 Farouk Campbell visits My Fair Lady at the National Theatre
page 8 Our guide to Easter holiday activities for children in SE1
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Special Events Church Services St George’s RC Cathedral SE1 Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 in Borough Market C Southwark Street T 020 7645 3551 Sunday 8 April Christ Church Southwark 11.30am SOLEMN MASS. 27 Blackfriars Road Every Friday and Saturday 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 With Blessing and Procession of Palms. London SE1 8NY BOROUGH FOOD MARKET Fri 12 noon-6pm; Sat 9am-4pm; free Wednesdays 4, 11, & 25 April Monday 9 April TEL 020 7633 0766 Regular food markets with special St 1.10pm CELEBRATE 7.30pm PENITENTIAL SERVICE FAX 020 7401 2521 George’s Day events 27 and 29 April. Informal worship. Snack lunches available in Thursday 12 April ______church or bring your own food. 11.15am CHRISM MASS newsdesk@ SE1.co.uk London Glassblowing Workshop Wed 4: Rob Chipperfield in 7.30pm MASS OFTHE LORD’S SUPPER 7 The Leathermarket T 020 7403 2800 Wed 11: Music for Holy Week (Portcullis WEB www.inSE1.co.uk Singers) Goof Friday 13 April © 2001 Bankside Press Friday 6 to Sunday 8 April Wed 25: Mark Nicholson 10am CHILDREN’S STATIONS OF THE CROSS SPRING OPEN WEEKEND 3pm SOLEMN LITURGY OFTHE PASSION ED Call for opening times; free Sunday 8 April LeighDITOR Hatts See work on display and for sale. 9.30am EUCHARIST Saturday 14 April ______Followed by palm procession 8.30pm EASTER VIGIL DESIGN & PRODUCTION James Hatts Museum of Garden History Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8869 Thursday 12 April Easter Sunday 15 April CONTRIBUTORS 7pm THE LAST SUPPER 10am FAMILY MASS Liz Bossley Sunday29 April Eucharist and stripping the Altar With the Archbishop of Southwark. Farouk Campbell SPRING PLANTS & GARDENS FAIR ______11.30am SOLEMN MASS Anne Critchley 10.30am-5pm; £2.50 (conc £2) StJohn’s Waterloo Crystal Lindsay Waterloo Road T 020 7366 9279 Monday 16 April Marion Marples 12 noon THANKSGIVING MASS Talks & Lectures Sunday 8 April See SE1 Snippets, page 3. PRINTED BY ______F 10.30am PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION Copyprints Ltd, Southwark Cathedral 1 Talbot Yard, SE1 1YP Meet at St Andrew's Short Street with Florence Nightingale Museum members of Christ Church Blackfriars for Montague Place T 020 7367 6700 St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 Palm Sunday procession to St John's. Sunday 8 April Advertising 11am CHORAL EUCHARIST Wednesday11 April Monday 9, Tuesday 10 & Wednesday 11 April With Palm Procession. 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Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret Followed by vigil until midnight. 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 Thursday 12 April Subscriptions Good Friday 13 April 11am CHRISM EUCHARIST Tuesday 24 April 10.30am PROCESSION & UNITED SERVICE Celebrant & Preacher: Bishop of Southwark To subscribe for 12 EGO: SENSORY DECEPTION Procession from St John's with Service on 6.30pm THE LORD’S SUPPER issues please send a 7.30pm; £6.50 (conc £5); booking essential Waterloo Station concourse. & watch in the Harvard Chapel until midnight. cheque for £5 to the Marina Abramovic & Prof Susan Greenfield. 1pm STATIONS OF THE CROSS Good Friday 13 April 2pm address above, made AN HOUR AT THE CROSS 12 noon LITURGY OF THE THREE HOURS payable to SE1. www.thegarret.org.uk With a workshop for children. in ______Easter Sunday 15 April Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological Society 5.30am FIRST COMMUNION OF EASTER Saturday 14 April Listings First Floor, Hawkstone Hall, Kennington Road At nearby St Andrew's Short Street 8pm EASTER VIGIL, BAPTISM & CONFIRMATION Celebrant & preacher: Bishop of Southwark Details of events to be Tuesday 24 April Easter Sunday 15 April considered for inclusion HIGH STREET LONDINIUM 10.30am EASTER FESTIVAL COMMUNION Easter Sunday 15 April next month should be 7,30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 11am CHORAL EUCHARIST AND PROCESSION sent by 19 April to the Reconstructing Roman London by Jenny Hall, See page 4 for details of ACTS at St John’s Listings Editor at the Roman Curator at the Museum of London. 