Saturday 10.30am- 5pm. .NGS ‘Yellow Book’ garden open day. NGS OPEN DAY£3.00 admission £2.50 concessions. The Museum’s annual support of the National Garden Scheme continues and entrance charges from the day will go towards the Scheme’s nominated charities. As well as the 17th century reproduction knot garden, visitors will see the Museum’s newly sown and planted wild garden that has been developed in response to the growing awareness of the need for greater bio-diversity within urban areas. The Museum’s dedicated ‘Yellow Book’ open day also coincides with the gardens at Lambeth Palace being open under the same scheme, so visitors will be able to combine visits to both venues. (www.ngs.org.uk)

Saturday.  2-5pm. Lambeth Palace Gardens Open Day on Saturday 26^th May 2007 between 2pm – 5.30pm, £3 entry for adults, £1 for children. £2 concessions.  It is one of the largest and oldest private gardens in London.  The site is occupied by Archbishop of Canterbury since the end of the 12^th Century.  Formal courtyards with historic white fig (originally planted in 1555), parkland style gardens with mature trees, woodland and native planting, pond also herb gardens and beehives are some of the attractions available.  The Gardens, Lambeth Palace Rd.

Saturday. Matinee 1.30pm; Evening 8pm. Last day of Streets Paved with Gold. The reminiscences of a Black British Citizen. Written and performed by Victor Richards. Jay Theatre Productions presentation. The play is set in the present, but explores recent history from the 1950’s onwards. In his one man show, Victor Richards explores African-Caribbean migration, and themes of hope, identity and change. The story line of “Streets Paved with Gold” weaves together a thrilling and informative picture of the collective experiences of Black British Citizens resulting from their new surroundings. The play is based on the reality of people bold enough to plunge themselves into the unknown. Victor Richards introduces you to the character of Augustus Cleveland Johnson, who arrives on a cold grey and wet November morning in London at Tilbury docks in 1948 – share his dreams, hopes and aspirations.  Oval House Theatre. TICKETS: £12/£6 concessions. BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680

ONLINE SALES: www.ovalhouse.com (no fee).

Sunday. 6.30pm. Choral Evensong for Pentacost. St Peter’s Singers and Hand Made Opera Baroque directed by Colin Baldry, sing Buxthude’s Magnificat and Humfrey’s Nunc dimittis. Preacher Canon Hugh Wybrew (Faculty of Theology, Oxford). St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

HALF-TERM WEEK

Monday 28 May – Friday 1 June, 2-5pm. Opening the doors. Free arts workshops for families. Ever wished for something fun and free to do as a family in the school holidays? If so, Gasworks are offering free arts workshops for families to enjoy together! Come down to Kennington Park Estate Community Centre during the half term for an afternoon of making and creating! Each day, a local artist will introduce a different technique in contemporary art, providing families with the materials to try out new ways of making art together. Activities will include model making and digital photography, sound recording and sculpture from recycled materials. Why not try your hand at creating an artists studio out of paper, painting a giant spider diagram for the wall or telling a famous children’s story by stamping your feet? The workshops are free and run from 2pm to 5pm. The recommended age is 5-12yrs and all children must be accompanied by an adult throughout the workshop. Materials are provided, just bring your imagination! For further information please contact Anna Vass 020 7587 5202

The workshops will be led by Emma Smith and Gasworks’ Education and Outreach Coordinator, Anna Vass. Gasworks contact details are given ion the Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below.

Tuesday 29 – Friday 1 June. 8am – 6pm. HALF TERM PRIMARY HOLIDAY PLAY SCHEME

SCHOOLFRIEND @ Archbishop Sumner School. Core day 10am-4pm: £5; extra  8- 10am: £2; 4pm - 6pm   £2. Phone Babs at the school for a booking form on 020 7735 2781 or 0795 192 1655

Sunday 3

Elgar Anniversary Concert. The Mezin Duo (Richard Smith (violin) and Anthony MacCarthy (piano) play the Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op 82. Preacher Very Rev’d Jeffrey John (Dean of St Alban’s Abbey). St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

6.30pm

Friday 6

PIANO MAGIC. Music at Museum of Grande History.
Full details and ticket info to follow...

7pm (doors open)

Friday 6- Saturday 23

Ya’akobi and Leidental. By Hanoch Levin. Translated by Shir Freibach. Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company Presentation. Ya’akobi and Leidental was written in 1972 by Hanoch Levin, one of Israel’s most established playwrights. In a cabaret style, the play takes a comic and at times grotesque look at the love triangle between two men and one woman, desperately trying to add meaning and excitement to their lives.  Tik-sho-ret’s physical production of this absurd piece accentuates the grotesque with comic playfulness. The show returns after a short successful tour earlier this autumn.TICKETS: £12/£6 concessions. BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680. ONLINE SALES: www.ovalhouse.com (no fee).

