The essential monthly guide to what’s on in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk January SE1 Issue 55 January 2003 in Free New nursery for Twelfth Night South Bank on Bankside DESIGNS HAVE been unveiled for the TWELFTH NIGHT saw planned Stamford Street Neighbourhood the Lions part return Centre on the north-west corner of to Bankside for their Stamford Street and Coin Street. annual festivities . The The building will include a Mayor of Southwark neighbourhood nursery to support the Cllr Denise Capstick growing child population. There are and the town crier already 3000 children in south bank Peter Moore were homes between and Lambeth on hand for the Bridges. Last year a further 150 children coronation of King appeared with the opening of new Bean and Queen Pea housing in Coin Street. The aim is to outside the Globe. strengthen the place of families in the community. The four storey building, costing A busy year ahead for the arts in SE1 £7.6m and due for completion in 2005, is a Coin Street Community Builders A NEW museum for SE1 and two major water, fire, wind and ice. project. Included will be a community exhibitions at are expected In October the Hayward Gallery café facing the garden at the rear as to be the arts highlights during 2003. celebrates the National Art Collections well as a shop or restaurant fronting Zandra Rhodes’ Fashion & Textile Fund centenary with a remarkable the street. The nursery and crêche, Museum will at last open in March when exhibition spanning 5,000 years of supported by the Coram Family based in the launch exhibition is My Favourite art history, from classical antiquity to Holborn, will be on the first floor. There Dress. the present day. The show will include will also be a learning and enterprise March also sees the Designer of numerous well-known national treasures centre. the Year Award when the public will be and masterpieces of every kind and in all •Coin Street Community Builders is able to vote after seeing the work of media all drawn from public collections also planning a 240 flat development four shortlisted designers at the Design across the country. on land between Doon Street, which Museum. Highlights at the National Theatre runs behind King’s College, and Upper This year Tate Modern has two include Janet McTeer in The Duchess of Ground opposite the back of the major special exhibitions. Opening next Malfi this month, Trevor Nunn’s Love’s National Theatre. The mixed housing month is Max Beckmann, a tribute to Labours Lost next month and Jerry development will include a health the German Modern artist, and the main Springer: The Opera! straight from the centre with a 25 metre swimming pool. summer show is Photographs of the Fringe in April. The centre is expected to employ at Twentieth Century. Anniversaries in 2003 include the least 130 people full and part-time. In October the Danish-Icelandic artist tercentenary of St Thomas Church in A possible tenant for the offices is Olafur Eliasson will present the fourth in the Borough. The Old Operating Theatre CABE, the Commission which promotes Unilever series of commissions for the Museum and Herb Garret, which shares high standards in the design of new Tate’s Turbine Hall. In the past Eliasson’s an entrance, will be staging a special buildings. installations have featured light steam, exhibition. FRANK HARRIS This Month and COMPANY page 7 RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT Southwark LETS 57 York Road, South Bank, London SE1 7NJ scheme 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk

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Sign up for a weekly email bulletin with SE1 news & events www.SE1direct.co.uk JANUARY 2003 2 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 St Jude’s Playgroup facing closure Congestion Charge in SE1 WHILST PLANS are discussed important educators. St Jude’s countdown begins 27 Blackfriars Road for a new South Bank nursery, Playgroup works with parents, BOOKMAKER WILLIAM Hill is London SE1 8NY St Jude’s Pre-school Playgroup supporting them in the manage- offering odds of 4-1 that the is facing closure due to a con- ment of their children’s behav- TEL 020 7633 0766 Congestion Charge will be FAX 020 7401 2521 tinuing drop in the number of iour and in activities, which can scrapped by the end of this children attending. also be a source of enjoyment year. [email protected] The playgroup has provided and learning at home. The scheme comes into WEB www. SE1.co.uk in a transitional link between •Recent research shows that operation at 7am on Monday © 2003 Bankside Press home and school for under fives the first few years of a child’s 17 February. It will cost £5 a EDITOR since it was opened in 1960 by life represent a period of very day to enter the central London Leigh Hatts Save the Children. It is now a rapid development. St Jude’s zone between 7am and 6.30pm PRODUCTION EDITOR committee managed group with Playgroup offers play and on Mondays to Fridays. Those James Hatts funding from the Pre-school learning opportunities that living within the boundary in CONTRIBUTORS Learning Alliance, Southwark help children reach their full SE1 will receive a 90% discount Farouk Campbell Council and fees. potential and provides a foun- to move a car daily. Anne Critchley The playgroup wishes to dation for future success. Crystal Lindsay Concern has been expressed Marion Marples continue its commitment to •St Jude’s Playgroup in St by residents’ groups about the needs of children and to George’s Road can be contact- a possible build-up of traffic PRINTED BY the principle that parents are ed on 020 7928 4534 or email: just outside the boundary Copyprints Ltd, their children’s first and most [email protected] 1 Talbot Yard, SE1 1YP near Bermondsey Station and in Kennington which will be Advertising Topolski makeover Coronet to reopen divided by the zone boundary. For details of our THE 100 foot painting of the THE FORMER Coronet Cinema , on the