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There is parish on a new letting policy rents help finance the upgrade, community representatives to a poignant reminder of for their properties on the but over time they will generate develop a new library for the ANZAC sacrifice, a Octavia Hill estate behind The money for the support of the Waterloo. description of an incident Cut. Church’s social mission in SE1 The pre-fabricated Lower in Yeovil and a very The proposals include a in line with the Church Marsh building closed after a effective five line poem programme of improvements Commissioners’ aims and legal health and safety report raised about Tottenham Court and a move towards a mix of duty. Existing tenants’ rights concerns about asbestos and Road Station. The affordable and market rents. will be unaffected by the wiring. 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Southwark Playhouse M theatre Theatre 62 Southwark Bridge Road Cinema MYSTERIES OF EGYPT T 020 7620 3494 Mon-Fri 2.25pm; Mon 6.50pm; BFI London IMAX Cinema review Sat & Sun 6.45pm The Old Vic The Bullring, South Bank Until Saturday 21 April Soar above the giant pyramids Waterloo Road/The Cut T 020 7902 1234 My Fair Lady at the T 020 7369 1722 LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY and float down the Nile in this A wild and dark comedy about spectacular exploration of the This schedule isvalid until National Theatre murder, love and the random Mysteries of Egypt. With Omar Until Saturday 5 May Friday 6 April. Details af ter this chaos that shapes our lives set Sharif as your guide, feast your LIFE x 3 date were not available when in down town New York in the in eyes on the treasures of MY Fair Lady is a tale of Mon-Sat 8pm (matinees Wed SE1 wentto press. 3pm & Sat 5pm); £15.50-£33 mid 1970s. Told in flash backs Tutankhamun's tomb and learn the social elevation of a The National Theatre production and narrated by a dead part-time the truth behind the mummy's CYBERWORLD 3D working class flower of Yasmina Reza’s comedy porn star. Directed by Joss curse. Mon, Wed & Fri 5.35pm; Tue & looking at personal intimacies Bennathan. seller into a lady of high Thu 1.15pm & 3.25pm; Wed-Sun and private longings. Starring ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD society. Professor Henry 8pm; Sat & Sun 12.30pm & Mark Rylance and Imelda www.southwark- DIMENSION (3D) 4.15pm Higgins (Jonathan Pryce) Staunton, directed by Matthew playhouse.co.uk Mon, Wed & Fri 3.25pm; Wed Come face to face with your linguist and confirmed Warcus. Book now at ______1.15pm; Tue & Thu 5.40pm; Wed favourite characters as they leap http://oldvic.se1shop.co.uk St John’sWaterloo & Fri 6.50pm; Tuesday 8pm; Sat bachelor meets Eliza out of Britain's biggest screen . ______020 7633 9819 & Sun 3pm & 5.30pm Doolittle (Martine Meet Bart and Homer Simpson, Royal National Theatre Join the zany professor and his Z from Antz, and Phig the sassy McCutcheon) cockney South Bank Monday 23 to Saturday 28 April robot sidekick Max on a cyberbabe . flower seller and bets T 020 7452 3000 ACTS whirlwind exploration of the 7.30pm; £8 (conc £5) world of 3D. Encounter in the that in six months he can INTO THE DEEP (3D) Until Wednesday 4 April ACTS is an exciting new play Third Dimension takes you on a transform her from a Mon & Fri 1.15pm; Mon, Wed & REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST based on the text of the Acts of thrilling roller coaster trip Fri 4.35pm; Tue & Thu 4.40pm & “prisoner of the gutter” Cottesloe Theatre; from £12; the Apostles, presented by St through cinema's most 6.50pm; Mon 8pm; Sat & Sun to a lady of class and phone for dates John's Waterloo, in association spectacular stereoscopic effects, 1.45pm New adaptation of Marcel Proust with Tryptych Productions. ACTS including Universal Studios’ distinction. Excellent Into The Deep takes you into a by Harold Pinter. has been written by Charles Terminator II 3D