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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 139 FREE Email: [email protected] What has 2010 got in store? agreement in the next few months. Visitor attractions Politics Meanwhile the Strata tower at the Theatre This month the Movieum at County This year will be dominated by the Elephant & Castle will be completed and The Southwark Mysteries is a play Hall is reinvented as the London Film General Election. SE1’s incumbent the first residents will move in. by local writer John Constable which Museum. A new permanent Charlie MPs Simon Hughes (Lib Dem) Councillors are due to decide on was premiered 10 years ago. Inspired by Chaplin exhibition now forms part of the and Kate Hoey (Labour) both have plans for further high rise development the medieval mystery plays, the play is comfortable majorities though in the experience. on Newington Causeway this year. rooted in the history of Bankside and 13 August is the centenary of the renamed Bermondsey & Old Southwark expresses a contemporary, inclusive vision death of Florence Nightingale. During constituency Hughes will face a strong Transport of forgiveness and healing. It will be campaign from Labour’s Val Shawcross the spring the refurbished Florence The first docking stations for the performed over three days this April in AM. In Vauxhall Lib Dem Caroline Nightingale Museum will reopen at St Mayor of London’s Cycle Hire Scheme Southwark Cathedral. Pidgeon AM will hope to dent Hoey’s started to appear on SE1 streets in Thomas’ Hospital with new displays, strong local support. Shakespeare’s Globe’s £6 million early January. The scheme is due to be exhibition space and shop. In February Southbank Centre project to develop a Globe Education The world’s largest collection launches its Election 10 season of public launched in the summer. and Rehearsal Centre in a Victorian of Victoria Crosses is to be displayed debates in advance of polling day. During May work is due to start in warehouse on Park Street is due for publicly for the first time at the Imperial Elections in May will also determine earnest on the removal of the southern completion this summer. War Museum’s new Lord Ashcroft Gallery who runs our borough councils for the roundabout at Elephant & Castle and which opens in November. next four years. The Lib Dems, who have the creation of a new signalled three-way Hotels In May IWM opens Explore been in coalition with the Conservatives junction with surface-level pedestrians The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge History, a new public space offering since 2006, will hope to take overall crossings. Work should be finished by will have a ‘soft opening’ in February and greater access to the museum’s collections. control of Southwark. In Lambeth March 2011. the new plaza on the York Road side is Labour will have to work hard to remain The northern end of Borough High already taking shape. Festivals in power. Street will continue to change with In March the H10 London The St George in Southwark further demolition as part of Network Waterloo opens near St George’s Circus, Festival returns in April for a fourth year Business Rail’s Thameslink Programme. marking the Spanish chain’s first foray of multicultural celebrations. Two of SE1’s business improvement Work on the new cross-river station into the London hotel market. The London Festival of districts – Better Bankside and Team at Blackfriars is also well under way, The Travelodge London Waterloo London Bridge – face ballots of local Architecture (June & July) will have with the Thames Path still diverted via is also nearing completion, and there are firms this year to see if their work to make a special focus on the Bankside Urban Hopton Street. many other hotel schemes in the planning their areas more pleasant places to work Forest. system at the moment including a new and live will find continued support. Anniversaries Premier Inn and citizenM in Lavington Exhibitions Regeneration It’s 10 years since the great Street. The Garden Museum’s summer The Shard of Glass at London development boom at the turn of the exhibition will be a fascinating Bridge is now firmly under construction millennium so the London Eye, Tate People retrospective of the late Christopher and should be externally complete by Modern and Millennium Bridge all 2010 will be a year of change for Lloyd: horticulturalist, writer and one of 2012. celebrate their first decade this year. both of Southwark’s dioceses. The Roman the gardening world’s great characters. The future of Elephant & Castle In celebration of its 400th Catholic Archbishop of Southwark Kevin The Hayward Gallery on the South will continue to be a crucial issue, with anniversary, the Lambeth Palace Library McDonald resigned on health grounds at Bank will be closed from January to June Southwark Council and Lend Lease is opening a fascinating exhibition in the the end of last year, and his Anglican for refurbishment work. finally poised to sign a regeneration palace’s Great Hall from May to July. counterpart Tom Butler retires in March. Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds
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January 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 custom of hurling a cross into water as explore the human experience of conflict a symbol of Christ’s birth and baptism in the twentieth century. What’s On which is celebrated on the Sunday after Children & family Full info at se1.net/8279 the Epiphany. All are invited to join the Design Museum January congregations for this occasion. Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Public meetings Full info at se1.net/8258 www.designmuseum.org Comprehensive local listings Bermondsey Central Hall London College of Communication Sunday 10 & 24 January 256 Bermondsey Street BOX CLEVER Elephant & Castle 2pm-5pm; £4 per child (accompanying Thursday 14 January www.lcc.arts.ac.uk adults are £8.50) ROTHSAY STREET S106 UPGRADE Special events Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Inspired by the innovative and PROJECT Borough Market streamlined products of German designer 7pm-8pm Tuesday 19 January Dieter Rams, participants are challenged The section 106 agreement for the 8 Southwark Street BLIND BUILDING to design a fantasy object for their Jam Factory on Rothsay Street provides www.boroughmarket.org.uk 7pm & 8pm; free home, starting with only a blank white £183,299 to deliver transport and public box and armed with a kit of design tools realm improvements adjacent to the site. Thursday 28 January Performance art piece by Laura Wilson. SCOTT ANDERSON and materials. For ages 5-11; booking is Find out about what is proposed. Viewers watch from street level a 15 essential on 020 7940 8783. Full info at se1.net/8319 12.30pm-1.30pm; free minute choreographed performance of Visit the Jubilee area of the market to Full info at se1.net/8356 the raising and lowering of blinds within Southwark Council see guest chef Scott Anderson create Morley College www.southwark.gov.uk delicious dishes using fresh produce the London College of Communication building. See also the listing for Laura 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 sourced entirely from Borough Market’s 7928 8501 Thursday 21 January traders. Taste Scott’s cooking, collect the Wilson’s exhibition at Siobhan Davies www.morleycollege.ac.uk BOROUGH & BANKSIDE recipe pages from the market website Studio on page 7. Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until COMMUNITY COUNCIL and recreate the same dishes at home. Full info at se1.net/8183 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; 7pm; venue to be confirmed www.chefscottanderson.co.uk Meeting for Cathedrals and Chaucer Full info at se1.net/8313 St Mary Magdalen Sunday 17 January wards. Meet your councillors, hear about FAMILY CONCERT local projects and have your say. Plus Charles Dickens Primary School Bermondsey Street 10.30am-12.30pm; £6; children £3; regular reports from local police officers Lant Street T 020 7407 1769 www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk family (2+2) £12 and community wardens. www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk Music and dance for all the family. Full info at se1.net/7004 Saturday 30 January Saturday 16 January Blowing in the Wind: A great family GUIDED TOURS Monday 25 January FREE GIVE AND TAKE DAY programme of music from your favourite BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY 11am-3pm; free 10.45am; Suggested donation £5 wind quintet – involving all the audience. COUNCIL X’po-zure is back again to entertain with Residents attending the event can St Mary Magdalen Church, Bermondsey 7pm at City of London Academy, 240 their high velocity rhythm and a good bring along unwanted presents, small Street, is opening its doors again Lynton Road few moves for everyone to learn. electrical items, furniture, clothes or for guided tours of the church from Meeting for Riverside, Grange & anything else that is in good condition Full info at se1.net/7741 10.45am. This is a fascinating historic South Bermondsey wards. Meet your but which they no longer need and swap councillors, hear about local projects church with many interesting features Imperial War Museum it for something they do want, absolutely and have your say. Plus regular reports free of charge. It provides the perfect and a rich history. Over 320 years old, Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 london.iwm.org.uk from local police officers and community opportunity for those clearing their lofts with a mediaeval tower, it is the oldest wardens. to pass on unwanted items. building in Bermondsey. There will be Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 January Full info at se1.net/6996 Full info at se1.net/8173 two separate main tours of the ground LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT Waterloo Action Centre Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park and first floors, commencing at 11am 11am-12.30pm, 2.30pm-4pm; free Interactive talk with artefacts about the 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 Lambeth Road and 12.30pm, for a suggested donation www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Home Front during the Second World of £5 per person. For a small number Wednesday 27 January War. Wednesday 27 January HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY ACT there will also be the possibility of a 30 Full info at se1.net/8276 WATERLOO COMMUNITY OF REMEMBRANCE minute tour around the higher tower DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL Soviet War Memorial; 11am and the roof space, for an additional Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 January MEETING The Mayor of Southwark, diplomats donation. Numbers for the tower/roof MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK 7pm 11am-12.30pm, 2.30pm-4pm; free from the embassies of the CIS countries, are strictly limited so you are advised to Regular public meeting of the group that veterans and supporters of the Soviet An interactive drop-in session using monitors development in the Waterloo War Memorial will be present at this book in advance (see website) if you wish artefacts for families looking at the myth area. Hear developers present their plans act of remembrance and wreath-laying to do this - first come, first served. See and reality of the First World War. and contribute to the debate. ceremony. the “Guided Tours” link on the church Full info at se1.net/8277 Full info at se1.net/7938 Full info at se1.net/7971 website www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 January London Bridge for more details. AFTERMATH: HUMAN RIGHTS AND Full info at se1.net/8264 CONFLICT Sunday 10 January Topolski Century 11am-12.30pm, 2.30pm-4pm; free BLESSING THE RIVER A drop-in discussion that introduces 12.30pm approx; free Concert Hall Approach both the Holocaust and Crimes Against The congregations of Southwark www.topolskicentury.org.uk Humanity exhibitions. Using individual Cathedral and the parish church of St narratives and survivor testimony visitors For daily updates Magnus the Martyr in Lower Thames Tuesday 19 January explore the human experience of conflict Street gather in the middle of London 50+ ART CLUB in the twentieth century. on local events Bridge for the annual ceremony of the Full info at se1.net/8278 blessing of the river. Since the building 2pm-4pm; Suggested donation £3 of the first bridge across the Thames, First session of a new weekly art club Saturday 30 to Sunday 31 January the spiritual care of all those who have for over-50s. Still-life, portrait and other AFTERMATH: HUMAN RIGHTS AND used it has fallen to the parish churches sessions run by the artist Eddie Armer. CONFLICT twitter.com/se1 located at either end. In a ceremony that Plus tea/coffee and biscuits. And lots 11am-12.30pm, 2.30pm-4pm; free draws on traditions throughout Europe, A drop-in discussion that introduces prayers are offered for all those who of opportunity to chat and make new both the Holocaust and Crimes Against use the river for work or leisure. This friends. No need to book, just turn up. Humanity exhibitions. Using individual Thames tradition follows the Orthodox Full info at se1.net/8287 narratives and survivor testimony visitors Advertise here in February [ SE1 Direct ]
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share favourite books. This month’s The Table book is After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Talks & literature You don’t have to have read the book 85 Southwark Street Music before coming along as there will be Calder Bookshop Wednesday 13 January 1901 Arts Club many others who haven’t read the book . 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 BOOK CLUB 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 www.oneworldclassics.com There will also be discussions about other 6.15pm; free www.1901artsclub.com books read by individuals. Coffee, tea John Harvard Library runs a Book Club in Thursday 14 January and biscuits will be provided. the evening for those who can’t attend DICKENS ASKS FOR MORE Full info at se1.net/8262 Monday 25 January 7pm; £6 (conc £4) the daytime book group. The evening KSENIJA SIDOROVA A one-man show by actor Michael New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall group meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6.15pm in The Table 7pm; £15 McEvoy bringing Dickens’s characters to 106 The Cut dramatic life. cafe. You are not obliged to buy food. Part of the Hattori Foundation recital series. The winner of several international Full info at se1.net/8353 Tuesday 12 January It’s just a meeting place. This month’s competitions, 21 year old classical RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK book is The Invention of Everything Else Thursday 21 January by Samantha Hunt. The library supplies accordion player, Ksenija Sidorova, won SIR ALLEN LANE: CREATOR OF IN SOUTHWARK the books so one doesn’t have to buy PENGUIN BOOKS 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 the 