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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 Issuein 149 FREE Email: [email protected] The Elephant Oldest and greenest Public art on Project cars come to the Thames A group of artists Drift 2010, a and friends is taking contemporary art up residence in the exhibition held every Elephant & Castle two years on and around Shopping Centre this the River Thames, month. returns this month. Local resident and recent Royal James Capper’s Sea Light is a College of Art graduate Rebecca wind-powered fog light that will Davies, who has been creating be placed directly into the waters work based around the Elephant of the Thames at Pier. It community, is encouraging a will cast as eerie glow on the river as creative response to the forthcoming night falls. regeneration of the area. bit.fall by Julius Popp is also ‘The Elephant’, a temporary coming to Bankside. A series of space in unit 215, will play host to valves open to let droplets of water workshops, screenings and talks all More than 500 cars, tricars and motor tricycles dating fall to form letters and words. inspired by the regeneration. from before 1905 will pass through the streets of North Another installation, flowlight, The project runs from Monday Lambeth on Sunday 7 November. will be installed on the north bank 1 to Friday 12 November in the The 77th London to Brighton Veteran Car Run starts in Hyde Park at 7am. and is designed to be viewed from upper-level shop unit recently The cars will pass over Bridge, down Road and Bankside and the Millennium vacated by the Royal Court theatre south along Road. Bridge. after the end of their ‘Theatre Local’ This year the run’s organisers have launched the Future Car Challenge as a Drift is organised by Borough- season. companion event to be held on Saturday 6 November. Starting in Brighton, the based Illuminate Productions.The The programme of events latest low-energy vehicles will follow the LBVCR route in reverse. The lineup of inaugural Drift exhibition in 2008 includes a talk by Stephen 19 electric vehicles, 25 hybrid vehicles and 20 low-emission internal combustion featured Keith Bowler’s laser-beam Humphrey on the history of the engine cars will pass through SE1 during the late morning. evocation of the old Blackfriars Elephant & Castle with a focus on “The Future Car Challenge is set to show off a fantastic range of greener Railway Bridge and Andy Harper’s the area’s heyday between 1850 and transport choices,” says Mayor of London Boris Johnson. “I want London to be Feast of Skulls decorated buoy 1940. See listing on page 4. leaders in the take up of vehicles fuelled by low polluting technologies.” at Bankside Pier. Speakers on the • Visit elephantandcastleproject. Trophies will be awarded for vehicles judged to have made the least energy Millennium Bridge played the blogspot.com for a full programme impact during the 60-mile Brighton to London run. sounds of seagulls. of talks, workshops and events. • www.lbvcr.com • www.drift-london.co.uk Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds

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LISTINGS INFORMATION Listings for most types of local This month in brief SE1 event are free; details of events in to be considered for inclusion Lord Ashcroft Gallery Sculpture and sermons 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by This month the Princess Royal will St John’s Waterloo is hosting London SE1 8NY Monday 22 November to open the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Shadows of the Wanderer, a [email protected] at the . It is major sculpture installation Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. the IWM’s first major permanent by Ana Maria Pacheco which Web www.inSE1.co.uk gallery for ten years. The is being shown in London for DISCLAIMER gallery, paid for by a £5 million the first time. The exhibition is © 2010 Bankside Press Every effort is made to donation from Lord Ashcroft, accompanied by Faith, Justice, ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details will house the Extraordinary City, a series of Sunday morning are subject to alteration by Heroes exhibition containing sermons and addresses focusing Editor venues and organisers and no the world’s largest collection of on London’s resident and transient Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted Victoria Crosses (VCs), which communities. Speakers include [email protected] for any inaccuracies. has been established by Lord Loretta Minghella (Christian Aid), Production Editor Ashcroft since 1986. The 162 Jehangir Malik (Islamic Relief James Hatts awards, which range from the UK), Neil MacGregor (British [email protected] londonse1 community website Crimean to the Falklands wars, Museum), Kate Hoey MP and Contributing writer will go on public display for the Rt Revd Richard Cheetham. See Marion Marples We also publish a community first time alongside 48 VCs and page 5 for this month’s details. website, updated daily with 31 George Crosses (GCs) already St John’s is also hosting a panel Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a held by the museum. Visitors discussion chaired by Neil lively discussion forum. Visit it ADVERTISING to the Lord Ashcroft Gallery’s McGregor with guests including For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk Extraordinary Heroes exhibition Karen Armstrong. See page 4. rates call us for a rate card on 020 7633 0766 or email will discover the personal stories [email protected]. 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Guy’s Hospital Fayre. Books, toys, bric-a-brac, cake stall and raffle. Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188  Full info at se1.net/10023 Children & family What’s On www.kcl.ac.uk Southbank Centre Square HMS Belfast Thursday 11 November REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY Belvedere Road Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 www.southbankcentre.co.uk hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk November Memorial Arch; 10.50am-11.05am 10am-5pm (last admission 45 minutes This ceremony will include prayers Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November Comprehensive local listings for peace, the laying of wreaths, the REAL FOOD MARKET before close); £12.95, senior citizen and student conc available; under-16s free sounding of the Last Post and Reveille, Fri 11am-8pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 and the two minutes’ silence. noon-6pm Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 November  Full info at se1.net/9981 On the first weekend of each month 40 LIFE BELOW DECKS selected producers come to the South Special events Imperial War Museum Come and find out more about how the Borough Market Bank bringing Londoners the opportunity Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 to buy great quality, fresh produce and sailors lived on board and spent their 8 london.iwm.org.uk ingredients at affordable prices, direct free time. Investigate the personal www.boroughmarket.org.uk from the producer. items sailors took to sea to remind Saturday 6 November  Full info at se1.net/9399 them of home. Try your hand at sewing, Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 November FAMILY HISTORY DAY something all sailors had to learn to NATIONAL TASTE OF GAME 10am-6pm; Free advice & admission to Southwark Cathedral repair their clothes or personalise their FORTNIGHT Explore History Centre. Lectures £3/£5, London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 belongings – very useful when you 11am-2pm; free day ticket £10/£15 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk shared a messdeck with dozens of other Sample a traditional taste of game at the Have you ever wondered how sailors all dressed the same! event, as well as game with a tandoori affected your family? What role did your Saturday 27 November  Full info at se1.net/10050 twist and a French flavour prepared by ancestors play in the war on the home FRIENDS OF SOUTHWARK some of the world’s top chefs including front? And how can the effects of the CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS MARKET Imperial War Museum restaurateur and broadcaster Mike raids still be seen in our cities today? 