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The Elephant and the Nun 2015

Saturday 15 August
Burgess Park, SE5
12pm to 8pm
Admission FREE
The Elephant and the Nun is an annual festival that brings a fun family vibe to the heart of Southwark. Filled with performances and activities there truly is something for everyone. By involving local artists and community groups in the creation of the programme we have had a truly eclectic festival in the beautifully redeveloped Burgess Park. With three performance areas, massive markets, funfair, sports, art installations, children’s art and play activities and a food village you’ll not be short of something to do.
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http://www.southwark.gov.uk/southwarkpresents/eandn

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/southwarkpresents/homepage/71/global_local_stage
 
I should say, if it's not too cheeky, please spread that link around to anyone and everyone you think might be interested. Desperately trying to build an audience for the film club and this is one time we're actually allowed to tell people what films we're screening!
 
Lewisham have put a lot of their photo archive online, and prints can be ordered.

:)

but not cheap

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(in case anyone's wondering, photographer was stood roughly where the clock tower is now - the clock tower got moved in the mid 90s - looking towards the roundabout that's currently being dug up.
 
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This is the 2nd time I've seen "Catford is the new Peckham". I had expected it to gentrify with young families rather than artists but maybe not:

"Catford in southeast London, once considered a cultural backwater, will gain 10,000 sq. ft of new artists’ studios in April 2016, thanks to Bow Arts. The educational arts charity has won the tender to create workspaces, for between 35 and 60 emerging artists, on the fourth floor of Catford Town Hall. Designed by the Hackney-based practice, Studio Tilt, the project is being funded by Lewisham Council and the Greater London Authority’s High Street Fund.

Bow Arts is also partnering with the London Small Business Centre to develop the fifth floor of the town hall into a space to support creative start-ups. “Catford is one of those places to watch in London,” says Marcel Baettig, the chief executive of Bow Arts. “It is growing in reputation and confidence really fast and is becoming an exciting place to be in the arts.”

Is Catford the next Peckham?
 
dynamicbaddog said:
Looks like we are going to get a new cinema (on Goldsmiths campus)
Goldsmiths partners with Curzon to open campus cinema
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Heard about this earlier, rather exciting news!

*ahem* In the meantime, if you're looking for a (free!) film fix, the weekly film club at New Cross Learning starts again this evening.

We've published our programme for the next two months and tonight's is a very silly romp around Sweden and beyond as a man escapes his 100th birthday celebrations and looks back on his ‪‎Forrest Gump‬-like adventures.

Like I say, it's free entry, starts at 7pm, and you may even get a cup of tea thrown into the deal*! :cool:






*subject to mug availability and time constraints ;)
 
A small and dynamic community centre are starting a fundraising campaign to raise funds for essential maintenance for their building and running costs. They've made a beautiful little film to kickstart their campaign, please help them out if you can as they are a vital community facility in difficult circumstances
 
ShiftyBagLady said:
A small and dynamic community centre are starting a fundraising campaign to raise funds for essential maintenance for their building and running costs. They've made a beautiful little film to kickstart their campaign, please help them out if you can as they are a vital community facility in difficult circumstances
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wow....really great video - genuine enthusiasm comes across - Downham is such a massive estate, and IIRC was built with basically no social provisions (little pubs/shops)...the housing just rolls on and on...the threat to knock the centre down for flats is really depressing...its already rammed full of housing with no other provisions...

the good news there is it sounds that there's money to get the building fixed up, so it sounds like its not about to shut anytime soon.
Anyhow Ive stuck a tenner in for what its worth: https://mydonate.bt.com/events/goldsmithsse6
 
ska invita said:
wow....really great video - genuine enthusiasm comes across - Downham is such a massive estate, and IIRC was built with basically no social provisions (little pubs/shops)...the housing just rolls on and on...the threat to knock the centre down for flats is really depressing...its already rammed full of housing with no other provisions...

the good news there is it sounds that there's money to get the building fixed up, so it sounds like its not about to shut anytime soon.
Anyhow Ive stuck a tenner in for what its worth: https://mydonate.bt.com/events/goldsmithsse6
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It's a lovely film isn't it? You're right that the area is really densely populated and without local amenities and places to bring people together an awful paradoxical isolation creeps in. Particularly as there are lots of elderly people who have very little access to community spaces if they can't travel.

They also held a nice event, I don't think it was after the Paris terrorist attacks, where some local Muslim people organised a get together as a way of bringing some positivity and openness to the community.


I'm planning to donate some money and try to help spread the word a bit on this because, if I'm honest, I think they really are going to struggle to raise the funds they need. They need lots of work (electrics, asbestos removal, roof repair, fire doors) and they need to hire somebody to manage it as its almost entirely run by volunteers. its quite a task and seems to be a real crossroads in the history of the centre
 
ShiftyBagLady said:
It's a lovely film isn't it? You're right that the area is really densely populated and without local amenities and places to bring people together an awful paradoxical isolation creeps in. Particularly as there are lots of elderly people who have very little access to community spaces if they can't travel.

They also held a nice event, I don't think it was after the Paris terrorist attacks, where some local Muslim people organised a get together as a way of bringing some positivity and openness to the community.


I'm planning to donate some money and try to help spread the word a bit on this because, if I'm honest, I think they really are going to struggle to raise the funds they need. They need lots of work (electrics, asbestos removal, roof repair, fire doors) and they need to hire somebody to manage it as its almost entirely run by volunteers. its quite a task and seems to be a real crossroads in the history of the centre
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at the end of the video though they said they had the money to remove asbestos and finish the electrics, and possibly even a manager! But they still want to stick more cash into sorting the place out...so it sounds fairly secure, but im sure they could still do with it :)
 
ska invita said:
at the end of the video though they said they had the money to remove asbestos and finish the electrics, and possibly even a manager! But they still want to stick more cash into sorting the place out...so it sounds fairly secure, but im sure they could still do with it :)
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Yeah they've got money to remove the asbestos, some to continue with the electrics (not sure about finishing them) but no money for the roof, the windows, the fire doors etc. That will help open half of the building (I think) and that should help fund the running costs in future but there's so much more work to be done. And there's no money yet for a manager or tiger support staff.
I think their target is about £56k.
 
Tiger support staff? Shit, tigers are a good idea...
(I meant 'other' but am happy to go with tigers)
 
Anju said:
Win a weekend in Depford! Yes really! The prize includes a private guided tour of the market.


Win a weekend in buzzing Deptford
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This nauseates me. It just makes me think of how ordinary working people such as market traders, then genuinely 'impoverished artists' make an area what it is, only for it to be raped by capitalist scum.

I know that's really overblown and emotive language but it's how I feel about gentrification!
 
oryx said:
This nauseates me. It just makes me think of how ordinary working people such as market traders, then genuinely 'impoverished artists' make an area what it is, only for it to be raped by capitalist scum.

I know that's really overblown and emotive language but it's how I feel about gentrification!
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I think the language is perfectly appropriate. The whole of Deptford, between Deptford and Greenwich and the centre of Lewisham are being transformed but not in any natural way. I think all those flats should have been built as social housing. 10% reserved for unemployed, 10% for refugeea and the rest rented to working people with incomes below £60,000. The builders and material suppliers still get paid and long term there is no cost to the taxpayer as rents would mostly be paid from people's earnings. We would also get a more diverse, but hopefully also integrated community, than if it is just people with the money and mindset of those able to pay £400,000 for a flat in an area they would have driven through, checking their doors were locked, just a few years ago.
 
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