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THIS MONTH: Free open-air theatre & opera at the Scoop p6 • North Lambeth Fete p4 Hike & Bike the Borough p4 • Diamond Jubilee events p3 • Open Garden Squares p4 June 2012 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 168 FREE Email: [email protected] London Festival RedBall comes to South Bank Borough Road of Architecture Gallery opens It’s had a lido, an A gallery devoted to orchard and a physic the work of influential garden – this month a figurative artist David pop-up pub, spa and Bomberg opens at hotel will appear at 100 London South Bank Union Street as part of University this month. the London Festival of David Bomberg taught at the Borough Polytechnic (forerunner of Architecture. LSBU) in the 1940s and 1950s and The theme of this year’s LFA was instrumental in the formation – held biennially since 2004 – is of the Borough Group of artists. the ‘playful city’, examining ways in Donated to LSBU by collector which both Londoners and visitors Sarah Rose, the collection includes can use the city and its buildings approximately 80 paintings and in a more creative, interactive and 100 works on paper by Bomberg healthy way. and other members of the Borough The festival runs from 23 Group. June to 8 July and for the opening The RedBall Project in Chicago in 2008. (Photo: Fuzzy Gerdes) Last year LSBU received a grant weekend (23 & 24 June) the focus from the Heritage Lottery Fund to is on the City and Southwark. New York artist Kurt Perschke brings his 15-foot renovate part of its Borough Road As well as The reUNION in inflatable RedBall to the South Bank this month. building and to devise a programme Union Street, there will be events “On the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an of exhibitions and events linked to at the Architecture Foundation in object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who the collection. Tooley Street and in Gibbons Rents experience it,” says Kurt Perschke. The first exhibition at the where a “sociable garden” is being “As RedBall travels around the world, people approach me on the street Borough Road Gallery opens on created in a run-down alleyway. with excited suggestions about where to put it in their city. Saturday 23 June at 103 Borough Bankside Community Space “In that moment the person is not a spectator but a participant in the act Road. The gallery will be open will serve as a hub for information of imagination. That invitation to engage, to collectively imagine, is the true Wednesday-Saturday 12 noon-6pm on the Bankside Urban Forest. essence of the RedBall Project.” and admission is free. • www.lfa2012.org • Find out about the RedBall UK tour at www.redballuk.co.uk •www.lsbu.ac.uk/w2/boroughroadgallery RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT South Bank Specialists 123 Stamford Street SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk June 2012 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 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 Street Pianos BOST seeks volunteers 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by From Sunday 24 June pianos will Bankside Open Spaces Trust London SE1 8NY Friday 22 June to appear across the area, including: will be running a month-long [email protected] • Bankside Mix community sports event at Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. • Borough Market the Marlborough Playground Web www.inSE1.co.uk • London Eye on Union Street starting on 5 DISCLAIMER • More London Place July. “We are looking for more © 2012 Bankside Press Every effort is made to • Potters Fields Park volunteers who would like to ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details • Southwark Cathedral help,” says Carlos Moreno. are subject to alteration by • Tate Modern “This exciting opportunity to be Editor venues and organisers and no www.streetpianos.co.uk part of the Mini Olympic Event Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted will help show how strong our [email protected] for any inaccuracies. Jubilee Gardens community is. Possible roles Production Editor Jubilee Gardens has reopened include coaching, catering, James Hatts after its major revamp. New welcoming visitors and acting as [email protected] londonse1 community website public toilets (aka the Jubiloo) host.” Contact 020 7403 3393 Contributing writer are now open near the flagpole. or [email protected] Marion Marples We also publish a community Events in the park this month website, updated daily with include a Chelsea Fringe picnic BFI Library: W1 to SE1 Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a and a Rain of Poems (see p4) The British Film Institute’s