RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 21 September 2007
From
CLOSURE OF
RCDT
regrets that it is having to close the
The project
was seen as one of the important initiatives funded under the former
Lambeth
This
coming week
THIS WEEKEND
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Saturday 22 |
Oval Farmers Market: St
Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 22 |
Fraud & Bancroft Rocco.
DOUBLE BILL: A night of fun, featuring two up-and-coming
acts. Fraud are the talk of the scene with their eclectic
mix led by reeds player James Alsopp and electronics
player/drummer Tim Giles. The duo of Italian guitarist Enzo
Rocco and Scottish drummer Tom Bancroft present a similarly
wacky mix full of humour. Tickets: £18 reserved table seat /
£10 standing/unreserved seat. Part of Capital Jazz Weekends
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Doors open 7pm. Music |
NEWS
CITY FRAM 30TH ANNIVERSARY 20 OCTOBER.
The Anniversary event will now be held on Saturday 20 October. There
will be range of activities at the Farm. There will be supporting
activities in St. Peter’s Church by Vauxhall Heritage Centre, a
second-hand booksale, launch of a pamphlet on
LAMBETH COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE NEEDS FRIENDS. LAUNCH MEETING Thursday
4 October.
CROSS RIVER TRAM:
consultation results published. Read
more at:
http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/news/view/2907
ART AUCTION.
Kennington Association is in the process of organising its annual
art auction to raise money for the Xmas Secret Santa project. Date
and venue to be announced – hopefully early November. This year's
organiser Cathy Hillier wants to add an extra dimension - to provide
local artists with an opportunity to sell their work with a small
commission going to the project. Details will be sent by RCDT to the
LeftBank Artists network next week.
DIARY
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SEPTEMBER |
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Friday 28 |
Guy Barker with Ian Shaw & Christine Tobin with Phil Robson.
DOUBLE BILL: We welcome back Mercury Music Prize nominated
Trumpeter Guy Barker, this time performing music from the
movies with acclaimed jazz singer Ian Shaw. First up is
singer-songwriter Christine Tobin, weaving her |
Doors open 7pm. Music |
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Saturday 29 |
Oval Farmers Market:.
St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 29 |
Brian Calvin.
Last day of exhibition at Corvi-Mura. |
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Saturday 29 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Woad Dyeing. Gathering woad leaves, macerating and making
woad balls; dyeing with fresh woad leaves. |
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Saturday 29 |
CUBAN NIGHT -
Robert Mitchell with Omar Puente & Cubana Bop.
Our closing DOUBLE BILL ends the festival
in now traditional Cuban party. style! The duo of Robert
Mitchell (piano) and Omar Puente (violin) present a lively
mix with Cuban folk melodies and great originals. Pianist
Terry Seabrook's Cubana Bop will get everyone dancing in the
aisles! Tickets: £20 reserved table seat / £12
standing/unreserved seat. Part of Capital Jazz Weekends at |
Doors open 7pm. Music |
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Sunday 30 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Rebecca Kozam (oboe) and Andrew Macmillan,
piano. Handel Sonata Op1, No.8. Saints Saens Sonata Op 16.
Preacher; Rev'd David Cherry, Chaplain, |
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OCTOBER |
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Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 |
Motherland.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval
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Saturday Matinee |
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LAMBETH COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE NEEDS FRIENDS. LAUNCH MEETING
Thursday 4 October. 6pm.
See News Section above. |
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Saturday 6 |
Oval Farmers Market.
St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Sunday 7 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; The Veya Saxophone Quartet. Programme including
music by Bernstein and Piazzolla. Preacher, Rev'd Giles
Frazer, Vicar of St Mary's, Putney. St Peter’s Church, |
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Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 |
Typhoon Live.
East Asian plays in the UK:
Getting Married &
Dogs.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
Tuesday & Saturday Matinees |
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Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 |
Confessions of A Dancewhore.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval
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Saturday 13 |
Oval Farmers Market.
