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An opportunity for all communities in Borough Market • Tower Bridge will be closed to all Southwark to come together to give Pageant as it passes and Fearne Jubilee Market, Winchester Walk traffic and pedestrians from 7am thanks for the Queen’s 60-year reign. Cotton will interview veterans on www.boroughmarket.org.uk until early evening and will host Princess Alexandra will be present. guests from charities and the riparian  Full info at se1.net/12181 board HMS Belfast. Sunday 3 June boroughs as well as private events Waterloo Millennium Green JUBILEE ENGLISH WINE FESTIVAL hosted by the City of London. 12 noon-6pm; £10 • Millennium Bridge and the Jubilee Waterloo Road Big Jubilee Lunch from www.winepantry.co.uk footbridges will be closed and Monday 4 June Join the Wine Pantry at Borough’s will host guests from charities and Pearman Street in Waterloo is Jubilee Market to celebrate the Queen’s JUBILEE JAMBOREE riparian boroughs as well as members 3.30pm-10.30pm; free hosting a Big Lunch on Sunday Diamond Jubilee in true English style. of the media. Guests will receive a souvenir wine Oasis is hosting a free party for the local 3 June from 1pm – locals are • Vauxhall, Waterloo and London community to celebrate the Queen’s glass on the door and five tokens to bridges will be open to traffic and invited to bring a dish and join in. be redeemed in exchange for tasting Diamond Jubilee. 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Sunday 10 June  Full info at se1.net/12601 Friday 29 June END OF CHELSEA FRINGE PICNIC June DESIGN OVERTIME: WITH CHARLES HAZLEWOOD Potters Fields Park SUMMER PARTY 3pm-dusk (music from 4pm); free Tooley Street Comprehensive local listings 6pm-10pm; £7.50 in advance or £11 on Evoking the music of the 18th-century www.pottersfields.co.uk the door pleasure garden, Charles Hazlewood It’s the last chance to see Christian presents a woodwind octet recreating Thursday 28 to Friday 29 June Louboutin and the very first chance to the ‘harmonie bands’ that once provided PIZZA IN THE PIAZZA experience some indigenous dressing up, the backdrop to any hedonistic summer’s Places at the masterclass can be secured Special events dance and song at the Design Museum. afternoon in an 18th-century South Bank on www.facebook.com/morettiuk from 100 Union Street French footwear meets English folk is the pleasure garden. midday Wednesday 6 June. www.the-reunion.org.uk perfect mix for a summer night. A lazy Part of Chelsea Fringe Hosted by renowned Italian chef evening of costume workshops, dancing  Full info at se1.net/12600 Giancarlo Caldesi guests will enjoy a Saturday 23 June to Friday 31 August lessons and seasonal summer fayre. masterclass illustrating how delicious THE REUNION  Full info at se1.net/12705 Tuesday 26 June authentic Italian pizza is made, followed Tue/Wed/Thu 12 noon-10pm; Fri/Sat/Sun RAIN OF POEMS by some time to savour their culinary 10am-midnight; free Dockhead Fire Station 9pm; free creations with a complimentary sample Creators of the Southwark Lido return 8 Wolseley Street Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus will of Birra Moretti. with a pop-up pub, sauna and hotel. www.london-fire.gov.uk open with a remarkable Rain of Poems,  Full info at se1.net/12595 as 100,000 bookmark shaped poems, Part of London Festival of Architecture St John’s Waterloo  Full info at se1.net/12721 Saturday 9 June collectively weighing half a tonne, are COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENT released from a helicopter in just half an 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Archbishop’s Park 10am-12 noon hour, to be caught by a crowd waiting www.stjohnswaterloo.org Carlisle Lane Dockhead Fire Station is to be rebuilt on Jubilee Gardens. The performance, under a private finance initiative project carried out by Chilean arts collective Saturday 16 June Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 June - come and see the latest proposals. Casagrande, comes to the UK for the first THE BIG BARN DANCE Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June  Full info at se1.net/12730 time and is the sixth of its kind to rain 6.30pm-10pm; £10 (free for under-8s THE BIG BUZZ AND FLUTTER and over-80s); booking essential Downings Roads Moorings down poetry on cities that have suffered 11am-5pm; free aerial bombing in the past. St John’s is clearing away the chairs for Last two weeks of a series of four fun Mill Street  Full info at se1.net/12673 an evening of revelry for the whole weekends for all the family. Waterloo community. Live music and Part of Chelsea Fringe Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 June Lambeth Palace Gardens caller from the renowned Fiddlestix  Full info at se1.net/12575 OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND Lambeth Palace Road Ceilidh Band. Light refreshments, cake 2pm-5pm; tickets to 212 London gardens www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace for all, balloons, bunting, fun and Sunday 24 June £9 in advance or £12 on the day dancing. Tickets on sale at St John’s HIKE & BIKE THE BOROUGH These historic moorings date back 200 Saturday 30 June 10am-6pm during the week and from Hub open 10am-4pm; free years or more. Gardens have been NORTH LAMBETH PARISH FETE 10am-12 noon on Saturdays. Lambeth Council’s annual active travel created on the decks of many of the Lambeth Palace Gardens; 2pm-5pm; £4  Full info at se1.net/12567 event. The cycle route round Lambeth is barges to form an ‘inside-out’ floating (conc £2.50; family £8) 18.5 miles long and there is a series of garden square. Tea and cakes available An opportunity to enjoy the palace Styles House walks leaving from each of the hubs. (proceeds to RNLI). gardens, listen to local musicians, take Corner of The Cut & Hatfields  Full info at se1.net/12410  Full info at se1.net/12701 tea and buy books, home made cakes, jams and marmalade, plants, bric a brac Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 June Bankside Community Space Festival Pier etc. Have a go on the tombola, the raffle OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND 18 Great Guildford Street T 020 7928 3998 South Bank or other sideshows and listen to music Styles House; 12 noon-5pm; tickets to provided by bands from Archbishop 212 London gardens £9 in advance or Saturday 23 June Saturday 23 June Sumner School and the South London £12 on the day BANKSIDE URBAN FOREST ARCHITECTURE ON THE THAMES Jazz Orchestra. 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There will be a cafe, live music and gardens £9 in advance or £12 on the day Bernie Spain Gardens Enjoy a herb-filled day with Pennards regular video screenings throughout the The community garden with its pond Plants, medical herbalist Jackie Power, weekend. and wild flowers is enjoyed by local Upper Ground Heidi Herrmann and the Natural  Full info at se1.net/12668 residents, including schoolchildren. www.coinstreet.org Beekeeping Trust. Stalls plus activities Merrick Square & Trinity Church Sq The garden opened in 2006, thanks to Sunday 17 June for children. a partnership between Bankside Open CELEBRATING SANCTUARY  Full info at se1.net/12485 Trinity Street Spaces Trust and Tate Modern. Planting www.tnra.net days, pond-dipping, wildlife-spotting, LONDON John Robertson Architects 2pm-7pm; free Sunday 10 June events and gardening clubs all take place Multi-art form free festival launches 111 OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND here. Local people can meet, dig, have www.jra.co.uk Refugee Week. A one day festival with 11am-6pm; tickets to 212 London fun and take pleasure in flowers, plants and animals, in what is otherwise a busy a profusion of talent across three stages, Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 June gardens £9 in advance or £12 on the day pulsating with the sounds of live music, Music and refreshments organised by tourist thoroughfare. SPONGE-SCRAPER CITY  the flow of the spoken word, the sizzle 10am-6pm; free Trinity Newington Residents’ Association Full info at se1.net/12703 of food and the rhythms of dance - the JRA will be creating a scale model of (TNRA), by permission of the Corporation The George Inn cultural fruits of sanctuary. of Trinity House. St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, entirely 77 Borough High Street Part of Coin Street Festival from sponge cake. 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THE MAN AND HIS BOOKS civil liberties, and followed the path of Israeli Robi Damelin tell their stories refugees through different continents  Full info at se1.net/12534 6pm-7pm; free An illustrated talk by Dr Patricia Dark, about the loss of their loved ones in the and times, and join in with a variety of St Mary Magdalen conflict and explain why, despite the family activities and artist-led workshops manager of Southwark Local History Bermondsey Street challenging political circumstances in the in aid of the Refugee Council. Library and Archive. www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/12711 Middle East, they believe that it is more  Full info at se1.net/12643 important than ever to work together Friday 8 June Morley College for peace and reconciliation. Tower Bridge Exhibition CLASSICS WITH MY BABY 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501  Full info at se1.net/12625 Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 10.30am (eat cake and mingle from www.morleycollege.ac.uk www.towerbridge.org.uk 10am); adults £10 (children free) at door Enjoy the diamonds of British classical music - the Lark Ascending, Elgar’s Tuesday 12 June Guided walks Friday 22 June HERITAGE LIBRARY SESSION SUNDOWNER AT TOWER BRIDGE Nimrod, Greensleeves and more Southwark Cathedral favourites. A classical concert series for 10.30am; free; booking essential 020 6.30pm-9pm; free 7021 1600 or [email protected] London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Where better to watch the sun setting babies and toddlers, performed by award winning international artists (and local Come and explore the Morley College www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk than from the top of Tower Bridge with mums) Miaomiao Yu and Philippa Mo. library with a talk by the librarian. Elaine a glass of champagne in your hand?  Full info at se1.net/12132 Andrews will discuss Morley writers and Saturday 9 June  Full info at se1.net/12478 poets including Margaret Drabble, Fay DICKENS IN SOUTHWARK Woolfson & Tay 2pm-4.30pm; £10 to be booked on 020 Trinity Church Square Weldon and Virginia Woolf. 