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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 145 FREE Email: [email protected] The Bankside The Railway Children Elephant & Urban Forest at Waterloo Station Castle drama The Bankside Urban The new play Elephant Forest project will 21 aims to capture the be the focus of the vibrancy of 21st century final weekend of this Elephant & Castle before year’s London Festival the major regeneration of Architecture on of the area takes place. Saturday 3 and Sunday The Mayhem Company trained volunteers to act as oral historians 4 July. who then interviewed people that As well as the Union Street have lived and loved in Elephant & Urban Orchard and Jellyfish Theatre Castle. we reported last month, there will These collected stories have be plenty of small-scale events and inspired the play Elephant 21 which installations. Many of the events will be performed this month in the form part of the International Royal Court’s Theatre Local space Architecture Student Festival. at the Elephant & Castle Shopping To celebrate the bicentenary Waterloo’s disused Eurostar terminal will be Centre. of the town of Bournemouth, The plot of Elephant 21 graduates from the Arts University transformed into a theatre this month for the opening weaves through the past hundred College Bournemouth will occupy of The Railway Children, a stage adaptation of E years told through four generations Gatehouse Square off Park Street on Nesbit’s classic book. of the Valentine family in a play Saturday 3 July and invite residents A 66-tonne Great Northern Railway Stirling Single locomotive – dating about war, sarsparilla, knickerbocker and passers by to participate in from 1870 – will feature in the stage production along with the gentlemen’s glories, more war, suicide, jiving and beach life and sand play at their saloon carriage that appeared in the 1970 film of E Nesbit’s book. unrequited love. beach hut. Mike Kenny’s adaptation of The Railway Children opens on 4 July and is The cast will be a mixture of In nearby Maiden Lane students booking until 4 September. young non-professionals from The from Central Saint Martins will The professional cast, including Marshall Lancaster, David Baron, Nicholas Mayhem Company, professional be holding their London Flapjack Bishop, Louisa Clein and Caroline Harker, will be joined by a supporting cast of actors and older non-professionals Association event. young people from Lambeth and Southwark. from Blackfriars Settlement. Bankside Community Space is The production is supporting the Railway Children charity which helps The Mayhem Company is hosting a tea party and an exhibition homeless and runaway children around the world; £1 from each ticket sale will hosted by SE1 United at the Spirit of local photographs. be donated to the charity. Level in Royal Festival Hall. • See listing on page 3 • See listing on page 6 • See listing on page 5 Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds
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Contributing writer www.thamesclippers.com Marion Marples We also publish a community Borough Chamber Choir website, updated daily with Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a This local choir, who rehearse at Festivities for Foyles 5th the Borough Welsh Chapel, are Foyles will be celebrating the ADVERTISING lively discussion forum. Visit it For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk holding their summer concert 5th anniversary of its Royal rates call us for a rate card at St Alban the Martyr, Brooke Festival Hall branch on Saturday on 020 7633 0766 or email Street, EC1 on Saturday 3 July. 3 July with a day of themed [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] The title is ‘Britten and those that activities. There will be goodies download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t inspired him’. 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Mosque bazaar & fun day in The Muslim Association of Southbank at the Crypt the Nigeria, which runs the Old Kent Southbank Printmakers is a co- CALL YARD Road Mosque, is fundraising to operative of 36 artists working in develop a new Islamic Centre print media who have a gallery Office Space To Let on Old Kent Road. A bazaar and in Gabriel’s Wharf on the South family fun day will be held on Bank. To celebrate their tenth Sunday 25 July at Burgess Park anniversary they are exhibiting 180 square feet, Sports Ground. The event is open in the crpyt of St Martin-in-the- from 10am to 6pm and includes Fields at Trafalgar Square until London Bridge activities for adults and children 18 July. location. as well as an array of food. www.manuk.org Cycle Superhighway 7 The Barclays Cycle Superhighway Viewing London Folk from Merton to the City via essential. For those who loved Southwark Elephant & Castle and Southwark Mysteries or who care about the Bridge Road will open on 19 July. Cross Bones Graveyard there will The blue paint has already been Call for details. be another opportunity to see liberally applied to the streets. John Constable perform as part of Look out for events and activities an evening celebrating London’s to mark the launch. Appointment Folklore with story and song. necessary. Local boy Nigel of Bermondsey Barclays Cycle Hire will also be appearing with The London Cycle Hire scheme Copyprints Ltd ‘London Dreamtime’ performing begins on Friday 30 July, BUSINESS CENTRE songs and stories from SE1... with docking stations already 1 Talbot Yard along with Olivia Armstrong appearing on many SE1 streets. SE1 1YP (storyteller from the Museum www.tfl.gov.uk/cyclehire of London) and Sam Lee, accomplished and original folk Tanner St Park bootcamps www.copyprintsltd.co.uk singer. It’s at the 12bar club in FitNS bootcamps will run on Phone 020 7407 2079 Denmark Street WC2 on Monday Thursday evenings 6.30pm- Fax 020 7403 5411 5 July and tickets are on sale at 7.30pm during July and August. www.eventelephant.com/londonfolk www.fitns.co.uk July 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Downside Fisher Youth Club Thursday 15 July Royal British Legion AN EVENING OF TRADITIONAL Coxson Place, Druid Street T 020 7407 0093 BRITISH MEATS 199 Borough High Street What’s On www.downside-fisher.org 5pm-7.30pm; free www.britishlegion.org.uk Enjoy BBQ bangers, burgers, ribs and Saturday 17 July Sunday 18 July sauces from The Ginger Pig. July RIVERSIDE PARENTS JUMBLE SALE POPPYWALK 2010 12 noon-3pm; entry £1 Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival Full info at se1.net/9339 How well do you know London? To Comprehensive local listings Got a home full of kids’ toys, clothes find out, join the Royal British Legion’s and baby/toddler gear you don’t know annual PoppyWalk - a Sunday stroll what to do with? If you’ve got items to Thursday 22 July CONTINENTAL CHEESE TASTING where walkers can search for clues and donate, please bring them to Downside test their knowledge of London. Starting Fisher between 9am and 11am. 5pm-7.30pm; free near London Bridge and following Special events Full info at se1.net/9259 Sample a range of cheeses from the ‘secret basement cheese counter’. a 10 km trail finishing at the Legion’s Bankside Community Space Emma Cons Gardens Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival HQ in Borough, you can race it or just 18 Great Guildford Street The Cut Full info at se1.net/9340 ramble - you have between 9.30am and 3.30pm to complete the walk and answer James Clerk Maxwell Building Saturday 3 July Thursday 1 July questions to qualify for a prize. Contact PEABODY TEA HOUSE OF FUN FOOD FAIR 57 Waterloo Road Rebecca 020 3207 2272 or email rpride@ 1pm-5pm 5pm-7pm; free www.kcl.ac.uk britishlegion.org.uk for an entry form. Enjoy a refreshing afternoon tea Enjoy a Latin-inspired barbeque from Full info at se1.net/8705 organised by local Peabody residents. Tuesday 6 July Cubana, a traditional lamb spit-roast DR BIKE Full info at se1.net/9367 from Imbibe, tasty British bangers from Southbank Centre Square The Stage Door as well as free tasty 5.30pm-7.30pm; free Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 July Bring your bike to get a free bike check - Belvedere Road MINI BANKSIDE treats from Greensmiths. www.southbankcentre.co.uk Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival brakes, gears and tyres. 