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The This year is the 25th and the anniversary of the Local History Library discovery of the this month present a remains of the Rose programme of events Theatre on . to coincide with the The prospect of losing the archaeological remains 202nd birthday of of Bankside’s first Elizabethan Charles Dickens. playhouse under a new office The lineup includes children’s block sparked a campaign backed activities (page 3), two evening by leading figures from the arts talks (page 4) and a guided walk A weekly open creative space for all – with an world. (page 5). Local resident Richard Miller “Charles Dickens will always emphasis on those going through mental illness made a video recording of the be remembered as one of Britain’s and recovery – will return for a second year from all-night ‘Save the Rose’ rally held greatest and most iconic authors,” Monday 17 February. as the archaeological dig came to said Cllr Veronica Ward, cabinet Founded by the Mental Fight Club, the Dragon Cafe first ran for 12 an end and the builders prepared member for culture, leisure, sport months from October 2012 with support from the Maudsley Charity and to move in. and volunteering. the Big Lottery Fund. A newly edited version of his “We are really proud of our Now the Monday programme will resume for another year in the crypt film will be shown this month literary heritage in Southwark. of St George the Martyr Church with the backing of Guy’s and St Thomas’ at the Rose Playhouse site (see I hope residents and especially Charity. page 4) with an introduction by families will take this opportunity Open every Monday from 12 noon to 8.30pm, The Dragon Cafe Richard Miller. to learn more about his work and provides a safe, stimulating and creative space for more than 200 people The Rose Theatre Trust has background in our free spring each week. ambitious plans to complete half term events.” The programme includes art exhibitions, freshly prepared and the excavation of the part of the • The Invisible Woman, Ralph reasonably priced vegetarian food, a chill-out zone and more. Daytime site not examined in 1989 and Fiennes’ new film about Dickens groups include writing, art, tai chi, boxing, mindfulness, gardening, to create a permanent exhibition and his affair with Nelly Turnan, dancing and singing. Evening events range from performances, creative and performance space. is showing this month at talks and discussions, to dancing and games nights. • www.rosetheatre.org.uk Shortwave Cinema (page 7) • www.dragoncafe.co.uk • www.richardqmiller.com

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LGBT Child’. sea during her long history in the Royal St Mary Magdalen Part of LGBT History Month Navy. This activity is in association with What’s On  Maths on Toast who help to co-ordinate Street T 020 7357 0984 Full info at se1.net/15328 www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk St John’s Waterloo community events designed to make maths fun. Drop-in events are suitable February 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Wednesday 26 February www.stjohnswaterloo.org for all ages with parental supervision. BACH TO BABY: NEW YEAR, NEW SOUNDS  Full info at se1.net/15288 Comprehensive local listings Saturday 8 February 10.30amcoffee from 10am; £10 (children WALK THE LABYRINTH John Harvard Library free) 10am-3.30pm (workshops at 10.30am, 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Classical accordion recital featuring Milos 12.30pm and 2.30pm); free www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Milivojevic. Bach to Baby is brought Special events The labyrinth has a long history as Mon-Fri 9am-7pm; Sat 9am-5pm; to you by award-winning concert James Clerk Maxwell Building a contemplative walking-prayer pianist and local mum Miaomiao Yu. experience. This day presents a rare Tuesday 18 February Studies show classical music can bring 57 Waterloo Road opportunity to walk a full-size Chartres- DICKENS PLAYTIME tremendous benefits to young children, www.kcl.ac.uk style labyrinth and to reflect upon the 2.30pm-4pm; free but the idea is simply to bring adults experience. No need to book. More info Wednesday 12 February Discover the kinds of toys and games and kids of all ages together for a lively DR BIKE from [email protected] morning of music. Suitable for both  children played with when Dickens was 4.30pm-7pm; free Full info at se1.net/15156 a boy. Make some to take home. Suitable under 5s and under 95s. Bring your bike along for a free for children aged 5 to 12. Part of ‘Fact  check from one of Lambeth Council’s Full info at se1.net/14628 professional mechanics. They will be Family & children into Fiction: Happy birthday Mr Dickens’ - a programme of events organised by looking at your brakes, tyres, gears and CLPE 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 general roadworthiness of your bike. If the Cuming Museum and Southwark www.unicorntheatre.com there is something they can quickly fix Webber Street Local History Library. www.clpe.co.uk Saturday 15 February there and then they will, otherwise they  Full info at se1.net/15180 will advise you on what is wrong so you LONDON CHILDREN’S BOOK SWAP Saturday 15 February Morley College can take it to a bike shop well-informed. LONDON CHILDREN’S BOOK SWAP Times TBC; free Unicorn teams up with Discover  Full info at se1.net/15296 12 noon-2pm; free 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 www.morleycollege.ac.uk Children’s Story Centre and other arts Lower Marsh Children and families are invited along to CLPE with an old book to swap for and literature organisations across Lower Marsh a new read from a large selection. The Sunday 9 February London for this drop-in literary event. www.lowermarshmarket.co.uk centre will also be running a series of FAMILY FUN DAY: AROUND THE Bring along your old books to swap and discover lots of great new stories. Other Friday 28 February to Sunday 2 March free family activities and storytelling WORLD in the children’s library including arts 11am-3pm (registration from 10.30am; book swap events are taking place on CHATEAU MARMOT the same day at the Centre for Literacy and crafts. 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Bankside Community Space for three days only. The tasting menu  Full info at se1.net/15266 dinners and brunches are by reservation  18 Great Street T 020 7928 3998 Garden Museum Full info at se1.net/15224 www.betterbankside.co.uk only but the Chateau will be open all Royal Festival Hall day for people visiting the market and Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Monday 24 February wanting to drop in and sample the Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 www.southbankcentre.co.uk BANKSIDE RESIDENTS’ FORUM cheeses, charcuterie or drinks list. 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Using art materials development. and cardboard you will create fun Discover Children’s Story Centre and  61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 headbands, hats, jewellery and other arts and literature organisations Full info at se1.net/15249 www.morleycollege.ac.uk personalised clothes hangers to take across London for this drop-in literary Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until home - inspired by the museum’s 7pm; Sat enquire for details; event. Bring along your old books to 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 exhibition, Fashion & Gardens. Suitable swap and discover lots of great new www.coinstreet.org for accompanied children aged 4-11+. Thursday 6 February stories. Other participating venues  Full info at se1.net/15321 Thursday 13 February LOCAL AND HISTORICAL include the Centre for Literacy in Primary FORUM PERSPECTIVES HMS Education and the Unicorn Theatre. 