The essential monthly guide to what’s on in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk March SE1 Issue 57 March 2003 in Free Congestion charge: Elephant plans endorsed SOUTHWARK COUNCIL tenure schemes at the a reality at last members have endorsed Elephant & Castle for Heygate “TRAFFIC IS remarkably day one. A neighbour added: the early development residents. Some housing light” said an experienced “I also live near Great Dover and investment plans for will also be offered for sale. senior police officer standing Street and have never seen the Elephant and Castle However, Southwark Council at the Elephant & Castle the traffic so quiet. Walking regeneration. will test local opinion before minutes after the Congestion to work was so much more The plans, which build detailed proposals are Charge came into force. pleasant.” on the Emerging Framework announced. At dawn on the first day Those living just outside Principles document released The decison comes after drivers were met at the the zone where a build up last month, outline specific a survey indicated that most SE1 southern boundary of traffic was forecast have regeneration projects that residents do not wish to by Conservative Party found quieter roads. A typical will take place at four areas leave the area. Houses will be demonstrators holding comment was: “Today it’s around the Elephant. These split over four areas across placards and giving out ‘Ken- been great, better than we regeneration projects are not the Elephant and Castle. gestion Tax’ leaflets at traffic ever dared hope…and even if only part of the area’s overall These areas are Harper lights. The Conservative it all goes wrong all the new redevelopment plan, but will Road, Rodney Road, St. leaflets quoted a resident in pedestrian crossings and also assist in the rehousing Mary’s Churchyard and South the New Kent Road describing parking controls have made it of residents from the Heygate Newington. The council will the zone boundary as being a nicer place to live already.” Estate which is due to be shortly be announcing details like “the Berlin Wall on your Blackfriars Road and St replaced. of a demonstration housing doorstep” and Guy’s and George’s Road were also both A thousand new houses project at Wansey Street St Thomas’ Chief Executive much quieter than usual and will be built in mixed use including ecological designs. suggesting that the charge remained free of jams all will cost the hospital up to week. £1m a year. There were also reports Two new supermarkets for SE1 Meanwhile other of SE1 residents returning SAINSBURY’S IS opening a door office in Waterloo Road anti-charge campaigners to using their own cars on branch in Waterloo Road this said that they “had hung gathered at City Hall on weekdays due to the clear Spring. out the flags” when they the SE1 riverside, where roads. But as we went to The site, opposite heard the news. The shop LBC’s breakfast programme press there were mounting Waterloo Station, is between is expected to be open until was broadcasting live from reports of complaints, even Sandell Street and The Cut. 11pm Monday to Saturday ’s Living Room at the from supporters, of billing The supermarket will be a with shorter hours on Sunday. top of the building. mistakes. ‘Sainsbury’s Local’ brand Iceland in Lower Marsh has However, many SE1 •How has the Congestion with long opening hours. The recently extended its opening residents are welcoming Charge affected your travel shop is opening almost thirty hours to 8pm. the scheme and expressing in and around SE1? Join years after Sainsbury’s closed Plans are already surprise at the instant drop the debate in the London its Stamford Street branch advanced for a second in traffic. “Great Dover Street SE1 Forum at www.London- claiming that there was no Sainsbury’s Local to open in was quiet...better than a SE1.co.uk/forum demand for groceries. Borough High Street during Sunday!” said a resident on •www.cclondon.com Delighted staff at the next the summer.

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Sign up for a weekly email bulletin with SE1 news & events www.SE1direct.co.uk MARCH 2003 2 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 March SE1 Award for Borough Market traders in BOROUGH MARKET’S unique soft drinks. The emphasis is ADVERTISING Drinks Cage has won the on quality products that are 27 Blackfriars Road For details of our competitive London SE1 8NY rates call us for a rate card Independent Specialist Off- not generally available in on 020 7633 0766 or email Licence of the Year award. other retail outlets.” TEL 020 7633 0766 [email protected] The Drinks Cage,a Utobeer was also one FAX 020 7401 2521 collective of specialist of the three finalists for EMAIL [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS companies trading on Fridays the Specialist Beer Retailer WEB www. 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Cage stands out for bringing and this award is a much Farouk Campbell something genuinely new appreciated recognition of Anne Critchley DISCLAIMER Crystal Lindsay and enterprising to the all the hard work put in by all Every effort is made to ensure independent sector.” those who make the Drinks Brittany Luck the accuracy of our listings Marion Marples and features but all details The citation continued: Cage the success it has been’. are subject to alteration by “The range of products The award is part of the PRINTED BY venues and organisers and no offered goes from fine beers 2003 Off-Licence News Drinks Copyprints Ltd, responsibility can be accepted and wines from around the Retail Awards. 