Gentle Hatha Flow – Tuesdays 6.30pm. First Class £5 – The Green

Hello Come and join my new Gentle Hatha Flow class at the lovely new Community Centre, The Green at Nunhead, Tuesdays 6.30pm - 7.30pm. As this is a new class, I'm offering a £5 taster price for everybody's first class (normal price £10 drop-in or discount card £45 for 5 class pass - valid for ...

Curzon Goldsmiths opens on January 29th

Curzon Goldsmiths opens to public on 29 January 2016. Goldsmiths announces:The new cinema at Goldsmiths, University of London is opening on 29 January 2016 – with The Big Short and The Revenant the first films to be screened.Curzon Goldsmiths is the result of a partnership between the university and Curzon Cinemas. The collaboration is bringing ...

Christ Stopped at Burgess Park: Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964)

By Burgess Park in Wells Way SE5, in front of St George's Church (now flats), there stands a war memorial 'to the memory of those who served 1914-1918'. It features a bronze figure of Christ holding a crown of thorns. The statute was made in 1918 by the Danish artist Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964), an interesting ...

Gina’s Butterfly Effect, February 19

Local cabaret returns - for more details visit www.theginacabaret.com

Crofton Park commuters launch campaign for better trains

If the recent slew of positive stories about transport infrastructure in South East London have taught us one thing, it's that Crofton Park Station and the Thameslink services that rattle through it are at the top of no-one's to-do list.The Catford Loop line rarely gets mentioned in any talk of upgrades or restructures and the ...

Music Monday: Anarcho punk 1984 in New Cross & Old Kent Road

'Not Just Bits of Paper', edited by Tony Bull and Mickey Penguin is 'A series of recollections, memories, imagined dreams perhaps from the collective memories of those who lived through the punk and anarcho-punk years' of the 1980s (available from Situation Books). It includes lots of flyers and other 'ephemera' and I noticed these two ...

Charlton protest – Give Our Club Back

Charlton fan Simon Pirani has sent us this report of the extraordinary scenes at Charlton Athletic yesterday:“We are not your customers”, thousands of Charlton fans sang during today’s home game against Blackburn Rovers. They called for Roland Duchatelet, the chronically out-of-touch multi-millionaire who owns the club, to sell up. After the game, a couple of ...

The Brockley Street Art Festival will return in 2016

Last summer's Brockley Street Art Festival didn't simply transform many of the area's least lovely walls, it kickstarted a local street art movement, such that new works have been added to our streetscapes ever since. So it's fantastic to hear (via Lionel Stanhope, Brockley's most prolific street artist) that the Festival will return this summer. ...

Barbara Hicks, Honor Oak Yoga Teacher (1951-2015)

Good to see an obituary in The Guardian's 'Other Lives' section for local yoga teacher Barbara Hicks (1951-2015), by her husband and colleague David Dayes. Barbara, who died last month from cancer, was a much appreciated teacher of Iyengar yoga at her and David's own Oakside Yoga Studio in Honor Oak, and at other local ...

Little Nan wins Dot London Award

All Bar Nan - the team collect the award at last night's ceremonyLocal pop-up cocktail den Little Nan was one of twelve London-based businesses to win at the inaugural Dot London Small Business Awards last night.The awards were created by Dot London, the capital’s unique domain name, to celebrate the success of London’s most outstanding ...