10am-4pm; free Full info at se1.net/9049 Friday 2 to Sunday 4 July Come and see models of the various new Full info at se1.net/9219 Jubilee Gardens REAL FOOD FESTIVAL MARKET developments and old photographs of Saturday 3 July Fri 11am-8pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 local landmarks. Belvedere Road FRESH WELCOME noon-6pm Part of London Festival of Architecture 11am; free On the first weekend of each month 40 Full info at se1.net/9368 Saturday 3 July A troupe of volunteers, led by staff INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES selected producers will come to the South from Whitelaw Turkington landscape Bankside riverside walkway COMMEMORATION Bank offering Londoners the opportunity architects, will carry hundreds of runner to buy great quality, fresh produce and Bankside bean plants from the ‘gateways’ into 12.30pm Annual commemoration for the Spanish ingredients at affordable prices. Saturday 17 July to Sunday 12 September the Waterloo area to become part of the Full info at se1.net/9153 Bankside Urban Forest. Civil War republican volunteers from LONDON PEREGRINES AT THE TATE Britain and Ireland. Music, speeches and Daily 12 noon-7pm Part of London Festival of Architecture Saturday 31 July Full info at se1.net/9157 wreath-laying. RSPB volunteers with telescopes and Full info at se1.net/9140 BARCLAYS CYCLE HIRE ROADSHOW binoculars will bring these amazing birds 10am-6pm; free Friday 9 July Mint Street Park – which perch on the raised brickwork CUBANA MUSIC & FOOD EVENING Come along to a roadshow and find out near the top of the Bankside Power 5pm-7pm; free Southwark Bridge Road all you need to know about Barclays Station chimney – closer to the public. Cubana - London’s freshest Cuban bar- Cycle Hire. Check out the cycles, and a Full info at se1.net/9228 restaurant is holding a Cuban BBQ in Friday 2 July docking station up close. SHOWCASE: MINT STREET PARK Bernie Spain Gardens Emma Cons Gardens. Enjoy music from a Full info at se1.net/9201 live Cuban band while sipping cocktails OPEN DAY Upper Ground 3.30pm-6pm; free St Anne’s www.coinstreet.org in the sunshine. Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival A showcase of the talents of families and Thorburn Square T 020 7237 3950 Saturday 10 July Full info at se1.net/9220 young people. Discover and experience www.stannesbermondsey.org.uk CAPITAL AGE FESTIVAL different activities you can enjoy locally. Wednesday 14 July A launch for joint improvements to Saturday 3 July 2pm-6pm; free SUMMER FAIR London’s biggest festival for older people MESON DON FELIPE MUSIC & FOOD the park and try out for the new 2pm-4pm with performance, dance, story-telling EVENING stage. Bouncy castle, face paints and and visual arts celebrating the older 5pm-7pm; free storytelling. Teas, stalls, children’s activities. generation, plus wellbeing workshops Enjoy a selection of tapas with Meson Full info at se1.net/8543 Full info at se1.net/9241 and tea tent. Part of Coin Street Festival Don Felipe in Emma Cons Gardens. Neo Bankside Pavilion St George’s Cathedral Full info at se1.net/8926 Unwind after a long day to a live Spanish Primary School band accompanied by traditional Hopton Street Borough Market Flamenco dancing. 33 Westminster Bridge Road Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 July 8 Southwark Street Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival www.boroughmarket.org.uk Full info at se1.net/9221 NEO BANKSIDE AND TATE Thursday 15 July MODERN: SCULPTED IN SUGAR INTERNATIONAL EVENING Sunday 4 July Tuesday 20 July Neo Bankside developers commissioned 3.30pm-5pm; free THE FOOD EXCHANGE LEARN TO COOK EASTERN sculptor Brendan Jamison to make Music, food, dance and entertainment Local community 12 noon-3pm; open to EUROPEAN CUISINE sculptures of both Tate Modern and the from around the world. all 3pm-6pm; free 12 noon-2pm; free tallest of the Neo Bankside buildings Full info at se1.net/9366 The event will gather together chefs, Watch the head chef from Baltic as he entirely out of sugar cubes. medical herbalists, “guerilla scientists”, cooks a range of dishes from the Baltic Part of London Festival of Architecture Tabard Gardens food historians and story tellers for a to the Adriatic. Full info at se1.net/9362 Tabard Street series of workshops and demonstrations, Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival Paterson Park all aimed at promoting community spirit Full info at se1.net/9341 Saturday 10 July through learning and eating. off Lynton Road DAVID IDOWU 2ND ANNIVERSARY Garden Museum Part of London Festival of Architecture Football 10am-1pm; Speeches, artists & Full info at se1.net/9132 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Saturday 31 July dancers 1pm-6pm; free www.gardenmuseum.org.uk FUN DOG DAY Event to mark the second anniversary of Wednesday 14 July 12 noon-4pm; free the death of the local teenager. Guest Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 July Bring your pet to the park for free BASTILLE DAY PARTY speakers, food and games. WILDFLOWER WEEKEND microchipping and join in the activities 5.30pm-11.30pm Full info at se1.net/9278 Once again the French-style party 10.30am-5pm; Free with museum including football and facepainting. atmosphere comes to Borough Market admission £6 (conc £5) Full info at se1.net/9124 Tate Modern environs with live music, song and British Wildflower Plants of Norfolk with whole weekend of wildflower expertise. Potters Fields Park Bankside T 020 7887 8888 dance, street entertainment, theatrical www.tate.org.uk/modern spectacles, give away goodies, outdoor Full info at se1.net/8813 Tooley Street www.pottersfields.co.uk eating and drinking and a traditional Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 July finale. Lambeth Road Friday 9 to Saturday 10 July TRANSFORMING TATE MODERN Full info at se1.net/9365 TASTE THE EAST OPEN SITE Design Museum Saturday 3 July Some of the best Asian chefs in London 10am-4pm; free From the viewing platform off Sumner Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 TIBET FESTIVAL IN THE PARK: will be demonstrating how to prepare www.designmuseum.org DALAI LAMA’S 75TH BIRTHDAY exciting dishes. Plus stalls and more... Street, the three Bankside Power Station 12 noon-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/9283 oil tanks, at the foundation of the new Friday 23 July Musicians, entertainers and performers building, will be visible. DESIGN OVERTIME: SHAPE OF from Tibet and around the world along Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 July Part of London Festival of Architecture THINGS TO COME? with an array of Tibetan and other stalls, TURKISH FESTIVAL Full info at se1.net/9282 6pm-10pm; £5 in advance; £8.50 on Tibetan food and more. Music, dancing, cultural arts, ethnic food the door Full info at se1.net/9252 and handcrafts. Plus a Turkish bazaar. Waterloo Millennium Green Full info at se1.net/9002 Late night at the Design Museum. Greensmiths Waterloo Road Full info at se1.net/9015 Rose Theatre Exhibition 27 Lower Marsh T 020 7921 2970 Friday 16 July Downings Roads Moorings www.greensmithsfood.co.uk 56 Park Street WATERLOO CARNIVAL www.rosetheatre.org.uk Mill Street Thursday 8 July Procession leaves Johanna School 1.30pm; PALE ALE, PORTER AND WINE Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 July arrives Millennium Green 2pm; free Sunday 4 July The seventh annual Waterloo Carnival GARDEN BARGE SQUARE TASTING Saturday 31 July to Sunday 1 August 5pm-7.30pm; free FESTIVAL OF BRITISH has a jungle theme. A procession of more 2pm-5pm; £3 (share to RNLI) than 300 tropical creatures aged 2 to Seven floating barge gardens connected Taste pale ale and porter from the Druid ARCHAEOLOGY 82 is the highlight of the day. Festivities by walkways and bridges. Home-made Street-based Kernel microbrewery and 11am-6pm; free teas available. National Gardens Scheme. wine from the Waterloo Wine Company. Visit the site of Bankside’s first around Lower Marsh will continue until Full info at se1.net/8561 Part of Waterloo Quarter Food Festival Elizabethan theatre. 