1 Talbot Yard, SE1 1YP for any inaccuracies. world to specialist spirits and •www.boroughmarket.org.uk Pool of London funding for SE1 projects in CALL the YARD THE POOL of London Study at Tower Gateway and Partnership has agreed an Asylum Seeker Support £213,290 of funding towards programme in Grange, Most of the big and four projects including new Snowsfields and Tower Bridge successful local firms sculptures at the More Schools. London development and a PLP Director Linda do when feasability study for the old Houston said: “All of they have Operating Theatre. these projects will bring a something to The three sculptures in significant change to the new public open spaces at area and the people who live, say and they More London, alongside City work and visit the Pool of would like Hall, will be installed by the London. Coherent transport us to give a end of September. interchanges, attractive The Old Operating Theatre public spaces, a supportive sharp edge is looking to expand into the educational programme to it. adjoining St Thomas’ Church and the development of which has been empty since smaller attractions are all key being vacated by Southwark ingredients in the PLP’s vision PRINT Cathedral’s Chapter House. to create a new quarter for COPIES The other projects funded London.” REPORTS are a Design & Investment • www.pooloflondon.co.uk BROCHURES Communication Coin Street architect dies of all kinds ARCHITECT IAN Davidson the derelict Oxo Tower into who transformed part of its now well-known housing Copyprints Ltd the South Bank has died and retail units. Davidson’s BUSINESS CENTRE unexpectedly at the age of flats in Broadwall were 1 Talbot Yard 48 following a heart attack. immediately award-winning. SE1 1YP Coin Street Community His latest contribution to Builders employed Ian the South Bank was the new Davidson and Alex Lifschutz Hungerford Bridge walkways. after Coin Street director Ian Early designs by Davidson for www.copyprintsltd.co.uk Tuckett had seen their work a health and fitness centre Phone 020 7407 2079 in Suffolk. The Lifschutz were presented to Waterloo Fax 020 7403 5411 Davidson practice converted residents only last December. MARCH 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Football pitches for Paris Garden book ® review SOUTHWARK COUNCIL has This proposal was strongly final layout around the approved two floodlit multi- supported by families living garden boundary in Hatfields Frost Fairs on the sport pitches for Paris Garden north of Stamford Street. and Meymott Street. Frozen Thames although almost all residents Among others speaking •Paris Garden was known to THE IDEA that the Thames living around the Paris for the Colombo plan was Cllr William Shakespeare who River actually froze is intriguing Garden square had opposed Catriona Moore who defied mentioned it in his play enough, but when fairs were the scheme. many of her consituents Henry VIII. held on the ice, complete with The site, on the corner of living just inside the •Jubilee Gardens is to be pubs, merry-go-rounds, and Hatfields and Meymott Street, Southwark boundary marked handed over to a new SE1 painters to immortalize the had been an overgrown green by Hatfields. trust and given a £5m events, more information is definitely needed. Thus, Nicholas oasis for over a decade. A Following the decision makeover. The steering Reed’s Frost Fairs on the Frozen Green Paris Garden Group some residents have group claims that the Thames (Lilburne Press £9.95), had campaigned for a expressed a wish to enter Gardens will be a “world the first book with detailed managed garden but the into a dialogue with Colombo class public park to rival coverage of the paintings of football plan put forward Street and Southwark Council parks in Paris and Barcelona these fairs, is much appreciated. by nearby Colombo Street to ensure that some green and the other great cities of The book contains historical paintings of the frost fairs on Centre won Council approval. element is included in the the world”. every page. Each picture is like a find-the-hidden-things exercise, in which the reader can search TL2000 latest Potters Field St Patrick’s Day for items mentioned in the text. The text itself is interesting and ALTHOUGH THE Thameslink EIGHT TOWER blocks are THIS YEAR’S St Patrick’s highlights original poetry from 2000 scheme has been put planned for Potters Field. The Day Festival is being held the printings at the frost fairs. on hold by Deputy Prime Berkeley Homes proposal on Sunday 16 March on the Further, it includes little-known Minister John Prescott, involves building 12-19 storey South Bank between Jubilee interesting facts and directions Railtrack’s successor Network buildings on the council- Gardens and the National to places where the paintings Rail is pressing ahead by owned coach park. There is Theatre. There will be stages displayed in the book can be viewed by the public. Frost submitting a planning also provision for restaurants at both ends for Irish folk Fairs would make a beautiful application for a viaduct and shops. The residential and pop music. Other festival book for an SE1 home. I highly through Borough Market. element would include 30% features include marquees recommend it. Streets affected include affordable housing and showcasing Irish food and •Available at Riverside Bookshop Bedale Street and London the college building would drink, arts & crafts, music BRITTANY LUCK Bridge Street on the east side be retained. Another plan and dance. There will also of Borough High Street. already submitted includes be several bars, community Charles Babbage, •www.networkrail.com a hotel. Objections can be stalls and food outlets. Charles Dickens, William •www.odpm.gov.uk made until mid-March. •See listing on page 7 Blake, Ocatavia Hill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Cross Bones Graveyard, SE1 Snippets > > > > > Chaucer’s Tabard Inn…