boundary, competitive rates call us Coronation by South Bank at the Elephant & Castle will is expected to carry increased for a rate card on 020 reopen at Easter as a venue traffic as drivers seek to avoid 7633 0766. artist Feliks Topolski is to go on display to mark the 50th for major events and all night the City. anniversary of the Coronation. parties. A nightclub for up to Lambeth MP Kate Hoey Subscriptions The frieze, commissioned in 2000 people will be open until has warned that a number To subscribe for 12 issues 1953 by Prince Philip, will go 3am on weekdays and all night of teachers are intending to please send a cheque for on show during the opening to 7am at weekends. There will resign rarther than pay extra to £6 to the address above, of next also be a concert hall and a drive to their schools. However, made payable to in SE1. summer. Meanwhile the artist’s cinema. The full building has a recent opinion poll suggests son Dan has plans to relaunch not been in use since the 1920s. that nearly half of Londoners Listings the Topolski exhibition in The cinema’s Art Deco features now support the charge. •www.cclondon.com Details of events to be Concert Hall Approach. are being restored. considered for inclusion next month should be sent by 18 January to SE1 Snippets > > > > > the Listings Editor at the CHORAL EVENSONG LIVE JUBILEE WALKWAY PANEL MAINTENANCE FISH PLANS CHANGES above address, or by fax Choral Evensong at The Duke of Gloucester, The London Eye will The relaunched Fish! or email. as Patron of the Jubilee be closed from 6 to 26 restaurant in Borough will be broadcast on BBC Walkway Trust, has January for maintenance. Market is seeking to Please note Radio 3 on Wednesday unveiled an updated British Airways, Tussauds add a new service block 15 January at 4pm. It panoramic panel on Group and Marks Barfield, and extend its space by Every effort is made is the boys’ choir that the near the shareholders of the building across a market to ensure accuracy will be singing although London Bridge City giant observation wheel alley off Cathedral but all details are Southwark has also Pier. The stainless steel are working on plans Street. The freestanding subject to alteration recently formed a girls’ indicator first unveiled to refinance the £88m fishmongers would go – no responsibility can choir. During a recent in 1991, similar to one loan to build the wheel as part of the plan. There be accepted for any broadcast from Salisbury on Bankside, highlights that carries a hefty 24% has been much criticism inaccuracies. Cathedral listeners were the buildings on the City annual interest charge, of the main building’s left to guess whether the bank opposite including making it near impossible rear which can be seen South Bank Centre choristers were boys or Custom House and St for the London Eye to be from the main cathedral girls. Magnus Church. profitable. entrance. We do not have space to list all events at the South Bank Centre. Full details can be found in Public meeting to discuss the Centre’s Southbank magazine and at Jubilee Gardens www.sbc.org.uk Kate Hoey, MP, Simon Hughes, MP and Councillor Peter Truesdale, Leader of Lambeth Council, invite Next Month you to a public meeting to discuss the latest developments on Jubilee Gardens. • Tate & Egg Live Following the meeting last summer, CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) • Half Term Events has published detailed recommendations for taking the project forward. 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The secretariat of been working in Bankside for by Rupert Smith send a line of white fire across the worldwide church, the 5 years and I have absolutely the Thames and up the Tate’s Anglicans beyond the Church loved it but it is time to move “THE ELEPHANT & Castle tower. of England, has been at on so that I can have a change” comes alive when the The one minute display, says Lawrence who will leave sun goes down” begins Partnership House for 14 years. one chapter in Rupert taking place on Friday 31 The new offices are in a convent at the end of March. Her January at 6.30pm, will herald Smith’s novel Fly on with a lease at a peppercorn immediate plan is to research the Wall (GMP £9.99). both the Chinese New Year and rent. The Waterloo base has park management in the US ITV1’s The Borough has the Tate & Egg Live arts season proved handy for liaison with and Canada. entertained us but here at Tate Modern. The gallery and nearby . • www.bost.org.uk it is the Elephant which its cafés will stay open late on is being filmed and by a the night. less responsible team. Tate & Egg Live is an Bermondsey restaurant changes The author lives in SE1 so you can speculate on the innovative series of live arts A NEW restaurant called The • The nearby Honest Cabbage real name of St Agatha’s events created in partnership Bermondsey Kitchen has restaurant shut down when School and the Prince with online bank Egg involving opened opposite the church in owners Fred and Alex posted of Wales pub which works by and collaborations Bermondsey Street. a notice on the window has a resident page between distinguished artists. Owner-manager Dela Foster admitting that expansion three girl. But the bus Inspired by the the current has hired as Head Chef Ruth to The Cut with the Honest route, shopping centre, Anish Kapoor installation, “tunnels stinking of piss“ Quinlan who moved from The Goose had been a mistake. and newspaper stand Arvo Pärt has written a new Eagle next to The Guardian in The Cabbage opened in 1997 opposite Princess Street orchestral work, ‘Lament Tate’, Farringdon Road. to rave reviews and strong are all familiar. Maybe drawing on Kapoor’s theme The big feature is a Turkish- support from staff at nearby some of the characters of Marsyas, and on his own style grill installed to allow Guy’s Hospital. The couple will be familiar to some. experience of the sculpture. both to follow their passion of also wished the Bermondsey The dialogue is very