2009 Friends of the Royal Academy the book. 7pm; £6 (conc £4) Lecture by Chris Constable, Southwark of Music Wigmore Award, which led to Full info at se1.net/8263 Sir Allen Lane (1902-70) was one Council’s archaeologist. A Southwark & her recent Wigmore Hall debut. of the great innovating publishers of Lambeth Archaeological Society event. Full info at se1.net/7816 the twentieth century, and the man Full info at se1.net/7516 responsible for bringing the paperback Guided walks Morley College revolution to Britain. Jeremy Lewis, Shakespeare’s Globe Walk London Winter Wanders 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 author of a biography of Lane, discusses New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 www.morleycollege.ac.uk the man’s life and work. www.walklondon.org.uk www.shakespeares-globe.org Full info at se1.net/8354 Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 January Sunday 17 January Tuesday 26 January Sunday 24 January EXPLORING SEAFARING LONDON FAMILY CONCERT THE GEORGIAN GLOBE: COLIN TRACES OF MEMORY: IN SEARCH Meet 11am outside City Hall; free 10.30am-12.30pm; £6; children £3; OF POLAND’S HIDDEN JEWISH PAST BLUMENAU Free guided walk from Tower Bridge to family (2+2) £12 3pm; free Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre; 7pm; Greenwich. Music and dance for all the family. British anthropologist Professor Jonathan £10 including a glass of wine/juice Full info at se1.net/8338 Webber gives an illustrated talk about Colin Blumenau is the artistic director of Blowing in the Wind: A great family the traces of the Jewish past still visible the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. He Saturday 30 January programme of music from your favourite in the Polish landscape. Webber spent led the beautiful refurbishment project PIMLICO TO WESTMINSTER WALK wind quintet – involving all the audience. over a decade travelling across southern of the Theatre Royal - built in 1819 - Meet 10.30am at Pimlico Tube Station; X’po-zure is back again to entertain with Poland with the late photojournalist Chris where Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour free Schwarz; their partnership producing their high velocity rhythm and a good performed in 2009. Passing two bridges, two palaces the photographic exhibition Traces of few moves for everyone to learn. Memory, now the permanent exhibition Full info at se1.net/8273 and two secret services, the walk will Full info at se1.net/7741 reveal many other fascinating facts. of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow. Southwark Cathedral Full info at se1.net/8275 Discover Thomas Cubitt’s development St John’s Waterloo London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 of Pimlico; MI6 and Doulton Ceramics Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 John Harvard Library www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk on the Albert Embankment; the Tate www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 Gallery and what was Millbank Prison; www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Tuesday 12 January the Flood of 1928; MI5; three Lambeth Thursday 28 January SOUTHWARK AND ITS PRIORY Bridges; the Horseferry and Lambeth Friday 15 January 7pm; free RUSH HOUR CONCERT JOHN HARVARD BOOK GROUP Palace; St Thomas’ Hospital; the Palace Cathedral guide Guy Rowston gives an of Westminster, the ‘Great Stink’ and 6pm; free 1pm-2pm; free Free concert by young musicians from The monthly lunchtime book group at illustrated talk about the priory from its Westminster Bridge - finishing outside John Harvard Library has resumed after Norman foundation to its surrender to Portcullis House with the view to St Southbank Sinfonia. Enjoy a free glass the library’s major refurbishment. It Henry VIII. Paul’s. of wine. is an opportunity to meet others and Full info at se1.net/8002 Full info at se1.net/8339 Full info at se1.net/8305 Interested in londonse1 Local news you fitness swimming? community website may have missed At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a Boris Johnson starts enabling 2 years till Waterloo Eurostar works for Tate extension station is back in use 25-metre swimming pool and more... Mayor of London Boris Johnson visited The platforms at the disused Waterloo Bankside to mark the start of enabling works International station could finally be prepared for use by domestic trains The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at for Tate Modern’s extension. next year and the ‘orchestra pit’ sunken Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4291 concourse filled in. ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4284 and corporate membership available. Boris: private developers must Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with pay for new Elephant station Oyster pay as you go: what poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different The Mayor of London Boris Johnson is does it mean for Southwark and Waterloo East? level speed lanes and it is ideal for lane swimming. insisting that proposals to rebuild the Northern line station at Elephant & Castle Oyster pay as you go is now available on We currently have inclusive memberships ranging with escalators to replace the current lifts will National Rail services throughout Greater London - and there’s good news for from £39 a month to £270 for a year’s use of the have to be funded by the private sector. Waterloo East passengers wanting to take a pool. ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4290 short-cut via Southwark tube station. ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4283 We also have Gyms on both the Guy’s and St ‘Pop-up’ events in Southwark Thomas’ sites. St Thomas’ gym also has two squash get 2012 cultural skills funding Knighthood for National courts and a class studio. Southwark Playhouse and Ability Media Theatre boss Nicholas Hytner - Centre have been awared a share of plus other SE1 honours For further details on membership and to arrange a £500,000 to develop the creative skills of National Theatre artistic director Nicholas viewing of the facilities call Patrick Hourihan on 020 Londoners and increase their employability Hytner and Borough Market restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab are among those with SE1 in the run up to the Olympic Games. 7188 6641 or by e-mail [email protected] connections to be recognised in the New ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4288 Year’s Honours List. ... full story www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4281 Leathermarket chair appointed to National Tenant Council Fundraising campaign to John Paul Maytum, chair of Southwark’s restore Waterloo subway poem largest tenant-managed housing Poetry-lovers have so far donated more than £600 towards the £4,000 cost of reinstating organisation, has been appointed to the a poem which was painted on the walls of Government’s new advisory National Tenant a Waterloo subway until it was removed by Council. 