RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 19 October 2007
From
ENews/Events
Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
This Saturday 12 noon – 5pm
CITY FARM 30th ANNIVERSARY
Lots of activities for kids: Animal Parade, Craft Sessions
plus:
Dyeworks demonstration of fabric dying
using plants on the Farm
Friends of
about the next plans for the
Gardens.
Wild Flower Planting on
Bookstall
- local history
pamphlets; second-hand fiction, history, politics,
Refreshments
All at
Due to unforeseen circumstances it is not now possible to run the slavery
and abolition talk mentioned in last week’s enews – it is hoped this
will be organised later.
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Saturday 10am-3pm.
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church
grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Sunday. 2-6pm. Paulette
Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin Ruth. Last day of exhibition at Danielle Arnaud
contemporary
art. |
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Sunday. 6.30pm. St Peter’s Recital and Prayer
Event.
Recitalists; Liquid Architecture Octet. Nielsen
Serenata-Invano and |
NEWS
Bookshop Opens in Kennington.
The
Kennington Bookshop has opened up at
Meeting Rejects
Prince’s Ward Investment Strategy.
Last Monday’s meeting of the proposed Steering Group for the
Prince’s Ward Investment Strategy was attended by about 30 people
from local organisations and Kate Hoey, MP. There was a consensus
against the Strategy and support for solutions for the Lilian Baylis
and Beaufoy sites to be worked up from bottom up engagement not
top-down dictat. A further meeting will be held to discuss preparing
a proposal for the two sites to be included under the Government’s
asset transfer programme to the community and voluntary sector,
which Lambeth is a pilot local authority for.
CPCGL AGM
Tuesday 23 October. The AGM of the Community/Police Consultative Group for Lambeth will be
held at
Ethelred Holiday Club Programme Half-Term. Monday
22-Friday 26 October.
£120.00 for a
full week in advance, £25.00 per day
Major grant awarded to
Lambeth Savings and Credit Union.
Lambeth residents who
are currently excluded from high street financial services are to be
helped by a new grant of £270,000 from The Lambeth Endowed
Charities. The grant –
spread over three years – supports the work of Lambeth Savings and
Credit Union (LSCU). The
credit union offers affordable loans to those who live or work in
the borough and who may otherwise fall victim to loan sharks. “The
charities were established in the 1660s to relieve poverty in
Lambeth. We continue to
do that in our work with
individuals, whilst at the same time working to tackle some of the
wider issues,” said Hugh Valentine, Director of The Lambeth Endowed
Charities. “We believe LSCU is crucial to helping people on low
incomes to start saving for that rainy day, and to borrow money
without being hit by criminally high interest rates.”
According to Howard Russell, Lambeth resident and Chair of LSCU’s
Board of Directors, the credit union has already taken great strides
in reaching out to local people. “We currently have more than 1,200
members – and that’s after just over 20 months of operations. The
grant from The Lambeth Endowed Charities will go a long way in
helping us reach even more people who will be immeasurably helped by
becoming members of our credit union.’
A credit union is a financial co-operative that is owned and run by its
members and offers an accessible saving facility and low interest
loans to its members.
Lambeth Savings and Credit Union: www.lscu.org.uk
Lambeth Endowed
Charities exists to support Lambeth residents on low incomes in
overcoming barriers.
We have a special focus on supporting education for Lambeth
residents experiencing poverty.
In the current year, we have set aside just under £2M for
grant making. Grants
range from awards of just a few hundred pounds to help individuals
with essential items that enable them to take ‘next steps’, to as
much as several hundred thousand pounds over a period of time.
More information is available on
www.walcotfoundation.org.uk . Contact for press enquiries is
Hugh Valentine, Director. (020 7735 1925
director@walcotfoundation.org.uk)
Oval House Theatre Feast. Oval House Theatre is offering a feast of
theatre performances in its autumn First Bites series. from
Winter Jazz at the Musuem of Garden History. Two events on 16 and 23
November are part of the London Jazz Festival and include the Emil Viklicky Trio whose work is inspired by Moravian folk culture, Tom
Cawley’s Curios piano trio, and the Stan Tracey Quartet (featuring
Bobby Wellins) often billed as one of the British Jazz Scene’s most
enduring and distinctive voices who will be supported by the young
singer songwriter Rosabella Gregory.
See Diary of details.
Oval Parnership News.
The latest issue of Oval Partnership News
contains a report on the success of the Oval Farmers Market, and
raises the issue of
wanting properly planned public spaces. For a copy to be emailed to
you contact
tricia.anderson@ovalpartnership.org.uk.
Princes Trust 12 Week Course at Oval Cricket Ground.