Designed to take place in the good and convincing and ‘cooking with fire’. Dela spent Kitchen well. Rupert Smith uses his Turbine Hall, the performance a year looking for the right •Both restaurants have been inside knowledge of the in early February will feature location for her restaurant. the subject of much debate on media to good effect. musicians from London “Then I found Bermondsey the London SE1 website forum This is an enjoyable Sinfonietta and the Royal Street” she says. “I fell in love at www.London-SE1.co.uk/ story but also a warning Academy of Music. with the church and rectory forum against appearing on •T 020 7316 4709 across the street from our site •See page 4 for our Eating Out television. •All the books featured •www.tateandegglive.com as soon as I saw them.” feature in this column can be purchased online by visiting our website SE1 Snippets > > > > > www.inSE1.co.uk/books EIGH ATTS ITV’S DACRE TO LCP JUBILEE GARDENS PLEDGE WORST BUS ROUTE ORGANIC COMPOST L H Former ITV News editor Michael Lynch, the new The Elephant & Castle SE1 will soon be Nigel Dacre, brother South Bank Centre Chief has London’s worst bus producing its own Never miss an of Daily Mail editor Executive, has pledged to service. 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Until Saturday 29 March theatre Theatre A LAUGHING MATTER Cinema Lyttelton; 7.30pm; from £10 The Old Vic BFI London IMAX Cinema ® In her hilarious new play A Laughing Matter, review The Cut T 020 7369 1722 The Bullring, South Bank T 020 7902 1234 April De Angelis goes behind the scenes. It’s www.oldvictheatre.com www.bfi.org.uk/imax Sleeping Beauty 1773 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The Screenings daily 10.30am-9.30pm; £7.10 at the Young Vic Thursday 16 January to Saturday 15 February crowd is getting restless. The leading man’s (conc £5.95; child £4.95; ) THE TEMPEST unconscious. But the show must go on. 7.30pm; £10-£37.50 Do you give them what they want? Or what SANTA VS THE SNOWMAN 3D (U) ONCE UPON a time Acclaimed production from Sheffield’s they need? This irreverent version of real life The first ever IMAX 3D animated Christmas the fairy Goody grants Crucible Theatre with Derek Jacobi and Daniel events tells the story of David Garrick, Dr feature film. 3D glasses are essential to a childless king and Evans. Directed by Michael Grandage. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and a risky new experience being transported to the North queen a baby girl but ______play called She Stoops to Conquer Pole. A polar feud of hilarious proportions Royal Festival Hall where ultimately friendship reigns supreme. becomes piqued at South Bank T 020 7960 4242 The National is offering £5 off the top three being banished from the www.rfh.org.uk/peterpan ticket prices for evening performances of She INDIA: KINGDOM OF THE TIGER 2D (U) infant’s christening. So Stoops to Conquer and A Laughing Matter New film set against the striking backdrop begins the Young Vic’s Until Sunday 12 January when you book for both shows at the same of 17 different Indian cities. Tells the story Sleeping Beauty. The PETER PAN time. of British writer, hunter and conservationist, Phone to check times; £10-£25 ______Jim Corbett played by Christopher Heyerdahl. main protagonist is the A musical adventure with Richard Wilson as Southwark Playhouse Daily screenings. fairy Goody who tries to Captain Hook. Also starring Susannah York. 62 Southwark Bridge Rd T 020 7620 3494 right wrongs and regain ______www.southwark-playhouse.co.uk CYBERWORLD 3D (PG) her failing magic powers. Royal National Theatre Come face to face with your favourite Goody, played by Helen South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Tuesday 7 January to Saturday 1 February characters - Bart and Homer Simpson, ‘Z’ Lymbery, entertains both www.nationaltheatre.org.uk THROUGH THE LEAVES from Antz, and Phig the sassy cyber babe. Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (Mon £5; conc £6) See www.imax.com/cyberworld adults and children and Until Saturday 18 January Simon Callow and Ann Mitchell who first has the disturbing habit THE TALKING CURE appeared together in 1973 are reunited in HUMAN BODY (PG) of farting every time Cottesloe; 7.30pm; from £8- Franz Xaver Kroetz’s portrayal of a sexual With the aid of stunning computer and she performs magic. Ralph Fiennes returns to the National for relationship. Also a 9.30pm performance on real-life imagery director/producer Peter The medieval music, Christopher Hampton’s new play about the Saturdays. Georgi allows us to witness the myriad of relationship between Jung and Freud (among ______fascinating processes that occur within colourful costumes and other things). Union Theatre the body every day. A free exhibition revolving set design add 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 includes behind the scenes photos from the to the enchantment. Saturday 18 January to Monday 10 February www.uniontheatre.freeserve.co.uk award-winning film. Wednesdays only. See Brimming with hilarity, THE DUCHESS OF MALFI www.thehumanbodyfilm.com Sleeping Beauty has Lyttelton; 7.30pm; £10-£33 Tuesday 7 to Saturday 25 January Webster’s sensational tragedy charts the TWO UP HAUNTED CASTLE 3D (PG) everything a fairy tale calamitous consequences of a young widow’s Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £7) You are beckoned to enter a castle...a should and its magic is refusal to obey her brothers’ command never Powerful drama about two convicts trying to haunted castle...Join Johnny as he enters totally absorbing. to remarry. When the spy, Bosola, is planted make the best out of a bad situation. Written the mysterious castle and begins to discover •Continues at the Young in her household, the trap is set which leads by former prisoner and journalist Michael that things are not as they appear. See Vic until Saturday 25 to exile, torture, madness and death. Holland. www.nwave.com/hauntedcastle January. ______Until