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 Part of Living Memory heritage project 7367 6734. Details and booking on outside 57 Trinity Church Square www.woolfsonandtay.com  Full info at se1.net/12509 [email protected] Cheques should be made payable to Friday 22 June Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall ‘Southwark Cathedral Enterprises’ STORYTELLING POP-UP BOOKSTALL 106 The Cut and sent to Dickens Walk, Southwark From 9am; weather permitting 10am; £3 per family Storytelling and sing-a-long for toddlers Cathedral, London SE1 9DA Secondhand books and CDs from 50p. Tuesday 12 June A guided walk to places associated with  with local storyteller Vanessa Woolf. FURTHER WORK AT DRAPERS Full info at se1.net/12637  Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Full info at se1.net/12626 GARDENS Woolfson & Tay David Copperfield and little Dorrit. The 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 afternoon includes walk with a cathedral 12 Bermondsey Square T 020 7407 9316 Lecture by Neil Hawkins from Pre- guide, visit to St George the Martyr www.woolfsonandtay.com Public meetings Construct Archaeology. A Southwark & Church and afternoon tea in cathedral’s Southwark Council Lambeth Archaeological Society event. Wednesday 6 June Garry Weston Library.  Full info at se1.net/11426  SOUTHWARK LGBT NETWORK Full info at se1.net/12627 Tuesday 26 June The Roebuck CELEBRATES 10 YEARS BOROUGH, BANKSIDE & Sunday 10 June 7pm; free WALWORTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL 50 Great Dover Street T 020 7357 7324 OLD SOUTHWARK IN THE BLITZ www.theroebuck.net The programme includes AGM, guest 7pm; venue to be announced 11am; £8; booking essential speaker Gok Wan and entertainment First meeting of the newly merged [email protected] community council for Cathedrals, Thursday 14 June from opera singer Andrew Ridal. Neil Bright’s guided walk looks at how Chaucer, East Walworth, Faraday and BANG SAID THE GUN: ROGER  Full info at se1.net/12624 this historic borough and its citizens Newington wards. The chair is Cllr Martin MCGOUGH Seaton (East Walworth).. 8pm; £10 on the door coped during several phases of the Blitz. Children & family  Full info at se1.net/12638 Described by poet laureate Carol Ann  Full info at se1.net/12366 Duffy as “the patron saint of poetry”, St John’s Waterloo HMS Belfast Wednesday 27 June Roger McGough appears at SE1’s own BERMONDSEY & ROTHERHITHE stand-up poetry club. 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 COMMUNITY COUNCIL  Full info at se1.net/12729 www.stjohnswaterloo.org hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 7pm; venue to be announced First meeting of the newly merged Siobhan Davies Studios Sunday 3 & Wednesday 6 June Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 June SELF SEEDERS WALK community council for Grange, Riverside, 85 St George’s Road SIGNALS AT SEA Sun 2pm & Wed 6.30pm; reserve a place , Surrey Docks, www.siobhandavies.com 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-4pm (not 3 Rotherhithe and Livesey wards. The chair 07901 560038; free (donations welcome) June); admission £14; senior citizen and is Cllr Nick Stanton (Riverside). Sunday 24 June The designer overthrown? Discover the student conc £11.20; under-16s free  Full info at se1.net/12639 GRAHAM GUSSIN IN beautiful and dangerous world of self- Learn about signalling in the navy and Waterloo Action Centre CONVERSATION WITH DAVID seeding plants. An illustrated talk at St participate in sending and decoding CHIPPERFIELD John’s followed by a walk round some messages from the gun platform or the 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 of the public gardens looked after by www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk 2.30pm; £7 (conc £5) from 020 7091 9650 flag deck weather permitting and shore Jeremy Millar hosts a question led Putting Down Roots, a gardening project side when possible. This free informal Wednesday 13 June conversation between Graham Gussin for homeless people run by St Mungo’s. event is suitable for all ages but only WATERLOO COMMUNITY and internationally acclaimed architect Part of Chelsea Fringe with parental supervision. Entry included DEVELOPMENT GROUP David Chipperfield. The conversation  Full info at se1.net/12664 7pm in general admission price. will explore their respective relationships Tate Modern  Full info at se1.net/12676  Full info at se1.net/12218 to architecture within the city and across areas under regeneration, their Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk/modern Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 June re-activation of the familiar, and their Church services engagement of audiences across public MATERIAL CULTURAL: HISTORY IN Saturday 23 June YOUR HANDS Southwark Cathedral sites. COOLTAN ARTS LARGACTYL Part of London Festival of Architecture 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-4pm; admission London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 SHUFFLE  £14; senior citizen and student conc www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Full info at se1.net/12715 meet 11.45pm at Turbine Hall entrance; £11.20; under-16s free Waterloo Library free Friday 8 June A discussion-led, interpretative activity Join CoolTan Arts for a guided summer which invites members of the public to FUNERAL OF THE UNKNOWN 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 PARISHIONER www.lambeth.gov.uk solstice midnight walk through examine a particular object or space Southwark from SE1 to SE5. Largactyl relating to the ship and those who 11am Funeral rites are performed prior to the Thursday 14 June Shuffle is a fun guided cultural walk for served on her. This free informal event burial of the remains of those whose BOOK GROUP mental and physical wellbeing, and was is suitable for all ages but only with graves have been disturbed by the 6.30pm; free named after the anti-psychotic drug parental supervision. Entry included in building of the new Thameslink railway The group is reading Journey by Largactil which has severe side effects general admission price. viaduct. Moonlight by Antal Szerb. including a shambolic walk.  