Goldsmiths charity fundraisers to play 12-hour Beethoven marathon

Goldsmiths writes:Professional players and singers join music students from Goldsmiths, University of London to perform a non-stop 12-hour marathon of all nine Beethoven symphonies on Saturday 23 April, raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières (UK).Three conductors - Adrián Varela, Samuel Burstin and Holly Mathieson - will lead proceedings in the Great Hall at the university’s ...

The Brockley Front Garden Sale, April 9 / 10

This weekend, approximately fifty homes across the neighbourhood will take part in a front garden sale.Between 11am and 4pm on each day, they will be putting their wares on display, from jumble to hand-crafted stuff. Here's the list of participating sellers. Go and have a mosey.

The Deptford Marbles

The Deptford Marbles [or Deptfort Marbles as the accompanying sign calls them] is a mural that greets travellers passing the foot of Tanner's Hill on their way into New Cross.Combining the mystery and awe of the Monolith with the haphazardness of a game of Jenga at The Royal Albert, it was created by prolific local ...

The Brockley Road Micro Micro Library

Lewisham Way has a couple of micro libraries. Brockley Road has its micro micro library. Same principle - smaller receptacle. Find it at 459 Brockley Road (Brockley Rise end of town).

Linear Obsessional #6 in Manor Park tomorrow

Tomorrow, Sunday April 3rd,  in Manor Park (not to be confused with the nearby Manor House Gardens), Linear Obsessional presents another programme of interesting, experimental and improvised music at the Arts Café: ' Four extraordinary acts, performing in a park in Lewisham!Marlo Eggplant -From Baltimore - Marlo Eggplant is a prominent figure in a diverse and ...

Fitness Bootcamps – Brockley – Hilly Fields

Come join us for some Spring 2016 fitness - www.miraclefitness.co.uk Bootcamp Info The next Brockley bootcamp is a super special. Not only is the price of the bootcamp on special you are also getting three additional sessions, making it fifteen sessions instead of the regular twelve sessions. The bootcamp will run from Tuesday 5th April ...

Limonious Dancehall Art at South London Gallery

This weekend is your last chance to see 'In Fine Style: the Dancehall art of Wilfred Limonious' at South London Gallery (it closes on Sunday April 3rd - admission free).The Jamaican graphic artist Wilfred Limonious (1949–99) designed  a couple of hundred dancehall/reggae record sleeves, and the exhibition features some of his art work for these as ...

House sale tomorrow

Jonathan writes:We are emigrating to America in April and are selling the contents of our home at an open house sale from 11.00-3.00 on Saturday 2nd April at 51 Ewhurst Road, SE4 1AG.Most items are for collection on Saturday the 2nd April. A few items (things we need until the end) are for collection on ...

Local theatre seeks local performers

The London Theatre in New Cross stages many well known modern and classic productions and likes to use local actors in their in house productions. This is London's smallest purpose built theatre and one of London's cheapest theatre bars and presently has LOLITA on, with five of the eight in the cast coming from Brockley, ...

Brockley Road designated London’s first neighbourhood Safe Space

The Brockley Road pilot will be the first of its kind Lewisham has been selected as the first local authority to implement a new neighbourhood Safe Space scheme. The pilot project will focus on the stretch of Brockley Road between Brockley Cross and Adelaide Avenue.During the month of April, co-ordinators will work with local shops to ...