9pm. Full info at se1.net/9338 Full info at se1.net/9297 Full info at se1.net/8825 July 2010 4 WHAT’S ON II www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 WARD: EDINBURGH PREVIEW 8.30pm; £8 Family & children Public meetings Guided walks Full info at se1.net/9356 Bermondsey Kitchen Southwark Council Bermondsey Underground Station Tuesday 27 July 194 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 5719 www.southwark.gov.uk Jamaica Road PHIL NICHOL & JOSIE LONG: www.bermondseykitchen.co.uk EDINBURGH PREVIEW Tuesday 20 July Sundays 11, 18 & 25 July 8.30pm; £8 Saturday 3 July BOROUGH & BANKSIDE TALES FROM THE RIVERBANK Full info at se1.net/9357 CHILDREN’S CHOCOLATE FRUIT COMMUNITY COUNCIL Meet 11am outside tube station - look DIPPING 7pm; venue to be announced for guide wearing green cap; £5 The Bridge Lounge 1pm-6pm; £5; booking not essential but Regular meeting for residents of Aly Mir leads a walk along the Thames 186 Tooley Street T 020 7403 4112 useful on 020 7407 5719 Cathedrals and Chaucer wards. Meet your Path to Waterloo. www.thebridgelounge.co.uk Children aged 3 and above can make councillors, learn about local projects and Full info at se1.net/9273 delicious chocolates to take home by get an update from local police officers Sunday 25 July dipping fruit in chocolate. Bermondsey and community wardens. Blitzwalkers DON’T TELL JIMMY Kitchen will provide the chocolate, fruit, Full info at se1.net/9254 www.blitzwalkers.co.uk 7pm; £7.50 aprons and chef’s hats. A daring new comedy group combining Full info at se1.net/9361 Waterloo Action Centre Sunday 18 July sketches with improvised comedy. 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 LONDON BRIDGE & THE CITY IN THE With Dave Bibby, Owyn Stephens, Katy Design Museum www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk NIGHT BLITZ Schutte, Milanka Brooks and Amelia Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Meet 11am in south churchyard of Marchant. www.designmuseum.org Wednesday 14 July Southwark Cathedral; £7 Full info at se1.net/9119 WATERLOO COMMUNITY Neil Bright leads a walk across London The Old King’s Head Sunday 11 July DEVELOPMENT GROUP Bridge along to the Bank of England POP-UP CITIES 7pm then to St Paul’s Cathedral, back across 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 2pm-5pm; £4 per child Regular public meeting of the group that Blackfriars Bridge and finishing at www.theoldkingshead.uk.com monitors development in the Waterloo Influenced by the rich textures, shapes Southwark Station recalling the terrible Thursday 1 July and patterns of David Adjaye’s ‘Urban area. Hear developers present their plans events of the Night Blitz of 1940/41 on PAPPY’S FUN CLUB & ANDI OSHO: Africa’ photography, participants in this and contribute to the debate. both sides of the river. EDINBURGH PREVIEW workshop will design pop-up cityscapes Full info at se1.net/7942 Full info at se1.net/9288 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) using an exciting array of collage Full info at se1.net/8461 materials. For ages 5-11. Sunday 25 July Full info at se1.net/9017 Talks & literature BERMONDSEY’S BLITZ Thursday 15 July Meet 11am in south churchyard of STEWART LEE & PAUL RICKETTS: HMS Belfast Calder Bookshop Southwark Cathedral; £7 EDINBURGH PREVIEW Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 Neil Bright leads a walk tracing the story 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk www.oneworldclassics.com of Bermondsey during the Blitz. Hear Full info at se1.net/8462 some of the tales of heroism and tragedy Saturday 31 July Thursday 1 July of local folk. The Ship SHIPSHAPE SCIENCE SUMMER FUN! THE YELLOW BOOK Full info at se1.net/9289 68 Borough Road T 020 7403 7059 11am-1pm & 2pm-4pm 7pm; £6 (conc £4) Drop-in family science workshops with John Calder presents a brief history of Cross Bones Graveyard Friday 9 July The Royal Society. the quarterly periodical the Yellow Book, Redcross Way FREE FRINGE EDINBURGH PREVIEWS Full info at se1.net/8912 published in London 1894-1897. www.crossbones.org.uk 8.30pm; Free entry with collection Full info at se1.net/9296 Previews of Paul Kerensa and Peter John Harvard Library Saturday 17 July HMS Belfast Buckley Hill’s Edinburgh Fringe Shows 211 Borough High Street T 020 7525 2000 SONGS AND STORIES TOUR OF and extracts of more. www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 BERMONDSEY Full info at se1.net/9281 hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk 4pm; pre booking important penny@ Wednesday 28 July fandmpublications.co.uk; free Vinopolis ANTHONY MCGOWAN Thursday 8 July Singer songwriter Nigel of Bermondsey 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 2pm-3pm; free; To book visit library or RADAR and tour guide Chris Roberts are www.vinopolis.co.uk email [email protected] 7pm; £15 (conc £12) teaming up to deliver a walking tour Anthony McGowan will talk about his Naval historian Professor Eric Grove of with a difference. At every stop from Friday 30 July popular children’s books. For ages 8-16. Salford University will give an evening Cross Bones Graveyard in Borough to LAUGHTER LOUNGE Tales on Moon Lane Children’s Bookshop history talk on board HMS Belfast, the Thames waterfront Chris will relate 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door will also be at the event, giving you the covering the subject of radar and the stories about the location and Nigel Full info at se1.net/8481 chance to purchase books by Anthony contribution than scientists made will perform a song from his album the McGowan and get them signed. to its development. The talk will be Bermondsey suite. Full info at se1.net/9290 illustrated with images and footage from Full info at se1.net/9159 Music the Imperial War Museum’s extensive Old Operating Theatre, Museum collection. Vauxhall Civic Society Festival Riverside and Herb Garret Full info at se1.net/8911 Belvedere Road Friday 9 July www.southbankcentre.co.uk 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 Tate Modern www.thegarret.org.uk VAUXHALL: A LITTLE HISTORY Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Meet 10am outside Starbucks opposite Sunday 4 July Tuesday 27 July www.tate.org.uk/modern Vauxhall tube station; £2 FLOOD TIDE SIR HANS SLOANE: THE ODYSSEY Led by Penny Howard. 