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A modern drama rooted in the history of Bankside is this month performed for the first time in a decade This month’s 2010 St George in over three nights at Southwark Cathedral. Southwark Festival is a multicultural The Southwark Mysteries is celebration of England’s patron saint. written by John Constable who was There are lots of places in Southwark with St George inspired by the medieval mystery connections – and St George’s Day is also celebrated by plays. He has drawn on the history many of the borough’s communities from around the of Bankside which the poet and world. The St George in Southwark Festival, now in its host a mosaic workshop. actor describes as the “outlaw fourth year, brings together local groups for a long weekend Southwark’s own relic of the saint can be seen after borough”. of fun, artistic and reflective celebrations. the St George’s Day Mass at St George’s Roman Catholic An unlikely Jesus does battle The traditional Ballad of St George & The Dragon play Cathedral and on Sunday the festival ends with an Anglican with Satan for the soul of The presented in 12 minutes by the Lions part will be staged Eucharist and lunch at St George the Martyr. Goose who is a prostitute licensed outside the Market Porter in Stoney Street at 5.30pm Another country recognising St George is Ethiopia by the Liberty of The Clink. This following earlier performances outside the Cathedral, and all weekend an exhibition Signs of Ethiopia, featuring is the riverside area between Tate Blackfriars Settlement and Red Cross Garden. photographs by Richard Szydlo, will be at St George the Modern and Borough Market where The Southwark Mysteries (see right hand panel) can Martyr. John Crow is her street-wise self- be seen on three nights at Southwark Cathedral where on 23 April is also Shakespeare’s Birthday; the Mayor styled ‘prophet’. St George’s Day 23 April there will be a Barcelona-style of London will once again be funding a free open day at The original text has been market with second hand books and roses. Shakespeare’s Globe on Sunday 18 April. See page 3 performed in full once only and Catalonia’s patron saint is St George and Catalan • Full festival programme at www.stgeorgefestival.org.uk ten years on this new production food will be available in Borough Market where strolling • Follow the festival at twitter.com/GeorgeSouthwark is featuring top professional actors, players are to portray such historical figures as Catherine of What is courage? ARTS COMPETITION an adult community cast and three Aragon. The Cosmic Sausages band will also be performing The festival is organising an arts competition on the theme school groups. along with morris dancers. of courage. The competition is open to all ages and entries During the preceding week Another focus for the festival is St George the can be in the form of visual art, a story or poem. Prizes there are free open-air preview Martyr Church in Borough High Street where there will include vouchers and art materials. The closing date is performances of scenes from the be a reflective opening service on St George’s Eve and a Monday 19 April. For full details and to download an play in The Scoop. multicultural fun day on Saturday. St Hugh’s chuch will entry form at www.stgeorgefestival.org.uk • See listing on page 6. Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds
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Garden Museum you to enjoy, including hot dishes and St Mary Magdalen chai. Come and try the tastes and smells What’s On Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 of India. Bermondsey Street www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Full info at se1.net/8618 www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk April Saturday 10 April Southwark Cathedral Saturday 10 April DIANTHUS DAY London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 GUIDED TOURS Comprehensive local listings 10.30am-5pm; Free with museum www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Open 11am-2.30pm; Tours at 11.30am & admission £6 (conc £5) 1pm; Suggested donation £5 To celebrate its 60th anniversary the Friday 23 April Guided tours of the historic 17th century British National Carnation Society will BOOK SALE church. These tours last for about 75 Special events fill the museum with stunning floral 10am-6pm; free minutes, and include the church ground displays. Friends of Southwark Cathedral floor and balcony, and the first floor Bermondsey Square Full info at se1.net/8616 secondhand book sale following of the medieval tower, for a suggested Barcelona’s tradition of selling books and donation of about £5 per person. Bermondsey Square Wednesday 21 April roses on St George’s Day. www.bermondseysquare.co.uk AURICULA DAY Part of St George in Southwark Festival Full info at se1.net/8676 Saturday 17 April 10.30am-5pm; Free with museum Full info at se1.net/8885 Waterloo Millennium Green admission £6 (conc £5) PLANT MARKET St George the Martyr Waterloo Road 10am-2pm Designed by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, the Auricula Theatre will be Plants from nurseries within 100 miles of Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 Wednesday 7 April www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk the M25. Roses from Hampshire, herbs dressed with a range of exquisite show WILDFLOWER WONDERLAND from Essex and camellias from Sussex. auriculas. Full info at se1.net/8615 Saturday 24 April 12 noon-3pm; free Full info at se1.net/8630 ST GEORGE FESTIVAL FUN DAY Activities will include sowing of Blackfriars Settlement Sunday 25 April 2pm-5pm; free wildflowers and vegetables to take Come and discover what St George 1-5 Rushworth Street T 020 7928 9521 SPRING PLANTS & GARDENS FAIR home. Tea, cakes and flower bouquets www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk 10.30am-5pm; £6 (conc £5) means to some of Southwark’s diverse to buy. Spring flower craft activities, Up to 20 specialist nurseries selling a communities. With dance, music, food facepainter and Easter fun. Friday 23 April wide range of fascinating and unusual and gardening. Full info at se1.net/8693 ST GEORGE’S DAY LUNCH plants. Part of St George in Southwark Festival 1pm; £3 Full info at se1.net/8322 Full info at se1.net/8873 Roast lunch followed by open-air theatre performance. Phone Tina Johnston on London Film Museum Sunday 25 April Children & family 020 7928 9521 to reserve a place. County Hall T 020 7202 7040 FESTIVAL SUNDAY LUNCH BFI Southbank Part of St George in Southwark Festival www.themovieum.com The Crypt; 1pm; Price TBC The St George in Southwark Festival Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 Full info at se1.net/8870 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 April concludes with a Sunday lunch in Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre partnership with Blackfriars Settlement. FANFEST Saturday 3 April Part of St George in Southwark