Saturday 8 February Young Vic SPACE STATION 3D (U) FAROUK CAMPBELL ANYTHING GOES 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 3D IMAX-format film telling the amazing story Olivier; 7.15pm; from £10 www.youngvic.org of the greatest engineering feat since a man Cole Porter’s classic musical. The fabulous landed on the moon. tune-filled, dance-peppered score includes I Until Saturday 25 January eating Get A Kick Out of You, You’re The Top, It’s De- SLEEPING BEAUTY THE LION KING 2D (U) ä out Lovely, Blow, Gabriel, Blow, You’d Be So Easy Phone for times; £19 (conc £9.50) Phone for times; £9.50 (conc £7; child £7)) To Love, All Through The Night and the title The main Christmas show – see review on Disney’s popular tale which follows the Bankside Restaurant number Anything Goes, which in both music this page.. fortunes of a young prince in exile. With and lyric so captures the spirit of the age. music by Tim Rice and Sir Elton John. The film January Sale Friday 31 January to Thursday 22 February has a special website at www.disney.co.uk/ Until Saturday 29 March RED DEMON lionkingimax STAND BY for the annual SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Mon-Sat 7.30pm; £19 (conc £10) ______newspaper offers for Lyttelton; 7.30pm; from £10 European English language première of National Film Theatre cheap lunches. Kelvin Oliver Goldsmith’s tale of class and courtship Japanese Hideki Noda’s acclaimed play. All South Bank T 020 7928 3232 seats £12 on first two days. www.bfi.org.uk/nft MacDonald of Bankside with the barmaid. Restaurant admits that TWO MONTH INGMAR BERGMAN SEASON Ingmar Bergman is one of the single most January can be quiet survival. (This is a silent film with live piano but he likes to avoid important film-makers of the last sixty Events for Children accompaniment). years. His catalogue of work illustrates paperwork. “We could Golden Hinde a consistency and innovation in style offer coupons to collect T 08700 11 8700 Sunday 19 January unsurpassed, with films inspired by his MADELINE for a special discount www.goldenhinde.co.uk childhood memories and an obsession with menu but High Street 3.45; £1 human sexuality. Saturday 25 January One small schoolgirl, her trusted friends and This extraordinary two-month season stores don’t make you do a brave dog team together to foil plans to sell that so why should we? LIVING HISTORY EXPERIENCE of work includes romantic tales of teenage 5pm; £33 their beloved school. love (Summer Interlude and Summer Instead we are offering Children with their parents can eat, sleep and with Monika), darker stories of religious a straight-forward 50% live like 16th-century sailors by spending a Sun 12 January scepticism (The Seventh Seal and The discount on lunchtime night on the Golden Hinde. Sailors’ clothes, THE BFG Virgin Spring) and his comedies (A lesson bedding and food are provided. 3.50; £1 in Love And Smiles of a Summer Night, both and evening dining in Will the Big Friendly Giant save Sophie from the restaurant.” All ______ironic and full of fantastic repartee). Two National Film Theatre being eaten in the land of the giants? extended runs include Wild Strawberries, food is half price this South Bank T 020 7928 3232 ______one of Bergman’s richest films, and Persona, month so the fore- www.bfi.org.uk/nft Tate Modern possibly his most psychologically profound rib steak and chunky Bankside T 020 7887 3959 studies of modern anxieties. chips is now £4.50, Saturday 11 January www.tate.org.uk The quality of Bergman’s work that Cumberland sausage & MATILDA has most bewitched audiences around the 3.15; £1 Every Sunday globe is an intensity of emotion and an mash £3.50 and the soup Matilda loves books and learning, but her START obscene ability to delve into the hearts and £2. Bankside is a rare parents are too selfish to care. Starring 11am-1pm & 3.30-5pm; free minds of his characters, portrayed by his success among the new Danny DeVito. A drop-in for those aged 5+. Explore modern regular players including, Liv Ullmann, Bibi restaurants due to its art by matching clues, turning spinning discs Andersson and Max von Sydow. or trying double-sided jigsaws. With brand prices and good quality. Saturday 18 Januay The season contunues until Friday 28 THE BLACK PIRATE new games for the summer, it’s a fun way to February. •32 Southwark Bridge Rd 3.15; £1 discover more about the art on display. A • T 020 7633 0011 Ahoy! Exciting pirate action as a plan form of identification must be produced for See Events for Children for details of LEIGH HATTS for revenge turns into a daring battle for security. Meet in Studio 3 on Level 3. weeekend screenings for children. JANUARY 2003 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 5 Exhibitions fa projects Printspace Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 2 Bear Gardens T 020 7261 9200 exhibition Bankside Gallery www.faprojects.com www.print-space.com ¢ 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; free review www.banksidegallery.com Until Friday 17 January From Thursday 16 January Shakespeare’s Until Sunday 26 January JAMES IRELAND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Globe Exhibition WINTER FESTIVAL Sculptural objects and installations. Weekly shows featuring artists in the gallery’s Annual exhibition of watercolours and prints. team of associate printmakers: ______Tuesday 21 January to Saturday 1 March 16-22 January: Justin Norcott. THE EXHIBITION at bContemporary Gallery GROUP SHOW 23-30 January: John Tate. the Globe begins with 71 Newcomen Street T 020 7407 5900 Six artists. 