THIS MONTH: Coin Street Festival p3 • Open Garden Squares p3 • Waterloo Music p3 Guy’s Hospital Open Day p3 • North Lambeth Fete p3 • Open-air films at The Scoop p6 June 2007 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 108 FREE Email: [email protected] RFH reborn The Royal Festival Hall reopens After years of proposal and counter-proposal food and drink establishments. The former People’s this month with a weekend of for the South Bank arts complex, a two-year closure Palace restaurant is now home to Skylon run by and £115 million investment have transformed the D&D London (formerly Conran Restaurants). At free music. The Overture begins at Royal Festival Hall and its foyers. Southwark-based ground level the old Festival Square cafe is a branch dusk on Friday 8 June with massed architects Allies and Morrison have stripped away of Spitalfields-based British restaurant Canteen. choirs arriving by candlelit river 50 years of accumulated clutter to create bigger And the Riverside Terrace Cafe replaces the old and better spaces for cultural events and education foyer branch of EAT. barge at Festival Pier. The music, programmes. The Southbank Centre’s offices now More change is on the way: Southbank sit in a new building between the RFH and the open-air dancing and spectacle Centre chair Lord Hollick has confirmed that continue across the Southbank railway. The foyers – opened up as an all-day drop-in his organisation is working with the British Film Centre site until dusk on Sunday. venue by the GLC in 1983 – are certain to regain Institiute to bring forward plans for a new film Over the weekend 24,000 free their status as a favourite London meeting place. centre on the Hungerford Car Park site. And more tickets will be distributed for The acoustics of the concert hall have been immediately there is the prospect of yet more bars transformed to the benefit of performers and and restaurants in the spaces below the Queen special performances in the audiences alike. Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. concert hall. The Festival Hall building hosts three new •www.southbankcentre.co.uk Looking for a local job? local a for Looking www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds FRANK HARRIS and COMPANY RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT to job local a Got 123 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk advertise? 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Fax 020 7403 5411 www.SE1direct.co.uk June 2007 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Guy’s Hospital Shakespeare’s Globe SE1 St Thomas’ Street T 020 7188 7188 New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 What’s On in www.gstt.nhs.uk www.shakespeares-globe.org Saturday 23 June Saturday 9 June June 2007 GUY’S HOSPITAL OPEN DAY 1947 SAM’S DAY 1606 11am-4pm; free 10am; free This month we bring you 6 pages of essential local events A peek behind the scenes of one of Free workshops, demonstrations and London’s oldest hospitals. Information platform discussions to celebrate Sam Coin Street Family about health services and how to get Wanamaker’s birthday. Special events & Children’s Centre involved with your local hospital; stalls to browse; live bands; stilt walkers; South Bank Alexander Centre 99A Upper Ground T 020 7593 3107 Victorian fun fair; face painters and a 27A Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 6378 www.coinstreet.org/99a_frame.html healthy barbecue. www.alexandercentre.co.uk Archbishop’s Park Saturday 16 June Saturday 16 June Carlisle Lane Lambeth Palace OPEN DAY 2346 CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY TASTER 12 noon-4pm Lambeth Palace Road Saturday 2 June www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/palace SESSIONS 2392 THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT All parents, carers and children welcome. All day; free 2400 Come along and meet the staff, ask 11am-5pm; free Saturday 9 June Matt Gothill is offering free 30 minute questions and explore the full range of Anti-poverty campaign event. The focal OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND Craniosacral taster sessions as part activities the centre has to offer. point is a mass ringing of bells at 2pm 2446 of Craniosacral Awareness week. on the banks of the Thames between Design Museum 10am-5pm; Ticket for 160 London [email protected] or 07775 735523. Westminster and Vauxhall bridges.