RCDT
ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING
11 January 2008
From
ENews/Events
Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
Previous ENews/Events Listings can be seen on
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A BUMPER ISSUE
WITH NEW ACTIVITY PROGRAMMES:
Art Galleries,
Dyework,
Garden
History, Oval House Theatre, St. Peter’s Church,
If your
organisation’s activities are not included
then send the
details to info@rctd.org.
NORTH LAMBETH
PEOPLE FIRST EXPO - 26
JANUARY
Can you help distribute the
flier to neighbours in your block or street, to members of your
organisation, and hand out copies at any events you are running
before 26 January? If so please contact: the
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THE WEEK’S DIARY |
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Saturday 12. 10am-3pm.
Oval Farmers’ Market.
St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 12.
Last day of Anne Collier
exhibition at Corvi-Mura, and first day of
Katie Deith exhibition at Danielle Arnaud galleries. See Arts
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Monday 14. 5.30pm.
Friends of |
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Tuesday 15. 3-9.30pm.
Ellen Groth Reddie Exhibition.
Start
of at Oval House Café. |
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Tuesday 15 - Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub.
The
Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and open
jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kennington Lane. 83-0-11pm.
ADMISSION FREE Jazz fans, singers and players welcome. |
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Friday 18. 2-6om Ryan Ras Exhibition.
Start of at Man&Eve gallery. |
NEWS
All Sewn Up To Restart. Lambeth Endowed Charities gave a good piece of pre-Xmas news to Lady Margaret Hall Settlement. It will fund the excellent All Sewn Up Project which teaches local women skills in sewing and soft furnishings. The project had to close for the autumn term because of the end of funding. The women have been keen to re-start if further funding could be obtained. So a big thanks to Lambeth Endowed Charities. People who took part in the Textiles event in the Lambeth Riverside Festival in July 2006 will re-call the excellence of the work the women were producing.
Good Luck to Jeffe Jeffers.
Jeffe Jeffers has retired as Director of Lady Margaret Hall
Settlement. Sean Creighton writes: Jeffe and I have been
friends since 1970s community action in the Clapham Junction area,
including Louvaine Area Residents Association and Junction Action
Group. His contribution to the Settlement in the 1970s was
innovative setting up Lambeth Tiles, the specialist tile makers, and
All Sewn Up Project, and providing important assistance to starting
new groups such as Roots & Shoots. He had to move the Settlement
down the
Susannah Yorke plays Kennington.
Actress Susannah Yorke is
starring in Walking on Water by
Paul Minx at the White Bear Theatre Club till 28 January. Tuesdays
to Saturdays at
New Planning Applications: 32 Fitzalan St, 157 Kennington Lane, 365 & 377 Kennington Rd, 59 Richbourne Terrace, See details below.
The Hain Affair.
You may be
wondering 'Who is the Stephen Morgan in the Peter Hain expenses
row?' You will be pleased to know that it is not Prince's
Ward Councillor Stephen Morgan.
Councillor Sam Townend’s Bristol Website. Prince’s Ward Councillor
Sam Townend was adopted last year as prospective Parliamentary
candidate for
Kennington Association. To keep up-to-date with what Kennington
Association is doing have a look at its special website presence,
which includes the draft minutes of its December AGM.
http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtonassn/KenningtonAssociation
What Future for the North
Lambeth Town Centre Office?
According to the minutes of Lambeth Council’s Overview and Scrutiny
Committee meeting held 13 December on ‘A replacement structure to
the current Town Centre teams was being developed and the
appropriate human resource processes were underway. The proposal
would be re-drafted for consideration by Cabinet (28.01.08).’
The draft budget review report before the Committee talked
about axing the teams but that there were issues relating to
commercial town centre management arrangements, neighbourhood
working and the Communities First approach.
New Worker at Gasworks Gallery. Amy Walker is joining Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust this month from the Whitechapel Gallery where she was the Capital Project and Funding Officer working on their new development.
DYEWORK SATURDAY CLASSES
January 19.
Fancy Spinning
January 26.
Fancy Spinning II
February 2.
Obtaining and dealing with rare breed wools
February 9.
Hand spinning Alpaca fibre
February 16.
Week I of two-Saturday natural dye workshops. Week 1 –
mordanting and Indigo dyeing. Soaking plant and wood dyes from
garden.
February 23.