31 Jan-5 Feb: Niamh Clancy. a guided history of ______the recreation of the Tuesday 21 to Friday 31 January Imperial War Museum Purdy Hicks Gallery ERRORS: SONIA BRUCE Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Globe, begun by Sam Prints, drawings and small-scale sculpture www.iwm.org.uk www.purdyhicks.com Wanamaker, and includes ______10am-6pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & Sun a timeline of the current The Bargehouse 12 noon-5pm; free theatre from 1949. Oxo Tower Wharf T020 7401 2255 Until Saturday 25 January The displays continue www.oxotower.co.uk DICK LEE Friday 10 January to Saturday 8 February 11am-7pm; free Paintings based on Heller’s novel, Catch 22. NEW WORK BY GALLERY ARTISTS with details about The gallery will also be at ART2003 at the Shakespeare’s Bankside Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 January Until Sunday 27 April Business Design Centre in Islington 15-19 and includes not only MUTINY AT THE BARGEHOUSE: LOST ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH January. information about PROPERTY £5 (conc £4) ______the Globe, Rose, and 11am-5pm; free First World War poets. Royal National Theatre Massive cross-genre multi-media show. ______South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Swan theatres but also Jerwood Space www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/exhibitions Southwark Cathedral. Friday 24 January to Thursday 6 February 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free Intermingled among the DAVID BREUER-WEILL: PROJECT II www.jerwoodspace.co.uk pictures, models, and Fifty monumental paintings on topical issues. Tue-Sun 11am-6pm (Fri 8pm); free Until Saturday 18 January writings are costumes ______DAZZLE from Globe productions, Bermondsey Street Gallery Wednesday 15 January to Saturday 8 Jewellery show with almost 9,000 pieces. 60 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8522 February interactive touch-screen JAIME GILI Monday 27 January to Saturday 29 March animations and short Until Tuesday 28 January Gili’s work shows a fascination with speed. THE ALTERNATIVE NOMAD videos. A tour of the SACHA JAFRI ______Fifty pictures by writer Bruce Chatwin. Globe theatre is included. Award winning young artist whose first prize Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings ______•This month there was an art scholarship to Eton. The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition ______www.llewellynalexander.com New Globe Walk T 020 7902 1500 is an additional art Design Museum Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free www.shakespeares-globe.org exhibition. See listing Shad Thames T 020 7940 8790 Mon-Sun 10am-5pm; £8 (conc £6.50; child on this page. www.designmuseum.org Thursday 9 to Saturday 25 January £5.50) •Open daily. Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); PETER McARDLE •Admission £5-8. £5.50 (conc £4) Allegory and symbolism of the female figure. Until Friday 31 January ______ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA JENNIFER CLAPP Until Sunday 19 January McHardy Sculpture Company Paintings inspired by 1999 production. ADVENTURES OF ALUMINIUM Shad Thames T 020 7403 7555 ______The many uses of aluminium. www.mchardy-sculpture.com Tate Modern Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon-5pm; Bankside T 020 7887 8008 shopping Until Sunday 9 February free www.tate.org.uk DROOG DESIGN Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free � focus Celebrated Dutch duo spend £30,000. Until Sunday 12 January CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION Until Sunday 9 March Iceland gets a Until Sunday 23 February With Terry Wall’s life-size footballing heroes. EVA HESSE makeover

UNSEEN VOGUE ______£5 (conc £4) Images from the Vogue magazine archive. Morley Gallery Over 130 works. WHILST WE wait for ______61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7450 9226 ______Essor Gallery www.morleycollege.ac.uk Tom Blau Gallery the new Sainsbury’s in 1 America Street T 020 7928 3388 Mon-Fri 11am-6pm (Thu 7pm); Sat 12 noon- Queen Elizabeth Street T 020 7378 1300 Stamford Street to open www.essorgallery.com 4pm; free www.tomblaugallery.com in 2005 we now have Daily 11am-5.30pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12noon-5pm a relaunched Iceland Thursday 9 January to Thursday 6 February Until Thursday 23 January LIVING IN THIS MESS Until Saturday 11 January in Lower Marsh. It’s JOHAN GRIMONPREZ Film, video, photography and drawing. TWIST AND SHOUT! surprising to find cups of Exhibition of cult video works. ______The Sixties in vintage photographs including coffee, newspapers and Percy Miller Gallery Twiggy and the Beatles. flowers on sale but one Until Friday 31 January 39 Snowsfields T 020 72074578 must question whether THOMAS RUFF www.percymillergallery.com Thursday 16 January to Thursday 20 Architectural photographs. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-3pm; free February there is really room COASTLINE for these items which Friday 31 January to Saturday 29 March Friday 17 January to Friday 28 February Roy Mehta shows 22 large colour are already available KILLING FRIENDS JONATHAN PARSONS photographs of the coast and its people from nearby. Indeed there are Controversial installation by Julian Hoeber. New works on paper – first solo exhibition. Brighton to the Outer Hebrides. two newsagents within yards. It’s also difficult �������������������� for two-way traffic in the ������������ ������������ very narrow aisles. But �������� there is more stock than ������������������ before and plenty of ��������������������� ������ ��������������� ��������� discount offers such as ������������ �������������������� three bottles of wine for �������������� �������� ��������������� £10 and cheese bargains. ������ ������ ������� ����������� Best of all the opening ���� hours have improved. �������� �������� ���������������������������������� And there is a free � ����������������������������� ��������������� ����������������� delivery service if you � ���������������������� �������������������� ���� ���� ���������������������������� spend more than £25. ���������������������������� � ��������������� ������������ ���������� ���������������� ��������������������������� ���������������������� •112-113 Lower Marsh � ������������������� ������������������� ������� ����������� ��������������� •T 020 7620 3620 ���������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������� ������������ ���������� �������� �������� ������� MATTHEW BROOKE JANUARY 2003 6 www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