ONE WAY REVERSAL AXED WATERLOO MINIBUS CHRIST CHURCH GARDENS SOUTHBANK SINFONIA Southwark Council The proposed reversal A community minibus A soft children’s play The Southbank Sinfonia is putting up 20 blue of the one way traffic used by the London area is being laid out in Chamber Ensemble, plaques to celebrate the flow in Chancel Street Nautical School and St Blackfriars Road’s Christ Britain’s newest people, places and events has been abandoned John’s Waterloo, and Church Gardens for orchestra, just a few that shaped the history following protests from part funded by the use this summer by the months old and formed of Southwark. You can residents. There were Waterloo Community Colombo Day Nursery from outstanding choose! fears that the street and Regeneration Trust, is in Colombo Street music college and Dolben Street would now available for hire opposite. The area, c o n s e r v a t o i r e Vote for your favourites on again become an early by authorised drivers which is on the south graduates, is appearing the shortlist morning commuter rat from SE1 organisations. side of the church, is to at St John’s Church. run. Adjoining Gambia Full details from Rev be maintained as a dog- The first concerts were Open Mon-Fri 10am-3pm Street has already been Richard Truss on 020 free zone. Also being in February and this closed to through traffic 7928 4470 or email created in the gardens month there are two Southwark Heritage to reduce noise and richard.truss@btintern is a circular community free lunchtime recitals. Centre at Hay’s Galleria pollution. et.com flowerbed. •See listing page 6. 12a Lower Level, Hay’s Galleria, Tooley Street, London SE1 Blackfriars Let her know just how 020 7357 9294 Wine Bar Books and literature on great she really is! historic Southwark. The South Bank’s best kept secret invites you to discover the charm of an authentic WINE BAR Cutflowers 35 The Cut We have an extensive range of over 100 different wines from the Old and New World Waterloo SE1 8LF TEL 020 7633 9992 Luncheon and snacks available FAX 020 7633 9947 Open 10am till late Monday to Friday ARCH 80, SCORESBY STREET, SOUTHWARK Mothers’ Day 30th March LONDON SE1 TEL: 020 7928 0905 open Sat 29th & Sun 30th 3 mins from Southwark station • 5 mins from Tate Modern MARCH 2003 4 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Friday 28 March to Saturday 5 April theatre Theatre PERICLES Cinema Lambeth Mission Olivier; 7pm & 7.15pm; £10 Æ Yukio Ninagawa’s Japanese production BFI London IMAX Cinema review Lambeth Road T 020 7735 9012 of Shakespeare’s play. Please note: The The Bullring, South Bank T 020 7902 1234 www.bfi.org.uk/imax A Laughing Matter Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 March entirety of the play is in Japanese with Screenings daily 10.30am-9.30pm; £7.10 at the National FIDDLER ON THE ROOF no simultaneous translation, though a (conc £5.95; child £4.95) 7.30pm (matinée Sat 22 Mar 3pm); £6 full plot synopsis is provided. Ninagawa (conc £3) visited the National with his celebrated INDIA: KINGDOM OF THE TIGER 2D (U) A LAUGHING Matter, a play Production of Joseph Stein’s classic productions of Macbeth and Medea in Follow the Bengal Tiger through its about the production of musical which transends the story of a 1987. breathtaking homeland-India, a country She Stoops to Conquer is, Russian Jewish man and his family to ______painted by countless cultures, colours unfortunately, unworthy of its reveal a universal theme of the difficulty of St John’s Waterloo and faces. preserving tradition in a changing world. Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 name. The kindest description I Performed by the Inner City Players, who www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk INTO THE DEEP 3D (U) can give the play is “tedious.” have been performing at the Lambeth Into the Deep takes you into a magical While it contains a few funny Mission for over 30 years. Monday 3 March under water world. Enjoy a close shave jokes and poingnant scenes, the ______LENT, LONDON & CLARINET with a shark, play hide and seek with the 7.30pm; £3 play fails to make any real point. New Arch Theatre sea lions and marvel at the richness of life Under Waterloo Stn T 020 7735 9643 Poet Brian Louis Pearce reads from his beneath the waves. There are far too many useless www.networktheatre.org Jack O’Lent and City Whiskers sequences. scenes that should have been Music by Tim Brown and Miller. PULSE: A STOMP ODESSEY 2D (U) cut from the two-and-a-half- Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 March ______The creators of Stomp take the IMAX hour play. Further, Laughing STAGS AND HENS Southwark Playhouse audience on a spectacular global journey, Matter seems disjointed and Tue-Sat 7.45pm; £7 (SE1 residents £5) 62 Southwark Bridge Rd T 020 7620 3494 paying tribute to the people and the A wild comedy about the rituals of www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk rhythms of the world that inspired the overly didactic. The playwright marraige, set in the toilets of a Liverpool original show. Pulse includes the KODO crams volumes of encyclopaedic dance hall. A Stag party and a Hen party Wednesday 6 & Thursday 7 March drummers of Japan and a 200 piece knowledge into the play at the for two spouses to be have collided in THE YEAR CLOCK rhythm section in Salvador. The film also expense of plot. the same dance hall. Now, it’s the job of Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £10 features sights and sounds from India, all friends present to keep the bride and Tim Laycock’s acclaimed play based on Africa, Spain, the UK and Norh America. Worse still, the play is full of the life and works of William Barnes, a purposeless vulgarity. Two very groom from seeing one another before the wedding. poet from Dorset. In order to highlight CYBERWORLD 3D (PG) loudly acted sex scenes, bodily ______Barnes’ folk roots, the musical score Come face to face with your favourite noise humour, and one act of The Old Vic accompanying the play will be folk music characters - Bart and Homer Simpson, ‘Z’ nudity only embarrassed an The Cut T 020 7369 1722 played by Colin Thompson on fiddle and from Antz, and Phig the sassy cyber babe. already bored audience. In short, www.oldvictheatre.com guitar. A Laughing Matter stoops but HAUNTED CASTLE 3D (PG) Tuesday 18 March to Saturday 19 April Friday 7 March You are beckoned to enter a castle...a fails to conquer. I recommend KING LEAR DEATH OF AN ACTRESS haunted castle...Join Johnny as he spending your pounds on Mon-Sat 7.30pm; from £12.50 7.30pm; £3 enters the mysterious castle and begins Goldsmith’s actual play, which Fast paced production of Shakespeare’s Première staged rehearsed reading to discover that things are not as they contains the same