Festival 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600 10am-6pm; £15 (conc £10) PARADJANOV / COLLISHAW FAMILY www.coinstreet.org Full info at se1.net/8876 Spy and sci-fi collectors’ convention and WORKSHOP signing event. The weekend is packed St George’s Cathedral Friday 9 to Saturday 10 April with opportunities to meet some of your 11am-12.30pm; booking essential; free CREATIVE ARTS DANCE AND favourite actors and actresses from the Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Explore video art with this gallery- DRAWING WORKSHOPS British film industry. www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk inspired creative and fun family 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm; free; booking Full info at se1.net/8760 workshop. Workshops ideal for ages 7 020 7021 1600, [email protected] Friday 23 April upwards. All adults must be accompanied Learn how to choreograph dance Royal Festival Hall GUIDED TOURS by a child. movements within a group, and Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 11am & 3pm; free Full info at se1.net/8771 experience drawing form and movement www.southbankcentre.co.uk Learn about Southwark’s Roman Catholic directly using a range of drawing Cathedral on the feast day of St George. Tuesday 6 to Friday 9 April techniques and materials. You can just Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 April Part of St George in Southwark Festival MAD HATTER’S FILM SCHOOL dance or draw or do both. YOGA Full info at se1.net/8868 10am-4pm; £15 per child per day Part of Silver Festival Clore Ballroom; 10.15am; free St George in Southwark Festival During the Easter holidays the BFI is Full info at se1.net/8867 Join these Shadow Yoga sessions, which is offering a chance for 9-13 year olds to a form of hatha yoga that deals primarily www.stgeorgefestival.org.uk Cross Bones Graveyard encounter the surreal world of Alice... . with dynamic movements and breathing Friday 23 April Redcross Way to control our state of body and mind. Full info at se1.net/8723 www.crossbones.org.uk THE BALLAD OF ST GEORGE & THE Full info at se1.net/8830 DRAGON Sunday 11 April Friday 23 April Shakespeare’s Globe Blackfriars Settlement 2.30pm; FILM FUNDAY ST GEORGE’S DAY VIGIL Red Cross Garden 4pm; Workshop 11am; film 1.30pm; £9 (conc New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Southwark Cathedral 4.45pm; 6.45pm; free www.shakespeares-globe.org £6.65) A simple ceremony to remember the Market Porter 5.30pm; free Help to launch a celebration of 70 ‘outcast dead’ of our Borough. Sunday 18 April Open-air theatre with the Lions part. years of Puffin books. Come along with Part of St George in Southwark Festival SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHDAY Featuring our hero St George and your favourite book and get ready to Full info at se1.net/8872 CELEBRATIONS a magnificent dragon created by the transform it into a film - just like The company, the Ballad celebrates our East Street Library 12 noon-5pm; free Railway Children. To celebrate the 40th In celebration of William Shakespeare’s national day in 12 musical minutes. birthday of this classic film, BFI presents 168-179 Old Kent Road T 020 7703 0395 Part of St George in Southwark Festival birthday, the Globe opens its doors for this newly remastered digital print. www.southwark.gov.uk; Full info at se1.net/8871 a free day of events and activities. The Full info at se1.net/8724 day is organised as part of the Mayor of St Hugh’s Thursday 8 April London’s St George’s Day celebrations. East Street Library LIBRARY COFFEE MORNING Full info at se1.net/8648 Crosby Row T 020 7367 6706 10.30am-11.30am; free 168-179 Old Kent Road T 020 7703 0395 Come meet the staff of your local library. Southbank Centre Square Saturday 24 April www.southwark.gov.uk Full info at se1.net/8852 ST GEORGE MOSAICS WORKSHOP Belvedere Road Saturday 3 April www.southbankcentre.co.uk 10.30am-1.30pm; free (book via 020 7633 Monday 19 April 0766 or [email protected] CHATTER BOOKS EASTER HEALTHY LIVING FOR SENIORS Friday 9 to Sunday 11 April Make a St George ‘keepsake’ with Janet CRAFTERNOON 10.30am-11.30am; free ALCHEMY MARKET & John Mosaics. 2.30pm-4pm; free Come learn some easy exercises. 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm) Part of St George in Southwark Festival For ages 8-12. Full info at se1.net/8855 A variety of Indian foods and crafts for Full info at se1.net/8884 Full info at se1.net/8851
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Full info at se1.net/8637 New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall Full info at se1.net/8853 Full info at se1.net/8742 Garden Museum 106 The Cut HMS Belfast Shortwave Cinema Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Tuesday 13 April hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk www.shortwavefilms.co.uk RECENT DISCOVERIES BY Thursday 1 April THE MUSEUM OF LONDON Friday 2 to Sunday 18 April Saturday 10 April REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTOPHER ARCHAEOLOGY SERVICE HUNT THE RAT WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE LLOYD 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 Summer 10am-6pm, Winter till 5pm 11am; £4 per child; accompanying adult 6.30pm-8.30pm; £20 from 020 7410 8865 Lecture by Sophie Jackson (senior (last admission 45 minutes before close); free Fergus Garrett and Anna Pavord. consultant, Museum of London £10.70, senior citizen and student £8.60; Stunning adaptation of children’s classic. Full info at se1.net/8610 Archaeology Service). A Southwark & under-16s free Full info at se1.net/8841 Lambeth Archaeological Society event. Thursday 8 April As an alternative to a traditional egg Topolski Century Full info at se1.net/7519 hunt, kids can follow a rhyming riddle REPUTATIONS: HOW ARE trail around the ship, where ten Concert Hall Approach GARDENERS REMEMBERED? Old Operating Theatre, Museum mischievous escaped rats, disguised as www.topolskicentury.org.uk 6.30pm-8.30pm; £15 from 020 7410 8865 and Herb Garret members of the ship’s crew, have hidden Penelope Hobhouse, Dominic Cole and 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 themselves - can you find them all? Saturday 3 & Saturday 17 April Christopher Woodward will explore the www.thegarret.org.uk EASTER ANIMAL HUNT Full info at se1.net/8629 notion of heroes and heroines in the 2pm-5pm; free world of gardening. Thursday 1 April Imperial War Museum Come and explore an animal world of Full info at se1.net/8611 SIR HANS SLOANE: Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Topolski Century. Pick your favourite ENLIGHTENMENT SURGERY london.iwm.org.uk animal and draw it. For children of all Tuesday 13 April 6pm-8pm; £10 inc glass of wine ages. No need to book, just pop in. CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: FRIEND & The Old Operating Theatre is celebrating Saturday 3 to Sunday 18 April Full info at se1.net/8845 HOST the 350th anniversary of the birth of WHEN WILL I HAVE A BANANA 6.30pm-8.30pm; £20 from 020 7410 8865 Sir Hans Sloane, an entrepreneur, AGAIN? Garden designer & writer Mary Keen physician, philanthropist, botanist ... and 11am-12.30pm, 2.30pm-4pm; free Public meetings and novelist Frank Ronan will reflect on a chocolate lover. Find out why food was rationed and Christopher Lloyd as a host, opera-lover, Full info at se1.net/8440 how important the Kitchen Front was to St John’s Waterloo cook, traveller and friend. The Old King’s Head maintaining morale during the war. Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Full info at se1.net/8612 Full info at se1.net/8765 www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 Thursday 22 April www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 April Tuesday 13 April CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: HIS LIFE AT VOICES: ORDINARY PEOPLE, COMMUNITY-POLICE CONSULTATIVE GREAT DIXTER Thursday 8 April EXTRAORDINARY TIMES GROUP FOR LAMBETH 6.30pm-8.30pm; £20 from 020 7410 8865 HAUNTED PUBS OF LONDON 1pm-2pm; free 7pm; free Garden writer and journalist Stephen 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) Meet veterans from the Second World War Public meeting of the group that Anderton will give a talk to launch his Talk by Alan Brook. A South East London as they talk about food and rationing. monitors policing in Lambeth. This new biography of Christopher Lloyd. Folklore Society event. Full info at se1.net/8766 month’s theme is the Flying Squad. Full info at se1.net/8613 Full info at se1.net/8499 Full info at se1.net/8606 John Harvard Library Imperial War Museum The Roebuck Waterloo Action Centre 50 Great Dover Street T 020 7357 7324 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 www.theroebuck.net www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 london.iwm.org.uk www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Thursday 1 April Saturday 10 April Sunday 25 April BANG SAID THE GUN VIOLIN WORKSHOP Tuesday 20 April HITLER’S WILL: IN CONVERSATION ASSOCIATION OF WATERLOO 8pm; £5 (conc £3) 4pm-5pm; free WITH HERMI ROTHMAN Stand-up poetry with Niall O’Sullivan, Free workshop for ages 9 and above. GROUPS AGM Cinema; 3pm; free 7pm Paul Cree and the regulars. Full info at se1.net/8731 Herman (Hermi) Rothman, part of the Full info at se1.net/8859 AGM followed by a screening of part one team that found and translated Hitler’s Saturday 10 April of History of Waterloo which has been political and personal will, is the last- brought up to date by film producer Thursday 8 April CHARLES DICKENS EXTRAVAGANZA surviving German-speaking interrogator BANG SAID THE GUN Jack Thurston who made the hit film The 10am-12 noon; free who served in the British Army during 8pm; £5 (conc £3) Lambeth Estate: A Village on a Street. A celebration of the works of Charles the Second World War. Stand-up poetry with Af Harrold, Hissing Followed by refreshments. Dickens for Silver participants and Full info at se1.net/8763 at Swans and the regulars. Full info at se1.net/8826 children. Share your favourite Charles Full info at se1.net/8860 Dickens story and join in performance, John Harvard Library Wednesday 28 April readings, and dressing up in period WATERLOO COMMUNITY 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Thursday 15 April www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries BANG SAID THE GUN costumes in the newly renovated John DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL Harvard Library. Part of Silver Festival MEETING 8pm; £5 (conc £3) Friday 9 April Stand-up poetry with Fran Landesman, Full info at se1.net/8732 7pm JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY BOOK Tongue in Chic and the regulars. Regular public meeting of the group that Morley College GROUP Full info at se1.net/8861 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 monitors development in the Waterloo 1pm-2pm; free www.morleycollege.ac.uk area. Hear developers present their plans Discussing The Girl with the Dragon Thursday 22 April and contribute to the debate. Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Coffee and tea BANG SAID THE GUN Sunday 18 April Full info at se1.net/7940 will be provided. To pick up a copy of the 8pm; £5 (conc £3) FAMILY CONCERT book or find out more about the group Stand-up poetry with Paul Birtill, Richard 10.30am-12.30pm; £6; children £3; email [email protected] Tyrone Jones and the regulars. family (2+2) £12 Talks & literature Full info at se1.net/8729 Full info at se1.net/8862 Music and dance for all the family. Brilliant Brass: Sparkling music from BFI Southbank Thursday 15 April Waterloo Library sparking players. Arabian Delight: Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 JOHN HARVARD AND THE HISTORY 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 Rhythmic, sensuous and very good for www.bfi.org.uk/southbank OF SOUTHWARK www.lambeth.gov.uk the body - everybody can join Nicola for 1.30pm-3pm; free some belly dancing. Friday 9 April John Harvard, who gave his name Thursday 8 April Full info at se1.net/7743 PSYCHO AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: to Harvard University, was born in WATERLOO LIBRARY BOOK GROUP AN INTERPRETATION Southwark in 1607. Learn more about the 6.30pm-8pm; free Old Operating Theatre, Museum 11am; free for over-60s man at this talk by Stephen Humphrey. This month the group is discussing and Herb Garret Free illustrated talk for seniors. Full info at se1.net/8728 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Investigate how a study of the Hitchcock Full info at se1.net/8733 www.thegarret.org.uk film’s main characters provides insights Friday 16 April into the workings of the unconscious DISCOVERING YOUR FAMILY Tuesday 6, Thursday 8, Tuesday 13 & mind, and also how themes from the HISTORY Guided walks Thursday 15 April story relate to the development of 1pm; free SIR HANS SLOANE: THE ODYSSEY language. Free lunchtime event. Bermondsey Underground Station OF CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP Full info at se1.net/8772 Full info at se1.net/8730 Jamaica Road 2pm; £5.60; conc £4.60; child £3.25; family (2+4) £13.75 Calder Bookshop Saturday 17 April Sunday 25 April Did you know that chocolate was once 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 BERMONDSEY AND SOUTHWARK TALES FROM THE RIVERBANK used as a currency? That one of Britain’s www.oneworldclassics.com AND THE BLITZ 11am; £5 most famous physicians discovered 2pm-4pm; free Guided walk along the Thames Path to and imported chocolate? Give yourself Thursday 8 April A talk by Neil Bright. Waterloo with Aly Mir. a bittersweet treat, come and join a SHAKESPEARE’S POETRY AND Full info at se1.net/8727 Full info at se1.net/8863 workshop and a talk on chocolate and VERSE TALES its properties. 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advisable Museum of the Royal East Street Library Full info at se1.net/8428 The sonnets and other poems revealed Pharmaceutical Society 168-179 Old Kent Road T 020 7703 0395 by Sergio Amigo. 1 Lambeth High Street T 020 7572 2210 www.southwark.gov.uk Sea Life London Aquarium Full info at se1.net/8636 www.rpsgb.org.uk/museum County Hall, T 020 7967 8000 Thursday 22 April www.sealife.co.uk/london Thursday 29 April Wednesday 14 April HEALTHY WALK WALTER SCOTT’S WAVERLEY MY WARD 10.30am; free Friday 2 to Monday 5 April 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advisable 6pm-7pm; email [email protected] to Meet at East Street Library for a healthy CROCODILE WEEKEND Scott’s first novel was published book ; free walk to and around Burgess Park. All Daily 10am-6pm; £17.50 (conc £12.50) anonymously and became an instant Wendy Mathews, author of a new book welcome. Refreshments provided. To welcome the newest residents at the bestseller. It is the only novel ever to on the subject, shares the story behind St Full info at se1.net/8856 April 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5