St John’s Waterloo enivronment Music Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Special Events/Festivals www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Southwark Cathedral City Hall watch Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 Wednesday 22 January The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 ™ www.dswark.org/cathedral LETS scheme PURCELL & THE PLAYS www.london.gov.uk Every Monday 1pm; free for Southwark LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Premiere of a new work written and devised Saturday 4, Sunday 5, Saturday 18, Sunday 1.10pm; free by Deborah Mason and Jane de Florez and 19 January, Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 February Mon 6: Opening Recital featuring passionate, wonderful and witty OPEN DAY: LONDON’S LIVING ROOM IN DECEMBER we Saturday 9am-1pm, Sunday 5 2pm-6pm; free featured the launch Mon 13: Ian Keatley (Southwark Cathedral) songs by Henry Purcell, with dramatised Mon 20: Stephen Disley (Southwark extracts from little-known Restoration More opportunities to visit London’s Living of a Time Bank in Cathedral) Theatre plays from which the songs are Room, the viewing area at the top of City Waterloo, an exciting Mon 27: Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral) taken. Songs and text performed by Jane de Hall. Visitors are advised to call the Public new community scheme. Florez and Deborah Mason. Anna Langley Liason Unit on the number above as these Every Tuesday accompanies skilfully on lute. dates are liable to change at short notice. However, for those not in ______the immediate Waterloo LUNCHTIME RECITAL ______1.10pm; free Royal National Theatre Oxo Tower Wharf area there is an equally Tue 7: Sophia Grech (mezzo soprano) & South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Bargehouse Street T 020 7401 2255 www.oxotower.co.uk excellent Southwark Richard Chapman (classical guitar) www.nationaltheatre.org.uk LETS scheme which Tue 14: Musica Cantata (choir), Steven Grahl (organ) with Tansy Castledine (conductor) Weekdays Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 January is not dissimilar to the SALE WEEKEND Time Bank scheme. To be Tue 21: Helen Neilson (cello) & Claire Capps SELECTED FOYER MUSIC (piano) 6pm; free Weekend of special offers at the Oxo Tower’s eligible to join you have Tue 28: City Lit Institute students Mon 13: Stewart Curtis designer studios. Fusion Design are offering to live in Southwark and ______Tue 14: Gareth Williams Trio (jazz) 30% off all stock and fantastic 3 for 2 offers. be able to offer some St George’s RC Cathedral Wed 15: Paul Malsom Hortense Suleyman is giving an opportunity Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Thu 16: Eriko Ishihara Duo (jazz) to snap up her slight second at half price. kind of service. This could Caterina Fadda has 10% off complete sets be anything from cat www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Fri 17: Davide Sanna (folk) Mon 20: Lawson/Lavelle Duo (jazz) of her popular Cellule tablewear. Luna mugs sitting to chiro-practice. Saturday 18 January Tue 21: Sergei Pachnine and slight seconds are half price in Bodo You are then entered on LUNCHTIME RECITAL Wed 22: Viper’s Dream (hot club jazz) Sperleins studio. Black and Blum have a 25% a membership directory 1.05pm; free Thu 23: Kelly Dickson Trio (jazz) discount on selected lines including their which lists all services Organ recital by Ben Saul of St George’s Fri 24: Abdelkader Saadoun Little Devil lights. Little Badger’s sale gives up to 30% off their children’s wear range available. Unlike the Cathedral. The full programme of recitals Mon 27: Valentin Schiedermair (piano) resumes in February. Tue 28: Emma Blake Quartet (jazz) ______Time Bank scheme there Tate Modern is no broker. Members Bankside T 020 7887 8008 contact each other www.tate.org.uk directly for whatever Southwark Cathedral Special Church Services Montague Close T 020 7367 6700 service they need. No Friday 31 January Christ Church Southwark www.dswark.org/cathedral TATE & EGG LIVE: CAI GUO-QIANG money is exchanged - 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 3970 6.30pm you are paid in Pecks and www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Saturday 11 January A line of white fire will run across the Thames your account debited or SERVERS’ FESTIVAL to Tate Modern in one minute to mark both credited accordingly. The Every Thursday 12 noon the Chinese New Year and the launch of a EUCHARIST Service attended by servers from churches Tate & Egg Live arts season at Tate Modern. Southwark branch was 1.10pm within the Southwark diocese. 45 year old Cai has already staged a similar formed ten years ago Thirty minute lunchtime Eucharist. show in Vienna. Tate Modern and its cafés by four members of the Refreshments available in the Vaughan Room Wednesday 15 January will stay open late on the night. local Friends of the Earth. afterwards. CHORAL EVENSONG • www.tateandegglive.com Now there are around ______4pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Those 180 members. One SE1 Crossway’s URC Church New Kent Road T 020 7703 7803 wishing to be present should be at the member reports: “LETS cathedral by 3.45pm. has transformed my life. Thursday 23 January I have been able to have UNITY SERVICE Sunday 19 January reflexology treatment 7pm CHORAL EUCHARIST and carpentry jobs A service for the Week of Prayer for Christian 11am [ SE1 Direct ] Unity organised by the churches of North The preacher, on this second day of the done in my home. I’ ve Southwark. See also events at St John’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, is James also made lots of new Waterloo and Southwark Cathedral. Cronin, Dean of St George’s Roman Catholic Are you missing out on our