7pm-9pm 10am-3pm; free; booking advised Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300  Full info at se1.net/15267 Regular public meeting for residents of An information fair with stalls and guest hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk speakers as part of Lesbian Gay Bisexual St Anne’s Church Hall the South Bank, Waterloo and Blackfriars convened by Kate Hoey MP, Simon Transgender (LGBT) History Month. At Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 February Thorburn Square 11am Sue Sanders (founder of LGBT CRACKING CODES Hughes MP and local councillors. Agenda includes Southwark Council’s plans for History Month), introduced by Maggi 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-4pm; included in Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 February Hambling, will be talking about the admission price (kids go free) Blackfriars Road, the reconfiguration ACTING & SINGING WORKSHOPS of the A&E department at St Thomas’ need for LGBT History Month as a tool in Have you ever wanted to decipher secret 1pm-5pm; register via info@quayplayers. educating out prejudice and informing Hospital, news of a proposed business messages? Join a family activity where org.uk or 07546 816544 a group about their history. At 1pm you can intercept messages, map hazards improvement district for the South Quay Players amateur dramatic group Southwark Police’s LGBT liaison officer on a sea chart and even make up your Bank and feedback on the Lower Marsh will talk about how to report a hate own secret code. You’ll learn about some presents free half term acting and regeneration project. 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This lecture is followed along to The Poetry Platform and take www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Meeting for residents of Cathedrals, up by a presentation from one of the the plunge. You’ll be joined by library Chaucer, East Walworth, Faraday and College’s ESOL students about their staff and customers of all ages sharing Monday 3 February Newington wards. Agenda includes experience being LGBT in Kyrgyzstan and their favourite poems. Part of Rhyme NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK presentations on the future of the working for LGBT rights campaigning and Reason 5: Southwark libraries poetry Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre organisation Labrys. The presentation is festival. Spread the Word with writers Femi and the northern roundabout. Jeremy entitled Labrys 10 years on: A review of  LGBT work in Kyrgyzstan. Martin and Laila Sumpton. Take part in a Leach of the Walworth Society will also Full info at se1.net/15274 story mosaic, compose ‘nano-fiction’ (55 give a presentation on local heritage Part of LGBT History Month Thursday 6 February  word stories) and ‘micro-poetry’ (one- buildings. Councillors will be invited to CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN Full info at se1.net/15335 line poems) of your own, and enjoy a fun comment on the proposed boundaries SOUTHWARK THROUGH DICKENS’ Old Operating Theatre, Museum performance from Laila and Femi. for the South Bank and Waterloo and Herb Garret EYES  Full info at se1.net/15302 neighbourhood forum and plan. 6pm-7pm; free  9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 The Old King’s Head Full info at se1.net/13861 An illustrated talk exploring historic www.thegarret.org.uk Waterloo Action Centre prisons in the Borough and how crime 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 featured in Dickens’ writing. Part of ‘Fact Wednesday 5 February www.theoldkingshead.uk.com 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 into Fiction: Happy birthday Mr Dickens’ ROYAL OPERATIONS: OPERATIONS www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk THAT MADE HISTORY Thursday 13 February - a programme of events organised by IT’S NOT A QUESTION OF TASTE: Wednesday 26 February the Cuming Museum and Southwark 6.30pm; £6 (conc £5) A talk by Professor Harold Ellis, CANNIBALISM, SONGS & THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY Local History Library. CUSTOM OF THE SEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL  renowned surgeon of 40 years of service Full info at se1.net/15177 in the NHS from its inception and author 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50); reservations MEETING [email protected] Thursday 13 February of the definitive medical textbook 7pm The Custom of the Sea, which was widely Regular public meeting of the group that THE ‘BERMONDSEY HORROR’ OF Clinical Anatomy and the Cambridge 1848 Illustrated History of Surgery. recognised until the late 19th century, monitors planning and development gave sailors a final hope of surviving 6pm-7pm; free  issues in Waterloo. Hear from the Full info at se1.net/15231 shipwrecks: according to the custom, developers and help to shape the An illustrated talk about the notorious Siobhan Davies Studios case of murderers Fred and Maria when all other options were exhausted, community’s response. it was permitted to draw lots and  Manning and the Charles Dickens 85 St George’s Road T 020 7091 9650 Full info at se1.net/15130 connection. www.siobhandavies.com eat one of the survivors. This practice  Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat declined (but never quite vanished) with Full info at se1.net/15178 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-2pm; free improved maritime safety, an imposed Talks & literature Morley College legal obligation to rescue shipwreck Tuesday 18 February Florence Nightingale Museum 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 survivors, and an English test case that www.morleycollege.ac.uk EXHIBITION TOUR outlawed killing cabin boys for food. St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 2pm-3pm; free; book on 020 7091 9650 Paul Cowdell will talk about the custom, www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Wednesday 12 February A tour of the current exhibition at how and why survival cannibalism was QUEERING THE PICTURE Siobhan Davies Studios led by the artists. practised, and why it declined. A South Thursday 27 February  PASSIONS BETWEEN WOMEN IN 12 noon-1pm; free; book via Full info at se1.net/15319 East London Folklore Society event. www.morleycollege.ac.uk/lgbt  VICTORIAN BRITAIN Friday 28 February Full info at se1.net/15262 6.30pm; £8 from katie@florence- Sadie Lee from the National Portrait Gallery talks about her own practice ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION Wednesday 19 February nightingale.co.uk or 020 7620 0374 7pm; free; book on 020 7091 9650 Were passions between women in 19th and her experience of showing LGBT BEN GARROD: SECRETS OF BONES themed work in a variety of different Shiela Ghelani and straybird discuss 7pm; free; donations welcome century Britain doomed to be thwarted, their collaboration on Ghelani’s Rambles whether from lack of reciprocity, or exhibitions, including