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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 144 FREE Email: [email protected] Orchard & Jellyfish Theatre A new way to be created on Union St to explore Southwark Two exciting projects will take gardens as a lasting legacy of the 2010 London Tourists and residents will shape on Union Street this month Festival of Architecture. Find out more about the orchard and how you soon be able to learn more as part of the build-up to the can get involved at www.unionstreetorchard.org.uk about local history using City London Festival of Architecture Meanwhile a few hundred yards away at the Insights’ network of more than – and everyone’s invited to get Marlborough Playground award-winning Berlin- 40 markers linked to a mobile- involved. based architects Kaltwasser and Köbberling will Union Street is at the heart of the Bankside work alongside volunteers to create The Jellyfish friendly website. Urban Forest which is one of the key elements of Theatre which will be the UK’s first fully-functional City Insights makes it possible for visitors to this year’s London Festival of Architecture. theatre made from recycled and reclaimed materials. discover stories associated with specific buildings The empty plot at 100 Union Street – still Focusing on energy efficiency, cooperation and or streets by using their mobile phones, a fondly remembered as the site of the temporary human-scale construction, the Jellyfish Theatre postcode and a mobile-friendly website. Southwark Lido created during the 2008 LFA – will be previewed as part of the London Festival of With Southwark Council’s permission, City will this month become the Union Street Urban Architecture in July and opened as an exhibition Insights is attaching coloured discs to lamp posts Orchard. and workshop space. Two specially commissioned next to locations that have interesting stories Designed by Heather Ring of the Wayward plays will be staged in the theatre in September. associated with them. The discs give the location’s Plant Registry and built in collaboration with The structure will be demolished and recycled in postcode and the address of the mobile-friendly Bankside Open Spaces Trust, the orchard is intended October. website. Anyone spotting the discs can use their as a place of exchange between local residents and The theatre is part of the Oikos Project which phone to get quick, free access to stories such as visitors to the architecture festival. is a partnership between the Red Room theatre Albion Mills, the inspiration for Blake’s ‘dark, 85 fruit trees have already been delivered to the company and the Architecture Foundation. satanic mills’, the deadly Great Fire of Tooley site. Between 1 and 18 June volunteers are invited Local residents are invited to donate timber and Street, and Shackleton’s last Antarctic expedition. to help build the orchard: assistance with planting, materials for the theatre and/or become volunteer The pilot scheme – which covers the area painting and construction is required before the site builders, carpenters and unskilled hands starting from in the west to Shad opens to the public on 19 June. from 7 June. To get involved email project manager Thames in the east – goes live on Saturday 19 The orchard will be open until 19 August and Ben Melchiors on [email protected] June to coincide with the London Festival of will host a plant adoption and exchange programme, • The main focus of the London Festival of Architecture. as well as workshops on biodiversity and urban food Architecture will turn to Bankside on 3 and 4 “When you walk along, the streets become growing. July, but there’s plenty happening this month like a huge encyclopedia that you can browse as In September the garden will be dismantled too, including a free lecture by Rafael Viñoly at you want,” says Mark Woods of City Insights. and the trees given to local estates and community . Turn to page 4 for details. • www.city-insights.com 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 Wedding by Design Calling Lambeth writers 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by The 50 independent designers The North Lambeth Writers Project London SE1 8NY Wednesday 23 June to and shops at Wharf is currently accepting submissions [email protected] and Gabriel’s Wharf will this for its debut web-based literary Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. month launch an alternative publication. They are looking Web www.inSE1.co.uk wedding gift list service. Couples for short stories, poems, essays, DISCLAIMER visit the shops to select their novels and other assortments of © 2010 Bankside Press Every effort is made to gifts and ask friends and family words about, set in, or inspired ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details to contribute to the pot. Textile by our neighbourhoods. For full are subject to alteration by designer Annie Sherburne can details see the website at www. Editor venues and organisers and no even provide transport to the northlambethwritersproject.org Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted wedding venue with her horse- [email protected] for any inaccuracies. drawn gypsy caravan! Wedding Help with childcare Production Editor by Design launches with a special Southwark’s Childcare Support James Hatts evening event on Wednesday 9 Scheme provides subsidies for [email protected] londonse1 community website June with refreshments and parents who are economically Contributing writer entertainment at Oxo Tower disadvantaged and returning Marion Marples We also publish a community Wharf and Gabriel’s Wharf – to full time employment. The website, updated daily with participating shops will be open council can provide £2,144 a Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a 5pm-9pm. The event coincides year for those who are eligible. lively discussion forum. Visit it ADVERTISING with London Jewellery Week. The basic eligibility criteria For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk are that those who apply are rates call us for a rate card on 020 7633 0766 or email Grandchildren of the Blitz Southwark residents, taking up [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] Can you help London Bubble a full time position (16+ hours download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t Theatre Company uncover the a week) and have earned less www.inSE1.co.uk miss out on anything that’s history of the wartime bombing than £20,000 in the 12 months happening in the area, make of our area, how it affected our before starting work. The SUBSCRIPTIONS sure you receive our weekly streets and the people? Do you contact for Borough, Bankside To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. know a local story about the and Walworth is Alfonso Denton by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting Blitz? Do you know someone on 020 7525 5306 alfonso. cheque for £8 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With who lived through the bombing? [email protected] above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 7,100 subscribers, Would you like to help find Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? and record these stories? Email Get walking [email protected] Get Walking is a Big Lottery funded in or call 020 7237 4434. initiative that aims to help people the with physical or mental health CALL YARD Southwark in Bloom issues – or just those that want Most of the big and Whether you’re a keen gardener to get more active – experience or you want to nominate the huge benefits of walking successful local firms someone else’s garden, it’s regularly. The team is looking do when time to help find the borough’s for volunteers and community brightest spaces. The closing groups throughout Lambeth, they have date is Monday 14 June. For Southwark and Lewisham to take something to information on how to enter part. Get Walking will provide southwarkinbloom@southwark. free training on leading walks, say and they gov.uk. devising routes, CRB resources would like us and anything else needed. South to give a sharp Civic Society London is full of hidden gems, Not much has been heard lately so join in and discover what’s edge to it. of The Vauxhall Society, a civic on your doorstep! Each walk is and consultative body covering