2pm-8pm; free OF CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP Saturday 3 July Full info at se1.net/9276 Live musical performance generated by 2pm; £5.60; conc £4.60; child £3.25; IAIN SINCLAIR IN CONVERSATION the flow of the River Thames. family (2+4) £13.75 WITH MARTIN KARLSSON Full info at se1.net/9377 Did you know that chocolate was once 2pm-3.30pm; £9 (conc £7) from www. Comedy Southwark Cathedral used as a currency? tate.org.uk Full info at se1.net/8434 Iain Sinclair, writer and chronicler of Belushi’s London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 London, is in conversation with Martin www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Shortwave Cinema 161 Borough High Street T 020 7939 9700 Karlsson who has created a project on Saturday 3 July 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 the 100-metre hoarding that encloses the Tuesday 6 July EALING YOUTH ORCHESTRA www.shortwavefilms.co.uk building works for the extension to Tate STEWART LEE & BRIDGET CHRISTIE: 6pm; donations welcome; free Modern. London - An Imagery 2008-9 EDINBURGH PREVIEW Saturday 17 July Free concert celebrating the London takes as its starting point Gustave Dore’s 8.30pm; £8 (£7 in advance at www. TOY STORY launch of an EU-supported project for 1872 gothic etchings. Karlsson updates wegottickets.com) travelling youth orchestras entitled the 10am; £4 per child (accompanying adult this portrait of the city. Full info at se1.net/9111 free) ‘European Festivals Experience’. Part of London Festival of Architecture Full info at se1.net/9067 Kids’ Club screening. Full info at se1.net/9229 Thursday 8 July Full info at se1.net/9349 DAN ANTOPOLSKI & MIKE The Old King’s Head Wednesday 14 July Toh Shimazaki Architecture WOZNIAK : EDINBURGH PREVIEW ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY SUMMER 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 8.30pm; £8 CONCERT Unit 2, 14 Weller Street T 020 7928 9171 www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Full info at se1.net/9352 7.30pm; £7-£32 from tickets@ Saturday 17 July Thursday 8 July royalchoralsociety.co.uk or 05601 534990 Tuesday 13 July Bach Mass in B Minor FORUM MINI THE ABUSES OF ENCHANTMENT NORMAN LOVETT & CAREY MARX: 10am-3.30pm; £60 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) London Handel Orchestra EDINBURGH PREVIEW Full info at se1.net/9137 A one day school that opens the minds Mark Pilkington on how beliefs in UFOs, 8.30pm; £8 of children to architectural designing. ghosts, vampires and other folkloric and Full info at se1.net/9353 St John’s Waterloo For ages 6-12. supernatural phenomena have been Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Full info at se1.net/8953 exploited by military and intelligence Thursday 15 July www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk operators. ALEXIS DUBUS & LIFE OF SI: Waterloo Library Full info at se1.net/9000 EDINBURGH PREVIEW Thursday 1 July 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 8.30pm; £8 RUSH HOUR CONCERT Waterloo Library www.lambeth.gov.uk Full info at se1.net/9354 6pm; free 114-118 Lower Marsh T 020 7926 8750 Programme combining chamber works Tuesday 13 July www.lambeth.gov.uk Tuesday 20 July by Martin Butler and Peter Wiegold. JUNGLE STORIES JON RICHARDSON & GORDON Full info at se1.net/8386 10.30am-11.30am; free Thursday 8 July SOUTHERN: EDINBURGH PREVIEW A pre-Waterloo Carnival jungle-themed WATERLOO LIBRARY BOOK GROUP 8.30pm; £8 Thursday 8 July storytelling session with free facepainting 6.30pm-8pm; free Full info at se1.net/9355 RUSH HOUR CONCERT to transform you into your favourite This month the group is discussing Home 6pm; free jungle creature. For ages 2+ by Marilynne Robinson. Thursday 22 July Beethoven Symphony No.2 Full info at se1.net/9227 Full info at se1.net/9295 STEPHEN K AMOS & FELICITY Full info at se1.net/8387 July 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5
Sunday 11 July Preceded at 6.30 by a performance by the Rose Theatre Exhibition NOW THEN MR MAHLER, ARE YOU Caution Dance Group. Girls aged 13-16 HAVING A LAUGH? supported by SE1 United perform a piece Theatre 56 Park Street 6.30pm; £15 encompassing hip hop, contemporary www.rosetheatre.org.uk The amazing combination of Mahler’s and kathak. Part of Big Dance Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Until Wednesday 7 July powerful first symphony with the world’s Full info at se1.net/9267 Elephant and Castle best classical music comedian, Rainer ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM Mint Street Adventure Playground Hersch. The first half will be Rainer’s Wednesday 14 to Saturday 24 July Tue-Sun 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 inimitable and hilarious musical comedy Southwark Bridge Road ELEPHANT 21 7261 9565 or [email protected] A darkly comic tale based on a true story, (involving a full orchestra), then it’s all Theatre Local, Unit 215; Mon-Sat 7pm; change for the second half as we hear Sunday 11 July Full info at se1.net/9126 TANGOWALK SOUTHWARK £8 (conc £5) the titanic first symphony by Gustav Elephant 21 is a new theatre production Mahler, ranging through almost every Workshop 2pm-3pm; TangoWalk Monday 12 to Saturday 31 July which aims to capture the vibrancy and conceivable emotion. 3pm-4pm; MP3 connector £3; free A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Full info at se1.net/9225 A TangoWalk is an innovative diversity of 21st century Elephant & Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £6.50) from 020 participatory event that combines social Castle and its community shortly before 7261 9565 or [email protected] The Scoop dance, local history and a guided audio extensive redevelopment of the area is A darker twist on Shakespeare’s popular More London Riverside walk. Couples will share an MP3 player due to take place. tale of young love and magical mischief. www.morelondon.com/scoop.html via two headsets and an adaptor, and Full info at se1.net/9200 Full info at se1.net/9260 will dance and walk - apparently in Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays till 23 July silence. On the MP3 player will be a pre- Menier Chocolate Factory Shakespeare’s Globe FREE MUSIC loaded track with original tango music 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 12.30pm-2pm & 6.30pm-9.30pm; free and spoken word tracks. Participants www.menierchocolatefactory.com www.shakespeares-globe.org Annual series of free open-air concerts in will have the opportunity to take part the amphitheatre next to City Hall. in a pre-walk workshop to ensure that Saturday 3 July to Saturday 11 September Monday 19 to Friday 23 July even people who have never danced the ASPECTS OF LOVE THE COMEDY OF ERRORS In repertory ; £5-£32 tango before are able to take part. Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; TBA Shakespeare’s hectic tale of hilarious Dance Part of Big Dance Trevor Nunn directs the first major Full info at se1.net/9258 cross-purposes and manic slapstick. Borough Market London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rebecca Gatward’s touring production 8 Southwark Street Royal Festival Hall Don Black and Charles Hart’s musical. spends a few days at the Globe’s home. www.boroughmarket.org.uk Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Full info at se1.net/8721 Full info at se1.net/8682 www.southbankcentre.co.uk National Theatre Tuesday 6 to Wednesday 7 July Until Saturday 21 August OVER, UNDER, THROUGH Friday 9 July South Bank T 020 7452 3000 HENRY VIII 2pm & 4pm; free DANCING STAGE www.nationaltheatre.org.uk In repertory ; £5-£32 270 children from four primary schools Clore Ballroom; 3pm; free Mark Rosenblatt directs the rarely across Southwark and Lambeth will Performance by more than 150 older Until Sunday 4 July performed Henry VIII which was perform a large scale, dynamic dance Londoners as part of Capital Age 2010. WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN responsible for burning down the piece outdoors in Borough Market. This Full info at se1.net/9223 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 original Globe. performance is the result of a cross-arts Marianne Elliott directs Thomas Full info at se1.net/8223 project over two terms led by dancers Saturday 10 July Middleton’s play. BIG WORLD DANCE and visual artists, which explores Full info at se1.net/8640 Saturday 24 July to Saturday 21 August choreography and collaboration. 