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Bermondsey Street Festival THIS MONTH: Free guided walks p4 • Jazz in the Crypt at St George the Martyr p4 Katrina play at Bargehouse p5 • Free drama at Potters Fields p5 • Free films at The Scoop p5 September 2009 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ 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 135 FREE Email: [email protected] Bermondsey Street Festival Turn to page 7 The third Bermondsey accessories and scarves to sculptures. to learn about the area’s history on a Street Festival (Saturday Food stalls in Tanner Street Park guided walk with a Blue Badge guide. for a guide to will include a Garrison hog roast, Southwark Cyclists will be offering 19 September) promises a Bermondsey Kitchen barbecue, local rides and advice. to be the biggest yet, cocktails from Village East, Greek Entertainment in Bermondsey The Mayor’s with events in Tanner treats from Fotis and delicacies from Square includes live bands, live Street Park supplemented Del’Aziz and Fine Foods. comedy, belly dancing courtesy of Thames Festival The park will also have a Del’Aziz restaurant and an outdoor 12 & 13 September by stalls in the street children’s corner and be host to the film screening organised by Rob and a full programme in lively maypole dancers. Also watch out Wray’s Shortwave Cinema. & Bermondsey Square. for street performers from Southwark Delfina will be hosting the first Open House The street will be lined by more Playhouse who will be making an Bermondsey Street Festival Art Gallery than 50 stalls stocking everything appearance. featuring local artists. London from handmade jewellery to vintage There will also be an opportunity • www.bermondseystreetfestival.org.uk 19 & 20 September Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds RESIDENTIAL SALES, to job local a Got LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT 123 Stamford Street advertise? London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk Sepember 2009 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 Pestival Lambeth Archives in to be considered for inclusion Southbank Centre is hosting This year’s open day at Lambeth 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by London SE1 8NY a celebration of insect life Archives is all about art. Displays Wednesday 23 September to from 4 to 6 September. The Tel 020 7633 0766 [email protected] and a series of talks by and about programme includes art, cinema, Fax 020 7401 2521 or by post. art in Lambeth past and present. Web www.inSE1.co.uk music, comedy and scientific Saturday 26 September 10am DISCLAIMER demonstration. Many of the to 5pm at the Minet Library, 52 © 2009 Bankside Press Every effort is made to events are free of charge. Full ensure the accuracy of Knatchbull Road, SE5 ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) details at www.pestival.org our listings but all details ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) are subject to alteration by Songs of Praise Vitrapoint venues and organisers and no One of the two editions of BBC A new furniture showroom Editor responsibility can be accepted One’s Songs of Praise filmed opens on the ground floor of the Leigh Hatts for any inaccuracies. Production Editor at Southwark Cathedral at Luna Building on Bermondsey James Hatts Easter will be broadcast on Wall West on Saturday 19 September during the London Contributor londoncommunity websitese1 Sunday 6 September at 6pm. Marion Marples The programme is also likely to Design Festival. We also publish a community feature St George the Martyr Printed by Copyprints Ltd website, updated daily with church in Borough High Street. Climate Crisis lecture ADVERTISING local news and features and a www.bbc.co.uk/songsofpraise The Archbishop of Canterbury, lively discussion forum. Visit it For details of our competitive the Most Revd Dr Rowan at www.London-SE1.co.uk rates call us for a rate card Tour of Britain Williams, will be giving a lecture on 020 7633 0766 or email The Tour of Britain cycle race on ‘The Climate Crisis: a Christian will cross Westminster Bridge [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] Response’ at Southwark download our rate card from on Saturday 19 September. To ensure that you don’t Cathedral on Tuesday 13 October www.inSE1.co.uk Southwark Bridge will also be miss out on anything that’s at 7pm. Free tickets from closed to traffic as the route happening in the area, make [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS sure you receive our weekly includes Lower Thames Street. To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. www.tourofbritain.co.uk by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting Lambeth Pharmacy Walk cheque for £8 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With London Memory Walk Lambeth’s Museum of the