ride. singing, choreography, magical underwater world. Enjoy http://proust.se1shop.co.uk Smith, author of St John Live!, a close shave with a shark, play sparkling comical and is directed by Anthony From Saturday 7 April hide and seek with the sea lions observations, lavishly Until Wednesday 11 April Plumridge, who also directed St DOLPHINS and marvel at the richness of life THE WALLS John Live! and played Jesus. In the warm Caribbean, dive detailed costumes and beneath the waves. This 3D film Cottesloe Theatre; from £13; ACTS also features a number of underwater with a young marine views of London blend has been described by one phone for dates members of the cast of the biologist as she learns the American reviewer as being “as together in this seamless A new play by Colin Teeva set in earlier play. secrets of wild dolphins. close as one can get to diving Trevor Nunn production. Dublin, The Walls is a darkly Narrated by Pierce Brosnan. without getting wet”. Plus the comic play that examines the www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk McCutcheon is simply brilliant cartoon madness of gradual disintegration of a ______£6.95 (child £4.95; conc £5.95) brilliant and carries the Paint Misbehavin' - a 3D gem. house, a family and their Union Theatre This is not a comprehensive role well. Her interaction favourite song. 204 Union Street listing; call before visiting IMAX with Pryce is marvellous T 020 7261 9876 to watch. An enchanting Until Monday14 May in production. THE GOOD WOMAN OF Tuesday 17 April to Saturday 5 SETZUAN May the FAROUK CAMPBELL Cottesloe Theatre; from £13; ONE LAST WHITE HORSE CALL YARD phone for dates Tue-Sat 8pm; £9 (concs shop Bertolt Brecht’s 1942 play . available) Set in Dublin in the mind of Most of the big and focus Tuesday 10 to Saturday 21 April dying Eddie, a man whose mind RAMAYANA has been infiltrated and taken Olivier Theatre; from £10; phone over by heroin. Guided and successful local firms do Twice the Siren for dates taunted by the White Horse, his in Lower Marsh The legend of Prince Rama that mind wanders through when they has element of Aesop's Fables, flashbacks of the events of his The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, life which had led him to his have LOVERS of something The Bible and Star Wars. nemesis. something to different will enjoy the Continuing in repertory www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk say and they clothes at Twice the Siren THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN ______ranging from Angels Exist WORLD Young Vic would like us T-shirts (£10.50), 50’s Cottesloe Theatre; from £12; 66 The Cut cotton shirts (£34) to phone for dates T 020 7928 6363 to give a JM Synge’s controversial 1907 wonderful skirts and play. Cast includes former Until Friday25 May sharp edge trousers fashioned from Casualty star Sorcha Cusack. HENRY VI: PART 1, THE WAR antique kimonos (from AGAINST FRANCE to it. £42.50). An energetic Continuing in repertory Call for dates and times; £18- mother of two, Caroline MY FAIR LADY £25, concs available Lyttelton Theatre; from £10; RSC production, directed by Scott owns and manages phone for dates Michael Boyd. PRINT the shop. She designs See review on this page. The COPIES some of the clothes as National run is sold out, but the Until Saturday 26 May REPORTS well as stunning semi- production transfers to the HENRY VI: PART 2, ENGLAND'S Theatre Royal Drury Lane in July. FALL BROCHURES precious jewellery which Call for dates and times; £18- requires regular trips to www.nationaltheatre.org.uk £25, concs available Communication India. Even the building ______Directed by Michael Boyd. of all kinds Shakespeare’s Globe itself is unusual. 