12 noon-5.30pm Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Robinson.  Full info at se1.net/9563 This year’s market will be in a marquee london.iwm.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/10015 in the Millennium Courtyard. Come and John Harvard Library Daily 10am-6pm; free Borough War Memorial find Christmas gifts whilst enjoying a 211 T 020 7525 2000 glass of home-made mulled wine. There Sunday 7 November Borough High Street www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries will be a wide range of stalls selling Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 November everything from handmade items for the MUD, BLOOD & POPPYCOCK Sunday 14 November Wednesday 10 November home to beautifully crafted jewellery. 11am-12 noon & 2pm-4pm ; free REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY SENIOR CITIZENS’ AFTERNOON TEA  10.50am Full info at se1.net/9617 Find out what it was like to serve in the 1pm-2pm; free First World War by examining typical Annual observance of the two minute Come and meet other senior citizens over St Anne’s Church Hall objects from the museum’s collections. silence in memory of the dead of the a cup of tea. Thorburn Square Suitable for all ages with parental two World Wars. St George the Martyr  Full info at se1.net/10098 supervision and Precious Blood clergy lead short Saturday 27 November outdoor service at the memorial in front Park Plaza Riverbank CHRISTMAS FAIR  Full info at se1.net/9570 of the Slug & Lettuce in Borough High 18 Albert Embankment T 020 7958 8000 2pm-4pm Sunday 7 November Street. Followed by laying of wreaths by www.riverbankparkplaza.com  Full info at se1.net/9970 Borough organisations. All welcome. Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 November  Full info at se1.net/10080 Saturday 6 November St George’s Cathedral POPPY MAKING THAMES TUNNEL PUBLIC Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 11am-12 noon & 2pm-4pm; free Emma Cons Gardens CONSULTATION www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk A chance for visitors to make their own The Cut 10am-4pm commemorative poppies while discussing At the request of local councillor Mark Saturday 27 November the concepts of the cost of war and Friday 12 November Harrison, Thames Water has organised CHRISTMAS FAYRE remembrance. Part of the ‘What is War?’ BUSINESS IN THE BIG TOP an additional public consultation event Amigo Hall; 1pm-4pm informal learning series. Suitable for all 12.30pm-2pm; free for its plans for the Thames Tunnel and The cathedral’s popular Christmas Fayre ages with parental supervision. Representatives from many of Waterloo’s the proposed construction site on the will take place this year in the newly  Full info at se1.net/9572 businesses and charities will come Albert Embankment foreshore. refurbished Amigo Hall. There will be together for the first time to take  Full info at se1.net/9987 fun and games for all the family and all Shakespeare’s Globe part in a circus-themed fundraising Prince William Henry the usual favourites: tombola, toy stall, New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 extravaganza. Masterminded by books, cakes, Father Christmas’s grotto www.shakespeares-globe.org Waterloo Quarter BID, the event will see 217 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 2474 and many other stalls. Exhibition £10.50; children £6.50; teams competing in a challenge to raise  Full info at se1.net/9985 students £8.50; family £28 money for four Waterloo-based national Sunday 14 November charities. THRALES DAY OF RAPTURE Vinopolis Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 November  Full info at se1.net/9938 12 noon-4pm 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 ACTIVITY WEEKEND The award winning Thrales Rapper www.vinopolis.co.uk Festival Riverside Included in the price of a standard present an afternoon of fast-paced exhibition ticket families can enjoy a Belvedere Road traditional sword dancing with groups Saturday 6 November range of activities including live sword www.southbankcentre.co.uk both local and from further afield. THE WINE GANG CHRISTMAS FAIR fighting demonstrations and Elizabethan  Full info at se1.net/10036 12 noon-3pm & 4pm-7pm; £20 from costume dressing. Friday 19 November to Thursday 23 www.ticketsoup.com December River Thames  Full info at se1.net/10044 COLOGNE CHRISTMAS MARKET Tim Atkin, Tom Cannavan, Anthony Rose, Between & Joanna Simon and Olly Smith provide Shortwave Cinema Sun-Thu 11am-8pm; Fri & Sat top wine tips. 10am-10pm 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Saturday 13 November  Full info at se1.net/10025 Up to 60 traditionally decorated wooden LORD MAYOR’S SHOW www.shortwavefilms.co.uk chalets sell a wide range of unique hand- FIREWORKS DISPLAY Friday 19 to Saturday 20 November crafted gifts, unusual Christmas presents, Sunday 21 November 5pm; free LAITHWAITES WINE SHOW 2010 KIDS CLUB: THE SECRET OF KELLS food and drink. To mark the end of the Lord Mayor’s The Great Halls; Fri 5.30pm-8.30pm; Sat  Full info at se1.net/9997 11am; £4 (accompanying adult free) Show in the City of London and the 11.30am-2.30pm & 5.30pm-8.30pm; £25 Academy Award nominee for Best Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park beginning of a new mayoral year, the More than 200 of Laithwaites Wine’s best Animated Feature 2010, The Secret of 683rd Lord Mayor will start a magnificent wines will be on show, all poured by the Lambeth Road Kells tells the story of young Brendan firework display on the river Thames. winemakers and producers themselves,  who must face his deepest fears and Sunday 14 November Full info at se1.net/9708 making this a unique opportunity to enter the enchanted forest to complete SOVIET WAR MEMORIAL Setchell TRA Hall discover the stories behind the wines and the magical Book of Kells. try something new. ACT OF REMEMBRANCE  Full info at se1.net/10043 12.30pm Hazel Way  Full info at se1.net/9777 Woolfson & Tay The Mayor of Southwark, Cllr Tayo Saturday 6 November Welsh Chapel Situ, together with representatives 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 HELP FOR HEROES CHARITY DANCE 90 Road from the embassies of several former www.woolfsonandtay.com 7.30pm-11.30pm; £3.50 on the door welshchapel.com Soviet republics, British Second World Enjoy an evening of music with William. War veterans and other individuals and  Full info at se1.net/10024 Monday 22 November Thursday 18 November organisations will lay wreaths at the SWORD DANCING WORKSHOP STORYTELLING Soviet War Memorial during an act of Saturday 20 November 8pm-10pm 10am-11am; free remembrance. The short ceremony will CHRISTMAS FAYRE Come and have a go at fast paced Vanessa Woolf tells colourful stories include brief addresses, the sounding of 2pm; 20p traditional English sword dancing with with a local flavour for under-fives. All the Last Post and a two minute silence. The Setchell Estate Tenants’ & Residents’ the award winning Thrales Rapper. welcome.  