RCDT News - 25 January 2008

RCDT ENEWS/EVENTS LISTING 25 January 2008

From Riverside Community Development Trust, 20 Newburn St, SE11 5PJ. 020 7820 0555. info@rcdt.org. www.rcdt.org

ENews/Events Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT

Previous ENews/Events Listings can be seen on www.rcdt.org

If you have an event coming up please email details to info@rcdt.org

THIS SATURDAY 12-4PM

NORTH LAMBETH PEOPLE FIRST EXPO

Lilian Baylis School, Kennington Lane

John Roberts writes: 'It will be my pleasurable task to welcome you to the North Lambeth People's Expo. I represent Lambeth on the Met Police Authority, and I live in Kennington. Some of you may recall that last year I was acting Director of Vauxhall City Farm, helping to steer it through its crisis. The Expo is a partnership event involving the Metropolitan Police and Authority, Lambeth Council, Lambeth First and others. As Chair of the Expo planning group I am delighted that it has proved possible to make space available for the meeting between Councillor Stephen Morgan and Vauxhall Gdns Community Centre. This meeting is of course not part of the official event agenda.'

Comment on Community Safety. Community safety is the Expo’s theme. It is therefore sad in the News Section below to have to report the suspected involvement of a Kennington man in a fatal stabbing in Brixton Market, and that the Police are having to mount a campaign for the surrender of imitation firearms. There is local concern about what progress there has been on the various promises made at the public meetings held in the aftermath of the murder of Carmelita Tulloch in September 2006 – see extracts from October and November 2006 Enews at the end of this edition. A maisonnette in the area was recently fire bombed and the family has had to be moved. Questions on local community safety issues can be handed in advance at the Lambeth Democratic Services stall at the Expo for the Questions & Answer session.

CRISIS FACES VAUXHALL GDNS COMMUNITY CENTRE (VGCC)

PLEASE SUPPORT IT AT THE PEOPLE’S EXPO ON SATURDAY –

DEBATE SESSION WITH CLLR STEPHEN MORGAN AT 1PM

PLANNING SITE VISIT TO BRIT OVAL ON SAME DAY!!!

VAUXHALL GDNS COMMUNITY CENTRE

Calum Walker, Vice-Chair of VGCC, writes:

Over a year ago it looked like a solid long-term future had been secured for the Community Centre. We took our members on sight-seeing tours of a proposed
new building and the Council helped pay for the event that promoted this. Then when Carmelita Tulloch tragically died, and there were mass meetings locally, we all heard what a strong commitment there was going to be to the area from the very top of the Council. But VGCC have been frustrated by the Council's recent attempts to back away from what was agreed. They seem to want to push through a sale of our home at 100
Vauxhall Walk at any cost. Take the money and not even rehouse us!

The previous administration had concluded a deal in principle with VGCC for the sale of the site and a new home at a refurbished building round the corner at 5 Glasshouse Walk (owned by property company CLS who want to buy 100 Vauxhall Walk). But the new Labour administration has by turns either ignored us or undermined our attempts to take the deal forward - giving us unworkable conditions which just set up the Community Centre to fail. Local people deserve better.

That's why we are so pleased that at the community Expo event this Saturday, organized by the Council, there's a chance for a fresh start. The format of these new style meetings give the opportunity for Councillors to grab difficult issues like this and act as Community Champions. We appreciate Councillor Stephen Morgan stepping in. He's said he'll listen to our concerns at 1pm on the day and we'll give him a fair hearing. We know he won’t have all the answers. But the fate of Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre hangs in the balance. It's time the Council did the right thing.

Background
Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre at 100 Vauxhall Walk SE11 has been run by local volunteers for the past 22 years.
The proposed purchasers of the building are CLS.Holdings.

The event referred to above was one organised in June 2006 by VGCC, Friends of Spring Gdns, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, Vauxhall City Farm, St Peter’s Church and Vauxhall Heritage Centre to promote ideas for the improvement of Spring Gdns.

VGCC can be contacted at thespringvgcc@yahoo.com

Comment: Part of Lambeth Council's machine's issuing of an ultimatum to Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre to accept unfavourable lease terms or be sold to
developers with no commitment to provide a new Centre (as the Council's UDP suggests should happen and as the previous administration were committed to) has been made a few days before the North Lambeth People's Expo at Lilian Baylis School in Kennington Lane this Saturday. It looked like there might end up being a picket, or even a boycott of the event, until Cllr Morgan's intervention. Hopefully the Expo will be a success in attracting local people, informing them of services in the area, and learn more about local community and voluntary groups. These groups play an important role in social networks which are an important ingredient of community safety, which is the theme of the Expo, and in building community cohesion.