8pm

Saturday 9 & Sunday 10

Open Garden Squares Weekend opening of Museum of Garden History. OGSW tickets £7.50 (allows entry to any participating garden over the weekend). The London Parks and Garden’s Trust annual Open Garden Squares Weekend continues to develop, with more gardens included in the scheme each year. As well as the 17th century reproduction knot garden, visitors will see the Museum’s newly sown and planted wild garden that has been developed in response to the growing awareness of the need for greater bio-diversity within urban areas. The Museum’s dedicated open weekend also coincides with the gardens at Lambeth Palace being open under the same scheme on Saturday 9th, and visitors will be able to combine visits to both venues that day only. www.opensquares.org.

10.30am-5pm

Sunday 10

Harleyford Rd Open Squares Garden Day. Teas, Cakes and general entertainment.

2-5pm

Sunday 10

Trio des Amis play Beethoven’s Opus 11 and Zremlinksy’s Trio in D Minor. Preacher Rev’d Mark Steadman, Vicar of St Philip, Camberwell. St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

6.30pm

Saturday 16

Kennington Association Tai Chi. As the gym at the Brit Oval will be closed, the Tai Chi classes will be taking place in Kennington Park and not in the studio at the gym (weather permitting). Meet by the cafe in the park. 

3-4pm

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17

Roots & Shoots Annual Open Weekend. Saturday will be aimed at children and families, Sunday will have another craft and produce market. Further details later.

10am-4pm

Saturday 16

WaCoCo Annual Community Conference, Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Rd, SE1. WaCoCo, is the new umbrella body established by Waterloo community and voluntary groups following the end of the Single Regeneration Budget project and Waterloo Community Regeneration Trust on 31 March. The founder members include: Association of Waterloo Groups, Blackfriars Settlement, SE1 United, Waterloo Green Trust, Waterloo Action Centre, Water Community Development Group. It is holding the annual Community Conference, originally established by WCRT. Organisations running services and activities in Waterloo area, but which may be based outside the Waterloo area can obtain more information from Clare on 7202 6931 or email: WaCoCo@southbanklondon.com. The Waterloo area covers the whole of Bishops Ward including the area south of Lambeth Rd – the southern border being Old Paradise St, Juxon St and Fitzalan St.

10am-1pm

Sunday 17

Pre-concert talk by Prof Carolyn Gianturco on Stradella and his ‘Esule dale sfere’. St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

5pm

Sunday  17

Handmade Opera’s Italian Cantata. ‘Esule dale sfere’ by Stradella. Directed by Colin Baldry. Preacher Canon Christopher Irvine (Canterbury Cathedral). St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

6.30pm

Monday 18

Friends of Durning Library Summer Party. Food, drink,. chat, raffle, walkabout quiz. All welcome. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane

6.45 for 7pm

Tuesday 19

Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall (KOV) Forum AGM. Oval Cricket Ground, Harleyford Road. All welcome.  For more details contact Jacqueline Christie, Area Project Officer, North Lambeth Centre Office, for further details. Tel - 020 7926 8295, Email - jchristie@lambeth.gov.uk.

7pm

Mondays to Saturdays 18 - 30

Island Block Exhibition 18-30 June.  Were you delighted when the old GLC Island Block was demolished? An exhibition about the Block has been organised by Parabola Trust at The Launch Pad Gallery, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London,  WC1E 7BT. This exhibition during Architecture Week 2007 explores the demolished London landmark of the former Greater London Council offices in SE1. The installation incorporates an interactive architectural model, laser sculpture, drawings, original plans and documents, a video exploring the rich pictorial history from the early drafts and models. See also Saturdays 23 & 30 June below. Built in 1973 this geometric brutalist block was intended to house 1,500 council staff but stood empty for two decades until its demolition in earlier this year. The installation by the artist Charbel Ackermann will mark the disappearance of the hapless building and celebrate it for its architectural merit, although it was the last, and as it turned out the weakest, addition to the South Bank’s collection of Modernist structures, marked most boldly by Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre, and the exposed concrete volumes of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It will be the first co-operation of this important venue for urbanism with visual artists and musicians. For more information and images please contact Danielle Arnaud at danielle@parabolatrust.org or tel. 020 7735 8292

Mondays – Fridays 9.30-6pm; Saturdays 10am – 4pm

Wednesday 20

Friends of Durning Library Old Persons’ Group. Regular meeting. During Library, 167 Kennington Lane

3pm

Wednesday 20 – Saturday 23

Oval House Youth Theatre Company presents Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano. Oval House Youth Theatre Company present their modern interpretation of Ionesco's classic, drawing on the ridiculousness of contemporary Pop Culture. The company embrace Ionesco’s absurdist approach and present a powerful ensemble performance set to appeal to the imaginations of old and young people alike. For young people interested in getting involved in drama themselves who want to see how good youth theatre productions can be, this is the show to see.  Directed by Nicholai La Barrie & Jorge Balca. Box Office: 020 7582 7680

Tickets: £4. Further information: www.ovalhouse.com

7.30pm

Friday 22

SOWETO KINCH plus support tbc. Music at Museum of Garden History. £20 table seat / £15 standing. Tickets on sale from 13th April

7pm (doors open)

Saturday 23

Island Block Exhibition Discussion Event will bring together government decision makers, local individuals, building/ architecture professionals, other visitors interested in urbanism and regeneration will take place. See 18-30 June above.

