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A DRONE flies around Greenwich Park as children, parents and visitors walk nearby.
Two young men – seen in the middle of the picture – were spotted flying the potentially dangerous gadget near the Queen’s House. The Civil Aviation Authority says drones must never be flown “within 50m of a person, vehicle, building or structure, or overhead groups of people at any height.” Greenwich Visitor reader Mike Purdy, who sent us this photo, said they flew it for around 15 minutes in the busy Park. “I was shocked.”
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Sam Barnett teams up with sax-supremo Derek Nash with Simon Da Silva on trumpet
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JAZZ LATE SHOWS IN THE BAR Ace Flamenco guitarist Ramon Ruiz stars alongside a selection of other emerging talented musicians 9:30pm £5 door
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e prefer this side of the river, of course. But sometimes its worth walking to the Isle of Dogs to drink in the view of Greenwich. Now there’s a reason to wander a little further. The 20-year-old Isle of Dogs Board Walk Trail has been brought up to date with new images, human stories and an audio trail mix. Nine of the 18 heritage boards at historic points have been “repurposed” to tell the story of life in the area. National Maritime Museum designer Anna Lincoln designed and curated content for the boards, layering new material over the existing base layer. Download the guide at www. islandboardwalk.com etters popped through doors in Westcombe Park last month asking for opinions on whether a licence should be
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granted for large-scale children’s show in Circus Field this summer. It’s a letter that wouldn’t have come without the backlash that followed Greenwich council’s application – to its own licensing department – for permission in perpetuity to hire out this protected part of the Heath for cash. We’re proud that our
reports helped make people aware of the attempt which was finally dropped. But prouder still that we live somewhere people still care so much about. e don’t usually approve of artworks being targeted by protesters,
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INSPIRATION: Students at launch (left) and Trust Patron Jools Holland
MANY children have a talent for music they may never realise...if they are disadvantaged they may never be able to have lessons. The Greenwich Music Trust charity was launched this year to raise funds to support musically talented, disadvantaged children and young people in schools across the borough. It aims to provide at least 10 scholarships this year for musically talented children and young people, whose families cannot afford one-to-one instrumental tuition. Its patron, musician, broadcaster and local legend Jools Holland, says: “The Trust is doing very important work to financially support musically talented children and young people so that they can benefit from one to one musical tuition and grow as musicians. I do hope you can support this work in whatever way you can – learning a n instrument is a lifelong gift. It gives a child a chance to succeed, to believe in themselves and to express themselves creatively – whatever their background.” Donations from individuals and companies have already allowed four scholars from local schools to have lessons on instruments donated by Heritage Music, Gear4Music and Norman’s Music in Eltham. They are now having one to one lessons and play with ensembles at the Music Hub Saturday centres as well. The Trust is supporting the Singing Spectacular concerts, organised by the Greenwich Music Hub on May 18, 19 and 20 at Blackheath Halls, when many schools will be preforming. The trust continues to work closely with the Royal Greenwich Music Hub, which is funded by Arts Council England, but needs more support help more young people make music.To find out more and to donate please visit: wwwgreenwichmusictrust.org
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especially on one so important as this at the Trafalgar Tavern. But this picture (inset) posted on Twitter rather cleverly makes a point without any permanent damge (unlike the harm that
air pollution does). We hope the new cruise liner terminal is built...but that EGRA succeeds in its campaign to ensure it is as clean and green as possible – especially with a second road tunnel looming a couple of hundred yards away. ather bad news last month for the Greenwich Music Time series of music concerts. One headliner – Roxette – has cancelled a tour including the show here on doctor’s orders. Compared to previous years the line-up was already a little weak and certainly less sellable than rival event On Blackheath with Primal Scream, Belle & Sebastian, James and many, many more.
I heard there’s a lot of work going on at Greenwich here and christened at St Alfege Church. In fact Market...are they building the new hotel they were Queen Elizabeth played under the oak that bears her talking about? Not any more! Last month the Duke name in Greenwich Park. Queen Elizabeth granted us of York officially opened the renovated Greenwich Royal Status in February 2012. Market – see our story on Pages 4&5. Greenwich What should we do today? You’ve picked up a Hospital, the chairty which owns the site, has Greenwich Visitor – good start. Next visit the Tourist renovated the roof and cobbles and has added a new Information Centre. It’s due to relocate any day now smaller Pavilion Market – it will be the base for the from Pepys House into the Discover Market’s well-know Street Food stalls, while Greenwich centre next door at the Old the rest concentrates on arts, crafts, Royal Naval College. Get advice, buy designer-makers and collectibles. tickets for boats, tube, DLR, rail, There’s been a market here since the buses and coaches, book tours, buy 1300s. tickets for London attractions. WANT TO ADVERTISE? Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? Is anyone using the cable car After Greenwich Council’s botched HAVE A STORY? yet? Cheek! The Emirates Air £11.5million refurb, the 114-yearLine isn’t much use for getting old Greenwich tunnel reopened in Call Matt on 07802 743324 about – and it often shuts in high 2012. But problems persisted. A winds – but is a futuristic attraction Matt@TheGreenwich friends group Fogwoft.com has we love. See Page 9. pushed the Council for improvements. Visitor.com Lifts are said to be working better and Wasn’t the Olympics in Greenwich? lift alerts and a movement management There was a controversial 20,000-seater system is imminent. However when we walked stadium in Greenwich Park 2012 for through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel last month a new equestrian events. Hard to see much evidence of it electronic sign said the lift was working when it now though...or any Olympic legacy. wasn’t. Greenwich Council still has much to do. Will Museums. Are they free? Yes – except the Fan the new system cool competing demands of walkers Museum, which has no public funding but a worldand cyclists? We’ll have to wait and see. leading collection of fans. And the Wernher Collection I read that Greenwich is a World Heritage Site? Yes, of art at Ranger’s House, run by English Heritage. it won World Heritage Site status in the 90s. It means There are some paid for shows at the National our treasures are so good, they’re protected by the UN. Maritime Museum. You pay to stand on the Meridian And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We have 1,000 years Line inside the Royal Observatory too. And it’s 20p of Royal links. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born to use the loos in Greenwich Park!
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of schoolchildren playing quite close by. The men seemed to be controlling the drone with a smartphone. They flew it quite high near to the Queen’s House for about 15 minutes before it landed, then they flew it again doing manoeuvres.” The battery-powered drones are often used to take aerial pictures. They are manoeuvred by up to four propellers and fly at up to 25mph but there are strict rules about their use. In 2015 in Worcestershire a toddler was blinded for life when his eye was sliced in half by the propellor of a drone whose pilot lost control. A spokeswoman for the Royal Parks, which manages Greenwich Park, said: “It is against the law to use drones in the Royal Parks without permission. Enforcement of Park regulations is a matter for the police.” Have you seen an incident? Call police on 101. In an emergency call 999.
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dazzling jazz fest Stars on display here
THE future of jazz combines with its legendary past here this month in the Jazznights 2016 MayFest.