11am-2pm; free ANNE BOLEYN Southbank Centre marks the finale of Part of Big Dance Until Wednesday 7 July In repertory ; £5-£32 Full info at se1.net/9131 Big Dance with a unique performance Howard Brenton makes a return to the choreographed by Luca Silvestrini. THE WHITE GUARD Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10- Globe with his new play about the life Thousands of people will transform and legacy of Henry VIII’s second wife. £42.50 central London into a giant open air Full info at se1.net/8226 Monday 5 July stage for a show-stopping dance on Howard Davies directs The White Guard TEA DANCE a gigantic scale, with the start line at by Mikhail Bulgakov, in a new version by Until Saturday 2 October 1pm-3pm; free Southbank Centre and the finishing line Andrew Upton. HENRY IV PART 1 A six piece band and a professional at Trafalgar Square. Full info at se1.net/8133 In repertory; £5-£32 instructor will guide you through Part of Big Dance The play is performed for the first time foxtrots, quicksteps, cha chas and many Full info at se1.net/9149 Until Saturday 10 July at the replica of the Bankside playhouse. more classic dances. Tea and coffee will Siobhan Davies Studios LOVE THE SINNER Dominic Dromgoole directs Jamie Parker be provided. Meet outside the Southwark Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 as Prince Hal and William Gaunt as Council office on the upper level. 85 St George’s Road A new play by Drew Pautz directed by Worcester and Shallow. With Renaissance Part of Big Dance www.siobhandavies.com staging and costume. Full info at se1.net/9265 Matthew Dunster. Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 July Full info at se1.net/8641 Full info at se1.net/8224 Wednesday 7 July BIG DANCE WEEKEND DANCE SHOWCASE 10am-9pm; free Until Thursday 22 July Saturday 3 July to Sunday 3 October HENRY IV PART 2 1pm; free Siobhan Davies Studios will open its SPRING STORM In repertory ; £5-£32 With a focus on promoting dance in doors for a weekend of free activity Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 unusual spaces and non-dance venues, including an exhibition, performances, With Renaissance staging and costume. A gripping early play by Tennessee Full info at se1.net/8225 Southwark is presenting a showcase of dance and art workshops, film screenings Williams. dance performances, including ballet and and improvisation jams. Full info at se1.net/8639 Shunt Bermondsey Street contemporary, street dance, Salsa and Part of Big Dance Full info at se1.net/8444 42-44 Bermondsey Street Mambo, Bhangra and Bollywood. Until Wednesday 11 August www.shunt.co.uk Part of Big Dance The Scoop AFTER THE DANCE Full info at se1.net/9145 Until Saturday 25 September More London Riverside Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£38 Emma Cons Gardens www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece offers a MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT subtle, witty unmasking of the hedonistic Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat 9.45pm; £20 The Cut Prepare for fractured narrative, Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 July 20s generation and a devastating study electrifying imagery and all-out sensory Wednesday 7 July LONDON YOUTH DANCE DAY of repression and the human heart. 10am-6pm; free assault. ROADWORKS Full info at se1.net/8642 6.45pm; free An opportunity to see more than forty Full info at se1.net/7669 Set in a typical London environment, youth dance companies come together to produce a back to back programme of Until Thursday 19 August Southwark Playhouse this short performance by Etta Ermini WELCOME TO THEBES Theatre features a busker, a dancer and a uplifting dance performances. Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk BMX rider with humorous consequences. Part of Big Dance Full info at se1.net/9230 Richard Eyre directs a new play by Moira Buffini. Until Saturday 3 July Full info at se1.net/8946 PLUCKER Join us on ADVERTISE HERE Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; £8, £13, £18 Wednesday 28 July to Saturday 21 August (airline style) NEXT MONTH EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON An old-school farce about a new generation dealing with the anxieties of Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£32 Facebook commitment and co-habitation. A new play by Mike Bartlett directed by Full info at se1.net/9099 Rupert Goold. & Twitter 020 7633 0766 Full info at se1.net/8948 Tuesday 20 July to Saturday 7 August SCHILLER’S INTRIGUE/LOVE [email protected] Thursday 15 July to Sunday 22 August 7.30pm; £8/£13/£18 DANTON’S DEATH By Daniel Millar and Mark Leipacher. facebook.com/londonse1 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£30 Full info at se1.net/9302 Michael Grandage directs a new version The Miller twitter.com/se1 of Georg Buchner’s play by Howard Brenton. 96 Snowsfields ELECTRICIAN Full info at se1.net/8947 www.themiller.co.uk No job too small! Thursday 22 July Until Tuesday 31 August BEST OF 3: KNOCK OUT THEATRE for the very latest THE HABIT OF ART 7.30pm; £3 (plus £1/£2 coins to vote for 07850 767283 Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- your favourite team) local news, events £42.50 Three teams each performing the same 020 8761 6012 A new play by Alan Bennett directed by three pieces on one night - and the and trivia [email protected] Nicholas Hytner. audience decides which team wins. Full info at se1.net/7627 Full info at se1.net/9113 July 2010 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1
The Old Vic National Theatre Tate Modern City Hall 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 www.oldvictheatre.com www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.tate.org.uk/modern www.london.gov.uk Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free Until Saturday 21 August Friday 2 July Monday 12 July THE TEMPEST ARCHITECTURE ON THE SOUTH BANK COMMUNITY FILM CLUB: Until Friday 16 July In repertory with As You Like It; £7.50- 11pm; free LIVE CINEMA PARTY ETHNIC MINORITIES COMING OUT £47 Projected on the NT flytower, this Starr Auditorium; 7pm; free Through the combination of powerful Sam Mendes returns to direct year two of programme of short films from the BFI Membership of the Community Film Club imagery and text, this exhibition The Bridge Project. archive shows the evolution of the South is aimed at those living in Southwark and delves into the challenges faced Lambeth. To become a member (it’s free) Full info at se1.net/8491 Bank from the opening of Waterloo when individuals of ethnic minority Station, via the Festival of Britain, to the email [email protected]. .com acknowledge their sexual orientation to cultural building sites in the 1960s. Full info at se1.net/9212 themselves and those around them. Until Saturday 21 August Part of London Festival of Architecture AS YOU LIKE IT Full info at se1.net/9369 Full info at se1.net/9292 In repertory with The Tempest; £7.50- Exhibitions Friday 9 July Until Friday 16 July £47 DANCE GETS EVERYWHERE An intriguing pairing of Shakepeare’s KING COAL Advanced Graphics London Photographs that capture Big Dance pastoral comedy and his late 10.30pm; free 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 fever and the exuberance of dance in the masterpiece. Free projection of films onto the NT www.advancedgraphics.co.uk most unexpected locations or spaces. Full info at se1.net/8492 flytower. 