Full info at se1.net/12677  Full info at se1.net/12608  Full info at se1.net/12642  Full info at se1.net/12658 June 2012 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Until Saturday 9 June Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 June The Old Vic Tunnels MOON ON A RAINBOW SHAWL THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING Music Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 EARNEST Leake Street Set as returning troops from the 6.30pm; free oldvictunnels.com 1901 Arts Club The Pantaloons theatre company Second World War fill the town with Until Sunday 3 June 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 their raucous celebrations, Errol John’s perform their anarchic take on Oscar THE ENLIGHTENMENT CAFE www.1901artsclub.com play, written in 1953, depicts a vibrant, Wilde’s comic masterpiece.  Full info at se1.net/12700 7pm; £15 Wednesday 6 June cosmopolitan Trinidad that is as harsh as A theatrical project that combines the STEINBERG DUO: MUSIC OF THE it is filled with colour and warmth. Tuesday 19 June beauty of science with the power and GREAT WAR  Full info at se1.net/12564 STEP OUT! 2012 imagination of immersive performance. 7.30pm; £18 (conc £15) 1pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12662 Until Saturday 23 June Louisa Stonehill (violin) and Nicholas 120 young people from Phoenix Primary Monday 4 to Friday 8 June Burns (piano). COLLABORATORS School, Southwark Park Primary School LONDON - LET’S GET VISCERAL  Full info at se1.net/11817 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 and Harris Academy join Inspired by historical events, John together to retell the classic tale of The Mon-Fri 8pm; Thu 2pm; £13 (conc £9) Southwark Cathedral Hodge’s play embarks on a surreal Trojan Horse, a performance organised A showcase of five short pieces of new London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 journey into the fevered imagination by the Steam Industry Free Theatre in writing inspired by London. www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk of the writer as he loses himself in a partnership with Southwark Theatres’  Full info at se1.net/12675 macabre and disturbingly funny Education Partnership (STEP). Unicorn Theatre Saturday 9 June relationship with the omnipotent  Full info at se1.net/12728 FAITH, HOPE & DREAMS: SYNOIDOS subject of his drama. Alex Jennings plays 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 CHOIR Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin. Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 June www.unicorntheatre.com LA TRAVIATA 6.30pm-7.30pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12562 Tuesday 12 to Saturday 23 June Choir celebrating its 20th anniversary 6.30pm; free TALES FROM THE RIVER THAMES performs contemporary religious songs. Until Saturday 14 July The Merry Opera Company present an open-air production translated, adapted Times vary; £15 (conc £12; child £10)  Full info at se1.net/12353 DETROIT Based on stories written by 600 Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 and directed by Kit Hesketh-Harvey.  Full info at se1.net/12699 schoolchildren from across London. New Monday 25 June Lisa D’Amour’s brutal play makes its International Encounter have worked ORGAN RECITAL London premiere in a new production Shakespeare’s Globe with the children to create a magical 1.05pm; free by Austin Pendleton, who directed its show that brings to life tales of what Part of City of London Festival New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 hugely acclaimed premiere at Chicago’s www.shakespearesglobe.com could be in and on this mighty river. This  Full info at se1.net/12537 Steppenwolf Theatre. is a site specific production and will be St John’s Waterloo  Full info at se1.net/12714 Thursday 7 June to Sunday 26 August held at Number 10 Bermondsey Street in HENRY V the arches below . 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Until Saturday 21 July In repertoire; £5-£32  Full info at se1.net/12686 www.stjohnswaterloo.org ANTIGONE Directed by Dominic Dromgoole with Saturday 9 June Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£32 Jamie Parker as Henry V. Friday 1 to Sunday 24 June TRADITION & CREATION By Sophocles, in a version by Don Taylor.  Full info at se1.net/12694 SOMETHING VERY FAR AWAY 6pm; £15, £12 (students £10) Jodie Whittaker plays Antigone and Times vary; £15 (children £10; conc £12) Saturday 23 June to Saturday 13 October Wimbledon Choral Society presents Christopher Eccleston is Creon. Director Mark Arends and animator  Full info at se1.net/12565 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Matthew Robins have come together to traditional songs and music arranged In repertoire; £5-£32 by contemporary composers celebrating create an intimate and moving theatrical Tuesday 12 June to Sunday 16 September Directed by Toby Frow. With Samantha experience on loss and longing. love and creation. Spiro as Katherina. Simon Paisley Day  Full info at se1.net/12644 THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS The show is animated in front of the Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£47 plays Petruchio. audience as the story is told through  Thursday 14 June A new play by Stephen Beresford. Full info at se1.net/12695 projection, puppetry and music, with no RUSH HOUR CONCERT Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high Southwark Playhouse words at all.  6pm; free society drop-out Judy Haussman remains Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Full info at se1.net/12685 Free after-work concert with Southbank in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Union Theatre Sinfonia. Enjoy a complimentary glass of while holding court in her dilapidated wine while you listen. A programme of Art Deco house on the Devon coast. Until Saturday 9 June 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 works for wind ensemble.  