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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 briefs earn Oscar nomination for local screenwriter

Jan

2016

Brockley-based screenwriter Matt Charman has been Oscar nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category for his work on Bridge of Spies, developing the script with the legendary Coen Brothers.The cold war drama, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, collected a total of six nominations. Charman pitched the story to Spielberg in his pants ...

Curzon Cinema to open in New Cross

Jan

2016

New Cross is getting a shiny new cinema. A proper one. Not a sea container with a projector or a cafe with a big screen TV. An honest to goodness cinema. Goldsmiths announces:A pioneering partnership between Goldsmiths, University of London and Curzon Cinemas is to bring full-time cinema to Lewisham after a gap of 15 ...

Wavelengths movie nights, November 14-28

Nov

2015

This month, Deptford Film Club is staging special Saturday night movie screenings at Wavelengths pool. Lounge on the water’s edge, float on a lilo, or swim throughout the movie. No word on whether the wave machine will get turned on, but they're making few concessions to the casual swinema-goer with their choice of movies - after ...

Festival of Choice Film Night in New Cross

Sep

2015

The Festival of Choice is a week of events in London aiming 'to raise awareness of threats to reproductive rights and the plight of those in countries around the world who do not have access to safe and legal abortion. The Festival also wishes to celebrate solidarity and activism and to strengthen and support the ...

‘Working Illegally’: Detention Centre film in Deptford

Jun

2015

Coming up next month - Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm - at Goldsmiths Students Union (Dixon Road SE14), South London Anti-Fascists present a screening of the film Working Illegally that 'exposes the ever increasing phenomenon of coerced labour in detention centres... Told primarily through detainees' testimonies, based on original research by Corporate Watch, this film offers ...

The Theory of Everything, May 21st

May

2015

The Hither Green Festival is currently under way and the organisers have invited BCers to join their evening screening of The Theory Of Everything on Thursday, May 21st.The Hither Green Community Association (HGCA) is a proactive community resource for people who live and work in Hither Green and the surrounding area.The association promotes local identity, ...

Railman: a 1974 film made at Grove Park Station

Apr

2015

A rare showing this Friday at the Mayday Rooms (88 Fleet Street EC4Y 1DH) of an experimental film made in 1974 at Grove Park Station, Lewisham.This from the organisers:'RAILMAN: A First Attempt at Collective Film Making - FOUR CORNERS FILMS in 1974Friday 17th April 2015 7-9pm, MDR Screening RoomIn 1976 Four Corners Films (Joanna Davis, Mary Pat ...

Cat Video Film Festival, Big Red Pizza, April 25

Mar

2015

We got this via Transpontine who explained to his readers that he's resorting to posting about cat videos because he is too busy at the moment to write proper articles. We offer no such apology. Click here for details.

The Deptford Cinema starts next month

Feb

2015

The Deptford Cinema opens in March.The community-run, Kickstarter-backed screening room has three three films lined up for March, including:- ‘Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo' by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington (March 6, tickets £5)- Cosmonautics (March 7, tickets £3)- Ring of Water (March 14, tickets £3)The venue is a 50-seat cinema space which also ...