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aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the Southwark Playhouse of My Parents are Aliens writer Phil ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn’t Porter (The Flying Machine, 2008). It Theatre waste any time weeping - Desiree wants Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 is also the first production to star the www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Menier Chocolate Factory her. Unicorn’s 2009-10 Ensemble: Amaka Full info at se1.net/7626 Until Saturday 9 January Okafor, Ery Nzaramba, Julie Hewlett, 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 www.menierchocolatefactory.com A CHRISTMAS CAROL John Cockerill, Liam Lane and Samantha Until Sunday 24 January Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £15 (family £40) Adams. Russell Craig’s imagination runs THE HABIT OF ART Until Sunday 7 March An epic promenade production of riot in a design that captures all the fun Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- SWEET CHARITY Neil Bartlett’s adaption of Dickens’ and inventiveness of Porter’s script. £42.50 classic Christmas story. Deep within the Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £25 Full info at se1.net/7271 Tamzin Outhwaite stars as Charity Hope A new play by Alan Bennett directed by sprawling Victorian vaults under London Valentine in the acclaimed musical Nicholas Hytner. Benjamin Britten, sailing Bridge train station, you the audience Union Theatre comedy by Neil Simon and Cy Coleman. uncomfortably close to the wind with will become participants in the story as 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Sweet Charity follows the misadventures his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks you join Scrooge on his terrifying and www.uniontheatre.biz of love encountered by the gullible advice from his former collaborator and transformative journey. and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a Full info at se1.net/7981 friend, W H Auden. During this imagined Until Saturday 16 January woman who always gives her heart and meeting, their first for twenty-five years, her dreams to the wrong man. Featuring Tuesday 12 to Saturday 30 January OH NO IT ISN’T! they are observed and interrupted by, THE RIVALS Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm (no favourite hits such as Hey, Big Spender, If amongst others, their future biographer Mon-Sat 7.30pm (Sat matinee 3pm); £8, performances 19 Dec to 4 Jan); £15 (conc My Friends Could See Me Now and The and a young man from the local bus Rhythm of Life. The cast also includes £13, £20 (airline style) £12); Wed £10 station. Alan Bennett’s new play is as Josefina Gabrielle, Tiffany Graves, Paul J Celia Imrie, Charity Wakefield, Harry Auditioning now! The Hex Factor is much about the theatre as it is about Medford and Mark Umbers. Hadden-Paton and Ella Smith lead an coming to Pantoville! A magical talent Full info at se1.net/7824 poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling outstanding cast in a new production desires of two difficult men, and at the competition that makes dreams come of Sheridan’s masterpiece The Rivals true. What’s your greatest wish? How National Theatre ethics of biography. It reflects on growing for Red Handed Theatre Company at far will you go to get it? And what will South Bank T 020 7452 3000 old, on creativity and inspiration, and Southwark Playhouse. In its first major www.nationaltheatre.org.uk on persisting when all passion’s spent: London revival for ten years, The Rivals you sacrifice to keep it? Your friends? ultimately, on the habit of art. (1776) will be brought bang up to date Your family? A life? Fame and fortune Until Sunday 10 January Full info at se1.net/7627 by Red Handed’s Artistic Director Jessica await. This is the answer to all your THE POWER OF YES: A DRAMATIST Swale (also Associate Director at Out of problems. Oh yes it is... Adult panto - not SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND THE Saturday 9 January to Wednesday 17 Joint) in this inventive new production, for children! FINANCIAL CRISIS February featuring live music and dance. It follows Full info at se1.net/7905 Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10-£35 EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES the meddling Mrs Malaprop (Celia Imrie) On 15 September 2008, capitalism FAVOUR on her quest to marry off her spirited Tuesday 19 January to Saturday 6 February came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 niece Lydia Languish (Charity Wakefield). mortgages and toxic securities continued PROGRESS Following a sell-out run in 2009, Tom But Lydia has ideas of her own about the to dominate the headlines, this spring Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 Stoppard and Andre Previn’s play returns poetic but penniless Beverley, unaware By Doug Lucie. 1983, Kilburn. 34 year the National Theatre asked David Hare that he and his rival, the handsome to the Olivier. A co-production with old Will has flung open the doors to write an urgent and immediate Captain Jack Absolute, are one and the work that sought to find out what had Waterloo-based Southbank Sinfonia, to his marital home, but his liberal Britain’s young professional orchestra, same person (Harry Hadden-Paton). happened, and why. Meeting with many Meanwhile, her cousin Julia (Ella Smith) experiment is not going to plan. He’s of the key players from the financial conducted by Simon Over. A dissident is been condemned to the sofa by his wife’s locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that is betrothed to the jealousy-prone world, David Hare has created this play lesbian lover, despite having invited he was ill, has been treated and is now Faulkland (Tom McDonald), and the stage directed by Angus Jackson and designed is set for a delightful tale of romantic her in; his over-sexed men’s discussion by Bob Crowley. It is not so much a play cured, he will be released. He refuses. entanglement and disguise. group seems bent on self-destruction; his as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who Full info at se1.net/8260 banks went bust, capitalism was replaced believes himself to be surrounded by an tabloid hack of a lodger is a permanently by a socialism that bailed out the rich orchestra. As the dissident’s son begs his The Old Vic offensive fixture; and now battered wife Ange has come to stay, her abusive alone. father to free himself with a lie, Tom 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Full info at se1.net/7302 Stoppard’s darkly funny and provocative www.oldvictheatre.com husband in tow. Doug Lucie’s brilliantly play asks if denying the truth is a price sharp comic drama takes a hilarious and Until Tuesday 12 January Thursday 7 January to Saturday 3 April terrifying look at sexuality, marriage and OUR CLASS worth paying for liberty. SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION morals, and mercilessly exposes middle Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Full info at se1.net/6894 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; Sun class hypocrisies. Brutal, poignant, and A new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, in 5pmTickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/ a version by Ryan Craig directed by Bijan Until Sunday 21 February laugh-out-loud funny, Progress questions NATION tickets/7188 Sheibani. A group of schoolchildren, David Grindley directs John Guare’s whether a combination of security Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Jewish and Catholic, declare their adrenalin-fuelled, Olivier Award-winning and excitement in a relationship is ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7309 play - a sharp, vivacious take on two ever possible. Almost 25 years on, how film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. Based on a novel by Terry Pratchett, worlds colliding. far have we progressed? Last seen in They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, adapted by Mark Ravenhill. The Full info at se1.net/7188 Britain