less than two miles, and open to PRINT the Vauxhall parliamentary all. For more info contact Carole COPIES constituency from the South at carole.o’[email protected]. REPORTS Bank in the north to uk, 020 7926 8998 or Giulia on BROCHURES and in the south. The [email protected] Communication group is relaunching as the or 020 7926 8997. of all kinds Vauxhall Civic Society to monitor major projects in the area Lilies on the Land including the Mayor of London’s The Lions part theatre company Copyprints Ltd planning policies for Vauxhall, – best known for their seasonal BUSINESS CENTRE Battersea and Nine Elms as well open-air festivities on Bankside – 1 Talbot Yard as the Thames Tideway Tunnel. are this month staging Lilies on SE1 1YP Between now and October, VCS the Land, a play about Women’s www.copyprintsltd.co.uk is presenting a series of guided Land Army of World War II, at walks inspired by Ross Davies’s the Arts Theatre in the West End. Phone 020 7407 2079 paperback Vauxhall: A Little For details and to buy tickets see Fax 020 7403 5411 History. See listings on page 5. www.liliesontheland.com June 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 the festival, giving advice on urban James Clerk Maxwell Building. Bring your to find out more about volunteering beekeeping and hopefully selling some bike to get a free bike check - brakes, opportunities. Call 020 7407 4701 or What’s On local London honey. gears and tyres. email [email protected] to  Full info at se1.net/8810  Full info at se1.net/9048 book your space.  Full info at se1.net/9167 June Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 June Garden LAVENDER FESTIVAL Lambeth Palace Road Shakespeare’s Globe Comprehensive local listings Sat 10.30am-4pm; Sun 10.30am-5pm; £6 www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 (conc £5) www.shakespeares-globe.org Dr Simon Charlesworth will again bring Saturday 26 June his breathtaking range of lavenders to NORTH LAMBETH PARISH FETE Saturday 12 June the Museum and will also talk about the 2pm-5pm; £3 (conc £2; family £5) [TBC] SAM’S DAY Special events care and cultivation of lavenders. An opportunity to enjoy the gardens of 10am-5pm; free Lambeth Palace, listen to local musicians, Bernie Spain Gardens  Full info at se1.net/8811 A packed day of interactive workshops, take tea, Thai satay or hot dogs and demonstrations and platform discussions Upper Ground Hay’s Galleria buy books, home made cakes, jams and around the Globe site will celebrate the www.coinstreet.org Tooley Street marmalade, plants, bric a brac etc. Have birthday of Sam Wanamaker. Places will a go on the tombola, the raffle or other Sunday 13 June www.haysgalleria.co.uk be allocated on a first come first served sideshows. CELEBRATING SANCTUARY basis - just turn up on the day to book. Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 June  Full info at se1.net/8895 2pm-7pm; free BOOK EXCHANGE Booking for all sessions opens at 9am on Celebrating the start of Refugee Week, 12 noon-2pm each day; free Merrick Square and Saturday morning in the main foyer. the festival features music, dance, spoken Read, return and recycle your unwanted Trinity Church Square  Full info at se1.net/8649 word, food, drink and craft from cultures books and help a local charity along the Trinity Street Square around the world. Coin Street Festival way. You can swap books that you don’t www.tnra.net  Full info at se1.net/8925 want any more or pay just £1 each for Belvedere Road www.southbankcentre.co.uk any of the books on display. All proceeds Sunday 13 June Design Museum OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND go to the Downside Fisher Youth Club. Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009  Full info at se1.net/9129 11am-6pm; Ticket for 201 participating www.designmuseum.org London gardens £7.50 in advance (by 9 BBC ONE: BANG GOES THE THEORY HMS Belfast Jun) & £9 on day. INTERACTIVE AREA Friday 4 June 10am-6pm; free Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 An opportunity to visit these two gardens DESIGN OVERTIME: not normally open to the public. Music, BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory gives WHAT IS THIS PLACE? hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 10am-6pm; £12.95, senior citizen and refreshments and historical exhibition you the chance to get hands-on with 6pm-10pm; £5 in advance; £8.50 on student conc available; under-16s free organised by Trinity Newington Residents science in their amazing interactive the door Association. area. Part of See Further: The Festival of Late night opening. Until Sunday 6 June  Full info at se1.net/9165 Science + Arts.  Full info at se1.net/9014  Full info at se1.net/9094 KOREAN WAR COMMEMORATION Novotel London City South Downings Roads Moorings WEEK Southwark Cathedral Daily demonstrations of life at sea on 53-61 Road T 020 7089 0400 Mill Street HMS Belfast in the Korean War. www.novotel.com T 020 7367 6700 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 June  Full info at se1.net/8743 Tuesday 1 June OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND IBM BRX LONDON BRIDGE LAUNCH Saturday 5 June 2pm-4pm; Ticket for 201 participating 7am-8.45am 76/78 Upper Ground T 020 7202 3000 BECOMING A FATHER London gardens £7.50 in advance (by 9 www.ibm.com/uk Launch of new business networking and Garry Weston Library; 11.30am-2.30pm; Jun) & £9 on day referrals group. To reserve your place call free Gardens have been created on the decks Friday 4 to Sunday 6 June Des McGuigan on 07808 913091, or email Southwark-based charity Working With of many of the barges to form an ‘inside- LONDON STARTUP WEEKEND [email protected] Men is organising a short course for men out’ floating garden square. Snacks Startup Weekend is the place to come  Full info at se1.net/9152 from South East London whose partners available (proceeds to RNLI). for anyone with a new idea that they Potters Fields Park are pregnant and who are therefore  Full info at se1.net/9164 want to see brought to life. Over the about to become fathers for the first weekend teams work together to take Tooley Street East Street Library www.pottersfields.co.uk time. the ideas and create real new ventures.  Full info at se1.net/9120 168-179 Old Kent Road T 020 7703 0395 Anyone with an idea or interest in being www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June Spa Gardens an entrepreneur is welcome. TAPAS FANTASTICAS  Full info at se1.net/9155 Thursday 3 June Fri & Sat 12 noon-8pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm Grange Road GUIDE DOG NESSIE Now in its third year, the popular, free Saturday 12 June 2pm-3pm festival which celebrates Rioja wine and Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 BERMONDSEY & ROTHERHITHE Come and meet Guide Dog Nessie and london.iwm.org.uk Spanish tapas, invites you to come and her owner Anne. Find out what it takes taste a spectacular variety of red, white CARNIVAL 2pm; free to be a guide dog. For all ages. Saturday 5 June and rosé wines from some of Rioja’s most  Full info at se1.net/9091 FAMILY HISTORY DAY famous vineyards as you make your way This year’s carnival is centred on 10am-6pm; Lecture tickets £5 (conc £3) around the vibrant wine and tapas stalls. Southwark Park’s bandstand with events Thursday 10 June Have you ever wondered what part  Full info at se1.net/9003 taking place between 12 noon and 6pm. LIBRARY COFFEE MORNING The carnival procession will start at your ancestors played in the momentous Red Bull 10.30am-11.30am events of 1940? This Family History Day Spa Gardens at 2pm. The Blitz-themed Come meet the staff of your local library. will give you the opportunity to speak 155-171 Tooley Street parade of 500 children will snake its way  Full info at se1.net/9092 to a range of experts, as well as attend to Southwark Park via The Blue. Wednesday 2 June  Full info at se1.net/9156 Garden Museum special lectures offering advice on how HEARTBEAT COMMUNIVERSITY to find out more about your family. 