Week II Natural dye workshop. Dyeing and
overdyeing for range of repeatable colours.
March 1.
Blending from coloured wool fibres. Carding into
coloured rolags.
March 8.
Blending II
March 15.
Spinning
colour-effect yarns from coloured fibres
Morley
College is providing Salsa , Dance Exercise, Computing, English
Language, Painting & Drawing, Keep Fit and other classes for local
people. There are concessions for pensioners, those on means-tested
benefits, job seekers allowance, working family's tax credits,
asylum seekers and their dependents and other concession categories
– in these cases the learners only pay a one-off £5 enrolment fee
until September 08 and do not need to pay the fees stated below.
This is a great opportunity for Lambeth residents to take advantage
of the services their local Council is investing in. These courses
will be running in January and April 2008.
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ESOL with IT (Mon |
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Dance Exercise (Mon |
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Salsa Beginners (Fri |
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Salsa Improvers (Fri |
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Brit Oval Cricket Ground |
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Basic Computing (Sat |
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Ethelred Nursery, |
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English Language with Drama
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Ballroom Dancing
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Tomkyns House, |
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Keep Fit (Tues |
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Painting & Drawing for Fun
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English Language & Literacy
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DJ Workshop
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Music Technology
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BEACONSFIELD
HOSTS SOUND ARTISTS WEEK
Ten experimental sound artists
will be exploring in public the
principles of
self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops
and performance in
2 February – open conference for artists, musicians, academics and
enthusiasts
6 February – lecture: Gustav Metzger – Art and Compromise
8 February – performances from
SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER & RECITAL SERIES
Jan 20: Kadialy Kouyate
Senegalese Kora.
Kike Pedersen
Paraguayan harp.
Preacher: Revd. James
Lawson, Senior Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of
Jan 27: Premier Brass Quintet.
Preacher: Canon Peggy
Jackson, Dean of Women's Ministry, Southwark
Feb 3: Choral Evensong for Candlemas.
Music for Candlemas led by the
St. Peter's Singers.
Preacher:
The Revd. Sally Wright,
Chaplain,
Feb 10: Mary Mundy
Cello.
Paul Wynne
Piano,
Richard Strauss, Cello Sonata. Preacher:
Revd. Jonathan Boardman
Feb 17: Matthew Hunt
Clarine.
Ian Watson
Accordion.
Preacher: Revd. Ruth Scott.
Chaplain of
Feb 24: Amy Freston Soprano.
Catherine Beveridge
Piano. Music by Mozart, Strauss and Haydn.
Preacher: Ann Morisy.
Commission on Urban Life and Faith
Mar 2: Daria van den Bercken
Piano.
Preacher: Revd.
Stephen Tucker, Vicar of Hampstead
Mar 9: Fiona Macdonald
Mezzo-soprano,
Christopher Gould
Piano.
Preacher: Revd. Jane Freeman
Team Vicar of St. Bartholomew's, East Ham
OVAL HOUSE CELEBRATES YOUTH THEATRE
33%
Performances
The Bald Soprano.
Oval House Youth Theatre Company. Wed 23 Jan – Sat 2 Feb
Lyrical MC. Tamasha
Theatre. Wed 6 –Thurs 7 Feb
Tickets £5. A lively new
production invites us into the private lives of young people in
Play
Cause and Effect.
Wed 23 – Sat 26 Jan
Theatre Royal Reads @ 33%
Films
Short Films.
Tickets £2. Fri 1 Feb,
Flash Mob. Sat 2 Feb, 8pm. Max is dead. Who’s to blame? A dark tale of suicide, revenge… and Bluetooth.
Discussion
The Red Room Platform presents
Why are we afraid of our
young? Mon 4 Feb
Tickets FREE, but booking essential. An interactive evening of film, performance and debate. Amidst a nationwide epidemic of knives, guns and gangs infesting our communities, the award winning Red Room invite you to participate in a timely platform investigating ‘Why are we afraid of our young?’
First Bites
Tickets for First Bites performances are £2
We’re Here Because.
Wed 6 Feb,
Scenarios by Collective Artists. Thurs 7 Feb, 8pm. Developed through interviews and workshops with a group of young parents from Lewisham, Scenarios uses music and drama to tell the stories of those young people who from naivety to the search for love found themselves dealing with scenarios that should have waited until they grew up.
