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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 137 FREE Email: [email protected] Conduct an Square to host orchestra at weekly farmers’ market Oxo Tower A new installation on the South Bank this month allows members of the public to conduct, play and step inside the Philharmonia Orchestra through audio and video projections of musicians performing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A new weekly Saturday morning use in home cooking, there will also be some secondary RE-RITE, the Philharmonia farmers’ market will open at producers at the market. These traders are also bound by Orchestra’s digital residency, opens LFM’s 100-mile rule, so for example a stall serving Polish- at the Bargehouse on Tuesday 3 on 7 November. style pierogi would have to source its ingredients from November. The project will show It is organised by London Farmers’ Markets, established ‘local’ farms too. every section of the Orchestra 10 years ago, which now runs 16 weekly markets around Cohen says that the recession means that people are performing The Rite of Spring London. shopping more carefully but the appetite for fresh, locally- simultaneously ‘as live’ throughout “All the produce comes from within 100 miles of the sourced produce is undiminished. “People still have to eat the four-storey warehouse building. M25 – that’s the rule,” explains Cheryl Cohen. and food is important to them,” she says. “That’s why our The public will able to sit amongst LFM visits all the farms and producers who sell at markets are weekly not monthly.” the horn players, perform in the their markets. “We try to find producers as close as we She believes that the prices charged by traders at percussion section and take up the can to the market. We will have people from Lincolnshire Bermondsey Square will compare well with the alternatives baton and control sections of the and Somerset, and we will also have people from Kent and at local supermarkets or . Orchestra as they play. Hertfordshire.” Cohen is keen to stress that farmers’ markets should Luke Crookes offers guided Shoppers at the new Bermondsey market can expect to appeal to all sections of the community. “What I want tours for families each weekend find 25 stalls selling meat, poultry, game, vegetables, fruit, to bring here is a very pleasant shopping experience for morning from 11am. Free; call 0800 juice, salads and herbs - but the exact range will depend on everybody in the area. There’s something for everybody 652 6717 to reserve your place. what’s in season. here. People will come and shop here and meet their • See listing on page 6 Although the emphasis will be on fresh produce to neighbours and have a lovely experience.” Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds

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The variety of these developments Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188  Full info at se1.net/8020 will also be measured in superlatives - Wednesday 4 November www.gstt.nhs.uk the country’s tallest building, the first UNDRESS FOR UGANDA St Anne’s Church Hall railway station spanning a river, an 7pm; £5 Wednesday 11 November Thorburn Square extension to the city’s most iconic art Fashion shoppers with a conscience are REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY gallery, new education facilities for the invited to get their kit off and swap it Memorial Arch; 10.50am-11.05am Saturday 28 November nation’s most historic theatre, as well as with friends for charity. The Undress for The ceremony will include prayers CHRISTMAS FAIR dramatic new homes, offices, shops and Uganda event is the ideal way to get for peace, the laying of wreaths, the 2pm-4pm hotels designed by leading international a bargain new wardrobe for Christmas sounding of the Last Post and Reveille,  Full info at se1.net/7871 architects. It’s also an opportunity to ask while raising cash for abandoned and the two minutes silence. questions and learn more about Better children. Entry is £5 and each item costs  Full info at se1.net/7773 St George’s Cathedral Bankside’s involvement in the area. £5 - all proceeds go directly to the Child’s River Thames Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256  Full info at se1.net/8013 I Foundation. To get involved, find out www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk more or arrange to donate clothes, shoes Saturday 7 November Saturday 14 November or accessories, contact Lara at Saturday 28 November THE WINE GANG CHRISTMAS WINE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW FIREWORKS [email protected] CHRISTMAS FAYRE FAIR 5pm; free  Full info at se1.net/8001 Amigo Hall; 1pm-4pm 11am-2pm and 3pm-6pm; Morning £20; To mark the end of the Lord Mayor’s The cathedral’s popular Christmas Fayre Afternoon £22.50 Bermondsey Square Show in the City of London and the The mood of the event will be lively beginning of a new mayoral year, will take place this year in the newly Bermondsey Square and fun, giving you the opportunity to the 682nd Lord Mayor will start a refurbished Amigo Hall. There will be www.bermondseysquare.co.uk sample distinctive, quality wines from magnificent firework display on the fun and games for all the family and all passionate retailers, especially those the Saturday 7 November river Thames. 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The Wine Gang is  Full info at se1.net/7634 Full info at se1.net/7949 Tim Atkin MW, Tom Cannavan, Anthony Blackfriars Settlement Southbank Centre Square St Thomas’ Hospital Rose, Joanna Simon and Olly Smith.  