in 1986, Progress was hailed by 1925. As the children grow up, their production is directed by Melly Still. The the Evening Standard as ‘an anguished, cast includes Gary Carr and Emily Taaffe. Unicorn Theatre country is torn apart by invading armies, hilarious masterpiece’ and as ‘a first Soviet and then Nazi. Internal Full info at se1.net/7309 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 masterpiece of comedy’ by The Times. grievances deepen as fervent nationalism www.unicorntheatre.com develops; friends betray each other; Wednesday 27 January to Wednesday 17 Full info at se1.net/8341 Until Sunday 3 January violence escalates: until these ordinary March Young Vic people carry out an extraordinary and REALLY OLD, LIKE FORTY FIVE CIRCUS MINIMUS monstrous act that darkly resonates to Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£31 Times vary; £10 (conc £7.50) 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 this day. A new play by Tamsin Oglesby directed by Every family is a circus - toddling clowns, www.youngvic.org Full info at se1.net/7308 Anna Mackmin. There are just too many teenage lions, mums who spin plates, dads who fly by the seat of their pants. Until Saturday 9 January old people. As a government research But it doesn’t stop there as we dive Until Monday 18 January body seeks to deal with the problems of a ANNIE GET YOUR GUN into dreams and fly up to the stars and THE PITMEN PAINTERS maturing population, a family addresses Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2pm; from Lyttleton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- beyond. This circus puts you in the ring its own. Lyn’s memory starts to go, Alice £22.50 £42.50 and lets you do your thing! Ages 2-4. Jane Horrocks, Julian Ovenden and multi takes a fall and even Robbie has to face In 1934, a group of Ashington miners Full info at se1.net/7270 prize-winning director Richard Jones hired a professor to teach an art the signs of ageing. Relations are put to unite to mount a major London revival appreciation evening class. Rapidly the test across three generations. As are Until Sunday 24 January abandoning theory in favour of practice, those who enter the increasingly sinister CINDERELLA of Irving Berlin’s great hit song-fest... the pitmen began to paint. Within a world of State Care. Tamsin Oglesby’s Times vary; £18 (conc £12); previews £8 Full info at se1.net/7191 few years the most avant-garde artists furious comedy confronts head-on our The Unicorn’s Cinderella takes place became their friends and their work was embarrassment and fear about old age. aboard a giant revolving boat. Not just Tuesday 19 January to Saturday 6 February acquired by prestigious collections; but It exposes a society in which compassion any boat, but the Floating Cassandra, a I AM YUSUF AND THIS IS MY every day they worked, as before, down vies with pragmatism and, by asking (just about) waterborne retirement home BROTHER the mine. Lee Hall’s play is a humorous, unequivocal questions, it comes up with for elderly magicians. While Cinderella Times vary; From £15 is busy bailing out the business and deeply moving and timely look at art, some extraordinary answers. A powerful new play from Palestine the water - as well as cooking, sewing, class and politics. by Amir Nizar Zuabi about different Full info at se1.net/8131 mending, tending and repairing - her Full info at se1.net/7437 forms of love - personal and political. Shunt Bermondsey Street Dad is at badminton, forming a doubles The villagers mourn the loss of the Until Thursday 21 January partnership with one Mrs Yarg, who, he 42-44 Bermondsey Street land they’ve worked for generations as PAINS OF YOUTH www.shunt.co.uk announces, is soon to become his wife Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£31 and move aboard the Cassandra with her unimaginable changes take place around Directed by Katie Mitchell. Vienna, 1923. Until Saturday 27 March two daughters, Monopoly and Tixylix. them. A discontented post-war generation MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT Maybe Cinderella will get some help, Full info at se1.net/8006 diagnose youth to be their sickness Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat 9.45pm; £20 and a proper family, at last. Meanwhile, and do their best to destroy it, in this Money takes place in an extraordinary the Queen has dreamt up a scheme to Thursday 28 January to Saturday 13 March shocking, erotically charged play by three-storey set built in the centre of an boost the monarchy’s PR ratings with a THE CAT IN THE HAT Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner, empty warehouse in Bermondsey Street. royal wedding, and throws a lavish ball The Maria; Mon-Sat 10.30am & 1.30pm; to find a wife for the prince. Cinderella presented in a new version by Martin The audience are led inside, where the Under-18s £8; adults £10 (£12 if not Crimp. Promiscuous, pitiless and is desperate to escape her chores for just accompanied by a child) action unfolds around, above and below one night, but with only the Cassandra’s bored, six sexually entangled medical Katie Mitchell directs this children’s classic students restlessly wander in and out of them. Inspired by Zola’s novel L’Argent ancient residents for company, who’s a boarding house, cramming, drinking, which was in turn inspired by a 19th going to work the magic she needs to in a new production from the National taunting, spying. Freder sets about century French banking fiasco. Prepare get her there? Packed with magic tricks, Theatre. This first theatre experience for savagely experimenting with the young, for fractured narrative, electrifying humour, butterflies and live music by 3 to 6-year-olds is in The Maria, one of pretty maid, with half an eye on his imagery and all-out sensory assault. Martin Ward, this screwball take on the the small theatres. former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned Full info at se1.net/7669 classic rags-to-riches story is the creation Full info at se1.net/8010 January 2010 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1
squalid conditions for the past 30 years Bicha Gallery systems are just some of the products and are now under the supervision of created by Dieter Rams, each item Cinema Multi-National United, a company solely 7 Gabriel’s Wharf, Upper Ground T 020 holds a special place in the history of interested in exploiting the aliens’ 7928 0083 industrial and furniture design and has Imperial War Museum www.bicha.co.uk superior technology. When MNU worker established Dieter Rams as one of the Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Wikus van der Merwe becomes infected most influential designers of the late london.iwm.org.uk with a DNA altering disease, giving him Sunday 17 to Saturday 30 January 20th century. Full info at se1.net/7661 Sunday 24 January alien DNA, he becomes a very desirable ZOE SCHIEPPATI EMERY: OBJECTS PASSION FOR LIFE commodity. Realising he is alone and OF DESIRE / ADORNMENT FOR THE Fashion & Textile Museum 11am & 1.30pm ; free in serious danger van der Merwe must ADORED enter District 9 to escape. Director: Neill 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Holocaust Memorial Day screening of Award winning artist and lecturer Zoe www.ftmlondon.org a documentary directed by Holocaust Blomkamp. Schieppati-Emery exhibits her most Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £6.50 survivor Leszek Allerhand, reflecting on Full info at se1.net/8304 recent work. The exhibition reveals the (conc £3.50); under-12s free his