LAMBETH PLAY ASSOCIATION WILL BE

RUNNING PLAY ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN

DANCE AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCES

WILL TAKE PLACE, INC. BY PORTUGUESE CHILDREN

ALFORD HOUSE IS SEEKING MORE MEMBERS

– DETAILS WILL BE ON RCDT’S STALL

IDEAS FOR THE BEAUFOY

- ON LADY MARGARET HALL SETTLEMENT’S STALL

ALL SEWN UP PROJECT WILL BE ON DISPLAY

LAMBETH’S COMMUNITY/POLICE CONSULTATIVE GROUP

WILL BE THERE

PLANNING VISIT TO BRIT OVAL

11am Saturday

The Planners have organised a partial clash with the Expo so that members of the Council Planning Committee can visit Brit Oval in connection the planning application being considered by the Planning Committee on 29 January. The application is for the replacement of the existing Surrey Tavern and Lock, Laker and Peter May Stands and other minor associated buildings/structures top cerate a new plaza and the erection of a six-storey stand incorporating 1,632 additional spectator seats, hospitality and ancillary facilities, together with a new five-storey 168 bed hotel with top floor restaurant and basement car park (57 cars), a new two storey ticket/security office and turnstile system with associated landscaping and infrastructure. This is a new application following rejection of the previous one.

Committee members will have a very difficult decision to take because of conflicting advice, including from the Health & Safety Executive, about the level of risk to spectators if the nearby gasholders exploded. Apparently the risk is different from that to those living in the surrounding residential properties.

The report to the Planning Committee can be seen on www.lambeth.gov.uk – click through Council and Democracy to Committees to Planning Committee A.

Councillor Andrew Sawden has explained to RCDT that members of the public and objectors are entitled to attend the visit.

The visit starts at 11am and is scheduled to last up to 2 hours. If it ends earlier then those who walk fast from Brit Oval via Vauxhall St to the Expo may arrive in time to take part in the Expo session starting at 1pm on Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

Saturday 26. Oval Farmers’ Market. St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube), 10am-3pm.

Saturday 26. Dyework Class. Fancy Spinning. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St. 11.30am-2pm

Saturday 26 – 2 February. The Bald Soprano. Oval House Youth Theatre Company. 7.30pm (earlier start than previously advertised). Tickets £5. Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece about the power of language is brought to a contemporary London where a wealth of languages are part of our everyday experience. The multicultural company uses their first languages to create a production not just in French and English, but rather in eight languages, including Portuguese and Yoruba. The production glories in our shared internationalism: Ionesco reinvented for contemporary London. An energetic adaptation that embraces the play’s absurdist style and powerfully fuses Ionesco’s original text with contemporary pop culture.

Saturday 26. Last Chance to attend the play reading Cause and Effect at Oval House Theatre. 8pm. Tickets £2. 8 Royal Court young writers, 8 Oval House young actors and 4 Young Vic Directors: could you possibly get more young and fresh talent in one space? What happens when you throw 24 dynamic young artists from different disciplines into a project with no parameters? Join us for a week of short play readings written and developed for 33% London.

Sunday 27. Last chance to see: Tessa Farmer ‘Little Savages’. Danielle Arnaud of Parabola Trust is curating the exhibition by 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.

Sunday 27. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY. Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road. Throughout the day the London College of Music String Ensemble will be playing short pieces.
Info & map: www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/3837

Sunday 27. Holocaust Memorial Day. 3-6pm. Assembly Hall, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill. Photographic exhibition, presentation by a holocaust survivor and screening of a short film, 'Double Portraits' and singing by children from the Corpus Christi Primary School choir are some of the activities to remember the past, reflect on the present and to react positively to create a better future. Prince’s Ward Councillor Lorna Campbell, deputy cabinet member for Community Cohesion comments: "Ultimately the aim of Holocaust Memorial Day is to motivate people individually and collectively, to ensure that the horrendous crimes, racism and victimisation committed during the Holocaust and more recent genocides are neither forgotten nor repeated. The day also acts as a reminder to all of us of our responsibility to protect the civil and human rights of all people in our society and around the world and I would encourage Lambeth residents to attend and participate."