Saxophonist Sam Barnett – aged just 15 and hailed as one of the finest players in the UK – is one of the young stars sharing the stage at Greenwich Theatre with Jools Hooland’s sax supremo Derek Nash and friends. “It’s the Young Turks meeting the Old Tigers,” says Jazznights founder and double bass player Dave Silk. “Celebrating emerging talent is the dominant theme of our MayFest 2016: Venues shows this year.” across Greenwich: The show on May 22 – www.Jazznights.co.uk sponsored by Markson Pianos of Lewisham and The Greenwich Visitor – is one of highlights of the May 19-30 MayFest, which sees events at venues across Greenwich and at the 800-year-old Mermaid Inn in Rye, Sussex. MayFest opens with Dave’s own BOY Jazznights Ensemble playing live WONDER: Sam jazz at Horn Park, Lee, home of Barnett the Old Colfeians, on May 19 (8pm). Entry is free, with a barbecue and drinks at club prices. Dave also runs regular jazz performance workshops at Mycenae House for aspiring artists. There’s a session on May 27 at Shrewsbury House, Shooters Hill, as part of the Festival. Lewisham-born Dave spent 32 years as a sound recording boss at the BBC before retiring to concentrate on running jazz festivals across the country. See Listings Page 19. Info www.jazznights.co.uk
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Old Warhol Naval College WHAT would Sir Christopher Wren think! His magnificent Old Royal Naval College takes on a rainbow glow in this series of photos reminiscent of an Andy Warhol work. The avant garde New York artist made a similar iconic image of Marilyn Monroe (right). But the ORNC looks like this for a
very different reason. It told Twitter followers: “Last night we went all Andy Warhol, did you notice? We were testing a new way to light our buildings...” Maybe they should sell some posters to hang on our walls anyway. Info @ORNCGreenwich
PUDSEY’S ARTS CASH MONEY from Children In Need has gone to help a performing arts group which helps 11 to 16-year-olds here. The Abram Wilson Foundation for Creative Arts will pilot Achieve Your Greatness, using arts to engage young people lacking in confidence or at risk of exclusion. The grant will pay for a workshop facilitator and six artists for sessions at Corelli College and Plumstead Manor in Greenwich. BBC Children in Need says it now funds 13 projects in Greenwich, with over £500,000 helping young lives in the area.
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Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events. Our unique 3-month listings begin on Page 18
Duke of York unveils sparkling new
MAY PINSON First World War Woolwich munitions worker who lived with her family on the then-new Progress Estate which was built in the shadow of Severndroog Castle, where her remarkable story will be told as part of Greenwich Heritage Centre’s new touring exhibition Here Come The Girls. May 15
JAN LEEMING The veteran broadcaster, TV newsreader and reality star (who can forget her bush tucker trials on I’m A Celeb?) reflects on 50 years in the public eye in a talk called A Walk Down Memory Lane, the latest in the In Celebration! series at Greenwich’s wonderful - and unique - Fan Museum. May 16
story of a sculpture
FINAL TOUCHES: Michael works on Encompass, seen below in position at Greenwich Market
SCULPTOR Michael Speller gave the Duke a first hand account of the striking new sculpture called Encompass that he has created at the Market. The 2.3m bronze sphere is made up of 210 linked figures and includes objects washed up by the Thames. Michael told the Duke it was inspired by support given to beneficiaries of the Greenwich Hospital charity. Michael – who ran a catering company called Food Parcels in Royal Hill, Greenwich before being inspired to take up art – said: “The images conjure up sailors climbing the rigging of a tall ship. The shape of the arms give an impression of the rhythm of the ocean in the form of her waves and tides. I’ve tried to capture the support that they have received from Greenwich Hospital. “The whole thing sits on a crown of support referring to the founding and financing of the original Hospital by King William and Queen Mary in 1694, which later became the Royal Naval College and is now a thriving University campus.” Michael – whose commissions appear in cities across the world – told The Greenwich Visitor: “We only managed to put the final touches to the work a couple of days ago. It’s been hard work but a brilliant experience.” Info: www.spellersculptures.com
DOWN & OUT IN LONDON & PARIS New work combines George Orwell’s tale of destitution in 1920s’ France with Polly Toynbee’s exploration of life on the street in Britain in the 21st century. It garnered rave reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe and is set to repeat its success when it comes to Greenwich Theatre. May 17-21
RISE & FALL OF LITTLE VOICE Jim Cartwright’s award-winning modern fairytale about a near-speechless reclusive girl with an explosive voice is a bittersweet cocktail of pain, humour, exploitation and joy which is guaranteed to leave audiences at the Bob Hope Theatre shaken, stirred and completely satisfied. May 18-21
NAUFAL MUKUMI If you’ve heard the Uzbek pianist play at one of his regular recitals in south-east London you have doubtless already got your ticket for his appearance at Blackheath Halls. If you’ve yet to enjoy his virtuosity, hurry along to the box office and grab a seat - you won’t be disappointed. May 22
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CYMBELINE Shakespeare’s late curio is not a regular on the performance circuit but if anyone can untangle this complex and challenging tale of family feuds, Machiavellian scheming, brooding violence, defiant romance and unguarded innocence the London Theatre in New Cross is a great bet. May 24-29
TRANSITIONS A trio of pioneering and internationally acclaimed contemporary choreographers Dog Kennel Hill Project, Theo Clinkard and Ederson Rodrigues Xavier - provide a triple bill of emotionally-charged but often witty works for the company’s 12 dancers over three nights at Laban theatre. May 25-27
TRISTAN GOOLEY Brilliant writer and educator who found fame with The Natural Navigator comes to the National Maritime Museum to discuss his current best-seller How To Read Water: Clues, Signs And Patterns. Don’t be put off by the title - his knowledge and the way he puts it across will bewitch you. May 27
AFRICA DAY Botswana’s ace of bass Aubrei Woki fronts a band celebrating all things African in this gig at Mycenae House organised by local charity Global Fusion Music And Arts. As well as Woki’s hypnotic rhythms, expect guests singers and poets - and a chance to join in on the dance floor. May 27
HRHistoric! THE DUKE of York unveils a plaque to mark the historic restoration of Greenwich Market – with its shining renovated roof, smart cobbles and a new food Pavilion.
His Royal Highness met traders on the historic Market, as well as leaders of the charity that runs it – Greenwich Hospital. And he told guests at the launch: “With millions of visitor scoming to Greenwich, these works are a great addition and a continuing addition. Congratulations to everyone who has participated, co-ordinated and helped with this project.” The renovation was led by the charity’s Head of Property Gillie Bexson, who said: “The wellbeing of the Greenwich locals, both now and in the
future, is at the heart of these enhancement works.” Prince Andrew chatted to traders including Moira Hetherton, who sells Royal pottery. She revealed: “He said he might come down and set up his own stall.” Greenwich Hospital – established in 1694 – owns much of the town centre Greenwich Market in Greenwich, including Greenwich Town Centre the Market. It earns money from rents and tenants to support Royal 7 days a week Navy and Royal Marines 10-5.30 personnel and their dependants. To d a y i t h a s 1 5 0 s t a l l s showcasing designer makers, crafts, antiques and food and is open seven days a week from 10am till 5.30pm. Info: www. greenwichmarketlondon.com
STREET GIRL Based on a true story about growing up in the gang culture of south London, Donna During’s uncompromising, unsettling but heartfelt study of the effects of environment on a young black girl from a broken home is yet another must-see production to be staged at the Albany. May 27&28
DETAILS: Gillie Bexson explains renovation to Duke, who met Market traders
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HANDY: Prince Andrew with plaque and new Pavilion
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Tayo is face of teaching
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PLAY: Children in mining town
Photo show a miner classic
AWE ENCOMPASSING: Sculptor Michael shows Duke his work
IN 1968 21-year-old photographer Tony Othen was commissioned to photograph three mining communities in Derbyshire – Poolsbrook, Shirebrook and Heanor. Tony took thousands of photographs, documenting societies bound by a strong sense of belonging. But Markham Colliery closed in the 1990s and was demolished along with Poolsbrook to make way for a country park. Today the former inhabitants from 1968 and their descendants have thriving groups on Facebook. A new exhibition at Tony’s Othen’s Greenwich Gallery – Facebook Photo Triggers – shows what happened when the Facebook groups and Tony’s photographs came together. It runs till May 19 (9.305.30. Weekends 12-4). Info:
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ENCOURAGING: Tayo at school
STAR OF TV CAMPAIGN teacher Tayo Oyeniyi is the new face of teaching in a national TV campaign to recruit more.
