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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 inIssue 99 FREE Email: [email protected] Southwark Playhouse prepares to leave Southwark Bridge Road

The last play at the Emerging Directors Award and in Southwark Playhouse is early 2007 the annual Shakespeare for Ian Davenport’s Poured Lines installation will be unveiled in Southwark a specially commissioned Schools production will be directed by Street early this month. Prints associated with the project can be seen at the the award winner. Alan Cristea Gallery (31 Cork Street W1) from Wednesday 13 September to work set in Southwark. Southwark Playhouse opened Everything Must Go has been Saturday 7 October. in November 1993 with old church written by Stephen Sharkey and the one hour comedy is directed by pews for seats in the former tea Mayor’s Thames Festival Charlotte Gwinner. The play is about warehouse with a courtyard entrance a Southwark couple, married for forty in Southwark Bridge Road. and Open House London years, who create a storm amongst It was conceived as a result of friends and family with their plans for singer-actress Juliet Alderice having The weekend of Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September moving on. had to scour London for a venue offers a fabulous opportunity to explore SE1; once Presented by a professional cast for her own one-woman show. She with support from members of the became fired to provide a stage for again the Mayor’s Thames Festival promises a packed theatre’s youth and older people’s innovative work and together with her programme along the banks of the river whilst local groups, Everything Must Go runs from buildings will be throwing open their doors as part of Tuesday 12 to Friday 15 September as husband Tom Wilson she has placed Open House London. both a celebration and a fundraising education and community work at The Mayor’s Thames Festival – attended by half a million people last year opportunity for future plans. Tickets the heart of the theatre as will be – takes place between Westminster Bridge and Tower Bridge on Saturday and are £20 (conc £15). demonstrated by the final production Sunday from 12 noon to 10pm. The festival culminates with the now traditional Chief executive Juliet Alderdice, in Southwark Bridge Road. night carnival and fireworks display on Sunday night. education director Tom Wilson and Simon Callow and Prunella general manager Chris Smyrnios are Almost 20 local buildings are participating in Open House London this Scales have appeared at the Playhouse looking to continue the theatre’s work year; some for the first time. There is an opportunity to get a sneak peek inside and former artistic director Memet the refurbished Royal Festival Hall, but book quickly as capacity is limited. in various venues until a purpose built Ergen went on to establish the Arcola • www.openhouselondon.org & www.thamesfestival.org theatre is erected at the Elephant & • Turn to page 8 for an at-a-glance guide to the weekend’s events Castle. Theatre in Dalston. • Full listings including interactive maps can be found at This autumn there will be • See listings on page 5. www.London-SE1.co.uk the launch of the Better Bankside • www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

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Waterloo Road What’s On SE1 This is an opportunity to experience www.waterloogreen.org.uk in the remarkable cultural scene of contemporary Mumbai and explore the Thursday 14 September pioneering work produced in this lively ANIMAL DAY September 2006 and eclectic Indian metropolis. The 4pm; free day starts with a symposium examining Education and awareness about wild & Every month we bring you a 4-page pullout listings section the role arts and culture have played in domestic urban animals. regenerating the city. Cinema of Prayoga Museum of Garden History presents films by influential artists whose Thursday 28 September Special Events Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 work portrays contemporary life in their FOOD & COMPOSTING www.museumgardenhistory.org homeland. In the evening the Cafe is 4pm; free the venue for live performance by poets Displays and cooking from food growing Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park Wednesday 27 September D’Archetypes and a music from Mumbai- groups. Interactive compost heap ELEANOR COADE: A WOMAN OF based musician Mukul. sculpture display. Lambeth Road STONE Thursday 14 September 11.30am-12 noon & 12.30pm-1.30pm; Until Sunday 17 September Family Events THE BEAT GOES ON free AREN’T BIRDS BRILLIANT: 12 noon Eleanor Coade lived in 18th century PEREGRINES AT THE TATE Join thousands of campaigners to drum Lambeth, at a time when it was rapidly 12 noon-7pm (8pm on Fridays); free out Christian Aid’s trade justice message changing from being an area of marshes Viewing area to watch two peregrine Coin Street Family & to the Treasury. Rally with international and nurseries to a hive of industry. falcons using the 90 metre tall Tate Children’s Centre speakers, musicians and prayer. Eleanor Coade not only ran her own chimney as a daytime roost. RSPB staff 99A Upper Ground T 020 