10 short films and extracts Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free which chart a century of British coal Part of Big Dance The Old Vic Tunnels mining. Part of Watch this Space Until Saturday 31 July Full info at se1.net/9293 NEIL CANNING: THE CATALAN Leake Street Full info at se1.net/9370 SUITE Until Thursday 22 July Thursday 8 to Saturday 17 July Friday 16 July New unique works on paper, plus 1 CITY MANY PEOPLE AFTERMATH THE BIG SMOKE the launch of the portfolio of eight This exhibition looks at various attempts 10.30pm; free screenprints with woodblock, presented 7.45pm (plus some matinees); £15/£12 that have been made to make buildings Free projection of films onto the NT in a handmade solander box. Award-winning actor/directors Jessica more accessible. flytower. From the bustle of the Victorian Full info at se1.net/9101 Blank and Erik Jensen (The Exonerated) Part of London Festival of Architecture commute to the celebrations of the end Full info at se1.net/9168 visited Jordan to discover first hand what of WW2, this programme of silent films Alma Enterprises happened to Iraqi civilians as a result of is brought to life with a new jazz score 38-40 Glasshill Street Design Museum the war. www.almaenterprises.com performed by James Pearson with Ronnie Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Full info at se1.net/9268 Scott’s All Stars. Part of Watch this Space Until Sunday 11 July www.designmuseum.org Full info at se1.net/9371 Thursday 29 to Friday 30 July DAVID M PRICE: HORROR VACUI Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); UNEARTHING LIVE: ALAN MOORE Friday 23 July A detailed wall drawing in ink on the WITH CROOK & FLAIL BRITAIN AT BAY: PEACE & WAR, entirety of the gallery walls. Under 12s free Thu 8pm; Fri 8.30pm; £25 1937-40 Full info at se1.net/9116 Until Sunday 5 September Celebrated comic book writer Alan 10.30pm; free Architecture Foundation SUSTAINABLE FUTURES: CAN Moore and musicians Crook&Flail Free projection of films onto the NT 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 DESIGN SAVE THE WORLD? will perform a live rendition of their flytower. Taking up themes from www.architecturefoundation.org.uk How design can deliver a more Unearthing collaboration. Rattigan’s After the Dance, these short sustainable future. Full info at se1.net/9358 films capture Britain’s transformation in Until Friday 6 August the late 1930s - from rural idyll to total MOSS YOUR CITY Full info at se1.net/7933 Union Theatre war. Part of Watch this Space Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Until Sunday 5 September 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Full info at se1.net/9372 A spectacular moss landscape. www.uniontheatre.biz Part of London Festival of Architecture URBAN AFRICA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC Friday 30 July Full info at se1.net/9224 JOURNEY BY DAVID ADJAYE Until Saturday 24 July AUDEN AND BRITTEN AT THE GPO Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line ASSASSINS 10.30pm; free Bankside Gallery of work to photograph and document Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 3pm; £15 Free projection of films onto the NT 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 key cities in Africa. (Tuesdays £10) flytower. In the 1930s the GPO Film Unit www.banksidegallery.com Full info at se1.net/7934 Sondheim’s cult musical with dark was home to some of Britain’s most Daily 11am-6pm; free undertones examining the politically audacious creative talents. Among them Until Sunday 31 October driven, the desperate and the down right were WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. Until Sunday 4 July BRIT INSURANCE DESIGNS OF THE ‘insane’ who have or have tried to kill an Part of Watch this Space PRINTMAKERS’ COUNCIL YEAR 2010 American President often with hilarious Full info at se1.net/9373 Full info at se1.net/8510 The third annual Brit Insurance Design results. Shortwave Cinema Friday 9 July to Sunday 22 August Awards has produced another eclectic Full info at se1.net/9301 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 OFF THE WALL: SUMMER AT BANKSIDE and progressive range of nominees. Full info at se1.net/7932 Waterloo Station www.shortwavefilms.co.uk Original watercolours and prints by Members of the Royal Watercolour Fashion & Textile Museum Waterloo Road Friday 2 to Saturday 3 July Society and the Royal Society of Painter- GAY SEX IN THE 70S Printmakers for immediate sale. 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Sunday 4 July to Sunday 5 September 8.45pm; £6 (conc £5) Full info at se1.net/9054 www.ftmlondon.org THE RAILWAY CHILDREN Stunning visual document of New York Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £6.50 Performances daily except Tuesday; during the decade of gay liberation and Bargehouse (conc £3.50); under-12s free £19.50-£59.50 sexual abandon following Stonewall and Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/8865 before the outbreak of AIDS. www.coinstreet.org Friday 9 July to Sunday 24 October A production of The Railway Children Full info at se1.net/9344 Daily 11am-6pm; free HORROCKSES FASHIONS: OFF THE featuring a real steam locomotive is PEG STYLE IN THE ‘40S AND ‘50S Friday 2 to Thursday 8 July Until Sunday 4 July The colourful prints, particularly floral to be staged at Waterloo’s disused I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS international terminal this summer. CYPRUS: INTEGRATED designs will provide a visual feast for Fri & Sat 7.30pm; Sun, Wed & Thu 8pm; LANDSCAPES: NICOSIA’S visitors to the exhibition. Full info at se1.net/8865 £6 (conc £5) ELEFTHERIA SQUARE Full info at se1.net/7749 Young Vic Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Zaha Hadid Architects Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor. Part of London Festival of Architecture Gabriel’s Wharf 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Full info at se1.net/9343 www.youngvic.org Full info at se1.net/9180 Upper Ground www.coinstreet.org Friday 9 to Sunday 11 July Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 July Until Saturday 3 July TWILIGHT JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE FRUITION Wednesday 7 to Monday 26 July Fri 11am (parent & baby); Sun 2.15pm); UCA Farnham Fine Art present their MISSING LIVES Mon-Sat 7.30pm + some matinees; £6 (conc £5) £22.50 London Degree Show. Fifteen years on from the wars in Croatia Director: Catherine Hardwicke. Starring: Full info at se1.net/8748 Young Vic artistic director David Lan Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor and Bosnia and ten years after the end directs August Wilson’s spellbinding Lautner. BFI Southbank of the conflict in Kosovo, thousands of families are still waiting for news of account of the deep effects of slavery. Full info at se1.net/9345 Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 you www.bfi.org.uk/southbank the fate of their loved ones classified Full info at se1.net/8718 Friday 9 to Thursday 22 July Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free as missing. Photographs are by Nick GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Danziger, the text by Rory MacLean. Thu-Sun 8pm; £6 (conc £5) Saturday 10 July to Saturday 4 September Full info at se1.net/9300 Swedish thriller based on the bestseller JOHN AKOMFRAH: MNEMOSYNE Cinema by Stieg Larsson. A powerful new film installation which gallery@oxo Bankside Mix Full info at se1.net/9346 focuses on the experience of migrant Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 Canvey Street labour in the UK. www.coinstreet.org Friday 23 to Thursday 29 July Full info at se1.net/9214 Daily 11am-6pm; free www.banksidemix.co.uk LOURDES Bicha Gallery Monday 5, Thursday 8 & Friday 9 July Fri/Sun/Wed/Thu 8pm; £6 (conc £5) Until Sunday 4 July FILM NIGHT Director: Jessica Hausner 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 OPEN ART CODE LONDON 7pm; free Full info at se1.net/9347 www.bicha.co.uk 7.30pm (Saturday also 3pm); £6 (conc £4) Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free Free open-air film screenings. Monday’s Friday 30 July to Sunday 1 August A group of talented artists with very movie will be chosen by public vote at DOGTOOTH Tuesday 6 to Sunday 18 July different technical styles and varied www.greatbritishsummer10.com - the Fri/Sat/Sun 8pm; £6 (conc £5) WHAT AM I DOING HERE? KE artistic formation, OpenArtCode bring options are Slumdog Millionaire, Oceans A darkly humorous insight into a bonkers DIRANG HA? their work to London following great 11, The Italian Job and Breakfast at and surreal world of parental control An exhibition of monoprints by artist in success at the Grand Palais in Paris in Tiffany’s. gone mad. Botswana, Ann Gollifer. November 2009. Full info at se1.net/9284 Full info at se1.net/9348 Full info at se1.net/9350 Full