2-4pm

Sunday 24

Longfordbrown piano duo play Michael Parsons Rhythm Studies II (1971), Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dance No. 1, Mozart’s 2^nd movement Andante from Sonata for two pianos, and Saint-Saens Scherzo. Speaker Michael Symons Roberts (writer and poet). St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

6.30pm

Thursday 28 June

150 Years of Trollope’s ‘Barchester Towers’. Lambeth Library Reading Groups will gather to discuss the book at Clapham Library. Durning Library Reading Group will be there, and therefore will not meet on Wednesday 27 June.

7pm

Friday 29

CIRCULUS plus Spanner Jazz Punks. £10 general admission. TICKETS ON SALE NOW

7pm (Doors open)

Saturday 30

North Lambeth Parish Fete The excellent Fete will take place in Lambeth Palace Gardens. All Welcome. Entrance adults £3 with lots of concessions for families etc. More details to follow.

2-5pm

Saturday 30

Island Block Exhibition will close with a music performance by Hildegard Kleeb and Roland Dahinden, musicians with an interest in sound sculpture (past collaborations with Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt, Alvin Lucier, etc.). See 18-30 June above.

2-4pm

Sunday 1

Smokefree Starts. This is the first day of the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Sunday 1

Bonnington Festival is a local community street party, held in
Bonnington Square by the local residents. This years festival will feature: a fancy dress parade, scooter races, face-painting, a treasure hunt put on by local shop 'I knit', a pompom making workshop, a tango display, the painting of a community mural to cover graffiti, a competition to decorate our wheelie bins with a prize for the best one, and a stage featuring local acts and
music bands.

2-11pm

Sunday 1

Robert Blaze (Counter-tenor) and Andrew Macmillan (Piano). Preacher Rev’d Richard Jenkins (Director of Affirming Catholicism). St Peter’s Sunday evening prayer and recital series. St Peter’s Church, 310 Kennington Lane.  Free.

6.30pm

Thursday 5

A year in the life of an English Flower Meadow. BOOK LAUNCH & EVENING LECTURE: Tickets: £10 or £5 Museum Friends. To celebrate launch of the book A year in the life of an English Meadow beautiful wild flowers will be on display in the Museum for the night. Drawing from their book Andy Garnet and Polly Devlin will tell the story of the meadow they created in their garden in Somerset, joined by Dr Chris Smith, the botanist that identified the rare species. For this night only there is a chance to view the wild flower pressings featured in the book and a display of 25 different fresh flowers from the meadow. There will also be a chance to see the Museum’s new wild flower meadow with a glass of English wine.

7.00pm (doors open 6.30pm)

Friday 6

INIDIGO MOSS plus Seraphina Steer. £8 general admission
TICKETS ON SALE NOW

7pm (doors open)

Monday 16

The L’Arche Community in Lambeth. Talk about the work of the L’Arche Community’s work running residential homes for people with learning difficulties, including 5 in Lambeth.

6.45 for 7pm

Thursday 19

The Pineapple: King of Fruits with Fran Beauman
EVENING LECTURE: Tickets: £10 or £5 Museum Friends
Writer Fran Beauman celebrates the juicy history of the pineapple, from its earliest beginnings in the Brazilian rainforests to its role today being stuffed unceremoniously into cans. Drawing from her book The Pineapple: King of the Fruits. She explores why the pineapple has been such an important status symbol with fascinating stories and facts. For example, during the 1700s the cost to produce one pineapple was about £5,000 in today’s money – the same as the cost of a new coach. The evening will include pineapple themed food from historical recipes in her book, which could include pineapple tart from 1732 to canned pineapple with baked beans in 1958. Pina colada cocktails will be available to enjoy in the Museum gardens.

7.00pm (doors open 6.30pm)

Friday 20

artist tbc plus Loz Speyer's TIME ZONE. Museum of Garden History. TICKETS ON SALE MID-APRIL

7pm (doors open)

Wednesday 25

Pushing the Envelope Further. Beaconsfield, RCDT and Lady Margaret Hall Settlement event on the future of the arts and culture in the area.

Friday 27

artists tbc. Museum of Garden History.