1-5 Rushworth Street T 020 7928 9521 Belvedere Road Westminster Bridge Road Full info at se1.net/7746 www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk www.southbankcentre.co.uk www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Saturday 7 November Monday 2 November Until Sunday 1 November Tuesday 17 November FOOD, RUM AND RHYTHM ADULT BASIC LIFE SUPPORT SLOW FOOD HALLOWEEN MARKET AUTUMN HEALTH FAIR 4pm-8pm; £20 in advance or £25 on TRAINING IN ARABIC 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm); free 3.30pm-7pm; free the door 10am-2pm; free It’s time for apple bobbing, pumpkins, Caribbean Tourism Organisation UK Blackfriars Settlement and Al Wissal Nights start drawing in, temperatures tasty slow-cooked casseroles and sweet are falling and you’re likely to pick up showcases Caribbean cuisine, rum and Arabic School in association with London music. The afternoon’s star attraction will indulgences. Come and enjoy the Slow the odd cold or two. Autumn is the time Ambulance Service. To book email sylvia. be Caribbean-born chef, reggae musician Food Market on the South Bank by to start preparing for those long winter wachuku-king@blackfriars-settlement. and entrepreneur Levi Roots, who will be Royal Festival Hall where Halloween will months, so here’s your chance to make org.uk be celebrated with specially selected cooking live at the event. Sample a wide  Full info at se1.net/7983 sure you are in tip top condition. World- selection of Caribbean rums plus a range traders offering their best produce for famous St Thomas’ Hospital is holding its Halloween and the cooler months ahead. of local gastronomic specialities from 13 Borough War Memorial first ever autumn health fair where you  Full info at se1.net/7342 exhibiting Caribbean tourist boards, a Borough High Street can find out more about staying fit and new beach resort and two of London’s Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November healthy including tips on improving your Caribbean restaurants. Antiguan cricket Sunday 8 November diet and stopping smoking. REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY SLOW FOOD (& ALL THAT JAZZ) legends Sir Vivian Richards and Richie • Fitness workshops 10.50am Fri & Sat 11am-8pm (Sun 11am-6pm); Richardson will also be in attendance. • Face painters Annual observance of the two minute free Every adult visitor will also receive a silence in memory of the dead of the Slow Food celebrates food which is good, • Live music goody bag, which includes miniature two World Wars. St George the Martyr clean and fair. The thriving and pulsating Explore the various zones with more bottles of rum and the Caribbean Guide and Precious Blood clergy lead short Slow Food market gets into the swing of than 20 stalls to browse around and 2010. outdoor service at the memorial outside things alongside the London Jazz Festival. information on staying healthy. Have  Full info at se1.net/8005 the Slug & Lettuce in Borough High Music and feasting meet in Southbank a go at a simple quiz and be in with a Street. 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Buy Concert Hall Approach and shopping event. produce from our most selective farmers, www.topolskicentury.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/7998 Friday 20 November to Tuesday 22 December fishermen, cheese makers, bread bakers, Westminster Bridge COLOGNE CHRISTMAS MARKET cake bakers, vineyards and breweries. Thursday 5 November South Bank; Sun-Thu 11am-8pm; Fri &  Full info at se1.net/7639 LATE NIGHTS AT TOPOLSKI Westminster Bridge Road Sat 10am-10pm CENTURY German-style Christmas Market with Southwark Cathedral Sunday 1 November more than 50 stalls along the South Bank 7.30pm-10pm; £3 (conc £2) LONDON TO BRIGHTON VETERAN London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Open Mic Poetry Night. Featured acts between the London Eye and Waterloo www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk CAR RUN Bridge. The wooden chalet stalls offer include Racker Donnelly and Abi Palmer. 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The dynamic creative arts charity Create from way back in our history, played on  Full info at se1.net/7570 is bringing its acclaimed creative:space fascinating and strange instruments for 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 music events for disabled children and your family delight. Greek Dance - Lyra www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Imperial War Museum their families to Henry Wood Hall. An Dancers bring the sunshine and music of Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Wednesday 25 November entirely new 75-minutes programme will Greece. And everyone joins in. london.iwm.org.uk be performed by renowned pianist Derek  Full info at se1.net/7740 WATERLOO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP AGM Wednesday 11 November Paravicini and Create’s exciting new jazz- The Movieum of London funk band. 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HAVING FAITH IN SOUTHWARK:  Full info at se1.net/8022 Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 November £2 (child £1); free entry on Mondays A PUBLIC CONVERSATION ABOUT FAITH PREMISES MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK Thursday 5 November Thursday 12 November 11am-4pm; free GREAT PARLIAMENTARY ORATIONS 6.30pm (stalls & networking from PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY 5.30pm); free An interactive drop-in session using 7pm; £6 (conc £4) WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Chaired by the BBC’s Jumoké Fashola artefacts for families looking at the Extracts from six of the greatest speeches 1.30pm-4pm; free (Presenter of Inspirit on BBC London). myths and reality of the First World War. Workshop run by photographer Grzegorz from the days when Parliament had  Full info at se1.net/7601 The evening will feature a panel and Lepiarz, author of the London Creatives: orators who could spellbind audiences audience discussion on the challenges Polish Roots photographic exhibition at hustings or in the House of Commons, facing faith groups in their need Saturday 14 to Sunday 15 November including Edmund Burke and Benjamin WE WILL REMEMBER THEM displayed at Topolski Century. Free, but for places of worship, as well as their registration required. To book a place Disraeli. 11am-4pm; free contribution to the spiritual and civic contact Anna on 020 7620 1308 or  Art activity for families using military Full info at se1.net/8023 life of communities. Book a place on [email protected] 020 7525 5502 or Charlotte.Beaumont@ buttons to create your own remembrance  Thursday 19 November poppy. 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Using individual AGM 7pm; £6 (conc £4) 5pm; free narratives and survivor testimony visitors 6.30pm First in a series organized by the explore the human experience of conflict Paul Myles, author and specialist in Paine Annual general meeting of the group studies, discusses his life and work with Photography and the Archive Research in the twentieth century. that represents the interests of people Centre and LCC.  