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Day of the Dead Silent Disco/New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival 2015

Planning is already starting for next year's New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival. The last couple of years have seen thousands of people watching interesting films for free in all sorts of unusual locations (parks, churches, tattoo parlours...). If you want to get involved at any level - showing films, publicity, suggesting venues - ...

Save Lewisham Hospital fundraiser, Rivoli, Friday 24th October

London widget tracks Lewisham crime drop

Lewisham's crime tracking dataAnother crimewatching widget has landed in our inbox. The falling crime rate has given the Mayor of London a taste for transparency, so this new dashboard allows people to see the statistics for themselves. The Mayor's office says:"Last year the Mayor, as part of his Police and Crime Plan, pledged even greater ...

Aussie Rules – Peckham Rye Common

Yule Log

Date for your diaries: The Ladywell Christmas Market will be returning on December 6th. Details for how to apply for a stall on the Ladywell and Lewisham forum.

Glass Mill pools temporarily closed

The unofficial Twitter feed for Lewisham's Glass Mill Leisure Centre, run by an admirably obsessive critic of the centre, tipped us off that the pools are now shut due to a failure with the heating system (on Sunday, when we went down there, they were still inviting people to swim in icy water at their ...

Aussie rules Peckham

If you can’t make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter.- Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction A Peckham-based Aussie Rules team is looking for players. Marianna writes:The South East London Giants are an Australian Rules Football ("AFL") team whose home ground ...

‘Blacks Brittanica’ in New Cross

This Thursday 30th October, 7pm in the Cinema (room RHB 185) at Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW:'South London Anti-Fascists are proud to host a screening of David Koff's 1978 documentary 'Blacks Britannica'.Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about ...

Three more residential developments planned for Ashby Mews

Top to bottom: 111, 143, 153-155 UBRThree proposals have been submitted to turn garages on Ashby Mews into residential properties.Buildings to the rear of 111 Upper Brockley Road, 143 Upper Brockley Road and 153-155 Upper Brockley Road.Each of the projects is a modernist rebuild of dilapidated storage areas, with access from the mews.Objectors to the development on ...