6pm-8pm; free St Thomas’ Hospital Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865  Full info at se1.net/8936 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Heartbeat Communiversity works with Road James Clerk Maxwell Building the most vulnerable and at risk young www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 June 57 Waterloo Road people (aged 16-19) in the local area, Saturday 19 June HERB FESTIVAL www.kcl.ac.uk giving them 1:1 keyworking support. Sat 10.30am-4pm; Sun 10.30am-5pm; £6 Team London Bridge and Heartbeat OPEN DAY (conc £5) Tuesday 1 June Communiversity are holding a Volunteers 11am-4pm; free The museum will be given over to all DR BIKE Week event to raise awareness of Lots of fun and entertainment including things herbal, with Pennard Plants in 5.30pm-7.30pm; free Heartbeat Communiversity and its work, a five piece steel band, workshops, face residence selling herb plants and Second of Lambeth’s monthly summer but more importantly to give local painters and more than 40 stalls to visit. seeds. On Sunday Urban Bees will join Dr Bike events in the plaza outside KCL’s employees and residents the opportunity  Full info at se1.net/8899 + SOUTH BANK FORUM + Kate Hoey MP, Simon Hughes MP, and your local Councillors invite you on: Thursday 10 June 2010, 7-9pm Drama sessions for 0-5 year olds Coin Street neighbourhood centre, 108 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH Characters, sensory stories & fun + MEET YOUR COUNCILLORS AND HEAR THEIR PRIORITIES FOR 2010 to inspire young imaginations. + NEW FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MUSEUM OPENS ITS DOORS New themes every 6/8 weeks. + GREEN SHOOTS FOR JUBILEE GARDENS Original stories, music & adventures. + JUNGLE-TASTIC WATERLOO CARNIVAL 2010 Classes in Lee, Blackheath, Deptford and London Bridge. UPDATES Parties and school bookings Including Stamford Street roadworks and Living Memory Heritage Project. available. To book a place at the free crèche with arts and crafts: Nominated for Best Local Activity 020 7202 6918, [email protected] What’s on 4 Little ones 2010 Laura 07801 072776 YOUR LIFE, YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, YOUR SAY www.theatretots.com June 2010 4 WHAT’S ON II www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Waterloo Action Centre John Harvard Library up a copy or make further enquiries.  Full info at se1.net/9160 Children & family 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Design Museum Wednesday 9 June Tuesday 8 June Church services Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 WATERLOO COMMUNITY www.designmuseum.org ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION PARTY Southwark Cathedral DEVELOPMENT GROUP 8pm GENERAL MEETING A social evening for book lovers to meet London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Sunday 13 June www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk POP-UP CITIES 7pm other enthusiasts. Regular public meeting of the group that 2pm-5pm; £4 per child  Full info at se1.net/9162 Sunday 13 June Influenced by the rich textures, shapes monitors development in the Waterloo area. Hear developers present their plans Friday 18 June CHORAL EUCHARIST and patterns of David Adjaye’s ‘Urban and contribute to the debate. BOOK GROUP 11am Africa’ photography, participants in this  1pm-2pm; free US Episcopal Church presiding bishop workshop will design pop-up cityscapes Full info at se1.net/7941 The book group will this month discuss Katharine Jefferts Schori presides and using an exciting array of collage The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Coffee preaches at the Choral Eucharist. materials. For ages 5-11. and tea will be provided. To pick up a  Full info at se1.net/9084  Full info at se1.net/9016 Talks & literature copy of the book or find out more email Welsh Chapel Old Operating Theatre, Museum City Hall [email protected]  90 Southwark Bridge Road and Herb Garret The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Full info at se1.net/9161 welshchapel.com www.london.gov.uk 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Saturday 19 June www.thegarret.org.uk Saturday 12 June Tuesday 1 June SOUTHWARK AND THE RAILWAY APPOINTMENT OF CHURCH LEADER Tuesday 1 & Thursday 3 June LONDON JOURNEYS UNDERGROUND 2pm-4pm; free 2pm SIR HANS SLOANE: THE ODYSSEY London’s Living Room; 6.30pm-8.30pm; A talk and slide show. Borough Welsh Congregational Church To reserve a place contact [email protected].  OF CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP Full info at se1.net/9163 welcomes Miss Eiri Jones MA as church gov.uk or 020 7027 8694; free 2pm; £5.60; conc £4.60; child £3.25; Our Lady of La Salette & St Joseph leader at a service of appointment. family (2+4) £13.75 This discussion will explore people’s  experiences of travel underground - how Melior Street T 020 7407 1948 Full info at se1.net/9070 Did you know that chocolate was once www.rc.net/southwark/londonbridge-lasalette used as a currency? That one of Britain’s do we navigate this environment and what technological and social tools do most famous physicians discovered and Friday 4 June Guided walks imported chocolate? we employ to document and represent SEEKING SANCTUARY  this experience to others? Blitzwalkers Full info at se1.net/8432  7.45pm Full info at se1.net/9057 Carina Crawford-Rolt, project organiser Toh Shimazaki Architecture www.blitzwalkers.co.uk Tuesday 8 June for Citizens for Sanctuary, gives a talk to Unit 2, 14 Weller Street T 020 7928 9171 LONDON JOURNEYS IN TIME the London Newman Circle. Sunday 6 June The Chamber; 6.30pm-8.30pm; To  Full info at se1.net/9093 OLD SOUTHWARK IN THE BLITZ Saturday 19 June Meet 11am in southern churchyard, FORUM MINI reserve a place contact [email protected]. Shakespeare’s Globe uk or 020 7027 8694; free Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge; £7 10am-3.30pm; £60 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Local Blitz historian Neil Bright leads One day school that opens children’s The role of time in our city - what www.shakespeares-globe.org pressures does it create and how do we a fascinating and informative three- minds to architectural design. Ages 6-12. hour walk through historic Southwark  Full info at se1.net/8952 endeavour to escape or control it? Thursday 24 June  Full info at se1.net/9058 A KIND OF CHARACTER IN THY supported by eyewitness accounts. See LIFE: SHAKESPEARE AND THE the scars of war en route. Finishing at Contemporary Urban Centre CHARACTER OF HISTORY the Imperial War Museum. Public meetings 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7403 8495 7pm; £12 (conc £10)  Full info at se1.net/9187 City Hall www.contemporaryurbancentre.org Professor Peter Holland from the University of Notre Dame gives the 2010 Friday 25 June The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Friday 4 June SOUTHWARK AND THE CITY IN THE www.london.gov.uk Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture. TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN THE WEST  Full info at se1.net/8647 NIGHT BLITZ 7pm; £7 Meet 6.45pm in southern churchyard, Thursday 24 June Talk by Manfred Seegers. Southwark Cathedral Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge; £5 THE STATE OF LONDON DEBATE  Full info at se1.net/9171 An evening walk across London Bridge 6pm; free via www.london.gov.uk London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk along to the then to St Your chance to question the Mayor Monday 7 June Paul’s Cathedral, back across Blackfriars of London on his annual report and WHY MEDITATE? Thursday 24 June Bridge and finishing at Southwark spending in the capital including the 7pm; £5 RAFAEL VIÑOLY Station recalling the terrible events of economy, environment, policing and Introductory talk by Dafydd Morriss. 7pm; tickets from cathedral shop, the Night Blitz of 1940/41 on both sides transport. Chaired by Nick Ferrari of LBC  Full info at se1.net/9173 reception or rose.harding@southwark. of the river. 