Tayo – who teaches English and is deputy head of Woolwich Polytechnic School – fronts the new Your Future: Their Future ad. It’s being shown on ad breaks during shows including Gogglebox on Channel 4 and Scott & Bailey on ITV, She said: “I love being a teacher. Young people are funny and smart and inspiring and it is a privilege to be able to work with them. It’s great to be involved in the campaign to encourage more people to become teachers.” Tax-free bursaries and prestigious scholarships are being offered to graduates who train to teach core academic subjects. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) provides support to help people become teachers, providing guidance all the way through the application process. There are also online events and application workshops this month. Info: www.education.gov.uk/getintoteaching
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Entertainment at the ORNC
Blackheath playwright David Weir’s won the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre’s annual Write Now competition. His play Better Together – about a family facing its teenage daughter’s desire to be independent – won a three-week run at the theatre. Here’s David’s diary...
Talk in the Painted Hall
Sat 7 May 12.00 & 15.00 Skittle alleys, violent cricket matches, amateur drama and military drills... Join our free talks and delve into the history of the ORNC and the vibrant characters that lived here. Venue: Painted Hall
THE Rise and Fall of Little Voice was made famous on the big screen by Jane Horrocks – this month the stage show comes to Eltham. Its director Sarah Howard tells her own story
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8, 15, 29, 31 May, 11.30 - 14.30 Hidden beneath the grand buildings of the ORNC and rarely open to the public, the Victorian Skittle Alley feels like a leap back in time. You can even enjoy a game on the lanes using wooden practice cannonballs! Free entry and first come, first served. Venue: The Skittle Alley of ORNC
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Sarah Howard 8 March: Nothing on my mind but London SE4 2DH my lunch when the phone rings. Kate Bannister, May 10-28 7.45pm artistic director at Brockley Jack, 0333 666 3366 says,”Now, we had a lot of submissions for our three-week slot...” and I prepare myself for the lovely-stuff, lots-of-competition rejection “... and we’ve chosen Better Together.” Half-an-hour of overexcited chat later, I forget I haven’t had that lunch. 18 March: George Turvey, artistic director of hugely impressive Papatango Theatre, is dramaturg for this play. He’s the guy who says: ”We love the play, and here are the changes we want!” Actually, George’s role is to help shape the script for performance, testing each scene to make sure it works, sharpening the stories of the four characters, and making the dialogue work. (No one wants to be George Lucas on Star Wars hearing Harrison Ford say,”You can type this crap, but you can’t speak it.”) We’ll meet and exchange notes from now on to make the 80 pages a story that lives on a stage...and I’ll do a lot more typing. 6 April: First auditions on the stage of the Jack Studio theatre, which is set up for the evening’s Hamlet. TALENTED musician Zahira Al Upstairs the cast of next week’s Zahira is starring in the smash hit show, an Alan Ayckbourn, are West End musical The War of the rehearsing. So, three writers in the theatre today: Shakespeare, Worlds – but it’s her leatherwork up Ayckbourn, and me? Oh, yes! on stage. 9 April: Final audition day, and time Zahira hand crafts leather and to choose the four actors who will specialises in Steampunk fashion. When bring this thing to life. Hundreds costume designer Gary McCann saw her applied. Nearly 50 have been seen. work on her stall at Greenwich Market on So much talent, life and energy. Christmas Eve he asked for her help, How to choose? But you have to, writes GAYNOR WINGHAM. and we do, and the choices are “Gary was looking for someone to great, and we can only hope they create a Steampunk scene for Jeff all say yes. Wayne’s The War of The 15 April: They all said yes! Worlds which was coming Rehearsals start Friday! to London’s West End in Better Together runs Tuesdayearly February,” says Saturday from 10 May to 28 May. Zahira, from Eltham. Info www.brockleyjack.co.uk “I’d actually bought the album when it came out and know virtually every bar of the musical. “It was an exciting project as I made 80 individual pieces – no two the same. I managed to complete the work ahead of time then spent a couple of days up at the Dominion Theatre making adjustments. The first time I saw anyone wearing anything was opening night. It was brilliant.” Zahira, who is originally from Worcestershire, studied fashion at the University of Sussex. She said: “I love the Steampunk Movement which is Victorian Futurism. Imagine our technology back in Victorian
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I’VE lived in Greenwich all of life and been a member of the Bob Hope Theatre for 30 years after joining its Newstagers Youth Group back in 1984. I tried my hand at everything – lighting, acting, front of house, prompting, directing. It started off my career in the arts. This was quite a feat in the 80s, as I had grown up with a disability at a time when there were no laws to support my education and career. Thankfully, I’m a determined, stubborn bugger and managed to carve a 20-odd year career in the field that I love, working with some of the country’s most celebrated arts organisations and venues. I currently work at Sadler ’s Wells – London’s world-leading dance theatre. I
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times before plastic and electricity – the merging of science, craft and art unites people across all generations.” She adds: “I have been working with leather for over 10 years – I love the versatility. I use the finest veg-tanned 3.5mm leathers and hand tools to craft the unusual as well as functional. It means each piece is unique. “I make all kinds of things, from costume to guitar straps. But making corsets and armours, and especially making thick leather look delicate like lace, is a passion of mine. At the moment I’m working on my White Leather wedding collections.” Zahira is one half of the BELTER g u i t a r- p l a y i n g f o l k d u o id Dav Pytchwood, and organises Essex in F o l k M o b – a r e g u l a r show Wednesday night club in Eltham. “We are now in our 23rd year and have seen many performers come along nervously then go on to become brilliant performers.” She also helped organise the Eltham Arts Winter Festival. “I was so proud of it,” she adds. “It was lovely to see so many people coming together and getting involved.” Meet Zahira and see her work at Greenwich Market most Saturdays, M o n d a y s a n d We d n e s d a y s . I n fo : zahirasboudoir.com. folkmob.co.uk
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new challengE now have to use an electric fantastic cast and creative team, I wheelchair and have very little aim to produce a show to delight physical movement due to my all. I’d love to say using my progressive condition – Spinal w h e e l c h a i r d o e s n ’ t m a k e a Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – but 30 difference to directing, but yes, it years on from my start at the Bob does add a few extra hurdles to the Hope Theatre I’m back with a new process. I directed a play back in challenge. the 90s when I was much more I’m directing The Rise and Fall able and still on my feet, so I could of Little Voice – a backstreet physically demonstrate Cinderella story packed with some of my hil ar i t y, f a mily tu r mo i l , thoughts and sentiment, savage turns and ideas. gritty Northern humour. I could Little Voice lives alone also access e atr The Bob Hope with her mother Mari more areas am Elth Rd, ield Wythf whose sole purpose in life o f t h e is to find another man. theatre such She’s driven into utter as the stage, seclusion, locked in her backstage, May 18-21 (7.45) bedroom listening to her all areas of 2 370 0 020 885 l a t e f a t h e r ’s o l d r e c o r d the auditorium. collection. This time, I’m When small time impresario Ray restricted to Say – Mari’s latest catch – hears vocalising all my direction and I L i t t l e Vo i c e ’ s f a u l t l e s s am quite limited in areas I can impersonations of various famous access within the venue. I cannot singers, he recognises the gold in get on stage or move beyond row A her voice and is determined to in the auditorium, so I’m going to exploit it. With the support of a have to rely on past experience to
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visualise how all members of the audience will view this production. Also, SMA means I now have very little muscle strength, so fatigue is probably one of my main challenges. Directing requires a huge amount of time and energy, so I might need to sleep for a week after this is all over! For 30 years I’ve enjoyed getting involved in all that the theatre has to offer, from acting in numerous plays and pantomimes, to stage managing musicals and directing. The joy of the Bob Hope Theatre is that you really can try your hand in any area. I think the only area that I didn’t fancy was costume, as I can’t even sew on a button! It was a fabulous training ground for me through my teenage years and definitely gave me the experience and confidence to consider it as a career. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is at the Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road, from May 18-21 (7.45). Tickets are £10 from www.BobHopeTheatre. co.uk or from the box office on 020 8850 3702 (open Tues-Sat 10-1).