Full info at se1.net/12713 THE HAIRY APE www.uniontheatre.biz Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14,  Full info at se1.net/12301 Until Saturday 16 June Rose Theatre Exhibition £18 The Miller With unflinching theatrical force and JEKYLL AND HYDE 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £20 96 Snowsfields www.rosetheatre.org.uk explosive lyricism, Eugene O’Neill (conc £18) www.themiller.co.uk Sat 10am-5pm; free explores the tragedy of a forgotten voice and the perennial human need to Sinister, chilling and macabre, Jekyll and Hyde is the ultimate story of good Saturday 9 June Tuesday 5 to Saturday 30 June belong. Directed by Kate Budgen. ARTS INSPIRE ROMEO & JULIET  Full info at se1.net/12243 versus evil. Set in London, and based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian 6pm-1am; £9 (conc £6) Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £12 (conc Fundraising arts event in aid of Music Until Saturday 9 June novella, it is the story of Dr Henry Jekyll, £10) from 020 7261 9565 or boxoffice@ THE IRISH GIANT a brilliant and yet troubled scientist, and 4 Children, a Streatham-based charity rosetheatre.org.uk dedicated to improving the lives of The Vault; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; his obsession with the darkest recesses of Shakespeare’s most adapted and £9/£13/£17 the human condition. Morphic Graffiti’s underprivileged and orphaned children internationally successful play has never around the world. The night will include Cartoon de Salvo’s new devised show. production promises to uncover the grit before been been performed at the performances from Orchestre du Mont-  Full info at se1.net/12712 and depravity of Stevenson’s vision. The Rose, despite what Shakespeare in Love Plaisant, Haruna from No Cars, Isolda, results will be a thrilling and, at times, might tell you. Monday 11 to Saturday 23 June terrifying ordeal. Jude Cowan Montague and David Goo. TENDER NAPALM  Full info at se1.net/11996  Full info at se1.net/12369 DJs include DJ Will Spin and DJ Swoop. Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm3.15pm; BBQ food and cupcakes will be served St George’s Circus £10/£14/£18 Wednesday 20 June to Saturday 14 July all night. corner of Borough Road & Library Street Philip Ridley’s lyrical and heart-  THE FIX Full info at se1.net/12671 stopping account of love in the face of Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 2pm & 6pm; £18 Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 June catastrophe returns to Southwark at the (concessions available) ILLUSIONS OF REFERENCE end of a national tour. The production Set in the 1960s and loosely based on Theatre St George’s Yard; 9pm; £8 (conc £5) from features Lara Rossi and Tom Byam Shaw The Manchurian Candidate, this darkly and is directed by David Mercatali. Menier Chocolate Factory 020 7193 3307 funny lampooning of American politics A surrealistic aerial storytelling and  Full info at se1.net/12687 takes no prisoners. Book and lyrics by 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 live art performance installation. www.menierchocolatefactory.com Wednesday 13 to Saturday 30 June John Dempsey. Music by Dana P Rowe. Featuring the real-time animated digital SUMMER AND SMOKE Directed by Michael Strassen. Until Sunday 12 August sceneography of Jaime Valtierra & The Vaults; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm;  Full info at se1.net/12610 Prasanth Visweswaran, a Routemaster TORCH SONG TRILOGY £9/£13/£17 Waterloo East Theatre Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £29.50; bus, and performances from talented By Tennessee Williams. Directed by meal deal £37.00 PAC founders Andrea Meneses Guerrero Rebecca Frecknall. Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award winning and Dagmara Bilon. Taking inspiration  Full info at se1.net/12543 www.waterlooeast.co.uk comedy-drama tells the poignant story from the story of the Delphic Oracle, Wednesday 27 June to Saturday 21 July Tuesday 12 to Sunday 24 June of an outsider’s search for love and the show features aerial, mime, voice NO PICNIC acceptance. With David Bedella and Sara and projections; fire, shadow and object THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE FINN Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 4pm; £14 (conc £12) Kestelman. Directed by Douglas Hodge. manipulations. Greg Freeman’s allegorical comedy that  Full info at se1.net/12482  Full info at se1.net/12727 Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Sat 3.15pm; £10, £14, £18 explores the crisis of conscience of teddy National Theatre The Scoop The UK premiere of Sebastian Barry’s bears.  Full info at se1.net/12674 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 More London Riverside play is directed by Blanche McIntyre. