13 minute read
Events Calendar
from SE23 October 2020
by SE Magazines
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
28th 29th 30th 1st 2nd Foxglove Forest School, see p30.
BNI Adventurers Online Meeting, see p6. 3rd
Tech Together, see p6.
Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting, see p6. 4th
Weekly Horniman Market is back! see p8. Dulwich Street Art Walk, see p6.
Homes fit for Heroes - see p8.
5th 6th Live Stream Life
Short Post Life Drawing see p8.
Coping with Anxiety, see p8.
Dulwich Park Runners see p8. 7th 8th 9th Foxglove Forest School, see p30.
New Mum’s Online Group, see p10.
Tech Together, see p8. Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting, see p8. BNI Adventurers Online Meeting, see p6. 10th
Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting, see p6. Tech Together, see p6. 11th Weekly Horniman Market is back! see p8.
Peckham Car Boot Sale, see p10.
12th
19th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th
Live Stream Life Short Post Life Drawing see p8. Coping with Anxiety, see p8. New Mum’s Online Group, see p10. Tech Together, see p8. BNI Adventurers Online Meeting, see p6. Tech Together, see p6. Weekly Horniman Market is back! see p8. Understanding Emotions Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting, see p6. Garden: Exhibition by Rowena Ardern @ Jeannie Avent www.rowenaardern.com U3A Monthly meeting via Zoom p10. Name That Film: Charity Fundraiser, for Parents of Adolescent Children, see p10.
Dulwich Park see p10.
Runners see p8. 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th
Holiday Drop Off @ Dulwich College Sports Club, see p28. Clocks go Back! Garden: Exhibition by Rowena Ardern @ Jeannie Avent www.rowenaardern.com
Village Books Virtual Event, p28. New Mum’s Online Group, see p10. Where’s Wally Spooky Search, see p22.
Coping with Anxiety, see p8. Tech Together, see p8. Charity Pub Quiz, BNI Adventurers Online Meeting, see p6. Tech Together, see p6. Live Stream Life Weekly Horniman Peckham Car Boot Sale, see p10.
Dulwich Park see p28. Drawing & Painting, Market is back!
Runners see p8. see p6. see p8.
26th 27th 28th 29th 30th Holiday Drop Off @ Dulwich College Sports Club, see p28. Touch Typing for Dyslexia Year 5 & 6, see p30.
Tech Together, see p8. Garden: Exhibition by Rowena Ardern @ Jeannie Avent. BNI Adventurers Online Nature for Live Stream Life Meeting, see p6. Wellbeing, see Drawing & Painting, p30. see p8. Smart Business Networking Dulwich Park with Cooking with Scissors. Runners see p8. Via Zoom, see p30. 31st
Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting, see p6. 1st
Forthcoming Events
Further details where available can be found in the News and Events pages 6, 8, 10, 28 & 30. Please read as not all the events can fit on the calendar!
Celebrating Life’s Important Events In A New Way
With only thirty people allowed at a “life cycle” ceremony at the moment, you might be tempted to put off your Big Day. Tamara Burgess thinks that would be a mistake… We as a tribe need our festivities, celebrations and rituals – what can we do? We have to embrace “the shock of the new” – or the “unprecedented times” (if I hear that one more time, I might scream!). We can’t continue to mourn the fact that we can’t have our lovely big parties. We have to be discerning and specific - maybe we need to throw a different light onto things – What is important about your wedding day, civil partnership vows, welcoming of your baby to the world – or any other lovely thing you can decide to celebrate? Initially it is the two or three of you. It is the family units who have decided to come together and celebrate their new journey; the renewal of your promises or having come through a challenging time.
You have about twenty-five people to play with (because I count as one and am absolutely essential to the magic of your day!) So, to feel we have done things properly, we need witnesses – how to choose them? Who is going to be in your gang? The first thing we do is park the fear of upsetting people. We have to accept, and so do they, that tough decisions must be made. Great Uncle Stan and Auntie Glad that you last saw at Christmas 1990, and who gave you some out of date toffees, have really forfeited the right to attend. You can meet old school mates another time. Do you really need your work mates? Don’t you see them on Zoom every day? See how easy this is getting? It’s like boiling down a sauce to make it richer. Who is absolutely necessary to you – apart from the person you are going to share vows with? This takes clever thinking but is perfectly possible. What we have to do is re-frame our feelings. It is a compromise, but it shouldn’t stop us from continuing to celebrate what makes being human so special. You may choose your family, your best friend (and no, their partner doesn’t have to attend) – but whoever it is must have earned their place. This crisis will not be with us forever; life will return to something we recognise – I just don’t believe we will never be able to have parties again! So, don’t postpone your important celebration. Wear the dress, the penguin suit, forget the bridesmaids (sorry!), watch Mum cry under her enormous hat, make those vows! Save your hard-earned cash and plan another party for your first or second anniversary – then all of your mates will know whether you actually kept those promises you made!
