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APATHY IN THE UK APATHY IN THE UK
16 May 12 - IT IS 2012, and Londoners live in interesting times. Anniversaries of the Titanic, Shakespeare, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics...

CUBA INVADES SOUTHBANK CUBA INVADES SOUTHBANK
16 May 12 - An intoxicating cocktail of Rumba, Salsa, Rum and Reggaeton will explode onto the E4 Udderbelly Festival stage this summer...


THE HONOURED SUIT THE HONOURED SUIT
16 May 12 - PETER BROOK and Marie-Hélène Estienne co-direct Can Themba's hauntingly beautiful story The Suit, with music by Franck Krwczyk...

FINGER ON THE PULSE FINGER ON THE PULSE
09 May 12 - PULSE & Flow is an exhibition at New Gallery London by London artist Sharon Drew of works that appear in Art Is…, a new musical feature film directed by Barry Bliss and starring Emily Beecham, Paul McGann and Gary Kemp. Composer Doug Berwick has written ten new songs for the film. ..


BRIDGE OF GAMES BRIDGE OF GAMES
09 May 12 - A NEW exhibition - Cities of the Modern Games - was opened by multi-Olympic Gold winner Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson in Tower Bridge that celebrates the history of the modern Olympics. Twenty-six large cityscapes show every city that has held the games since their rebirth in Athens in 1896...

SHIVERMAN BY JAMES SHELON SHIVERMAN BY JAMES SHELON
09 May 12 - WHEN ‘SHIVERMAN’ began my heart sank. Too wordy, too much background story I thought. Audiences don’t need spoon feeding and I was apprehensive that this naturalistic piece would lose me in dialogue...


APE REVIVAL AT THEATRE APE REVIVAL AT THEATRE
09 May 12 - THE FIRST major London revival in over 25 years of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape opens at the Main House, Southwark Playhouse for a four week run on Friday, 18 May with previews from 16 May 2012...

SIGNING KILLER ON THE LOOSE SIGNING KILLER ON THE LOOSE
09 May 12 - MORPHIC GRAFFITI present: Jekyll and Hyde – the musical. Sinister, chilling and macabre, Jekyll and Hyde is the ultimate story of good versus evil. ..


OUTSIDE BET'S A RACING CERTAINTY OUTSIDE BET'S A RACING CERTAINTY
02 May 12 - THE FILM Outside Bet is loosely based on Camberwell man Mark Baxter’s semi-autobiographical notes, which were given a make-over by writer Paulo Hewitt, then fictionalised to become The Mumper...

MAMUSKA PHOTOGRAPHY MAMUSKA PHOTOGRAPHY
02 May 12 - NEW PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition “Sight of a Woman”, showing work of four Polish female artists can be seen in Bar Mamuska! in the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. ..


Theatre & Listings

APATHY IN THE UK APATHY IN THE UK
16 May 12 - IT IS 2012, and Londoners live in interesting times. Anniversaries of the Titanic, Shakespeare, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.


CUBA INVADES SOUTHBANK CUBA INVADES SOUTHBANK
An intoxicating cocktail of Rumba...
THE HONOURED SUIT THE HONOURED SUIT
PETER BROOK and Marie-Hélène Estienne co-direct Can The...


Galleries & Listings

FINGER ON THE PULSE FINGER ON THE PULSE
09 May 12 - PULSE & Flow is an exhibition at New Gallery London by London artist Sharon Drew of works that appear in Art Is…, a new musical feature film directed by Barry Bliss and starring Emily Beecham, Paul McGann and Gary Kemp. Composer Doug Berwick has written ten new songs for the film.


HIRST FIRST TO LAST HIRST FIRST TO LAST
DAMIEN HIRST first hit the headlines in 1988 when he co...
THE JOY OF ART THE JOY OF ART
MUCH FUN is to be had at the Hayward Gallery where exhi...


Cinema & Listings

BLACK SWAN BLACK SWAN
21 Jan 11 - NINA (Natalie Portman) is a New York ballerina, whose perfectionist traits and hard work look like they’re about to reap rewards for her when the ballet director (Cassel) announces he’s casting for a new production of Swan Lake.


BEAUTY QUEEN SHOW AT YOUNG VIC BEAUTY QUEEN SHOW AT YOUNG VIC
Martin McDonagh’s 14 year old play is given a well des...
JENNIFER'S BODY: Released 4th Novemeber JENNIFER'S BODY: Released 4th Novemeber
SEXING UP the likes of Transformers and How To Lose Fri...


History & Museum Listings

THE PICTURE HOUSE OF BYGONE ERA THE PICTURE HOUSE OF BYGONE ERA
31 Aug 11 - If your idea of a night out at a cinema is a bag of overpriced pick and mix, a box of popcorn and tickets purchased from surly young staf,f then a trip to Kennington’s Cinema Museum could transport you to an era where a night at the flicks is where a pauper could be treated like royalty.


THE BLITZ SPIRIT - A TIMELY REMINDER THE BLITZ SPIRIT - A TIMELY REMINDER
THE TERRIBLE scenes witnessed in Southwark and ac...
HIDDEN TREASURE! HIDDEN TREASURE!
As Kingswood House received a blue plaque last weekend ...


Blue Plaques

RIO PLAQUE IS REPLACED
12 Dec 08 - THE BLUE Plaque for Man Utd and England Footballer Rio Ferdinand has been taken down - but only to be replaced with one that has a more accurate description of why it was placed on the Friary Estate.



Arts Events

ART WITH A PULSE ART WITH A PULSE
06 Jul 11 - THE KINESIS of studio production is transposed to the gallery space, in ‘Pulsed’, a multi-disciplinary group show, bringing together six UK based artists: Ross Chisholm, Paul Housley, Simon Keenleyside, Jess MacNeil, Michael Samuels and Matthew Sawyer.


CHOIR PREPARES FOR LAUNCH CHOIR PREPARES FOR LAUNCH
The Mike King Choir is a new London-based vocal collect...
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