97.3. To enter the draw for tickets apply anglican.org; free  Full info at se1.net/9188 online before 9 June. Tuesday 8 June Rafael Viñoly, the New York based  Full info at se1.net/8697 WHERE BUDDHISM & SCIENCE MEET architect, will talk about his two latest Elephant & Castle 7pm; £5 Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre London projects, Talk by Dr Matt Huddleston. and No 20 aka ‘the Sunday 20 June 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600  Full info at se1.net/9174 Walkie Talkie’ and touch on aspects of PIMP YOUR PAVEMENT www.coinstreet.org his lifelong career in architecture and his Meet 3pm at the centre of the north Thursday 10 June Thursday 10 June projects that span the world. roundabout of Elephant & Castle; see USING BUDDHIST METHODS TO Part of London Festival of Architecture SOUTH BANK FORUM HANDLE MODERN LIFE www.lfa2010.org for booking details  Full info at se1.net/8917 A 90 minute walking tour of guerrilla 7pm 7pm; £5 Quarterly meeting for South Bank Talk by Cristina Ferrando. gardens of SE1 with Richard Reynolds. Part of London Festival of Architecture residents convened by MPs Kate Hoey  Full info at se1.net/9176 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 and Simon Hughes. Agenda includes  Full info at se1.net/9146 Garden Museum www.tate.org.uk/modern Florence Nightingale Museum, Jubilee Imperial War Museum Gardens, Waterloo Carnival and Stamford Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Monday 21 June Street road closure. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL london.iwm.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/8495 DISRUPTION Thursday 3 June Turbine Hall; 6.45pm-8pm; £8 (conc £5) Southwark Council AN EVENING WITH JEKKA MCVICAR Saturday 26 June Tim Marlow chairs a panel of provocative WAR TO WINDRUSH WALK www.southwark.gov.uk 6.30pm-8.30pm; £15 speakers including the new director of 10.30am-12.30pm; booking essential via Launching the museum’s first Herb the Cultural Olympiad Ruth Mackenzie; Wednesday 16 June Festival, Jekka McVicar will talk about [email protected]; free cultural commentator and curator Gus This walk illustrates the black history of BOROUGH & BANKSIDE her passion for herbs, her famous herb Casely-Hayford; Director of Public Space COMMUNITY COUNCIL nursery and her brand new book more than 200 years in the SE1 area. for CABE, Sarah Gaventa; and the former  Full info at se1.net/8768 7pm; venue to be announced  Full info at se1.net/8816 police commissioner Sir Ian Blair. First post-election meeting of the Imperial War Museum  Full info at se1.net/9143 community council for Cathedrals and Railway Approach Chaucer wards. Half the membership of Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 The Old King’s Head london.iwm.org.uk the community council has changed since 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 Tuesday 8 June www.theoldkingshead.uk.com the last meeting: come and meet your Saturday 12 June A BERMONDSEY WALK new councillors - Geoffrey Thornton in DIGGING FOR VICTORY WITH 7pm (meet 6.45pm on main concourse Cathedrals ward and Poddy Clark and Tuesday 8 June SOPHIE GRIGSON AND JANE THE WOMEN OF THE GOLDEN DAWN near M&S); £1 Claire Hickson in Chaucer ward. FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL A Southwark & Lambeth Archaeological  8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) Full info at se1.net/9089 3pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7416 5349 Geraldine Beskin on the history of occult Walk led by Stephen Humphrey. or [email protected]  Full info at se1.net/8587 Wednesday 23 June order the Golden Dawn. A South East How to make the most of your vegetable London Folklore Society event. BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY patch and the produce you grow. Museum of the Royal COUNCIL  Full info at se1.net/9191 Pharmaceutical Society  Full info at se1.net/8716 7pm; venue to be announced The Table 1 Lambeth High Street T 020 7572 2210 For Grange, Riverside and South Saturday 19 June 85 Southwark Street www.rpsgb.org.uk/museum Bermondsey wards. One third of the OFF THE RATION WITH ALLEGRA membership of the community council MCEVEDY AND HENRY HARRIS Wednesday 9 June Thursday 24 June has changed since the last meeting: come 3pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7416 5349 BOROUGH BOOK GROUP LAMBETH PHARMACY WALK and meet your new councillors - Mark or [email protected] 6.15pm; free 6pm (meet 10 minutes before start); Gettleson in Grange ward and Graham Join entrepreneurial chefs Henry Harris The group will discuss The Lacuna by voluntary contribution of £3 Neale and Michael Bukola in South and Allegra McEvedy as they rediscover Barbara Kingsolver. Copies can be Guided walk uncovering the hidden Bermondsey ward. the delights of food for free. collected at John Harvard Library. Contact history of North Lambeth.  Full info at se1.net/9090  Full info at se1.net/8717 [email protected] to pick  Full info at se1.net/9128 June 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5

Tate Modern The Old King’s Head Sunday 13 June WHEN A MAN KNOWS Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Kings Head Yard T 020 7407 1550 7pm; £10 (conc £5) www.tate.org.uk/modern Thursday 10 June www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Successful contemporary music group FRIGHT BIKE 4: STATIONS OF THE FifteenB gives the premiere concert Saturday 19 June Thursday 3 June DEAD performance of Robert Hugill’s new one COOLTAN ARTS MIDNIGHT Meet 7pm next to Lawrence PAUL SINHA & MARKUS BIRDMAN: LARGACTYL SHUFFLE EDINBURGH PREVIEW act opera. Olivier statue outside National  Full info at se1.net/9074 Meet midnight Saturday night/Sunday Theatre; booking essential penny@ 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) morning outside Tate Modern in Holland fandmpublications.co.uk ; free Paul Sinha & Markus Birdman. Monday 14 June Street; free This guided bike ride is a collaboration  Full info at se1.net/8459 LONDON SONG FESTIVAL Join CoolTan Arts for a unique Summer between the One Eye Grey penny CONCERT 3 Solstice midnight walk and explore dreadful and Southwark Cyclists. Thursday 17 June 7.30pm; £15 the urban psycho-geography of South  Full info at se1.net/9158 SCOTT CAPURRO & TOULSON AND  Full info at se1.net/9134 London. Learn about local history and HARVEY: EDINBURGH PREVIEW see familiar landmarks in a new light. 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) Thursday 17 June  Full info at se1.net/9075 Comedy Scott Capurro & Toulson and Harvey. RUSH HOUR CONCERT  Vauxhall Civic Society Full info at se1.net/8460 6pm; free Belushi’s Southbank Sinfonia after-work concert. Vinopolis www.vauxhallcivicsociety.org.uk 161 Borough High Street T 020 7939 9700  Full info at se1.net/8384 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 Wednesday 9 June Tuesday 1 June www.vinopolis.co.uk Sunday 20 June VAUXHALL: A LITTLE HISTORY THE EUR-A-JOKIN’ GONG CONTEST MADE IN ENGLAND Meet 3pm outside Starbucks, opposite 8.30pm; £7 (£5 in advance) Friday 25 June 6.30pm; £10 (conc £8) on the door or in Vauxhall Underground, Exit 2; £2 Henning Wehn, Wouter Meijs, Giacinto LAUGHTER LOUNGE advance on 07905 721385 Penny Howard leads a walk back through Palmieri, Katerina Vrana and Manos The 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra (ERSO) time, from Vauxhall’s origins in the Greek plus Sy Thomas & Marcel Lucont Line up to be announced.  Full info at se1.net/7878 forced marriage of a teenage widow and as MCs.  Full info at se1.net/8480 mother to a brutal mercenary, through  Full info at se1.net/9106 Thursday 24 June to the heyday of Vauxhall Gardens, RUSH HOUR CONCERT the grime of the industrial revolution Tuesday 8 June 6pm; free and then on to the present day of ANDY ZALTZMAN & GREG DAVIES: Music Southbank Sinfonia after-work concert. spies, bridges and the great pineapple EDINBURGH PREVIEW 1901 Arts Club  Full info at se1.net/8385 controversy. 8.30pm; £8 (£7 in advance at www. 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 The Scoop  Full info at se1.net/9097 wegottickets.com) www.1901artsclub.com  Full info at se1.net/9107 More London Riverside Sunday 20 June Sunday 20 June www.morelondon.com/scoop.html VIVA VAUXHALL! Tuesday 15 June PEDRO CARNEIRO Wednesday 9 June Meet 11am outside Starbucks, opposite SEANN WALSH & MICHAEL FABBRI: 7pm; £15 inc glass of wine Vauxhall Underground, Exit 2; £2 EDINBURGH PREVIEW Pedro Carneiro (marimba) is one of the SINGOLOGY PRESENTS EVERYBODY DANCE! Aly Mir’s take on Vauxhall includes the 8.30pm; £8 (£7 in advance at www. very few percussion players to have made venue for the first-ever FA Cup Final, the 7pm; free wegottickets.com) an international career as a soloist. birth of Vauxhall Motors, the gallows  Full info at se1.net/9108  Come and experience Gospel music like that were to be the death of many Full info at se1.net/7987 never before. an unfortunate, a park where people Tuesday 22 June Southwark Cathedral  Full info at se1.net/9182 power gathered pace, not forgetting the RICHARD HERRING & STEPHEN London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Thursday 10 June mansion of a Duke and the cottage of CARLIN: EDINBURGH PREVIEW www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk a prince. 