7593 1567 artificial stone making factory, but and volunteers will be on hand. www.coinstreet.org Guy Street Park invented the stone! Meet ‘Eleanor‘ and Guy Street learn about her life and work.. Tuesday 19 September Friday 8 September www.guystreetpark.com GARDEN PARTY OPEN DAY River Thames 6pm-8pm in the Community Garden 10am-7pm Thursday 28 September (north-east of the gallery); free Come and find out what the family & LIGHTBOX PROJECT 4 Saturday 16 September Enjoy a glass of bubbly and a chat with children’s centre has to offer. Meet 6pm-9pm; free THE GREAT RIVER RACE other members of the community, find the team and hear about the childcare Unveiling of the new artwork produced Lambeth Bridge 11.50am, Tower Bridge out more about how you can enjoy programmes and family activities. No by local young people in workshops at 12.10pm the garden and help put the finishing need to book, just turn up. For further Charterhouse-in-Southwark. The Race will be run over the challenging touches to the space. If you would like to information call Guy Hanscombe on 020 22-mile course from Richmond to Island come along, contact synthia.griffin@tate. 7593 1567. Hay’s Galleria Gardens/Greenwich. Any traditional-style, org.uk for details or call 020 7401 5176. Tooley Street coxed boat, propelled by a minimum Design Museum www.haysgalleria.co.uk of four oars or paddles, without sliding The Scoop Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 seats or riggers, may take part. More London Riverside www.designmuseum.org Friday 8 to Sunday 10 September www.morelondon.com/thescoop Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission OYSTER & SEAFOOD FAIR Southwark Council 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) Fri 11am-8pm; Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am- www.southwark.gov.uk Friday 1 September 6pm; free DRAWING & COLOURING Sundays 3, 10, 17 & 24 September London’s festival of fish. Arrive with Friday 15 September WORKSHOP FLYING INTO THE FUTURE an appetite and feast on fresh fish BANKSIDE INFORMATION DAY Workshops at 11am, 1pm, 3pm; free 2pm; Under 12s are free but must be supplied by some of the country’s finest 11am-6pm in the South Churchyard, Fun-filled creativity for all the family. accompanied by a pa fishmongers and cooked in front of you Southwark Cathedral Tower Bridge Use their ingenuity and powers of by a team of chefs. Oysters and seafood Find out about the latest developments imagination to conceive, design, make will be in abundance and whether you’re in the area. Many council departments and decorate supersonic aircraft models in the mood for lobster, langoustines, Sunday 3 September and community groups will have stalls TOUR OF BRITAIN which might fly into the future. Suitable crayfish or crab, you’ll find a glass of offering information and literature. for children aged from 6 to 12. champagne or even a pint of Guinness to Crosses Tower Bridge 2.40pm complement them perfectly. The fair also St John’s Waterloo Elite cycle race crosses Tower Bridge. offers the opportunity to learn how to Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Information on road closures at prepare the ultimate fish dish at home, www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk www.tourofbritain.co.uk with demonstrations by experts from the National Federation of Fishmongers and Saturday 30 September The Seafish Industry Authority. HOMO HOMEMAKERS AUTUMN FAYRE London South Bank University 12pm-5pm Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street Fair for gay men and women to show www.lsbu.ac.uk off their skill as cooks, gardeners, craftspeople and collectors. There will Friday 8 to Saturday 9 September be entertainment, demonstrations by ESTATE DEVELOPMENTS PUBLIC celebrity guests and experts, platform EXHIBITION performances and bring-and-buy stalls. Fri 10am-7pm; Sat 10am-2pm Part of the House of Homosexual London South Bank University has Culture, a programme exploring the submitted planning applications for shared cultural heritage of lesbian and two new developments on its campus: gay Londoners. Keyworth II will be a new building on Keyworth Street and house the Health Tate Modern and Social Care Faculty, Department of Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Education and provide facilities for the www.tate.org.uk/modern Academy of Sport, Physical Activity and Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am- Wellbeing. The derelict Presbyterian 10pm; free Chapel on Borough Road will house the new Student Centre and a GP surgery Saturday 16 September (relocated from Princess Street) for local UBS OPENINGS: SATURDAY LIVE residents. - MUMBAI UBS Openings: Saturday Live is a series of day-long events that celebrate Party Nights 9th Sept. Record hop £6 14th October “ Lucky strike” (UK) th Maxim Property accepts nothing less than 11 Nov. Record hop £6 100% ! commitment from our staff. 9th Dec. “2-Tones (Hol) "We Advertise#$% & '( on all major websites Free)% valuations Profressional* referencing Dance classes start 6 & 7 pm, £5 or £8 for two hours Floor) plans At Waterloo Action Center, 14a Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA Extensive+ %$% advertising Contact: J. 