Full info at se1.net/9771 Association present their Christmas  Full info at se1.net/10037  Full info at se1.net/9835 November 2010 4 WHAT’S ON II www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Imperial War Museum Pacheco’s Shadows of the Wanderer.  Full info at se1.net/10102 Public meetings Talk & literature Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 london.iwm.org.uk Monday 29 November Blackfriars Settlement Bankside Community Space STORY, SILENCE AND THE PRESENT Sunday 14 November 90-94 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7928 9521 18 Great Guildford Street IMAGINATION www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk WAR & LAW: IRAQ’S LEGACY, 7pm£5; bookings 020 7766 1100 or Monday 1 November CHILCOT’S CHALLENGES www.smitf.org/sjwaterloo Thursday 4 November TRADING WITH RUSSIA Cinema; 2pm; free A wide ranging discussion about ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Movement for the Abolition of War’s the questions raised by the sculpture, 12 noon; free annual Remembrance Sunday lecture is 4pm-5.30pm (tea & cakes from 3.30pm) Barry Martin of Russia House and David Shadows of the Wanderer. The panel All are very welcome to come and see given this year by Philippe Sands QC. includes Karen Armstrong, Ana Maria Cant of Albion Overseas talk about doing He will address the legal issues and the settlement’s temporary building. The business with Russia. A Better Bankside Pacheco and Xavier Bray. The evening will lessons learned in relation to the Iraq be chaired by Neil MacGregor, director of charity is looking looking for volunteer Business Club event. War, including the role of the former the . trustees. If you’re young or old, and  Full info at se1.net/9928 can offer your time, skills or experience Prime Minister Tony Blair and the former  Full info at se1.net/10105 Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. This contact dominic.pinto@blackfriars- Calder Bookshop St Thomas’ Hospital settlement.org.uk for a discussion. event is free, but to guarantee a seat, 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 please register your name by phoning  Full info at se1.net/9980 Westminster Bridge Road www.oneworldclassics.com 01908 511948 or registering via www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Charles Dickens Primary School www.abolishwar.org.uk Thursday 4 November  Full info at se1.net/9955 Tuesday 30 November Toulmin Street T 020 7407 1769 THE PLAYS OF TENNESSEE FOOD ALLERGY & ECZEMA: AT www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk WILLIAMS John Harvard Library HOME AND AT SCHOOL Tuesday 9 November 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advised 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Governors’ Hall; 6.30pm; £15 per parent BOROUGH & BANKSIDE Actors read dramatic excerpts from the www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries The programme includes a talk by COMMUNITY COUNCIL plays of Tennessee Williams. consultant paediatric allergist Dr Adam  Full info at se1.net/9939 Friday 19 November Fox which will help parents to understand 7pm (meet & greet from 6.30pm) JOHN HARVARD BOOK GROUP Regular meeting for residents of food allergy, how it can affect children Thursday 11 November 1pm-2pm; free Cathedrals and Chaucer wards. Meet and the latest treatments available. THE GRAPES OF WRATH The book group will this month discuss  your councillors, have your say and learn Full info at se1.net/10068 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advised The Black Madonna of Derby. Author about the work of local police officers The Old King’s Head Readings from John Steinbeck’s Joanna Czechowska will be present to and community wardens. The theme for important 1930s novel. join the discussion. To pick up a copy 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 this meeting is parks and open spaces  Full info at se1.net/9940 of the book or find out more email www.theoldkingshead.uk.com and there will be an interactive voting [email protected] session. The agenda also includes news of  Full info at se1.net/10061 Thursday 11 November Thursday 18 November SUBTERRANEAN LONDON LORE the Cathedrals ward devolved highways THE SHAKESPEARE LATIN budget, the council’s budget consultation Leon 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) CONNECTION process and local volunteering 7 Canvey Street T 020 7620 0035 Scott Wood recounts urban legends opportunities. 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advised of the London Underground. Antony  Full info at se1.net/9623 Stuart Griffiths talks about Shakespeare’s Tuesday 30 November Clayton will talk about the new edition Latin and Italian plays and the language KNITTING CLUB of his book Subterranean City. A South Downside Fisher Youth Club and grammar that comes out of them in 6.15pm; free East London Folklore Society event. Coxson Place, Druid Street T 020 7407 0093 such works as Julius Caesar and Romeo John Harvard Library has started a  Full info at se1.net/10001 and Juliet. knitting club where books will also be www.downside-fisher.org The Roebuck  Full info at se1.net/9941 discussed. Learners and experienced Thursday 25 November knitters all welcome. 50 Great Street T 020 7357 7324 RIVERSIDE SAFER Thursday 25 November  Full info at se1.net/10062 www.theroebuck.net NEIGHBOURHOODS MEETING GEORGE ORWELL AND THE LAST New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall Thursday 4 November 7pm-8.30pm DEPRESSION BANG SAID THE GUN An opportunity to hear a presentation 106 The Cut 7pm; £6 (conc £4); booking advised 8pm; £5 from the on their John Calder introduces readings by Stand-up poetry with regulars Dan activities in the Riverside Ward (from Tuesday 9 November actors. A HISTORY OF GLASSMAKING ON Cockrill, Martin Galton, Rob Auton London Bridge to  Full info at se1.net/9942 and featuring Kate Tempest and Kayo Road between the Thames and railway THE THAMES SOUTHBANK 7.30pmrefreshments from 7pm; £1 Chingonyi. Plus ‘Raw Meat Stew’ open line), and to contribute to agreeing the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Talk by Dr David C Watts. A Southwark & mic spots. ongoing priorities for police action. Lambeth Archaeological Society event.  Full info at se1.net/10045  Full info at se1.net/9978  Full info at se1.net/9649 Monday 8 November Thursday 11 November Southwark Salvation Army ELEPHANT TALK: Old Operating Theatre, BANG SAID THE GUN 1 Princess Street T 020 7928 7136 STEPHEN HUMPHREY Museum and Herb Garret 8pm; £5 www.salvationarmy.org.uk/southwark Unit 215; 6pm; free 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Featuring The Fugitives and Talia Randall. Local historian Stephen Humphrey www.thegarret.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/10046 Thursday 4 November SOUTHWARK SAVE OUR SERVICES will discuss the general history of the Elephant & Castle with special reference Thursday 4 November Thursday 18 November 7pm BANG SAID THE GUN to its heyday between 1850 and 1940. His AUTOPSY: THE FINAL OPERATION Southwark Save Our Services is a coalition 8pm; £5 talk will cover the Elephant and Castle 6.30pm-8pm; £6 of community organisations, local trade Find out what doctors can learn from the Featuring Elvis McGonagall and Ross unionists, students and user groups that Public House, many more pubs, music Sutherland. halls and theatres, local institutions, dead and how this can help the living. are preparing to fight the Government- Part of National Pathology Week  Full info at se1.net/10047 events and famous local characters. Come imposed cuts to public services.  