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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...

New live / work / play plan for New Cross Road

Jun

2015

I am a member of Goldsmiths' governing Council and have been waiting for a long time to share this news.I joined the Council ready to bend everyone's ear about the importance the local community attached to the issue of Goldsmiths' derelict shop fronts on New Cross Road - but they already knew and had been ...

‘Reclaiming our University’ at Goldsmiths

May

2015

Tomorrow at Goldsmiths in New Cross, Goldsmiths UCU (lecturers/academics union) is hosting a 'Reclaiming Our University' conference. They say:'The marketisation of Higher Education has radically undermined the idea of the university as a public institution – gearing institutional priorities towards what is financially profitable rather than socially and culturally worthwhile. In this context of intense ...

Muddy Waters at Goldsmiths 1968

May

2015

This poster popped up recently on Twitter (@salvatorRosa) - legendary blues artist Muddy Waters playing at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, November 29 1968. Also featuring Otis Spann (playing with Waters), British blues guitarist Gordon Smith (who has played with Kevin Coyne among others) and Mike Kean's Dusty Blues Ensemble.However, as somebody in comments has pointed ...

Goldsmiths Occupation

Mar

2015

Goldsmiths students are occupying the college's Deptford Town Hall building in New Cross Road, part of a wave of occupations that has also seen similar protests at Central St Martins (University of the Arts London) and the LSE, among others.The full list of demands is as follows:Goldsmiths occupation demandsCounselling services:- Recruit ...

Isle of Sheppey talk at Goldsmiths

Jan

2015

I know there's a few Isle of Sheppey enthusiasts out there, so thought I would share this poster I spotted at Goldsmiths in New Cross for a talk by Professor Len Platt on 'The Isle of Sheppey: culture, identity and the representation of place'.The free event on Tuesday 10th February, 4:30 to 6:00pm will feature ...

YBAs donate to Goldsmiths gallery fundraiser

Jan

2015

Goldsmiths has revealed the list of its alumni who have donated artworks for its gallery fundraising auction. Blouin Artinfo reports:The works, by the likes of Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and Steve McQueen, will be auctioned during Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on February 12, 2015 in London. The ...

Deptford Town Hall restored

Nov

2014

Deptford Town Hall, the Grade II-listed building on New Cross Road, has been unwrapped, following recent restoration work.The building is owned by Goldsmiths, University of London and the work is part of the college's strategy to enhance its estate, which sits at the heart of New Cross and does much to define the area.Like the ...

‘Blacks Brittanica’ in New Cross

Oct

2014

This Thursday 30th October, 7pm in the Cinema (room RHB 185) at Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW:'South London Anti-Fascists are proud to host a screening of David Koff's 1978 documentary 'Blacks Britannica'.Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about ...

The Common Greene – Reading Deptford History through Peter Linebaugh (in New Cross on Monday)

Oct

2014

Radical historian and theorist of the commons Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Marcus Rediker), The Magna Carta Manifesto, and introductions to a Verso book of Thomas Paine’s writing and PM’s new edition of E.P. Thompson’s William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. Linebaugh works at the University of Toledo, ...

Transpontine Ten Years Later

Oct

2014

Can't quite believe that this blog is ten years old. The first posts were on 9 October 2004, covering a talk on witch trials at South East London Folklore Society, a gig by our then favourite local band The Swear at the Montague Arms, and another gig by The Fucks at Goldsmiths . The blog really ...