superb Lear. Performed by the English Touring with live music of David Bridel’s new appear. in a well-written play. Theatre and starring Timothy West. play. A tale of simple love directed ______by Duncan Law with Tasmin lewis as THE LION KING 2D (U) •Until Saturday 29 March Royal National Theatre musical director. A Lions part production. Phone for times; £9.50 (conc £7; child £7) •T 020 7452 3000 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.thelionspart.co.uk Disney’s popular tale which follows the BRITTANY LUCK www.nationaltheatre.org.uk fortunes of a young prince in exile. With Monday 17 March to Saturday 5 April music by Tim Rice and Sir Elton John. See Until Tuesday 18 March THE WEDDING the special website at www.disney.co.uk/ eating LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £5 lionkingimax ‰ out Olivier; 7.15pm; £10-£33 First ever English translation of the dark, The Anything Goes company turn their absurdist comedy by Cuban playwright T-REX: BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS 3D (U) The Bermondsey Kitchen attention to Shakespeare’s youthful Virgilio Pinera. Pinera’s study of social Dinosaurs are very much alive - at least in comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost, another pride and etiquette revolves around lovers the mind of teenager Ally Hayden. When in Bermondsey Street work of wit, sophistication and romance who back out of a wedding Performance a museum accident transports Ally on but in a very different style. by The Scarlet Theatre acting company. an adventure back in time to explore the THE BERMONDSEY Kitchen lies ______terrain and territory of life-size dinosaurs, Until Tuesday 13 May Union Theatre she is thrust literally nose-to-nose with beneath the flat in Bermondsey 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Street where Tate Modern’s HONOUR the largest and most realistic dinosaur Cottesloe; 7.30pm; £10-£27 www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk ever to appear on a movie screen. launch director Lars Nittve UK première of Joanna Murray-Smith’s ______lived for just five months insightful play showing the failure of a Tuesday 4 March to Saturday 22 March National Film Theatre before the restaurant opened. marriage. Cast includes Eileen Atkins and CHILDREN’S HOUR South Bank T 020 7928 3232 He would have enjoyed the Corin Redgrave. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 www.bfi.org.uk/nft Karen Wright is one of two teachers, informal atmosphere. Owner Until Saturday 29 March running a boarding school for young girls, Friday 7 March and manager Dela Foster and SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER whose reputations are ruined after a pupil SHABANA AZMI IN COVERSATION chef Ruth Quinlan are interested Lyttelton; 7.30pm; from £10 starts a malicious rumour that they’re 9pm; £10.30 (conc £8.20) in cooking with fire so there Oliver Goldsmith’s tale of class and having a lesbian relationship. A play by Joint ticket with Congregation for the is an impressive glimpse of courtship with the barmaid. Lillian Hellman starring Anna Brecon screening on Friday 7 March; £13.00 flame from a charcoal grill in and Tracy Wiles and directed by Danny (concs £10) Until Saturday 29 March Ghossain. A Thirsty Dog Production. This month the NFT will have a special the kitchen viewed across the A LAUGHING MATTER ______interview with Shabana Azmi, a famous bread on the counter. The plain Lyttelton; 7.30pm; from £10 Young Vic Indian actress as well as a member of walls have just a few pictures See review on this page. 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 India’s upper Paliamentary House, a including a Ken Kiff print. A fresh www.youngvic.org respected academic and an indefatigable anchovies starter (£4.50) was The National is offering £5 off the social reformer. As part of Tongues on top three ticket prices for evening Friday 7 March to Saturday 12 April Fire, a celebration of South Asian cinema generous as was the guinea- performances of She Stoops to Conquer SIMPLY HEAVENLY featuring female artists, the interview will fowle with potatoes (£11.50). and A Laughing Matter when you book for Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £19 (conc £10) include a joint sceening of Conversation, The leek and fennel braised in both shows at the same time. Rarely performed production based on a favorite of Azmi’s among her work. butter (£2.50) and salad were Langston Hughes’ tale of life and love Other Azmi films shown during the month prepared in front of us. Although Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 March in 1950s Harlem. With music by David of March include The Death Sentence, ANYTHING GOES Martin and lyrics by Langston Hughes, this Fire, Immaculate Conception, In Custody, satisfied we just had to find Olivier; 7.15 pm; £10 production evokes the spirit of Harlem Kamla, The Ruins, and The Seeding. room for the delicious coffee Cole Porter’s classic musical. The with wit, humour and style. Special price ______flavour panna cotta (£4) and the fabulous, tune-filled, danced -peppered previews on 7, 8, 10 & 11 March – a limited Tate Modern banana cake with ice cream. It score includes I Get A Kick Out Of You number of seats are available for £12.50 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 would have been a superb meal You’re The Top, It’s De-Lovely, Blow, (conc £7.50). A gala performance in aid of www.tate.org.uk but for the smokers nearby. Gabriel, You’d Be So Easy To Love, All the Young Vic will be given on Thursday Through The Night, and the title number 27 March. There is also a sign language Tate Modern’s film programme is available • 194 Bermondsey Street Anything Goes, which in both music and interpreted performance on Saturday 29 in full on their website. • T 020 7407 5719 lyric so capture’s the spirit of the age. March. MARCH 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 5