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Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Until Saturday 30 June Exhibitions The Cut T 020 7620 1322 MY FAIR LADY: BEYOND THE STAGE exhibition Bankside Gallery Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Focuses on the contribution made by the review 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 National's highly skilled production Tue-Fri 10am-5pm (Tue 8pm) weekends 1- Thursday 5 April to Saturday 5 May workshops, and includes related costumes, 5pm; £3.50 (conc £2) A MILLION BRUSHSTROKES props and accessories. Goya at the Over 900 miniatures by 120 artists. Hayward Gallery Until Sunday 22 April ______www.nt-online.org ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY SPRING McHardySculpture Company ______EXHIBITION Shad Thames T 020 7403 7555 SE1 Gallery ON Goya’s death in 1828, Featuring works by Sonia Lawson RA. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm Sunday 12 noon-5pm 64 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7401 9494 eight albums of drawings Mon- Fri 10am-5.30pm; free scattered. Now a hundred Friday27 to Sunday 29 April Throughout April A RIVER JOURNEY: ARTISTS’ BOOKS SPRING EXHIBITION Until Friday 6 April pages are back together, Ten members of the Royal Society of Painter- Work by David Cregeen and Sophie Dickins, BACKSTAGE intimate with verbal Printmakers have been working with two including busts of the Queen Mother and the Portrait photographs by Stephen Burrows of asides; a veritable Pope. well and lesser-known characters supporting secondary schools in the North Southwark rollercoaster across Education Action Zone to produce an artist’s ______the production of Art. book exploring the riverside. This exhibition Morley Gallery humanity. Life’s felt to be is the culmination of a term’s work for 61 Westminster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 9226 Wednesday 11 to Tuesday 17 April worth the ride, however students and artists alike. Mon-Fri 11am-6pm (Thursday -8pm; Sat 12 SNOWSFIELDS PRIMARY SCHOOL & CLARE precipitous with noon-4pm; free STENT ______misfortune and misdeed. Delfina Project Space Show of project work based on walks around 51 Southwark Street T 020 7357 6600 Monday 23 April to Thursday 3 May Southwark. From times of carnivals Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; free m.a.d.e.@morley and war, Goya looks out Morley College students’ work including www.workplaceart.co.uk the truth; man takes a printmaking, ceramics, fashion, papermaking, ______Until Sunday 15 April tumble but ‘crying out will LASSO bookbinding and jewellery. Tate Modern Film installation by Finnish artist Salla Tykka. ______Bankside T 020 7887 8008 get you nowhere’. Faces The Museum Of Sun-Thu 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free described fleetingly, Friday27 April to Sunday 3 June Bargehouse Street T 020 7401 2255 indelibly, in crayon or ink Wed-Sun 12 noon-6.30pm; free Until Sunday29 April NOCTURNES only reveal themselves, as Film installation by Albanian artist Anri Sala. CENTURY CITY: ART AND CULTURE IN THE The work was filmed in Lille during 1999. Until Sunday 1 July MODERN METROPOLIS handwriting does but this ______THE MUSEUM OF THE RIVER THAMES Examines key moments of cultural creativity vision, illuminating his last Design Museum An exhibition incorporating ideas about in nine cities. Admission charge applies. 35 years as a deaf man, is collecting, identity, emotions and unknown ______Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 unshakeably affectionate; Daily 11.30am (weekends 10.30am) -6pm; aspects of the Thames drawing on the largest the.gallery@oxo £5.50 (conc £4) public space in London. Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 a perspective ‘come of ______Daily 11am-6pm; free age’ to a Master, with Until Sunday 29 April Museum of Garden History ourselves the subject of Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8869 Until Monday 23 April MINOR WORKS: DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN our noblest endeavours. Examines the process of designing and Daily 10.30am-5pm; free (donations) EXPOSED!!! manufacturing products for children. Photography and video work by twenty How pompous-pitiful! How Until Sunday 26 August London artists with mild learning disabilities human! SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED:LONDON taking part in a two-year Arts Council-funded Until Sunday 8 July CRYSTAL LINDSAY LUIS BARRAGÁN: THE QUIET