Southwark Cathedral Good Friday 2 April Easter Sunday 4 April GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE EASTER PARISH COMMUNION London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 12 noon-3pm 10.30am Comedy www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Full info at se1.net/8832 Full info at se1.net/8809 Belushi’s Sunday 4 April Easter Sunday 4 April St Mary Magdalen 161 Borough High Street T 020 7939 9700 OLD SOUTHWARK IN THE BLITZ EASTER SUNDAY DAWN SERVICE Bermondsey Street 11am (meet in southern churchyard); £5 7am Tuesday 13 April www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Neil Bright leads a walk tracing the story Full info at se1.net/8833 THE FALLING DOWN WITH of old Southwark during the Blitz. Hear Good Friday 2 April LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT some of the tales of heroism and tragedy Easter Sunday 4 April 8.30pm; £7 (£5 in advance at www. of local folk. Duration: 3 hours. Finishes EASTER SUNDAY FESTIVAL SERVICE GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE Reflection at 10.30am followed by walk wegottickets.com) at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park. 11am Pete Firman, Anna & Katy, Two Episodes to The Blue at 11.15am for midday Full info at se1.net/8708 Full info at se1.net/8834 Of MASH, Jollie and WitTank. MCs - ‘Life service there. of Si’. Thursday 22 April Full info at se1.net/8678 SERVICE FOR EVE OF ST GEORGE’S Full info at se1.net/8757 Guided bike rides DAY Easter Sunday 4 April Tuesday 27 April Potters Fields Park 6pm-7pm SUNRISE SERVICE A special service with reflection on the FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER Tooley Street 5.45am theme of courage and St George. 8.30pm; £7 (£5 in advance at www. www.pottersfields.co.uk Part of St George in Southwark Festival Full info at se1.net/8679 wegottickets.com) Tom Stade, Inder Manocha, Jon Kudlick Wednesday 21 April Full info at se1.net/8874 Easter Sunday 4 April and Kirsty Mack. MC: Sy Thomas. SILVER SE1 RIDE FAMILY SERVICE 10am-1pm; free Sunday 25 April Full info at se1.net/8758 10.30am Meet outside the wooden cafe for a FESTIVAL EUCHARIST Doggett’s stopping ride with Southwark Cyclists 11am Full info at se1.net/8680 Part of St George in Southwark Festival 1 Blackfriars Bridge T 020 7633 9081 that follows every possible inch of the Southwark Cathedral www.doggettscoatandbadge.co.uk SE1 postcode. Part of Silver Festival Full info at se1.net/8875 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Full info at se1.net/8564 St George’s Cathedral Thursday 29 April www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk COMEDY @ DOGGETT’S Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 7.30pm-10.30pm; £8 (£6 in advance) www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Maundy Thursday 1 April Church services THE LORD’S SUPPER Ninia Benjamin, Simon Donald and Bob Maundy Thursday 1 April Slayer (MC). Christ Church Southwark 6.30pm Full info at se1.net/8399 MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER Preacher: Rt Revd Michael Doe. Followed 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 7.30pm by watch of the Passion until midnight. Shakespeare’s Globe www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Altar of repose until midnight. Full info at se1.net/8801 Full info at se1.net/8880 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Maundy Thursday 1 April www.shakespeares-globe.org MAUNDY THURSDAY COMMUNION Good Friday 2 April Good Friday 2 April 7.30pm LITURGY OF THE THREE HOURS Monday 26 April SOLEMN LITURGY OF THE PASSION COMEDY STORE PLAYERS Full info at se1.net/8590 12 noon-3pm 3pm 8pm; £5-£33 Easter Sunday 4 April Full info at se1.net/8803 Preacher: Rt Revd Michael Doe. The Comedy Store Players return with PARISH COMMUNION Full info at se1.net/8881 a new line-up to present a night of Holy Saturday 3 April 9.30am hilarious and improvised comedy on the Easter morning communion. THE EASTER VIGIL Holy Saturday 3 April 8.30pm famous Globe stage. Full info at se1.net/8589 EASTER VIGIL Full info at se1.net/8711 The Mass begins outside the West Door 8pm Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park with the Service of Light. President and preacher: Rt Revd Richard The Bermondsey Square Hotel Full info at se1.net/8804 Lambeth Road Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston. Bermondsey Square, Bermondsey Street T Easter Sunday 4 April Full info at se1.net/8882 0870 111 2525 Good Friday 2 April www.bermondseysquarehotel.co.uk ECUMENICAL WALK OF WITNESS SOLEMN SUNG MASS Assemble GMH Park 10am; service at 11.30am Easter Sunday 4 April Friday 2 April Waterloo Station 11am Full info at se1.net/8805 CHORAL EUCHARIST THE COMEDY CLUB BERMONDSEY Churches Together in North Lambeth 11am 9pmdoors open 6pm; £15 (members £13) annual Good Friday Walk of Witness. Friday 23 April President: Rt Revd Richard Cheetham, Padraig Hyland, Quincy & Ryan Culminates in a service on the concourse ST GEORGE’S DAY MASS Bishop of Kingston. Preacher: Very Revd Mcdonald. 12.30pm of Waterloo Station. Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark. Full info at se1.net/8754 Mass attended by the Chapter and Full info at se1.net/8802 Full info at se1.net/8883 Cathedral Friends. The relic of St George Friday 16 April St Andrew’s Short Street will be on display after Mass. THE COMEDY CLUB BERMONDSEY Short Street T 020 7401 3848 Part of St George in Southwark Festival 9pmdoors open 6pm; £15 (members £13) Full info at se1.net/8869 Music Kevin Mccarthy, special guest and Barry Easter Sunday 4 April St John’s Waterloo London Film Museum Castagnola. DAWN MASS Full info at se1.net/8755 5.30am Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 County Hall T 020 7202 7040 Followed by Easter breakfast. www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk www.themovieum.com Friday 30 April Full info at se1.net/8808 Maundy Thursday 1 April THE COMEDY CLUB BERMONDSEY Thursday 1 to Saturday 10 April 9pmdoors open 6pm; £15 (members £13) St George the Martyr EUCHARIST AND STRIPPING OF THE AFTERNOON CONCERTS ALTAR Fortnightly Bermondsey comedy club. Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 2.30pm & 4pm; £12 (conc £10) 7pm Mark Maier, Simon Fielder & Special P. www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk Followed by vigil until midnight. Chamber Ensemble of London bring you Full info at se1.net/8756 14 concerts with iconic imagery projected Maundy Thursday 1 April Full info at se1.net/8806 The Miller MAUNDY THURSDAY SERVICE onto 5 screens in the historic council Good Friday 2 April chamber. Directed by international 96 Snowsfields 8pm www.themiller.co.uk Followed by the watch. MEDITATION AND LITURGY violinist Peter Fisher, the concerts will Full info at se1.net/8831 1.30pm be spread over 10 afternoons with two Tuesday 6 April Full info at se1.net/8807 different programmes. THE MAYDAYS PRESENT... Full info at se1.net/8761 TONIGHT’S TOP STORY 8.30pm; £7/£5 St John’s Waterloo Newsflash! Award-winning improvisers Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 The Maydays and an ingenious musician www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk create a totally improvised show from local news stories chosen by you. Thursday 22 April Full info at se1.net/8735 RUSH HOUR CONCERT The Old King’s Head Follow us on Twitter 6pm; free Free after-work concert by Southbank 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 Sinfonia. Enjoy a glass of wine while you www.theoldkingshead.uk.com listen... Thursday 22 April Full info at se1.net/8378 UP THE ARTS COMEDY 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) Friday 23 to Saturday 24 April Meryl O’Rourke, Henry Paker and Wes twitter.com/se1 MIDSUMMER OPERA Zaharuk. Plus Paul Ricketts (MC). 7pm & 8pm; £18 (conc £14) from 020 Full info at se1.net/8456 7652 0070 The Ship Der Freischutz or The Devil’s Bullet. Romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber 68 Borough Road T 020 7403 7059 sung in German with English narration. Friday 2 April for the very latest Full info at se1.net/8320 SHIP OF FOOLS COMEDY 8.30pm; £3 local news, events Thursday 29 April Good Friday comedy with Marysia T, RUSH HOUR CONCERT Elizabeth Mee, William Lee, Richard and trivia 6pm; free Hardisty, Chris Norton Walker, Naz Free after-work concert by Southbank Osmanoglu, Richard Fletcher and MC: Sinfonia. Elise Harris. Full info at se1.net/8379 Full info at se1.net/8601 April 2010 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1
Until Tuesday 15 June Southwark Playhouse Young Vic Friday 16 April THE WHITE GUARD SHIP OF FOOLS COMEDY Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10- Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 www.youngvic.org 8.30pm; £3 £42.50 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Max Dowling, Robert White. MC: Elise Howard Davies directs The White Guard Until Saturday 10 April Harris. by Mikhail Bulgakov, in a new version by Until Saturday 17 April SWEET NOTHINGS Full info at se1.net/8602 Andrew Upton. BEYOND THE PALE Times vary; From £15 Vinopolis Full info at se1.net/8133 Mon-Fri 7.30pm & 9.30pm; Sat 3pm & Luc Bondy directs a new version of 7.30pm; £8, £13, £18 (airline style) Arthur Schnitzler’s drama of love, sex 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 and intrigue by David Harrower. www.vinopolis.co.uk Until Saturday 19 June Drawing on Southwark’s history as Full info at se1.net/8008 BEYOND THE HORIZON a lawless hinterland outside London’s Friday 30 April Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 city limits, Beyond the Pale imagines an Saturday 24 April to Saturday 8 May LAUGHTER LOUNGE Powerful Pulitzer prize-winning drama alternative present where civilisation ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door that formulated Eugene O’Neill’s vision clashes with the barbarians. Audience Times vary; from £27.50 Andrew Bird, Mark Maier, Addy Borgh of America. Fiona Shaw stages Hans Werner Henze’s and Dave Ward (MC). Full info at se1.net/8638 members will take a hands on role in modern classic in an ENO/Young Vic Full info at se1.net/8478 the drama, manipulating the actors and collaboration. Rose Theatre Exhibition shaping their actions. Full info at se1.net/8011 56 Park Street Full info at se1.net/8753 Theatre www.rosetheatre.org.uk Thursday 29 April to Saturday 5 June The Old Vic EURYDICE County Hall The Maria; from £12 Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 April 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Belvedere Road Vivid re-imagining of the Greek myth of THE REGINA MONOLOGUES www.oldvictheatre.com www.londoncountyhall.com 7.30pm (Sun 3pm); £10 (conc £8) from Orpheus and Eurydice. Full info at se1.net/8406 Thursday 15 April to Saturday 22 May 020 7261 9565 or [email protected] Saturday 10 April to Saturday 5 June COUNTED? Robert Inston’s highly original one-man THE REAL THING Mon-Sat 7.30pm + some matinees; £22 show on Elizabeth I. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Cinema from www.roundhouse.org.uk or on Full info at se1.net/8557 Prices vary Roxy Bar & Screen the door Anna Mackmin directs Tom Stoppard’s The General Election 2010 and the nation Saturday 24 April multi-award-winning modern classic. 128-132 Borough High Street T 020 7407 4057 can vote - but what does it mean to be HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR www.roxybarandscreen.com counted? In a country where people are SHAKESPEARE Full info at se1.net/8250 7.30pm; £5 from 020 7261 9565 or Sunday 4 April more likely to vote for X-Factor than for The Old Vic Tunnels the next Prime Minister, a documentary- [email protected] THE WIZARD OF OZ & THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN play comes right to Westminster’s At the place where it all began... Leake Street OF THE DESERT doorstep, shedding light on why - in The Rose. Shakespeare at its (al)most 6pm; £5 accessible! A heady mix of romance, Until Friday 2 April a world at war over democracy and in Two all-time favourite camp classics economic meltdown - so many people tragedy, comedy, a bit of Bard biography, YOUR NATION LOVES YOU compered by drag act Thom Shaw. First don’t vote. some sonnets... and a lot of fun! 7pm & 9.30pm (Sat & Sun 4.30pm & of Roxy’s 10-week Extraordinary Film Full info at se1.net/8759 Presented as a rehearsed reading by The 7pm; Wed 1.30pm & 7pm); £10 from Season of screenings and guest speakers. Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Guerilla Shakespeare Company, Britain’s www.yournationlovesyou.com Full info at se1.net/8774 premier hit and run bardolators. Suitable A new piece of devised site-specific Elephant and Castle Sunday 11 April for all ages. Be prepared to join in... theatre by Delirium. Full info at se1.net/8558 THE ADDICTION & THE FUNERAL Until Saturday 3 April Full info at se1.net/8828 7pm; £5 DISCONNECT A double-bill from classic New York Theatre Local, Unit 215; Wed-Sat 7pm; Monday 12 to Saturday 24 April The Scoop LOOK BACK IN ANGER underground filmmaker Abel Ferrara, Thu 4pm; Sat 4pm; £8 (conc £5) More London Riverside with introduction from film critic Peter 7.30pm (Sat 24 3pm); £12 (conc £10) Second in a season of plays presented in www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Bradshaw. an empty shop unit by the Royal Court from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@ Full info at se1.net/8775 rosetheatre.org.uk Theatre. Drama set in a call centre by Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 April John Osborne’s 1956 play. Monday 12 April Chennai-based Anupama Chandrasekhar. THE SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES Full info at se1.net/8534 Full info at se1.net/8822 TASTE OF HONEY & THE DEVILS 12 noon-2pm each day; free 7pm; £5 Menier Chocolate Factory Monday 26 April to Saturday 1 May Performances of short scenes from The Introduction & Q&A with Murray Melvin. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 THE TRAGEDY OF SOLIMAN AND Southwark Mysteries by John Constable, Full info at se1.net/8776 www.menierchocolatefactory.com PERSEDA together with related poems and songs, Sunday 18 April Until Saturday 8 May 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7261 performed by members of the cast. SATANTANGO SHIRLEY VALENTINE 9565 or [email protected] Full info at se1.net/8864 2pm; £3 In repertory with Educating Rita; £25 Trifle Productions present the rich and The 7-hour 1944 arthouse classic (with Unicorn Theatre (meal deal £34) rare Elizabethan classic. With live music 2 intermissions!) plus introduction from Glen Walford directs Meera Syal. and post show discussion. 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 film critic Jonathan Romney. Full info at se1.net/8664 Full info at se1.net/8556 www.unicorntheatre.com Full info at se1.net/8777 Shakespeare’s Globe Sunday 25 April Until Saturday 8 May Until Sunday 18 April EDUCATING RITA New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 THE IDIOTS & JULIEN, DONKEY BOY THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY 6pm; £5 In repertory with Shirley Valentine; £25 www.shakespeares-globe.org Times vary; £16 (conc £10); previews £6 Introduced by film critic Tom Huddleston. (meal deal £34) Siobhan Dowd’s novel is brought to the Jeremy Sams directs Larry Lamb and Friday 23 April to Sunday 27 June Full info at se1.net/8778 stage by the writer/director team behind Laura Dos Santos. MACBETH Monday 26 April Full info at se1.net/8665 In repertory; £5-£32 the Unicorn’s 2006 production of Journey MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE Lucy Bailey’s production of ‘The Scottish to the River Sea. For ages 10+ National Theatre 8pm; £3 play’ opens the Kings and Rogues season Full info at se1.net/7738 A milestone in mainstream queer cinema, South Bank T 020 7452 3000 at the Globe. This production will draw with Mick Audsley in conversation. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk on the primitive, violent climate of 11th Wednesday 7 to Sunday 18 April Full info at se1.net/8779 century Scotland. Until Tuesday 20 April HOW COLD MY TOES Shortwave Cinema Full info at se1.net/8222 Times vary; £10.50 (conc £8) REALLY OLD, LIKE FORTY FIVE 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£31 Southwark Cathedral Award-winning theatre company www.shortwavefilms.co.uk A new play by Tamsin Oglesby directed London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Travelling Light packs a whole year into by Anna Mackmin. Sunday 4 April www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk one enchanting hour in this brand new Full info at se1.net/8131 HARVEY production. 2.15pm; £6 (conc £5) Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 April Until Wednesday 2 June Full info at se1.net/8411 James Stewart stars as Elwood P Dowd, THE SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES best friend of the eponymous Harvey LONDON ASSURANCE Union Theatre Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£42.50 7.15pm (doors open 6.45pm); £20 (conc and the victim of his anxious aunt’s cruel Dion Boucicault’s play is directed by £15) from www.wegottickets.com/f/1435 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 plan to get him certified. Nicholas Hytner. or Southwark Cathedral Shop www.uniontheatre.biz Full info at se1.net/8839 A once-in-a-decade chance to see The Full info at se1.net/8132 Friday 2 to Thursday 15 April Southwark Mysteries by John Constable, Until Saturday 24 April SHERLOCK HOLMES Tuesday 20 April to Tuesday 8 June directed by Sarah Davey-Hull. The Day ESCHARA AND SHOOT/GET WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN Wed-Sat 8pm; Sun 7.30pm; £6 (conc £5) of Judgement... an unconventional Jesus TREASURE/REPEAT Guy Ritchie’s all-action reinvention of Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 does battle with Satan for the souls of Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8) Sherlock Holmes. Marianne Elliott directs Thomas The Goose - a medieval prostitute - her Full info at se1.net/8838 Middleton’s play. Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/ street-wise devotee John Crow, and the Repeat is a collection of short plays by Full info at se1.net/8640 wicked people of Southwark through the Friday 16 to Sunday 25 April one of the UK’s most important living ages. Inspired by the medieval mystery GIVE ME YOUR HAND Until Saturday 12 June plays, this modern drama is rooted in the writers that will leave you questioning Fri 6.30pm; Tue 7pm; Wed/Thu 8pm; Sat/ SPRING STORM Sun 7pm; £6 (conc £5) history of Bankside - London’s “outlaw your social mores. Eschara by Phillip Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 Whiteman is the first play to examine The screening on 16 April includes a Q&A A gripping early play by Tennessee borough” - mixing Bible stories with local with cast members Alexandre and Victor the after-effect of the 7/7 attacks on the Williams, which received its European folklore and contemporary humour. Carril as part of London International premiere in this production. Part of St George in Southwark Festival London transport system. Film Festival. Full info at se1.net/8639 Full info at se1.net/8375 Full info at se1.net/8343 Full info at se1.net/8842 April 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Saturday 24 to Thursday 29 April Until Sunday 31 October Master Piper Siobhan Davies Studios 1234 BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE Sat & Sun 8.45pm; Wed & Thu 8pm; £6 YEAR 2010 67-69 Kennington Road T 020 7401 9599 85 St George’s Road (conc £5) The winner is a folding electrical plug www.masterpiper.com www.siobhandavies.com Wed-Fri 12 noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 12 noon- A witty and affectionate take on the designed by a graduate of SE1’s own Friday 16 April to Sunday 30 May 5pm by appointment; free story of the rock ‘n’ roll dreams of London College of Communication. ALEXANDRA HUGHES: bespectacled Stevie, who endures a Full info at se1.net/7932 