Imperial War Museum Percy Miller Gallery Exhibitions Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 39 Snowsfields T 020 72074578 exhibition Bankside Gallery www.iwm.org.uk www.percymillergallery.com ¢ 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Daily 10am-6pm; free Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free review www.banksidegallery.com Until Sunday 30 March Until Friday 14 March Max Beckmann Thursday 20 March to Monday 21 April HIDDEN JONATHAN PARSONS at Tate Modern ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY SPRING Paul Seawright investigates the New works on paper. EXHIBITION Afghanistan landscape contaminated with ______The warm works of Jane Carpanini RWS ordnance and mines. Printspace MAX BECKMANN was an ambi- will be featured to celebrate her 25th 2 Bear Gardens T 020 7261 9200 tious artist; aged 22 he tackled anniversary of election to the RWS. Until Sunday 27 April www.print-space.com a huge canvas of the Sinking of ______ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; free Design Museum £5 (conc £4) the Titanic based on the news Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 Major exhibition on twelve WWI soldier Until Wednesday 12 March reports. Only after service as a www.designmuseum.org poets . SEEKING THE LIGHT medical orderly in the First World Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); ______Artists living and working in Gaucin, in the War did his own distinctive style £5.50 (conc £4) Jerwood Space mountains of southern Spain. emerge. 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 A recurring image is Carni- Until Sunday 20 April www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Thursday 13 to Wednesday 26 March MARS GROUP Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; Sun 1-6pm; free EMMA CLARK AND HO WOUN GEAN val, with Columbine costumes, 70th anniversary celebration of the As a part of the Artists-In-Residence- clown’s masks, pierrot hats, mu- Modern Architectural Research think-tank. Until Sunday 23 March Series, these founding members of sical instruments or performing Features Basil Spence and Erno Goldfinger. JERWOOD SCULPTURE PRIZE Printspace exhibit thier work. animals in almost every picture. Eight artists with winner announced on ______Far from conveying jollity, men- Until Tuesday 11 May 4 March. Purdy Hicks Gallery MANOLO BLAHNIK ______65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 ace grows. First ever retrospective of shoe designer Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings www.purdyhicks.com His style develops in Paris Manolo Blahník’s collection of sexy shoes. The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & where he engages with Picasso, Prices from £700 when for sale. www.llewellynalexander.com Sun 12 noon-5pm; free Braques and others. The lat- Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free ter rooms of the exhibition are Until Sunday 1 June Until Saturday 15 March SUPERSTUDIO – LIFE WITHOUT OBJECTS Until Friday 14 March TESS JARAY watched over by many self The Italian design group Superstudio ROYAL INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS The leading abstract painter, whose portraits. After his work was de- showing their avant-gard architecture and A first time exhibition of this well architectural work includes Wakefield nounced by the Nazis in 1937 he technology. renowned group of artists at this gallery. Cathedral Precinct, shows new paintings. left Germany forever and lived in Amsterdam, eventually emigrat- Until Sunday 29 June Thursday 20 March to Saturday 5 April Friday 21 March to Saturday 26 April ing to America in 1947. Here he DESIGNER OF THE YEAR JEREMY BARLOW-ONE MAN SHOW ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI The works showing are all competing Major exhibition of over 85 new oils of One hundred works covering 40 years continued to paint and teach. His for a £25,000 cash prize, which will be Italy and France. shown here before tour to Brighton and final work, The Argonauts (1950) announced in early June. ______Newcastle. is a good epitaph and summary ______McHardy Sculpture Company ______of his work; he died the day after Essor Gallery Shad Thames T 020 7403 7555 Royal National Theatre its completion. Worth seeing. 1 America Street T 020 7928 3388 www.mchardy-sculpture.com South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.essorgallery.com Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon- www.nationaltheatre.org.uk •See listing on this page Daily 11am-5.30pm; free 5pm; free Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free MARION MARPLES

Until Saturday 29 March Wednesday 19 March to Sunday 13 April Until Saturday 29 March KILLING FRIENDS AGI COHEN THE ALTERNATIVE NOMAD More to read Julian Hoeber’s recent work is primarily Retrospective of bronzes produced by Writer Bruce Chatwin was also a prolific concerned with the objecthood of the Agi Cohen during her illness and recovery and instinctive photographer whose on the web body. period. images work in counterpoint to his texts. Don’t forget to check out the London ______SE1 community website for news, fa projects Menier Chocolate Factory Tate Modern features and debate Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 51-3 Southwark Street T 020 7407 5388 Bankside T 020 7887 8008 www.faprojects.com www.menier.org.uk www.tate.org.uk www.London-SE1.co.uk Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm Opening hours Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free Nominations open for Civic Awards Until Saturday 1 March Wednesday 5 to Saturday 8 March Until Sunday 9 March Do you know of an organisation or a GROUP SHOW THE DAYS OF THE GREYHOUND EVA HESSE person who has shown outstanding Grazia Toderi, Wood & Harrison, David Paintings inspired by Jonathan Turner’s £5 (conc £4) commitment and given up their time Burrows, James Ireland, Izima Kaoru and travels around North America. Works assembled for this exhibition for their Southwark community? Or Ellen Cantor. include many of the astonishing contributed to improving the quality ______Sunday 16 to Saturday 22 March sculptures for which she is best known. of life for people living in Southwark? Florence Nightingale Museum DANUSHA FINE ART …full story on the website Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7620 0374 Retrospective exhibition of Ukrainian artist Until Monday 5 May www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Leonid Kudriavtsev MAX BECKMANN Saatchi Gallery to open within two Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 11.30am- ______£8.50 (conc £6); combined with Eva Hesse months 4.30pm; £4.80 (conc £3.80) Morley Gallery £10 Charles Saatchi’s long-awaited art 61 W’minster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 9226 See review on this page gallery at County Hall will finally open Until Friday 25 April www.morleycollege.ac.uk ______in mid-April, it has been reported. ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS Mon-Fri 11am-6pm (Thu 7pm); Sat 12 the.gallery@oxo …full story on the website Five proposals for a new Florence noon-4pm; free Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Nightingale Museum by New Zealand www.oxotower.co.uk Women’s and neonatal centre opened architectural students. Until Thursday 6 March Daily 11am-6pm; free at St Thomas’ Hospital TEXTILE EXHIBITION A £15.6 million centre providing state- Until Saturday 22 March Works by Finnish artists Anna-Riitta Thursday 13 to Sunday 30 March of-the-art maternity, gynaecology and NURSING BADGES Haavisto and Riitta-Liisa Haavisto. ONE neonatal services was opened at St The exhibition displays badges that span Collaboration between photographer Ina Thomas’ Hospital last month by health from traditional to contemporary. See the Friday 14 March to Thursday 17 April Otzko and painter Roger Holtam. secretary Alan Milburn. stories and history these badges tell. TOKYO GLAMROCK ______…full story on the website ______Photographic images, posters and The Walk Gallery Gallery 33 sculptures. 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 Bermondsey kids star in opera 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 ______www.walkgallery.com project Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Museum of Garden History Mon-Sat 11am-6pm (Thu -7pm); free Children aged between 3 and 4 years Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 at Whitstable Early Years Centre in Monday 3 to Thursday 27 March www.museumgardenhistory.org Tuesday 18 March to Saturday 5 April Bermondsey have been showing off CAESURA: THE SMALL SERIES Daily 10.30am-5pm; donation £2.50 (conc LONDON GROUP their performing skills in a new project Judith Tucker was inspired by bleak, £2) As part of the London Group’s 90th run by artists from ENO Baylis, the windswept coastlines to compose these anniversary four members present their education team at English National oil paintings. Full of folds, contours, Saturday 1 to Monday 31 March masterpieces. Work by Philip Crozier, Opera. and iridescent colours, these paintings POSTCARDS FROM KOSOVO Phillipa Tunstill, David Redfern and James …full story on the website suggest a journey to a new location. Features photography and art. Faure Walker. MARCH 2003 6 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Southwark Cathedral St George-the-Martyr environment Music Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 Borough High Street T 020 7407 2796 www.dswark.org/cathedral www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk Cinema Organ Society watch Edric Hall (SB University), Borough Rd ™ Every Monday Every Thursday Bringing trees and www.cinema-organs.org.uk LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL LUNCHTIME CONCERTS 1.10pm; free 1pm; free (collection) birds to SE1 Saturday 1 March Mon 3: Stephen Disley (Southwark Thu 6: Royal Academy of Music students DAN BELLOMY Cathedral) Thu 13: Trinity College of Music students 7.30pm; £6 Mon 10: Norman Harper (St Mary’s, Thu 20: Guildhall School of Music MARCH SEES the first days A special recital on the Mighty Wurlitzer Wimbledon) students of Spring and is also nesting organ from the Trocadero in New Kent Mon 17: Peter Wright (Southwark Thu 27: To be announced time for the birds. They are Road by David Bellomy visiting from the Cathedral) ______USA. particularly vunerable at this Mon 24: William Whitehead with Debbie St George’s Cathedral time of the year; this is poignant Calland (trumpet) Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Sunday 16 March Mon 31: (Southwark now that Paris Garden is to Ian Keatley www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk LEN RAWLE Cathedral) become two multi-sports pitches 3pm; £6 Saturday 15 March Len Rawle on the Mighty Wurlitzer. and the garden at Southwark Every Tuesday ORGAN RECITAL College is largely lost to a sixth LUNCHTIME RECITAL 1.05pm; free form centre. Both these spaces The South Bank University Wurlitzer left 1.10pm; free Lee Ward of Hampstead Parish Church the factory in North Tonawanda, New Tue 4: The Broken Bones (trombone are important for wildlife York on 11 October 1930, destined for the quartet) Saturday 15 March One immediate way of Trocadero cinema, Elephant and Castle. Tue 11: Cello Ensemble from Trinity THAMES FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA helping is to leave out food for ______College of Music 8pm; £8.50-£15 (conc £7-£12) the birds on your windowsill Morley College Tue 18: City University Chamber Choir Thames Festival Orchestra and Thames or balcony. Space for nesting 62 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7450 1838 Tue 25: No recital (Annunciation service) Philharmonic Choir perform Schubert boxes could be found on estate www.morleycollege.ac.uk Mass in A flat, Mozart Eine kleine Saturday 22 March Nachtmusik and Haydn Maria Theresa Te gardens. Woolworths has a good Every Tuesday CANTERBURY PILGRIMS MUSIC selection of both from £1.99 to Deum. LUNCHTIME CONCERTS 7.30pm; £8 ______1.10pm; free £6.99. London Wildlife Trust can The Music of the Canterbury Pilgrims with St John’s Waterloo also supply trees and shrubs Tue 4: Piano Accompaniment & Chamber New Renaissance Voices. Sacred and Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Music Class to attract wildlife. Payment is secular songs from the time of Chaucer