8.30pm; £8 (£7 in advance at www. NORTON ROSE CHOIR  Full info at se1.net/9098 wegottickets.com) Friday 25 June 7pm; free  Full info at se1.net/9109 MADRIGALI ELEMENTI Be uplifted by a thoroughly fun and enjoyable performance by a ‘home 7.30pm; £25/£20/£15/£10 Tuesday 29 June Cycle rides Selected madrigals and choral works by grown’ choir from More London Estate. TWO EPISODES OF MASH &  Full info at se1.net/9183 City Hall PAPPY’S: EDINBURGH PREVIEW Monteverdi with London Oriana Choir. 8.30pm; £8 (£7 in advance at www.  Full info at se1.net/9139 Friday 11 June The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 LONDON GAY MEN’S CHORUS www.london.gov.uk wegottickets.com) Saturday 26 June  Full info at se1.net/9110 MONTEVERDI VESPERS OF 1610 7pm; free Preview of new “The Seven Deadly Sins” Saturday 12 June 7pm; £15 from cathedral shop or on The Bridge Lounge show. LONDON WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE the door Annual 9.5-mile naked bike ride starting 186 Tooley Street T 020 7403 4112  Full info at se1.net/9184 www.thebridgelounge.co.uk 400th anniversary performance. New in Hyde Park at about 3pm and finishing Renaissance Voices directed by Bruce in the vicinity of City Hall. Approximately Sunday 27 June Saunders with period orchestra London 1,200 people took part in last year’s ride. DON’T TELL JIMMY Early Opera and members of the Theatre  Full info at se1.net/9151 7pm; £7.50 Southwark Cathedral Girls Choir. Menier Chocolate Factory Southwark Needle A daring new comedy group combining  Full info at se1.net/9147 hilarious sketches with the spontaneous 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 www.menierchocolatefactory.com London Bridge excitement of improvised comedy. St George’s Cathedral Monday 21 June  Full info at se1.net/9118 Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Until Saturday 26 June www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk MIDSUMMER MADNESS The Miller PARADISE FOUND 2am; free Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £32 The summer solstice. Longest day of 96 Snowsfields Thursday 24 June (meal deal £39.50) www.themiller.co.uk the year. Meet 2am Gardens, BACH B MINOR MASS Harold Prince and Susan Stroman direct . 2.30am Southwark Needle, 7pm; £18 (conc £12) an all-American cast including Kate Tuesday 1 June London Orpheus Choir and London south end of London Bridge. 3am Bar THE MAYDAYS PRESENT... Baldwin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley, Italia, Frith Street. 4am top of Primrose Orpheus Orchestra. Judy Kaye and Mandy Patinkin. TONIGHT’S TOP STORY  Hill. 4.43am sunrise! 6am breakfast at 8.30pm; £7/£5 Full info at se1.net/9062  Full info at se1.net/8720 specially opened Leon bar/cafe on Totally improvised show from local news St John’s Waterloo The Miller Sumner Street. stories chosen by you. Part of London Festival of Architecture Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 96 Snowsfields  Full info at se1.net/9073 www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/9179 www.themiller.co.uk Saturday 5 June Thursday 17 June LONDON SONG FESTIVAL BEST OF 3: KNOCK OUT THEATRE OPENING CONCERT 7.30pm; £3 (plus £1/£2 coins to vote for 7.30pm; £15 your favourite team) Join us on HR Consultant. SE1 based London Song Festival is dedicated to Three teams each performing the same promoting the Song repertoire which three pieces on one night - and the Bespoke and affordable HR solutions for local continues to be under-valued and audience decides which team wins. Think Facebook business. Experienced practitioner and trainer unappreciated in the world of vocal of it as a kind of theatre Dragon’s Den - offering business frameworks, employment music that is dominated by opera. and you decide who’s in or out.  Full info at se1.net/9133  law and consultancy at realistic rates. Full info at se1.net/9112 & Twitter Thursday 10 June National Theatre Call to discuss our pay as you go rates: RUSH HOUR CONCERT South Bank T 020 7452 3000 07595 266784 [email protected] 6pm; free www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Free after-work concert by Southbank facebook.com/londonse1 Sinfonia in partnership with London Until Saturday 19 June Sinfonietta. BEYOND THE HORIZON twitter.com/se1  Full info at se1.net/8383 Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 Powerful Pulitzer prize-winning drama ELECTRICIAN Saturday 12 June that formulated Eugene O’Neill’s vision NOTES FROM A BIG COUNTRY of America. No job too small! 6pm; £15, £12, £10 from 020 8605 2266  Full info at se1.net/8638 This Wimbledon Choral Society concert for the very latest has an American theme, comprising Until Tuesday 29 June 07850 767283 music by American composers or with LONDON ASSURANCE local news, events American influences, and is scheduled Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£42.50 020 8761 6012 to finish in time for England’s World Cup Dion Boucicault’s play is directed by and trivia [email protected] football match against the USA. Nicholas Hytner.  Full info at se1.net/9125  Full info at se1.net/8132 June 2010 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Until Sunday 4 July Rose Theatre Southwark Playhouse Until Saturday 3 July WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 56 Park Street Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Mon-Sat 7.30pm + some matinees; Marianne Elliott directs Thomas www.rosetheatre.org.uk www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk £22.50 Middleton’s play. Young Vic artistic director David Lan Until Saturday 5 June Until Saturday 12 June  Full info at se1.net/8640 OTIENO directs August Wilson’s spellbinding CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT account of the deep effects of slavery. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £8, £13, £20 (airline EXPECTATIONS: THE MUSICAL  Full info at se1.net/8718 Until Wednesday 7 July style) THE WHITE GUARD 7.30pm (Sun 3pm); £12 (conc £10) from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@rosetheatre. Trevor Michael Georges’ contemporary Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10- rewriting of Shakespeare’s Othello is set £42.50 org.uk Cinema  Full info at se1.net/8560 against the continuing deprivation of Howard Davies directs The White Guard present-day Zimbabwe. Contemporary Urban Centre by Mikhail Bulgakov, in a new version by Tuesday 8 June to Wednesday 7 July  Full info at se1.net/9030 Andrew Upton. 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7403 8495 ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM www.contemporaryurbancentre.org  Full info at se1.net/8133 Tuesday 15 June to Saturday 3 July Tue-Sun 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 PLUCKER Wednesday 9 June Until Saturday 10 July 7261 9565 or boxoffice@rosetheatre. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; £8, £13, £18 org.uk THE KARMAPA: TIBET’S GREATEST LOVE THE SINNER (airline style) YOGI Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 A darkly comic tale based on a true story, Alena Smith’s old-school farce about of what the lust, greed and ambition 7pm; £5 Drew Pautz’s tense and provocative new a new generation dealing with Followed by a short introduction to the of real people makes them capable of. play considers what we may be willing the anxieties of commitment and phenomenon of the Karmapas by Dafydd Agued by many to be Shakespeare’s to sacrifice, personally and in the public co-habitation. Morriss, the fascinating documentary earliest surviving work, Arden of sphere, for what we believe to be right.  Full info at se1.net/9099 “The Lion’s Roar - His Holiness the 16th Faversham is the first English domestic  Full info at se1.net/8641 Theatre Local Karmapa” will be screened. tragedy.  