What's On - July

Nature Reserve Open

Saturday 15 July: Garthorne Road

Day 2pm – 5pm

We are open to the public on the third Saturday of each month. Entrance is free and all are welcome to come to an oasis of calm in Forest Hill. Location: Beadnell Road, SE23 1AA. www.garthorneroadnaturereserve.com

Saturday 22 July: Family Festival - Mark Makers

18 July: Pollinators and Honey Bees in Dulwich

Tuesday

6pm-7.30pm. In the Bell House vegetable garden, Annie McGeoch will introduce the basics of beekeeping, describing life inside the hive, the life cycle of honey bees, and the beekeeping year. While honeybees are doing well wild bees and all insect populations are declining. She will talk about ways we can promote the many species of bees, from planting for pollinators to food production in agriculture. It’s a huge subject for discussion in the garden surrounded by insects. During the evening, there will be an opportunity to look inside the three hives at BH and see what we have discussed, the queen, workers and drones. If the weather is rainy and cold we cannot open the hives so we can postpone until conditions are more favourable or talk indoors. The event will take place in the garden. Please wear sturdy shoes, preferably wellies, definitely no sandals or open toe shoes and wear trousers. Participants will be lent protective bee suits.

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS. Tickets are £20 each which includes a jar of honey to take home. Please note that if honey stocks are low we may need to wait for the new batch of honey in September.

Bell House, 27 College Road, Dulwich, SE21 7BG. www.bellhouse.co.uk

11am-4pm. Get creative as a family this summer and become your own Mark Makers, inspired by the trailblazing Impressionist Berthe Morisot. Explore the radical techniques Morisot used to create her paintings and discover how radical art making techniques are used today. Workshops will include painting outdoors, exploration of colour and light and capturing the everyday. Adults £15, Friends/Concessions £12 Kids go FREE. Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk.

Wednesday 26 July: Cooking with Scissors 6.45pm-8pm

An opportunity for local business professionals to meet, make new contacts and gain new business. The last Wednesday of every month. Free Admission. The Lordship Pub, 211 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HA. www.cookingwithscissors.co.uk

Friday 28 July: Creative Arts

Club for the Over 60s: Printing with Light – Cyanotype Prints

10am – 4pm. Learn how to make cyanotype prints, also known as blueprints or photograms. You will go out into the gardens at Bell House to find inspiration and samples to take back into the class and experiment with and learn the basics of making cyanotype prints.

Bell House Dulwich, 27 College Road SE21 7BG.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk

Friday 28 July: Dulwich

Comedy Experience with Ed

Gamble 8pm - 10:30pm

Plosive’s flagship stand-up night, bringing the best in alternative comedy to south east London.

ED GAMBLE - Taskmaster champion and cohost of mega-hit podcast Off Menu – headlines this show. He is joined by Live at the Apollo star STEPHEN BAILEY, the award winning ANIA MAGLIANO and fast-rising star RAJIV KARIA.

The MCT at Alleyn’s, Townley Road SE22 8SX Tickets can be purchased on www.plosive.co.uk