The Prince’s Trust will be organising a 12 week team course at Oval
Cricket Ground for 16-25 year olds starting 7 January. It will
involve residential visits, work experience and involvement with
local projects. Good for improving chances of getting work or
continuing in education. If you know any young person who might be
interested please ask them to contact Hannah on 07795 413468.
Oval Freshview day 26 October. The co-ordinated
Council and police Freshview team were last in the Oval area in May,
when residents were asked for their concerns, including:
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Are there any particular areas where rubbish or abandoned cars have built up that you think need removing? (Please state whether this is on an estate or a public area)
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Are there any premises where you think that Trading Standards or Environmental Health Officers should investigate (Trading Standards enforce a wide range of laws, including product safety, weights and measures, food labelling, credit, product counterfeiting and fair trading.)
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Are there any areas of parking related problems that Parking Attendants should look into?
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Are there any areas where there is graffiti or fly posting that needs removing?
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Are there any areas where you have noticed anti-social behaviour which needs tackling?
Please send your current
views to Liz Cloud,
Senior Market Research and
Consultation Officer
on: 020 7926 0145;
freshview@lambeth.gov.uk.
All communications will be kept confidential.
Challenging Slavery. Inaugural Lambeth Black History Lecture 30 October. The inaugural Lambeth Black History lecture
will be at Lambeth Archives,
REGULAR ACTIVITIES (See also Diary)
ESOL with IT.
Improve your English.
Speaking
& Listening,
ART AT THE PELICAN.
The
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OCTOBER |
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Monday 22 |
Day
Workshop: Field Recording in the
City with Chris Watson. Performance: Leafcutter John
and Peter Cusack. See News story above.
For full details, times and prices
contact the |
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Tuesday 23 |
Aië I said I,
du noir dans le
vert.
MARIE-FRANCE
& PATRICIA MARTIN. Court Room, Artsadmin, |
7-8.30pm. Doors open |
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Wednesday 24 |
Music
Performance:
Biosphere and Storm by Chris Watson and BJ Nilsen.
See Monday 22. |
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Wednesday 24 |
The Future of the British Film Institute on the
South Bank. WCDG
(Waterloo Community Development Group) General Meeting. |
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Wednesday 24 & Thursday 25 |
Create a Tree and decorations using recycled
materials. Drop-in-sessions. Free to all ages. Ashmole
Tenants Hall, |
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Thursday 25 |
Music
etc. |
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Friday 26 |
Music
Performance.
See
Monday 22. |
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Saturday 27 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 27 |
Dyeworks Saturday class: Half Term – no class. |
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Sunday 28 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; The |
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Wednesday 31 |
Lambeth
Policy Network – Community Cohesion.
cy issues and challenges, and to develop a positive vision
and position on how we deal with it, and articulate this
position to key decision makers. The Karibu Education
Centre, |
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NOVEMBER |
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Thursday 1 |
Save
Energy Talk.
South
East London Energy Efficiency Advice Service talk on energy
saving in the home. Ashmole Tenants Hall, |
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Thursday 1 |
A talk by Helen
Dillon. Dillon’s Garden Book will roll hot off the
press on 1 November and will launched by the author at the |
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Friday 2 |
Churchill &
Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill’s Houses & Gardens.
A talk by Stefan Buczacki. Stefan’s new book, based
on an extensive study of original documents, provides a
fascinating biography of Winston Churchill through the
houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It contains
much new information, unknown even to Churchill scholars,
and this will be the only opportunity to hear Stefan talking
about his book in
www.museumgardenhistory.org |
Talk at |
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Friday 2 |
Cursed by Natasha Langridge.
Pearl Penfold is a Romany Gypsy who has never travelled beyond her site.
Joe Thompson is a house dweller wannabee-Gypsy who strives
for acceptance. A tatty silver fence separates them and
their worlds yet is the only place where they can meet. With
the coming of The Games the corporations are moving in,
forcing a mass Gypsy eviction. Joe wants to take Pearl with
him but has nothing but his dreams to transport her. Pearl's
Gypsy family have already arranged her marriage to Clive boy
where she'll be
"clean and decent" on another site. Pearl wants to go on
the Drom (road) to
"find out what’s
in me blood."
But in these Orwellian times is Gypsy adventure possible?
Oval House Theatre.
Tickets: £4
Box Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Saturday 3 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church
grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 3 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning multiple plys. |
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Sunday 4 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalist; Jamie Walton, cello. Bach
unaccompanied cello suite No.2 in D minor. Britten Suite
No.3. Preacher; Rev'd Nick Mercer, Director of Ministry in
the Diocese of London.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Monday 5 |
Digital Photography Course for 15-19 Year Olds Enrolment
day.
Alford House, |
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Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 |
The Persian Revolution.
Play.