Full info at se1.net/7602 the assistance of actors. living in Bankside. Plus presentations on  Full info at se1.net/8025  Full info at se1.net/7485 Bankside Urban Forest and the future of Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 November Garden Museum Museum of the Royal LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT Bankside, Borough & London Bridge. Pharmaceutical Society  Full info at se1.net/7926 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 11am-4pm; free 1 Lambeth High Street T 020 7572 2210 www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Come along to this interactive talk Southwark Salvation Army www.rpsgb.org.uk/museum looking at the Home Front during the 1 Princess Street T 020 7928 7136 Wednesday 11 November Second World War. Talk to museum staff www.salvationarmy.org.uk/southwark Wednesday 4 November and see original artefacts. TOM STUART-SMITH NATURE’S ALCHEMIST: JOHN  Full info at se1.net/7603 Wednesday 25 November 7pm; £10 PARKINSON, HERBALIST TO DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS TO Third in a series of lectures asking garden CHARLES I Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 November TACKLE WORKLESSNESS designers and writers to consider the 6pm-7pm; free LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT 9.45am-4.30pm; free question: what is spirit of place? 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Followed by underbelly of the city. Book launch. Valentine in the acclaimed musical. Thursday 12 November refreshments.  Full info at se1.net/7824 SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS AND SEX  Full info at se1.net/7769  Full info at se1.net/7495 Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre; 7pm; National Theatre £10 (conc £8) Sunday 29 November South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Lecture by Professor Stanley Wells. Comedy ADVENT CAROL SERVICE www.nationaltheatre.org.uk  Full info at se1.net/6548 6.30pm Belushi’s Advent Carols Procession by candlelight Until Tuesday 8 December Wednesday 18 November 161 Borough High Street T 020 7939 9700 service to mark the first day of Advent. MOTHER COURAGE AND HER SOUNDING THE SONNETS THAT  Full info at se1.net/8012 CHILDREN SHAKESPEARE SPOKE Tuesday 3 November Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre; 7pm; THE FALLING DOWN WITH Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7307 £10 (conc £8) LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT Music Fiona Shaw takes the title role in Bertolt Brecht’s play in a translation by Tony David Crystal shows how the Sonnets 8.30pm; £7 1901 Arts Club Kushner. would have sounded in Shakespeare’s Ali McGregor, Tom Bell, Toulson and 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055  Full info at se1.net/7307 time. He will be joined by Globe actor Harvey, Comedy Bitch, Catriona Knox, www.1901artsclub.com Ben Crystal. Hurt Club and Lheila Oberman. Marcel Until Sunday 11 January  Full info at se1.net/6549 Lucont as MC. Monday 23 November THE POWER OF YES: A DRAMATIST  Full info at se1.net/7889 STANISLAV HVARTCHILKOV SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND THE Thursday 26 November 7pm; £15 FINANCIAL CRISIS THE EFFECT OF SHAKESPEARE’S Tuesday 10 November Part of the Hattori Foundation recital Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10-£35 SONNETS FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER series. Programme: J S Bach Violin Partita As sub-prime mortgages and toxic Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre; 7pm; 8.30pm; £7 in D minor (transc. S. Hvartchilkov) securities continued to dominate the Paganini Grand Sonata for Guitar (arr. £10 (conc £8) Greg Davies, Matt Price, Tom Price, James headlines, this spring the National S. Hvartchilkov) After the concert guests Lecture by Dr Paul Edmondson. Redmond and Lou Sanders. Alexis Dubus Theatre asked David Hare to write an  Full info at se1.net/6550 are invited to join the artists in the Club’s urgent and immediate work to be staged & Sy Thomas as MCs. exclusive bar.  Full info at se1.net/7891 this autumn that sought to find out what Siobhan Davies Studios  Full info at se1.net/7815 had happened, and why. 85 St George’s Road Tuesday 17 November Shakespeare’s Globe  Full info at se1.net/7302 www.siobhandavies.com THE FALLING DOWN WITH New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Until Tuesday 13 January Friday 13 November LAUGHTER EXPERIMENT www.shakespeares-globe.org OUR CLASS KATIE MITCHELL WITH PAUL CLARK: 8.30pm; £7 Tuesday 10 November Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 CONVERSATIONS ON MAKING Tim Key, James Sherwood, Bridget ‘SONNETS 400’ WITH THE MILTON A new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, in 7pm; £5 Christie, Pippa Evans, Isy Suttie & Gavin CONSORT a version by Ryan Craig directed by Bijan This November choreographer Siobhan Osborn, Two Episodes Of MASH. Marcel Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre; 7pm; Sheibani. Davies invites a number of eminent artists Lucont as MC. £10 (conc £8)  Full info at se1.net/7308 to her RIBA award-winning studios, to  Full info at se1.net/7890 Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the talk with other artists about how they publication of the most important sonnet Until Monday 19 January make their work. Tuesday 24 November sequence in the English language, THE PITMEN PAINTERS  Full info at se1.net/7992 FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER  Full info at se1.net/7756 Lyttleton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- £42.50 8.30pm; £7 Southwark Cathedral In 1934, a group of Ashington miners Friday 20 November Rob Rouse, Carl Donnelly, Tony Dunn, London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 hired a professor to teach an art LAVINIA GREENLAW Marc Burrows. Alexis Dubus & Sy Thomas WITH CORNELIA PARKER: www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk appreciation evening class. Rapidly as MCs. CONVERSATIONS ON MAKING abandoning theory in favour of practice,  Full info at se1.net/7892 Wednesday 11 November the pitmen began to paint. Within a 7pm; £5 MOZART’S REQUIEM:  Full info at se1.net/7993 The Old King’s Head few years the most avant-garde artists ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY became their friends and their work was 7.30pm; £7-£32 Friday 27 November 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 acquired by prestigious collections; but www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Armistice Day concert. every day they worked, as before, down EDMUND DE WAAL WITH AS BYATT:  Full info at se1.net/7496 CONVERSATIONS ON MAKING the mine. Lee Hall’s play is a humorous, Thursday 5 November deeply moving and timely look at art, 7pm; £5 UP THE ARTS COMEDY Sunday 15 November  Full info at se1.net/7994 class and politics. 