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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...

Cornelius Cardew in New Cross, and a ballad of East Street

Jun

2015

'Cornelius Cardew (1936-81): a life unfinished' by John Tilbury (Copula, 2008) is a monumental biography of the radical composer by one of his closest collaborators. Its 1100 pages document in close detail Cardew's musical and political life, cut short at the age of 45 when he was hit by a car in East London.Cardew became ...

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 ...

1915 London Tram Strike in New Cross

Jun

2015

A hundred years ago this week, tram workers in London were sacked for going on strike and sent off to war. The London tram strike was prompted by the rising cost of living - the 7,000 strikers demanded a 'war bonus'. The response of the employer, London County Council (LCC), was to sack all men ...

The Sleeping Giant at the Amersham Arms

Jun

2015

Ellen writes:The second installment of ‘The Sleeping Giant’ returns to The Amersham Arms, New Cross on June 23rd.Organised and curated by Amber Hanson Rowe and Ellen Camilla Rose, the night promises to be an exciting reflection on the local area and young creative people across London. A one night event featuring visual artists and live ...

Music Monday: Steven Ball – Collected Local Songs

Jun

2015

Steven Ball's Collected Local Songs, released in February, is an album that is as local as it gets in terms of Deptford. Ball describes it as 'a collection of songs of quotidian and local reflection, mostly constructed from everyday language, observations, overheard conversations, encounters, signs, community notices, announcements, phrases from historical texts about Victorian social ...

‘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 ...

New nursery for New Cross

May

2015

Karen writes:A former council (I understand) nursery that closed several years ago is being reopened next month by London Early Years Foundation Nurseries on Amersham Vale in New Cross. It sits behind the Sure Start centre. It's a crying shame that it stood empty for so long (but all the toys were still there!).I went ...

For Everyman, A Religion

May

2015

For Each A Road - In this case, New Cross Road, where the Jehovah's Witnesses are refurbishing Kingdom HallJuiced workers. Joy withheld.Jesus wept. Judgement waits.

Folk on the Hill

May

2015

Tonight - Friday 15th May at the Hill Station Cafe (Kitto Road, SE14) presents 'Folk on the Hill', with live music from Byron Biroli, Harry Dickson and Pigeon Heroes. Entry is free/donation, food and drink available.Here's Pigeon Heroes in the Goldsmiths Music Studio, New Cross Road:

Nepal earthquakes

May

2015

Various initiatives have been going on locally in response to the disastrous earthquakes in Nepal. The Hill Station Cafe in Kitto Road SE14 collected donations for an emergency airlift:Tomorrow (Friday) there's a film night Nepal benefit at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Spa Road, Bermondsey: http://www.london.samye.org/programme/all-events/new-calendar-event-56/