ARRANGEMENTS job he despises alongside call centre Until Friday 16 April Fashion & Textile Museum JUSTIN MORTIMER: New works by Canadian-born artist. colleague/drummer extraordinaire Neil. Full info at se1.net/8866 Full info at se1.net/8843 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 IN YOUR OWN VILLAGE www.ftmlondon.org Powerful and challenging paintings Southbank Printmakers Tate Modern Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £6.50 depicting the aftermath of the Unit 12, Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 8184 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 (conc £3.50); under-12s free incomprehensible suffering that humans www.southbank-printmakers.com www.tate.org.uk/modern can inflict on their fellow men. Mon-Fri 11.30am-6.30pm; Sat & Sun Until Sunday 13 June Monday 12 April VERY SANDERSON: 150 YEARS OF Full info at se1.net/8350 10am-8pm; free THE LADY KILLERS: ENGLISH DECORATION Menier Gallery COMMUNITY FILM CLUB Until Sunday 11 April The best of its archive as well as brand EMIKO AIDA Starr Auditorium; 7pmrefreshments 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 new collections. www.meniergallery.co.uk Colourful etchings. from 6.30pm; free Full info at se1.net/7748 Director: Alexander Mackendrick. 1955. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/8292 Membership of the Community Film Club gallery@oxo Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 April Monday 12 to Sunday 25 April is aimed at those living in Southwark and Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 FACE VALUES MYCHAEL BARRATT Lambeth. To become a member (it’s free) www.coinstreet.org Coloured etchings of imaginary email [email protected] or Daily 11am-6pm; free David Jones is a photographer and theatre director. characters suggesting narrative. join at door. Full info at se1.net/8293 Full info at se1.net/8329 Until Sunday 11 April Full info at se1.net/8737 INTIMATIONS Tuesday 13 to Saturday 17 April Monday 26 April to Sunday 9 May Photographers David Ward and Anna AIMEE BIRNBAUM Booth have again joined forces for an UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 89TH Exhibitions OPEN ANNUAL EXHIBITION Many of Aimee’s etchings show her exhibition of new work. interest in the theatre and dance. Bankside Gallery From the abstract to the figurative, fine Full info at se1.net/8746 Full info at se1.net/8294 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 art at realistic prices suitable for any www.banksidegallery.com Wednesday 28 April to Sunday 16 May home or office. Southwark Cathedral LONDON PRINTMAKERS Daily 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/8738 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 A new group exhibiting group of www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Until Saturday 17 April established printmakers based in the Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 April Daily 8am-6pm; free ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY capital. DO YOU LIKE THE SHAPE YOU’RE SPRING EXHIBITION Full info at se1.net/8749 IN? Until Monday 5 April Recent works in a range of water based Garden Museum Thought-provoking exhibition. FOR OLIVIA media. Full info at se1.net/8739 Earth drawings by Edith Slee. Full info at se1.net/8507 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Full info at se1.net/8662 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Wednesday 28 April to Saturday 1 May Wednesday 28 April to Monday 3 May Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of St George the Martyr month); £6 (conc £5) HIDDEN BEATLES GALLERY SOUTH LONDON WOMEN ARTISTS This will be the first time you can see all Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 Showcase for female artists living or www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk 37 unique and previously unseen images working south of the river. Thursday 1 April to Sunday 12 September all together. Full info at se1.net/8505 CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: A LIFE AT Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 April GREAT DIXTER Full info at se1.net/8740 SIGNS OF ETHIOPIA Bargehouse The first major retrospective about the Morley College Thu 6pm-9pm; Fri 12 noon-9pm; Sat Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 life and work of Christopher Lloyd. 2pm-9pm; Sun 2pm-4pm; free www.coinstreet.org Full info at se1.net/8609 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Polish photographer Richard Szydlo Daily 11am-6pm; free www.morleycollege.ac.uk shows his latest pictures. Ethiopia is the Imperial War Museum Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until one African country which celebrates St Friday 9 to Monday 19 April Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; George as a patron saint. INTIMATIONS london.iwm.org.uk Part of St George in Southwark Festival Virgin Media collaborates with United Daily 10am-6pm; free Thursday 15 to Thursday 29 April Full info at se1.net/8686 Visual Artists to create an interactive MADE2010: PART I light installation celebrating 10 years of Until Sunday 5 September TEXTILES & GLASS ENGRAVING broadband in the UK. OUTBREAK 1939 This three-part exhibition showcases the Tate Modern Full info at se1.net/8747 Exploring the build-up and preparations creativity and talent of adult learners. Bankside T 020 7887 8888 for war, an hour-by-hour countdown of Full info at se1.net/8712 www.tate.org.uk/modern BFI Southbank events on 3 September 1939 and a look Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 at the early months of the conflict. National Theatre 10am-10pm; free www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Full info at se1.net/6283 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Until Monday 5 April Until Sunday 31 October Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun MIROSLAW BALKA: HOW IT IS Until Thursday 6 May HORRIBLE HISTORIES: TERRIBLE 12 noon-6pm; free Last chance to walk into Balka’s pitch MAT COLLISHAW: ON SERGEI TRENCHES black chamber in the Turbine Hall. £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family PARADJANOV Until Sunday 11 April Full info at se1.net/5426 Contemporary artist Mat Collishaw has ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 FROM CONGO WITH LOVE created a new commission in response A family exhibition based on the Until Monday 3 May Theatre Square; 24 hours; free to the highly creative work of the late Trenches Handbook. ARSHILE GORKY: A RETROSPECTIVE Collaboration between Oxfam and Georgian/Armenian film director and Full info at se1.net/6282 £10 (conc £8.50) artist Sergei Paradjanov (1929-1990). portrait photographer Rankin. Examines the extraordinary contribution Full info at se1.net/8542 Until Monday 4 January Full info at se1.net/8594 of this seminal figure in abstract THE MINISTRY OF FOOD expressionism. This retrospective covers City Hall £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family Monday 5 April to Sunday 