THIS MONTH: Fairtrade Fairground p3 • Half term activities p3 • Old Vic auditions p3 Fashion & Textile Museum re-opens p7 • New movie attraction at County Hall p8 February 2008 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 116 FREE Email: [email protected] Ideas for 14 February At Tower Bridge the high-level of David Lean’s birth, the National walkways will be transformed into Theatre is offering a free outdoor a panoramic platform for romance. screening of Brief Encounter, Flowers and soft lighting set the Noel Coward’s celebrated story of scene as guests sip champagne and repressed 1940s passion on Milford take in the twinkling, night-time Junction railway station. The film view over London and the Thames. will be projected onto the Lyttelton Live music heightens the mood, Flytower from 7.40pm. See page 3. with a seductive rendering of Meanwhile BFI Southbank haunting jazz favourites. See is offering screenings of page 3 for details of how Breakfast at Tiffany’s, to book tickets Casablanca, Shortbus In the year of and Show Me the centenary Love. U2 3D at BFI IMAX – win tickets Turn to page 2 for our great competition. Switched On London The capital’s festival of light Post Office and the car park at the north end of London Ken Livingstone. returns to the Pool of London and of Bermondsey Street. In Borough High Street “Switched on London is to be commended �pedestrians passing Maya House will trigger changes for their campaign to promote the use of energy Bankside� this month from 7 to 14 in the lighting as they walk past hidden laser beams. efficient lighting in London at night. By using more February. Potters Fields Park will also feature special efficient lighting, organisations and households can Held for the first time last year, the 2008 light effects including ‘breathing trees’ and poetry save money and help to tackle climate change.” festival aims to demonstrate that light in an urban projected on to the paths. A Garden of Light will All the 2008 schemes will be audited for their environment can be achieved energy efficiently remain in the park beyond the end of the festival energy usage and where an existing lighting scheme and stress the importance of lighting from a social, There will be around fifteen lighting projects in is replaced, offer comparative data of how the economic and environmental perspective. total; full details at www.switchedonlondon.com alternative scheme provided better lighting whilst Key landmarks such as the Tower of London, The team will provide realistic alternatives to utilising less energy. 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South Bank sculpture In Brief A new sculpture called The Dance in by County Hall Gallery artist-in- CALL the YARD Park Plaza County Hall residence Nasser Azam will be Most of the big and The new four-star, 398-room unveiled on the riverside outside Park Plaza Hotel in Addington County Hall early this month. successful local firms Street near County Hall opens do when this month. The Spectrum Amano Mediterranean restaurant is open The flatbread-and-coffee chain they have to non-residents. which began in Clink Street has something to now opened the first of its two say and they London Bridge Experience new kiosks in Potters Fields Park. The London Bridge Experience The Parkside kiosk is next to City would like us attraction in the former Wicked Hall and a further branch will open in Blossom Square next to to give a sharp nightclub in Tooley Street opens Tower Bridge. edge to it. on 22 February. 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February 2008 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Saturday 9 to Friday 15 February National Theatre LIFE IN THE TRENCHES What’s On South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Children & family 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm; free www.nationaltheatre.org.uk An interactive drama and handling Cuming Museum session looking at recruitment, training Thursday 14 February February 151 Walworth Road T 020 7525 2163 and life in the trenches. BRIEF ENCOUNTER www.southwark.gov.uk www.London-SE1.co.uk/e3676 Fly Tower; 7.40pm Comprehensive local listings A free outdoor screening of Coward’s Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 February Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 February celebrated story of repressed 1940s CRAFT WORKSHOP THE BLITZ SPIRIT passion on Milford Junction railway 3.30pm; free 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm; free station.