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Powerful way to raise the bar Want t o k n o w w h y a Nigerian singer who calls himself Le Gateau Chocolat is a global cabaret sensation? Because he’s sensational, of course. His latest show Black, which took the Albany by storm, was a meditation on his life as an overweight, cross-dressing, depressive gay man from Lagos whose childhood dream was to be an operatic soprano but who ended up large, hairy and with a voice like Paul Robeson’s. This one-hour tour de force segued from Purcell to Nina Simone, Wagner to Leonard Bernstein, Jacobean poet John Fletcher to Whitney Houston. And it included a haunting version of Strange Fruit that would have given Billie Holiday a run for her money. His songs were interspersed with cartoons featuring himself as a child and mock public service film-clips about how to avoid overeating which between them created a brilliant contrast to the sadder aspects of his lifestory and thus heightened the emotional tension of the performance. Black was a show of hypnotic power, shifting between heartbreak and hilarity with such facility that it left you almost on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen next. The audience was transfixed. And so was I.
JAMES & the giant peach
Peaching to the converted
ONE of the best moments of James And The Giant Peach at Greenwich Theatre came when our hero’s loathsome aunts were crushed by the titular fruit and the children in the audience screamed with joy at the suitably squidgy sound effect. No-one understood kids’ relationship with horror better than Roald Dahl – to director Bronagh Lagan’s credit the company played on this with glee and gusto. The stars were undoubtedly Grace Bishop and, best of all, Max Gallagher as the nightmarish aunts Sponge and Spiker. But Ewan Goddard as James and the rest of the cast threw themselves wholeheartedly into Dahl’s wonderfully dark story and their obvious relish left their young audience in raptures. The fun was given added stardust by Harry Sever’s music and by an excellent set based on clever inflatables and Kate Unwin’s set design. Theatre company Sell A Door is touring this show around the world. On this evidence, it was easy to see why it has been so popular.
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rocktastic! ASTEROID: MISSION EXTREME Asteroid: Mission Extreme is the latest daily show at the Royal O b s e r v a t o r y ’s P e t e r H a r r i s o n Planetarium – and it’s out of this world in every sense.
I took my 10-year-old space-buff granddaughter Maisie to its debut performance and she was as rapturous as I was as we were transported millions of miles into the solar system to build a space station on an asteroid to be used as a staging post for exploring deep space. The special effects are truly remarkable. Vast starscapes become viscerally vertiginous because the 30-minute film is projected on to the domed interior of the planetarium, making it an almost tangibly immersive experience. And the voiceover by Alien movie star Sigourney Weaver manages to turn what could be mind-boggling science into an exciting adventure story. Asteroid is a fabulous taster for the Royal Observatory’s forthcoming exhibition Above And Beyond, which opens on May 27. It is about the past, present and future of aerospace and has been created with the help of US space agency NASA. For times and tickets of all events, go to www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory
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Pride of Britten thrills children
Benjamin Britten is the best composer ever when it comes to works for amateurs and kids - and Blackheath Halls’ production of Noye’s Fludde underlined the point in spades. This 58-year-old one-act piece was the halls’ fourth annual children’s opera presentation and it really couldn’t have been more magical and wonderful. About 75 local youngsters and two dozen local adults linked up with a crew of professional musicians and singers as well as Trinity Laban students to bring to life Britten’s fabulous reimagining of a medieval miracle play. Under the aegis of director Harry Fehr and musical director Christopher Stark, the youngsters and their adult sidekicks gave a bravura performance in costumes and a set made of recyclable rubbish never better than the fabulous rainbow created with plastic bottles and containers in the grand finale. Professional singers Paul Carey Jones and Sarah Pring were a forceful pairing as Mr and Mrs Noye and Will Harrison-Wallace as the Voice of God certainly had the appropriate vocal range. But Noye’s Fludde is about the youngsters and none was better than the central sextet of the ark-maker’s sons and daughters-in-law - Aidan Abraham, Flora Tregear, Samuel Rayner, Jasmine Ratchford, Freddy Thompson Moss and Shanice Chin were magnificent. The animal chorus of mainly primary schoolkids was perfect and I didn’t hear a single duff note from any of the juniors in the orchestra as Britten’s lovely score unfolded. ’s ley Hed The audience gave the Read Miles cast and players a arts blog on tremendous ovation at the hedintheclouds. end. It was richly deserved.