Tamara Burgess is a certified Civil Celebrant living in Lewisham, who conducts weddings, civil partnerships, baby namings, vow renewals and funerals. Please visit:
https://www.tamaraburgess.co.uk/
Thursdays 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 October: BNI Adventurers (online meeting)
6.45am-8.30am. Are you looking to grow your business? We have kept £9.4million in the local economy this year alone. We’ve changed the way the world does business……now it Dulwich’s turn. Please contact Hayley on 07843 989728
www.facebook.com/adventurersbni/
11am. Join us for friendly and engaging sessions to help you make the most of the internet.
www.bellhouse.co.uk.
10am-1pm. This is now a hybrid session with 15 artists allowed into the studio and also cameras for artists attending through Zoom. The Dulwich Art Group & School, 4a Champion Hill SE5 8AH.
www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk
Saturdays 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 October: Live Stream Life Drawing & Painting Sunday 4 October: Street Art Walk Dulwich
11-1pm (only 5 places, so 6 people in total). One of the participants on last months’ street art walk was Susan, who invited me (Amanda) to look at her wall on Bawdale Road, corner of Fellbrigg Road, just ripe for a mural. Co-incidentally at this time, I had been in correspondence with Berlin based female street artist, Mad C, to repaint her Belair Park tennis court wall which constantly gets vandalised as soon as it gets repaired. So a lightbulb moment happened, as I realised Susan’s wall was pretty much the same dimensions as the Belair wall, and before you knew it, everything fell into place. The neighbours all came out to see Mad C, with help from Remi Rough, on August 29th and were delighted to see this interpretation of Van Huysum’s Flowers in a Vase emerge beautifully with inspired sweeps of the can in vibrant abstract lines with beautiful
details of Dutch tulips, ladybird and butterfly.
You may know Mad C ‘s 2015 mural by the Plough pub car park, based on Venetia Digby on her Deathbed, part of Ingrid Beazley’s Street Art/ Fine Art project. www.dulwichoutdoorgallery. co.uk. Mad C is also one of many international artists creating amazing artworks throughout September in the London Mural Festival. I shall be leading a small group walk including the recent pieces on October 4th. Street Art Walk Dulwich, tickets via Evenbrite
Sundays 4, 11, 18 & 25 October: Horniman Market
10am – 3pm. The Market has now re-opened with a smaller group of traders than usual, to provide essential food items including fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese, bread and meat. The Market will be accepting card payments only. Please note, the Horniman Gardens and Gardens toilets are now open, with the usual Gardens opening hours. www.horniman.ac.uk. 100 London Road, Forest Hill, SE23 3PQ.
Sunday 4 October: Homes Fit for Heroes: a history of council housing in Dulwich
FREE TALK 2.30pm-4pm. 100 years after the Casino and Sunray Estates were built, learn about their story and how they relate to the national picture. The story of how Camberwell Council and the Office of Works built the estates is quite well known but, as ever in Dulwich, the story is more complicated. This talk by Ian McInnes of the Dulwich Society will fill in many of the gaps and also illustrate how the local position related to the national picture of building better housing for the returning soldier. This exhibition is free, but please register so we can plan numbers.
www.bellhouse.co.uk.
To complement this talk, Ian McInnes of the Dulwich Society is leading a free walk on the homes fit for heroes built in Dulwich 100 years ago and Bell House is hosting Southwark Council's free exhibition on the history of council housing in the borough: book via Eventbrite. 2pm-5pm. This is a live stream art class. Untutored but advice is always available. The Dulwich Art Group & School, 4a Champion Hill
SE5 8AH. www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk.
6pm-7.30pm. This new drop-in series of online sessions are aimed at teenagers and young professionals from 18-25 years of age. You are not alone in feeling anxious. The group is a safe space to discuss any anxiety-related feelings, emotions, and everyday experiences of dealing with the burden of anxiety. Anxiety can really diminish the quality of everyday experiences, from school, work and relationships. Find out more at www.bellhouse.co.uk.