The constitutional
revolution in 1906 was the first event of its kind in the |
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Thursday 8 |
A conversation between John Brookes and
Barbara Simms. Following the
publication of Barbara Simms’s new book
John Brookes Garden and Landscape Designer, this evening provides the chance to hear a
conversation between the designer and the author and to take
a close look at ten projects that span John’s career as a
key figure in contemporary garden design since the 1960s.
He has provided inspiration to many through his
gardens, his teaching and his books, including his recent
title John Brookes Garden Design Course.
His drawings will inspire the conversation and the
audience will be able to view the images on a large screen
as the conversation progresses. Barbara and John will be
signing books at the end of the evening.
Tickets £10 or £5 for Museum Friends.
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Friday 9 & Saturday 10 |
The Coming of Beauty by Kofi
Agyemang.
Ghetto meets Gay when a wealthy, white middle-aged
barrister - through a random chatline encounter - hooks up
with Lloyd, undercover 'straight' rent boy from the hood.
All is sexing and shopping until Maxine, the
girlfriend-in-the-dark, becomes enlightened. Good men are
hard to find and she ain't gonna let her years of good
loving go without a fight!
Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4. Box
Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Saturday 10 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church
grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 10 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning with mixed fibres. |
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Sunday 11 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Preacher; Rt Rev'd Lord Harries, former
Bishop of Oxford. The St Peter's Singers sing the Howells
Requiem.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Tuesday 13 November |
Spring Gradens Urban Development Framework Meeting.
City Farm, |
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Tuesday 13 – Saturday 8 December |
The Lightning Field. Play.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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Thursday 15 |
How To be a Good Zimbabwean by Patrick McKenna.
What's the connection between Cecil John Rhodes and
Ronaldinho? Is Robert Mugabe just Ian Smith in disguise? And
what does Zimbabwe's meltdown have in common with an attack
of cystitis? Join Zina, our heroine from Harare, as she
embarks on a journey through the past to figure out why
she's presently an asylum seeker in Croydon. Written by the
UK-based Zimbabwean writers' group
Writing Wrongs in
collaboration with Brazilian playwright Cristina Teixeira
and Southwark's Blue Elephant Theatre,
How To Be A Good Zimbabwean
offers some unexpected answers to a very confusing question.
Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4. Box Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Friday 16 |
STAN TRACEY QUARTET
featuring BOBBY WELLINS plus Rosabella Gregory. Stan Tracey’s quartet features Bobby Wellins, Andy Cleyndert and Clark
Tracey, and they are supported by the young
singer/songwriter & pianist Rosabella Gregory.
£20 table seats / £12 standing.
Tickets
at
www.wegottickets.com/www.ticketweb.co.uk
/www.seetickets.com
and on 0870 264 3333/08700 600 100. |
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Friday 16 |
Red Dust Rising by Lorna French.
Jabu is 15 but he wants to be a man. His new
friend, Zanu PF supporter Tendayi, will show him how - but
at a high price. This coming of age tale is set against a
backdrop of the 2002 Zimbabwe elections and farm invasions.
Jabu's journey will lead him to clash with his mother,
Esther, a supporter of MDC, the party opposing Zanu PF.
Cherry Tree Farm, a white-owned farm, will become a tinder
box with the owner fearing for his life as its inhabitants
grapple with issues of ownership, land, betrayal and
political manoeuvring.
Oval House Theatre,
Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4. Box
Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Saturday 17 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 17 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning fluffy yarns. |
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Sunday 18 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Elizabeth Roberts, soprano,
Christopher Glynn, piano. Strauss Four Last Songs and Mozart
Concert Arias. Preacher; Canon John Salter, Vicar of Wantage.
St Peter’s Church, |
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Wednesday 21 |
Gentle exercises
with Lullyn. Over 50's Meeting
at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the
Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Wednesday 21 |
Catalysta by Allister Bain.
Catalysta (Cat), who lives in London, visits
Grenada several months after hurricane IVAN devastated the
Island. She is concerned about her retired sister, Eartha
and her ailing husband, who lets part of their home to their
daughter, husband and twelve year old child. There's
discontent and tension as their cheating, parasitic
son-in-law sets up his wife against her vulnerable parents.
Eartha, strong but soft, tries to avoid unpleasantness and
confrontation. Everyone bottles up emotions and like a
volcano is about to erupt. Catalysta challenges and cleverly
exposes a few dark areas by telling stories from the past,
but is it too late?
Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4. Box Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Frioday 23 |
EMIL VIKLICKY TRIO / TOM
CAWLEY’S CURIOS.
A great double bill of
trios for the London Jazz Festival featuring a fantastic
homegrown band alongside one of |
Doors
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Saturday 24 |
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 24 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Children’s craft day. |
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Friday 30 |
Muhammed Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo.