8.30pm; £8 (conc £6) REQUIEM: NEW RENAISSANCE  VOICES Full info at se1.net/7437 St Thomas’ Hospital Holly Walsh, Pete Johansson, Iain Lee & 8pm; £8 at the door Until Thursday 22 January Westminster Bridge Road Tom Webb. Plus Paul Ricketts (MC). New Renaissance Voices, conducted www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk  Full info at se1.net/7842 PAINS OF YOUTH by Bruce Saunders, perform Missa Pro Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£31 Defunctis by Duarte Lobo, with motets Wednesday 4 November The Ship Shocking, erotically charged play by with a Remembrance theme by Byrd, Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner ACTION AGAINST ALLERGY 68 Borough Road T 020 7403 7059 Gombert, Clemens and Cardoso. directed by Katie Mitchell. WORKSHOP  Full info at se1.net/7747 6.30pm-9.30pm; £15 Friday 6 November  Full info at se1.net/7626 For many a parent, seeing their child SHIP OF FOOLS Saturday 21 November Thursday 5 November to Sunday 25 January come out in a sudden rash or scratching 8.30pm; £3 WIMBLEDON CHORAL SOCIETY & BRASS ADASTRA THE HABIT OF ART at itchy skin can be the forerunner to Ship of Fools comedy featuring Phil Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- 7.30pm; £15 & £10 (student £7.50) a nightmare of worry. Is it an allergy? Carter, Jason Blackwater, Chuquai Billy, £42.50 What is the cause? What should be done Mark Stephenson and more, MC Elise Blest Pair of Sirens (Parry) Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (Rutter) Music from A new play by Alan Bennett directed by about it? Harris. Nicholas Hytner.  Full info at se1.net/7772 Henry V (Walton) Gloria (Rutter) Exsultet  Full info at se1.net/8016 (MacMillan) Magnificat (Patterson)  Full info at se1.net/7627 The Old King’s Head  Vinopolis Full info at se1.net/7505 Wednesday 11 November to Sunday 22 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 St John’s Waterloo February 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 www.vinopolis.co.uk NATION www.theoldkingshead.uk.com Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7309 Thursday 12 November Friday 27 November LAUGHTER LOUNGE Friday 6 November Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation of Terry SPIRITUALISM & WAR: JENNIFER Pratchett’s latest witty and challenging 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door GINA KRUGER & STEPHEN RECK WALLIS 1.10pm-1.50pm; free adventure story (suitable for ages 10 and 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) Comedy night at the Bankside wine Piano/guitar duo. Sonata in D Minor K above) follows the National’s staging of A South East London Folklore Society tasting attraction. Rob Deering, James .213 Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757 Guitar His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War event. Dowdeswell, Joe K and Jimmy McGhie. 3 Pieces Antonio Soler 1729-1783 Fantasia Horse.  Full info at se1.net/7246  Full info at se1.net/7218 Op.145 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895-  Full info at se1.net/7309 November 2009 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Rose Theatre Exhibition Unicorn Theatre Southwark. The exhibition, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, and in 56 Park Street 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 Exhibitions collaboration with the Carnaval Del www.rosetheatre.org.uk www.unicorntheatre.com Pueblo organisation, the expressions of 151-189 Harper Road art, music, dance and costume that have Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 November Until Sunday 1 November 151-189 Harper Road made Carnaval Del Pueblo the largest SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN PRINCESS AND THE PEA carnival in Europe and a continual 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) Times vary; £10 (conc £7.50) Until Sunday 4 January A dramatic celebration of the range achievement in cultural diversity. This quirky and inventive adaptation of SEIZURE: ROGER HIORNS  Full info at se1.net/7788 and diversity of Shakespeare’s female Hans Christian Andersen’s bedtime tale Thu-Sun 11am-5pm; free characters. is played out among sheets and blankets See the Turner Prize-nominated Design Museum  Full info at se1.net/7759 with puppets, objects and dreamlike installation of blue crystals in a Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 projections. For ages 2-5. Southwark council flat. www.designmuseum.org Thursday 12 , 19 & 26 November   Full info at se1.net/7439 Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission MULTI-STORY Full info at se1.net/7392 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); 8pm; £7 Advanced Graphics London Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 November Under 12s free Multi-Story is a London based dramatic TIME FOR THE GOOD LOOKING BOY 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 improvisational group. Taking suggestions Times vary; £10 (conc £7.50) www.advancedgraphics.co.uk Until Sunday 1 February from the audience that range from the A compelling new play exploring the Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; free DAVID CHIPPERFIELD: MAKING topical to the tender, the harsh to the harsh realities of growing up and the SPECIAL humorous, the everyday to the exotic, Thursday 19 November to Saturday 19 consequences of a journey that will December This major exhibition of Chipperfield’s six actors create poignant, thoughtful, change lives forever. Ages 14+ work spans his early UK commissions funny and fiery moments, merging the KITCHING STOTHARD: THE  Full info at se1.net/7266 TYPOGRAPHY WORKSHOP including the acclaimed River and familiar with the unexpected in a way Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames. that creates surprising and absorbing 20 years of new letterpress prints. Wednesday 25 to Sunday 29 November  Full info at se1.net/7654 See also his competition design for Tate theatre. You will never see the same THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE Modern at Bankside Power Station which show twice. Times vary; £10 (conc £7.50) Bankside Gallery involved demolition of the chimney.  