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A HUGE crowd cheered Jeff Lynne’s ELO at the written by Walter Vinson, has been brilliantly covered 20,000-seat O2 arena on St George’s Day. I was at a by Cream and Howlin’ Wolf. Wizz’s take was as rather smaller gathering just up the road at Mycenae good as either. House watching guitar legend Wizz Jones. Much as I Jackson C Franks’s Blues Run The Game prompted admire Mr Lynne, I reckon I got easily the better deal. reminiscences of legendary Soho music club Les Wizz has been bewitching audiences for nearly 60 Cousins with the likes of Bert Jansch, whose years and on the evidence of this Global Fusion arrangement of this song Wizz said he had copied. He Music and Arts’ celebration he will carry on for then gave us a blazing rendition of Jesse many more. His unique and hugely influential Winchester’s Black Dog before ending with playing style is as robust as ever, his voice two of his own compositions. is sturdy and his banter has lost none of Lucky The Man was a lovely hymn to its youthful sparkle. The result was the his daughter and a neat contrast to the best concert I have heard this year. uptempo When I Leave Berlin. The He opened with Henry Hipkens’ latter was recently used by Bruce That’s How I Learned To Sing The Springsteen to open a concert in the Blues and continued with a beautiful German capital. Wizz quipped that the take on the haunting Pete Atkin/Clive Boss failed to namecheck him, but did James song Touch Has A Memory, which BEST: Wizz Jones play it “quite well.” As a thankyou, he in turn segued into Billy Hill’s 1936 ended his own version with the chorus: masterpiece The Glory Of Love. “Born in the UK.” He played only four of his own songs – “because I After a standing ovation, Wizz was joined for an prefer doing other people’s”. The first was a moving encore by GFMA founder and ace harmonica player elegy for his dad – The Burma Star – followed with Louisa Le Marchand for a blues jam. To the delight of Blind Boy Fuller’s stunning Weeping Willow Blues. the audience, his vocal began: “The Queen is 90 years Wizz lifted the mood with a gleeful rendition of old and Barack Obama is in town/ And someone The King Of Rome, Dave Sudbury’s jaunty account called Boris seems to be wearing a crown.” of a real-life racing pigeon in Derby in 1913. Earlier, the marvellous a capella quartet Morrigan The second of his own songs was a gorgeous ballad warmed up the crowd with songs ranging from called Happiness Is Free, prefaced with the self- Shakespeare’s The Wind And The Rain – it was, after deprecating put-down: “A lot of b*llocks is talked all, the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death – to about how great it was to live in Paris in the 60s. It Richard Thompson’s polemical classic The New St wasn’t that good.” Sitting On Top Of The World, George.
ZOI DIMITRIOU
Mesmerising retrospective Choreographer Zoi Dimitriou won a deserved ovation at Laban theatre at the end of her performance of The Chapter House, an extraordinary dance work that acts as a kind of five-chapter retrospective of her recent creations. She revisited them through a combination of her own brilliant dancing – her slo-mo and stop-start animation routines were mesmerising – and through video footage filmed live by fellow performer Mark Coniglio then projected on to sheets and cards strung across the stage. Every chapter had a title – Mythos (plot), Phileo (brotherly love), Ptosis (fall), Crisis (turning point) and Anastasis (resurrection) – and Dimitriou introduced each with a narration spoken backwards during the first part of the evening but repeated the right way round during the video playback. Timeshifts and reversals were stong motifs throughout the work. The result was challenging, certainly. But it was also an hour of beauty and intellectual stimulation. Two days later Laban offered an amazing contrast by hosting a childfriendly show called Windibops, a piece created by Sarah Blanc and Moxie Brawl about flatulence. The young audience loved the silliness, of course, but they also lapped up the show’s serious points about greenhouse gases and global warming. Windibops was commissioned by the Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership and I thought the whole thing was a joy. My only regret is that the auditorium wasn’t packed to the rafters.
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book no5 IS A BIG DEAL BLACKHEATH author Colin Brown has released his fifth book – the astonishing true story of how Hitler’s top nuclear scientists were captured and brought to England at the end of the Second World War. Colin has written a string of books since giving up the day job as a political editor on the Independent newspaper, including Scum of the Earth about the real heroes of Waterloo, a history of Whitehall and a mini-best seller on British history called Glory and B*llocks. His latest is Operation Big – The Race to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb. It reveals how a lightly-armed US intelligence group led by RussianAmerican colonel Boris T Pash raced across Europe in Jeeps after the D-Day to capture Hitler’s self-styled Uranium Club. Hitler’s physicists – including Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel prize for discovering nuclear fission, Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker – were secretly flown to
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Open air opera in Woolwich BRING a picnic...opera returns to the big screens in Woolwich this spring and summer. On Wednesday May 18 you can watch The Royal Ballet’s brand new production of Frankenstein. On Thursday 9 June Placido Domingo is Nabucco, King of Babylon, in The Royal Opera’s production of Verdi’s Nabucco. And on Thursday 14 July Ve r d i ’s s e a r i n g o p e r a I l Trovatore will be beamed live across the UK.
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AUTHOR: Colin in Greenwich
BASE: Hall Farm in Cambridgeshire
RAF Tempsford, an air strip used by said they were shocked not only that the intelligence services, near St the Americans possessed the bomb, Neots, in July, 1945, and transferred but also that they had used it. to Farm Hall, a Georgian mansion Colin said: “They insisted they overlooking the Great Ouse in could have built an atomic bomb but Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. chose not to do so for Hitler. The At Farm Hall, the German Americans were furious. When I scientists were treated like first heard the story from a VIP guests in a five-star member of my family who luxury country house lives near to Farm Hall it hotel for six months, sounded like the script with batmen, chefs for a film. But I checked and even volleyball it out and it turned out sessions...but every to be completely true.” conversation was What is next on bugged, transcribed and Colin’s agenda? BUGGED: sent to MI6 headquarters “Operation Big leads Heisenberg naturally in London and Washington, into the Cold War where they were held under and the McCarthyite witch-hunts lock and key for 47 years. for Communists in America and Pash The big drama unfolded when the played a big part in that. Someone at scientists were allowed to listen to the BBC told me it would make a the BBC broadcast of the news on 6 brilliant movie like Bridge of Spies. August, 1945 – a day that shook the So who knows? world – with the detonation of the “Maybe Steven Spielberg reads A m e r i c a n a t o m i c b o m b o v e r the Greenwich Visitor!” Hiroshima. The German scientists Info: www.colinbrown00.com
FESTIVAL: CHAPTER 2
IF every book creates a journey to discover, then there will be hundreds of journeys to make during the second Greenwich Book Festival this month.
Literary stars lined up for big Book weekend
The festival will feature more than 50 events over body. Even World War Two two days including talks, is coverred with Chris topical discussions, Cleave, discussing his creative workshops for new book Everyone children, book signings Brave is Forgiven. and school workshops, For children, authors writes MAUREEN visiting include Andy STAPLETON. Stanton, creator of the Mr. HERE: Bruce Gum An eclectic range of series, David Litchfield, Robinson author and subjects will be covered: illustrator of awardVictorian murder with Kate winning The Bear and the Piano, Summerscale and Bruce Robinson; a and Jim Smith, author of the Barry showcase of women authors including Loser series. Laura Barnett, Lisa Owens and Amy Blackheath Standard bookshop Liptrot; How to Read Water by Ottie and the Bea hosts a festivalTristan Gooley; parenthood poetry by within-a-festival. Events include a Hollie McNish. trip with Astro Cat and the author Ben Comic Sara Pascoe presents a Newman, a graffiti bubble writing feminist exploration of the female party with Linda Scott, and time with
created the Greenwich Book Festival – author and journalist Patricia Nicol, publisher Auriol Bishop, and author and University of Greenwich lecturer Alex Pheby. Pheby’s novel Playthings was nominated for a Wellcome Book prize the tapir Bambang with his authors and he will be discussing it at the Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy. festival. For Schools Day on Friday, The Greenwich Book Festival which is sponsored by the – on 27 and 28 May – is part borough, children from of the Royal Greenwich Greenwich primary Festivals programme. schools join authors in It is hosted by the ich Book enw Gre workshops and University of Greenwich al Roy Old l, tiva Fes dis cus si o n s a b o u t ege & NMM and is held in the grounds Coll al Nav their books. of the Old Royal Naval There will also be College and the National sessions on getting Maritime Museum. May 27 and 28 your novel published, More info and tickets at the appeal of the short www.greenwichbookfest. story and the business of com. Follow on Twitter @ independent publishers. In addition to GreBookFest or on Facebook at the paid events, there will also be free facebook.com/GreenwichBookFest workshops available during the a n d o n I n s t a g r a m a t festival. Three south-east Londoners greenwichbookfestival.