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A drop-in art activity. be a short walk to the oak beamed Herb Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Friday 29 September to Sunday 1 October Garret for a demonstration of traditional Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 September www.designmuseum.org medicinal preparations. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE IN VOICES: ORDINARY PEOPLE, Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission PERSON EXTRAORDINARY TIMES 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) Performances 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm 11.30am and 2.30pm; free Public Meetings Come and meet Miss Nightingale in Meet veterans from the Second World Monday 4 September person. She has kindly agreed to visit the War who experienced the London PATRICK HEAD Museum and receive visitors. Trails and Blitz. An opportunity to hear their own 7.15pm; £10 (conc £6) individual stories and ask questions. St Thomas’ Hospital prizes available. Director of engineering at Williams. Lambeth Palace Road HMS Belfast Rockingham Community Centre Monday 11 September www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 Falmouth Road WALLY OLINS Tuesday 12 September hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 7.15pm; £10 (conc £6) Summer 10am-6pm, Winter till 5pm Saturday 2 to Thursday 28 September HOSPITAL PUBLIC MEETING One of the world’s leading practitioners (last admission 45 minutes before close); ITAN KALE - THE SPREAD 6pm (Refreshments from 5pm) of corporate identity and branding. charge applies; children free An exciting programme of activities Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation from Nigeria and the African diaspora; Museum of Garden History Trust holds its annual public meeting. dance, music, drumming, Yoruba Saturday 30 September to Sunday 1 October An opportunity to find out what has NAVY GAMES language, Yoruba history & geography, Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 happened in the past year and what is 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm; £8.50 (conc debates, quizzes, games, songs and www.museumgardenhistory.org planned for SE1’s two hospitals. £5.25; child free) more. Activities for all ages. For details Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary charge £3 The crew of HMS Belfast would have and booking contact 020 7435 7030, (conc £2.50) Southwark Council enjoyed playing games while off-duty [email protected] to pass the time and bond with their Thursday 21 September www.southwark.gov.uk ARTIST TALKS AND fellow messmates. Children and families Wednesday 6 September can enjoy testing their wits by playing Talks & Lectures PERFORMANCES BOROUGH AND BANKSIDE a variety of games around the ship’s 6pm-9pm; free Second World War mess tables: Play a An open conversation with artists COMMUNITY COUNCIL specially designed, informative board Calder Bookshop taking part in Repatriating the Ark and 7pm at Cathedral School, Redcross Way Meeting for residents of Cathedrals game following the Arctic Convoy, 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 performances by poet in residence, which HMS Belfast served in, as it dodges www.calderpublications.com Karen McCarthy, writer Jennifer Potter and Chaucer wards. Agenda includes German battle ships, submarines and and artists Christian Nold and Richard the Cleaner, Greener Safer programme enemy aircraft fire. Enjoy a game of Thursday 7 September Dedomenici. which enables local residents to Uckers, a traditional Naval game that ALFRED ALVAREZ suggest environmental improvement would have been played on board. 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Old Operating Theatre, Museum programmes. There will also be an Actors read from Alvarez’s fiction. and Herb Garret Imperial War Museum update on local parking issues and news 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 from local police officers. Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Thursday 14 September www.thegarret.org.uk london.iwm.org.uk JOAN BAKEWELL Daily 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (concessions Waterloo Action Centre Daily 10am-6pm; free 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) £3.75, children £2.75); family ticket £12 Bakewell will talk about her recent books 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 Until Sunday 3 September & Saturday 23 & and be interviewed herself. Sunday 24 September Saturday 2 September ANIMAL MAGIC Thursday 21 September REACHING THE BRAIN: THE SKULL Wednesday 27 September 11am-4pm; free JAMES JOYCE AND DUBLINERS & THE SAW WATERLOO COMMUNITY Printing activity looking at how the 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) 2pm; £4.95 (conc £3.95) DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL natural world has influenced the design Araby and Grace, highly atmospheric Trepanning: Discover the medicines, MEETING of the large exhibits. Children taking part stories by the Irish master, read by two fearsome drills and brutal saws once used 7pm must be accompanied by an adult. actors. in this worrying practice. Updates on local planning issues.

