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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...

The Animal That Therefore I Am

May

2013

Local artists Cait Peterson and Wiggy Cheung have an exhibition opening next week at the House Gallery in Camberwell (70 Camberwell Church Street). 'The Animal That Therefore I Am' features animal-themed paintings, drawings, and taxidermy, and is in support of the mental health charities Rethink and Mind. The show will run from 13-29 May (closed Bank Holiday ...

Forest Bill

May

2013

Greater Brockley's artist-in-residence Mike Hall has created another of his illustrated maps - this time, Forest Hill and Honor Oak, which he's selling on Etsy.

‘Mad Tracey from Croydon’

Apr

2013

I used to love Tracey Emin. Her breakthrough exhibition at the South London Gallery in Camberwell 'I need Art like I need God' (way back in 1997) really blew me away, and I still think that she has brought some material into the art world boys club that has rarely found expression there before - young ...

Goldsmiths and Lewisham: Shared Histories

Apr

2013

'Goldsmiths & Lewisham: Shared Histories' is an exhibition opening this week in New Cross and Deptford with the aim of 'exploring the intertwined histories of Goldsmiths and its local community' via 'an insight into the area as a centre of creative work over the past century'. It will run from 24 April to 3 May 2013 across four sites: Goldsmiths' ...

In the Neighbourhood

Apr

2013

A few things going on locally that people have asked us to mention:Hill Trader Community Shop 'The Hill Trader Community Shop is an exciting new pop up shop in the Hill Station Café, run by local people for local people. As part of what we’re doing at the Hill Station, Kitto Rd, SE14 we have opened this ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ham

Apr

2013

Djeptford Unanchored

Apr

2013

Photo via Lewisham Council, who list it as one of the borough's most important pieces of public artOnce, it would have been as unthinkable as the removal of the Catford Cat, but The Deptford Anchor is gone. It has made way for a new-look Deptford High Street - its fate uncertain. The landmark, which doubled ...

Kate Tempest: Voice of gritty Brockley

Apr

2013

Kate Tempest is a Brockley performance poet, who recently won a Ted Hughes prize for spoken story. Transpontine and Eastlondonlines have already celebrated her rise and we've been meaning to showcase this Brockley talent for some time, but now the Guardian has forced our hand, by putting her on its front page today.The article discusses ...

Narnians Awake!

Apr

2013

Too Much Night, Again

Apr

2013

Los Angeles-based artist Pae White's installation, 'Too Much Night, Again' is on at the South London Gallery until 12 May (65 Peckham Road, SE5; admission free).The title of the yarn-based installation refers to insomnia, with the thread colours apparently linked to a Black Sabbath album belonging to her parents that used to terrify her as ...