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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...

Wonder Day 2016

Sep

2016

Southwark’s annual Wonder Day will take place on Saturday 17 September, in time to celebrate Recycle Week (12 – 18 September). On the day there will be tours of the facility so residents can learn first-hand how their recyclables and black bag waste are turned into new green products and energy. There will also be ...

Farmers’ Market

Sep

2016

This weekend, the farmers’ market will be up by the cafe. The stalls support the friends’ group, their rent helps fund small projects including the mud kitchen, wildflower seeds, bird seed, tools etc. Whitegates Farm bring eggs, fruit, vegetables, apple juices…and hopefully some Kent apples, Marsh Meat have a selection of meats and we are hoping the ...

Test Dept:Redux – Return to New Cross

Sep

2016

Test Dept are surely one of the most influential bands to emerge from the local area, starting out in New Cross in the early 1980s (some band members lived at 8 Nettleton Road) and pioneering a politically committed industrial sound. In the last couple of years members of the band, who have remained active across ...

New Chandos

Sep

2016

The Chandos, the journeyman pub on 56 Brockley Rise, has been given an impressive makeover, which extends to a handsome new pub garden. It got some minor remedial work last year but this is on a far more ambitious scale. The photo is from a set on SE23life. Click here for the works.New and revamped ...

Brockley Nature Reserve Open Day

Sep

2016

It's been a while since I last plugged the Brockley Nature Reserve - an obscure, inaccessible and beautiful wilderness on Vesta Road - so for those of you who haven't been reading religiously for the last nine years, it's worth mentioning that its next open day will be on Sunday, September 25th, 1-4pm.The 4.2 hectare ...

Deptford X 2016

Sep

2016

Deptford X is London’s longest-running contemporary art festival – a showcase for emerging contemporary artists, with a strong foundation of support from art-world professionals.Deptford X takes place in multiple locations across Deptford over 10 days from Friday 23rd September to Sunday 2nd October 2016.Festival Director Patrick Henry worked with five top curators to choose exciting ...

So many (free) films, so little time

Sep

2016

The free film festival scene continues to grow, easy to take them for granted but seeing lots of great movies for free at interesting venues on your doorstep - how cool is that?Peckham and Nunhead is on right now until 11 September - full programme here. It will soon be followed locally by Forest Hill ...

Lemongrass supergrass

Sep

2016

New Cross, you've changed. Police were called to local cafe Birdie Num Nums by a customer upset that he had been served lemon and ginger tea instead of the lemongrass and ginger tea that he ordered. The Standard reports:Sevjan Melissa, 30, who owns Birdie Num Nums in Lewisham Way, New Cross, said staff gave the ...

New Cross Party in the Park 2016

Sep

2016

Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd September) sees the New Cross Party in the Park returning to Fordham Park, a free community festival 'for all ages, with family events, arts and crafts, stalls, spoken word, as well as local bands and acts for all tastes from disco to reggae, punk rock, soul and folk'. The party follows on from previous ...

‘Waste Land’ free film screening (Wed 7 Sept)

Sep

2016

Waste Land is a 2010 British-Brazilian documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. The film chronicles artist Vik Muniz, who travels to the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho outside Rio de Janeiro. There he collaborates with a lively group of catadores (litter pickers) of recyclable materials, who find a way to the most prestigious auction house ...