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September 2006 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5 Wednesday 20 September to Tuesday 31 Southwark Playhouse Live Music Theatre October THE SEAFARER 62 Southwark Bridge Road T 08700 601 761 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Cottesloe; in repertory; £10-£28 Museum of Garden History Bookshop Theatre Conor Mcpherson makes his National Tuesday 12 to Friday 15 September Theatre debut directing his new play set EVERYTHING MUST GO Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 51 The Cut T 020 7593 1520 in Dublin on Christmas Eve. www.museumgardenhistory.org www.godotcompany.com 7.30pm; £20 (conc £15) The Old Vic New work by Stephen Sharkey to mark Fridays 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 September Tuesday 5 to Wednesday 27 September the Playhouse’s departure from its CAPITAL GARDENS JAZZ NIGHTS FOOTFALLS, ROCKABY & NOT I 103 The Cut current home. A Southwark couple in 7pm; £10-25 Tue & Wed 7pm; £7 (conc £5) www.oldvictheatre.com their sixties on the verge of a break up, Beckett Centenary Celebration with a create a storm as they sell their house, Another series of jazz nights offering Friday 15 September to Saturday 23 the chance to enjoy fabulous sounds in season of shorter works. December gamble away their savings and auction off their souvenirs on the internet. beautiful surroundings. Golden Hinde A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN Fri 1: Partisans / John Etheridge (solo) £10, £15, £20, £28, £35, £45 Everything Must Go is an explosive Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/309 St Mary Overie Dock, T 0870 011 8700 comedy about love and hate, endings Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/40 Fri 8: Matt Wates Sextet / Branco Stoysin www.goldenhinde.co.uk and beginnings and what happens next This powerhouse of a play reunites actor Trio / Ellen O’Brien when you think it’s all over. Professional Until Sunday 3 September Kevin Spacey with director Howard Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/310 cast supported by community ensemble. Fri 15: Claire Martin with Jim Mullen & THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Davies. Thu-Sun 7pm; £15 (conc £12) Unicorn Theatre Steve Watts The Scoop Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/311 Gilbert and Sullivan’s nautical tale. 147 Tooley Street T 08700 535500 More London Riverside Fri 22: Acker Bilk & his Paramount Jazz Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk www.unicorntheatre.com www.morelondon.com/thescoop Band Menier Chocolate Factory Until Sunday 10 September Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/312 Until Sunday 17 September Fri 29: Cuban & Latin Jazz Night: 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 OZ www.menierchocolatefactory.com THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE Weston Theatre; £12.50 (conc £8.50) Aventuras with Alex Wilson Sep 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15 at 8pm / 6, 13 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/313 Until Saturday 30 September Production for ages 6+ based on The at 6pm / 17 at 9pm ; free Wizard of Oz. Rose Theatre Exhibition THE LAST FIVE YEARS Brecht’s epic tale of revolution, flight, Tue-Sat 8pm, Sat 4pm, Sun 6pm; £20 56 Park Street love lost and found, bravery and Thursday 14 September to Sunday 8 October (conc £14) cowardice. Tackles the fate of an HOOD IN THE WOOD www.rosetheatre.org.uk Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/418 innocent child, abandoned by his royal Weston Theatre; £12.50 (conc £8.50) Jason Robert Brown’s break-through one Tuesday 12 September mother and rescued by a servant girl. An adventure with live music. A lyrical act musical about a marriage. MUSIC FOR MARLOWE & THE ROSE poem by Noel Greig exploring the story Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk 7.30pm; £10 from 07980 516054 or at Until Sunday 17 September of Little Red Riding Hood. For ages 3-7. the door The Mudlark CYCLOPS! Passamezzo return to the Rose. Sep 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 14 at 6pm / 17 at 7pm; Tuesday 12 September to Sunday 8 October 4 Montague Close T 020 7940 9921 I, PEASEBLOSSOM Southwark Cathedral free Until Sunday 10 September Written in 408 BC, this Odyssean Weston Theatre; £12.50 (conc £8.50) London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 SHAKESPEARE & CO adventure has never been staged in the The story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ modern world. With a fun mixture of as re-lived through the nightmares of Daily 8am-6pm; free Wed & Thu 7pm; Fri-Sun 3pm.; £7 (conc £6). Advance tickets from 020 7704 1150. actors, puppets and live original music, Shakespeare’s neglected fairy. Ages 9+ CYCLOPS! tells the adventures of the Every Monday Follow a troupe of players as they take Tuesday 12 September to Sunday 8 October ORGAN RECITAL you on a journey through the historic brave warrior Odysseus and his crew, I, CALIBAN back streets of 16th-century London. 