Sunday 27. St Peter’s Recital and Service. Premier Brass Quintet. Preacher: Canon Peggy Jackson, Dean of Women's Ministry, Southwark. St Peter’s Church, Kennington Lane.

Oval House Theatre: Box Office: 020 7582 7680 (Tues-Sat, 3pm-8pm). 52-54 Kennington Oval, London, SE11 5SW

EVENTS THIS MONDAY TO THURSDAY

Monday 28. 10am-5pm. 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 could include anything from London wildlife to Big Ben to the weather. At the end of the day, Chris will critique the field recordings supplied by the workshop attendees. £50 or £40 students and Museum Friends (includes Sunday evening session, Monday workshop, lunch and a copy of the edits on CD/DVD). Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road. Tel 020 7401 8865. info@museumgardenhistory.org. www.museumgardenhistory.org. Booking Tickets: Tickets can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865.

Monday 28. Lambeth Council Cabinet. 7pm. Lambeth Town Hall. Among other things it will be discussing future provision of public urinals. An appendix to the report says that consultation has highlighted the following locations in N. Lambeth as key sites: Vauxhall Spring Gdns (junction of Goding St/Kennington Lane), Kennington Park (main entrance off St Agnes Place); Waterloo Roundabout. For details see Cabinet agenda and papers on Council and Democracy area of www.lambeth.gov.uk

Tuesday 29. 5-8pm. Visit UBOX New Gallery. Come and join UBOX for a glass of wine and see a selection of its artists work as well as getting to know them and their space. UBOX is the newest art gallery in the area. The Director is Lynne Brown. Ubox gallery, 330 Kennington Lane, 07733268176. lynne@uboxgallery.com; lbbricolage@yahoo.co.uk. www.uboxgallery.com;

And then why not walk the short distance along Kennington Lane to?:

Tuesday 29. Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub. 8.30-11pm. The Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and open jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kenningotn Lane. ADMISSION FREE Jazz fans, singers and players welcome.

Tuesday 29. Brit Oval planning application at Planning Committee 1. 7pm Brixton Town Hall. See Special ENews 24 January. For papers see Council & Democracy section on www.lambeth.gov.uk

Wednesday 30 January. 10am. Lambeth First Active Communities & Neighbourhood Board. Karibu Centre, 7 Gresham Road, SW9. It will consider a proposal to create 3 pilot areas for neighbourhood working: Brixton, Clapham Park and Waterloo. For details see its agenda papers on www.lambeth.gov.uk, in the Council and Democracy section.

Wednesday 30. How to become a theatre facilitator. 2-6.30pm. Training for 18-25 year olds exploring ways of planning workshops when working with young people as a drama facilitator. Oval House Theatre.

Thursday 31. Vauxhall City Farm AGM. 6.45 for 7pm. The Farm Committee and staff invite members of the local community to come. Please let them know you are coming on 020 7582 4204 or by emailing vcf@btconnect.com

February – May Diary – see 11 January Enews on www..rcdt.org

NEWS

Tragic North Lambeth News. Those who knew them are devastated by the news of the deaths of Councillor Liz Atkinson of Vassall Ward, and Paul Hendrich, a youth tutor, who was killed in a cycling accident.

Archbishop Sumner School. This coming week Year 1 pupils will be visiting the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, Year 3 taking part in Southwark Cathedral workshops on signs and symbols, and Year 4 going to see the Asian Exhibition at the British Museum. Last Thursday the National Theatre performed ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’ in the school hall.

Community Strategy Questionnaire at Vauxhall St Post Office. Vauxhall St Post Office, and other post offices in Lambeth, have touch screen terminals for people to respond to the Lambeth First Sustainable Community Safety questionnaire. One flaw with the questionnaire is that it only asks people to say whether or not they live in Lambeth. It is a pity that people who both live and work in Lambeth or just work in Lambeth cannot state that. For more about the Community Strategy consultation come to the EXPO and see the details below of the LVAC ACP event for community and voluntary groups on 31 January

Kennington Man Arrested for Fatal Stabbing in Brixton Market. The Community/Police Consultative Group reports (end last week): ‘Earlier this week CPCG attended, together with other community representatives and Council officials, a police briefing in respect of the fatal stabbing in Brixton Market Saturday last. The meeting was briefed on progress with the investigation and enhanced police reassurance activity in the Brixton Market Area. After that briefing, the police gave the attached media release. Additionally, earlier this evening (18/1) , we received the following news, also carried by PA News.