God Coughs Uncomfortably. Fri 8 Feb, 8pm. Lucy has traded her soul to the Devil - boyfriend Ricky is on a mission to get it back. But who ever said the Devil played fair?
Freedom 21: Welcome to MOPAC.
Sat 9 Feb,
Professional Development Workshops
Tickets for professional development workshops are £5.
Working with vulnerable and volatile young
people. Wed 23 Jan
Training for established arts practitioners exploring arts practices that address the needs of vulnerable and volatile young people
How to become a theatre facilitator.
Wed 30 Jan
Making your way as a theatre artist. Sat
9 Feb
Box Office:
020 7582 7680 (Tues-Sat,
Address:
52-54 Kennington Oval,
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS
Planning Applications
23 – 29 December
30 December – 5 January
59 Richborne Terrace.
Conversion of the existing single dwelling house into 4 x
self-contained residential flats comprising 3 x two-bedroom units
and 1 x one-bedroom units, and the infilling of a rear ground floor
recess to form additional habitable room for the proposed ground
floor flat (revised scheme to 06/04126/FUL granted permission on
28/06/2007, with respect to the erection of a single storey rear
extension at lower ground floor, conservatory extension at ground
floor level and additional flank window). Ref: 07/05105/FUL.
6-12 January
365 Kennington Rd.
Approval of details pursuant to condition 5 (Details of Window to
studio flat) of Planning Permission ref: 07/01556/FUL (Conversion of
existing single dwelling into three self contained flats (1 x studio
flat and two 2-bedroom maisonettes) together with demolition of
existing rear garage and replacement with a single-storey rear
extension, formation of a courtyard and replacement of existing door
with a window at ground floor level side elevation) granted on
16.08.2007. Ref: 07/04975/DET. Applicant: Parsons Green Land Limited
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcAplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx.
If this link does not
work then go to
www.lambeth.gov.uk and track through to Planning and Public
Access database. And to go and see any plans is easy from the KOV
area as the
Town Planning Advice
Centre is at Phoenix House,
Planning Decisions
23 December.
None
30 December – 5 January
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Lambeth Palace.
Rebuilding of the parapets at Cranmer's Tower. Application
permitted.
Vauxhall Gdns Housing Estate. Replacement of existing timber windows and doors
with double glazed timber windows and doors to Malmsey, Pella,
Dolland, Newburn, Sancroft and Dunmow Houses. Application permitted.
6-12 January (note access fault to most pages 11 January)
LOCAL LINKS – see
www.rcdt.org
Waterloo/South Bank Events and News
– see
www.London-SE1.co.uk
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JANUARY – MAY DIARY |
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Every Saturday
Oval Farmers’ Market.
St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube),
Dyework Classes.
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Every Sunday (till 9 March)
Sunday Recitals. St Peter’s Church, Kennington Lane (Vauxhall Station end) |
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Every Tuesday
Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub.
The
Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and opne
jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kenningotn Lane. 8.30-11pm. on
Tuesday January 8th 2008 after a Christmas break.
ADMISSION FREE Jazz fans, singers and players welcome. |
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In relation to the many Museum events listed below
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Monday 21
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“After
No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of Durning
Library. Durning Library, |
6.45 for |
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JANUARY |
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Saturday 26 |
North Lambeth People
First Expo.
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Monday 28th
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Field Recording in the City. Workshop with Chris
Watson.
After leading a late-night recording session of city sounds on the
Sunday evening, Chris will run a sound recording workshop on
the Monday using the sounds collected the night before which
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FEBRUARY |
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Wednesday 13 |
Dark Season Botany: Talk by Nigel Green and Robin
Wilson.
Nigel
Green and Robin Wilson work in a collaborative art and
photo-text documentary practice called Photolanguage, which
they established in 2000 to work on exhibition and article
projects about architecture and landscape. Their talk will
be a lavishly illustrated account of the use of plants in
their work, focusing on previous exhibitions in |
Drinks from |
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Monday 18 |
Back to the future:
Jeffe Jeffers looks at the highs and the lows of the Lady
Margaret Hall Settlement’s history, its role as innovator,
establishment challenges, the changing role of the voluntary
sector over that time, and where LMHS stands in the current
government view of that role. Light refreshments.
Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2
donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning
Library, |
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Wednesday 20 |
Quadrille Dancing
with Elsa or Gentle Exercises with Lullyn. Durning
Library Older People’s Group, Durning Library, |
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Monday
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Friends
Ethical Gardening
Workshop.