traditional and Primatologist, bone geek and TV municipal art shows and spaces. She with Nature project, and their current presenter Ben Garrod is the first speaker because of societal attitudes that installation Ramble 1 at Siobhan Davies stereotyped romantic friendship as will discuss her role as facilitator of the at PubSci’s new venue. Ben’s passion for Queer Perspectives talks at the National Studios. Part of SLAM Last Fridays. bones has allowed him to make a name appropriate, perhaps, for the adolescent  girl, but something that ought to be Portrait Gallery and comment on one or Full info at se1.net/15320 for himself as a skilled articulator of superseded by marriage? Dr Lesley Hall, two pieces in the Morley collection. Southwark & Lambeth skeletons for universities and museums. senior archivist at the Wellcome Library Part of LGBT History Month Archaeological Society His current academic research is focussed will explore the varied stories of women  Full info at se1.net/15333 on the rate of evolutionary adaptation who loved, and were loved by, other Tuesday 11 February of primates introduced to islands, in an women during this historical period. Wednesday 12 February EXCAVATIONS AT THE attempt to understand how populations Part of LGBT History Month QUEERING THE CLASSIC: POMP & CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY respond to environmental change. Ben  PORTRAITURE NEWINGTON will also talk about his new BBC TV series Full info at se1.net/14820 6pm-8pm; free; book via Secrets of Bones. John Harvard Library 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm) at New www.morleycollege.ac.uk/lgbt Cut Housing Co-op Hall, 106 The Cut;  The event will open with Open Barbers, Full info at se1.net/15264 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 non-members £1 The Rose Playhouse www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries a hairdressing service for all genders and Alexis Haslam of Pre-Construct sexualities, giving a presentation about Archaeology talks about the excavations 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 Wednesday 5 February their salon. Kookie of London, a vintage at the site of the Elephant & Castle www.rosetheatre.org.uk IT’LL ALL BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS! clothing company, and Open Barbers will Leisure Centre. 10.30am-12 noon; free; booking provide opportunities for participants  Monday 10 February essential southwark.libraries@ to try vintage clothing, a change of Full info at se1.net/14573 SAVE THE ROSE: AS SEEN THROUGH southwark.gov.uk or 020 7525 1570 hairstyle and have their portrait taken Southwark Cathedral THE EYES OF ONE SOUTHWARK Accompanied by actor Vince Daniels, as a way to explore gender and identity. London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 RESIDENT Nick Dobson delivers a short history of Part of LGBT History Month www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6) from 020 7261 9565 the Great War in poetry and pictures,  or [email protected] capturing its horror, futility and Full info at se1.net/15334 Thursday 27 February Filmed in May 1989 on the final day of occasional dark humour. Part of Rhyme Friday 14 February THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND the original archaeological dig at the and Reason 5: Southwark libraries poetry INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES THE FIRST WORLD WAR site of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre in festival. 10.15am-12 noon; free; book via Garry Weston Library; 6.30pm; free; Park Street, Bankside. Save the Rose,  Full info at se1.net/15273 www.morleycollege.ac.uk/lgbt booking essential rose.harding@ a film shot on VHS by local resident

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Today’s performance includes works from during the day and on into the evening Music The resulting sound is a musical both Beethoven and Shostakovich that landscape evoking the wild and rugged are integral pieces of the repertoire. as Simon Hughes MP, Sam Wanamaker, 1901 Arts Club Simon Jenkins and others addressed mountains of Greece and the sunlight of  Full info at se1.net/15305 the campaign rally to ensure the site 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 the Mediterranean coast. www.1901artsclub.com  was preserved for future generations. Full info at se1.net/15309 The screening includes a newly-edited Thursday 13 February Wednesday 26 February Theatre version of the film, together with an ERATO PIANO TRIO: FROM OUR MAKI SEKIYA HOMELANDS introductory talk by Richard Miller on Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free 51 T 020 7378 1713 his impressions of the Bankside area in 7.30pm; £18 (conc £15) Japanese born virtuoso Maki Sekiya www.menierchocolatefactory.com the 1980s, the subsequent discovery of The Erato Piano Trio presents a musical makes another sensational appearance the theatre remains and the making of journey to their homelands with music since returning from Moscow after 15 Until Saturday 1 March his film. from Shostakovich, Octavio Vazquez, years.Her performance celebrates the CANDIDE Granados and Beethoven. The Erato www.richardqmiller.com rich, Russian musical heritage and Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50-  Piano Trio is rapidly establishing a includes the arrangement of the popular £37.50 Full info at se1.net/15265 reputation as one of the UK’s leading Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5 by Taneev ’s musical comedy young ensembles, praised for their for 4hands, and legendary virtuosic starring Jackie Clune, James Dreyfus, Monday 17 February virtuosity, outstanding musicianship Fra Fee as Candide with Cassidy Janson, THE MAGIC OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: master piece Islamey by Balakirev. Maki and stylistic versatility alike. The will be joined by her husband and pianist Ben Lewis, and David DEMONS AND FORBIDDEN BOOKS recitals in the season will feature music Ilya Chetverikov. Thaxton. 7.30pm; £8 (conc £6; Southwark extending beyond the standard piano   residents £5) Full info at se1.net/15310 Full info at se1.net/14781 trio repertoire, with help from specially National Theatre Lecture by Jon Kenko James on the invited guest performers. St John’s Waterloo South Bank T 020 7452 3000 magic of Doctor Faustus and the esoteric  Full info at se1.net/15322 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 world where Christopher Marlowe would www.stjohnswaterloo.org www.nationaltheatre.org.uk have found inspiration. Friday 14 February Thursday 6 February Until Sunday 2 February  STEINBERG DUO: MUSIC FOR Full info at se1.net/15316 VALENTINES’ DAY RUSH HOUR CONCERT THE LIGHT PRINCESS 7.30pm; £18 (conc £15) 6pm; free Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12, Works from Brahms, Dvorak and Frank Southbank Sinfonia performs works by £26, £33, £38, £48 Guided walks to celebrating love on St Valentine’s Mozart in this free concert conducted by A new musical with music and lyrics by CoolTan Arts Day, from the first flickers of attraction, Simon Over. Tori Amos and book and lyrics by Samuel through passion, inevitable conflict and  Full info at se1.net/15145 Adamson, directed by Marianne Elliott. A grief, to resolution and finally wedding dark fairytale about grief, rebellion and Thursday 13 February bells. The Steinberg Duo are