1.10pm-1.50pm; free as they encounter the giant one-eyed Weston Theatre; £12.50 (conc £8.50) Mon 4: Peter Wright National Theatre monster on their long journey home Sweet and sorry tale about injustice, Mon 11: Peter Wright from the Trojan War. inebriation and missing your mum. For 9+ Mon 18: Stephen Disley Belvedere Road T 020 7452 3000 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Shakespeare’s Globe Mon 25: David Pipe Tuesday 12 September to Sunday 8 October Until Saturday 23 September New Globe Walk I, BANQUO Every Tuesday THE SEAGULL www.shakespeares-globe.org Weston Theatre; £12.50 (conc £8.50) CLASSICAL RECITAL A blood-shot journey into the heart of Lyttelton; in repertory; £10-£37.50 Until Monday 2 October 3.15pm-4pm; free Macbeth, told through the eyes of his Tue 5: Victoria Rimmington Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/183 TITUS ANDRONICUS murdered best friend. Age 11+ Tue 12: Harriet Adie (harp) A version of Chekhov’s play by Martin In repertory; £5-£28 Tue 19: Chris Evesham (guitar) Crimp and staged by the team that Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/84 Union Theatre created The Three Sisters in 2003. Tue 26: Guildhall School of Music Lucy Bailey directs this Shakespeare play. 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Until Saturday 30 September Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk www.uniontheatre.org Church Services THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE Until Saturday 7 October Tuesday 5 to Saturday 30 September Lyttelton; in repertory; £10-£37.50 BETWEEN WORLDS Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/88 IN EXTREMIS: THE STORY OF ABELARD AND HELOISE Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) Christ Church Southwark An early 20th-century play about an upper middle class family. Cast includes In repertory; £5-£28 Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Between 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 Julian Glover. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/15 Worlds. Funny and profoundly moving. www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk By Howard Brenton. Friday 8 September to Thursday 26 October Thursday 21 September Until Saturday 7 October Movie Highlights A HARVEST CELEBRATION THE ALCHEMIST Olivier; In repertory; £10-£27.50 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS 1.05pm-1.45pm In repertory; £5-£31 With music by the Portcullis Singers. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/621 Ben Jonson’s masterpiece. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/424 Tate Modern Southwark Cathedral Hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, Bankside T 020 7887 8888 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Until Tuesday 31 October furious slapstick and social nightmare. www.tate.org.uk/modern www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ THE LIFE OF GALILEO Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Olivier; in repertory; £10-£25.50 Monday 11 September Sunday 10 September Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/182 Until Sunday 8 October COMMUNITY FILM CLUB: CHORAL EUCHARIST David Hare’s version of Bertolt Brecht’s ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA GOODBYE CHARLIE BRIGHT 11am play about social responsibility and the In repertory; £5-£28 7pm (refreshments from 6.30pm); free Preacher: The Most Revd Dr Rowan conflict between reason and faith. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/138 83 mins, colour (cert 18) Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk To join: [email protected]

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Until Sunday 10 September BRITISH ART 1946-2006 cultures and backgrounds. SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS Drawn from the Arts Council Collection Southbank Printmakers Prints from Japan, the Americas, showing the diversity and quality of Tuesday 12 to Saturday 23 September Unit 12, Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 8184 Australia, Russia and Europe. British art over six decades. SOCIETY OF GRAPHIC FINE ART: www.southbank-printmakers.com 85TH ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION HMS Belfast Mon-Fri 11.30am-6.30pm; free Thursday 14 September to Sunday 8 October 200 drawings and paintings by society SENSE & SENSUALITY Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 members. Monday 4 to Sunday 17 September 7940 6300 Organised by BlindArt, a pioneering More London Riverside ELIZABETH NICHOLSON charity that promotes artistic excellence hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 10am-6pm (last admission 45 minutes Tooley Street Monday 18 September to Sunday 1 October regardless of visual ability. Large print, www.morelondon.com Braille, tactile images and audio- before close); charge applies; children MINAKO OKA free description information for visually Until Tuesday 31 October Southwark Cathedral Refectory impaired visitors. All work for sale. Until Sunday 31 December HIROJI KUBOTA Magnum photographer spent four years London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 The Bargehouse GHOSTS OF JUTLAND www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ Commemorating 90th anniversary. travelling Japan’s many islands. Barge House Street T 020 7401 2255 Daily 8am-6pm; free www.oxotowerwharf.co.uk Imperial War Museum Museum of Garden History Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Tuesday 5 September Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.museumgardenhistory.org SUMMER MADNESS Thursday 14 to Tuesday 19 September london.iwm.org.uk Daily 10am-6pm; free Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary charge £3 Work from workshop participants at MA PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES (conc £2.50) Cooltan Arts on sale at affordable prices. University of Westminster students. Until Sunday 3 September Until Sunday 29 October Saturday 9 September to Tuesday 7 Thursday 28 September to Sunday 1 October GREAT ESCAPES Escape attempts by Allied servicemen. REPATRIATING THE ARK November DRAWING WATER Annual contemporary art show. THE TALE OF MARY OVERY Original works by acclaimed architects Until Saturday 22 April Oil paintings illustrating a fable about and designers available for sale with THE ANIMALS’ WAR Monday 4 September to Tuesday 31 October the history of the cathedral. proceeds to WaterAid. THE WAY BY OLEG VECHEROV £6 (conc £5, children £4) Ukrainian photographer. Subjects include Tate Modern The role of animals in conflict. British Airways London Eye detailed portraits from the plant world. Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Bankside T 020 7887 8888 County Hall T 0870 5000 600 www.tate.org.uk/modern www.ba-londoneye.com National Theatre Thursday 14 September to Tuesday 25 April Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am- Belvedere Road T 020 7452 3000 10pm; free Friday 1 to Saturday 30 September HENRY MOORE: WAR AND UTILITY www.nationaltheatre.org.uk TREASURED: MY FAVOURITE SIGHT £7 (conc £5) Foyers open Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free 8am-8pm; free Major retrospective with more than 160 Until Sunday 17 September PIERRE HUYGHE: CELEBRATION PARK The sights that celebrities would miss the works produced between 1938 and 1954. Until Saturday 23 September £7 (concessions £5.50) most if they were to go blind. Jerwood Space MELANGES Exclusive portraits by Matthew Andrews. Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk The Camel & Artichoke 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 121 Lower Marsh www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Until Saturday 30 September Until Sunday 1 October free QUENTIN BLAKE / ROALD DAHL: KANDINSKY: THE PATH TO Until Saturday 23 September THE ILLUSTRATIONS ABSTRACTION 1908-1922 Until Saturday 9 September KALAMARSADA Coinciding with inaugural Roald Dahl £10 (conc £8) Paintings by Kararzyna Rymarz and MINIATURE WORLDS Day on 13 September. Celebrates Dahl Kandinsky’s journey from figurative Seven artists whose practice spans Marta Chojnacka. and Blake’s collaboration. landscape painter to modernist master. sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, County Hall Gallery animation and digital print. Nolia’s Gallery 2 the.gallery@oxo Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Wednesday 20 September to Sunday 22 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 www.countyhallgallery.com www.oxotower.co.uk October www.noliasgallery.co.uk Daily 10am-6pm; free Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Thursday 7 September JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Shortlisted artists. TERI VARHOL Friday 22 to Tuesday 26 September Until Sunday 10 September Czech artist whose work has developed Laura Bartlett Gallery PAINTINGS FOR LIVINGROOMS AND FEED YOUR IMAGINATION free of the shadow of the Soviet past. ALLEYWAYS 22 Leathermarket Street T 020 7403 3714 Food’s pleasures & social/ecological effects. Design Museum www.laurabartlettgallery.com Semi-abstract, organic paintings. Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 September Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Wed-Sun 12 noon-6pm or by appt; free Nolia’s Gallery at Thomas a Becket 40 YEARS OF BRITISH BUSINESS www.designmuseum.org 320 Old Kent Road T 020 7701 9111 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Friday 22 September to Saturday 28 October Management Today’s 40th birthday. ELIZABETH MCALPINE www.noliasgallery.co.uk 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) Daily 1pm-6pm; free Uses found film footage to reveal and Wednesday 20 September to Sunday 1 October Until Sunday 10 September de-mystify cinematic structures. Saturday 2 to Wednesday 6 September MY WORLD: THE NEW EUREKA Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings EXHIBITION Excellence in the product design process. SUBJECTIVITY IN DESIGN Harry O’Grady, Tom Lamb and Izzy Flynn. New work from seven British designers. 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Union Gallery www.llewellynalexander.com Wednesday 20 September to Wednesday 4 57 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 Until Sunday 29 October Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free October FORMULA ONE: THE GREAT DESIGN CAMBERWELL UNDERGRAD www.union-gallery.com RACE Monday 4 to Saturday 23 September Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12 noon-5pm; Discover the design innovations at the SOCIETY OF FELINE ARTISTS Novas Gallery free heart of Formula One. 300+ pictures of cats in oils, watercolour, 73-81 Southwark Bridge Rd T 0870 906 3200 pastels and prints. Prices from £80. www.novas.org Until Saturday 9 September Until Sunday 26 November Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free TOBIAS LEHNER DESIGNING MODERN BRITAIN London College of Communication Uncompromising and effusive colour. From London Transport design in the Elephant & Castle Until Friday 8 September 1930s to the plans for the 2012 Olympics. www.lcc.arts.ac.uk THE ELEMENTS OF COLOURFUL Tuesday 19 September to Sunday 19 SURROUNDINGS November Wednesday 20 September to Saturday 7 Monday 18 to Saturday 30 September Work by four artists. GIVE ME SHELTER January YOUNG DESIGN Group exhibition. DESIGN MART 2006 Joining primary, secondary and tertiary Poussin Gallery Waterloo Gallery Annual survey of emerging designers. education with professional practise. Block K, 175 Bermondsey St T 020 7403 4444 f a projects London Glassblowing www.poussin-gallery.com 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 9080 Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free www.waterloogallery.co.uk 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 7 Leather Market Weston St T 020 7403 2800 Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm; free