www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Tue 11: Chamber Performers Group by donation and Southwark with later settings by Josquin, Mouton, (Chamber works for woodwind, brass, Lobo, Lassus. Directed by Bruce Saunders. Saturday 1 March residents get the first tree free. strings, piano and voice by students) See www.nrv.org.uk SOUTH BANK SYMPHONY Their wonderful garden centre is Tue 18: The Masters Voice (Liza Hobbs, 7.30pm; £6 & £8 (conc £5) worth a visit in its own right. Colin Tarn and Michael Chance Wednesday 26 March Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet; Vaughan Trees for London has also with Noel Coward songs) CONCERT Williams Symphony No. 2 ‘A London Tue 25: Meridian Choir (Shakespeare 7.30pm; tickets from 020 8340 1524 Symphony’,and Haydn Trumpet Concerto. been busy planting trees locally settings) – in Brook Drive, Geraldine Mary John March conducts Chameleon Arts Orchestra, Highgate School Concert Choir Every Wednesday Harmsworth Park and last year Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 March and Channing School Choir performing LUNCHTIME CONCERTS in Blackfriars Road. They are MUSIC FOR YOUTH FESTIVAL Rutter Requiem and Mozart Coronation 1.10pm; free always looking for volunteers to 10am-4.30pm; free Mass. With Ruth Kerr (soprano), Katy Wed 5: Recital “adopt” a tree and are currently Music for Youth Regional Festival with Bingham-Best (contralto), Stephen Brown Wed 12: Recital limited seating. Adjudication results at (tenor) and Leandros Taliotis (bass). See Wed 19: Southbank Sinfonia Chamber Ensemble seeking suggestions for more 5pm. www.chameleon-arts.co.uk spaces at the Elephant and Wed 26: Southbank Sinfonia Chamber Ensemble Castle for tree planting. Crossway URC Southwark Cathedral Around 200 years ago Church Services New Kent Road (Rodney Place junction) Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 William Blake wrote: “The tree Christ Church Southwark www.dswark.org/cathedral which moves some to tears 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 Friday 6 March Sunday 2 March of joy, is in the eyes of others, www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 7.30pm SERVICE OF CELEBRATION only a green thing that stands Every Thursday The first North Southwark Women’s World 4.45pm in the way. Some see nature all EUCHARIST Day of Prayer Service. Produced by the Service of celebration and thanksgiving ridicule and deformity. Some 1.10pm women of the Lebanon, it will be led by on the occasion of Simon Hughes’ 20th scarce see nature at all.” Sadly 30 minute lunchtime Eucharist. Sue, a New Zealander, and the address anniversary as MP. nothing seems to have changed Refreshments available afterwards. given by Alice, a Ghanaian. All are Wednesday 5 March since then. But by helping local welcome. Wednesday 5 March ______ASH WEDNESDAY EUCHARIST wildlife even in small ways ASH WEDNESDAY EUCHARIST St John’s Waterloo 12.45pm & 6.30pm we can hold a candle to the 7pm Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Also a said Eucharist at 8.15am. darkness. First day of Lent. www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk •Centre for Wildlife Gardening 020 Saturday 8 March 7252 9186 Sunday 30 March Wednesday 5 March GHANA DAY SERVICE MOTHERING SUNDAY ASH WEDNESDAY EUCHARIST 6.30pm •Trees for London 020 7587 1320 9.30am 12.30pm & 7pm Eucharist and Independence Day ANNE CRITCHLEY Family Communion Service. Holy Communion on the first day of Lent. celebrations.

March for Morley! Morley College Lifelong Learning for adults in Central London Throughout March Morley College is running one-day courses in Music, Humanities and Health, from Austen to Allegies, Singing to Personal Safety, come and try one out – everyone is welcome. Call or email for our course guide, or check our website for details

Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT Tel 020 7928 8501 Fax: 020 7928 4074 General Email: [email protected] Web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk Morley College Ltd is a company limited by guarantee registered in No. 2629936. Reg Charity No. 1928623 MARCH 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 7 National Trust Lectures – Purcell Room Talks & Meetings South Bank Centre T 020 7960 4242 Special Events southside Calder Bookshop www.rfh.org.uk South Bank 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 Jubilee Gardens to National Theatre diary c Monday 3 March www.calderpublications.com www.mystpatricksday.com DESIGN DEMOCRACY THERE SEEMS to have been 6pm; £7.50 Thursday 6 March Sunday 16 March more Saturday filming than Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on why good VICTOR HUGO ST PATRICK’S DAY FESTVIAL usual and not all in Borough Mar- design is affordable. 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) 12 noon-6pm ket. Bear Lane and The Cut have An evening on the Man and His Poetry There will be stages at both ends for Irish Monday 3 March both had meters suspended for with Timothy Adès talking about his folk and pop music. Other festival features film crews arriving at 6am. The recent translation of Hugo’s How To Be A TYNTESFIELD include marquees showcasing Irish food 7.45pm; £7.50 reward for recent disruption in Grandfather. and drink, arts & crafts, music and dance. Tim Knox repeats last month’s sell-out There will also be several bars, community Hatfields will come at Christmas lecture about the mansion discovered Thursday 13 March stalls and food outlets. Sponsors include when Fake It! is released. The an- almost untouched inside since the 19th POETRY OF LOUIS MacNEICE the GLA, the Irish Post and Council of Irish tique shop features in London’s century. 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) Counties Association. answer to The Italian Job with Art Discussion on life and work of the poet ______Monday 10 March Malik among the stars. and broadcaster City Hall THE CAREWS OF ANTONY The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 *** 6pm; £7.50 Thursday 20 March www.london.gov.uk THE BALI memorial service at RECITATION FOR A GOLDEN CITY Sir Richard Carew Pole on the colourful Southwark Cathedral was well history of his Cornish house and estate. 