St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 13 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Blending and spinning alpaca. |
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Sunday 14 |
Esther Teichmann. Silently Mirrored.
Last day of exhibition at Man& Eve. |
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Sunday 14 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Gould,
piano. A programme of English Song. Preacher; The Bishop of
Southwark, the Rt Rev'd Tom Butler. St Peter’s Church, |
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Tuesday 16 – Saturday 3 November |
Double Negative.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval
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Wednesday 17 |
Quadrille dancing
with Elsa. Over 50's Meeting
at the Durning Library. Free refreshments sponsored by the
Friends of the Durning Library, |
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Saturday 20 |
Oval Farmers Market.
St Marks Church grounds (opposite the Oval Tube) |
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Saturday 20 or 27 |
CITY FARM ANNIVERSARY.
A final decision is being taken on which of these Saturdays
the event will be held.
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Saturday 20 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Dyeing a range of purples and browns.
Overdyeing using indigo cochineal and |
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Sunday 21 |
Paulette Phillips Marie-France & Patricia Martin Ruth.
Last day of exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art. |
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Sunday 21 |
St Peter’s Recital and Prayer Event.
Recitalists; Liquid Architecture Octet. Nielsen
Serenata-Invano and |
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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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NOVEMBER |
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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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Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 |
The Persian Revolution. Play.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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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 – Saturday 8 December |
The Lightning Field.
Play.
www.ovalhouse.com.
Oval
House Theatre: 52-54 Kennington Oval |
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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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Saturday 24 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Children’s craft day. |
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DECEMBER |
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Saturday 1 |
Dyeworks Saturday class:
Dye workshop.
Browns and greys using light blues. |
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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
Church, |
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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 16-22 September
239 -
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 16-22 September
168 And 170 Vauxhall St And 17 And
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37 St Mary's Gardens.
Change of use from nursery and part residential to residential.
Refused.
Site Of
LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org
New link: Kurdish Cultural Community Centre:
www.kcclondon.org
ART
GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS
(please
note that from now on this section will only include information
about exhibitions currently showing
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Dates |
Gallery |
Exhibition |
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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
till 29 September |
Corvi-Mora |
Brian Calvin |
11am-6pm
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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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Wednesdays – Sundays
till 14 October |
Man&Eve,
020 7582 7861.
info@manandeve.co.uk.
www.manandeve.co.uk |
Esther Teichmann. Silently Mirrored.
Brings
together a series of photographs and a double screen film
projection that examine the relationship of the self to the
maternal body and to the body of the lover. Both
relationships evoke desire and fascination as well as the
fear of separation and abandonment.
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RCDT ARGUES AGAINST BEAUFOY TRUSTS MERGER
RCDT has written to the
Charity Commission to outline reasons why it should reject the
Council’s draft scheme to merge the two Beaufoy Trusts. Leaving out
the formal introductory section it states:
‘The Trust has watched with
increasing dismay the growing damage to the building, especially
since the Council stopped allowing any use to be made of the
building. I had the opportunity to see inside the buildings a few
weeks ago and was shocked by the level of disrepair and neglect.
Since the Commission has not
published any explanation of the draft scheme, the Trust’s view is
based on the details provided in a number of Council papers on the
future of the Institute. The Commission has for some time known
about the concern with the way the Council has dealt with the
Beaufoy Institute from third parties. RCDT raised it when it was
visited as part of the Commission’s regeneration policy review. RCDT
is therefore surprised that the Commission has accepted the draft
submission for its formal consideration.
RCDT believes that the
Commission should take a very cautious attitude towards the motives
behind the Council’s draft scheme. These can only be understood in
the light of analysing the relevant Council documents, including the
way in which the proposals for the Beaufoy Institute are integrated
into a much more ambitious assets sales strategy called the Prince’s
Ward Investment Strategy. RCDT thinks that the Commission would find
it useful to discuss the details with local organisations concerned
about the future of the Institute.
While there are a considerable
number of points that could be made in support of its objection, the
Trust wishes to concentrate on the following:
1.