‘Police have tonight charged a mechanic with the murder of a medical student stabbed through the heart in what is believed to be a fight over a stolen orange. Delroy Brown, 39, from Kennington, south-east London, is accused of murdering Khalilulah Naseri and will appear before Croydon Magistrates’ Court tomorrow. He has also been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm on a second victim and one count of actual bodily harm on a third victim, Scotland Yard said tonight.

The charge came before police were this weekend due to issue a multilingual appeal for information at the site of Mr Naseri’s murder. He was attacked outside a greengrocer’s shop near Brixton Market, south London, on January 12 after what was thought to be a row over a stolen orange two days earlier. The 25-year-old Afghan medical student was stabbed through the heart as he helped to clear up outside Nasseri’s Quality Fruit and Vegetables. Police planned to hand out leaflets in English, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Pashdu and Sorami to market traders and residents tomorrow in the hope of finding out more about the attack. Detective Chief Inspector Mick Duthie, leading the inquiry, said: “The investigation is progressing but we need everyone who saw the murder or Thursday’s incident to make contact with us. Khalilulah died in tragic circumstances and we can make every community safer by removing those who use knives indiscriminately.” A vigil was held on Saturday 19 January in memory Mr Naseri.

Imitation Firearms Amnesty. The Metropolitan Police has launched an imitation firearms surrender, Operation “HANDOVER” until Sunday 12 February. Such weapons can be handed into Kennington, Brixton, Clapham, Streatham or Gypsy Hill Police Stations. The Community/Police Consultative Group for Lambeth has circulated the following police explanation: ‘Operation Handover gives us the opportunity to maximise this surrender on Lambeth by encouraging the handover of such weapons. The definition of what constitutes an imitation firearm has been extensively widened under the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. ….. A realistic imitation firearm is defined as an imitation firearm, which has an appearance that is so realistic as to make it indistinguishable, for all practical purposes, from a real firearm. Thus it could now include a cigarette lighter in the form of a handgun. It is an offence to manufacture, import or sell realistic imitation firearms. However, it is a defence to show that the sale etc of realistic imitation firearms is for the purposes of a museum or gallery; for theatre, film or television productions; or for specified historical re-enactments. Obviously such exemptions are very limited. It an offence to sell an imitation firearm to a person aged under 18 or for a person under 18 to buy an imitation firearm. Partners are asked to support this surrender by encouraging community groups including young persons to hand over such weapons. No questions will be asked and names and addresses will not be requested. Alternatively persons can call police to request collection.Through your community contacts, particularly youth service providers you may have a situation where such weapons are handed in. Never assume it is not real. It could be dangerous and even the person who handed it in may not be aware. Leave it in situ in a safe place preferably locked away and call police. Please do not attempt to find out if it is real yourself and avoid handling it. Anyone wishing to pass on information relating to realistic imitation firearms or real weapons can call police directly or crimestoppers anonymously 0800 555 111. Thank you for your support ‘

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY STRATEGY

CONSULTATION WORKSHOP

Thursday 31^st January 2008, 1pm – 5pm (free lunch & refreshments 12pm – 1pm)

Lambeth Accord, 336 Brixton Road, Brixton

To feed into to the formal consultation phase of the SCS including the priorities for Lambeth and the types of practical projects needed and get updates on Local Area Agreements and how they link in with the SCS.

Lambeth Voluntary Action Council’s Active Community Project explains:

‘Do you have a view on quality of life in Lambeth?

Think you know what the Borough really needs to do to improve?

Get it off your chest by contributing to the Sustainable Community Strategy!

Throughout 2007 Lambeth First have been developing their long term vision for the borough and identifying a number of key commitments which all partners can sign up to. This vision will be set out in the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) which will describe how Lambeth will change over the next twelve years to make it a better place for the people who live, work and visit here.

The SCS will become the overarching plan for the borough. Every other major plan or strategy in Lambeth (such as the Housing Strategy, or the Local Development Framework) must ‘have regard to’ the SCS. So if you are only ever going to get involved with one major consultation in Lambeth, this is the one to choose!!!!