Social runs in small groups: we meet at 7:30pm on Tuesdays. New runners welcome. If you’d like to come along have a look at our website: www.dulwichparkrunners.co.uk or write to: enquiries@dulwichparkrunners.com. All levels of ability are welcome. Social runs, competitions,coaching and great social activities
Sunday 11 October: Peckham Car Boot Sale
10.30am-2pm. Every two weeks. For further details of how to book online go to: www.peckhamcarboot.com. £1 for buyers.
Wednesday 14 October: Name That Film: Charity Fundraiser event in aid of Link Age Southwark
Tuesday 13 October: Dulwich & District U3A Monthly Open Meeting Talk Via Zoom
2–3.30pm. Geoff Pick OBE, Director of the London Metropolitan Archives, will talk on “Beacons of the Future”, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the School Board for London. More details at dulwich-u3a.uk/events. Q & A after the talk. Contact secretary@dulwich-u3a.uk for the link to the Zoom meeting. 10.30am-12pm. Free online weekly drop-in group for mothers with children under one. All sessions are free and will be held using Zoom. You will need to register in order to access the link to join each session. Please register via:
www.bellhouse.co.uk.
Wednesday 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th October: Online New Mums' Group
7:30pm – 8:30pm live on Zoom for a quiz of soundbites from your favourite movie soundtracks, all you have to do is guess the movie title. The music will be set to a series of images that tell the story of London in lockdown. Please visit Link Age Southwark’s www.linkagesouthwark.org for further details on how to join.
Saturday 17 October: Understanding Emotions For Parents Of Adolescent
Children
1pm-5pm. This interactive workshop provides parents of adolescents with an understanding of and tools to manage emotions – both parental and adolescent. For more details of the event and how to book go to www.bellhouse.co.uk.
The Clinic by D R MAYONI
Mayoni Gooneratne is an ex-NHS surgeon and is the founder and medical director of Human Health by The Clinic (by Dr Mayoni), with clinics in Honor Oak Park and Crystal
Palace. She offers aesthetic skincare services and now has added medical services to the offering.
Mayoni is passionate about giving control back to her patients when it comes to their own health and wellness by supporting them through their Human
Health Journey.
HOW WAS LOCKDOWN FOR YOU?
Like everyone, it was a bewildering, panic stricken time. I naturally wanted to know my children and elderly parents were going to be safe. As a business owner, I needed to safely mothball my company as much as possible, and then focus on how to move forward and survive. I wanted to return to the NHS and had made myself available to our local trusts. However personally it was a very difficult time for me to decide what to do for the best. Over the period of lockdown, I looked further into how The Clinic could serve our community better. So I decided to become registered with the Care Quality
Commission (CQC), which is a process I had started a while ago, but lockdown was the final nudge I
needed to complete this. This means we are now in a position to offer more private medical services at the clinic, which on chatting with many of my patients, was something they felt strongly would benefit them. At the start of lockdown, I had to work on securing the business financially as best as I could. As we began to settle into the new normal, I started to look at offering virtual consultations. Before lockdown, these were considered awkward and more of an exception. However, we are lucky that our clinic software has allowed us to offer a virtual secure platform for private consultations throughout. This is now how we offer all our aesthetic consultations and indeed how we will offer all our medical consultations unless there is a specific need for a face to face consultation.
WHAT SERVICES WILL YOU BE OFFERING?
We are all about wellness rather than illness too – so we want to ensure you have an insight into your current wellness with Well Woman and Well Man checks. We also will continue to promote and support our patients with access to understanding your hormonal health with our BHRT offering. Our BODYFIT programme is a medical weight loss injection plan that helps support patients who would like to lose weight with lots of support from our Health Coach. And of course our Functional Nutritionist offers you preventative nutritional and supplement solutions to your problems too.
THE FUTURE?
Covid is something that sadly is going to be with us for a while now. We hope that the medical and aesthetic services we are offering will help our patients truly look and feel their best and healthiest! I am also delighted that whilst this is a private healthcare service, I truly believe healthcare is for all. We will be supporting local healthcare projects that will help patients who cannot use our services. I am also delighted to have been asked to be patron of Their Future Today, a UK charity that helps Sri Lankan orphanages by reuniting children with their rightful family, amongst other amazing work they do! Do get in touch if you would like to speak to a specialist on 0208 699 9496, or email reception@drmayoni.co.uk or book online www.drmayoni.co.uk.