Full info at se1.net/9175 Until Thursday 22 July  Full info at se1.net/9126 Unit 215, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre SPRING STORM Friday 11 June The Scoop Wednesday 2 to Saturday 5 June Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 LOOKING FOR ANCIENT TIBET THE EMPIRE A gripping early play by Tennessee More London Riverside 7pm; £5 www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Wed-Sat 7pm; Sat 4pm; £8 (conc £5) Williams. Film maker and Diamond Way Buddhist Third in a season of plays presented in  Thomas Schmidt will present fascinating Full info at se1.net/8639 Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 June an empty shop unit by the Royal Court MACBETH footage from his two recent journeys Theatre. Helmand in the height of to Eastern Tibet in search of living Tuesday 1 June to Wednesday 11 August Wed-Fri 6pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm & 6pm; AFTER THE DANCE summer. DC Moore’s second play dissects practitioners of Milarepa’s yogi tradition. free the politics of occupation, home and Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£38  Full info at se1.net/9177 Get ready for killer lines, killer crimes abroad. Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece offers a and some seriously weird sisters as The  Full info at se1.net/8535 Tate Modern subtle, witty unmasking of the hedonistic Pantaloons theatre company return to Bankside T 020 7887 8888 20s generation and a devastating study The Scoop with more of their own brand Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 June www.tate.org.uk/modern of repression and the human heart. open-air Shakespeare mayhem. HUNG OVER  Full info at se1.net/8642  Full info at se1.net/9181 7pm; £5 in advance from 020 7565 5000 Monday 7 June or pay what you like at the door COMMUNITY FILM CLUB Tuesday 15 June to Thursday 19 August Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 June Five nights of specially commissioned ten Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments WELCOME TO THEBES I’M A LONDONER minute plays all written as a response to from 6.30pm); free to members Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 7pm; free the 2010 general election. Three short films. Membership of the Richard Eyre directs a new play by Set in a park in the heart of London,  Full info at se1.net/9114 Community Film Club is aimed at those Moira Buffini. A passionate exploration this comedy explores the relationships living in Southwark and Lambeth. Unicorn Theatre of an encounter between the world’s between ‘Londoners’ and the beautiful To become a member (it’s free) email richest and poorest countries, set in the vibrancy that’s created from the clashes 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 [email protected] or join at the door. aftermath of a brutal war. and capitulations between cultures. www.unicorntheatre.com  Full info at se1.net/8946  Full info at se1.net/9189  Full info at se1.net/9185 Until Saturday 19 June THE TEMPEST Waterloo Action Centre Until Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 June THE HABIT OF ART OFFENBACH’S ORPHEUS DOWN Times vary; £16.50 (conc £10.50) 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 A powerful, physical production, www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- UNDER performed by the Unicorn’s acting £42.50 7pm; free ensemble brings classic characters to Wednesday 2 June A new play by Alan Bennett directed by Unexpected Opera Company. Full of A STORY OF WATERLOO life. Exploring the perspectives of the Nicholas Hytner. 7pm (light refreshments from 6.30pm); charming songs and witty dialogue, it play’s young characters, this ideal first  free Full info at se1.net/7627 is performed by a cast of 12 and live experience of The Tempest will also The Association of Waterloo Groups is musicians. reveal an extraordinary play afresh. showing a film about Waterloo’s history.  Full info at se1.net/9186  103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Full info at se1.net/8413 Originally made by Mike Bruce in the www.oldvictheatre.com Shakespeare’s Globe Union Theatre 1970s as a tape slide show, it has been New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 adapted for current technology with the Friday 18 June to Saturday 21 August 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 www.shakespeares-globe.org www.uniontheatre.biz help of Jack Thurston who made ‘The THE TEMPEST Lambeth Estate: A Village on a Street’. In repertory with As You Like It; £7.50- Until Sunday 27 June Until Saturday 5 June  Full info at se1.net/9072 £47 MACBETH TICK... TICK... BOOM! Sam Mendes returns to direct year two of In repertory; £5-£32 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2.30pm; £15 The Bridge Project, with another stellar Lucy Bailey’s production of ‘The Scottish A musical about the courage it takes Exhibitions transatlantic lineup including Michelle play’ draws on the primitive, violent to follow your dreams. This is Jonathan Advanced Graphics London Beck, Christian Camargo, Ron Cephas climate of 11th-century Scotland. Larson’s autobiographical (and Jones, Stephen Dillane, Juliet Rylance  Full info at se1.net/8222 posthumously produced) tale of a young 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 and Thomas Sadoski in an intriguing composer on the brink of turning 30 and www.advancedgraphics.co.uk pairing of Shakepeare’s pastoral comedy Until Saturday 21 August falling into oblivion. Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free As You Like It and his late masterpiece HENRY VIII  Full info at se1.net/8963 The Tempest. In repertory ; £5-£32 Wednesday 16 June to Saturday 31 July  Mark Rosenblatt directs the rarely Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 June NEIL CANNING Full info at se1.net/8491 New unique works on paper. performed Henry VIII which was KNICKERBOCKER GLORIES!  Full info at se1.net/9101 Saturday 12 June to Saturday 21 August responsible for burning down the Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 AS YOU LIKE IT original Globe. Theatre made by and for professional Alma Enterprises In repertory with The Tempest; £7.50- actresses who were Suffragists and  Full info at se1.net/8223 38-40 Glasshill Street £47 Suffragettes. www.almaenterprises.com Sam Mendes returns to direct year two of Sunday 6 June to Saturday 2 October  Full info at se1.net/8964 The Bridge Project. HENRY IV PART 1 Young Vic Until Sunday 11 July  Full info at se1.net/8492 In repertory; £5-£32 DAVID M PRICE: HORROR VACUI The play is performed for the first time 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Price developed a detailed wall drawing The Old Vic Tunnels www.youngvic.org at the replica of the Bankside playhouse. in ink on the entirety of the gallery walls. Leake Street  Dominic Dromgoole directs Jamie Parker Until Saturday 5 June Full info at se1.net/9116 www.oldvictheatre.com as Prince Hal and William Gaunt as EURYDICE Bankside Gallery Worcester and Shallow. With Renaissance Until Saturday 26 June The Maria; 7.45pm; £17.50 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 DITCH staging and costume. Sarah Ruhl’s vivid re-imagining of the www.banksidegallery.com  Mon-Thu 7.45pm; Fri 6pm & 9pm; Sat Full info at se1.net/8224 Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice Daily 11am-6pm; free 2.30pm & 7.45pm; £20-£25 Shunt Bermondsey Street makes its European premiere.  Full info at se1.net/8406 Until Sunday 6 June Stark and imperative, but shot through 42-44 Bermondsey Street with a sense of warm humanity, Beth ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER- www.shunt.co.uk Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 June PRINTMAKERS Steel’s debut Ditch is a clear-eyed look SUS The best in original printmaking. at how we might behave when the Until Saturday 26 June The Clare; 7.45pm; from £10  Full info at se1.net/8508 conveniences of our civilisation are taken MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory, away, and a frightening vision of a future Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat 9.45pm; £20 this revival of Barrie Keeffe’s classic Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 June that could all too easily be ours. Directed Fractured narrative, electrifying imagery coincides with the general election of MICHAEL FELL HON RE: by Richard Twyman. and all-out sensory assault. 