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Pinboard 16 May: get ‘spirited away’ in Brockwell Park, grab gourmet hotdogs in SE1 and hear some sweet, sweet beats in Brixton

1. Brixton: Hollie Cook hits Plan B tonight The musical vibe at Brixton’s Plan B tonight is determinedly sun-kissed. We love Hollie Cook’s sweet, old-school tinged reggae sound – and she is the special guest of headliners, Sashi & The Wild Beans. The soulful ska lovers, whose debut EP True to Yourself you may already …

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Southsayer: Richard Balfe, founder of Balfe’s Bikes

Nunhead-raised Richard Balfe, 31, owns south London’s well-loved Balfe’s Bikes – which has branches in Kennington, East Dulwich and Streatham. He grew up with his mother opposite Nunhead’s Victorian cemetery, south London’s lesser-known answer to Highgate’s more famous graveyard, “which gave me a few jaunts as a boy,” he says. As well as owning three …

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Why it Matters: the joy of the whole table

We recently featured a story about the great work against food waste that Brixton People’s Kitchen get up to, and their event in Myatt’s Field Park. Here BK volunteer, Phillip Bowen, explains why the organisation exists Having volunteered for only a couple of months, I have realised that at the Brixton People’s Kitchen we don’t …

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Free Weekend? Tour southeast London’s best furniture and design shops

In another nod to the Dulwich Festival and all the artistic goings-on in southeast London – especially this weekend – we asked local designer, Anna Dent, to share her favourite shopping spots below the river Southeast London is full of creative, crafty people and whilst we might not have a Brick Lane equivalent, bursting with …

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Pinboard Extra: Morley College drawing exhibition celebrates Adult Learners Week

It’s never too late to pick up a new skill, or build on talents that might have lain dormant for years. To encourage just that sort of thinking, Morley College in SE1 is hosting a month-long free exhibition of drawings by its students in the run-up to Adult Learners Week. It kicked off yesterday and …

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Southsayer style special: Sarah Hamilton, artist and designer

To celebrate Artists’ Open House this coming weekend (11-12 May 2013), part of the Dulwich Festival, we took a nose around the home and work of south London artist and designer, Sarah Hamilton. A fine art/printmaking graduate of Central St Martin’s, Hamilton started her career making cards for Paperchase, The Conran Shop and Designer’s Guild. …

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Pinboard Extra: preview – Things We Want at the White Bear Theatre

Things We Want, by Jonathan Marc Sherman and just opened for a short run at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington has somewhat of an A-list pedigree. The play, billed intriguingly as a “dirty sexy suicide comedy” was originally directed by Ethan Hawke and produced by the Tony Award-winning team This is our Youth, starring …

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Free Weekend? Be inspired to enjoy the great outdoors (and win a copy of this guidebook)

Pedlars’ Guide to the Great Outdoors (Square Peg, £16.99) is a beautifully illustrated and immensely practical hardback book. But we have to come clean: we’re biased, as Below the River’s editor, Kate, worked on the book with its authors, Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, editing and co-writing it. The book, which is reissued this month, is stuffed …

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