www.faprojects.com www.londonglassblowing.co.uk Thursday 7 to Saturday 23 September Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free ANNE SMART: NEW PAINTINGS Monday 4 to Saturday 9 September free New abstract paintings. NAOMI AVSEC Friday 15 to Saturday 30 September Paintings by Naomi Avsec. Friday 22 September to Saturday 28 October EVALUATION Saturday 30 September to Saturday 21 MARIA MARSHALL Juxtaposes glass and metal; challenges October Monday 11 to Saturday 16 September Marshall is best known for video works. you to evaluate the aesthetics of both. ROBIN GREENWOOD LIFEBLOOD New abstract sculpture. Former St Olave’s Grammar School McHardy Coombs Sculpture Gallery Prints and paintings. Tooley Street Purdy Hicks Gallery Shad Thames T 030 7403 7555 Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 September Mon-Fri 10am-6pm (Thu 7pm); Sat www.mchardy-sculpture.com 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 10am-5pm; free Tue-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat/Sun 12 noon- www.purdyhicks.com THE CSM4 GROUP 6pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (wed 7pm); Sat & Paintings and mixed media. Until Saturday 2 September Sun 12 noon-5pm; free BILL VIOLA: LOVE/DEATH: THE Wednesday 27 September to Sunday 15 Monday 25 September to Saturday 7 October TRISTAN PROJECT October Friday 15 September to Saturday 28 October RICHMOND PRINTMAKERS Rare opportunity to get inside the former JOHN HUGGINS SCULPTURE SOUVENIR OF ST VALERY Enthusiastic artists exhibit and sell their grammar school. Acclaimed sculptor’s most recent work. Hughie O’Donoghue. prints. September 2006 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk FEATURES 7 SHOPPING EATING OUT Camping & Le Pain Quotidien Army Surplus Festival Walk, Royal Festival Hall • Open Mon-Fri Store 7am-11pm; Sat 8am-11pm; Sun 9am-10pm. With gentle classics playing one 37 The Cut is only occasionally aware of the 020 7928 4110 Open Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm trains overhead whilst having breakfast at Belgian boulangerie Camping and Army Le Pain Quotidien. Surplus Store has The best place to sit is at the scrubbed communal table which has been the key feature relocated from Victoria ever since the first branch opened in Belgium. The to The Cut to occupy the single person is welcome here. former Arch Gallery near A pot of coffee (£4.20) will twice fill your Tas. coffee bowl. It comes with a jug of hot frothy The shop is a family business milk which will help to turn two cups into started in 1952 and now run by three. You will need it for the choice of seven second generation Howard Davis breads from the baker’s basket (£4.50 but can be who has been in charge since 1977. shared) is tempting. There are pots of jam and Recent customers have included various chocolate spreads on the table and extra David Dimbleby, now filming his butter if required. This is eaten off your personal television architecture series, and breadboard. Home Secretary John Reid. You can also start with a granola parfait which The shop is popular with those who walk and camp or just work outdoors and are looking for resembles a fresh fruit knickerbocker glory (£3.95). reasonably priced clothing. There is security wear including high visibility jackets. We were joined by a couple so excited to Soldiers off to Iraq also drop in for extra equipment. There are regimental ties, cap badges and blazer find the branch on the South Bank that they badges. photographed each other at the ‘table commune’. Howard Davis, who is looking forward to welcoming both old and existing customers at the packed They may have been tempted to purchase the new shop, says that he is always happy to give advice. crockery which is on sale at the handy breadcounter The current stock includes a Wynnster rucksack for just under £10; 100% cotton combat trousers where a spelt loaf (£4.80) and other temptations (black, olive or beige; £14.95) and classic desert boots (£19.95). such as a bar of own brand dark Belgian chocolate (£1.70) are available. londonse1 Local news you community website may have missed www.London-SE1.co.uk Children’s hospital shortlisted Riverside ice cream ban: for top award decision deferred The Evelina Children’s Hospital in Lambeth The debate about itinerant ice cream Palace Road has been shortlisted for trading along the Southwark riverside looks this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, one of the set to run and run as councillors defer a highest architectural accolades. decision on a proposal to ban trading for a …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk second time. Elephant traders get first …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk refusal in new development Palestra wind turbines gain Businesses trading at the Elephant planning permission and Castle Shopping Centre will be Southwark’s planning committee has Borough & Bankside offered discounted trading space in the given the go-ahead for the installation of regeneration area in a deal agreed last 14 micro wind turbines on the roof of the Community Council month. Palestra building in Blackfriars Road. …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk Wednesday 6 September – 7:00pm Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Redcross Way SE1 Blackfriars Wine Bar Have your say at our next meeting where The South Bank’s best kept secret invites we will be discussing local parking issues, you to discover the charm of an authentic community funds to assist local groups and WINE BAR schemes, police updates plus much more. 