passionate the power of love. Saturday 15 February RUSH HOUR CONCERT about presenting the violin and piano  6pm; free Full info at se1.net/14707 COOLTAN ARTS LARGACTYL repertoire as an equal partnership. SHUFFLE: LGBT HISTORY WALK  Free early-evening concert with Until Saturday 22 February 11.45am-4.30pm; meet outside Maudsley Full info at se1.net/15323 Southbank Sinfonia featuring works by BLURRED LINES Hospital, Denmark Hill Thursday 20 February Mozart, Reinecke and Beethoven. The Shed; In repertoire; £12/£20 A fun guided cultural walk for mental SASHA GRYNYUK RECITAL  Full info at se1.net/15146 A blistering journey through the and physical wellbeing, which will 7.30pm; £15 including pre-concert drink minefield of contemporary gender Thursday 27 February politics. Created by Carrie Cracknell and celebrate LGBT History month with a Programme of Bach and Beethoven with RUSH HOUR CONCERT sashay through the queer history of a pre concert talk from David Whelton. Nick Payne. Cast includes Bryony Hannah, 6pm; free Sinead Matthews, Claire Skinner and Southwark. The walk starts outside the  Full info at se1.net/15324 Southbank Sinfonia and the Academy Susannah Wise. main entrance of the Maudsley Hospital Guy’s Hospital of St Martin in the Fields present Haydn  and ends at the Cross Bones Graveyard Symphony No.103 ‘Drum Roll’ and Full info at se1.net/15064 Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 Mendelssohn Symphony No.2 ‘Italian’. in Redcross Way SE1 with a talk on the www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Until Tuesday 18 March cemetery’s history. CoolTan Arts Largactyl  Full info at se1.net/15147 EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES Shuffle is a guided, stigma-busting Wednesday 5 February St Thomas’ Hospital Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 cultural walk, designed to encourage CHRISTOPHER GUILD (half-price tickets for under-18s) Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7188 7188 Join young Emil as he says goodbye to mental and physical wellbeing, through www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk art, exercise, humour and history. The Scottish pianist Christopher Guild is his mother, leaves his small town and sets walk is accessible to wheelchair users and known for his innovative approach to Monday 10 February off on a journey that will change his life. programming and maintains a strong  people with disabilities. THE RIOT ENSEMBLE Full info at se1.net/15069 interest in unusual piano music.This Part of LGBT History Month Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free concert pairs the striking and original Monday 10 February to Saturday 5 April  An array of American film music centred Full info at se1.net/15295 Variations for Judith with a warhorse of round the work of composer John A TASTE OF HONEY Southwark Local History Library the repertoire, Mussorgsky’s ever-loved Williams. This concert, with violin and Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 Pictures at an Exhibition. piano duo of sisters Ramona and Claudia Directed by Bijan Sheibani. Written by 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 0232  Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Full info at se1.net/15307 Racovicean will include favourites such as Schindler’s List set alongside some of the this is one of the great defining and Wednesday 12 February most exciting and interesting American taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s, Saturday 22 February MAZAIKA DUO offering an explosive celebration of WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF film music of the past 50 years. Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free  the vulnerabilities and strengths of the DICKENS A perfect yet totally unconventional Full info at se1.net/15303 female spirit in a deprived and restless 1.30pm; free marriage of violin, accordion and voice, Monday 17 February world. showcasing performances full of fun and Join local musician and historian Nigel of SIOBHAIN O’HIGGINS  Full info at se1.net/15066 Bermondsey on a guided walk. Starting virtuosity, emotional depth and musical Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free from John Harvard Library, the walk subtlety. Mazaika will take you on a Pianist Siobhain O’Higgins presents a Until Wednesday 28 May will cover many of the sites familiar troika into the heart of Russia, where programme of Russian classical pieces. KING LEAR to Charles Dickens when he lived in you will experience the joy and sorrow  Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 Full info at se1.net/15304 Directed by with Simon Southwark as a boy. It takes around 1 of Russian folk and Gypsy songs and the fiery passion of the gypsy violin. -- Monday 24 February Russell Beale in the title role. An aged hour. Suitable for families. Part of ‘Fact  THE STELLA QUARTET king decides to divide his kingdom into Fiction: Happy birthday Mr Dickens’ Full info at se1.net/15308 Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free between his three daughters, according - a programme of events organised by Wednesday 19 February Originating from around the globe to which of them is most eloquent in the Cuming Museum and Southwark KALIA - England, Ireland, France and Russia- praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says Local History Library. Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free Stella Quartet are all passionate about nothing.  Full info at se1.net/15179 Kalia sings folk tales of love and loss, playing chamber music and sharing it  Full info at se1.net/15067

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Part of The professional revival of Burton Lane’s 7.30pm; Thu, Sat, Sun 2.30pm; £10-£60 Phyllis Pearsall left her husband in Venice Vault Festival. musical since its original West End The first season in the candlelit Sam and came to find her way in London.  Full info at se1.net/15216 run. Comedy writer Fred Saidy and EY Wanamaker Playhouse launches with Then she received a telegram from her Harburg constructed an unashamedly Until Saturday 8 March John Webster’s macabre classic directed father, map publisher Alexander Gross. silly plot involving an Irish immigrant, by artistic director . And here begins the story of how a THE CEMENT GARDEN Tue-Sat 7pm; £20 pursued by a leprechaun, hoping to With as the Duchess. Bohemian artist put down her paints and grow gold in the soil around Fort  World premiere of a new stage Full info at se1.net/14139 picked up the drawing board to follow in Knox whilst finding a husband for his her father’s footsteps to map an entire adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 1978 novel. daughter. The result was a smash hit Thursday 20 February to Sunday 30 March city. Follow their different journeys as The dark coming of age tale of four THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING they intersect and diverge through the abruptly orphaned children is adapted Broadway musical, and the much loved PESTLE thoroughfares and alleyways of London, by Jimmy Osborne and David Aula, who film version starring Fred Astaire, Petula Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Tue-Sat seizing opportunities, to build an iconic also directs. Presented by The Heritage Clark and Tommy Steele. 