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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...

Pret a LeSoCo

Sep

2013

Two LeSoCo (formerly Lewisham College incorporating Southwark College and not to be confused with Lesotho) fashion students will be on show at London Fashion Week on 17th September.Work by 18 year old Nhung Le Thi Hong and Gloria Iyare will be showcased at Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden. The students are competing in the 2013 ...

Lauren Jackson at Room 104

Aug

2013

The community-run art gallery at the Tea Factory may have failed, but the building's role as an art space survives in the form of Room 104, which is available for hire. The latest exhibition starts next week:Monday 2nd September - 13th September 2013Lauren Jackson studied BA Contemporary Art Practice at the University of Leeds and ...

Artist studios created in Brockley

Aug

2013

Enclave, the Deptford art complex developers, are expanding into Brockley, offering artist studio space in Dragonfly Place [the current BC sponsor], Brockley's new business hub.They say:There will be a combination of new shared, open and private studios up to 1000 sq ft each. Each unit is on the first floor, will have a sink, windows, concrete ...

Appetite Festival in Nunhead

Aug

2013

Appetite Nunhead is a 'Food and Art Festival'; taking place form 20 September – 6 October 2013, and featuring events including: 'a Food Trail on Saturday 5 October with free bite size tasters, guided walking tours from ‘Fantasy High Street’ with pop up performance in local businesses, dinners and tastings in shops, exhibitions and installations, ...

Magi Decoupage

Aug

2013

Nova & Lorsten's Decoupage Day - Magi Gifts from Kai Clear on Vimeo.Kai sent us this timelapse video. He says: It's a Rose Dancer Mural for Magi Gifts created by local decoupage artist and former Moonbows DJ Carol Vigurs aka Nova & Lorsten.

The Nunhead Corner Pop-Up Gallery

Aug

2013

Our Nunhead forum does such a good job of documenting Nunhead events, that it's been a while since we've run a story about the area. However, this gallery opening seems like a good excuse - the first private view is this Friday, then the second stage opens on the 18th September. Visit their Facebook page ...

Estuary and Stevedores

Aug

2013

I went to the Estuary exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, featuring the 'work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea' with its 'dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts'. It's ...

Where the Morlocks live

Aug

2013

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. Without them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.- H.G. Wells, The Time MachineBCer Russell has found this amazing hand-drawn ...

Freshly Packed at Deptford Lounge

Aug

2013

Next Saturday 17th August, Something Human present FRESHLY PACKED: EAT TO LIVE by Peruvian performance artist Lorena Lo Peña at the Deptford Lounge (Giffin Street SE8):'Eat to Live investigates excess and self-destructive behaviours when the body is used as the main site of punishment. Based on autobiographical experiences, the performance addresses bulimia and binge eating, highlighting how eating disorders are ...

Life Drawing with Green Tea Architects

Aug

2013

Life drawing classes are the new pop-up restaurants. Malcolm writes with news of another option:Green Tea Architects are holding life drawing evenings on a fortnightly basis starting on Thursday 12th September 2013. The evening starts at 6.15 and ends at 8.30.There will be a 15 minute intermission during which time a complimentary glass of wine ...