friends and discovered ______Cathedral. weekly update on SE1 news I have a lot to offer St John’s Waterloo other people.” There are Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Monday 20 January and events? www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk PRAYER FOR UNITY regular social meetings 12 noon so you get a chance Sunday 26 January South London Church Leaders gather in the to meet the service CHURCHES TOGETHER Harvard Chapel for prayer to mark the Week Sign up now at providers. Both LETS and 3pm of Prayer for Christian Unity. Time Bank schemes are a Following the Wekk of Prayer for Christian www.SE1direct.co.uk Unity, North Lambeth & District Churches Sunday 26 January boon for those on limited Together hold their annual general meeing COMPLINE incomes. They are also followed by an ecumenical service to which 6.30pm a valuable community all are invited. Compline and Benediction. resource which binds people together in an increasingly fragmented Morley College and materialistic society. Lifelong learning for adults in the London area Looking at the headlines these alternatives to a money dominated Get Out, Get a Life, Join a Course economy will be much in Learn a language, throw a pot, play an instrument, sing in a choir, write a novel, demand as we move into dance the tango, paint a picture, meditate or massage, 2003. exercise your body & your mind at Morley College • Waterloo Time Bank 020 7928 5029 • Southwark LETS To obtain further information about any of our courses ring 020 7928 8501 or look at our website ladylyndhurst@hotmai Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT Tel 020 7928 8501 Fax: 020 7928 4074 l.com General Email: [email protected] Web: www.morleycollege.ac.uk NNE RITCHLEY A C Morley College Ltd is a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 2629936. 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Thursday 30 January Talks, Lectures, Meetings DEDWYDD JONES on DAVID JONES Guided Walks & Tours southside Calder Bookshop 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) includes a glass of wine City Secrets Walks 51 The Cut T 020 7633 0599 David Jones is one of the major poets of the T 020 8348 9022 diary last century whose reputation has fallen into c www.calderpublications.com neglect over the last forty years. The Welsh The exceptionally quiet Mondays & Fridays Christmas holiday Thursday 9 January writer and critic, Dedwydd Jones, talks about SHAKESPEARE CITY WALK THE POETRY OF DEREK MAHON his compatriot and there will be readings from Meet 11am Blackfriars Station; £6 may have given us 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) includes a glass of wine his work. Shakespearean actor and researcher Declan an indication of how The distinguished Irish poet Derek Mahon will ______McHugh leads a 90 minute guided walk along pleasant the roads will talk about his work and, together with the Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret the Thames Path featuring buildings and be when the Congestion 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 7955 4791 actor Peter Marinker, will read extracts from streets connected with William Shakespeare Charge is introduced. For his poetry. Born in Belfast in 1941, Mahon www.thegarret.org.uk and his plays. Declan quotes Shakespeare studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the saying: “I summon up remembrance of things at least 16 days the traffic Sorbonne. A member of the Aosdána, he has Sunday 12 January past.” levels have been much received numerous awards including the THE BLADE & THE BONE ______lower than in August. Irish Academy of Letters Award and the Scott 2.30pm; £3.75 (conc £2.75) The Lambeth Walk A lecture in the old operating theatre of St But there is another Moncrieff translation prize. Seamus Heaney T 020 7435 4782 question to be asked says: “There is a copiousness and excitement Thomas’ Hospital demonstrating the ordeal about his poems found only in work of the of Victorian surgery when the patient’s only Every Tuesday about the Charge. Will it highest order.” relief was the speed of the surgeon’s knife. THE LAMBETH WALK operate during the next 2003 marks the 300th anniversary of the Meet 11am Lambeth North Station; £5 (conc Christmas holiday and Thursday 16 January church building which houses the museum £4) make the streets even A CAN OF MADNESS (see page 1). Joy and Sylvia lead a walk featuring ______quieter? Some residents 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) includes a glass of wine pineapples, The Railway Children, the Stars hope so. Jason Pegler and representatives from Mad Southwark &Lambeth Archaeological Society & Stripes and a famous pottery. A regular Pride discuss modern issues and culture Hawkstone Hall, Kenning ton Road weekly event led by enthusiastic local * * * with particular relevance to Pegler’s ground- experts. London may have been breaking book A Can of Madness which Tuesday 28 January ______quiet but the churches documents his own experiences in mental MERTON PRIORY Stepping Out 7.30pm; £1 (refreshments from 7pm) had well attended institutions and raises questions about our T 020 8881 2933 carol services and treatment of those suffering. David Saxby talks about the excavations www.walklon.ndirect.co.uk at Merton Priory near Colliers Wood tube good congregations Thursday 23 January station, which are now partly under a car Every Sunday for midnight mass. A JAMES JOYCE EVENING park. The priory, built beside the River BROTHELS, BISHOPS & BARDS Southwark Cathedral was 6.45pm; £3 (conc £1) includes a glass of wine Wandle, was founded in 1114. Among those Meet 11am at Monument Station; £5 (conc £4) educated there were St Thomas Becket, packed for the Epiphany Actors Angela Pleasence and Peter Marinker Hear Bankside tales about geese that were when the Three Kings read from Ulysses and other works by James Walter de Merton, who founded Merton not birds, stews that were not food and a Joyce followed by a