Adventures in the Anthropecene – talk in Sydenham

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 27th January 2016, 7:30 pm), Gaia Vince - author of Adventures in the Anthropocene - is giving a reading at Sydenham's fine Kirkdale Books.  The book, which won the 2015Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, looks at 'Growing evidence from around the globe... that we are living in a permanently changed ...

Cemetery Issues – Southwark Woods

The Council is acting on their massive plan for Nunhead's Camberwell New Cemetery including cutting down trees on the side of One Tree Hill and the excavation and mounding over of old graves. Plan includes digging up or mounding over and removing headstones of every grave over 75 years old (that is, every grave). This ...

Vote for Brockley Max on Wednesday 27 Jan at the Ladywell Assembly

If any of you live or work in Ladywell, we would love your support for the Brockley Max festival, tomorrow (Wednesday) at the View attachment 3378 View attachment 3378 Ladywell Assembly, 7pm at Gordonbrock school. We need your vote for funding for the fantastic Art In The Park community event with art workshops, live music, ...

Big Bird Watch, Jan 31

The Friends of Hilly Fields are holding a Big Birdwatch event this Sunday 31 January from 10.30 - 12.30 to coincide with the RSPB national event.Join a guided walk or grab a bird ID sheet and go round by yourselves. Activities for children include making bird feeders and fat balls. The RSPB will also have ...

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 ...