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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...

Artist Village Brockley

Apr

2014

Artist Village, Brockley is a new studio in Brockley Cross, created as part of the Dragonfly Place development. The Artist Village team has the use of most of the first floor of the whole site for nearly two years, allowing them to create 32 brand new studios ranging from 120 sq feet to 400 sq ...

Brockley Box Art

Apr

2014

After the micro library, another of Brockley's red phone boxes has been put to good use.The South East London Arts Network is using the box at the corner of Wickham Road and Lewisham Way to display pictures by some of the 200 people who took part in a World Mental Health Day workshop at Tate Modern.SELAN ...

Lewisham Art House Open Day 2014

Apr

2014

Once Bad Intentions

Mar

2014

Once Bad Intentions is a novel set in Brockley and Lewisham. Written by local author Monique Dixon and set in the 1990s, it explores local gang culture of the time.Click here to visit the website and buy a copy.

Currency of ideas

Mar

2014

We just want to say thank you to whoever thought they would spend their time applying various kinds of sticky tape to this little part of Lewisham Way yesterday.The Spirograph-meets-Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends pattern made our journey to work this morning that bit nicer.We reckon 10 art follies are worth one new gallery in ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2014

Mar

2014

Telegraph Hill Festival opens this weekend, with three weeks of art, music, theatre and more, including activities for everyone from toddlers to pensioners. You can read the full programme here, so I won't labour the point.The biggest events, in terms of size, will probably be the community production of Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin's ...

The Brockley MAX returns with an auction of promises

Mar

2014

The Brockley MAX Arts Festival returns for 2014,after taking a year's break - Glastonbury style - to let the land and volunteers' energy-levels recover. Organiser Moira explains:This year's MAX will take place from Friday 30 May with a spectacular opening night of music, and run until Saturday 7 June, details soon on www.brockleymax.co.ukTo build support ...

Six life models in search of an artist

Mar

2014

Susie and Jenny have everything you could ever need to run life drawing classes, except for a teacher. They write:Artists! We are hoping to start a life-drawing class - we have a venue (very near Brockley station)and can find participants but we need a teacher! Please contact jennymiller.barefootopera@gmail.com

Sketching New Cross

Mar

2014

Really enjoyed the 'Sketching New Cross' exhibition at Hart's Lane Studios SE14 last weekend. People from 'London Drawing on Location Group' came down to New Cross/Deptford last month and sketched what they saw, before exhibiting their workLots of local landmarks featured, including New Cross Inn, Marquis of Granby, St Pauls Church etc.My personal favourites were Sue ...

FFWD the Revolution

Mar

2014

Amanda writes:In the hundredth anniversary year of the opening of Deptford Central Library, a FFWD the Revolution is a performative tour and publication by Ruth Beale that will chart the the history of the building, the uses of each space, and the political ambitions of its occupants.Combining new writing and archive material, the work encounters ...