info at se1.net/8752 July 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Garden Museum Until Monday 4 January Siobhan Davies Studios THE MINISTRY OF FOOD Wednesday 21 July to Friday 6 August Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family £13) PAINTINGS IN HOSPITALS: 85 St George’s Road www.gardenmuseum.org.uk How the British public adapted to a COLOURING IN THE CLINICAL www.siobhandavies.com Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of world of food shortages. A two-floor exhibition of some of PiH’s Mon-Thu 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10am-5pm, month); £6 (conc £5; under-16s free) Full info at se1.net/8110 most bold and colourful works. Sun 10am-2pm; free Full info at se1.net/9272 Until Wednesday 25 August Jerwood Space Friday 9 July to Friday 27 August PHOTOSYNTHESIS 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Morley College LINDA FLORENCE, DAVID GATES, A visually striking exhibition of ground- www.jerwoodspace.co.uk 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 CHRIS KEENAN: 60|40 STARTING breaking digital botanical images by Niki Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun www.morleycollege.ac.uk POINT SERIES 2010 Simpson. 10am-3pm; free Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until A textile artist, a furniture maker and a Full info at se1.net/9130 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; potter showcase new work. Until Saturday 24 July Full info at se1.net/9351 Until Sunday 12 September PATRICK COYLE: UP Until Thursday 1 July Tate Modern CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: A LIFE AT Coyle explores the extent to which TEXTILE FOUNDATION GREAT DIXTER objects and images can resemble signs, The course is celebrating its tenth Bankside T 020 7887 8888 The first major retrospective about the www.tate.org.uk/modern and in this case, an arrow. Presented as anniversary by bringing former students life and work of Christopher Lloyd. Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat a wall of inkjet prints on green paper, together for a reunion. Full info at se1.net/8609 10am-10pm; free Coyle’s research material is reassembled Full info at se1.net/9245 Hayward Gallery into an artwork that responds to the space’s architecture. National Theatre Until Sunday 5 September Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 Full info at se1.net/9211 FRANCIS ALYS www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts South Bank T 020 7452 3000 £10 (conc £8.50) Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £11 Lambeth Palace www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Major retrospective of work by the (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun experimental Belgian-born artist. Lambeth Palace Road 12 noon-6pm; free £4.50; under 12 free) www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace Full info at se1.net/7954
Until Sunday 5 September Until Friday 23 July Until Sunday 4 July Until Sunday 3 October ERNESTO NETO: THE EDGES OF THE TREASURES OF LAMBETH PALACE FORGOTTEN SPACES EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, WORLD LIBRARY See how Bricklayers Arms could be SURVEILLANCE AND THE CAMERA Neto transforms the upper galleries and Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; £8; conc £7 from transformed. £10 (conc £8.50) outdoor sculpture terraces with a new www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Full info at se1.net/8644 An insight into photographic images site-specific commission and a number of To celebrate its 400th anniversary the made surreptitiously or without the new sculptural works. library is opening a fascinating exhibition Thursday 1 July to Sunday 15 August explicit permission of those depicted. Full info at se1.net/8232 to the public in the Great Hall. INFINITE VARIETY Full info at se1.net/7951 Full info at se1.net/8318 Curated by actress Harriet Walter, this Until Sunday 5 September exhibition celebrates the beauty of the The Wapping Project Bankside THE NEW DECOR Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings ageing female face. 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 Artists whose work explores interior 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Full info at se1.net/8943 www.thewappingprojectbankside.com design as a means of engaging with www.llewellynalexander.com Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free changes in contemporary culture. Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Monday 12 July to Sunday 12 September Full info at se1.net/8233 THE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER’S YEAR Until Saturday 3 July Until Saturday 21 August SUSAN MEISELAS Hotel Elephant The only competition that showcases the NOT THE ROYAL ACADEMY: A outstanding photography commissioned Full info at se1.net/9148 77-85 Newington Causeway SALON DES REFUSéS for and used in the UK media. What happens to the paintings not hung Full info at se1.net/8944 Wednesday 7 July to Saturday 7 August Until Wednesday 21 July at the Royal Academy? STEPHEN J MORGAN REUBEN POWELL: PAINTINGS, Full info at se1.net/8992 Pop-up Space Images which capture immigrant Irish DRAWINGS AND PRINTS 7 Chancel Street working class areas in Birmingham. Mon-Sat 11am-6pm Master Piper www.betterbankside.co.uk Full info at se1.net/9294 Reuben Powell has been critically 67-69 Kennington Road T 020 7401 9599 documenting the Elephant & Castle www.masterpiper.com Until Sunday 4 July Tower Bridge Exhibition regeneration from the perspective of a Wed-Fri 12 noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 12 noon- BANKSIDE-ON-CALL Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 long-term resident of the area. 5pm by appointment; free Wed-Sun 12 noon-6.30pm; free www.towerbridge.org.uk Part of London Festival of Architecture This exhibition claims to offer a unique Full info at se1.net/9121 Until Sunday 11 July insight into Bankside’s gritty underbelly. Until Thursday 30 September PENNICOTT+FLEMING: Part of London Festival of Architecture RIVER THAMES: SOURCE TO SEA Imperial War Museum THE WORLD CUP Travel the full 215 miles of the Full info at se1.net/9242 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Performative installation. River Thames in just 200 feet at this london.iwm.org.uk Full info at se1.net/9123 Purdy Hicks Gallery photographic exhibition. Daily 10am-6pm; free Menier Gallery 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Full info at se1.net/9082 www.purdyhicks.com Until Sunday 25 July 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Unit 24 Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free TRANSFORMED: ARTISTS’ BOOKS & www.meniergallery.co.uk 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 BOOKWORKS Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free unit24.info A range of intriguing pieces which Friday 2 to Saturday 31 July CHAN-HYO BAE Mon-Wed 8am-5pm, Thu & Fri examine the experience of war in new, Until Saturday 3 July 8am-6.30pm; freee unusual forms. ‘UCCELLI’ - (‘BIRDS’) Full info at se1.net/8817 Full info at se1.net/9011 New works by Anita Klein. Royal Festival Hall Until Friday 16 July Full info at se1.net/9088 CITY 4 Until Sunday 5 September Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 Black and white photography by Marek www.southbankcentre.co.uk OUTBREAK 1939 Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 July Borysiewicz. The early months of the conflict. CREATE, MASTER, INSPIRE Full info at se1.net/9150 Full info at se1.net/6283 The achievements of Art Academy Saturday 17 July to Monday 30 August students during its first ten years. PROJECT MORRINHO: Vitrine Gallery Until Sunday 31 October Full info at se1.net/8919 SOUTHBANK CENTRE FAVELA Bermondsey Square HORRIBLE HISTORIES: A social and cultural project based at www.vitrinegallery.co.uk TERRIBLE TRENCHES Monday 12 to Saturday 17 