2010. A RETROSPECTIVE  Full info at se1.net/9040  Full info at se1.net/7669  Full info at se1.net/8407  Full info at se1.net/8509 June 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Tuesday 22 to Sunday 27 June Monday 28 June to Thursday 22 July Friday 11 to Sunday 27 June Until Sunday 5 September NORWICH PRINTMAKERS 1 CITY MANY PEOPLE ROGER HOOPER OUTBREAK 1939  Full info at se1.net/9055 Various attempts that have been made A beautiful collection of wildlife images Hour-by-hour countdown of events on 3 to make buildings more accessible. by Roger Hooper. September 1939 and a look at the early Wednesday 30 June to Sunday 4 July Part of London Festival of Architecture  Full info at se1.net/8751 months of the conflict. PRINTMAKERS’ COUNCIL  Full info at se1.net/9168  Full info at se1.net/6283  Full info at se1.net/8510 Wednesday 30 June to Sunday 4 July Contemporary Urban Centre OPEN ART CODE LONDON Until Sunday 31 October Bargehouse 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7403 8495 7.30pm (Saturday also 3pm); £6 (conc £4) HORRIBLE HISTORIES: TERRIBLE Oxo Tower Wharf, T 020 7401 2255 www.contemporaryurbancentre.org A group of talented artists with very TRENCHES www.coinstreet.org Mon-Fri 12 noon-6pm; free different technical styles and varied £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family Daily 11am-6pm; free artistic formation. ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 Friday 4 to Friday 11 June  Full info at se1.net/8752 A family exhibition based on the Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 June BUDDHIST ART: Trenches Handbook. Garden Museum GREENPEACE HEATHROW CONTEST EXPRESSIONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT  Full info at se1.net/6282 Winning architectural designs for a An exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist statues Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 structure to defeat Heathrow’s (now and scroll paintings (thangkas) with www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Until Monday 4 January abandoned) third runway. Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of THE MINISTRY OF FOOD  explanations of their deep symbolism Full info at se1.net/8924 and use as meditation aids. Part of ‘Space month); £6 (conc £5; under-16s free) £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family £13) Wednesday 9 June to Sunday 4 July for Mind: Tibetan Buddhism in the West’ Until Wednesday 25 August CYPRUS: INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES - ten days of Tibetan Buddhist teachings How the British public adapted to a PHOTOSYNTHESIS world of food shortages. Zaha Hadid Architects’ project for and culture on Bankside. Ground-breaking digital botanical images  Full info at se1.net/8110 Eleftheria Square in Nicosia.  Full info at se1.net/9170 by Niki Simpson. Part of London Festival of Architecture Design Museum  Full info at se1.net/9130 Lambeth Palace  Full info at se1.net/9180 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Lambeth Palace Road Until Sunday 12 September www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace BFI Southbank www.designmuseum.org CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission A LIFE AT GREAT DIXTER Until Friday 23 July www.bfi.org.uk/southbank 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); The first major retrospective about the TREASURES OF LAMBETH PALACE Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free Under 12s free life and work of Christopher Lloyd. LIBRARY  Full info at se1.net/8609 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; £8; conc Until Sunday 4 July Until Sunday 5 September £7; advance bookings at www. APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES: CAN lambethpalacelibrary.org PHANTOMS OF NABUA DESIGN SAVE THE WORLD? Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 The exhibition draws upon the Library’s This is the first London solo exhibition by Key examples of how design can deliver www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts incomparably rich and diverse collections the acclaimed Thai filmmaker and artist. a more sustainable future. Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £10 of manuscripts, archives and books, some  Full info at se1.net/8541  Full info at se1.net/7933 (seniors £9, conc £6, under-16 £4.50; of which re on display for the first time. Bicha Gallery under 12 free)  Full info at se1.net/8318 Until Sunday 5 September 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 URBAN AFRICA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC Saturday 19 June to Sunday 5 September Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings www.bicha.co.uk JOURNEY BY DAVID ADJAYE ERNESTO NETO 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free Adjaye photographs and documents key Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) www.llewellynalexander.com cities in Africa as part of an ongoing will transform the upper galleries and Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Monday 21 June to Sunday 4 July outdoor sculpture terraces with a new A LUSOPHONIC VISION research project to study new patterns of urbanism. site-specific commission and a number of Monday 14 June to Saturday 21 August Photography by six artists and  Full info at se1.net/7934 new sculptural works. NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY photojournalists originally from  Full info at se1.net/8232 What happens to the paintings not hung Portuguese speaking countries. Until Sunday 31 October at the Royal Academy? Part of City of London Festival BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE Saturday 19 June to Sunday 5 September  Full info at se1.net/8992  Full info at se1.net/8989 THE NEW DECOR YEAR 2010 Master Piper Cello Factory The third annual awards has produced 30 contemporary artists whose work explores interior design as a means of above The Three Stags, 67-69 Road 33-34 Cornwall Road another eclectic and progressive range of nominees; from beautiful Hutong engaging with changes in contemporary T 020 7401 9599 12 noon-6pm (Thursday till 9pm) www.masterpiper.com Bubbles in Beijing to the BBC iPlayer, the culture.  Full info at se1.net/8233 Wed-Fri 12 noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 12 noon- Tuesday 1 to Friday 11 June 2010 shortlist reflects the comprehensive 5pm by appointment; free THE LONDON GROUP: MEMBERS’ and international scope of the awards. Hotel Elephant ANNUAL EXHIBITION  Full info at se1.net/7932 77-85 Newington Causeway Until Friday 4 June The London Group is a community of Fashion & Textile Museum Mon-Sat 11am-6pm SUNSET IN THE MORNING: nearly 100 visual artists with shared KENTARO KOBUKE & MASANORI commitment to studio practice and 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Saturday 19 June to Wednesday 21 July IKEDA exhibiting their work, originally www.ftmlondon.org REUBEN POWELL: PAINTINGS, Two Japanese artists. established in 1913 when Jacob Epstein, Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £6.50 DRAWINGS AND PRINTS  Full info at se1.net/8938 Walter Sickert and Wyndham Lewis (conc £3.50); under-12s free Reuben is opening his 6000sq ft studio amalgamated the Camden Town Group in the Elephant and Castle to the public. Friday 11 June to Sunday 11 July and The English Vorticists. Until Sunday 13 June On display are many of the large-scale PENNICOTT+FLEMING:  Full info at se1.net/9115 VERY SANDERSON: 150 YEARS OF graphite on paper drawings of building THE WORLD CUP ENGLISH DECORATION Performative installation. City Hall and demolition sites in the area. Celebrating 150 years of the company Part of London Festival of Architecture  Full info at se1.net/9123 The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 this exhibition highlights the best of its  Full info at se1.net/9121 www.london.gov.uk archive as well as brand new collections. Menier Gallery Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free  Full info at se1.net/7748 Imperial War Museum 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 www.meniergallery.co.uk Until Thursday 10 June gallery@oxo london.iwm.org.uk Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER: Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 Daily 10am-6pm; free EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED www.coinstreet.org Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 June Elements of art installations, which Daily 11am-6pm; free Until Sunday 25 July MARTIN ROWSON: range from a massive real-time, one year TRANSFORMED CREATIONS IN BAD FAITH projection in Canary Wharf station, to Until Sunday 6 June A range of intriguing pieces which Since 2002 cartoonist Martin Rowson portraits of young people from areas CHORDS OF GREY examine the experience of war in new, has been drawing exclusive covers and local to the Jubilee line. Landscape photographer Paul Gallagher. unusual forms. illustrations for New Humanist magazine.  