Full info at se1.net/10076  Full info at se1.net/10099 and see what the Elephant looked like Thursday 25 November long before it had a shopping centre. Wednesday 10 November BANG SAID THE GUN St Mary Magdalen  Full info at se1.net/10065 DEALING WITH THE DEAD: 8pm; £5 Bermondsey Street SENTIMENT VERSUS EFFICIENCY Featuring Murray Lachlan Young, Steve www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Tuesday 9 November 6.30pm-8pm; £6; booking strongly Larkin and Tim Wells. HOME FROM HOME advised 020 7188 2679  Full info at se1.net/10048 Tuesday 9 November Unit 215; 6.30pm; free A talk by William Edwards, curator of the The Table BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY A discussion with local artist Eva Sajovic Gordon Museum at Guy’s Hospital. COUNCIL and writer Sarah Butler. The two will Part of National Pathology Week 85 Southwark Street 7pm be discussing the project Home From  Full info at se1.net/10077 Monday 8 November Regular meeting for residents of Home - a photographic observation of Riverside, Grange and Shakespeare’s Globe BOROUGH BOOK GROUP the Elephant’s Regeneration. 6.15pm; free wards. This meeting will focus on the New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919  Full info at se1.net/10066 The group will this month discuss Brick history of Bermondsey. The meeting www.shakespeares-globe.org will include a mini exhibition and some Lane by Monica Ali. Copies can be collected at John Harvard Library. Contact engaging talks. Part of the meeting Tuesday 2 November Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 [email protected] to pick will also be dedicated to the council’s MADE IN GERMANY: www.gardenmuseum.org.uk up a copy of the book. budget consultation. There will also be SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS 7pm; £5 (conc £3)  Full info at se1.net/10060 a chance to learn about Thames Water’s Wednesday 3 November Professor Manfred Pfister explores proposals to use Alfred Salter Playground Woolfson & Tay CELEBRATING ROSEMARY VEREY Germany’s fascination with the sonnets and King’s Stairs Gardens for the Thames 7pm; £20 and various approaches to translation. 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 Tunnel ‘super sewer’ project. Sir Roy Strong (friend and protégé) Part of the ‘Shakespeare is German’ www.woolfsonandtay.com  Full info at se1.net/9621 and biographer Barbara Paul Robinson season. Tue-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-3pm; Waterloo Action Centre celebrate the career of Rosemary Verey  Full info at se1.net/10097 - one of the 20th century’s best known Thursday 4 November 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 garden designers. St John’s Waterloo DIANA SOUHAMI: EDITH CAVELL www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/9641 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 7pm; £5 (conc £3) www.stjohnswaterloo.org Diana Souhami, author of Edith Cavell, Wednesday 24 November Thursday 18 November shares the remarkable story of a woman WATERLOO COMMUNITY Friday 12 & Monday 15 November ARABELLA LENNOX-BOYD whose life epitomised love, service and DEVELOPMENT GROUP AGM ENCOUNTERING SCULPTURE sacrifice. 7pm; £20 7pm 6pm; to book email gileswgoddard@  Full info at se1.net/9685 Annual general meeting of the group Landscape designer Arabella Lennox- gmail.com or phone 020 7633 9819; free that monitors development in the Boyd looks back at her career and talks Ghislaine Kenyon, a learning and Tuesday 9 November Waterloo area. Hear developers present about where she finds inspiration for her interpretation specialist, formerly head WE ARE WHO WE ARE: GLIMPSES their plans and contribute to the debate. acclaimed designs. of education at the and OF TRAVELLER LIFE  Full info at se1.net/7945  Full info at se1.net/9642 Somerset House will introduce Ana Maria 7pm; £5 (conc £3) November 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5

Featuring talks by Kirstine Fryd and Sunday 28 November Tuesday 23 November Southwark Cathedral Dr Brian Belton, performances of Irish THE ADVENT PROCESSION THE FALLING DOWN WITH Traveller folk songs and Country music by 6.30pm LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Traveller youth, and a special Q&A panel A candlelit service to mark the start of 8pm; £8 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk with Travellers. the season of Advent. Arrive early to be Idiots Of Ants, Robert White, Beta Males sure of a seat. Picnic, The Three Englishmen, Thom Tuck Thursday 11 November  Full info at se1.net/10051 REMEMBRANCE DAY CONCERT  Full info at se1.net/9951 as MC. 7.30pm; £7-£32 from 020 7376 3719 Sunday 14 November  Full info at se1.net/10084 LIFE AT THE EDGE: JAN GREENMAN St Hugh’s Royal Choral Society performs Haydn’s Crosby Row T 020 7367 6706 Tuesday 30 November Nelson Mass with London Handel AND LUKE DICKER Orchestra. In the presence of the Duke 12 noon; £5 (conc £3) FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER Sunday 14 November 8pm; £8 of . Jan Greenman, author of Life At The  Full info at se1.net/9136 Edge, shares her experiences of parenting ST HUGH’S DAY Alex Horne, Zoe Lyons and Celia a child with Asperger Syndrome, ADHD 6.30pm Pacquola. With Alexis Dubus & Sy Thomas Patronal festival celebration. Preacher: Friday 12 November and Chronic Anxiety - how her life as MCs. the Venerable Michael Ipgrave, MOZART REQUIEM has changed, the challenges she has  Full info at se1.net/10086 Archdeacon of Southwark. A planning 7.30pm; £5-£15 from www. overcome and the choices she continues application for the redevelopment of the The Slug and Lettuce londondocklandssingers.org to face. The Singers presents  site occupied by St Hugh’s has recently 5 Chicheley Street T 020 7803 4790 Full info at se1.net/9686 been submitted to Southwark Council. www.slugandlettuce.co.uk a concert of Haydn and Mozart. The  Full info at se1.net/9950 concert raises awareness and funds for Tuesday 16 November Friday 5 November The Lin Berwick Trust, a charity which POETRY IN THE SQUARE St John’s Waterloo CRACK COMEDY CLUB provides holiday accommodation for 7pm; £4 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 8pm; £12 on the door; £11 in advance disabled people. Host Daniel Cockrill comes to Bermondsey www.stjohnswaterloo.org (conc £6)  Full info at se1.net/9953 Square to deliver a poetry evening that With musical genius Earl Okin, the will make you laugh, cry, think and feel. Sunday 7 November brilliant Michael Fabbri and the talented Saturday 13 November  Full info at se1.net/10052 LORETTA MINGHELLA: Chris Martin. Entertaining Fergus Craig ADIEU! RENAISSANCE FAITH, JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT is MC. MASTERPIECES ON THE THEME OF Thursday 18 November 10.30am  Full info at se1.net/10089 FAREWELL EGLANTYNE JEBB: SAVING THE Loretta Minghella, chief executive of 7.30pm; £8 at the door CHILDREN – CLARE MULLEY Lower Marsh-based Christian Aid, gives Friday 12 November Concert by New Renaissance Voices 7pm; £5 (conc £3) the address at Parish Communion. CRACK COMEDY CLUB directed by Bruce Saunders. In aid of the Talk by Clare Mulley, author of The  Full info at se1.net/9989 8pm; £12 on the door; £11 in advance Southwark - Zimbabwe Link. Woman Who Saved the Children: A (conc £6)  Full info at se1.net/9945 Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Sunday 14 November With Britain’s foremost comedian Save the Children, which won the Daily JEHANGIR MALIK: magician Pete Firman, the award-winning Saturday 20 November Mail Biographers’ Club prize in 2007 and FAITH, JUSTICE AND PEACE Jason Cook and the brilliant prop comic THE BEST OF BAROQUE has been released in paperback in 2010.. 