"Muhammed Ali and me have one
thing in common: we were Black in the Seventies." So begins this dynamic new play from Mojisola Adebayo. Set in an English
children's home in the mid 1970's, this play tells the story
of a girl who grows up fixated with Muhammed Ali; she speaks
her life through his words, his fights become her dances and
his struggles give her the courage she needs to survive.
Exploring the relationship between Black girls, absent
fathers, Black men and Islam, this powerful play packs more
than just a punch. Seductive multi-sensory storytelling
through poetry, dance, boxing, song, original Ali fight
footage and a superb 1970's sound track.
"I am young, I am handsome, I am pretty, I can't possibly be beat!"
Oval House Theatre, Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4.
Box Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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DECEMBER |
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Saturday 1 |
Switch on of Oval Xmas Lights
Oval Farmers Market. St Marks Church
grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
Market 10am-3pm. Lights 12 |
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Saturday 1 |
Muhammed Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo.
Second night. See 30 November. |
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Saturday 1 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Dye workshop.
Browns and greys using light blues. |
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Saturday 8 |
Dende Collective . Dende
Collective, the company behind the Time Out Critic's Choice
The Piranha Lounge,
returns to Oval House Theatre with an exploration of the
Brazilian iconic novel
Macunaima. Think of a South American Lewis Carroll on acid narrating the adventures
of a hero without morals! This epic saga follows the journey
of Macunaima, a native Brazilian, from the Amazon to São
Paulo in search of his lost magical amulet, now in
possession of a giant Peruvian cannibal entrepreneur,
meeting along the way all kind of mythical creatures.
Written in the '20s,
Macunaima is a hallmark in Brazilian literature that has greatly influenced
posterior artistic movements (Tropicalismo of the '60s,
Caetano Veloso, The Mutantes, Helio Oiticica). Experimenting
with puppetry, digital animation and different ways of
bringing this book to the London stage, Dende will present
what they have discovered so far. Oval House Theatre,
Kennington Oval.
Tickets: £4.
Box Office 020 7582 7680 (open |
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Sunday 2 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Advent Carol Service. St Peter's Singers. St Peter’s Church, |
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Saturday 8 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Spinning fine yarns from merino and alpaca. |
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Saturday 15 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
End of Term class. |
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Wednesday 19 |
Christmas Party.
Over 50's Meeting at the Durning Library. Free refreshments
sponsored by the Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Sunday 23 |
St Peter’s Recital and
Prayer Event.
Christmas Carol Service. St Peter's Singers, St Peter’s
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DYEWORK’S SATURDAY CLASSES. To contact Dyework, the excellent spinners and weavers group Tel: Penny Walsh 020 8692 2958, or Diane Sullock 020 7622 4913. Email: PennyWalsh@Dyework.co.uk. Website: www.dyework.co.uk
ST PETER’S
RECITAL AND PRAYER EVENTS.
For a copy of the brochure email the North Lambeth Parish office on:
anselm.nlp@btconnect.com
LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS
Planning Applications
Week 14-20 October
Lambeth Palace.
Approval of details pursuant to Condition 2 (English Heritage) of
Planning Permission 07/00867/LB (Structural repairs to Cranmers
Tower including the dismantling and rebuilding of failing section of
crenellated parapet and rebuilding of previously dismantled chimney
stack within the north wall and within the elevational walls the
repointing and replacement of failing brickwork, removal of metal
straps and insertion of vintect anchors) granted on 06.09.2007. Ref
07/04111/DET
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
Week 14-20 October
31 Richborne Terrace.
Extension. Application withdrawn.
20 And 22-26 Stannary Street.
Removal of Condition No. 10 (Provision of Obscure Glazing) of
Planning Permission granted
168 And 170 Vauxhall St And 17 And
LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org
ART
GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
(please note
that from now on this section will only include information about
exhibitions currently showing
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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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Fridays –
Sundays till 21
October |
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art |
Paulette Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin
Ruth
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2-6pm |
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Tuesdays –
Saturdays till 17 November |
Corvi-Mora |
ARMIN KRÄMER. “Where to?” |
11am-6pm |
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Till 27 October |
Oval
House Theatre, 52-54 Kennington Oval.
020 7582 0080
ext 222 or 202
nazneen.nawaz@ovalhouse.com debbie.vannozzi@ovalhouse.com
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A Fine Balance. Sabi North’s current exhibition has been inspired by Rohinton
Mistry’s prize winning novel ‘A Fine Balance’ an Indian tale
of survival, about four unlikely characters whose lives come
together in the most unforeseen circumstances. Free |
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30 October – 24 November |
Ditto |
Digital Ikebana
by Italian photographer
Ligeia Lugli
is a series of digital photographs inspired by the Japanese
art of flower arrangement called ikebana. Free |
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Till |
Parabola Trust
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Danielle Arnaud of Parabola Trust is curating the exhibition by
Tessa Farmer ‘Little
Savages’ at the
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