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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Brockley artist short-listed for painting prize

Feb

2016

Brockley artist Emma Cousin (creator of local art event Bread & Jam) has had a painting shortlisted for the prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize - one of the UK's most respected prizes for representational painting.Her work will be on show show alongside 130 shortlisted paintings from across the UK at the Mall Galleries, London from 7th ...

I have done my share

Jan

2016

In the month that scientists produced evidence of the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, Brockley's Nobel street artist, Lionel Stanhope, has produced this portrait in Hilly Fields.Thanks to Fintan for the photo.

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

Jan

2016

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 ...

The Brockley Street Art Festival will return in 2016

Jan

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. ...

The Brocklings

Jan

2016

Caroline writes:I am a Brockley-based screenwriter for documentary and fiction and I'm looking for one or two like-minded, serious writers to start a small writing-support group, perhaps meeting monthly, to share and discuss our work.If anyone is interested, please contact me at carolinebacle@gmail.com

Sorrow

Jan

2016

A pair of eyes that have been looking out, slantindicular-fashion, over Geoffrey Road for the last few months, have been given a Bowie makeover.

Know your PLACE

Jan

2016

The team behind PLACE / Ladywell, the new pop-up space opening soon on the site of the old swimming pool, write:We are looking for an artist in residence to help us engage the public, generate interest in using the spaces on offer, and communicate the story that these spaces will be open for people to ...

Colour in Brockley

Dec

2015

Francois writes:We are very proud to launch “Colour in Brockley”, a colouring book about Brockley designed by Nicolas Wild and published by Made in Brockley itself. With a humorous pen, Nicolas depicts seven scenes to colour in.Nicolas Wild was a “Made in Brockley” special guest for 10 days. He is a graphic novelist who became ...

Mappa Brockli

Nov

2015

Illustrator Kerry Hyndman has created this map of Greater Brockley. We'll forgive her for making Nunhead the centre of this particular universe.

The Lizards Within Us, Enclave Gallery

Nov

2015

David Icke's line of defence was clear. When he said lizards, he really was referring to lizards. He was not talking about cockroaches, or amphibians in general, contrary to the suggestions mooted at the meeting in Vancouver, but Annunaki lizards, specifically, from the lower fourth dimension.- Jon Ronson, Secret Rulers of the WorldThe fourFOLD collective ...