10.30am Steve Best. Steve N Allen is MC. 7.30pm; £10 & £15 from 020 8605 2266 The talk will be followed by a Q&A with Jehangir Malik, director of Lower Marsh-  Full info at se1.net/10090 Wimbledon Choral Society with the the author and a book-signing session. based Islamic Relief, gives the address at Brandenburg Sinfonia conducted by Neil Parish Communion. Friday 19 November Ferris.  Full info at se1.net/9687 CRACK COMEDY CLUB  Full info at se1.net/9990  Full info at se1.net/9954 8pm; £12 on the door; £11 in advance Tuesday 23 November Sunday 21 November (conc £6) St George’s Cathedral PATRICK NEATE NEIL MACGREGOR: Will Smith, the hilarious Alistair Barrie 7pm; £5 (conc £3) Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 FAITH, JUSTICE AND ART and the witty Dave Ward. Highly www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Patrick Neate, author of Jerusalem, 10.30am entertaining Erich McElroy is MC. in conversation with writer Rosemary British Museum director Neil MacGregor  Full info at se1.net/10091 Friday 19 November Furber. gives the address at Parish Communion. LIBERA  Full info at se1.net/10054  Full info at se1.net/9991 Friday 26 November 7.30pm; £15 (conc £10) CRACK COMEDY CLUB The autumn UK concert tour by the Tuesday 30 November Sunday 28 November 8pm; £12 on the door; £11 in advance internationally acclaimed boy singers JANE MILLER: CRAZY AGE: RT REVD RICHARD CHEETHAM: (conc £6) of Libera comes to Southwark. Libera is THOUGHTS ON BEING OLD FAITH, JUSTICE AND CHRIST With Jeff Innocent, Three Non-Blondes a boys’ vocal group directed by Robert 6.30pm; £2 10.30am star Ninia Benjamin and whimsical comic Prizeman and associated with the Jane Miller, now in her late seventies, The Bishop of Kingston gives the address Andrew O’Neill. Steve N Allen is MC. Anglican parish of St Philip’s, . reads from her critically acclaimed at Parish Communion.  Full info at se1.net/10092  Full info at se1.net/9984 memoir Crazy Age: Thoughts On Being  Full info at se1.net/9992 Old and answers questions. St John’s Waterloo  Full info at se1.net/10055 Music Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 www.stjohnswaterloo.org Guided walks 1901 Arts Club Church services Red Cross Garden 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 November Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 www.1901artsclub.com VERDI’S DON CARLO Southwark Cathedral www.bost.org.uk Sat 6.30pm & Sun 3pm; £18/£15/£10 Monday 22 November London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 (conc available) from 020 7652 0070 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Friday 5 November BADKE QUARTET The Soloists, Symphony Orchestra and THE HIDDEN GARDENS OF 7pm; £10 inc glass of wine (advance Chorus of present a concert performance Monday 1 November SOUTHWARK booking essential) of Verdi’s 4-act opera. ALL SAINTS DAY 1pm; free The Badke Quartet, formed in 2002, is  Full info at se1.net/10035 CHORAL EUCHARIST Get Walking Keep Walking is offering widely recognised as one of Britain’s 12.45pm a guided walk to explore Southwark’s finest string quartets. Choir: The Thursday Singers hidden gardens. Free pedometers,  Full info at se1.net/9699  Full info at se1.net/9947 motivational material and refreshments. For information contact Giulia Mininni Tuesday 23 November YOU TUBA Tuesday 2 November on 07920 050713 or at giulia.mininni@ 8pm; £15 ALL SOULS DAY CHORAL REQUIEM ramblers.org.uk.  Full info at se1.net/10026 Programme includes Sain-Saens Carnival 12.45pm & 5.30pm of the Animals. This is the day on which the Church prays  for all the faithful departed. Full info at se1.net/9968  Full info at se1.net/9948 Comedy

Sunday 7 November Belushi’s CHORAL EVENSONG 161 Borough High Street T 020 7939 9700 3pm ’Standing up for Southwark’ is an Tuesday 2 November BOOKBINDER initiative by the Metropolitan Police with FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER Call us now the church and local faith community in 8pm; £8 (SKILLED) NEEDED Southwark to challenge violence in our Andrew Lawrence, a special mystery MUST BE SUITABLY TRAINED community. The preacher at Evensong guest about to do a UK tour, Joe FULL OR PART TIME Wilkinson and Alexis Dubus as MC. will be former Labour MP Lord Boateng 020 7633 0766 CONSIDERED and the service will conclude with an act  Full info at se1.net/10082 BASED IN SOUTHWARK of commitment. Tuesday 9 November  Full info at se1.net/10019 THE FALLING DOWN WITH The job is in a small firm of 5 LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT to advertise here people so good communication Monday 8 November 8pm; £8 skills are required ANNUAL SERVICE OF THE Terry Alderton (doing new character), The work is varied covering WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF Late Night Gimp Fight, Rayguns Look LAUNDERERS Real Enough, Dr Brown, The Sunday journal, thesis, blocking , 6.30pm Defensive and Mowten. Marcel Lucont ELECTRICIAN A GENERAL JOBBING FIRM etc The Worshipful Company of Launderers, as MC. Basic Computer skills would be an based at Glaziers Hall, has been granted  Full info at se1.net/10085 No job too small! a charter by the Queen which will be advantage presented at this service. The Charter Tuesday 16 November 07850 767283 The hours are flexible will then be processed to the hall FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER for the right person accompanied by the Company of Pikemen 8pm; £8 and Musketeers of the Honourable Simon Munnery, Adam Bloom, Tom Price 020 8761 6012 Please reply to: Artillery Company. and Sy Thomas as MC. [email protected]  Full info at se1.net/9949  Full info at se1.net/10083 [email protected] November 2010 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Rose Theatre Exhibition provocative and unconventional romantic winter of 1916. This screening will be comedy. accompanied by a live performance of Dance 56 Park Street  Full info at se1.net/9452 the musical medley that was played to www.rosetheatre.org.uk Siobhan Davies Studios Tunnels accompany the film when it was first Monday 1 to Thursday 4 November Leake Street distributed. 