REVOLUTION GARDENS PAST AND PRESENT project involving four professional artists. Retrospective work of the Mexican architect Exploring the value of London gardens. Luis Barragán. One of the most outstanding Thursday 26 April to Sunday 6 May restaurant and imposing figures in the field of modern Sunday 1 April to Sunday 15 April ARGENTINA ARCHITECTURE 1880-2004 architecture displaying images from the AN ISLE IN WINTER ______review 1920s and mid twentieth century. Embroidery by Linda Chilton. Tom Blau Gallery Queen Elizabeth Street T 020 7378 1300 Auberge? Oh, Dear! www.designmuseum.org Tuesday17 April to Saturday12 May Mon-Fri 8.30am-6.30pm; Sat 12noon-5pm ______RECENT WORK Waterloo Hayward Gallery Paintings by Barbra Sampson. Until Saturday 21 April South Bank Centre T 020 7921 0971 ______AMERICA'S IDEA OFA GOOD TIME Daily 10am-6pm (Tue/Wed 8pm) £8 (conc £6) Percy Miller Gallery Exhibition featuring Kate Schermerhorn WHEN we visited the 39 Snowsfields T 020 72074578 whose images observe her native culture Auberge Café Bar Until Sunday 13 May Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free without criticism or comment but with a growing affection. Restaurant in Sandell BRASSAÏ, THE SOUL OFPARIS Street, there seemed to Major retrospective of Brassaï’s photography, Saturday7 April to Saturday19 May drawings and sensual sculptures. VINCENT LEROY & DAVID SPERO www.tomblaugallery.com be a preponderance of Photographs and kinetic sculptures balance ______courting couples more Until Sunday 13 May between the sublime and the domestic. Vinopolis Gallery ______1 Bank End T 0870 2414040 interested in eating each GOYA:DRAWINGS FROM HIS PRIVATE other than eating the ALBUMS Purdy Hicks Gallery Daily 10am-5.30pm; £11.50 (child £5; conc 100 of Goya’s finest drawing taken from his 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 £10.50) food. I’m not surprised: eight albums. See review on this page. Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & Sun my order took so long to ______12 noon-5pm; free Until Sunday22 April BEYOND ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS arrive. I was ready to bite Imperial War Museum someone myself. The Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 Until Saturday 28 April The works of Nakis Panayotidis and Vincent Daily 10am-6pm; £5.50 (conc £4.50; children, MARIANNITA LUZZATI Prud’homme, two emerging artists collected pleasant, but desperately senior citizens & after 4.30pm free) Exhibition of Luzzati's latest works. extensively by Donald M. Hess. inefficient, service is a ______Royal Festival Hall Foyer www.vinopolis.co.uk real pity because the Until Sunday 3 June menu is imaginative and THE 1940s HOUSE South Bank T 020 7960 4242 ______Tour a reconstruction of a pre-war suburban Daily 10am-10pm; free The Walk Gallery varied, although perhaps semi featured in the Channel 4 TV series. King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 trying too hard with ______Sunday 1 April to Sunday 3 June Mon-Sat 11am-6pm (Thu until 7pm); free 50th BIRTHDAY EXHIBITION exotica like wild boar Jerwood Gallery terrine and kangaroo 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Exploration of the experience of attending an Until Saturday 7 April Tue-Sat 10am-6pm (Sun 12 noon-6pm); free arts event includes enormous photographs, THE LONDON GROUP: PART TWO steak. The wine list is batons, films and portraits. The second exhibition features recent works middle of the road. The Until Sunday 22 April ______by Anthony Green. Royal National Theatre only thing that would MARK HOSKING tempt me back would be Hosking's sculptures appear as advanced South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Monday 30 April to Saturday 19 May prototypes for life preserving machines Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free THE LONDON GROUP: PART THREE a sign saying ‘Under New designed for use in the post-apocalyptic The London Group presents the third in a Management’. world. Made from found and recycled objects Until Saturday 30 June series of four exhibitions featuring works by THE MUSICAL YEARS John Copnall, Jules de Goede, Suzan Swale, • Auberge Café Bar they employ basic energy sources such as • Sandell Street solar power to perform essential activities. Traces the history of popular musical and Matthew Lolakowshi. entertainment through original designs, •020 7633 0610 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk sketches and costume drawings www.walkgallery.com LIZ BOSSLEY APRIL 2001 6 www.London-SE1.co.uk in SE1