7.30pm; Thu, Sat, Sun 2.30pm; £10-£60 business midst the tangled labyrinths of Arts Company and FallOut Theatre and  Full info at se1.net/15332 Anarchic and experimental comedy a troubled family saga. For anyone who staged across two levels, the production written by Francis Beaumont. Directed has ever searched to find their way, here will give audience members access to the by Adele Thomas and starring Pauline is a re-telling of the myth and even more cellar which houses the family’s secret, as 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 McLynn as the Citizen’s Wife, Phil Daniels remarkable reality behind the handy, all- the young characters attempt to make www.youngvic.org as the Citizen and Matthew Needham purpose, pocket-sized A-Z Street Guide sense of the adult world. Part of The as Rafe. of 23,000 streets (with house numbers). Vault Festival. Until Saturday 22 February  Phyllis Pearsall was a celebrated resident HAPPY DAYS Full info at se1.net/14140  Full info at se1.net/15217 of Southwark (with a blue plaque Mon-Sat 7.30pm; matinee 2pm Wed 5 bearing her name) so premiering this Unicorn Theatre Feb & Sat 1, 15 & 22; £10-£35 77-85 Newington Causeway T 020 7407 0234 new musical at the new Southwark www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Natalie Abrahami directs Olivier Award- Playhouse has an added resonance. www.unicorntheatre.com winning stage and screen actor Juliet  Until Saturday 8 February Full info at se1.net/15314 Stevenson as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Until Sunday 9 February FIJI LAND The Old Vic surreal masterpiece. GRANDPA’S RAILWAY The Little; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm;  103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 Times vary; £16 (conc £13) Full info at se1.net/14888 £18 (conc £16) www.oldvictheatre.com Alice Malin directs Nick Gill’s surreal and M6’s original new production for incisive play about the very real things Until Saturday 22 February families. Evocative and touching, join that happen when cell doors shut and FORTUNE’S FOOL Grandpa and his working model railway Cinema the world looks away. Welcome to fiji Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; as he takes you on an exciting journey Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre land. Things are very simple here. Follow £11-£75 exploring the past, illuminating the orders. Fight the good fight. You can Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Turgenev’s present and laying tracks for the future. 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 www.coinstreet.org even take photos. Grainer’s new. He savagely funny play is directed by Lucy For ages 5+ Bailey, in this new production which asked to come over here. Wolstead  Friday 21 February stars Iain Glen and Richard McCabe. Full Full info at se1.net/15212 likes to watch people while they sleep. SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS: Meanwhile, Tanc’s here to do what he’s review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Saturday 8 February to Friday 7 March told and do it proper.  HANNAH NEIGHBOURHOOD FILM CLUB Full info at se1.net/14981 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £4  Full info at se1.net/15168 The Rose Playhouse Times vary; £16 (conc £13) Cult theatre maker Chris Thorpe breathes (including snacks, wine and soft drinks) Until Saturday 15 February 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 A selection of recent short films from www.rosetheatre.org.uk new life into the Doctor Faustus legend. WHAT THE WOMEN DID  the London Short Film Festival and Mon-Sat 8pm; Sat 3.30pm; £18 (conc Full info at se1.net/15213 Tuesday 4 to Friday 28 February elsewhere. £16) Saturday 15 February to Sunday 9 March  A triple bill of plays about the First DOCTOR FAUSTUS Full info at se1.net/15172 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12 (conc £10; NOT NOW, BERNARD World War first performed at Southwark Times vary; £16 (conc £13) Shortwave Cinema Playhouse in 2004. Tricia Thorns Southwark resident £9) A one man show by Christopher Loved by children, adults and monsters 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 directs Luck of War by Gwen John, Staines who presents an adaptation of for over thirty years, David McKee’s www.shortwavecinema.com Handmaidens of Death by Herbert Christopher Marlowe’s tale where it picture-book is brought to vivid life Tremaine and The Old Lady Shows Her was first performed 420 years ago. The on the Unicorn stage. Bernard’s got a Until Thursday 6 February Medals by J.M. Barrie. AMERICAN HUSTLE  production marks the 450th anniversary problem. He’s found a monster in the Full info at se1.net/15167 of the birth of Christopher Marlowe. back garden and his mum and dad are Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Tuesday 11 February to Saturday 8 March Directed by Martin Parr. just too busy to notice. So Bernard tries (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9); SUPERIOR DONUTS  Full info at se1.net/15228 to befriend the monster... and that Seventies set comedy drama that is Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; £18 (conc The Vaults doesn’t go quite to plan. Age guide: For picking up award nominations by £16) under 5s the dozen. A con man, his girlfriend, Alongside the Starbucks and organic Leake Street  www.the-vaults.org Full info at se1.net/15214 estranged wife, and a rogue cop, food stores popping up in Uptown Union Theatre become embroiled with the corrupt Chicago, Arthur Przybyszewski runs the Until Saturday 8 March mayor of New York, with hair-raising small donut shop set up by his Polish FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 results. With Christian Bale and Amy immigrant father. Neglected by its www.uniontheatre.biz VEGAS Adams. owner and damaged by local vandals, Tue-Fri 7.30pm; Sat 6.45pm & 9.15pm;  Superior Donuts survives on a diverse £25 Until Saturday 8 February Full info at se1.net/15204 group of loyal local customers. But when THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND: THE Hunter S Thompson’s classic is Friday 7 to Saturday 8 February he employs excitable romantic Franco, SONGS OF KANDER AND EBB re-imagined by director-adaptor PHILOMENA Arthur is forced to confront the modern Lou Stein. This production explores Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm; reality of the American Dream. A darkly Thompson’s newly pertinent warnings £19.50 (conc £17.50) Fri 6.45pm; Sat 6pm; £10 (conc £9) comic and provocative drama, this new about the loss of national identity Kirk Jameson’s brand new production Stephen Frears’s film sees Judi Dench try play from American playwright Tracy and resonates with the instability celebrates the work of one of to locate her son, given up when a baby, Letts brings to life the eclectic characters that threatens journalism today. ’s most admired writing teams. 50 years earlier. and changing face of a busy Chicago current relevance of this cult classic is  Full info at se1.net/15140  Full info at se1.net/15285 londonse1 Some recent community website forum topics Every Monday we send out an email