85 St George’s Road PHYS-ED  www.siobhandavies.com Full info at se1.net/9574 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7261 Sunday 7 to Sunday 14 November Shortwave Cinema Wednesday 3 to Sunday 14 November 9565 or [email protected] PLATFORM ROTOR By stand-up comic Simon Carter. booking via 0844 871 7628; free 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Wed-Fri 5pm-9pm; Sat & Sun 2pm-6pm;  Full info at se1.net/10002 1,000 free tickets are available for the www.shortwavefilms.co.uk £12 (conc £6) capital’s most ambitious community Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 November theatre production to date. Platform stars Until Thursday 4 November ROTOR features an ensemble of IN TIMES OF WAR performances, sound installations and more than 100 volunteer Londoners. SPIDERHOLE 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7261  Full info at se1.net/9999 Sat & Sun 10pm; Wed & Thu 8pm; £6 artworks, by award-winning artists, based 9565 or [email protected] (conc £5) on ideas generated by dance. The trigger David Allen Moore’s play, set in 1942, Four art students whose utopian ideal for ROTOR is a new dance work (The concerns a secret military commission set 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Score) by Siobhan Davies which has been up by President Roosevelt to try eight www.unicorntheatre.com of living as squatters, free from rent, filmed from above and its patterns have German saboteurs who landed by U-boat and free to party, turns into a nightmare in turn created a score for nine invited on Long Island. Monday 8 November when they discover their apparently artists - including a composer, poet,  Full info at se1.net/10003 SUNFLOWERS AND SHEDS abandoned mansion is concealing a ceramicist, photographer, playwright 1.30pm & 3.30pm; £10.50; conc £8 hidden terror. Underscored with original music, let the and visual artists - to respond to through Monday 15 November to Saturday 4  Full info at se1.net/9863 their own artform. December enchanting world of Sunflowers and  MORE LIGHT Sheds take you on a journey that will Full info at se1.net/10081 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7261 capture your heart and imagination. For Friday 5 to Thursday 11 November 9565 or [email protected] everyone aged 4 and above. FIT A witty and satirical take on the works  Full info at se1.net/9605 Fri/Sat/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £6 (conc £4) Theatre of Shakespeare, performed in the heart Skins meets Glee when a last chance Union Theatre Magic Mirrors of London. By Snoo Wilson. Directed by dance class becomes a therapeutic Chris Hislop. 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 encounter between adolescents Upper Ground www.uniontheatre.biz  Full info at se1.net/10004 struggling with their ideas about Until Sunday 31 January Shunt Bermondsey Street Until Saturday 13 November sexuality and adulthood in a very British LA SOIREE 42-44 Bermondsey Street ABSENT FRIENDS comedy, made with the support of Tue-Thu 8pm; Fri & Sat 7pm & 9.45pm; www.shunt.co.uk Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £13 (conc £11) Stonewall. Directed by Bermondsey’s own Sun 5pm; £15-£45 By Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Ben De Rikki Beadle-Blair. World-renowned cabaret artists perform Until Thursday 25 November Wynter.  Full info at se1.net/10038 in an auditorium of carved wood, MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT  Full info at se1.net/9795 polished mirrors, crystal and leadlight. Tue-Fri 7.30pm; £20 Waterloo East Theatre Friday 12 to Thursday 18 November  Last chance to see this long-running MARY AND MAX Full info at se1.net/9879 production. Prepare for fractured Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Fri/Sat 7pm; Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £6 narrative, electrifying imagery and all- www.waterlooeast.co.uk out sensory assault. (conc £4) 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 Tuesday 2 to Friday 19 November  Full info at se1.net/7669 A clayography feature film from writer/ www.menierchocolatefactory.com BEING SELLERS director Adam Elliot which tells the Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 4pm; £15 (conc £10) simple and affecting tale of a pen-pal Until Friday 5 November To mark the 30th anniversary of Peter A NUMBER Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 friendship between two very different www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Sellers’ death, Waterloo East Theatre will Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £19.50 stage the first revival of Being Sellers, people: Mary Dinkle and Max Horovitz. With Timothy and Samuel West. Tuesday 2 to Saturday 6 November playing for three weeks prior to a New  Full info at se1.net/10039  Full info at se1.net/9657 BLOWING York transfer. 7.30pm; £8/£13/£18  Full info at se1.net/9473 Friday 12 to Saturday 20 November National Theatre By Jeroen van den Berg. BRILLIANTLOVE Waterloo Station South Bank T 020 7452 3000  Full info at se1.net/9659 Fri & Sat 9.30pm; £6 (conc £4) www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Waterloo Road From the careless summer set idyll, to the Tuesday 9 to Saturday 27 November dark and desparate climax, this is a film Until Sunday 14 November LORCA IS DEAD: OR A BRIEF Until Sunday 3 January BLOOD AND GIFTS HISTORY OF SURREALISM THE RAILWAY CHILDREN of extremes. Extreme language, explicit Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£44 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £8/£13/£18 Performances daily except Tuesday; sexuality and ultimately life-affirming Howard Davies directs a new play by J Written and Directed by Dominic J Allen. £19.50-£59.50 joy. T Rogers. Following a critically acclaimed and sell Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/8865  Full info at se1.net/10040  Full info at se1.net/9512 out run at the Edinburgh Festival, Belt Up The redundant Eurostar platforms haved Theatre present a world where anything been turned into a theatre with the Sunday 21 November Until Thursday 18 November goes; a world trapped in limbo between audience seated on two sides of a steam HIGH FIDELITY OR YOU COULD KISS ME two world wars; a world where social engine. 3.30pm; £6 (conc £4)  Full info at se1.net/8865 Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 norms have become defunct; a world Director: Stephen Frears. A new play by Neil Bartlett and that gave birth to the Surrealists. Young Vic  Full info at se1.net/10042  Full info at se1.net/10072 Handspring Puppet Company. 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Friday 19 to Wednesday 24 November  Full info at se1.net/9513 Tuesday 9 to Saturday 27 November www.youngvic.org ATRIUM TAMARA DREWE Saturday 6 November to Saturday 4 Thursday 11 November to Saturday 2 January Fri 7pm; Sat 8.30pm; Sun & Wed 8pm; Tue-Sat 9.30pm; £8/£13/£18 THE GLASS MENAGERIE December James Wilkes’ meta-theatrical play tells £6 (conc £4) Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; FELA! story of one man’s refusal to conform Gemma Arterton stars in this adaptation £10, £15, £22.50, £27.50; previews £10 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 to a common perspective of the world. of Posy Simmonds’ newspaper cartoon & £15 A provocative and wholly unique Directed by Jethro Compton. This exquisite memory play comes to the series. Directed by Stephen Frears. Parent hybrid of dance, theatre and music,  Full info at se1.net/10073 & baby screening Friday 11am. exploring the extravagant, decadent and Young Vic with a new score by Oscar and  Full info at se1.net/10041 rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Tuesday 9 to Saturday 27 November Golden Globe award-winning composer Dario Marianelli. Anikulapo-Kuti. QUASIMODO Modern  Full info at se1.net/9518  Full info at se1.net/8949 Tue-Sat 9.45pm; £8/£13/£18 An innovative reincarnation of Victor Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Thursday 25 November to Saturday 2 January www.tate.org.uk/modern Wednesday 24 November to Tuesday 5 Hugo’s epic novel, Notre Dame de Paris, MY DAD’S A BIRDMAN deconstructed and rebuilt around its January The Maria; Times vary; Adults £10 (child BEAUTY AND THE BEAST audience in the form of Quasimodo. Monday 8 November £8) COMMUNITY FILM CLUB Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£28 Venture deep into the labyrinthine An uplifting tale from the vivid Katie Mitchell brings to the stage this caverns of Southwark Playhouse to imagination of David Almond, author MOSQUE: THE STORY OF ISLAM IN enchanting and timeless fairy-tale. discover the dark heart of the Parisian of the Carnegie Medal Award-winning SOUTHWARK Exploding with music and magic, this underworld. Skellig. An enchanting play for 4 - 7 year 7pm (refreshments from 6.30pm); free  lively production is suitable for girls and Full info at se1.net/10074 olds by one of the most exciting and to members boys aged 8 and up. Tuesday 30 November to Saturday 9 January imaginative children’s authors writing This film looks into the culture of Islam  Full info at se1.net/10020 ANANSI: AN AFRICAN FAIRY TALE today. in the borough, working with Somali, Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; £8/£13/£18  Full info at se1.net/9519 Nigerian and Turkish communities in Until Sunday 10 January Watch as the atmospheric railway arches particular. Written and narrated by Sadiq MEN SHOULD WEEP beneath London Bridge are transformed Hoque and directed by Chris Haydon. Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£44 into a colourful and vibrant jungle. Cinema The screening will be accompanied by Josie Rourke directs Ena Lamont  Full info at se1.net/10071 Imperial War Museum a discussion with a panel including a Stewart’s moving and funny portrayal of The Old Vic local Imam, Southwark police borough impoverished 1930s Glasgow. Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 commander Wayne Chance and  Full info at se1.net/9515 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 london.iwm.org.uk www.oldvictheatre.com Daily 10am-6pm; free Simon Hughes MP. Membership of Until Sunday 10 October the Community Film Club is aimed at Until Saturday 27 November Sunday 21 November residents of Southwark and Lambeth. HAMLET DESIGN FOR LIVING THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND To become a member (it’s free) email Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Rory Kinnear £15-£48.50 2pm; free [email protected] or join plays the title role. Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/9452 The official film record of the Somme at the door.  Full info at se1.net/9514 Anthony Page directs Noel Coward’s campaign as it dragged on into the  Full info at se1.net/9789 November 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Wednesday 17 November to Sunday 12 Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre December Royal Festival Hall Exhibitions Elephant and Castle THIS MUST BE THE PLACE Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 The importance of location for today’s www.southbankcentre.co.uk Advanced Graphics London Monday 1 to Friday 12 November photography. Foyers daily 10am-11pm; free 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 THE ELEPHANT PROJECT  Full info at se1.net/10067 www.advancedgraphics.co.uk A group of artists and friends have Until Sunday 14 November Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free moved into unit 215. The project is a Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings ART BY OFFENDERS, SECURE celebration of the Elephant’s history and 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 PATIENTS AND DETAINEES Until Saturday 13 November a community leading up to an intense www.llewellynalexander.com Spirit Level ALBERT IRVIN: CURRENT PRINTS programme of regeneration. Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free An exhibition and programme At least thirty works on paper by Irvin.  Full info at se1.net/10064 showcasing visual art, music, poetry,  Full info at se1.net/9814 Fashion & Textile Museum Until Wednesday 10 November prose, film and craft created by PETER GRAHAM offenders, secure patients and detainees. ASC Gallery 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Spontaneous, bold and brightly painted  Full info at se1.net/9598 Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road www.ftmlondon.org oils on canvas and watercolours by this Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £6.50 Mon-Sat 1.30pm-5pm; free renowned Scottish artist. Friday 12 November to Sunday 5 December (conc £3.50); under-12s free  Full info at se1.net/8995 WORLD PRESS PHOTO Until Tuesday 30 November Showcase for the premiere annual Friday 19 November to Sunday 28 February MIASMAS Monday 15 November to Friday 3 December competition in press photography. SUE TIMNEY AND THE ART OF JOHN YARDLEY RI New gallery space at St George’s Circus. TIMNEY-FOWLER  Full info at se1.net/9599  Full info at se1.net/9877 60 new paintings will be shown. 10am-8pm; free Sue Timney is the celebrated designer  Full info at se1.net/8996 Bankside Gallery whose company, Timney-Fowler, is best Southwark Cathedral known for its distinctive graphic black Morley Gallery 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.banksidegallery.com and white imagery. 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501  www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Daily 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/7750 www.morleycollege.ac.uk Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & Garden Museum Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until Sun 10am-6pm; free Until Friday 5 November 7pm; Sat enquire for details; free ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Until Sunday 21 November AUTUMN EXHIBITION Wednesday 3 to Friday 12 November BETWEEN: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LANA Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of 16 PRINTMAKERS Recent paintings in water-based media. month); £6 (conc £5; under-16s free) DUROVIC  Full info at se1.net/8513 With prices ranging from £40 to £400,  Full info at se1.net/9943 Until Sunday 28 November this is an excellent opportunity to Wednesday 10 to Sunday 21 November LONDON ALLOTMENTS: purchase original art. Tuesday 23 November to Tuesday 5 January ST JUDES IN THE CITY A CITY HARVEST  Full info at se1.net/9629 LESS THAN A MILE: After the success of their 2009 exhibition Edwina Sassoon’s photographs bring BANKSIDE GROUP St Judes return to Bankside. Harvest Festival to . Wednesday 17 to Friday 26 November Work by artists belonging to the Bankside  Full info at se1.net/8514  Full info at se1.net/9447 JOHN KNIGHT: PAINTINGS Group which was formed by friends who New site specific works on paper; support the Royal Watercolour Society at Friday 26 November to Tuesday 19 January Until Monday 1 March drawings and prints. Bankside Gallery. THE MINI PICTURE SHOW GOING DUTCH  Full info at se1.net/9630  Full info at se1.net/9944 Work on a small scale by members of the Discover how the Dutch Wave hit National Theatre Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Britain’s gardens. St John’s Waterloo Society of Painter-Printmakers.  