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...
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New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2014

Apr

26

2014

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2014 kicked off last night with 'Bend it Like Beckham' at the Hill Station Cafe and Superman of Malegaon at the Big Red Pizzeria. Loads more free events at interesting venues over the next week - see full programme here.I will just mention a couple of events with ...
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Deptford High Street · Film · New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival · New Cross Stadium · speedway · Transpontine

New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2014

Apr

22

2014

The Festival starts this Friday. Highlights include:- O Brother, Where Art Thou? in the cells of The Old Police Station (114 Amersham Vale), on Friday May 2nd, with 'Deptford's answer to the Soggy Bottom Boys... Danny & The Moonlighters and The Hellfire Orchestra at 7.15pm followed by the film screening at 8pm.'- A bike-powered, sing-along screening of Grease, presented ...
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Brockley Central · Deptford · events · Film · New Cross

Skateboards and Sound Systems in Telegraph Hill Festival Final Weekend

Apr

3

2014

[Update Sunday 6th April - because of the wet weather, the SKAM festival has been cancelled, and will be rearranged later in the summer. The Sound System RUMBQ won't be happening in the park either but WILL be taking place indoors instead - in the Narthex building at St Catherine's Church (Kitto Rd, SE14).A few ...
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Film · music · New Cross · Nunhead and District Municipal Museum and Art Gallery · reggae · St Catherine's Church - Hatcham · Telegraph Hill Park · Transpontine

PG-rated Woodhouse

Mar

31

2014

Woodhouse is a short film by local director Fred Rowson, which had its debut online today. Fred writes:It was all shot in and around Brockley, and I consider it something of a paean to the area. Some insider local knowledge: the nature reserve where it all takes place is the New Cross Gate Cutting, and ...
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Brockley Central · Film

Brockley: A little town called Hope

Feb

24

2014

Local film maker Luke Mordue has launched a Kickstarter for his Melancholia-meets-I Am Legend project, 'Sola'. It's intended to be an examination of depression in a post-Apocalyptic setting and asks "what if the last surviving human didn't want to live?"Where better to pose these questions than in Brockley, which you can catch a brief glimpse ...
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Brockley Central · Film

Derek Jarman on the South Bank

Feb

24

2014

Twenty years last week (19th February) since the death from AIDS of Derek Jarman (1942-1994), film-maker, artist, writer, gardener and queer activist  There wasn't too much to mark the tenth anniversary of his passing, but back in 2004 me and some friends lit some candles and left flowers at Butlers Wharf SE1 where he once ...
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Bankside · Deptford · Derek Jarman · Film · South London Film and TV locations · St Nicholas Church (Deptford) · Transpontine

Number 82 Film Club, February 26th

Feb

20

2014

Number82 Film Club is hosting a night at the Brockley Social Club (240 Brockley Road), screening Bronco Bullfrog and Local Life on Feb 26th, from 7.30pm - 11pm. They say:Bronco Bullfrog is a tale of teenage love and alienantion, the film plays out against the cafes, bombsites and the new brutalist architecture and high rise ...
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Brockley Central · brockley social club · events · Film

‘Riots Reframed’ – film showing in New Cross

Feb

12

2014

The riots of 2011 were generally presented as simply criminal behaviour by gangs of youths, with no other explanation required. The 1981 riots in Brixton and elsewhere thirty years before were reported in similar terms at the time, but nowadays no historian would deny that they were linked to policing, racism, poverty and other social ...
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2011 · Film · Goldsmiths · New Cross · riots and uprisings · Transpontine

Marlowe 450th anniversary: Screening of Jarman’s EDWARD II

Feb

8

2014

The Deptford Film Club write:To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the playwright Christopher Marlowe’s birth, the film adaptation of his classic play 'Edward II' will be screened inside St Nicholas' Church in Deptford, south London, where Marlowe was buried following his murder in 1593.When King Edward II takes a male lover, Piers Gaveston, both his ...
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Brockley Central · Deptford · events · Film · history

‘London in the Raw’ at Brockley Social Club

Jan

26

2014

Coming up at the number82 Film Club at Brockley Social Club, Wednesday 29th January (7:30 pm - 11 pm, films start at 8:30 pm), a night of film, music and bingo featuring 'London in the Raw', Arnold Miller's 1964 documentary of London nightlife, and 'Pub', a 1962 film made in The Approach Tavern in Bethnal ...
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brockley social club · Film · Transpontine