16 May Gorky’s 25-year artistic career which was The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 £13) DOUG PATTERSON: cut short by his suicide in 1949. www.london.gov.uk How the British public adapted to a ARTIST IN PARADISE Full info at se1.net/7953 Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Paintings and drawings which record Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, three of the world’s great faiths. Until Monday 3 May Until Friday 7 May taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being Full info at se1.net/8643 MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: THE WORST LONDON & LONDONERS both frugal and inventive on the ‘Kitchen CONDITION IS TO PASS UNDER A Perpectives on London by artists Harriet Front’. Poussin Gallery SWORD WHICH IS NOT ONE’S OWN Armstrong, Noel Pain, Ed Gray and Anne Full info at se1.net/8110 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 The links between western science fiction Clements. www.poussin-gallery.com and military-industrial activities in Iraq Full info at se1.net/8670 Jerwood Space Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free during and after the period of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Design Museum 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Until Saturday 17 April Full info at se1.net/8391 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun POUSSIN REVIEW 2010: www.designmuseum.org 10am-3pm; free NEW TO SIGHT Until Sunday 16 May Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Painting & sculpture from 1975-present. VAN DOESBURG AND THE 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); Wednesday 21 April to Sunday 30 May Full info at se1.net/8337 INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE: Under 12s free JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS CONSTRUCTING A NEW WORLD Each of the participating artists, who Purdy Hicks Gallery £10 (conc £8.50) Until Sunday 5 September must have graduated since 2000, receives First major UK exhibition devoted to SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 an equal share of £30,000 to support www.purdyhicks.com radical Dutch multi-disciplinary artist. Key examples of how design can deliver them at this critical point in their careers. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/7952 a more sustainable future. Full info at se1.net/8719 Full info at se1.net/7933 Unit 24 Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Until Saturday 24 April FELIM EGAN 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 Until Sunday 5 September unit24.info 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Renowned Irish artist. URBAN AFRICA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC www.llewellynalexander.com Mon-Wed 8am-5pm, Thu & Fri JOURNEY BY DAVID ADJAYE Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Full info at se1.net/8333 8am-6.30pm; David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and Until Saturday 10 April Wednesday 28 April to Monday 24 May Until Friday 16 April document key cities in Africa as part of JEREMY BARLOW ANNI LEPPALA AND SUZANNA BRAINWASHING an ongoing research project to study Oil paintings featuring Venice, Verona MAJURI Anka Mierzejewska’s latest paintings new patterns of urbanism. and other attractive corners of Europe. Helsinki School of Art and Design. represent headphones. Full info at se1.net/7934 Full info at se1.net/8698 Full info at se1.net/8335 Full info at se1.net/8619 April 2010 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 FASHION ART Bermondsey Street designer Tate Modern wants shows fashion can flourish in your memories tough times
When the recession forced fashion designer Amanda Thompson Tate Modern is appealing for members of to close her wholesale fashion business, she looked like yet the public to submit their memories from another casualty of the credit crunch. Instead she has made the gallery’s first 10 years. People’s contributions will be used in a film that will tell the move from wholesaler to retailer and has seen her business the story of the public’s relationship to the gallery. Stories, prosper. pictures and film clips will be gathered via Tate’s blog, Flickr Amanda opened her Pussy Willow boutique in Bermondsey Street in October 2008 at a time group, Facebook, Twitter and on YouTube. when many of her former stockists were shutting up shop. More than 45 million visitors have passed through the “I just thought ‘This is it. I’ve just got to go for it’,” said Amanda. “So I just threw myself in gallery’s doors since it first opened to the public on 12 May and fought tooth and nail to raise the money to take on the shop.” 2000, the day after the Queen visited Bankside for the official Originally a ready-to-wear range, Amanda saw a gap in the market for individually tailored opening. pieces and her made-to-measure concept was born. On Tate Modern’s birthday there will be a special morning Customer Jackie Collins from Islington said: “You have the opportunity to see new shapes procession from Borough Market to the gallery featuring 300 and designs be created right in front of you. The process of selecting the fabric, altering the design local children, a band and cakes which are inspired by the and fittings is a lot of fun and ensures each piece is flattering.” building. Visitors will be invited to enjoy a slice of the birthday Word of mouth is spreading and Pussy Willow has even captured the eye of fashion bible cakes on the day. Vogue, who featured a delicate chiffon blouse from the current collection in their February issue. Tate Modern will stage a major free arts festival, No Soul The boutique has been a welcome addition to the area. Local resident Penny Watson said: For Sale – A Festival of Independents, in the Turbine Hall from “The area has always been well-connected with fashion but Pussy Willow provides a very good Friday 14 to Sunday 16 May. Tate, working in collaboration excuse to go shopping.” with artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and The spring/summer collection will be launched with a fashion show in the store at the Massimiliano Gioni, has invited 50 independent art spaces and beginning of April. “Last season we had over 200 people at three shows,” said Amanda. “So this collectives from Shanghai to Prague to create unique projects season we thought we’d do four shows as there are so many people on our mailing list. It’s very for this global arts festival. intimate, like an old-school couture house but in a new way.” Last month Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí As Amanda is proving, fashion is definitely not one size fits all. announced his resignation after guiding the gallery through • Prices start from £220; Pussy Willow is located at 90 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UB. seven of its first 10 years. La r a Br u n t • Submit your story at blog.tate.org.uk
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