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.morelondon.com/scoop.html  Full info at se1.net/12531 Young Vic Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 June The Old Vic 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Until Saturday 2 June www.youngvic.org TRAVELLING LIGHT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 www.oldvictheatre.com Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12- 6.30pm; free Until Tuesday 12 June £47.50 The Grassroots Shakespeare Company Friday 15 June to Saturday 14 July THE SUIT Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny brings its production of the bard’s DEMOCRACY Times vary; £10-£29.50 and fascinating tribute to the Eastern bawdiest comedy to the amphitheatre Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; Directors Peter Brook and Marie-Hlne European immigrants who became major next to City Hall. Professional actors £20-£60 Estienne team up with a company of players in Hollywood’s golden age. The with no director, no crew, gender-blind Sheffield Theatres’ production of international actors, singers and award-winning Antony Sher returns to casting, no ‘fourth wall’, using only cue Michael Frayn’s gripping cold-war spy musicians to recreate Can Themba’s play Jacob. scripts and a few days’ rehearsal. thriller comes to London for four weeks. hauntingly beautiful fable.  Full info at se1.net/12561  Full info at se1.net/12693  Full info at se1.net/12549  Full info at se1.net/11791 June 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Wednesday 6 to Saturday 16 June Bankside Gallery Garden Museum Jacob’s Island Gallery MAD ABOUT THE BOY The Clare; Mon-Sat 8pm; Wed & Sat 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 56 Butler’s & Colonial Wharf, 10ñ11 Shad 3pm; £15 www.banksidegallery.com www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Thames T 020 7407 8850 Directed by Ria Parry. Daily 11am-6pm; free Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of www.jacobsisland.co.uk month); £7 (conc £6; under-16s free) Thu-Sun 12 noon-5pm;  Full info at se1.net/12247 Until Saturday 9 June ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER- Friday 29 June to Thursday 26 July Until Sunday 10 June Until Saturday 28 July A DOLL’S HOUSE PRINTMAKERS THE END Prints made using the long established LONDON GUERRILLA GARDENING Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; The brevity and fragility of human life. processes of etching and relief printing Photographs by Richard Reynolds. £10-£30  Full info at se1.net/12661 to the more contemporary uses of  Full info at se1.net/12597 Directed by Carrie Cracknell. photographic and digital technology. Jerwood Space  Full info at se1.net/12245 Until Sunday 24 June  Full info at se1.net/11112 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 GARDEN OPEN TODAY: www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 June 300 YEARS OF GARDEN VISITING Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Cinema MORGAN DOYLE RE The story of our love affair with other 10am-3pm; free Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre Prints, paintings and drawings. people’s gardens.  Full info at se1.net/11113 Until Sunday 24 June 108 Stamford Street T 020 7021 1600  Full info at se1.net/12240 Bermondsey Project Space ASSEMBLY www.coinstreet.org George and Jorgen 46 Willow Walk New works by artists who work Friday 15 June www.bowarts.org/studios/se1-studios 9 Morocco Street collaboratively and are influenced by BLACK CAT WHITE CAT: Thu-Sun 1pm-6pm; www.georgeandjorgen.com digital communication technologies and COIN STREET NEIGHBOURHOOD Wed-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; Sun the changing digital landscape. FILM CLUB Until Sunday 17 June 12 noon-5pm;  Full info at se1.net/12667 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £4 inc NATURE TRANSLATED Lambeth Palace refreshments Charles March - who under the name Friday 8 June to Sunday 1 July A Yugoslav romantic comedy film Charles Settrington was a leading PAULINA MICHNOWSKA: LOST IN Lambeth Palace Road from the director of Underground advertising photographer - marks SPACE FOREVER www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace and Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica’s his return to photography with this  Full info at se1.net/12659 Until Saturday 14 July Black Cat White Cat is a riotous mix of exhibition.  Full info at se1.net/12557 Hayward Gallery ROYAL DEVOTION: farce, romance and crime set within MONARCHY AND THE BOOK OF a community of gypsy people. With Bicha Gallery Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 COMMON PRAYER English subtitles. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 Tue-Fri 11am-1.30pm & 2pm-5pm; Sat  Full info at se1.net/12506 Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); www.bicha.co.uk 11am-4pm (last entry 1 hour before Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 closing); £12 (conc £10); under-17s free £4.50; under 12 free) The relationship between royalty and Exhibitions Until Sunday 17 June religion from medieval to modern times. SIGNALS: COLIN McCALLUM 160 Tooley Street Monday 11 June to Wednesday 11 July  Full info at se1.net/12201 The subliminal and visual overload of our WIDE OPEN SCHOOL 160 Tooley Street T 020 7525 5000 consumer society. Morning, afternoon and evening Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings www.southwark.gov.uk  Full info at se1.net/12523 sessions Tue-Sun; £10 per session 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Monday 25 June to Friday 6 July Cuming Museum A school with a programme devised and www.llewellynalexander.com Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free RIGA FROM ABOVE 151 