childhood years spent in the Lwow Tate Modern artist’s fascination and obsession with Ghetto. In Polish with English subtitles. bodies as places to inhabit and objects to Until Wednesday 24 February Due to the nature of the subject matter Bankside T 020 7887 8888 customise. FOALE AND TUFFIN: MADE IN some scenes may be unsuitable for young www.tate.org.uk/modern Full info at se1.net/8265 ENGLAND children. City Hall A vibrant and inspiring representation Monday 11 January Full info at se1.net/8274 FRENZY: COMMUNITY FILM CLUB of two key British fashion designers of The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 the 1960s and the part they played in Shortwave Cinema Starr Auditorium; 7pm (refreshments www.london.gov.uk creating the changing London scene. It 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 from 6.30pm); free Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free Frenzy (1972): London police are will revisit the Sixties vibe by recreating www.shortwavefilms.co.uk their boutique, showroom and design powerless to do anything about Wednesday 6 to Friday 29 January studio and chart the very personal story Saturday 2 to Thursday 7 January the brutal serial killer, the Necktie CLIMATE CHANGE: OUR WARMING of two women who set up on their own FISH TANK murderer, terrorising the city. Genre: WORLD with just a lot of courage and £200 in Sat, Sun, Wed, Thu 8pm; £6 (conc £5) Thriller. Director: Alfred Hitchock. Stunning images and text demonstrating Suspended from school and ostracized by the effects climate change is having on their pockets! Duration: 116 minutes. Membership of Full info at se1.net/7571 her friends, 15-year-old Mia fills her days the Community Film Club is aimed at our planet. This exhibition coincides with searching for the next alcohol fix and those living in Southwark and Lambeth. the Mayor’s Environment Consultation gallery@oxo hanging out in a derelict flat near her To become a member (it’s free) email meeting on 18 January. home. One hot summer’s day her mother Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 [email protected] or join Full info at se1.net/8315 www.coinstreet.org brings home a mysterious stranger at door. called Connor (Michael Fassbender) who Until Friday 29 January Daily 11am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/8059 CYCLE SUPERHIGHWAYS promises to change everything... Until Sunday 10 January Full info at se1.net/8299 Terminals, images and a cycle simulator I:CLICK PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS demonstrating the cycle superhighways Winners of a photography competition Friday 15 January Exihibitions that will be installed across central SUSPIRIA for teenagers based on body language. . Advanced Graphics London London in 2010. 11pm; £6 (conc £5) Full info at se1.net/8316 Full info at se1.net/6541 A brand new high definition transfer of 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 www.advancedgraphics.co.uk Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 January Dario Argento’s horror classic Suspiria. Monday 11 January to Friday 12 February SINKING SUNDARBANS Suspiria is Argento’s undisputed Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free STICHES IN TIME The Sundarbans is 20,000 square masterpiece of Grand Guignol horror, Artworks and tapestries from community kilometres of Mangrove forest at the hitting new peaks of terror through Tuesday 5 to Saturday 30 January groups around the Capital detailing mouth of the River Ganges. These islands its stunning photography (courtesy of FIVE STOPS SOUTH OF ANGEL their local environment, community and are home to endangered wildlife and 4.3 Luciano Tovoli), eye-popping production Complementing AGL’s exhibit at the identity. million people. Experiencing sea-level design and terrifying atmosphere London Art Fair, Islington - paintings and Full info at se1.net/8314 rise faster than any other place on earth, of dread and death. Director: Dario prints by gallery artists. Argento. Full info at se1.net/8347 Cuming Museum the people of Sundarbans are victims of climate change. This is their story. Images Full info at se1.net/8301 151 Walworth Road T 020 7525 2332 www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum by Peter Caton, words by Cristiane Aoki. Friday 8 to Wednesday 20 January Bankside Gallery Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free Full info at se1.net/8267 UP 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Fri 8 8pm; Sat 9 7pm & 8.45pm; Wed 13 www.banksidegallery.com Until Saturday 3 April Thursday 28 January to Sunday 28 February 8pm; Thu 14 8pm; Fri 15 7pm; Sat 16 Daily 11am-6pm; free CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO: THE BT BUSINESS ESSENCE OF THE 7pm; Sun 17 7pm; £6 (conc £5) STORY ENTREPRENEUR AWARD 2009 70-something retired balloon salesman Until Friday 22 January Celebrating Latin America’s cultural Twenty top UK entrepreneurs awarded Carl Fredricksen decides to use his MINI PICTURE SHOW impact on London and particularly on for their innovation and success with twilight years to fulfil his lifelong Work on a small scale by members of Southwark. The exhibition, funded technology have been captured in a dream of travelling through the wilds the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal by Heritage Lottery Fund, and in stunning portrait by renowned celebrity of South America. Tying thousands of Society of Painter-Printmakers. Original collaboration with the Carnaval Del photographer Rankin. SE1-based balloons to his house, he lifts off for his paintings and prints are available both Pueblo organisation, showcases the jellymakers Bompass and Parr are among big adventure - only to discover that he framed and unframed with prices expressions of art, music, dance and those depicted. has inadvertently brought a stowaway starting from just £50. costume that have made Carnaval Del Full info at se1.net/8268 along with him in the form of Russell, Full info at se1.net/7651 Pueblo the largest carnival in Europe Garden Museum an eight-year-old wilderness explorer and a continual achievement in cultural who is desperate to earn his ‘Helping the Bargehouse diversity. Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Elderly’ merit badge. Oxo Tower Wharf, T 020 7401 2255 Full info at se1.net/7788 Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Full info at se1.net/8300 www.coinstreet.org month); £6 (conc £5) Daily 11am-6pm; free Design Museum Saturday 16 to Thursday 21 January Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 UNMADE BEDS www.designmuseum.org Until Sunday 7 March Friday 29 to Sunday 31 January THE GOOD LIFE Sat & Sun 8.45pm; Wed & Thu 8pm; £6 MA FINE ART INTERIM SHOW 2010 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission (conc £5) 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); Explores 100 years of ‘growing your This exhibition shows the developing own’, through the good times and more Alexis Dos Santos’ vivid, seductive second work of Central Saint Martins College Under 12s free feature Unmade Beds is a lyrical tale difficult times such as the World Wars of Art and Design MA Fine Art students and the 1970s Oil Crisis. It looks at today’s of two solitary expats crossing paths who will graduate in 2010. Until Sunday 31 January in the cosmopolitan art-rock milieu DAVID CHIPPERFIELD: MAKING enthusiasm for growing vegetables and Full info at se1.net/8271 of a sprawling East London squat. An SPECIAL raises the question ‘is this just a passing idiosyncratic and atmospheric anti- Bermondsey Street Coffee One of the most important architects fad, or is it something that is embedded deep in the psyche of people in Britain?’ romance, Unmade Beds is a cool paean 163-167 Bermondsey Street working today, David Chipperfield’s to good music, bad hangovers and lost architecture uses concrete, brick and Full info at se1.net/7186 love. Director: Alexis Dos Santos. Until Sunday 31 January wood to create awe, beauty and meaning Hayward Gallery Full info at se1.net/8302 THE ZODIAC with an appealing clarity. Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 Bernard Rangel showcases a collection of Full info at se1.net/6020 Friday 22 to Wednesday 27 January www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts SIN NOMBRE paintings of the Zodiac. The term ‘Zodiac’ Until Sunday 7 March Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £10 is relevant in both astronomy and Fri 8pm; Sun 7pm & 8.45pm; Wed 8pm; ERGONOMICS: REAL DESIGN (seniors £9, conc £6, under-16 £4.50; £6 (conc £5) astrology. Bridging a gap between the Ergonomics has been described as the under 12 free) After a reunion with her father, factual and the mystical. The paintings science of everyday life. It uses the Honduran teenager Sayra decides to relate to the term ‘Zodiac’ as in astrology, knowledge of human performance in Until Sunday 10 January travel north to stay with relatives in New meaning ‘circle of animals’ or ‘circle of conjunction with design and engineering ED RUSCHA: FIFTY YEARS OF Jersey. When she meets reluctant gang life’. Each of the 12 paintings represents in order to create systems, products PAINTING member El Caspar, eager to leave his a sign of the Zodiac. and processes which are safe, efficient This is the first retrospective to focus criminal life behind, the pair team up Full info at se1.net/8346 and enjoyable to use. The exhibition is exclusively on the paintings of the great Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha (b. for the journey. Part road movie, part BFI Southbank presented in association with the School gangster film, part love story, Sin Nombre of Engineering and Design, Brunel 1937), one of the most influential and paints a vivid picture of the reality of life Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 University. pioneering American artists of the past for would-be immigrants to the United www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Full info at se1.net/6022 half-century. Alternately categorised as States. Director: Cary Fukunaga. Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free a Pop artist, a conceptualist, a realist Full info at se1.net/8303 Until Sunday 14 March and a latter-day surrealist, Ruscha defies Until Sunday 14 February DIETER RAMS: LESS AND MORE easy categorisation. This major exhibition Friday 29 to Sunday 31 January PETER CAMPUS OPTICKS For 40 years, from 1955 until 1995, Dieter reveals the depth and breadth of his DISTRICT 9 Gallery; BFI Southbank brings together Rams designed or oversaw the design achievement by bringing into focus the Fri 8pm; Sat & Sun 7pm & 8.45pm; £6 three of the acclaimed visual artist’s of over 500 products for the German entire sweep of his 50-year output as a (conc £5) seminal close-circuit camera pieces of electronics manufacturer Braun, as well painter. It is curated by Ralph Rugoff, A group of aliens have been living in a video art in a free exhibition. as furniture for Vits. Audio equipment, director of The Hayward. place called District 9 in South Africa in Full info at se1.net/8119 calculators, shavers and shelving Full info at se1.net/5893 January 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Until Wednesday 20 January Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Morley College Siobhan Davies Studios ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS: SILBERKUPPE 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 85 St George’s Road www.siobhandavies.com Project Space; free www.llewellynalexander.com www.morleycollege.ac.uk Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until Silberkuppe, one of Berlin’s most vibrant Wednesday 20 January to Friday 26 February 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; independent spaces for contemporary Until Wednesday 6 January LAURA WILSON: HORSE OF A art, takes up temporary residence in EDNA BIZON Thursday 14 January to Wednesday 3 DIFFERENT COLOUR the Hayward Gallery Project Space with New exhibition featuring oil paintings February An exhibition responding to the building invited artists and guests. Their exhibition of houses including Sissinghurst, still life SEVENTEEN@MORLEY and its history, along with two live reflects on the history of projectbased and farm animals. All for sale. An exhibition of work by tutors of performance pieces. See also page 3. independent and collective cultural Full info at se1.net/8248 painting and drawing at Morley College Full info at se1.net/8182 production in Berlin since the fall of the Full info at se1.net/8351 Southwark Cathedral Wall, twenty years ago. Monday 11 January to Wednesday 10 February National Theatre London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Full info at se1.net/8037 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk LONDON SEEN: A CAPITAL South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Daily 8am-6pm; free Imperial War Museum EXHIBITION www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Oils and watercolours of scenes of Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun Until Tuesday 26 January london.iwm.org.uk London. 12 noon-6pm; free KAREN NEALE: LONDON IN Daily 10am-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/8348 LANDSCAPE Until Sunday 10 January London College of Communication Watercolours of London scenes by artist Until Sunday 11 April DAZZLE and architect Karen Neale. FROM WAR TO WINDRUSH Elephant & Castle Dazzle, now in its 28th year at the Full info at se1.net/8195 The personal stories of the involvement www.lcc.arts.ac.uk National, showcases the work of leading of black men and women from the West Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; European designers who create unique Wednesday 27 January to Tuesday 2 March Indies and Britain in the First and Second and exquisitely beautiful handcrafted DIANA TAPPING Until Friday 15 January World Wars. Diana’s paintings have a vibrant and 28 STORIES pieces of jewellery, metalwork and prints. All items are for sale. This year’s exciting approach to art. Full info at se1.net/4332 A group show by graduates of the MA exhibition in the Olivier foyer features Full info at se1.net/8326 in Photojournalism and Documentary Until Sunday 5 September over 75 designers working in a variety of Tate Modern OUTBREAK 1939 Photography at the London College of Communication. The exhibition includes materials including gold, silver, platinum, Bankside T 020 7887 8888 This exhibition marks the seventieth a poetic exploration of a maverick plastics, wood, ceramics and paper. www.tate.org.uk/modern anniversary of the outbreak of the spaceship designer, a reflection on Full info at se1.net/7543 Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat Second World War, exploring the build- elderly love, a study of the first female 10am-10pm; free Until Sunday 24 January up and preparations for war, an hour- Indian soldiers deployed to the Indian- TAKE A VIEW: LANDSCAPE Until Sunday 10 January by-hour countdown of events on 3 Pakistan border in Kashmir, a daughter’s PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2009 JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY September 1939 and a look at the early interpretation of her father’s escape This popular annual award, now in its £10 (conc £8.50) months of the conflict. from Hungary and the former eastern Full info at se1.net/6283 third year, culminates in a stunning Major retrospective of this Californian bloc, remarkable and dignified bodies of conceptual artist.. work about loved ones living with illness, exhibition of photographs that express Until Sunday 31 October Full info at se1.net/5425 and numerous other exceptional essays, the spectacular beauty and diversity HORRIBLE HISTORIES: TERRIBLE of our country whilst also reminding pieces and stories. Until Sunday 17 January TRENCHES us of the need to protect this precious Full info at se1.net/8340 POP LIFE: ART IN A MATERIAL £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family inheritance. A full-colour book will be WORLD ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 Master Piper available from the NT Bookshop. £12.50 (conc £10.50) A family exhibition based on the Trenches 67-69 Kennington Road T 020 7928 5974 Full info at se1.net/7631 This exhibition proposes a radical Handbook, one of the books by Terry www.masterpiper.com Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery re-reading of Pop Art and its legacy. Deary in the bestselling Horrible Histories Wed-Fri 12 noon-6pm; free It examines how certain artists have series. Discover how the woeful war 301-303 Borough High Street created their own brands and engaged made people tell lies, how the enemies Friday 22 January to Friday 12 March www.omcg.org in marketing. Includes Andy Warhol, Jeff in the trenches stopped fighting to play JUSTIN MORTIMER: IN YOUR OWN Thu-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-4pm; Koons, Richard Prince, David Hammons, friendly football matches and how the VILLAGE free Martin Kippenburger and Damien Hirst. war brought foul food and worse water. Powerful and challenging paintings Full info at se1.net/5424 Friday 15 January to Sunday 28 March Full info at se1.net/6282 depicting the aftermath of the incomprehensible suffering that humans SOUTH TOWER SOCIAL Until Monday 5 April Jerwood Space can inflict on their fellow men. Curated The Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery is a MIROSLAW BALKA: HOW IT IS 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 by Matt Price. project space and pop-up gallery founded Polish artist Miroslaw Balka presents the www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Full info at se1.net/8350 by artists Chris Land, Eden Mitsenmacher the tenth commission for the Turbine and Patrick Staff, in a former carpet Hall at Tate Modern. Walk into a pitch Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Menier Gallery 10am-3pm; free shop, with a view to working with and black chamber 30 metres long. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 exhibiting a number of local artists and Full info at se1.net/5426 www.meniergallery.co.uk Wednesday 13 to Thursday 21 January groups. Emerging London artists and The Wapping Project Bankside INSCRIPTION: curators will stage regular performances, Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 January 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 DRAWING – MAKING – THINKING film screenings and interior and exterior THE FINE ART PARTNERSHIP interventionist installations. www.thewappingprojectbankside.com An exhibition of work by three Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free WINTER COLLECTION Full info at se1.net/8259 contemporary artists who each use mark Thu & Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 10am-3.30pm making as a way of recording, developing Original works on paper by many Purdy Hicks Gallery Until Sunday 10 January and communicating ideas. Inscription, PETER MARLOW: LONDON AT NIGHT of Britain’s most distinguished and 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 in this context, is the act of committing A collection of images by the acclaimed accomplished printmakers and www.purdyhicks.com ideas through mark making to record draughtsmen of the last 100 years Magnum photographer Peter Marlow Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free from his London at Night series. meaning. It involves different physical Beautiful drawings, watercolours, Full info at se1.net/8209 processes of scratching or pressing into a etchings, screenprints and lithographs by Friday 22 January to Saturday 20 February surface. For David Connearn, Philip Eglin major artists including a wide selection ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI Thursday 14 January to Saturday 20 February and Charlotte Hodes, mark making and by Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland RA, Full info at se1.net/8330 LILLIAN BASSMAN inscription is intrinsic to the realisation Norman Ackroyd RA, Anita Klein, Henry Cult 92 year old American fashion of their ideas, although their artistic Moore, Amanda Danicic, David Hockney Friday 29 January to Tuesday 23 February photographer shows photographs from intentions may and do differ. RA and Antony Gormley. PIERRE BERGIAN the 60s plus new work. Full info at se1.net/8288 Full info at se1.net/8266 Full info at se1.net/8331 Full info at se1.net/8349 londonse1 This month’s community website forum topics February in SE1 Circus tent on Bankside Tanner Street Park redesign Gritting on Tooley Street Living in City Walk Another glitch at the E&C Man with a Van • Valentine’s Day Driving instructor needed Heygate Demolition Recycle Christmas Trees Silver Sea Chinese • Maslenitsa Russian Bermondsey & Morocco St Eileen House Festival The next issue will Clarks outlet at Elephant El Vergel at Webber Street • “Grow Your Own” be available from Laptop repair Rainbow Building Plant Fair New Elephant cafe Monday 1 February Katzenjammers ...and dozens more topics • Farewell to Bishop Freecycle Southwark Join the debate at Tom Butler Early life in Bermondsey www.London-SE1.co.uk Bermondsey Fayre shop January 2010 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW London in 3D: A Look Back in Time
Greg Dinkins • Voyageur Press • £12.99 This book has only 96 pages but it From the warehouses in Pickleherring Street, now the City Hall site, there is a view of the Tower of London beyond comes with a built-in stereoscope viewer moored barges. described as “your glasses to the past”. Each picture, or pair of pictures, has a good description and These glasses bring to life rare three- history highlights on the opposite page but most photographs dimensional photographs of central are not dated so one has to guess the era. The dates clearly range over about eighty years. However, the pictures are fun in London locations dating from the 1850s. 3D with even Edwardian rubbish in the gutter being visible. Several Thames bridges are included. Wesminster Bridge is Maybe most puzzling is the photograph called just ‘The shown in 1908 with trams and drays as traffic. Another shows London of Charles Dickens’. Is the crowd outside the ‘Cheap the first buses crowding the crossing. Funerals’ shop standing in a Southwark Street? It would be nice More interesting are the London Bridge pictures both to know but the book has been edited in America. taken from the south side with one showing major roadworks. Le i g h Ha t t s Let us help you... JOIN NOW & ENJOY A FREE LIFESTYLE PACK!* LIFESTYLE PACK INCLUDES: • 2 Power Plate Sessions • 1 Personal Training Session • Tanning Sessions • Padlock & Rucksack
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