7pm (doors open)

Dates

Gallery

Exhibition

Times

Tuesdays – Sundays + Bank Holiday Mondays

Museum of Garden History

Lambeth Palace Rd

020 7401 8865

http://www.museumgardenhistory.org

Permanent Garden & Local History Displays.

Family Quiz Sheets to accompany the Local History exhibition are available.
One is on Environment, Entertainment & the local landscape, and the other is on Industry & Transport. Included will be a cover folder with pictures for children to colour in and keep, and inside some questions and opportunity to draw a garden or transport picture and enter our competition.

10.30am-5pm

Ditto to 25 August

Ditto

Shreds of Evidence. In November 2006 Simon Woolham started a four month residency at the Museum of Garden History developing works that subtly dialogue with the Museum architecture and artefacts. During that time he also ran a series of workshops with year 5 pupils from Walnut Tree Walk School, a primary school located in the vicinity of the Museum.
The children workshops have concentrated on the exploration of their favourite places both in the playground and in the Museum. Using drawing, language, digital manipulation and sound, the children have produced a variety of works which will be presented in the school - three-dimensional paper models - and in the Museum - drawings in snowdomes and digital animations. For more information on Simon (and to see more of his work), please visit - www.darkcorner.co.uk

10.30am-5pm

Wednesdays-­ Sundays, 13 June - ­22 July

Beaconsfield

22 Newport Street

Tel: 020 7582 6465 info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

SOUNDTRAP II: LEAFCUTTER JOHN.
Part of architecture week (www.architectureweek.org.uk)

Second in a series of sonic responses to the architecture of Beaconsfield¹s Vauxhall venue. Includes Leafcutter in Concert Saturday 7 July & downloadable MP3's.

12-6pm

Tuesdays to Saturdays

Corvi-Mora
1a Kempsford Road
020 7840 9111
www.corvi-mora.com

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Fridays – Sundays till  17 June

Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road
020 7735 8292
danielle@daniellearnaud.com
www.daniellearnaud.com

Ost Property. Several bulging carrier bags lie, discarded, on the pavement on the Finchley Road. Tantalising tat! Ost Property, or part of it, discovered.
Photographs of elaborate coiffures, family albums, letters, cuttings, odds and ends: fragments from the life of the celebrated Miss Annette Ost, amateur singer and youngest "lady professor" at her father Julien's Hairdressing Academy in 1930s London. more. Artists: W.J.Baker, Becky Beasley,   Beiny Amy Blum, Boris Jon Cairns, Rosie Cooper,  Gabriel Corcuera Zubillaga, Matthew Draper, Carrie Fitzgerald,  Wiebke Leister, Nicholas Papadimitriou, Trevor Shearer, Julia Spicer,  Roxy Walsh

2-6pm

29 June – 29 July

Ditto

 A Private Paradise. Donna Conlon,  Uta Kögelsberger, Tinna Ludviksdottir, Sarah Woodfine. Full details later

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Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street,

020 7582 6848. press@gasworks.org.uk www.gasworks.org.uk

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Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays till 3 June

Man&Eve,131 Kennington Park Rd.

020 7582 7861. info@manandeve.co.uk. www.manandeve.co.uk

Groundwork. Nicky Neate. Nicky Neate was born in Kenya in the 1960s during a time of great cultural and social change. Sixties Pop Art values were in great contrast with the strict apartheid structures of 'Colonial Rule'. This contrast and the nomadic nature of her early life has shaped Nicky's current artistic practice. Her family moved from Kenya to Uganda, but were forced to flee in the early 70s under the rule of Idi Amin. They settled in the Netherlands where she lived for seven years before moving to London in the 80s to train as a painter and later as a printmaker. Her current practice combines printmaking, painting and sculpture.

Nicky Neate's work is deeply involved in the investigation of printmaking process and the transformation of materials. She treats the canvas or ground as an etching plate, exposing it to actions that mimic naturally occurring processes by oxidizing metal powders with sea water. The resulting images are often abstract - combining organic lines with shapes and symbols produced by found objects, the original purposes of which are being eroded. She completes the process by taking prints from the canvas, questioning the relationship between positive and negative space and the limits to which an image or object can be reproduced or transformed before its original trace is lost.

Her sculptures take their starting point from found objects harvested along the banks of the Thames and the roads around South London. Sometimes, the ground itself is incorporated into an image or an object, as in 'City Monument' constructed from slabs of tarmac road dug up outside her studio.

Nicky Neate views her work in symbolic terms - the importance of memory and the transitory nature of life are implied through the re-appropriation, transformation and disappearance of found objects. Childhood influences are also evident, particularly in her use of colour which references the African landscape she grew up with.

12-6pm

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Oval House Theatre Café/Gallery,
52-54 Kennington Oval. Box Office: 020 7582 7680. www.ovalhouse.com

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