Art in the Attic, October 16

This Sunday, the Brockley Art House (12 Montague Avenue) will open for a special event to celebrate the work of two South East London artists:Alyson Hunter - photopolymer gravure printmaking of Bohemian Soho hauntsCaroline Wright - mixed media gestural abstracts based on old textiles from the V&A CollectionThe Art House team says:The Art in the ...

Goldsmiths Rent Campaign

Students at Goldsmiths in New Cross are planning to step up their campaign for a reduction in rents. Some students are continuing a rent strike they launched last year, and next week Goldsmiths, Cut the Rent is holding a meeting to launch the campaign for this year.  The first meeting of the new term will take ...

Mindfulness drop-in class Saturdays 10am in Camberwell

Led by experienced Zenways mindfulness teachers, Chris, Mark & Jo, these sessions are focussed on developing a kind, non-judgemental awareness of the impact your mind has on how you live your life. You will be introduced to a range of practices to help you be more energised, calm and responsive, and to build your resilience ...

Care Packages and Hospital Stays – Lewisham Survey

The "Save our NHS" Group of Lewisham Pensioners Forum is doing a piece of work to feed data on real experiences in to the Council's Healthier Communities Select Committee in November. We have what is a quite detailed survey gathering information from anyone who has either been a carer in the borough, received care, or ...

Forest Hill Library Crowdfunder

Forest Hill library is now closed and we will reopen it on Monday 24th October as a Community Library. Please pledge in our crowdfunder below, there are lots of great rewards & you will be supporting the library. http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/forest...d?tk=f873bb3114be7cc4f4640bcaae18d70ed1016a35 Forest Hill Library is a community run in South East London. We are solely reliant on ...

The Ladywell Christmas Market 2016

El writes:Calling all potters, woodworkers, ceramicists and glassmakers! Ladywell Christmas Market is looking for you to sell your work at the market on Saturday 3rd December. We’d love to have you offer your beautiful items for sale as they make perfect Christmas gifts.Ladywell Christmas Market attracts hundreds of people from SE13 and SE4. You’ll find ...

The Masala Wala makeover

The Masala Wala refit has begun.The Pakistani restaurant has been a smash hit since it opened in Brockley Cross last year. Now, they're refurbishing it to squeeze a little more seating room out of their tiny space and to enable them to offer pavement dining in the summer.

The Brockley Festival of Ideas

A festival of radical ideas organised by two local conservation groups might sound like a contradiction in terms, but BrocSoc and St John's Society have worked together to organise The Brockley Festival of Ideas, a free day of talks, loosely based on the theme of 'challenging power.'The Momentum activist, Jackie Walker, recently suspended from the ...

Labelling the legacy

During the summer readers may have noticed the appearance of new dark green labels on more than one hundred trees planted in and around Brockley since 2012. The labels are one of the Tree Committee’s initiatives to publicise the scheme, delivered in partnership with Lewisham Council. In this era of desperately tight budgets, the council has ...

Spanish Particular, October 20-22