Culture
Pinboard: The Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival
The fourth outing of this excellent annual event officially kicks off tomorrow, 5 September, running for 10 days across all sorts of interesting local venues. …
Wednesday Picture: Slogging it in South London
Drifting in and out of my reverie came the police sirens woo-wooing down Landor Road, the gospel music rehearsals of the nearby Pentecostal church, and …
Southsayer: Caffy St Luce, music promoter and manager from Deptford
I call south-east London, round the bend of the river, ‘Costa del Thames’ Former music PR and devoted Deptfordite, Caffy St Luce, has been a …
Pinboard 30 August: Peckham gets a fashion line, art battles rage and a Stockwell chef goes big up north
Peckham: Rye Lane inspires a fashion range Walworth: a farewell party for re:store Stockwell: Canton Arms chef does good over the river Bermondsey: Wherehouse art …
Pinboard 28 August: The Internal World, art in East Street Market
Walworth: The Internal World Exhibition – tonight! This is how it feels to be lonely. No, not the song but the theme of a one-night …
Oh, and have you seen this South London Black Music Map?
The points on the map range from significant street corners, to venues and record shops – obscure and obvious alike
Pinboard 15 August: Peckham’s Peace Picnic, an anarchic art fête – and get your Oedipus complex for free
Peckham: SE15’s Peace Picnic is back This Saturday, two years after the rioting that hit Peckham so hard, the area’s newly annual Peace Picnic doubles …
Pinboard 8 August: Help flooded Herne Hill, dress-making in Bermondsey and roof-top dining in Peckham
1. Herne Hill: Cash mob to help affected shops! We all gawped in horror as the burst water main swamped parts of Herne Hill in …
Brixton Faces: ‘locals’ photographic exhibition to hit Windrush Square
Gallery spaces are not as accessible as a public space. This exhibition is as much for the people of Brixton as it is for us …
Southsayer: Bruce Webb, film-maker from Walworth
My earliest south London memory? Falling for a girl who lived near Kennington Park Bruce Webb is an award-winning filmmaker who has lived in the …