St George’s RC Cathedral StMatthew’s-at-the-Elephant comedy Music Lambeth Road Meadow Row Guided Walks T 020 7928 5256 T 020 7357 8531 review T The Museum Of T 020 7401 3166 The Archduke Bar & Restaurant Friday 20 April Friday 6 April Live comedy in Concert Hall Approach KEITH JACOBSEN ORGAN RECITAL Saturday 7 April T020 7928 9370 1.15pm: free Southwark Street 1.05pm in the Lady Chapel; FLOW WITH THE FLEET retiring collection Piano recital featuring Meet 12 noon at Vale of Health Monday-Saturday (not Good Fri) Robert Hargrave Beethoven, Schubert & Chopin. NW3; free EVENING JAZZ ______THURSDAY Night is A five hour walk from Mon- Fri 8.30pm; Sat 9pm Saturday 21 April Southwark Cathedral comedy night at the Hampstead Heath in association Mon: Martin Blackwell (solo GALA ORGAN DAY Montague Close with the Museum of the River Shakespeare Tavern on piano) Featuring a talk by Richard T 020 7367 6700 Thames (see page 5). The route the corner of Southwark Tue: Maurice Horhut (solo Scothon of Ellis Scothon organ follows the River Fleet from its piano) builders at 1.05pm in the Every Monday Street and Southwark source on Hampstead Heath to Wed: Martin Blackwell & guest Cathedral, followed at 2pm by ORGAN RECITAL Bridge Road. In the its mouth under Blackfriars (piano & bass) an organ recital by Robert 1.10pm; free (donations Bridge. Meet at the Vale of intimate and warm Thu: Richard Busiakiewicz Duo Munns. The day concludes with welcome) Health NW3. surroundings of the (piano & bass) an organ recital by Jane Parker- Mon 2: Nigel McClintock ______Fri: James Earl & Paul Canton Mon 23: Robert Houssart Comedy Cavern you are Smith at 7.30pm. Stepping Out (piano & drums) Mon 30: Martin Stacey treated to a feast of T 020 8881 2933 Sat: Maurice Horhut & Mark Friday 27 April humour. Comic barbs are Meggido (piano & bass) Every Tuesday LUNCHTIME CONCERT Every Sunday dispensed with style, wit, ______MUSIC RECITAL 1.05pm in the Lady Chapel; BROTHELS, BISHOPS & THE CharlesDickens School 1.10pm; free (donations and flare and glide retiring collection BARD Lant Street Musicians from Royal Holloway . welcome) skillfully into a receptive Meet 11.30am at Monument Tue 3: The Lycydas Trio Station; £5 (conc £4) audience with perfect Saturday 7 April www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Tue 17: Michael James Trust Learn about historic Bankside. timing. The excellent CONCERT ______Tue 24: Simone Broso (soprano) compering from Drew 11am; £2 StGeorge the Martyr Barr and the comedy Borough Music School's end of Borough High Street Friday 6 April Never miss an issue term concert. 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Southwark Festival: A growing community platform
Leading on from the success of our recent available to school and youth music projects consultation exercises, Made in Southwark and bands. 2000, our ongoing relationship with local arts Our recent development has seen the organisations and businesses such as opening up of new opportunities for Southwark Playhouse and St Martins Property community organisations, artists, schools and Corporation, Southwark Festival has other groups to feed into the Festival. introduced more platform activities for However, there is always room for more. If you Festival 2001. are a local arts organisation, artist, school or These include Made in Southwark 2001 and community group who require a space to show a new event called Dance Space that is an your work or a place to perform that new opportunity for locally based dance groups to dance piece then your Festival wants to hear perform during the Festival. about it. We have also had confirmation of a new ¥Please send some information about you and venue for our performance zone. Southwark your activities to Southwark Festival, 16 Station on the Jubilee Line will be made Winchester Walk, London SE1 9AQ.
