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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...

Greatness is where we stand

Jun

2013

Three bits of Brockley greatness to share.First, Transpontine reports that Brockley composer Naresh Sohal will have a piece of work commissioned by the BBC called The Cosmic Dance performed at the 2013 Proms.Second, Londonist interviews Brockley theatre director Jeremy Herrin, whose production of The Tempest has just opened at The Globe. He also offers up ...

The Brockley Open Studios weekend – July 6-8

Jun

2013

Satvinda Bahra, Manor AvenueThe fantastic Brockley Open Studios weekend returns for the 21st year. Artists open up their homes and studios from July 6th until July 8th.This year there will be 42 local artists showcasing their work. If you haven't been before - go. If you have, then you don't need to be told.

The Dancing Plague of 1518

Jun

2013

A performance piece by Nicholas McArthur and Robert Molloy Vaughan An event curated by Franco La Russa and Annie Jael Kwan Event night: Tuesday 4th June 8pm - 11pm (Admission free) For the closing party of the exhibition Grace Before Meat by Espira, we are pleased to present a live performance work by artists Nicholas ...

Gaggle Cave Opens

Jun

2013

The Gaggle Cave opened on Thurday night in InSitu, the new art space attached to the Royal Albert on New Cross Road. The Gaggle choir sang a couple of songs outside, and there's lots of stuff happening there over the next few weeks. There's quite a few fee paying workshops; among the free stuff is ...

SE4 Photographs

May

2013

Brockley-based photographer Jamie Brett has created a series about SE4. He writes:I will continue to shoot this project on 6x6 film over the next year or so (there certainly needs to be an image of the Lions shopfront in there somewhere to strike the right balance). Three 1/5 Edition 30 x 30" prints are currently ...

£10m Peckham Complex to transform South East London art scene

May

2013

Peckham has been threatening to be "the next" somethingorother for a while now - mostly, the next Dalston on account of its nightlife and arts scene. This analysis also confirms Brockley's status as the new Stoke Newington - nearby but more bourgeois.Hoping to confirm Peckham's ascendancy and their own place at the heart of that story ...

See Red Women’s Workshop: feminist posters from SE5/SE17

May

2013

See Red Women's Workshop was a feminist screenprinting collective based in Walworth/Camberwell from around 1974.According to Jess Baines: 'See Red's activities included the designing and printing of their own posters and calendars, as well as taking on design and print commissions for other organisations. See Red developed a range of feminist posters that attempted to ...

Gaggle Cave

May

2013

Gaggle, the twenty strong all-women alternative choir, are taking up residency later this month at the InSitu Project Space - the Royal Albert pub's new gallery space next to the pub at 460 New Cross Cross Road. For three weeks (May 30th - June 21s) Gaggle will be running it as 'a one of a kind concept shop, gallery ...

There are some tights that never go out

May

2013

Dress by Anna of Akleriah'Moonbow' John McKiernan, sometime purveyor of fine coffee to the masses of SE London, has for the past few years been putting on art events in London and Kent under the umbrella of Platform 7. The latest initiative, with Russian/Czech art duo Akleriah, is 'RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS' taking place at 10 Catford Broadway, SE6 ...

Freshly Packed / Always Check the Label

May

2013

Annie writes:Something Human, in partnership with Brockspace, are pleased to present a series of live performance works entitled FRESHLY PACKED / ALWAYS CHECK THE LABEL. This line-up of work will take place across the summer of 2013 and aims to bring new, experimental work and build new audiences for live performance work in Brockley, southeast ...