Walworth Road SE17 T 020 7525 2332 fuelled by the imaginations of more than open office hours; free www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum 80 leading artists from over 40 different An exhibition of 45 photos of Riga, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free countries. Thursday 7 June to Saturday 18 August the capital of Latvia, taken from  Full info at se1.net/12054 NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY an aeroplane. It shows the buildings, Until Saturday 27 October Rejects from the RA Summer Exhibition. churches and communication systems of FACT INTO FICTION: CHARLES DICKENS Tuesday 12 June to Sunday 5 August  Full info at se1.net/12206 the old city. - A SOUTHWARK CHILDHOOD INVISIBLE: ART ABOUT THE UNSEEN Menier Gallery Part of London Festival of Architecture Dickens’s experiences of the Borough 1957-2012 area during his time there in 1824. The 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222  Full info at se1.net/12706 Artworks that explorer the invisible, the exhibition explores key locations, such www.meniergallery.co.uk Advanced Graphics London as the Marshalsea Prison, St George hidden and the unknown. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12613 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 the Martyr Church and Mint Street Until Saturday 2 June www.advancedgraphics.co.uk workhouse and how they influenced his Imperial War Museum Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free novels. LIQUID BRICK: UCA FARNHAM BA  Full info at se1.net/12214 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 FINE ART london.iwm.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/12629 Until Saturday 30 June Design Museum SIGNIFICANT OTHERS PART 1 Daily 10am-6pm; free Friday 8 to Saturday 9 June Featuring paintings, prints and Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 www.designmuseum.org LSBU DEGREE SHOW: constructions by couples: Clyde Hopkins Until Sunday 23 September Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm); PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA with Marilyn Hallam and Patrick BUILD THE TRUCE £10 (conc £9; students 6); Under 12s free London South Bank University’s final Caulfield with Janet Nathan. The concepts behind the Olympic Truce. year BA Digital Photography and Digital  Full info at se1.net/12670  Full info at se1.net/12532 Until Sunday 8 July Media students Alma Enterprises CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN  Full info at se1.net/12630 The French designer and his influences. Until Friday 30 November 38-40 Glasshill Street  Full info at se1.net/11773 WAR STORY: SERVING IN www.almaenterprises.com AFGHANISTAN Tuesday 12 to Saturday 23 June SEA VIEW: Sat & Sun 12 noon-6pm or Fri by Personal artefacts as well as video Until Sunday 15 July ANNE-CATHERINE PHILLIPS appointment; free DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2012 footage, images and interviews. Seaside paintings that focus on family Innovative and progressive designs from  Full info at se1.net/11695 Until Sunday 1 July around the world. life and relationships.  Full info at se1.net/12631 ALEX BAGGALEY  Full info at se1.net/11772 Until Monday 31 December Nine oil paintings comprising three A FAMILY IN WARTIME visually and thematically distinct series. Drawing Room Tuesday 19 to Saturday 23 June How ordinary people braved the  Full info at se1.net/12657 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street EXP’ 12: UNIVERSITY OF DERBY www.drawingroom.org.uk challenges of life on the home front This year’s photo graduates from the Anise Gallery Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free during the Second World War. University of Derby. 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938  Full info at se1.net/12368  Full info at se1.net/12632 www.anisegallery.co.uk Until Saturday 30 June Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; free GRAPHOLOGY Drawing, typography, photography, film Saturday 2 June to Sunday 8 July and computer graphics. GURLEY: BYPRODUCTS OF MY LIFE  Full info at se1.net/12722 Next month SE1 Paintings, screen prints and etchings. Fashion & Textile Museum in  Full info at se1.net/12660 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Architecture Foundation www.ftmlondon.org Highlights include: 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; £7 (conc • Waterloo Festival www.architecturefoundation.org.uk £5); under-12s free Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Until Saturday 16 June • Capital Age Festival Until Saturday 9 June DESIGNING WOMEN: SHIFTS: BOOM, BUST AND BEYOND POST-WAR BRITISH TEXTILES • Waterloo Carnival An evocative, polemical exhibition Over 100 works from the collection of Jill illustrating the far-reaching impacts of A Wiltse and H Kirk Brown. • Tapas Fantasticas new economic circumstance.  Full info at se1.net/11753  Full info at se1.net/12519 gallery@oxo • Great Fire of Southwark anniversary Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 • Independents Day in Waterloo Saturday 23 June to Saturday 25 August www.coinstreet.org BUREAU SPECTACULAR: HEFNER/ Daily 11am-6pm; free BEUYS HOUSE • The Tanks at Tate Modern An inhabitable installation creating a Friday 15 June to Sunday 8 July modular home of ‘super-furniture’. ART IN THE WILD • Bastille Day Part of London Festival of Architecture Photographs by Roger Hooper.  Full info at se1.net/12710  Full info at se1.net/12689 next issue available Friday 29 June June 2012 8 WHAT’S ON VI www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