Lambeth’s SCS must reflect what Lambeth is about and be the distinctive vision and ambition for the area backed by clear evidence and analysis. It should also be informed by the views of local people.

They can’t do this without your input, so the LVAC Active Communities Project are organising a VCS consultation workshop on the SCS as a way of you sharing your community knowledge and to make the strategy more meaningful.

Lambeth First have already carried out consultation on the ‘engagement phase’ which lasted nearly four months (May – August), the results of which have fed into this ‘formal consultation phase’ which will end at the end of Feb 08. Through this ‘formal consultation phase’ Lambeth First are consulting on the priorities for the SCS and the types of practical projects needed.’

To book your place at the SCS Consultation Workshop (and for further information) – contact LVAC’s Active Communities Project on 020 7737 9463 or ACPproject@lambethvac.org.uk Be sure to let them know about any particular access or dietary requirements you have. Financial assistance with childcare is available. Contact them for details.

Other ways to get involved:

By visiting the Lambeth First Partnership website at www.lambethfirst.org.uk you can;
- complete the online questionnaire, or access the Sustainable Community Strategy Workbook
- send your views to consultation@lambethfirst.org.uk and request a copy of the workbook
You can visit one of the main Post Offices in Lambeth and complete the touch screen questionnaire

MORLEY COLLEGE COMMUNITY COURSES

Morley College is providing Salsa, Dance Exercise, Computing, English Language, Painting & Drawing, Keep Fit and other classes for local people. See 11 January ENews on www.rcdt.org

LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS

Planning Applications

20- 26January

42 Cleaver Square. Erection of a new mansard roof extension and two dormer windows at the front and two at the rear with a single storey rear extension. 08/00200/FUL. (See also decisions/withdrawals below.)

12 Ravensdon Rd. Conversion of property into two self contained flats (one 3-bed and one 1-bed units). Ref: 07/02601/FUL.

Walker House, Vauxhall Walk. Installation of 5 air condensing units to rear wall. Ref: 07/05130/FUL

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, 10 Wandsworth Road, at Vauxhall Cross. 020 7926 1180. tpac@lambeth.gov.uk. Plans can also be seen at Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

Planning Decisions/Withdrawals

20- 26 January

42 Cleaver Square. Loft conversion with two new dormer windows at the front and rear of the property with extension to the kitchen & erection of a new mansard roof extension with roof terrace and two dormer windows at the front and one at rear with doors and juilet balcony. Applications withdrawn. (see new application above)

106 Harleyford Rd. Erection of extension at second floor level together with the removal of existing rear steps and the formation new rear steps to garden. Application refused.

289-299 Kennington Lane. Waste management details re-new warehouse. Application withdrawn – Big Yellow Self Storage Co.

Kerrin Point Site. Details re-wheelchair accessible units of planning permission for the development of 219 flats, 403 sqm retail/community facility, 64 car parking spaces at basement level, cycle storage and communal garden. Application withdrawn. Note: work to build the development is underway.

134 Lambeth Rd. Side infill extension at ground floor level, replacement of existing second floor window with a Juliet balcony and alterations to front and rear windows at basement level and installation of a rooflight. Application permitted.

Lambeth Walk Public House, 17 Lambeth Rd. Conversion of upper floors of building into six self contained flats (4 x 1 bedroom and two 2 x 2 bedroom units), including construction of a mansard roof extension to create a third floor, a part one/part two storey rear extension at first and second floor levels (existing ground floor public house to be retained). Application withdrawn.

Parliament View Apartments. 1 Albert Embankment. Change of use from approved shop, restaurant/cafe and assembly & Leisure) to shop, or restaurant/cafe, or assembly leisure, or offices or non-residential institution. Application permitted.

Vauxhall Gdns Housing Estate. Replacement of existing windows and doors with double glazed UPVC window and doors to Coverley and Haymans Points. Application permitted.

LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org

Waterloo/South Bank Events and News – see www.London-SE1.co.uk

ART GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS

Dates	Gallery	Exhibition	Times
Tuesdays – Sundays + Bank Holiday Mondays	Museum of Garden History Lambeth Palace Rd 020 7401 8865 www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh	Permanent Garden & Local History Displays. Family Quiz Sheets to accompany the Local History exhibition are available.	10.30am-5pm
Saturday 2 – Saturday 9 February	Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY. www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk	Self-Cancellation. Mark & John Bain, John Butcher, Michael Colligan, Rhodri Davies, Benedict Drew, Robin Hayward, Gustav Metzger, Lee Patterson, Sarah Washington. Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed with Beaconsfield. Ten experimental sound artists explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance. 2 Feb – 11am-4pm: SpeedDataRadio 2 – multiple round-table live-to-air mixdown on Resonance FM for artists, musicians, academics & enthusiasts (free but booking essential) 6 February – 2pm: Gustav Metzger – Art & Compromise lecture series (free but booking essential) 9 February – 8pm: Performances – oscillators, seismographs, harmonics, acid-action etc. (tickets £10/£8 concessions – limited availability) please note performances date (previously advertised as 8 Feb) Booking and tickets: Book for free events by contacting Beaconsfield on 020 7582 6465/ info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk Buy tickets for 9 February either via the Beaconsfield website, or by sending a cheque to Beaconsfield at the address below. Tickets are limited and sold on a first come first serve basis. A parallel set of events is also taking place in Glasgow.
Tuesdays – Saturdays until 1 March	Corvi-Mora 1a Kempsford Road 020 7840 9111 www.corvi-mora.com	Dorota Jurczak Śmierdazące balasem	11am-6pm
Fridays to Sundays until 10 February	Danielle Arnaud contemporary art 123 Kennington Road London SE11 6SF UK 020 7735 8292 www.daniellearnaud.com	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.	2-6pm
Fridays to Sundays 22 February to 30 March		Nicky Coutts: The Discovery of Slowness. First solo show in the gallery will feature works developed during her 2007 English Heritage Fellowship in Berwick upon Tweed. The videos and photographs where time and space have been subtly manipulated attempt to represent the experience of a place through fiction and appropriated imagery.	2-6pm
Fridays to Sundays 11 April to 11 May		Suky Best & Rory Hamilton: Rodeo Animation. Following on their previous collaborative work, Wild West, this new animation, Rodeo, features the rider and bull or horse in vibrant colours heightening the power and emotion of the struggle between man and beast.	2-6pm
2 February to 23 March	Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street 020 7587 5202 info@gasworks.org.uk www.gasworks.org.uk	Blades House, Matthew Darbyshire’s first solo show in a public UK institution takes as a departure the domestic interior of a fictitious, urban middle-class professional in his mid-thirties. The character and his choice of furniture, textiles, art and other paraphernalia are used as a vehicle to address issues of taste, style, aspiration, class distinction and demographic blurring. The actual floor-plan of Darbyshire’s installation is based on a two-bedroom flat in Blades House which is part of the Kennington Park Estate, next to Gasworks. Darbyshire’s life-size mock-up draws its inspiration from numerous conversions of two-bed council flats into spacious and airy contemporary-style ‘one-beds’. RELATED EVENTS: Wednesday 20 February 2008, 6.30 – 8.30pm Matthew Darbyshire in conversation with Melissa Gronlund, critic and associate editor at Afterall. Followed by a panel discussion with Eleanor John, head of collections and exhibitions, Geffrye Museum and Gareth Jones, artist, and Anna Colin, exhibitions curator, Gasworks. Sunday 16 March 2008, 4 – 6pm Short films by artist Guy Ben-Ner and filmmaker Jamie Johnson, followed by excerpts of films looking at interior design and its social implications.
Tuesdays – Saturdays to 16February	Oval House Café Gallery, 52-54 Kennington Oval	Ellen Groth Reddie is a Norweigan artist living in the UK. She uses traditional oil painting, water colour, silk painting, sculpturing with papier maché, and us of the computer screen as a canvas. She is fascinated by the early surrealists like Dali and Magritte and 60's pop art especially Roy Lichtenstein. She describes her work as "pop art with a dash of the surreal". This exhibition at Oval House Café Gallery will be Ellen’s first solo show in London.	3 – 9.30pm
Wednesdays to Saturdays to 16 February	Man&Eve 131 Kennington Park Rd www.manandeve.co.uk	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.	2-6pm

EXTRACT FROM ENEWS 20 OCTOBER 2006

Concerns and questions at 13 September Meeting

on the murder of Carmelita Tulloch

Concerns and Questions

The following were the main concerns and questions liaised by the many people who spoke:

· The benefit of having effective youth clubs in the area with lots of support from agencies in the community.