Bankside Traders’ Association Update 2001-2 Officers & AGM update Bankside and the Borough. Cathedral Committee Members Ward Councillor Hilary Wines The AGM marked a giant leap forward provided an update on the London ¥ Chair Robert Chappell for the BTA as it enters its first year Bridge Tower proposals. The meeting On Your Bike with a Development Director and a took place in the new Library at busy programme. Robert Chappell, Southwark Cathedral where members ¥ Vice-Chair Chris Barlow who has been unanimously re-elected were welcomed by Rose Harding on Workplace Art Chair for a second year, outlined the behalf of the Dean. Afterwards there enormous work which had taken place was a tour of the new conference ¥ Treasurer Guy Stanley during Millennium Year when Bankside facilities, shop and high-tech visitorsÕ Borough Market saw a huge leap in visitors and an centre. Refreshments were provided by influx of new businesses. Those elected caterers Digby Trout who have won Executive Committee Members to the Committee include Kelvin the contract for the new refectory Duncan Field (Field & Sons), Anne MacDonald whose Bankside Restaurant which is open daily for meals. Radford (Management Consultant), opened during the year. Among those Leigh Hatts (Bankside Press),Michael present was Jeremy Rose who recently Coming soon from BTA Maunsell (Bryan OÕConnor and Co), brought Feng Sushi to Borough James Niazi (OlleyÕs Traditional Fish MarketÕs Stoney Street. As part of a BTAÕs next event will be on Thursday and Chips) Tony Lamb (G.L. Hearn) policy of planning ahead, the AGM 19 April when speakers will explain Steve Osborne (Safe Neighbourhoods heard a talk by Michael Beaman, Chief how small businesses can be Ð and can Unit) Kelvin MacDonald (Bankside Executive of the Bankside Business benefit from being Ð environmentally Restaurant) Christine Parkinson Partnership, on the Circle Initiative friendly. Members will also hear about (Absolutely Starving) which is bringing investment to the plans for a greener Bankside.
The Association works to represent the interests of traders and small Bankside TradersÕ Association businesses in the Bankside, Borough and London Bridge areas. 16 Winchester Walk, SE1 9AQ Membership costs £40 per year. The Association management group Tel/fax: 020 7407 8830 meets regularly and organises a number of events during the year. Email: [email protected] APRIL 2001 8 www.London-SE1.co.uk in SE1 Events for Children National Film Theatre BRIEF South Bank T 020 7633 0274 in Florence Nightingale Museum St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7620 0374 Saturday 28 April MOVING MAGIC WORKSHOP Belvedere Place Saturday 7 to Sunday 22 April 1.45pm-2.45pm; booking advised; £4.50 (including screening) The Open Spaces Society FUN WITH FLORENCE A hands-on workshop on the art of animation. For children aged 6 to 9. is pressing Mayor Ken Eggciting Easter activities for children aged 6 to 11. ______Livingstone to prevent ______Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret Southwark Council from Golden Hinde 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 St Mary Overie Dock, Cathedral Street T 0870 11 8700 closing Belvedere Place Saturday 7 & Saturday 14 April which links Borough and VICTORIAN SURGERY Southwark Bridge Roads. Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 April OVERNIGHT LIVING HISTORY EXPERIENCE 2.30pm; £3.50 (child £1.75, concs £2.50, family £8) The OSS claims that the Starts 5pm; £31.50; booking essential A demonstration of the perils of surgery before anaesthesia. Council has made a draft For children aged 6 to 12 and their families. order without waiting for Wednesday11 & Wednesday 18 April a response to the Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Tuesday 17 & Wednesday 18 April PILLS, POTIONS, POISONS PETER PAN WORKSHOPS 2.30pm; £3.50 (child £1.75, concs £2.50, family £8) consultation. “When we An exploration of medicinal