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GOT No Talent? The nation’s daftest talent contest returns to Greenwich this month – and you could be the star. London’s Got No Talent kicks off at the Prince of Greenwich in Royal Hill on Saturday May 28 and runs till December. Performers confirmed so far include a home made “sonic chicken musician” in a cling film helmet who was booted off this year’s Britain’s got Talent; a Devine-Instrument communicating Psychic; Noel Edmonds If He Was A Cello; Jimmy Mallet; Goliath the Frog and an 86-year-old singer who describes her performance as “ear-shattering.” Previous acts included a chilli powder-snorting singer; an angry ukulele-playing Koala Bear, a contestant with Stage fright; an ESP Comedian telling jokes using the power of his mind only. London’s Got No Talent is run by annual Panto Horse Race organiser by Mark Biddiss. Info: www.londongotnotalent.com or follow @LondonNoTalent
Author Adam book signing AUTHOR Adam Barron is signing copies of his novel Blackheath – featured in or paper in March – in Greenwich this month. Adam will be in conversation with Andrew Clover at waterstones in Greenwich Church Street on Wednesday May 18 (5.45-7).
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A FREE high-tech roadshow bringing visual arts to all will be in Deptford next month after a successful six-week run in Blackheath. Talk About Art Pre-Raphaelites will be at Deptford Lounge from June 1 to 29 with free public talks and drawing workshops for all ages. The show is particularly aimed at teenagers and is a joint venture by Lewisham Council, Deptford Lounge and St Matthew Academy, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848, which include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Last October the exhibition was seen by around 1,200 adults, including 350 who attended talks about the paintings, and by 575 children in 23 school visits. It’s open on weekdays 8am-10pm on Saturdays 9am-5pm and Sundays 10am-5pm. Info: www.talkaboutart.co.uk @talkaboutart1
ParkLife By Greenwich Park manager
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ne of my colleagues is just about to start her first Park Manager job with a London Borough. For her leaving present the Royal Park Managers were asked to offer pearls of wisdom. That’s a bit of a tall order I thought but I had a couple of thoughts: Park Managers come and go but park visitors stay forever (not that I am thinking of going anytime soon) and Train yourself to see the park for the first time every day. That last one is a favourite and easier said than done. It was the starting point for the landscaping of the lodge at St. Mary’s Gate. ating from the 1830s, St Mary’s Lodge is a Grade Two listed building. Designed as a gatehouse it marked the northern entrance to the Park. Originally the road led right up to the front door of the lodge and the exit was behind the building. In the 1850s the road was realigned and the wrought iron gates from St James Park were installed at the end of King William Walk. If you walk along Nevada Street you can see a wooden door next to the theatre, behind which is the alleyway that led to the Park. The Park wall is bricked up at the other end but it is visible in the garden of the lodge. n 2015 we started landscaping the lodge. It is a beautiful building but it was in need of a makeover. The external fencing was austere, uninviting and a mix of styles. Half of the building was obscured by an overgrown shrub bed. We engaged a really good landscape architect, Daniel Craford from LDA design who did a really good job of landscaping the building. Removing the shrub bed has joined the building to the herb garden and made the whole building visible, set in an open lawn as it was originally designed. The fencing has all been replaced with iron estate railing which was the standard type in the Park for hundreds of years and has a bit more class than bow-top. It looks right for the style of the building. he lodge has for many years operated as a café. Rebranded as the White House Café the interior has also had a makeover. Greenwich Park Catering Manager Matt and his assistant Dean have given it a stylish contemporary look with comfy sofas, feature lighting and a fresh paint finish. I would recommend a visit for an afternoon tea and speciality tea or coffee. There is even wi-fi access too. And the Café assistants will give you a warm
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COME CELEBRATE Greenwich Market is buzzing with things to see and do and The Pavilion, our new food area, is temptingly tasty. Open 7 days a week and Bank Holidays, 10am – 5.30pm
Craftisan
Friday 27 to Monday 30 May Four days of craft and design workshops, meet the maker and one off shows to celebrate Craft & Design month.
The Greenwich Creative Wedding Fair Sunday 5 June
Something old, something new – designer makers, vintage specialists and clever cooks showcase their finest bridal wares.
HRH The Queen’s 90th Birthday celebrations Sunday 12 June
Vintage collectors fair and tea dance.
Music in the Market
Friday 13 May and 17 June, 7pm – 8.30pm Enjoy live performances by local choirs, jazz and folk groups.
Park It in the Market
Thursday 26 May, 30 June, 7pm – 10pm Vintage car and bike meet. Fun for all the family.
“At any time of the year, Greenwich boasts one of London’s favourite markets.” Time Out greenwichmarketlondon.com
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Go down to Woods today DISCOVER a little-know green space here this month – Westcombe Woods in East Greenwich has a Spring Open Day. There’s a guided tour, wildlife quiz, “making with mud” session and story-telling with Rich Sylvester on Saturday May 7 (2-5). The Friends group says: “We now have a pond in the lower corner of the Glade and this should attract further w i l d l i f e . We h o p e t h e bluebells will still be f l o w e r i n g ! ” Info: www. westcomewoodlands.org
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& about in Austria GREENWICH Visitor readers are a cultured lot...they love to read about the great buildings and treasures here. But some go even further afield.. Roy and Sandra Shippey took a copy of our paper to the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria. Roy told us: “We live in Scarborough but have relatives in London and really good friends who live in Charlton. “They regularly send us a copy of the Visitor which we really look forward to getting each month. It’s a great read from front to back. We had a lovely river cruise and enjoyed Vienna. Keep up the good work!” Thanks, Roy, for reading and helping tell the world what a great place Greenwich is. Now it’s your turn! Send us a picture of you and The GV somewhere exotic. Click a pic and send it by email to Matt@ TheGreenwichVisitor. com. Easy!
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Wardens will wear cameras TOWN centre wardens in Greenwich have begun wearing cameras “to provide further support and reassurance to the public.” Greenwich Council says the wardens will activate the camera to “gather video and audio evidence of an incident making it clear what happened, when and who was involved.” It says the aim is the protect wardens and “ p o s s i b l e o ff e n d e r s ” b y providing evidence if needed in court and to ensure fixed penalty notices are less easily disputed.
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A CENTRE supporting vulnerable women here has been given a crucial £74,925 grant from the Lloyds Bank Foundation to help its work for the next three years. Her Centre helps vulnerable women facing domestic abuse, sexual abuse, legal issues or homelessness. It offers advice and support to helps them rebuild their lives. Money will go salaries, office costs and volunteer expenses. Lloyd says the grant will help Her Centre support more than 600 vulnerable women. Info: www.hercentre.org
Roadshow to fight Diabetes TAKE a step to a healthier life when Type 2 diabetes experts from the Know Your Risk Roadshow visit this month. Latest figures show 13,600 people in the borough have been diagnosed with diabetes – 6.2% of the population, which is above the national average of 5.9%. Diabetes is a condition where there is too much glucose in the blood and can lead to “devastating complications.” The roadshow is General Gordon Place, Woolwich on Thursday May 26 and Friday May 27.