above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 6,900 subscribers, The Alzheimer’s Society are Royal Pharmaceutical Society Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? holding their annual sponsored has published a free leaflet Memory Walk on Sunday 20 showcasing the medical heritage in September based at Geraldine of Waterloo and Kennington. Mary Harmsworth Park. http://bit.ly/lambethwalk CALL the YARD www.memorywalk.org.uk Most of the big and Elephant & Castle art Topolski Century tours Pupils from St Joseph’s School Explore the amazing visual successful local firms in the Borough and Charlotte chronicle of the 20th century Sharman School at West Square do when by Feliks Topolski in a South have worked with local artist they have Bank railway arch by taking a something to guided tour led by the artist’s Reuben Powell to create a series daughter Teresa. 5 September of 6-metre charcoal drawings say and they 4pm, 9 September 5.30pm, 19 of the Elephant & Castle. The would like us September 4pm, 30 September, images are on display at the to give a sharp 5.30pm. £10 (conc £3); booking upper level of the Elephant & [email protected] or Castle Shopping Centre until 18 edge to it. 020 7620 1275. September. PRINT NEW drop-in Bring colour into the COPIES for older people life of an older person. REPORTS with FREE tea/coffee • Do you enjoy meeting new people and BROCHURES Every MONDAY (except 3rd Monday) want to do something rewarding? ST GEORGE THE MARTYR CRYPT • Do you care about the needs of Communication BOROUGH HIGH ST, older people? of all kinds • Are you able to chat easily and Activities include provide company? We need local volunteers who have Copyprints Ltd Aromatherapy; Massage Manicure or Pedicure. empathy for older people, to carry out BUSINESS CENTRE All cost £5-£10 befriending, visits to isolated and vulnerable 1 Talbot Yard (booking essential); gentle chair elderly in LB Southwark for 2hrs a week SE1 1YP based Yoga/exercise. Art & Training and expenses given www.copyprintsltd.co.uk photography; Walk & Talk £1.50 CRB checks made Information & Advice Phone 020 7407 2079 Please contact Sophia at Blackfriars Fax 020 7403 5411 Contact Tina on 020 7928 9521 Settlement on 020 7928 9521 sophia. to find out more [email protected] September 2009 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Henry Wood Hall Oxo Tower Wharf Southbank Centre Square What’s On Trinity Church Square Barge House Street Belvedere Road www.hwh.co.uk www.coinstreet.org www.southbankcentre.co.uk Saturday 5 September Friday 18 September Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September September PORCH SALE LATE NIGHT OPENING SLOW FOOD MARKET 10am-3pm 6pm-8pm 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm); free Comprehensive local listings Hundreds of secondhand books, videos, Oxo Tower Wharf is a major destination Pestival brings in the harvest with CDs, household goods and bric-a-brac for cutting edge design. On the first Slow Food London and celebrates the for sale in aid of Trinity Newington and second floors, 26 renowned design pollinators who make it possible. Residents’ Association funds. Donations studios offer new and original design Full info at se1.net/7339 products. Part of London Design Festival Special events are welcome - bring on the day, call Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September 07726 305 325 or email [email protected] For a chance to visit the top of the tower Bankside riverside walkway on Saturday 19 September see Open SLOW FOOD MARKET Full info at se1.net/7533 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm); free Bankside House London listings on page 7. Imperial War Museum Full info at se1.net/7713 Special food market held as part of London Design Festival Until Sunday 13 September Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Potters Fields Park Full info at se1.net/7340 DATE AT THE TATE PEREGRINE london.iwm.org.uk FALCON WATCH Tooley Street Tabard Gardens Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September www.pottersfields.co.uk Daily 12 noon-7pm; free Tabard Street RSPB volunteers with telescopes and FAMILY HISTORY WEEKEND Friday 4 September binoculars will bring these amazing birds 10am-6pm; free STEP INTO THE NIGHT Saturday 5 September closer to the public. Where was your family when Britain 7pm BACK TO SCHOOL FUN DAY Full info at se1.net/7287 went to war in 1939? How were they 10-mile sponsored walk organised by 12 noon-6pm affected when Chamberlain addressed UNICEF and Barclays to raise money for Event for the whole family organised Borough Market the nation, men were called up to fight, the million Rwandan schoolchildren who by young people from Tabard After 8 Southwark Street and the children were evacuated? What aren’t getting an education following School Project (TASP).
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