· Feeling unsafe, there is much drug taking and drug dealing happening in the community, the community wants to help the police.

· Arrowsmith House – there is drug dealing as well as drug houses in the local area. What can the council do to provide more security?

· The police have been slow to respond to 999 calls.

· Lack of adequate lighting and youth provision. Planned security doors and CCTV not yet in place after years of promises.

· What are the council doing to remove drug houses?

· Drug taking in stairwells of flats, they get move don but just come back again.

· CCTVs not switched on.

· 24 hour shop licences make them a haven for drug dealers and users.

· What happened to the estate wardens who gave a sense of security?

· Arrowsmith House has experienced vandalism on vehicles.

· It is the responsibility of the council to provide safe housing.

· Pull down disused pubs as they are used by drug users.

· Residents who help the police and provide evidence fear what might happen to them and need protection.

· Parents should take responsibility and control their children.

· When will we get more CCTV locally.

· Having lived on this estate for 35 years the housing blocks have not been maintained by Lambeth, entry phones do not work, where are the community wardens, how do we contact the councillors. In the end it’s up to the residents to act.

· The community should hold the council officers and the police to account. We need to use that we have already but we need to re-energise the community.

· What evidence is needed by police to do their jobs – is it drugs, prostitution?

· “I am now more scared than ever after this incident, I feel isolated after dark”. Young men with hoods are very scary.

· West Indians were brought up with respect and dignity. Need to bring back God especially in schools.

· How long will it take to respond to the used raised tonight will you work as a team?

· What role models are we giving our young people?

· There needs to be undercover policing.

· “This meeting has given me confidence for the future”.

· Councillor should work together to help make people valued.

· Ethnic minorities should get involved in TRAs.

· Cut trees back and have better street lighting.

Responses by Officials and Politicians

Derrick Anderson agreed that there were a number of issues that needed to be addressed, ‘what has been happening up to now has not been enough specifically’: street lighting, warden supervision, door entry schemes (a control for work had been signed and work will be November to March), youth provision (look at bringing new money to the area); drug dealing and moving offenders on more quickly; housing lettings strategy; shop licensing issues (looking at infringements); decent homes standards (work with community and policy for safer communities). “I will give direction to the whole council and will bring together all the responsible officers to get quick wins and see what will take longer. We should be held to account at the next meeting to report back.”

Superintendent Paul Wilson gave a personal commitment to local policing. Will seek local evidence and intelligence on drug dealing and drug use and see the extent of extra police resources needed. Legal issues will be taken up with the commercial developer who owns the George and Dragon being used as a drug venue. The Safer Neighbourhood Panel could be held earlier if required. Will come to next meeting to be held to account.

Councillor Sam Townend said that many areas do not have a tenants association, councillors will be happy to work with residents to set them up. Will work will residents in improved youth provision and increase summer holiday youth programmes. Need to keep youth clubs open and to invest in youth.

Kate Hoey said that we need to work in partnership across the community (police, council and community) and will get involved in partnership meetings. We need a short period of intense policing and will need extra policing resources if they are required to tackle drug dealing/crime. Keep Lilian Baylis for community use.

Mark Bennett said he would report the issues raised by the meeting to the Cabinet meeting on 14 September. Need neighbourhood wardens to work with the safer neighbourhood units. Reviewing hate crime in Lambeth.

EXTRACT FROM ENEWS 9 NOVEMBER 2006

Post-Murder Follow-Up Meeting 8 November

The police reported on a variety of actions and plan to have a mini-police ‘station’ operation. The information vehicle on Spring Gardens will remain for a while. There have been several raids on suspected drug houses. The Council reported that various repair and improvement programmes e.g. secure doors were being brought forward. Discussions were continuing on CCTV but residents should not put their faith in them as a solution. The Council seemed to suggest that the creation of the Arms Length Management Organisation for the Housing Department will be helpful in the future. It reported that the area was well serviced with youth provision compared with other areas of the Borough. Underspend on the summer holiday playscheme will be allocated to the Sports Action Zone.

ENews/Events Listing compiled and edited by Sean Creighton, RCDT

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RCDT is supported by London Development Agency, and part-funded by Pedlar’s Acre Trust (Lambeth Council)