Gardeners, designers and landscape architects are all
generally aware of the big
issues relating to
sustainability that impact on their lives and work, but
these seem such global-scale problems that it is hard to
know what individuals can do to make an impact. The day is
designed to appeal to both professional and amateur
gardeners, designers and landscape architects.
The aim is to provide a breadth of information that
will enable the audience to make informed choices about
their garden related work, purchases and designs in the
future.
Chaired by Dominic Murphy,
The Guardian's ethical living journalist, the day will bring
together a number of informed speakers such as Nigel Dunnett,
Reader in Urban Horticulture at |
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Tuesday 26
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Living With a Legacy: Sir Roy Strong and Fergus Garrett in
conversation. Two gardeners talk about the
challenge of living with an iconic garden – and of
preserving that legacy for future generations. Fergus
Garrett began to work for Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter
fifteen years ago, and has been Head Gardener since 1993.
Fergus will describe the vision for its future. How do you
preserve a garden which attracts visitors from across the
world – but at the same time keep it alive, changing and
new?
The Laskett in Herefordshire was created over thirty years
by Sir Roy Strong and his wife, the late Dr Julia Trevelyan |
Drinks |
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MARCH |
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Monday 17 |
“A History of the Elephant & Castle”.
Far more than the origin of the name! Stephen Humphrey,
local historian and Kennington resident, will go back at
least to the 13th century, though his slides date
mainly from 1850 to 1940. His family has lived in the area
since the 19th century.
Light refreshments.
Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2
donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning
Library, |
6.45 for |
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Wednesday 20 |
Quadrille Dancing
with Elsa or Gentle Exercises with Lullyn. Durning
Library Older People’s Group, Durning Library, |
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APRIL |
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Monday 14 |
No Stone Unturned: A Seminar on Gardens for New Homes.
This
day-long seminar will be hosted by the Museum in partnership
with the New Homes Garden Awards. It will bring together
professionals from property construction, garden design,
architecture and landscape architecture, with the aim of
improving the design and planting of outdoor spaces
surrounding new developments. The seminar will raise
awareness of the value of beautifully designed gardens and
landscapes around new homes, in economic, social and
environmental terms. Developers will be encouraged to work
more closely with designers from the earliest stages of a
project, to ensure that the outdoor space is integrated into
the overall design and vision of any new development.
£30 including lunch. Tickets
can be booked by calling
020 7401 8865. |
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Monday 21
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Care and Development of Box Topiary.
Day course. Following the
popularity of last year’s courses Jenny Alban Davies, a
specialist box grower of Box at River Garden Nurseries in
Sevenoaks, will be running another day course focusing on
the care and development of box topiary.
It will include lectures and demonstrations that will
tell you all you need to know about developing and caring
for box topiary.
In the afternoon, you’ll get the chance to start your very
own piece of topiary - perhaps a spiral, cone or even a bird
shape. Jenny
will be on hand to give expert advice and at the end of the
day you can take your topiary home with you for your own
garden. You will also have the opportunity to take cuttings
which you can take to grow on at home.
£80 or £70 for Museum
Friends (includes plant material, lunch, tea and coffee).
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Sunday 27 |
Spring Plant and
Garden Fair.
One of 2008’s earliest plant fairs will offer visitors lots
of inspiration and a head start in the garden this spring.
Specialist nurseries will come together inside the
Museum to bring you a variety of species from clematis to
shrubs to tender and hardy perennials.
Selected plants people will give masterclasses
throughout the day (free on a first come, first served
basis). £3.00 admission/£2.50 concessions
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Monday 28 |
Garden Design Drawings.
This symposium, in partnership with the Landscape Institute
will be the first ever to ask: what can design drawings for
gardens and landscapes tell us about the work of great
designers? What is distinctive about how garden designers
draw? Is it possible to create a great garden
without
drawings? And does the changing nature of gardens make the
drawings all the more important? Whose drawings should
archives be collecting
now?
Speakers will include John Phibbs on Capability Brown,
Stephen
Daniels on Humphrey Repton and
Jane Brown on Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and Annabel Downs on
new professional 20th century landscape architects including
Sylvia Crowe, Peter Youngman and Peter Shepheard.
Please contact the Museum to register your interest in the
event. Further
details will be available nearer the time.