July the Pereira da Silva favela in Rio de 24 hours; free £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family AIR OF UNCERTAINITY Janeiro. Members of the team develop ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 Paintings by Eddie McGee of a world an outdoor favela on the South Bank Until Tuesday 20 July A family exhibition based on the where anything can happen and where together with members of Lambeth’s LONDON LOVES Trenches Handbook. gravity has been conquered. Portuguese-speaking community. Part of London Festival of Architecture Full info at se1.net/6282 Full info at se1.net/9271 Full info at se1.net/9375 Full info at se1.net/9218 londonse1 This month’s August in SE1 community website forum topics Weeds in Archbishop’s Park • Team London Bridge Hairdressers in Waterloo Festival in Melior Street Cross Fit Central London The next issue will Cycle Superhighway ...and dozens more topics • Wartime Farm in Geraldine be available from King’s Reach Tower Mary Harmsworth Park Harper Road Railway Tunnel Westminster Join the debate at • Free open-air theatre at the Friday 30 July Bridge Road www.London-SE1.co.uk Scoop at More London Send your event listing details to Druid Cycles • Themed tours of [email protected] Broadband speeds in SE1 Southwark Cathedral Boot sales in SE1 Strata Turbines July 2010 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 DVD REVIEW ART CH Spurgeon: Competition to find new The People’s Preacher Blackfriars Bridge artwork CTA • DVD • £15.99 • www.cta.uk.com The winner of a new art competition This 75 minute will have their work displayed on film is a drama the hoardings on the eastern side of Blackfriars Bridge for a year. documentary starring Last September Network Rail installed several large-scale Stephen Daltry as reproductions of Thames watercolours on the long hoarding Charles Spurgeon that prevents pedestrians using the eastern pavement of who preached from Blackfriars Bridge during the construction of the new railway station. the huge pillared Now the search is on to find a new work to adorn the tabernacle at the hoarding which is seen by thousands of people each day. Elephant & Castle London Lives is a free-to-enter art competition run by for thirty years. Bankside Gallery, Cass Art and Network Rail with support from The Guardian. It is a delightful story told The competition aims to explore the concept of London by Andrew Harrison who pops up between scenes to show us the actual site of an incident or and what it is, celebrating its energy, diversity and originality. building today. The film opens in rural Essex when the preacher was born and depicts him as a Artists entering the competition will have their work teenager in Cambridge where he is first invited to preach. judged by a panel of five associated with the capital’s art When the congregation at the Park Street Chapel on Bankside invites young Spurgeon to be industry and be in the running to win either the gold medal their minister then Andrew Harrison soon appears to show us the very spot in Park Street now (first place), silver medal (runner up) or one of 20 highly covered by the HSBC offices. The narrator is again on the screen when the Spurgeon moves to commended places. the Elephant in 1861. Before the original building behind the still familiar facade was bombed in The gold medal winner will have their artwork reproduced the Second World War it could seat 6,000. at a large scale and emblazoned on the hoardings on the bridge The Elephant was a destination for Victorian tourists on a Sunday morning. Spurgeon’s book for a year. royalties paid for an extensive and controversial social action mission which fed the poor and even Their work will also figure in a two week selling exhibition provided homes and schools. Publishing also paid for his large house in better air to the south at Bankside Gallery that will showcase the competition’s top where he could keep his 12,000 books. 100 short-listed entries, and they will receive a commemorative The DVD includes an extra 28-minute programme called Spurgeon: A Closer Look and a certificate plus £1,500 worth of gift vouchers from Cass Art. 15-minute film showing how the documetary was made. • Details at www.guardian.co.uk/london-lives • Also available is a biography C.H. Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher (CWR £9.99) • The competition closes at midnight on Sunday 25 July. Interested in londonse1 News you may community website have missed fitness swimming? Boris in Bermondsey Square Government axes £45 million At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a Boris Johnson joined traders and shoppers funding for BFI film centre at Bermondsey Antiques Market last month The British Film Institute remains committed 25-metre swimming pool and more... when he challenged pupils from St James’s to plans for a new film centre on the South Primary School and the Greenhouse Charity Bank despite the news that the incoming to a game of table tennis. coalition government has withdrawn £45 The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4641 million of funding for the scheme. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4623 and corporate membership available. Tower Bridge Magistrates’ Court under threat of closure Royal Festival Hall organ to be Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with Tower Bridge Magistrates’ Court in Tooley restored by 2013 Street is one of 157 courts which could The Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed a poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different close under proposals published by the grant of £950,000 towards the final phase level speed lanes and it is ideal for lane swimming. Government last month. restoration of the Royal Festival Hall organ. We currently have inclusive memberships ranging ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4637 ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4621 from £39 a month to £270 for a year’s use of the Clock is ticking for Jubilee Founder’s Place cancelled pool. Gardens Olympic makeover A Terry Farrell-designed scheme to Plans to improve Jubilee Gardens on the build more than 300 private homes and We have gyms on both the Guy’s and St Thomas’ South Bank to coincide with the Queen’s accommodation for 400 NHS staff north of sites. St Thomas’ gym also has two squash courts and Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games in Archbishop’s Park has been abandoned by a class studio. 2012 still need another £1 million funding if Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. they are to go ahead. ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4620 ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4634 We also have a fitness studio available for hire at our Chris Dercon appointed as St Thomas’ gym. Blackfriars Road pedestrian director of Tate Modern countdown timers switched on Chris Dercon, of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, has been appointed as director of The first traffic signals in England to display Tate Modern to succeed Vicente Todoli. For further details on a countdown for pedestrians were unveiled ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4617 membership and to arrange in Blackfriars Road last month. ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4630 a viewing of the facilities call New Hoxton-style hotel Patrick Hourihan on 020 7188 Waterloo’s new Tune Hotels. planned for Waterloo Road 6641 or by e-mail com offers rooms for a penny A new 150-bedroom ‘boutique hotel’ is [email protected] planned for the corner of Waterloo Road and A hotel opening this summer in Westminster Baylis Road. The redevelopment includes Bridge Road is offering rooms for just 1p. the listed former fire station building. ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4625 ...full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4606