Full info at se1.net/9056  Full info at se1.net/8750  Full info at se1.net/9011  Full info at se1.net/9086 londonse1 This month’s July in SE1 community website forum topics Strata - coloured lights Charity Shop at Guy’s • More London Festival of Bermondsey Street Hospital Architecture events roadworks Need physiotherapist • Big Dance The next issue will Biagio @ Bankside licensing Soviet war memorial app - till 4am? Tabard St by St George the • Turkish Festival be available from The Goldsmith Martyr Document shredding • Real Food Festival Market Thursday 1 July What happened to Lower ...and dozens more topics • Waterloo Carnival Marsh vegetable stall? Send your event listing details to Dolben Street development [email protected] • Capital Age Festival Office furniture Join the debate at Dean Swift www.London-SE1.co.uk • Waterloo Food Festival Parking in Spice Quay June 2010 8 LISTINGS www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Wednesday 16 to Sunday 20 June Oxo Tower Wharf and meet the scientists investigating celebrated experimental Belgian-born THE FINE ART PARTNERSHIP their lifestyle from their fossil remains.  artist. SUMMER EXHIBITION Barge House Street Full info at se1.net/9095  Full info at se1.net/7954 www.coinstreet.org Original prints and drawings for sale by 12 noon-6pm major artists from the 20th century to Friday 25 June to Sunday 4 July Until Sunday 3 October the present day. THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S SUMMER EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, Saturday 19 June to Sunday 4 July SCIENCE EXHIBITION  HELSINKI HORIZON 2030 SURVEILLANCE AND THE CAMERA Full info at se1.net/9087 Clore Ballroom; 10am-8.30pm Take in an aerial view of the city of £10 (conc £8.50) Meet the minds behind some of the UK’s Tuesday 29 June to Saturday 3 July Helsinki which extends from the floor, to An insight into photographic images most exciting scientific advances. the walls and the ceiling of a container made surreptitiously or without the ‘UCCELLI’ - (‘BIRDS’)  Full info at se1.net/9096 New works by Anita Klein presented by located in the courtyard of Oxo Tower explicit permission of those depicted. The Fine Art Partnership. Wharf. Siobhan Davies Studios  Full info at se1.net/7951  Full info at se1.net/9088 Part of London Festival of Architecture 85 St George’s Road The Wapping Project Bankside  Full info at se1.net/9122 www.siobhandavies.com Morley College 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 Poussin Gallery Friday 4 to Wednesday 30 June www.thewappingprojectbankside.com 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free www.morleycollege.ac.uk 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 OUT OF PRACTICE www.poussin-gallery.com Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until Working in collaboration with Siobhan Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free Until Saturday 3 July 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; Davies Studios, some 20 students from the Royal College of Art MA Ceramics SUSAN MEISELAS Until Saturday 26 June and Glass course fill the building with Images featuring a New York S&M club. Until Saturday 12 June REWIRED: RECENT ABSTRACT  Full info at se1.net/9148 MADE2010: PART III PAINTING & site specific works which demonstrate a PAINTINGS BY C. MOREY DE MORAND lively and individual response, with each Exhibition DRAWING AND ANIMATION Large scale abstract paintings, whose student bringing their own agenda to This dynamic exhibition shows life shifting planes, harsh artificial colour and the place or space. Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 www.towerbridge.org.uk drawing and painting, work from immaculate surfaces are inseparable from  Full info at se1.net/9081 observation, portraiture, abstract art and the 21st century city. 10am-5.30pm; £7 (conc £5; child £3) works from the imagination. Short pieces  Full info at se1.net/9037 Southwark Cathedral Wednesday 30 June to Thursday 30 made by students attending courses in Purdy Hicks Gallery London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 September www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk stop motion animation will be shown in RIVER THAMES: SOURCE TO SEA the gallery throughout the exhibition. 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Daily 8am-6pm; free www.purdyhicks.com Travel the full 215 miles of the Thames  Full info at se1.net/8714 Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Until Friday 18 June in just 200 feet at this photographic National Theatre LONDON IN PAINT & PRINT exhibition. Until Saturday 26 June An exhibition of paintings and prints by  Full info at se1.net/9082 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 TESSA TRAEGER: John Duffin. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Unit 24 VOICES OF THE VIVARAIS  Full info at se1.net/9038 Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun Communities whose way of life is now 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 12 noon-6pm; free perilously close to extinction. Saturday 19 June to Sunday 4 July unit24.info  Full info at se1.net/8334 THE RIVER BELL Mon-Wed 8am-5pm, Thu & Fri Until Sunday 27 June 8am-6.30pm; Estonian architect Vilen Kunnapu’s bell WEST END THEATRE IN THE 19TH installation takes an abstract form. CENTURY Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Part of London Festival of Architecture Friday 4 June to Friday 16 July Rare programmes, playbills, prints, www.southbankcentre.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/9169 B&W photography by Marek Borysiewicz. portraits and artefacts.  Full info at se1.net/9150 Friday 25 June to Sunday 4 July Tate Modern  Full info at se1.net/8645 Vitrine Gallery PTEROSAURS: Bankside T 020 7887 8888 DRAGONS OF THE AIR Until Sunday 4 July www.tate.org.uk/modern Bermondsey Square Festival Terrace and Riverside Terrace; www.vitrinegallery.co.uk FORGOTTEN SPACES Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am-8.30pm 10am-10pm; free 24 hours; free Best entries from a design competition 200 years of research has uncovered more launched by RIBA London. Includes than 100 different species of pterosaur Tuesday 15 June to Sunday 5 September Until Sunday 13 June concepts to transform Bricklayers Arms ranging in size from a sparrow to a FRANCIS ALYS TWIG and Cross Bones Graveyard. Spitfire aeroplane. Come and see life-size £10 (conc £8.50) A group exhibition.  Full info at se1.net/8644 models of these prehistoric flying reptiles Major retrospective of work by the  Full info at se1.net/8999 Interested in londonse1 News you may community website have missed fitness swimming? Boris Johnson at St Saviour’s First new hydrogen bus for At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a & St Olave’s for Latin class RV1 route arrives in the UK Mayor of London Boris Johnson visited St The first of five zero-emission hydrogen 25-metre swimming pool and more... Saviour’s & St Olave’s School to promote hybrid fuel cell buses has arrived in volunteering in the capital. Bedfordshire where it will undergo safety ...full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4568 and performance checks before it hits the The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at streets of SE1 later this year. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate 13-storey hotel proposed for ...full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4550 and corporate membership available. Bankside’s Bear Gardens Some of the last remaining derelict Southwark Cathedral vault dug Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with warehouses in the Bankside area could be out for Thameslink reburials demolished to make way for a 13-storey Work has begun to excavate a vault in the poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different ‘boutique hotel’. churchyard of Southwark Cathedral. 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