£45 or £35 for
Friends, members of the Landscape Institute and Students |
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Monday 5 |
Digital Photography. Charlie Hopkinson, a
photographer who writes about digital photography for
The Daily Telegraph
and whose images have appeared in
Gardens Illustrated,
is hosting this one day ‘hands-on’ course for people who
have an interest in plant and flower photography. It’s
designed to help people who have just made the jump from
film to digital photography to take better images of
flowers, plants and gardens.
Participants will learn how to set up shots before
photographing cut flowers in mini studios, and plants and
flowers in the Museum’s garden.
Participants will not be ‘abandoned’ after the course
and will have the opportunity to email images to Charlie for
comment for up to a week after the workshop. Participants
must bring their own DSLR camera.
Please contact the Museum for further information
about the workshop.
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Saturday
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NGS Yellow Book Open Day.
At this time of year, visitors to the Museum’s 17th
century style knot garden will enjoy late flowering spring
bulbs and early perennials in bloom.
As part of the Museum’s ongoing support of the
National Garden Scheme a proportion of Museum entrance fees
for this day will go towards the Scheme’s nominated
charities.
Lambeth Palace gardens will also be open ( |
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JUNE |
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Saturday 7 & Sunday 8
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ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
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Dates |
Gallery |
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Tuesdays – Sundays + Bank
Holiday Mondays |
Lambeth
020 7401 8865
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Permanent Garden & Local History Displays.
Family Quiz Sheets to accompany the Local History
exhibition are available.
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Tuesdays – Saturdays until 12
January |
Corvi-Mora |
Anne Collier |
11am-6pm
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Tuesdays – Saturdays starting
17 January until 1 March |
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Dorota Jurczak
Śmierdazące balasem
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11am-6pm |
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Fridays to Sundays 12 January
to 10 February |
Danielle Arnaud
contemporary art |
Katie Deith : New
Paintings
For her second solo show
in the gallery, Katie Deith presents a series of paintings
reflecting on how commercial imagery conditions our choices.
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2-6pm |
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Fridays to Sundays 22 February
to 30 March |
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Nicky Coutts: The
Discovery of Slowness.
Nicky Coutts' first solo show in the gallery will feature
works developed during her 2007 English Heritage Fellowship
in Berwick upon |
2-6pm |
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Fridays to Sundays 11 April to
11 May |
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Suky Best & Rory
Hamilton : Rodeo |
2-6pm |
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Tuesdays –
Saturdays 15 January to16 February |
Oval House Café Gallery, 52-54 Kennington Oval
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Ellen Groth Reddie
is a Norweigan
artist living
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Till 27 January |
Parabola Trust
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Danielle Arnaud of Parabola Trust is curating the
exhibition by
Tessa
Farmer ‘Little
Savages’ at the Natural History Museum, London. Farmer’s
work involves highly detailed mise-en-scenes of plant roots,
bones, insects and animals engaged in ferocious battle. |
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Friday 18 January to 16 February |
Man&Eve
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Ryan Ras. Mea Culpa.
Exhibition with the
participation of Paul Jackson, Hannah Coulson, Sara Crow,
Jonny Pilcher, Kyung-min Chung. After Ken Livingstone was
recorded asking Evening Standard's Oliver Finegold if he was
a German war criminal, he was forced to publicly apologise
and acknowledge that his words were inappropriate. This
incident inspired Ras to compile 'The Incomplete History of
Public Apology: 1900-2005', a conceptual piece that took the
shape of a book. Ras researched all instances of public
apology and then interpreted his data graphically in such a
way that it animated a whole range of questions: What are
the implications of saying "I am sorry" publicly? Has there
been a historical change in the perception of public
apology? To what extent do politics determine the nature of
the ritual of publicly accepting responsibility for
wrongdoings? Mea
Culpa is a site-specific project that has evolved from the
artist's initial enquiry and focuses on a particular example
of public apology: West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's
silent genuflection before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising in 1970. On Ras' invitation, participating artists
have contributed written and visual narratives, performance,
film and audio work. Their participation in the project has
radically expanded its parameters to include a whole
spectrum of concerns existent between the act of apologising
and that of forgiving. |
Wednesdays to Saturdays |
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compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
Unless stated editorial comments do not reflect the views of the
RCDT Board.
RCDT is supported by London Development Agency, and
part-funded by Pedlar’s Acre
Trust - Lambeth Council
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