discussion about the College Oxford and Nicholas Breakspeare, the notorious prison at a bishop’s house in Clink arrival at Bethlehem was importance and relevance of the writer today. only English Pope. Street. celebrated. The crib, with the Kings now added, will remain in the cathedral in for all of January. It was specially sculpted CALL the YARD for Southwark by Alec ä Worster in 1995. inSE1.co.uk/toptable * * * Most of the big and Missing from the Cathedral was Canon Online restaurant bookings successful local firms Helen Cunliffe who has just spent a Christmas do when without any church they have duties. Her unusual Christmas break comes St Jude’s Pre-school Playgroup something to to an end at 4pm on say and they Saturday 11 January Early learning for Under 5s when she goes to St would like Albans Cathedral to be Places available now! us to give a installed as Archdeacon of St Albans. Some of her Opening times: Full day: Mon and Wed 09.15 – 03.15 sharp edge Borough and cathedral Mornings: Tue/Thu/Fri 09.15 – 12.15 parishioners are hoping to it. to be present. For more information contact: * * * Carole McCarthy or Vi Smith Sainsbury’s Drury House St Jude’s Pre-school Playgroup, The Crypt, St. Jude’s Church, PRINT has at last begun to be St. George’s Road, London SE1 6EZ. 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Owner Richard Desmond www.London-SE1.co.uk/news in the area. To donate your and experienced team can help old phone and charger, drop residents of the Elephant & Cas- conveyed the news in his Shell shop plans in doubt tle area with housing, childcare, seasonal speech to employees. Shell is considering appealing them off at Walworth Road or Borough High Street Police money, jobs, training, educa- It was received with much against the surprise rejection relief by staff who had been of its Waterloo redevelopment Stations or call 020 7740 6533 tion benefits, and much more. plans. for more information. •www.elephantlinks.org.uk fearing that the papers and OK! …full story on the website magazine would reclocate to Funding boost for Southwark Lancashire. and Lambeth Race for City Hall gets under way The new plan means that Both of SE1’s local authorities will see an increase in their THE RACE to take control of City the independent Livingstone. within 18 months Express government grant in 2003-4. Hall from Ken Livingstone at the There are 11 hopefuls for Newspapers will move back …full story on the website 2004 GLA elections is hotting up the Conservative nomination, across the river to Holborn just FT in unwanted Bankside office this spring as the parties select including former transport behind historic Fleet Street. crisis their candidates. minister Steven Norris and ex- Last year Sainsbury’s moved Financial Times owner Pearson from opposite the Express to may be forced to sublet the Simon Hughes, the respect- model Nikki Page, who has said prestigious Bankside riverfront ed MP for North Southwark that if elected she would move the former Mirror Newspapers building once earmarked for its and Bermondsey, last month the GLA out of its new riverside site at Holborn Circus. internet operation at a vastly reduced rent. announced his intention to home next to Tower Bridge: “It •Also due to leave SE1 next …full story on the website seek nomination as the Liberal costs us £4.5 million and it’s on year is HM Customs and Democrat candidate, alongside a lease- back deal with the gov- Excise now at King’s Beam Celebrity wine collections Trapped at London Bridge unsuccessful 2000 candidate ernment. It’s a waste of money House in Upper Ground. The A little-known 90,000 sq ft Kramer and Southwark- on a prime piece of real estate. HQ staff will move into part of complex of wine cellars under the former Treasury Building London Bridge station is at based environmental cam- The offices of the mayor should the centre of a legal storm paigner Donnachadh McCarthy. be in the suburbs, and the coun- in Parliament Street. HM after Trapps Cellars went into Leader Charles Kennedy says cil meetings rotated around Treasury is now at the back administration. …full story on the website all three are “totally committed borough town halls so GLA of the refurbished building to tackling London’s appalling members get to know the prob- where the Chancellor of the Petition calls for Southwark problems”. lems of each area intimately.” Exchequer has an office police boost Southwark Council and local Labour last month selected Her other policies include ski overlooking St James’s Park. MPs including Simon Hughes current deputy mayor Nicky Ga- lifts across the Thames to ease King’s Beam House was are spearheading a campaign for originally built to be an hotel. an extra 200 police officers for vron as its candidate to take on pedestrian congestion. Southwark. …full story on the website

Cathedrals Councillor promoted Wanted: New Trustees to ‘cabinet’ Cathedrals Ward Councillor for the Bankside Parks Catriona Moore has been appointed Executive member for Bankside Open Spaces Trust is a small but growing For further information or an informal chat, please Social Services & Health. …full story on the website charity, supporting local people to look after local contact: parks and open spaces in north west Southwark. Vicky Lawrence Stars launch AIDS campaign on We are now seeking new trustees for the board. We Director London Eye have a strong team of nine trustees and this year Bankside Open Spaces Trust Bianca Jagger has led stars from the world of television and pop have some places to fill for committed people. In 5 King James Street in a series of personal pledges particular we are seeking people with experience in London SE1 0RU at the launch of the Stop Aids finance, fundraising, gardening, business or parks Tel: 020 7261 1009 Campaign on the London Eye. management. Ideally you will live or work locally. Email: [email protected] Web: www.bost.org.uk …full story on the website

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