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back flat...flat pack THE groundbreaking ecofriendly Sainsbury’s store in Greenwich is no more… the building was flattened last month to make way for a huge new Ikea. The Swedish homefurnishing giant promised to recycle 95% of the building, which won awards for its greens credentials when it opened in 1999. Sainsbury’s has moved to a new site round the corner at Charlton Riverside. The new Ikea is due to open next year.
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YOUNG actors from Corelli College will be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year – with your help.
They’re hoping to crowdfund the £10,000 needed to take the production of JUST by Ali Smith to the Assembly Rooms, one of the top festival venues. The group was offered the slot because of its reputation after previous performances of the play. Arts Manager Shermaine Slocombe s a i d : “ G o i n g t o E d i n b u rg h i s a n experience our young people will never
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forget and in some cases it is literally life-changing. We are asking people to contribute to our crowdfunding effort and then to share this with anyone else you know who might be prepared to donate. “It’s off to a good start but we need an awful lot more if we are going to make
it.” More than £3,000 has been pledged so far and the deadline is 11:30am on M ay 2 7 . Info @CorelliCollege @ KidbrookeTC Donate: www. crowdfunder.co.uk/just-by-ali-smith SEVEN hundred children from Greenwich have enjoyed Shakespeare in the historic Globe Theatre at a special production of Twelfth Night. Students from seven schools here received free tickets for the performances hosted by the Globe Education Trust and sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
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Tinspirational Gallery show A TIN can flattened by traffic inspired a show at Made In Greenwich this month. Chris Francis’s Canned Heat sprang from experimentation at art college in the 60s. He added traditional print-making techniques, stencils, aerosol sprays, cut out plastic and sticky labels to make the amazing works, at the gallery in Creek Road from May 6-16. The show is shared with Graham Smith’s subtle prints of Greenwich Park in Shades o f G r e y. I n fo : w w w . madeingreenwich.co.uk
£730k grants to help Halls TWO big grants will help Blackheath Halls improve its historic home. The roof will be renovated thanks to a £234,832 grant from Viridor Credits – part of the Landfill Communities Fund. And £499,999 from Arts Council England will provide n ew stag e eq u ip ment, an improved backstage and auditorium to “significantly enhance the audience experience and comfort.” Work begins tis summer. Grade II listed Blackheath Halls opened as a concert hall in 1895.
GREENWICH Book Festival 27-28 May 2016
www.greenwichbookfest.com Words and ideas come to life in two days of author events, discussions and creative workshops on the banks of the River Thames.
Hosted by the University of Greenwich in Queen Anne Court, Old Royal Naval College and at The National Maritime Museum.
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Planning decision review C A M PA I G N E R S a g a i n s t pollution from a new cruise liner terminal in Greenwich are asking for your backing after winning an initial victory in the High Court.
They claim the new London City Cruise Port at Enderby Wharf would add to pollution because there are no plans for a shore-based electricity supply. Instead ships would run their engines to produce power while moored. A resident supported by the East Greenwich Residents Association argued that the before granting permission the council had not included “the cumulative impact” of all pollution in its air quality assessment – including pollution when ships are “hoteling”. They burn 700 litres of diesel an hour – the same as 688 HGVs running permanently. Developers Barrat Homes and Morgan Stanley have not included a more expensive “clean” onshore electricity supply, even though it could be a requirement in future. At a five-hour hearing, Mr Justice Dove decided “it is arguable that the Council had not conducted the environmental assessment correctly.” There will now be Judicial Review of the planning decision – a full hearing in the High Court – in the next two to three months.
Dan Hayes, Chairman of EGRA, said: “This is a great day for all those campaigning for a clean cruise liner terminal. The Royal Borough of Greenwich has let its residents down badly in its refusal to listen to reasonable requests for pollution mitigation. “It provides hope that Londoners will be protected from polluting effects of this poorly executed scheme. Royal Borough Greenwich will at last be held to account.” Greenwich Council insisted its checks were “robust and suitable”, said it was “disappointed” that the decision would hold up “homes, jobs, retail space, improved public realm and a new skills centre” and threaten a predicted tourism boost. Dr Paul Stookes, of Richard Buxton Solicitors who acted for the resident, said: “Air pollution is responsible for around 10,000 deaths in London alone, year on year. It is absolutely critical that decision-makers such as Greenwich Council adhere to their duty not to make matters worse, and indeed try and reduce the poor air quality.” EGRA is asking people to help crowd fund legal costs of around £16,000 for the Judicial Review at CrowdJustice. Info: www.egra.london www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/ cruise-liner www.londoncitycruiseport.co.uk
Businesswomen launch
A NEW women’s networking group has launched in Greenwich. The Women In Business Network is one of 22 WIBN groups across the capital, and had its first event in March. Organiser Evelyn Hoggart said: “Our group allows businesswomen to network, meeting other businesswomen so they can find mentors, get support, and encourage personal and business growth. We support part time and full time businesses.” Each meeting costs £25 including lunch, and you should take along at least 30 business cards or leaflets to distribute. Contact Evelyn on 07762 545192 or email evelyn.hoggart@wibn.co.uk
Boom in girls at Scouts
THE number of women and girls in Scouting is booming in south east London. There 1,319 female members of the movement here, echoing a national boom. It’s 25 years since they were allowed to join all Scout sections – Beaver, Cub, Scouts and Explorer. Royal Greenwich District Explorer Scout Abigail Phillips said: “I love Scouting and I always enjoy the adventures that Scout volunteers have helped us plan. I’ve picked up some really helpful life skills like team building, planning and how to communicate with people. I’d definitely encourage young people of all ages and both genders to join.” Info: southlondonscouts.org.uk and @GLS_Scouts
ith the weather warming up, plans for the Eltham Music Festival are hotting up too. For the third year Eltham Arts will be working with Royal Greenwich council on a programme of great live music in Passey Place in Eltham High Street for three Saturdays: July, 9, 16 and 23. Singing, dancing and crafts for the children will take place for passing shoppers, friends and neighbours to enjoy. It’s lovely seeing people of all ages enjoying the entertainment, perhaps having a cup of coffee in Delicio’s or resting on a bench after a shopping spree in the High Street. ilm News! We now have an Eltham Arts YouTube Channel! Films of the Winter Festival opening event and the Art Trail have been online but we have now premiered the film A to Z of the Eltham Arts Winter Festival 2015. It’s a fun video showing how the community can come together and welcome everyone to the local area. You can see photos and video of lots of the events. You may recognise yourself! See the film online – go to www.youtube.com and type in Eltham Arts – or, if your group would like a viewing, contact us.
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THAT’S YOU wait ages for a top notch restaurant in North Greenwich … then two come along at once.