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Friday 7 to Sunday 9 February Architecture Foundation linocut will be on display. BLUE JASMINE  Bankside T 020 7887 8888 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 Full info at se1.net/15269 Fri 2.30pm (parent & baby); Sun 6pm; Fri Bargehouse £9 (conc £8); Sun £10 (conc £9) www.tate.org.uk/modern www.architecturefoundation.org.uk A Woody Allen film. As a woman Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 recovering from seeing her world fall Monday 3 February www.coinstreet.org Friday 7 February to Saturday 15 March Daily 11am-6pm; free apart around her, and forced to seek HANGING OUT & HALF A CENTURY EXPLORATION ARCHITECTURE: CARNABY STREET: help from the sister she looks down on, DESIGNING WITH NATURE Until Sunday 2 February we witness the peaks and troughs of an COMMUNITY FILM CLUB The first-ever solo show of Exploration, REPUBLIC OF THE MOON American dream gone sour. Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments a thought-leading architecture and An exhibition of artists’ fantastical  Full info at se1.net/15286 from 6.30pm); free to members design practice working in the field imaginings curated by the UK’s Double bill of documentary films. of biomimicry. A striking 3D printed leading experimental art and science Until Thursday 13 February Hanging Out – Youth culture then and installation showcases a selection of four organisation, The Arts Catalyst. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE now is a 50-minute documentary about projects and prototypes from the studio’s  Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Full info at se1.net/15123 youth culture in Lambeth, Camden, the cutting-edge research on sustainable, (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) nature-inspired design, including two Borough Road Gallery City of London and Brent during the Director: Steve McQueen. new, previously unpublished designs. 103 Borough Road T 020 7815 5737  1950s, 1960s and now, directed by Lorna www.boroughroadgallery.co.uk Full info at se1.net/15279  Full info at se1.net/14650 Holder & Yvonne Deutschman. Followed Wed-Fri 1pm-5pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 February by Half a Century Carnaby Street - made ASC Gallery free SAVING MR BANKS by artist Lucy Harrison starring Lloyd 128 Blackfriars Road T 020 7274 7474 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Coxsone as part of Carnaby Echoes, a www.ascstudios.co.uk/asc-gallery Until Saturday 29 March (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) film about The Roaring Twenties a Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free DAVID BOMBERG: OBJECTS OF COLLECTION Director: John Lee Hancock. Starring Tom nightclub in the 1960s which played R&B Until Saturday 8 March Paintings and drawings from ‘A David Hanks and Emma Thompson. How Walt and ska reggae. To join the Community Disney secured the rights to P L Travers’ NOTES ON AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Bomberg Legacy - The Sarah Rose Film Club, email communityfilmclub@ An ongoing project with the same novel Mary Poppins, and what he had to Collection’ and the London South Bank artists occupying different spaces, go through to achieve it. tate.org.uk or call 020 7401 5176. University art collection. Membership is open to those living in durations and modes of presentation   Full info at se1.net/14579 Full info at se1.net/15280 Southwark and Lambeth. over an undetermined amount of time. The inaugural exhibition was held in Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery Friday 14 to Wednesday 19 February  Full info at se1.net/15175 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY 2012, as an exhibition presented as an 89 Southwark Street T 020 7436 2344 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 event, a linear unravelling of works www.caa.org.uk presented within a one hour timeframe Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 11am-5pm; free (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) Exhibitions at a one night event at Limoncello With a stellar cast that includes Benedict 1 Tanner House (London). This, the second phase of the Friday 7 February to Sunday 30 March Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor, project, is an exhibition with correlative CRAFT INTO INDUSTRY this film adaptation of the stage play, Tanner Street audio works available online at www. The exhibition examines the possible about one fateful family gathering, Daily 12 noon-6pm; free notesonanautobiography.co.uk, a relationship between British Studio bristles with drama, comedy and pathos. publication and two events that expand practice and the ceramics industry. Director: John Wells. Starring Meryl Saturday 8 to Wednesday 12 February upon aspects of the static exhibition at  Streep and Julia Roberts. Full info at se1.net/15163 LEATHERMARKET COMMUNITY ASC Gallery. Design Museum  Full info at se1.net/15281 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION  Full info at se1.net/15223 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Friday 14 to Thursday 20 February The award-winning Leathermarket Bankside Gallery www.designmuseum.org Community Sculpture Project - led by INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 local artist Austin Emery - presents the www.banksidegallery.com 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) first exhibition of its creations. See Daily 11am-6pm; free Under 12s free Early 1960s New York, Greenwich Village, the work created by more than 100 and the strong folk music scene, looked participants in last autumn’s workshop Tuesday 4 to Sunday 23 February Until Sunday 22 June at through the jaundiced eye of Llewyn on the Whites Grounds Estate. Following SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS HELLO MY NAME IS PAUL SMITH Over 140 original prints from the UK and In a career spanning over forty years, Davis, a folk singer destined for oblivion. the exhibition, the pieces will be Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen. Starring Japan. While the exhibition will comprise Paul Smith has become one of Britain’s assembled into a permanent sculpture mainly of wood engravings other forms foremost designers. The exhibition is Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. bringing together the collective  of relief print such as woodcut and presented through the different stages Full info at se1.net/15282 creativity of the community workshops. Friday 21 to Thursday 27 February The finished piece will be installed on THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Whites Grounds Estate towards the end News you may Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 of the year. londonse1 (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9)  Full info at se1.net/15313 community website have missed An intimate portrait of Charles Dickens Anise Gallery and the clandestine affair he had with 20 mph limit on Blackfriars & Garden Bridge: public sector the much younger Nelly Turnan, an 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 actress he became besotted with, right www.anisegallery.co.uk London bridges to meet 40 per cent of cost up until his death. Starring Ralph Fiennes Thu-Sun 11am-5pm; free The speed limit on London Bridge and Transport for London is to provide match and Felicity Jones. Blackfriars Bridge is to be reduced to 20 funding for the Government’s £30 million Until Saturday 22 February  Full info at se1.net/15283 mph as part of an 18-month trial by the City contribution to the construction of a tree- PAUL RAFTERY: BERLIN VOIDS: 25 of London Corporation and TfL. lined pedestrian bridge between the South Friday 21 to Thursday 27 February YEARS AFTER THE WALL …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7364 Bank and Victoria Embankment. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB As 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7348 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 the fall of the Berlin Wall, architectural (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) photographer Paul Raftery unveils his Waterloo: put your bin out at A frank and often acerbically funny Boris: South Bank latest project - a documentation of the account of how an American bigot wrong time & face £1,000 fine powerful spaces that have emerged since skateboarders should stay diagnosed with AIDS, goes about Traders and residents on The Cut and the wall was breached by East German The Mayor has advised Southbank Centre acquiring the medicines he feels will Lower Marsh have been warned that they that he supports their plans to redevelop the prolong his life. Director: Jean-Marc protesters in November 1989. Raftery’s face fines of up to £1,000 if they put rubbish evocative photographs focus as much on Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery Valle. Starring Matthew McConaughey bags or bins out on the street at the wrong - but not at the expense of the undercroft and Jennifer Garner. what is not there as they do on what is. time of day.   used by skateboarders. Full info at se1.net/15284 Full info at se1.net/15276 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7361 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7331 Waterloo Bridge parking could Old Kent Road developments be banned Mayor of London Boris Johnson has Parking on Waterloo Bridge could be revealed proposals to designate the Old banned under measures being considered Kent Road as an ‘opportunity area’ for the by Lambeth and the City of Westminster. development of at least 2,500 new homes. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7358 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7327 New County Hall attraction to Join our 26,000+ Twitter followers New Saturday food market to replace film museum launch in Lower Marsh The owners of the London Eye and London A new weekly food market is to launch in Dungeon are planning to open a new visitor Waterloo from Saturday 1 March. attraction at County Hall. twitter.com/se1 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7356 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7323 New pedestrian crossings on Bridge could turn green and Borough High Street yellow for World Cup Southwark Council’s leader has promised The Millennium Bridge could be lit with the that the authority will find cash to fund two colours of the Brazilian flag for two weeks new pedestrian crossings on Borough High this summer during the build-up to the Street within the next year. football World Cup. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7354 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7322 February 2014 8 WHAT’S ON VI twitter.com/se1 in se1 of design and production behind a Week 2014. Menier Gallery Siobhan Davies Studios catwalk collection, offering great insight  into Paul Smith’s design and marketing Full info at se1.net/15157 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 85 St George’s Road T 020 7091 9650 process. Now extended till June. Hayward Gallery www.meniergallery.co.uk www.siobhandavies.com Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat  Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 Full info at se1.net/13586 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-2pm; free www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts Monday 3 to Saturday 8 February Until Sunday 4 May Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); IN THE MAKING REFLECTIONS AND ORIGINS Until Sunday 2 March This exhibition, curated for the Design £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 Ray Podolchuk’s paintings are inspired RAMBLES WITH NATURE: RAMBLE 1 Museum by Edward Barber and Jay £4.50; under 12 free) by the people and landscapes of the An exhibition of four short films based Osgerby, captures over twenty objects Alentejo Litoral region of Portugal. Also on the humble English hedgerow. Until Sunday 23 February mid-manufacture, putting the aesthetic featured is the work of London-based  Full info at se1.net/15318 SUN XUN: YESTERDAY IS of the unfinished centre stage. mixed media artist Jacqueline Franks. Southwark Cathedral  TOMORROW  Full info at se1.net/14990 Full info at se1.net/15227 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Drawing Room Project Space; free More London Riverside The artist’s first solo show in a UK www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street public institution. Sun compiles series Tooley Street www.drawingroom.org.uk www.morelondon.com Sun 10am-6pm; free Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-6pm; of meticulously hand-drawn animations free to create mesmerising films that carry Until Monday 10 March Until Saturday 8 March a complex and underlying political THE LIFEBOAT: COURAGE ON OUR NOW VOYAGER Thursday 20 February to Saturday 19 April narrative. COASTS Refectory; A show exploring new ABSTRACT DRAWING  This open-air exhibition showcases landscape work in pen and wash by Les Richard Deacon CBE is considered one Full info at se1.net/15219 images captured through the lens Williams. He is a member of the Society of the most important British sculptors Until Sunday 27 April of Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Graphic Fine Arts and The Maritime of his generation and has exhibited MARTIN CREED (RNLI) lifeboat crew member and award- Art Group. The work reflects his love of internationally since the early 1980s. This £11 (conc £9) winning professional photographer Nigel London and the River Thames. exhibition is his exploration of the idea Millard.  of ‘abstraction’ in drawing. It includes First retrospective of British artist  Full info at se1.net/15159 work by an international selection of Martin Creed. The exhibition brings Full info at se1.net/15162 Tate Modern artists who employ various strands of together the full range of Creed’s work, Morley College Bankside T 020 7887 8888 abstract drawing, from the calligraphic spanning its most minimal moments to 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 www.tate.org.uk/modern to the generative. extravagant room-sized installations, www.morleycollege.ac.uk Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat  Full info at se1.net/14802 neons, sequential sculptures, kinetic Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until 10am-10pm; free 7pm; Sat enquire for details; Fashion & Textile Museum installations, films, and vibrant paintings.  Until Sunday 9 March 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Full info at se1.net/14887 Monday 3 to Thursday 13 February PAUL KLEE: MAKING VISIBLE www.ftmlondon.org Hide Gallery COMMON GROUND £15 (conc £13.10) Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £8 (conc Cardew Space The UK’s first large-scale Klee exhibition 22B Leathermarket Street T 07802 535844 £5.50); under-12s free An interactive display exploring for over a decade. www.hidegallery.co.uk differences and commonalities.  Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/13704 Until Saturday 17 May Part of LGBT History Month ARTIST TEXTILES: PICASSO TO  Thursday 13 February to Monday 26 May WARHOL Until Sunday 9 February Full info at se1.net/15330 RICHARD HAMILTON This exhibition traces the history of THAT’S NOT WHAT Thursday 6 to Saturday 15 February £13.10 (conc £11.30) 20th century art in textiles and includes Eight artists, all with their own unique TIM ROBERTS: PAINTINGS AND One of the most influential British includes stunning work by artists such way of looking at the world, linked by PRINTS artists of the 20th century, Richard as Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Pablo their sense for the uncanny. A multi- Morley Gallery, King Edward Walk Hamilton (1922-2011) is widely regarded Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol. His principal interest is in the revival as a founding figure of pop art, who  disciplinary survey of painting, drawing, Full info at se1.net/15158 prints and objects - presenting formal of the British tradition of landscape - a continued to experiment and innovate gallery@oxo explorations of colour and surface, genre that has been generally under- over a career of 60 years.  Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street T 020 existential musings on time and space, represented in the BritArt generation. Full info at se1.net/14842  7021 1686 the life ordinary and the life fantastic. Full info at se1.net/15166 Vitrine Bermondsey Square www.coinstreet.org  Daily 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/15311 Tuesday 25 February to Friday 7 March Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 6496 Jerwood Space RAINBOWS THROUGH THE LENS www.vitrinegallery.co.uk Wednesday 12 to Sunday 23 February Cardew Space 24 hours; free X-POSE: MATERIAL AND SURFACE 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 A photographic exhibition by members Hugh Turvey is an artist with an www.jerwoodspace.co.uk of Four in Ten, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Until Saturday 1 March international reputation. His work is Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun and Transgender (LGBT) Peer Support TROUBLES FOR A FRENCH HORN held in public and private collections 10am-3pm; free Group of South London and Maudsley AND A BONGO throughout the world and he is NHS (SLaM). Brussels collective The Ister presents the currently the artist in residence at the Until Sunday 23 February Part of LGBT History Month first solo exhibition in London of Gaillard & Claude. British Institute of Radiology. Bridging JERWOOD OPEN FOREST  Full info at se1.net/15329 the gap between science and art,  Five projects including two National Theatre Full info at se1.net/15275 graphic design and pure photography. collaborations have been selected for Vitrine Bermondsey Street His work has been used in a range of a six-month research and development South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk 183-185 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 6496 media, commercially for marketing and period, supported by Jerwood Visual Arts advertising to film, TV and by architects Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun www.vitrinegallery.co.uk (JVA) and Forestry Commission England. and interior designers. 12 noon-6pm; free Wed-Fri 12 noon-7pm; Sat 12 noon-  6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/15298 Full info at se1.net/14928 Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Until Sunday 9 February Wednesday 26 February to Sunday 2 March TAKE A VIEW: LANDSCAPE Until Saturday 22 February HERITAGE OF CARE 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2013 WITNESS MATTER An exhibition exploring the legacy of www.lafp.co.uk This eagerly anticipated exhibition A two-person exhibition from British volunteers to hospice care today. Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free returns for its seventh year, sponsored by artist Leah Capaldi and Lebanese artist A journey of experiences through Network Rail. Stéphanie Saad, whose practices explore the performativity of objects and display. photography, oral histories and archival Until Wednesday 5 February  Full info at se1.net/15002 material. After the exhibition ends it will MARY PYM  Full info at se1.net/15124 be placed in an archive at King’s College 24 new paintings in oil by Mary Pym. Monday 17 February to Saturday 29 March White Cube Bermondsey Hospital. The exhibition is a culmination PHOTO NOIR: THE ART OF CORNEL Landscapes and seascapes in oil - 144-152 Bermondsey Street T 020 7930 5373 of a project by 37 volunteers who were painted in cubist shapes in beautiful LUCAS invited to immerse themselves in the New exhibition of work by the first stills www.whitecube.com colours. Cicely Saunders Collection at King’s photographer to be awarded a BAFTA Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm;  free College Hospital. Full info at se1.net/15134 for his service to the British Film Industry.   Full info at se1.net/15299 Tuesday 11 February to Wednesday 12 March Full info at se1.net/15065 Until Sunday 13 April Garden Museum JENNY WHEATLEY NEAC RWS Silverprint Gallery FRANZ ACKERMANN Ackermann creates cartographic Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 60 paintings in oil, acrylic and 120 London Road T 020 7620 0169 watercolour drawings of urban www.gardenmuseum.org.uk watercolour. Brilliant colours - www.silverprint.co.uk areas undergoing rapid growth and Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of landscapes, interiors at home and month); £7.50 (conc £6.50; students £3; Until Friday 14 February development. abroad. under-16s free) MASTERS OF CLASSIC AND  Full info at se1.net/15133  Full info at se1.net/15135 COOLTONE Friday 7 February to Sunday 27 April Macai A celebration of the launch of new Until Sunday 13 April FASHION & GARDENS: SPRING/ ILFORD Black&White traditional printing HE XIANGYU SUMMER - AUTUMN/WINTER 14 Jamaica Road papers. Coca-Cola residue is presented in heaped Like gardeners working in their gardens, Artworks visible 24 hours a day; free  mounds inside three museum display the modern fashion world follows a Full info at se1.net/15141 cases, taking on the appearance of seasonal cycle, always looking ahead to Until Wednesday 5 February Silverprint Gallery geological remains. the next season, trying to anticipate the EMILY MOULD 120 London Road T 020 7620 0169  Full info at se1.net/15139 changes of light, temperature, mood Footfall Art presents art works viewable www.silverprint.co.uk and scale that await at the turn of the through the windows of ground- Until Friday 18 April Tuesday 18 February to Saturday 15 March DARREN ALMOND: TO LEAVE A year. Both gardens and dress aim to floor office buildings. Emily translates bring a sense of occasion to a season. PHOTOGRAM OPEN 2014 LIGHT IMPRESSION architectural demolitions and dilapidated This is the first exhibition to explore the This new national prize competition Photographs from the ‘Fullmoon’ and relationship between fashion and garden buildings into her own exploration of and exhibition celebrates the creative ‘Present Form’ series as well as a group design, from the age of Queen Elizabeth paint form and colour. potential of images made without lenses. of small-scale bronze sculptures. I to the catwalks of London Fashion  Full info at se1.net/15327  Full info at se1.net/15142  Full info at se1.net/15119