Library lively discussion forum. Visit it ADVERTISING dropped from a helicopter. opens in its new home at BFI For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk Southbank on Tuesday 12 June. rates call us for a rate card on 020 7633 0766 or email Goats at London Bridge [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] On the afternoon of Saturday Vinopolis tour shuts download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t 23 June 20 prominent women The Vinopolis wine tour will close www.inSE1.co.uk miss out on anything that’s including Cherie Blair and Miriam for refurbishment at the end happening in the area, make González Durántez will lead of this month with a relaunch SUBSCRIPTIONS sure you receive our weekly goats across London Bridge to planned for October. To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. mark International Widows Day. by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting www.theloombafoundation.org Faith & the Environment cheque for £10 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With Kagyu Samye Dzong London will above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 7,200 subscribers, E&C Leisure Centre shuts lead a ‘Faith and the Environment Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? The Elephant & Castle Leisure Day’ at their centre in Spa Road Centre shuts for the last time at SE16 on Saturday 30 June. The in 5pm on Tuesday 5 June. The new Very Revd Andrew Nunn, Dean of the centre, with swimming pool, is Southwark, will join Lama Yeshe CALL YARD due to open in mid-2014. Losal Rinpoche, abbot of Samye Most of the big and Ling Monastery in Scotland Reverdy Road on BBC2 and representatives of other successful local firms A new BBC2 series, The Secret faith groups who will present do when History of Our Streets, starts this their own faith’s approach to month on Wednesday nights at caring for the environment. A they have 9pm. One of the programmes ceremonial tree will be planted in something to (date TBC) is devoted to the Spa Gardens opposite the Samye say and they history of Reverdy Road in Dzong Centre. Bermondsey. www.se16.com would like us to give a sharp Union Press Waterloo Festival Union Press will take up residence edge to it. in Flat Iron Square this month as a temporary, small-scale publishing PRINT house devoted to Union Street. COPIES Part of the Bankside Urban Forest REPORTS programme. www.unionpress.cc We are proud to be media partner BROCHURES for the Waterloo Festival at St Communication Dickens Voices app John’s next month. Look out for of all kinds London Bubble is setting up a full details in next month’s issue second group for its Dickens of in SE1. The line-up include: Voices project to create a mobile • concerts Copyprints Ltd phone app with Southwark • guided walks BUSINESS CENTRE residents based on Dickensian • theatre inspired by local 1 Talbot Yard London. The Wednesday night memories of WWII SE1 1YP sessions (6.30pm-9pm) begin at • a community fete www.copyprintsltd.co.uk London Bubble in Rotherhithe on • lunchtime events 13 June. To book a place contact • arts workshops Phone 020 7407 2079 Simon on 020 7237 4434 or • a tea dance Fax 020 7403 5411 [email protected] www.stjohnswaterloo.org June 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Enjoy the elegant yet vibrant atmosphere; a contemporary décor, with an Indian soul. For further information or to book a table call t: 0207 407 0333 5-6 Cromwell Building, Redcross Way London, SE1 9HR www.justmangotree.com [email protected] Free home delivery available River Thames Southwark Cathedral Diamond Jubilee www.thamesdiamondjubileepageant.org London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Jubilee in brief www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Blackfriars Wine Bar Sunday 3 June THAMES DIAMOND JUBILEE PAGEANT Sunday 3 June River Pageant on BBC1 Scoresby Street T 020 7928 0905 Vauxhall Bridge: 3.10pm www.blackfriarswinebar.co.uk CHORAL EVENSONG FOR THE Sian Williams will be at Tower Westminster Bridge: 3.25pm DIAMOND JUBILEE Friday 1 June Waterloo Bridge: 3.30pm 5.30pm Bridge; Angellica Bell will report DIAMOND JUBILEE PARTY Blackfriars Bridge: 3.40pm Dedication of the Diamond Jubilee from St Thomas’ Hospital 5pm-10pm; free Southwark Bridge: 3.45pm Window. The Bishop of Southwark Diamond Jubilee party in aid of London Bridge: 3.50pm with local, national and international meeting Jubilee babies; John Southwark-based charity Kids Company Tower Bridge: 4pm dignitaries, the Diocese and local people Sergeant will be at Westminster featuring an outdoor barbecue, morris Vessels will muster between Chiswick gather to mark this moment in history.