Nunhead: Immersive drama in the cemetery If you like your theatre immersive, and have the nerve to spend the evening in a cemetery – then the return of this extraordinary event, which sold out last year, may entice you to Nunhead in the coming weeks. Nunhead Cemetery is one of the capital’s “Magnificent Seven” burial …
Seb Emina, aka Malcolm Eggs, is author of The Breakfast Bible and editor-at-large of The London Review of Breakfasts. He’s also a born and bred southeast Londoner. Who better to offer a guide?
1. Peckham: Frank’s is back In case you hadn’t been counting the days, this weekend Frank’s Café and Campari Bar on the roof of Peckham’s now-infamous multi-storey car park is back for the summer season. The bar, run by art collective Bold Tendencies – who you may know have put in a bid to turn …
We mentioned the unusual new exhibition at Peckham Space last week, now the gallery’s director tells us how she commissioned a bunch of teenage girls to put on a show Stepping from the hustle of Peckham High Street into the gallery that is Peckham Space, the last thing you expect is to be invited to …
To tie in with her intriguing new exhibition at Peckham Space, the artist Sarah Cole is giving a talk there tonight. Her show, TRIBE, was developed through the artist’s encounters with Southwark Youth Services, and is devoted to womanhood. But don’t expect anything obvious: the installation includes a carpet of turf, music, ice-creams and plenty …
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MOBO-award winning hip hop artist Akala, above, is just one of the acts performing at the first ever Big Noise festival, a 14-hour music and arts bonanza taking place this Saturday, 8 June, at Peckham’s ever popular arts venue, the Bussey Building/CLF Arts Cafe. The event kicks off at 2pm and features DJs, live bands, …
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Earlier this week, our north of the river sister site, Kentishtowner, tapped into a hot topic in their neck of the woods: KT has no local cinema, and the website is campaigning to get one. The northsiders’ campaign was sparked by the impending closure of NW5’s Pizza Express, as the grade II listed building it …
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We absolutely love the London Arts Board. In case you don’t know about this very unusual Peckham gallery space promoting fres artistic talent, you can read what we wrote about it this time last month (and see the necessary map). A new show goes up on the first of each month – so you’ve still got …
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News that The Ivy House in Nunhead has been saved is proof that south London’s pubs have always combined the idiosyncratic with the inspirational, as SE15 resident Paul Moody explains In December 2011 The Montague Arms in New Cross closed its doors for the final time. Run by charismatic landlord and landlady Stan and Betty …