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) Saturday 1, Sunday 2, Saturday 15 & reported on television but it was Robert Rietti presents and reads from a Sunday 16 March Monday 17 March a pity that BBC News insisted on variety of texts celebrating the long history OPEN DAY: LONDON’S LIVING ROOM of Jerusalem. MANAGING ENGLAND’S COUNTRYSIDE Saturday 9am-1pm, Sunday 2pm-6pm; claiming that the Prince Charles, 6pm; £7.50 free the Australian Prime Minister Dr David Bellamy celebrates the Thursday 27 March More opportunities to visit London’s Living and UK cabinet ministers were publication of his autobiography. ANTONIN ARTAUD Room at the top of City Hall. in south London. The cathedral 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) is further north than both Down- Directors and others affected by his work Monday 24 March discuss him and read from his work. WHY GARDEN? Guided Walks & Tours ing Street and the Houses of 6pm; £7.50 ______City Secrets Walks Parliament. Maybe the Conges- Anna Pavord, garden correspondent of The Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret T 020 8348 9022 tion Charge will bring home to 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 Independent, tries to answer a question the media that SE1 is in central about her passion. www.thegarret.org.uk Mondays & Fridays ______London unlike Kensington which SHAKESPEARE CITY WALK St John’s Waterloo is not. Sunday 2 March Meet 11am Blackfriars Station; £6 Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 THE BLADE & THE BONE and researcher Declan McHugh *** www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 2.30pm; £4 (conc £3, child £2.50) leads a 90 minute guided walk featuring THIS YEAR’S Irish Festival has A lecture demonstrating the ordeal of Shakespearean connections. been switched to the South Bank Victorian surgery without anaetheasia. Saturday 29 March JUST PEACE? ______from Trafalgar Square where re- 1.30pm-4.30pm; free The Lambeth Walk furbishment continues. Another Sunday 9 March T 020 7435 4782 JOSEPH LISTER Bishop of Jerusalem Riah Abu El Assal interesting fall-out is that six of speaks on Struggles & hopes for the 2.30pm; £4 (conc £3, child £2.50) Every Tuesday the Square’s historic bollards are A talk called Surgery, Science and Sepsis Children of Abraham. now to be found in Dolben Street. ______THE LAMBETH WALK highlights Joseph Lister’s experiments Meet 11am Lambeth North Stn; £5 (conc £4) These large objects, designed with antiseptics. Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological Society Hawkstone Hall, Kennington Road Featuring The Railway Children, the Stars 160 years ago by Charles Barry of & Stripes and a famous pottery. Saturday 15 March Houses of Parliament fame, are Tuesday 25 March ______SPEED SURGERY Stepping Out in storage at Sykes builders yard 2pm, 3pm & 4pm; £4 (conc £3, child ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT by command of English Heritage. 7.30pm; £1 (refreshments from 7pm) T 020 8881 2933 £2.50) www.walklon.ndirect.co.uk Their future is uncertain but if Three lectures as part of National Science Report on recent local archaeological and Week. historical work. they do not eventually return Every Sunday they would be lovingly cared for BROTHELS, BISHOPS & BARDS in the proposed garden at nearby Tate Modern Meet 11am at Monument Stn; £5 (conc £4) Events for Children Bankside T 020 7887 3959 Hear Bankside tales about geese that Gambia Street. www.tate.org.uk were not birds, stews that were not food *** Guy’s Hospital and a notorious prison in Clink Street. IT IS good to see Emma Cons St Thomas’ Street T 01923 854624 Sundays Garden fenced off ready for im- START Every Wednesday Wednesday 12 March provemnents to be undertaken. 11am-5pm; free BYWAYS OF WATERLOO HEARTS & GUYS ASTLEY COOPER Putting Down Roots, a gardening Drop-in for age 5+ for exploring modern Meet 11am at Lambeth North Stn; £5 1.30pm & 5.30pm; free art through intriguing activities. Double- (conc £4) project for homeless people, will Guy’s Hospital Chapel is the venue for sided jigsaws and new ‘Body Suite’ A tour around a network of pretty streets be responsible for looking after a play by Dr David Leaback for children games. Bring a form of identification with with a lot of history. about the birth of science-based the site and the Old Vic opposite you to borrow the games. (For under 5s: medicine. Characters include John Keats is to provide the lighting. Emma a booklet of simple looking and drawing who knew Astley Cooper who devised the Cons who revamped the theatre games) Supported by John Lyon’s charity. first chemical test for kidney disease. Free would probably approve. show funded by Wellcome Trust. FLOWERS Saturday 15 March ______TATE TALES for Weddings, funerals Imperial War Museum 11am-12.30pm Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 & all occasions Join storytellers and poets in journeys www.iwm.org.uk around the gallery to explore stories and word games. For ages 5+. Booking Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 March recommended. Supported by John Lyon’s [ SE1 Direct ] DO TOUCH THE EXHIBITS Don’t forget charity 11.30am & 2.30pm; free A chance to handle and learn more about ’Come to Beckmann’s Circus!’ is a family Mothers’ Day artefacts from both world wars. Don’t miss out trail available to families visiting the Max ______Beckmann exhibition. See listing page 5. Sunday 30 March Morley College on our weekly 62 Westminster Br Rd T 020 7450 1838 www.morleycollege.ac.uk DENISE’S FLORIST email updates Our April issue will 168 Great Suffolk Street Saturday 22 March FAMILY CONCERT: MUSIC IN THE WIND have a complete guide 020 7403 0067 10.30am; £3 (child £1) www.SE1direct.co.uk Families with very young children to Easter holiday events Open Saturday 29 welcome at morning of informal music and activities in SE1 & Sunday 30 March and dance. MARCH 2003 8 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

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