Full info at se1.net/7762 Shared Experience presents Bertolt 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521  Full info at se1.net/6020 Shunt Bermondsey Street Brecht’s play in a new translation by www.banksidegallery.com Alistair Beaton. For ages 11+. Daily 11am-6pm; free Wednesday 18 November to Sunday 8 March 42-44 Bermondsey Street  Full info at se1.net/7393 ERGONOMICS: REAL DESIGN www.shunt.co.uk Until Saturday 7 November How the same design ‘errors’ that lead Until Thursday 31 December Wednesday 25 November to Sunday 13 ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY to you mistaking the hot tap for the cold MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT December AUTUMN EXHIBITION one are the same, in principle, to those that can lead to an air traffic disaster or Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £20 HANDA’S HEN The Royal Watercolour Society represents Times vary; £10 (conc £7.50) the finest contemporary painting in power station meltdown. Prepare for fractured narrative,  electrifying imagery and all-out sensory Another delightful Handa adventure water based media. See its members’ Full info at se1.net/6022 assault. based on the book by Eileen Browne. latest vibrant pieces. All works are for sale. Wednesday 18 November to Sunday 15  Full info at se1.net/7669 This show features 55 stunning puppets all newly created by hand for this  Full info at se1.net/7648 March DIETER RAMS: LESS AND MORE Southwark Playhouse production. Ages 2-5  Thursday 12 to Sunday 22 November For 40 years, from 1955 until 1995, Dieter Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Full info at se1.net/7267 DAVID GLUCK: A RETROSPECTIVE Rams designed or oversaw the design www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Union Theatre A celebration of Gluck’s love of Italy, of over 500 products for the German this exhibition demonstrates his electronics manufacturer Braun, as well Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 November 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 EAST END TALES www.uniontheatre.biz gradual layered approach that avoids as furniture for Vits. 7.30pm (+ Sat 3pm); £6 the temptation of “flash and dash”,  Full info at se1.net/7661 and creates subtly powerful works from Southwark Playhouse Young Company’s Until Saturday 7 November Fashion & Textile Museum first production takes you on a whistle- PAGES: PROMISED LAND traditional subject matter. Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3.30pm; £15 (conc  Full info at se1.net/7649 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 stop tour into the dark heart of London’s www.ftmlondon.org £12.50) East End. These nine tales by Fin Kennedy Wednesday 25 to Sunday 29 November Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £7 inspired by photos and news reports Four writers, three directors, two TIM VYNER (conc £4); under-12s free from local papers are funny, touching composers and a cast of fifteen, invite Tim Vyner ARWS’ reportage paintings and sometimes brutal. you to join one man on his remarkable look back at Beijing 2008 where he Until Wednesday 25 February  Full info at se1.net/7907 journey through four very different attended 24 events in 17 days, and FOALE AND TUFFIN: MADE IN stories. forward to London 2012. ENGLAND Tuesday 10 to Saturday 28 November  Full info at se1.net/7903  Full info at se1.net/7650 A retrospective exhibition of Foale THE TARTUFFE and Tuffin - two influential designers Mon-Sat 7.30pm (Sat matinee 3pm); £8, Wednesday 11 November to Saturday 5 Bargehouse who were at the heart of the cultural £13, £20 (airline style) December Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 explosion in London in the Sixties. Following a critically acclaimed sell-out A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE www.coinstreet.org  Full info at se1.net/7571 run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Belt Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; £15 Daily 11am-6pm; free Up Theatre bring their interactive and Book by Terrence McNally. Lyric by Lynn gallery@oxo immersive re-working of Moliere’s classic Ahrens. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Tuesday 3 to Sunday 15 November Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 to the Southwark Playhouse. Directed by Ben De Wynter/ RE-RITE: BE THE ORCHESTRA www.coinstreet.org  Full info at se1.net/7901  Full info at se1.net/7904 10am-6pm; free Daily 11am-6pm; free Conduct, play and step inside the Tuesday 10 to Saturday 28 November Young Vic Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Until Sunday 1 November THE TRIAL 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Salonen and Stravinsky’s The Rite of 36 PIECES OF JADE Mon-Sat 9.30pm; £8-£20 (airline-style) www.youngvic.org Spring at the first ever orchestral digital Sarah Caswell’s paintings of gorgeous Belt Up Theatre’s nightmarish and residency. flowers and voluptuous floral forms disorientating vision of Kafka’s classic. Wednesday 4 to Saturday 14 November  Full info at se1.net/7964 commissioned by P&O Cruises for their  Full info at se1.net/7906 UNCLE VANYA BFI Southbank new superliner “Azura”. Tate Modern The Maria; 7.45pm; £10  Full info at se1.net/7962 Young Vic associate director Joe Hill- Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Gibbins directs a workshop production www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Wednesday 4 to Sunday 8 November www.tate.org.uk/modern of Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy Uncle Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free X-PERIMENTALIST Photographer and artist Hugh Turvey Tuesday 3 November Vanya for 11 performances only. Until Sunday 29 November  Full info at se1.net/7193 experiments with x-ray to produce HISTORY IN THE MAKING OR THE DEIMANTAS NARKEVICIUS amazing and insightful constructed New work based on the BFI National SECRET DIARY OF LINDA SCHULTZ: Until Saturday 3 January contemporary images. Archive’s ETV Collection of socialist KEREN CYTTER / D.I.E. NOW ANNIE GET YOUR GUN  Full info at se1.net/7963 Turbine Hall; 9pm-10.15pm; £8 (conc £6) propaganda films, the largest of its kind Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2pm; from In this new live theatre piece by Israeli surviving in Western Europe. Garden Museum £22.50 artist Keren Cytter, protagonists John  Full info at se1.net/7715 Jane Horrocks, Julian Ovenden and multi Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Webber and Linda Schultz both awake www.gardenmuseum.org.uk prize-winning director Richard Jones City Hall one morning to a radical sex change. Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of unite to mount a major London revival The repercussions of this have a domino The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 month); £6 (conc £5) of Irving Berlin’s great hit song-fest. www.london.gov.uk effect on society, sexual politics and  Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free identity. Cytter playfully tells the story via Full info at se1.net/7191 Until Monday 23 November film, language, imagery, choreography, A SENSE OF PLACE: PHOTOGRAPHS Until Friday 6 November BY DAN PEARSON performance and light projections. LONDON 2012 EXHIBITION Dan’s photographs provide a very  Full info at se1.net/7822 Movie highlights The free exhibition is staffed by personal insight into the way that he Imperial War Museum volunteers from across the London 2012 The Old Vic sees landscape and other elements in project and includes a model of the Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 landscape and illustrate a theme that 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Olympic Park and models of venues such www.oldvictheatre.com london.iwm.org.uk is at the heart of all his gardens - his as the stadium and velodrome.  reverence for the power and delicacy of Until Sunday 20 December Saturday 7 November Full info at se1.net/8000 nature: the spirit of the place. INHERIT THE WIND THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND Cuming Museum  Full info at se1.net/7510 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; Sun 5pm; THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS 151 Walworth Road T 020 7525 2332 £10-£48.50 2pm; free www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum Until Sunday 8 March Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7187 1917 film screened with a live piano Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free THE GOOD LIFE Trevor Nunn returns to direct Old Vic accompaniment of the officially Explores 100 years of ‘growing your artistic director Kevin Spacey in Lawrence recommended music. This is the first time Until Saturday 4 April own’, through the good times and more and Lee’s grippingly relevant drama, this music has been played since the First CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO: THE STORY difficult times such as the World Wars based on the 1925 Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial. World War. Celebrating Latin America’s cultural and the 1970s oil crisis.  Full info at se1.net/7187  Full info at se1.net/7781 impact on London and particularly on  Full info at se1.net/7186 November 2009 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Hayward Gallery Master Piper Royal Festival Hall BOOK REVIEW Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 67-69 Kennington Road T 020 7928 5974 Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts www.masterpiper.com www.southbankcentre.co.uk Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £10 Wed-Fri 12 noon-6pm; free Foyers daily 10am-11pm; free Brewer’s (seniors £9, conc £6, under-16 £4.50; Until Sunday 6 December under 12 free) Until Friday 4 December ART BY OFFENDERS, SECURE SQUEEZE PATIENTS AND DETAINEES Dictionary Until Sunday 15 November Pennicott+Fleming present a series of The annual Koestler Awards exhibition VICTOR MAN: IF MIND WAS ALL new works exploring notions of kitsch, includes some 130 exhibits created by THERE WAS illusion and the relation between the inmates of prisons, young offender of London Project Space; free false and the real, the virtual and the institutions, secure hospitals and A piece of 17th century graffiti on a physical. immigration removal centres across the Piero della Francesca fresco operates as  Full info at se1.net/7989 UK, as well as offenders supervised by Phrase & Fable a springboard for a murky set of possible probation and youth offending services narratives about artistic paternity, failure Menier Gallery and British prisoners abroad. Russ Willey • Brewer’s • £25  Full info at se1.net/7990 and flight. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Buy at www.inSE1.co.uk/books  Full info at se1.net/7914 www.meniergallery.co.uk Friday 27 November to Sunday 13 December Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Until Sunday 11 January WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2009 Since 1955, World Press Photo has Brewer’s Dictionary of ED RUSCHA: FIFTY YEARS OF Wednesday 4 to Friday 13 November invited press photographers of the world PAINTING THE LONDON GROUP OPEN to participate in the premier annual Phrase & Fable, first This is the first retrospective to focus EXHIBITION 2009 PART 2 international competition in press exclusively on the paintings of the great  Full info at se1.net/7837 photography. published in 1870, was Los Angeles- based artist Ed Ruscha (b.  Full info at se1.net/7632 1937), one of the most influential and Tuesday 17 to Saturday 28 November compiled by the Reverend Siobhan Davies Studios pioneering American artists of the past THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF E. Cobham Brewer. Russ half-century. PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND 85 St George’s Road www.siobhandavies.com  Full info at se1.net/5893 PRINTMAKERS Willey, a London author, Imperial War Museum Annual exhibition. Theme: footprints. Until Friday 20 November  Full info at se1.net/7973 LUDOVICA GIOSCIA: MIKADO has now produced this Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 A flamboyant sculptural work by london.iwm.org.uk Morley College installation artist Ludovica Gioscia. London version. Daily 10am-6pm; free 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501  Full info at se1.net/7575 ‘Phrase’ refers to idiom and the www.morleycollege.ac.uk Until Sunday 6 September Southwark Cathedral new Brewer, although declaring that Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until OUTBREAK 1939 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 his book “sets out to be far more 7pm; Sat 12 noon-4pm; This exhibition marks the seventieth www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk than a dictionary of cockney slang”, anniversary of the outbreak of the Daily 8am-6pm; free Until Wednesday 4 November Second World War, exploring the build- has come up with some forgotten ARTISTS AT MORLEY 1969-2009 up and preparations for war, an hour- Until Thursday 12 November  Full info at se1.net/7721 GLOBAL ETHIC Southwark names. by-hour countdown of events on 3 The panels show 7 traditions (Jewish, If you live in The Borough you September 1939 and a look at the early National Theatre Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, are a Boro-onion. A leading person in months of the conflict. South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Chinese, Sikh) with central ethical beliefs  Full info at se1.net/6283 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk forming the substance of the text; 1 Bermondsey is a Bermondsey Banger. Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun panel on the Enlightenment tradition, Until Sunday 1 November 2010 The entries are very much a 12 noon-6pm; free 1 on the shared Golden Rule, and 4 on HORRIBLE HISTORIES: TERRIBLE the recommendations of the Global Ethic personal choice with the fictional TRENCHES Monday 2 to Sunday 29 November formulation itself. Parkwood Hill (Mrs Dale’s Diary) and £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family THE LINBURY PRIZE  Full info at se1.net/6716 ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 Walford (EastEnders) being allowed The Linbury Prize for Stage Design Tate Modern A family exhibition based on the Trenches space.  Handbook, one of the books by Terry Full info at se1.net/7630 Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk/modern But in a total of 2,000 entries Deary in the bestselling Horrible Histories Monday 9 November to Sunday 11 January Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat series. there are around twenty entries or DAZZLE 10am-10pm; free  Full info at se1.net/6282 long mentions for SE1 including Pool Dazzle, now in its 28th year at the Jerwood Space National, showcases the work of leading Until Sunday 11 January of London, The Old Vic, Winchester JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 European designers who create unique £10 (conc £8.50) Geese and Wobbly Bridge. www.jerwoodspace.co.uk and exquisitely beautiful handcrafted Major retrospective of this Californian Willey risks including the Shard Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun pieces of jewellery, metalwork and prints. conceptual artist. 10am-3pm; free All items are for sale, making Dazzle the  Full info at se1.net/5425 of Glass on the basis that work has perfect place to find a special gift. started. But he also has Waterloo City Wednesday 4 November to Sunday 13  Full info at se1.net/7543 Until Sunday 18 January December POP LIFE: ART IN A MATERIAL Square which is a very long way off. PASSING THOUGHTS AND MAKING Old Operating Theatre, WORLD Among people are, side by side, PLANS Museum and Herb Garret £12.50 (conc £10.50) Samuel Johnson and Boris Johnson Artists who use photography as part of 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 This exhibition proposes a radical their thought process. www.thegarret.org.uk re-reading of Pop Art and its legacy. who have both spent a lot of time   Full info at se1.net/7999 Daily 10.30am-5pm; £5.60; conc £4.60; Full info at se1.net/5424 working on the Southwark riverside Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings child £3.25; family (2+4) £13.75 Until Monday 6 April not only writing but in second jobs. MIROSLAW BALKA: THE UNILEVER The first was briefly manager of the 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Until Monday 7 December SERIES www.llewellynalexander.com EXPLORING THE INVISIBLE Polish artist Miroslaw Balka presents the Anchor whilst the second is in his four Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free A unique live installation and exhibition the tenth commission in The Unilever year term as Mayor of London. displaying people and objects Series for the Turbine Hall. Monday 2 to Saturday 28 November photographed using the natural light  Full info at se1.net/5426 It is difficult to improve on ROY CONNELLY & SEVEN OTHERS emitted by certain strains of bacteria. Willey’s excellent 2006 Chambers Over seventy oil and watercolour Unit 24  Full info at se1.net/7974 paintings by Roy Connelly, Lisa Graa 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 London Gazetteer but he has avoided Jensen, Chris Kendrick, Tina Morgan, Purdy Hicks Gallery unit24.info repeating too much in the new book. Liam O’Farrell, Steven Outram, Richard Mon-Wed 8am-5pm, Thu & Fri 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 8am-6.30pm; Le i g h Ha t t s Sorrell, Tessa Shedley-Jordan. Roy www.purdyhicks.com Connelly. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free Thursday 5 November to Tuesday 1 December  Full info at se1.net/7959 GIL MUTCH London College of Communication Until Saturday 7 November Having worked outside for many years ESTELLE THOMPSON Gil Mutch has developed a rapid painting Elephant & Castle  Full info at se1.net/7377 style to convey the sensation and capture www.lcc.arts.ac.uk the memory of the experience. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free Friday 13 November to Saturday 12 December  Full info at se1.net/7960 Until Wednesday 4 November STEPHEN FARTHING: PAINTINGS The Wapping Project Bankside DESIGNS ON DELIVERY: GPO 1980-2010 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 POSTERS FROM 1930 TO 1960 An exhibition of paintings that takes us www.thewappingprojectbankside.com  Full info at se1.net/7482 in real time and space: from the English Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; free [ SE1 Direct ] cathedral town where Farthing lived Until Saturday 14 November www.SE1direct.co.uk Monday 9 to Saturday 21 November in the early 1980s to the present day and a place somewhere between the ELINA BROTHERUS SHADES OF NOIR The Wapping Project Bankside launches An exhibition celebrating the Black Amagansett lanes of New York and a with internationally acclaimed Finnish contribution to academic and studio a few yards from Tate Britain in photographer and film maker Elina Weekly email updates professional Britain. London. Brotherus.  Full info at se1.net/7984  Full info at se1.net/7376  Full info at se1.net/7968 November 2009 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW BOOK REVIEW Great houses, moats & mills Roman Southwark on the south bank of the Thames: Medieval and Roman Southwark settlement and economy: Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe Excavations in Southwark 1973-91

Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer Carrie Cowan, Fiona Seeley, Angela Wardle, Andrew Westman and Lucy Museum of London Archaeology • £22.95 Wheeler • Museum of London Archaeology • £27.95 Buy this book at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Buy this book at www.inSE1.co.uk/books This book has a long title but it is full of new facts A map of Roman London with the editors assisted by 14 top contributors. published a quarter of a century The great houses featured are all to the east of London Bridge including ago had just the suggestion of a Edward II’s house called The Rosary on Hay’s Wharf and Edward III’s house in Bermondsey Wall East. few discoveries to the south of The former was on the More London site which as late as the 1980s was an London Bridge. That view has ecological garden. The latter is more familiar as its remains still stand opposite changed dramatically. the also ancient Angel pub. This book collects data from from 41 The Rosary was just west of City Hall. But next door, and immediately east previously unpublished north Southwark sites of Southwark Crown Court, was Fastolf Place which has a 62 pages description. to provide the first definitive map of Roman Fastolf Place was the home of Sir John Fastolf better known to us as Sir activity in The Borough. John Falstaff in William Shakespeare’s plays. Falstaff lived off Tooley Street in Recent planning restrictions on new the 1440s but his moated house still existed 150 years later when Shakespeare basements due to concern about rising sea was spending long periods on Bankside. levels should be considered in the light of the maps Knowing how Shakespeare presented Falstaff it is interesting to read in this book. The Cathedral and market stand on an island with the ‘Southwark Christopher Philpotts’ opinion that the knight “bullied and bludgeoned his way Street Channel’ to be crossed to reach the St George the Martyr site on a second through the rights of existing freeholders and leaseholders” in order to expand island. his riverside landholding. But worship, which is of course pre-Christian, was on the Empire Square There is minute detail about the position of the kitchen and the relationship site with Guy’s Channel the east. That excavation changed the understanding of of the house to the Thames. The many excellent maps, in addition to Borough Channel. photographs of digs, help one’s understanding of the exact location. Here at an important curve on Watling Street were temples, a cemetery and There are also maps of the later period when the waterfront was covered by possibly worship of Isis. Pickleherring Street and Dung Wharf. This book brings a wealth of exciting discoveries together to suggest it was Most revealing are the bright colour photographs of 15th and 16th-century the Romans who founded Southwark by building on dry land. Those difficult continental pottery found there. channels were still damp ground when William I arrived in 1066. Le i g h Ha t t s Le i g h Ha t t s londonse1 This month’s londonse1 Local news you community website forum topics community website may have missed Katzenjammers Bermondsey Street tunnel Ghosts in SE1 DIY Store Petition launched against ‘gory BFI’s South Bank film centre scenes’ at London Bridge Plans for a new national film centre on Loud demo at Palestra A petition calling for an end to the on-street the South Bank have been boosted by a London Bridge ‘gory scenes’ Reiki treatment in SE1 promotional activities of the London Bridge Government funding commitment of £45 Millwall Boot & Flogger Experience and London Dungeon by million. London Bridge Station has been launched …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4155 78 bus El Vergel’s new restaurant by local parents. John Harvard Library Union Street filming …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4163 Elephant & Castle: Lend Lease BFI Funding Man with a van Duke of Edinburgh visits still “very interested” Lynton Road - old pictures Glass cutting The chief executive of Lend Lease Europe, Cycle Hire Scheme “terrific” Topolski Century which has been in negotiations with The Duke of Edinburgh has visited the Southwark Council about the regeneration of Picture framer ...and dozens more topics Topolski Century on the South Bank, 25 Mosaic shop at Elephant Join the debate at years after he opened Feliks Topolski’s Elephant & Castle for more than two years, visual memoir of the 20th century. says that the firm remains “very interested” Poetry Readings in SE1 www.London-SE1.co.uk …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4162 in the project. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4148 Boris Johnson rejects call to reinstate City Hall open days Councillors back ‘saturation December SE1 Mayor of London Boris Johnson has refused zone’ for bar and shop licences in to reconsider his decision to scrap the 10 Southwark’s licensing committee has annual open weekends at City Hall. recommended a ‘saturation zone’ for pubs, • Santas on the Run …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4161 bars and off-licences in part of Borough and Bankside. • Morley Winter Fair Lambeth army veteran …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4145 • Waterloo Christmas receives badge The next issue will Kennington Road resident Stanley Hutchins Waterloo’s P&O ‘three sisters’ • Chocolate Festival who served in the Royal Artillery has been be available from presented with his Veterans Badge by development unacceptable • Christmas Markets defence minister Kevan Jones. says John Denham Tuesday 1 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4159 Communities secretary John Denham • Carol services has vetoed P&O’s proposal for three tall December New sculptures highlight buildings in York Road because they would Lambeth’s White Hart Dock harm the Westminster World Heritage Site Full local Christmas & A series of timber archways over White Hart and local listed buildings including the Royal Dock were inaugurated last month. Festival Hall. New Year events guide. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4157 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4144