secrets - hands-on history with pill making. challenged the Council 11am-3pm; £15; booking essential For 5 to 12 year olds. ______we were told that it was Southwark Cathedral under pressure from the ______Hayward Gallery Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 developer.” says the South Bank T 020 7960 5226 OSS. “Such haste is Friday 13 April unseemly and suggests Monday 9, Wednesday 11 & Friday 13 April GOOD FRIDAY WORKSHOP undue influence on the DROP-IN WORKSHOPS 12-3pm; free Council by the 2pm-4pm; £8 (child free, conc £5) A chance for young people aged 4 to 15 to hear about the real Easter Practical art workshops based on the current Goya exhibition. story. Activities include cutting, sticking, painting, Hot Cross bun developer.” munching and indoor Easter gardening. Under fives should be < > accompanied by an adult. Entrance via Montague Chambers next to Tower bid Tuesday 10 & Thursday 12 April GOYA: STORYTELLING WITH KEVIN GRAAL the cathedral. More details from John Ackland on 020 8301 0718. The application to build 2pm-5pm, booking essential; £8 (child free, concs £5) ______Europe’s tallest building A storytelling workshop for children 8+. Tate Modern in front of London Bridge ______Bankside T 020 7887 8008 Station has been HMS Belfast submitted to Southwark Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6320 Saturdays 7, 14 & 28 April council. Already serious ARTMIX Saturday 7 to Sunday 22 April 2pm; free (pick up a ticket on the day from Tate Box Office) reservations about the Lively artist-led workshops focusing on a fun theme and encouraging 66-storey tower have ACTION STATIONS £1; booking essential you to look closely at the art on display, make connections and links, been expressed by the Hands-on activity for 7-14 year olds based around four workstations spot the difference and find clues! Suitable for accompanied children Commission for on board the ship. aged 5 and above. Architecture and the Built ______Environment. Imperial War Museum Saturdays 21 April < > Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 TATE TALES Riverside trading 2pm; free (pick up a ticket on the day from Tate Box Office) Friday 13 to Sunday 29 April Lively interactive family workshops run by a team of storytellers, Southwark Council is performance poets and musicians. Listen to stories, make your own holding a consultation on EASTER EGG HUNT Daily 10am-6pm; £5.50 (conc £4.50; children, senior citizens & after drawings and sketches, write poetry in action, enjoy word games and a proposal to allow 4.30pm free) make some music. Suitable for accompanied children aged 5 and trading on the riverfront The annual Easter egg hunt takes place this year in the 1940s house above. at Bankside. Meanwhile, and garden. Lambeth’s crackdown on www.tate.org.uk/modern/ illegal riverside traders has been welcomed by RESIDENTIAL SALES 79% of local people according to a poll at RESIDENTIAL LETTINGS www.London-SE1.co.uk < > PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Stanley Spencer DEVELOPMENTS On Friday 6 April SE1 resident Carolyn Lucas is London Bridge, Borough, Bermondsey, Tower Bridge, 42 Borough High Street giving a talk at Tate Britain (not Tate Modern) Bankside, Waterloo, Elephant & Castle, Vauxhall, London Bridge London SE1 1XW on her personal Walworth, SE1, SE11, SE17, SW8 recollection of painter Tel: 020 7407 3322 Stanley Spencer (1pm; Fax: 020 7407 4907 If you own a property in any of these areas and are free). email: [email protected] < > considering selling or letting, please call us to arrange a Free vodka at the Tate free no obligation appraisal Web Site: www.o-j.co.uk Absolut Vodka will be serving free Love Art cocktails during the evening on Saturday 28 South Bank property April. < > fish! for Brighton professionals for 20 years The restaurant chain fish! which opened its very first branch in Borough Commercial Residential Market in 1999 plans 22 new outlets during the 020 7403 7250 020 7240 2255 next two years. Existing branches include Guildford and Birmingham in addition to the second branch in www.eashaw.com SE1 at County Hall.