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LAMBETH PALACE BLUE RIBBON VILLAGE Open House Lambeth Palace Road The Mayor’s Learn more about the river’s history and Saturday 16 September its role as a key transport highway in London 10am-3pm; last tour 3pm; free Thames Festival modern day London. Loads of activities LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION for children. City Hall. www.openhouselondon.org Elephant & Castle www.thamesfestival.org Saturday 16 September YOUR RIVER YOUR SAY ALLIES AND MORRISON 10am-5pm; tours on hour; last 4pm; free Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September What do Londoners want for the future 85 Southwark Street Media centre by Allies & Morrison. 12 noon-10pm of their river? A debate about the future Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September of the Thames. City Hall (Saturday). 10am-2pm; free NATIONAL THEATRE STREET ARTS Belvedere Road T 020 7452 3000 The most comprehensive programme of THE GREAT RIVER RACE CARMARTHEN PLACE Saturday 16 September UK street arts. Street shows near the See page 3 for details. 2-4 Carmarthen Place off Bermondsey Street Tours on the half hour from 10.30am. Royal National Theatre and walkabout Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September book on [email protected] areas between Shakespeare’s Globe THE THAMES FLOTILLA 10am-5pm (last entry 4.30pm) and City Hall. Street music will be Two prefabricated eco wooden houses. Raucous sail-by of working vessels. OLD OPERATING THEATRE, performed in Bernie Spain Gardens, next MUSEUM AND HERB GARRET to Southwark Cathedral and in Hay’s CITY HALL 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 THAMES BEACH Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September Galleria. Music stage, sandcastle competitions and 10am-5pm 10.30am-5pm; free AL FRESCO BALLROOMS loads of fun and games on the foreshore Tours by engineers 11am, 12 noon, 1pm by Festival Pier (Sat & Sun at low tide). ROSE THEATRE EXHIBITION A series of al fresco ballrooms: Jive, Swing and Lindyhop will be next to the CITY OF LONDON ACADEMY 56 Park Street CARMEN, THE FLOWER GODDESS 240 Lynton Road Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 September Royal Festival Hall, Country ‘n’ Western Saturday 16 September 11am-6pm; tours on the hour; free hoedown near Borough Market, a 1950s This is one of the festival’s most 10am-5pm; tours, first come basis beach party created by the Laundrettas ambitious projects. It involves the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL by London Bridge City Pier and Tango creation of a huge illuminated sculpture ERNST & YOUNG Belvedere Road – London’s biggest ever milonga outside in Bernie Spain Gardens. 1 More London Place Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September Tate Modern. Saturday 16 September 10am-5pm (last 4.15pm); booking RED HANDS FLYING TRAPEZE 1pm-5pm; last entry 4.45pm; free essential through Open House website. STREET ART Have a go on a flying trapeze Tate Foster & Partners. Sharon Baker’s Eat Me! is a life-size Modern Forecourt. SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS sculpture of the artist in bread at the EAT FRIARS PRIMARY SCHOOL 85 St George’s Road Webber Street Saturday 16 &Sunday 17 September Café, Oxo Tower (4pm-6pm). FIRING ON THE FORESHORE Saturday 16 September 10am-5pm; free Peter Hillary’s Thames Fish – a shoal of 42 On Saturday objects made from Thames 10am-5pm; last entry 4.30pm; free A landmark home for dance. lantern fish suspended from the riverside clay will be fired in three bonfires made A new integrated Early Years Centre. walkway around Oxo Tower Wharf. from Thames driftwood. Work begins at SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL 1pm when there will also be a chance to FRIENDSHIP HOUSE London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 NIGHT CARNIVAL explore London’s ceramic past with an Belvedere Place, off Borough Road Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September On Sunday evening, Victoria archaeologist. Saturday 16 September Sat 10.30am-4pm; Sun 1pm-4pm; free Embankment and Blackfriars Bridge are 1pm-5pm; last tour 4.30pm; free Tours of Library Sun 1pm-4pm. Tours of closed to traffic for the Night Carnival’s THE LONDON BRIDGES WALK Modern self-catered accommodation. Millennium Complex Sun 1pm, 2pm, 3pm 2,000 musicians, dancers and performers The Children’s Society London Bridges with their amazing lanterns, illuminated HOP EXCHANGE UNICORN THEATRE costumes and fantastic structures. From Walk on Saturday 16 September is a great 24 Southwark Street 147 Tooley Street T 08700 535500 7pm. opportunity to not only raise money for a Saturday 16 September Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September fantastic cause but also to enjoy many of 10am-1pm; Pre-book ONLY: 020 7940 8900 Sat 10am-12 noon; Sun 11am-1pm; tours London’s greatest landmarks along the Purpose-built for trading malt and hops. every 30 mins; free FIREWORKS Sunday 9.45pm between Waterloo and river. www.the-childrens-society.org.uk IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM WESTON WILLIAMSON Blackfriars Bridges. Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 43 Tanner Street This is just a brief guide to Thames Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September Sunday 17 September SING FOR WATER Festival events; full coverage on the 1pm-5pm; tours on the hour; free 1pm-5pm; free Sunday 1pm-3pm at The Scoop by City London SE1 comunity website at Dome containing chapel. Practice’s offices on Vinegar works site. Hall. Raising money for WaterAid. www.London-SE1.co.uk ��

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