Full info at se1.net/9446 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819  Full info at se1.net/8515 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.stjohnswaterloo.org Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun BFI Southbank Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 12 noon-6pm; free Until Thursday 23 December Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts SHADOWS OF THE WANDERER: www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); Until Sunday 14 November ANA MARIA PACHECO Foyers daily 11am-11pm; Gallery Tue-Sat £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 RALPH KOLTAI: STAGE 2 METAL Daily 10am-6pm 11am-8pm; free £4.50; under 12 free) COLLAGE 2002 - 2010 This major sculpture installation by Ana Ralph Koltai is Britain’s senior and Maria Pacheco is being shown in London Until Saturday 6 November Until Sunday 7 November celebrated theatre designer. for the first time. JULIAN ROSEFELDT: AMERICAN RON TERADA: WHO I THINK I AM  Full info at se1.net/9509  Full info at se1.net/9996 NIGHT Project Space; free Gallery; ; free Canadian artist Ron Terada makes his Monday 8 November to Saturday 9 January A five channel film installation. London debut. DAZZLE Bankside T 020 7887 8888  Full info at se1.net/9489  Full info at se1.net/9597 Now in its 29th year at the National, www.tate.org.uk/modern Dazzle showcases the work of designers Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Friday 26 November to Sunday 24 January Until Sunday 10 January who create unique and exquisitely 10am-10pm; free YVONNE RAINER MOVE: CHOREOGRAPHING YOU beautiful handcrafted pieces of jewellery, Gallery; ; free This is the first major UK exhibition on metalwork and prints. Until Sunday 17 January American dancer, choreographer and the interaction between visual arts and  Full info at se1.net/10017 GAUGUIN: MAKER OF MYTH filmmaker. dance from the 1960s to the present. £13.50 (conc £10)  Full info at se1.net/9490  Full info at se1.net/8234 Monday 22 November to Sunday 17 January Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the most Hotel Elephant TAKE A VIEW: LANDSCAPE influential and celebrated artists of the Bicha Gallery PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2010 late nineteenth century. 7 Gabriel’s Wharf, Upper Ground T 020 77-85 More than 100 photographs that show  Full info at se1.net/7950 7928 0083 the dramatic beauty and variety of our Until Sunday 14 November www.bicha.co.uk country, reminding us to safeguard this Until Monday 3 May Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free VANISHING POINT: A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE precious legacy. AI WEIWEI: SUNFLOWER SEEDS Wed-Sun 11am-6pm (except Sun 24, 31  Full info at se1.net/10018 Ai Weiwei undertakes the eleventh Wednesday 10 to Sunday 28 November commission in The Unilever Series. ENDS OF THE EARTH Oct, 7 Nov); free Poppy Sebire Gallery Ivan Black’s complex kinetic sculptures  Full info at se1.net/7955 Dr Lisa Anderson’s lens-based works All Hallows Hall, Copperfield Street and Reuben Powell’s images of the bring together ideas of photographic Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free Unit 24 truths within narratives of the beauty Elephant and Castle.  20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 of places. 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Patricia Spencer-Silver • Gracewing • £20 Ian Mortimer • Vintage • £8.99 Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books

On the terrace of houses opposite St George’s It’s welcome news that Ian Mortimer’s book has Cathedral there a blue plaque to George Myers. appeared in paperback so soon after the hardback He was a builder whose main work was erecting publication. buildings by architect Augustus Pugin. This book is potentially of great interest to those who care about This unique book tells Myers’ story but also shows how Southwark played Southwark’s history for 1415 was the year Henry V came to Borough. a pivotal role in the great architect’s life. Pugin was living in Walworth when he The book attempts an almost day by day record of what the King did. The married Jane Knill at St George’s which had been designed by the bridegroom big event of course was winning the Battle of Agincourt. and built by Myers. Henry is recorded as having stopped at “Southwark Abbey” on Saturday 15 Patricia Spencer-Silver tells us that without Myers’ involvement Pugin June. Elsewhere in the book this is described as today’s Southwark Cathedral. “could not have accomplished such an enormous amount of work as he did in But is it? Our present cathedral was Southwark Priory. The abbey was in his short life”. Myers operated from Ordnance Wharf (now covered by County today’s Bermondsey Square. Hall) where a bridge crossed Belvedere Road to workshops. There he and his The King reached Kingston that evening and Winchester the next day. team carved angels and doorways for Pugin’s masterpieces. This was the road to war starting at Southwark. The altar at ’s Farm Street Church was made on the riverside as In victory Henry returned to Southwark but did so by coming up Old was the altar and lectern for St John’s Cathedral in Newfoundland. Wood for Kent Road. When he reached Borough High Street a massed choir sang from lecterns, pews and gothic dining tables came from nearby Gabriel’s Wharf. the steps of St George the Martyr. Myers had built the warehouses at next door Barge House Wharf (now Oxo The author records Henry having been up early at on Saturday Tower Wharf). 23 November and reaching Borough High Street about 10am. But where is Pugin’s final illness saw him at Myers’ house where the patient could be near the detail about Southwark’s choir singing the Agincourt song? Or the King’s familiar streets. But eventually he was admitted to Bedlam (now Imperial War appreciation of his capital’s oldest church dedicated to St George who had Museum) where Myers was already improving the building. brought victory at Agincourt? Later the Evelina Children’s Hospital (now Mint Street Park) was built by But Ian Mortimer does tell us about the figure of St George painted on Myers’ firm. He also built St Paul’s Church (now school site) next to St George’s linen hanging on London Bridge. Henry raised the status of the patron saint’s Cathedral. day and ordered that in death his body must be taken to St George the Martyr The cathedral was said to have been built “with pennies of the poor” and in Borough prior to the funeral. on his death bed in 1875 Myers cancelled the large debt still owed to him by St The 600th anniversary of Agincourt is just five years away. This book George’s. might give us ideas for a celebration. We’ve been here for over 100 years. Interested in We run services across Borough, Bankside, West Bermondsey and Waterloo fitness swimming? We’re ‘into’ economic & social development. At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a 25-metre swimming pool and more... We work with local partners across the area. The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at We’re ‘into’ local, and children, young Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate people, older people and much, much more. and corporate membership available. Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with Recognise us? poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different We are Blackfriars Settlement, level speed lanes and it is ideal for lane swimming. We currently have inclusive memberships ranging and we’re here for the long term. from £45 a month to £275 for a year’s use of the We and our partners are investing in the future and, with our new pool. centre opening in 2012/13, we’re looking for volunteer trustees to We also have Gyms on both the Guy’s and St help us meet the challenges of the next few years. Thomas’ sites. St Thomas’ gym also has two squash If you’re young or old, and can offer your time, skills or experience courts and a class studio which can be hired. particularly local knowledge, community needs, finance and development, and are looking for a challenge, do give us a call. For further details on membership and to arrange a viewing of the facilities call Patrick Hourihan on 020 Contact Dominic Pinto (e-mail dominic.pinto@blackfriars-settlement. 7188 6641 or by e-mail [email protected] org.uk) for a first discussion about what we could do together.

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