Council
Confusion As To Trustee Role. The
decisions on the future of the whole Institute site and on the
Trusts have been taken by the Council Cabinet and the Corporate
Committee. Among its many functions the latter monitors the way the
Council administers the various Trusts it is responsible for. No
mention has been made in Council papers of the Councillors meeting
as the Beaufoy Institute Trustees to consider what their obligations
and duties are in relation to deciding the future of the Trust.
While the members of the Corporate Committee are Trustees by virtue
to being Councillors they are principally meeting as Council members
not as Trustees, and have conflicting interests between what is best
for the Council and what is best for the Trust, especially in
relation to the issue of whether only the 1907 building is subject
to the charitable obligations of the Trust as opposed to the 1930s
building and the playground/car park the Trust.
2.
Invalidity Of Draft Scheme. It is
RCDT’s view that the Councillors should have met as a specifically
convened body of Trustees to decide what they thought were the best
options for the Beaufoy Institute Trust. In the absence of such a
meeting approving the draft scheme submitted to the Commission RCDT
considers that the draft scheme is legally invalid.
3.
Lack of
Trustees For Scholarship Fund.
Although the Council administers it, there are no Trustees for the
Beaufoy Scholarship Fund. The Corporate Committee has therefore
assumed powers over the Scholarship Fund Trust which it has no right
to do. Given there are no Trustees the draft submission relating to
the Fund has no standing and RCDT considers that the draft scheme is
illegally invalid.
4.
Existence
Of A Proposal That Honours The Charitable Objects.
RCDT understands that the prime responsibility of the Trustees and
the Commission is to try and see that the original intentions of the
Trusts are complied with in a modern setting. The Council argues
that there is no relevant proposal for the use of the Institute that
would comply with the objects. However, a proposal for an
5.
Dispute
Over Extent Of
6.
Lack of
Consultation. The Council has
undertaken no open and transparent consultation over the draft
scheme. The latest Council paper says that It posted details at its
Planning Advice Centre - which most local residents do not visit.
The North Lambeth Town Centre team posted a copy on its display
board at 20 Newburn, where it is tenant of RCDT. It has fallen to
RCDT through its regular ENews/Events listing to publicise the
existence of the draft scheme and the Commission’s request for
views.
On the basis of the above
points RCDT believes that the right course of action would be for
the Commission to reject the draft scheme.
The Commission has already
dealt very lightly with the Council in respect of its decision to
take the Beaufoy Tombs Trust off the register seemingly because of
lack of annual returns even though the Trustees (Lambeth Council)
were contactable.
RCDT also requests that the
Commission considers taking the following actions:
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that it informs
the Council that the
Councillors should meet as a specifically convened Trustees for the
Beaufoy Institute to consider the future of the Trust and to hold
open and transparent public consultation
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that in view of
the lack of Trustees for the Scholarship Fund the Commission
appoints a new administrator charged with recruiting local people
for the Commission to approve as new Trustees, who will then meet to
consider the future of the Scholarship Fund and then hold joint
discussions with the Trustees of the Beaufoy Institute
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that it discusses
with Lady Margaret Hall Settlement the Artisan School scheme to
satisfy itself that there is a proposal which would allow the
Beaufoy Institute Trust to continue to exist (in a reformed state)
within the terms of the original charitable objects
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that it holds a
public consultation on whether to discharge Lambeth Council as
Trustees of the Beaufoy Institute Trust and its administrator and to
appoint new Trustees from local people.
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that it makes
available publicly any legal advice it has received on whether the
1907 building and the rest of the site are covered by the charitable
objects of the Institute by virtue of their purchase in order that
the charitable Institute could operate properly.
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that it requires
the Council as administrator of the Beaufoy Institute Trust to
publish a statement on how much the building will cost to make good
the disrepair in order to determine how much for the Council owes
the Trust for the negligence involved in allowing the disrepair.’
ENews/Events
Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT
Unless stated
editorial comments do not reflect the views of the RCDT Board
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