National Theatre Purdy Hicks Gallery Southwark Cathedral Thursday 28 June to Sunday 14 October EDVARD MUNCH: South Bank T 020 7452 3000 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 THE MODERN EYE www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.purdyhicks.com www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk £14 (conc £12.20) + gift aid Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & Reassesing the work of Norwegian 12 noon-6pm; free Sun 10am-6pm; free painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Until Monday 18 June  Full info at se1.net/12229 Until Monday 4 June SALLY SMART Until Saturday 30 June FESTIVAL! Representations of female identity. CITY LIGHTS: JOHN DUFFIN The Wapping Project Bankside Images from the Corbis archive.  Full info at se1.net/12628 New work focusing on London tube and 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851  train stations and city vistas all depicted Full info at se1.net/12378 Royal Festival Hall www.thewappingprojectbankside.com in the unique overhead viewpoints Tue-Sat 10-6pm (Mon by appointment); Until Saturday 9 June Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Duffin is acclaimed for. free NEW WORK BY HILARY ROSEN www.southbankcentre.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/12552 Vibrant oil paintings depict the city. Foyers daily 10am-11pm; free Until Saturday 30 June  Full info at se1.net/12560 St George the Martyr EDGAR MARTINS: THIS IS NOT A Friday 1 June to Sunday 9 September Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 HOUSE Nolia’s Gallery FESTIVAL OF THE WORLD MUSEUM www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk Martins was commissioned by the 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 Designed by Wayne and Gerardine New York Times Magazine to explore Friday 1 to Monday 4 June coreatnolias.wordpress.com Hemingway. Through a series of the United States’ subprime mortgage POLISH POSTERS Wed–Fri 12 noon-6pm; Sat & Sun 12 immersive and interactive environments, industry collapse and its impact on the The Crypt; 1pm-7.30pm; live music from noon-4pm; free which present artworks, documentary real estate market. footage, objects and memorabilia, it 8pm; free  Full info at se1.net/12593 Until Wednesday 6 June offers an exploration of the thinkers, Exhibition organised by the Nowy WHAT’S TIME GOT TO DO WITH IT? artists and communities who have Czas newspaper as part of its ARTeria Tower Bridge Exhibition  Full info at se1.net/12669 inspired and contributed to Southbank programme to promote Polish artists. Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 Centre’s Festival of the World. The exhibition includes posters by Polish www.towerbridge.org.uk Friday 22 to Wednesday 27 June  Full info at se1.net/12698 artists with London connections, as well 10am-5.30pm; £6 (conc £4.20; child INFINITE PASSION as historical and contemporary work £2.60) Celebrating the gay and lesbian world Shakespeare’s Globe from the collection of the Poster Gallery with Matthew Stradling, Ronald New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 in Cracow. Until Sunday 30 September Hernandez, Jay Carr and Becky Boston. www.shakespearesglobe.com  Full info at se1.net/12655 CITIES OF THE MODERN GAMES  Full info at se1.net/12735 9am-5pm; Exhibition £12.50; children £8; 26 large-scale full-colour images of all students £11; family £35 Tate Modern past host cities of the modern Olympic Poppy Sebire Gallery Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Games, from Athens in 1896 to Beijing Copperfield Street T 020 7928 3096 Until Sunday 12 August www.tate.org.uk/modern in 2008. www.poppysebire.com WITHIN THE WOODEN O Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat  Full info at se1.net/12527 Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free Work inspired by Rosalind Lyons 10am-10pm; free Hudson’s tenure as artist-in-residence at White Cube Bermondsey Until Saturday 16 June the Globe. Until Tuesday 5 June 144-152 Bermondsey Street 020 7930 5373 GEORGIE HOPTON:  Full info at se1.net/12692 YAYOI KUSAMA www.whitecube.com THE WOUNDED TULIP £10 (conc £8.50) Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; Siobhan Davies Studios Hopton considers the fecund and the Kusama is one of Japan’s best-known free dying with a lightness of heart and a 85 St George’s Road living artists. Her pioneering work spans touch of dark humour. www.siobhandavies.com six decades and this exhibition highlights Until Sunday 8 July  Full info at se1.net/12512 Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat the artist’s moments of most intense DAMIEN HIRST: TWO WEEKS ONE 10am-5pm; free innovation. SUMMER Poussin Gallery  Full info at se1.net/12052 Exhibition to coincide with the Hirst 175 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 4444 Until Sunday 1 July show at Tate Modern. www.poussin-gallery.com ANIMATED ENVIRONMENTS: PART Until Sunday 9 September  Full info at se1.net/12623 Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free 2: GRAHAM GUSSIN DAMIEN HIRST Solo exhibition focusing on painting, £14 (conc £12.20) Until Sunday 8 July Wednesday 6 to Saturday 30 June photography and film as platforms for The first substantial survey of Damien BRUCE NAUMAN GEOFFREY RIGDEN: performance. See also Talks & Literature Hirst’s work ever held in the UK. See also Experimental and ground breaking films, Career survey curated by Cuillin Bantock. listings. 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