First Stevie Parle – ex-Moro and River Cafe – launched Craft last year, close to the O2. Now the Intercontinental Hotel, a huge 453-bed hotel with stunning views and – a secret I discovered on my personal tour – even a tunnel from reception to the music venue next door. There are food and drink possibilities aplenty at the new hotel, where staff have their sights firmly set on a Michelin star by September. My tour took me to the 18th floor and, appropriately, Eighteen – a stylish rooftop bar with open terrace for smokers. Eighteen has dramatic panoramas of London’s skyline and if you still don’t feel up close and personal enough, the room has its own giant brass telescope. There are cocktails galore, some made using the hotel’s own Clipper Gin. Andor Karadi, Food & Beverage manager tells me: “We are very keen to source all of our ingredients locally when possible and to use British products. “We are working with a Hackney gin brewery. They produce 300 bottles every three months with a one-off design, made to our own specifications, each bottle retraces our theme.” It’s not hard to detect the maritime theme of The Spice Road flowing throughout the hotel. Next stop is the Peninsular restaurant, an e l e g a n t s e r i e s o f r o o m s o ff e r i n g a champagne suite and fine dining prepared by Brightonian head-chef Daniel Loftin, exKensington Place Restaurant and a man with Michelin ambition. Downstairs is the Clipper Bar, a quite extraordinary space with 270-degree windows for uninterrupted scenery and a ship-shaped central oval bar, marine-blue leather chair and varnished wooden table. This is a space to enjoy a quick lunch, nibbles and snacks. On the first floor, the Market Brasserie is all about bringing the London markets to life in a restaurant environment. There is a selection of fish, meat and cheese paraded on trolleys through the restaurant – it’s all about British Produce from Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields or Billingsgate. In addition, clients can choose pizza, pasta etc from the à la carte menu. Its position close to the O2 makes it an ideal place for for showgoers so there’s a pre-show menu…and that handy tunnel helps too. Afternoon tea and cakes have not been forgotten either – The Meridian Lounge on the ground floor is devoted to sweetness. Andor explains: “We serve
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’VE mentioned Greenwich Yacht Club before for its fabulous setting on the Thames… last month I tried its new Sunday pop-up The Galley, based in the River Rooms close by and with great views from the sun terrace. The menu is straightforward: Trios of starters/ bite and desserts at £4 and three different mains at £12. I can see the bites – chicken wings, king prawns, tortilla and the desserts – flying out the kitchen as a great light choice for walkers and cyclists. The Galley collaborates with local suppliers including fish from Billingsgate and bottled beers from HopStuff brewery. I was warned of opening day teething problems and, yes, there were some. Having only one draft beer is limiting. And my Tuna Tataki was missing its traditional cup of ponzu – the citrus-based sauce which is poured over at the last minute. Stuffed mushrooms came with Mediterranean vegetables looking slightly sunburned. But this place is one to watch. There are plans for outdoor barbecues and paellas, and even a dinner club, prepared by creative Spanish chef Fran Puig. Look out for Lobster, Truffle and Earl Grey on May 27. ivington, the excellent grill in Greenwich, has loads of food events coming up. The PocketCat Jazz Quartet perform on the first Friday of each month (from 10pm). Entry is free. Cocktails are to die for. Kids eat free from Mondays to Saturdays (12-7; up to 2 kids per paying adult) which is always a good deal. Head Chef Simon Wadham’s children’s menu offers homemade fish fingers and chips, grilled chicken, chips and peas et al. And this month Rivington is offering a weekday Set Lunch (12-7). For £12.50 enjoy a hearty dish – like classic fish and chips, minute steak or roasted spatchcock chicken – and a glass of wine. heck out a new monthly weekend Street Food Market in the Royal Arsenal Riverside at Woolwich on Saturday and Sunday May 7 and 8. Organisers promise: “Rain or shine, there will be an indoor and outdoor zone to explore everything from West Indian delicacies to Spanish tapas, Asian dishes and American BBQ platters.” ongratulations to Christoph Le Tuyven from Bouangerie Jade and his team for reaching the semi-final of La Creme de la Creme British Bake Off. Not my favourite show but it’s the winning that counts! ood heroes wanted! FareShare in Deptford saves good food from going to waste and supplies it to over 200 charities and community groups. Call 020 7394 2478 if you can help on Saturdays.
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Smith. Made In Greenwich, Creek Road. Till May 16 ART Grenwich Open Studios Taster Plumtree Cafe till June 3 MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Choir ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Side By Side Blackheath Halls 6 MUSIC Andrius Mamontovas IndigO2 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 7.30 PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 COMEDY C4 Gala O2 MUSIC Orange Circus Band Pelton PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 COMEDY Up The Creek JAZZ Matt Chandler Oliver’s Saturday 7 OPEN DAY Westcombe Woods westcombewoodlands.org 2-5 TALK From Pensioners To Officers Old Royal Naval College Painted Hall. Noon, 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Burnley. The Valley 12.30 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Bryan Adams O2 MUSIC Garage Anthems IndigO2 MUSIC SASASAS Building Six
PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 MUSIC Vanbrugh Ensemble St Margaret’s, Lee 7.30 MUSIC The Cole Porter Story Blackheath Halls 7.30 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 MUSIC Hornhub Pelton 8 COMEDY Up The Creek JAZZ Shura Quartet Oliver’s Sunday 8 TABLE SALE Age Exchange Blackheath 10-2 FAMILY Bird Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10 MUSIC Charlotte Maclet Violin recital. Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College, noon FAMILY Disco Kids: Enchanted Kingdom Albany 2-5 BASKETBALL Playoff Finals O2 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 5 MUSIC Marilyn Gentle, Dave Burrluck Pelton MUSIC Koray Avci IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 9 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew
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Thursday May 5 JAZZ AT THE ROW Dave Silk’s Jazznights ensemble feat. Simon Goodwin, guitar, Jacci Norris, vocals. Clarendon Hotel, Blackheath, SE3 0RW. Free. 8pm Friday May 6 CHARLEY MORRIS JAZZMEN with Jacci Norris vocals. Prince of Greenwich, 72 Royal Hill SE10 8RT. Free 1pm Saturday May 7 LUNCHTIME JAZZ Dave Silk’s Jazz band with guests and open mic. Live music, drinks & Sicilian food. Up the Creek, Greenwich SE10 9SW. Free. 1pm Friday May 13 Karl Charity trumpet/vocals with Phil Mead Trio. Mycenae House, Blackheath, SE3 7SE. £10. 8pm Saturday May 14 LUNCHTIME JAZZ Dave Silk’s Jazz band with guests and open mic. Live music, drinks & Sicilian food. Up the Creek, Greenwich SE10 9SW. Free. 1pm. Sunday May 15 Jazz Supper featuring Dave Silk’s Jazznights Ensemble with numerous guests. Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley Hill, Kent, BR1 4JD. 7.30pm Thursday May 19 Open Mic session with Simon Goodwin, David Silk & Jacci Norris. Colfeian Grounds, Horn Park, Lee, SE12 8UE. Free. 8pm. Friday May 20; Saturday May 21; Sunday May 22 Young Turks & Old Tigers. Three late shows ft young talent & veteran supremos (inc. Sam Barnett & Derek Nash on Sunday 22). Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES Tickets £15/£10/£5. 020 8858 77755 Infojazznights.co.uk Thursday May 26 JAZZ SUPPER Duncan Lamont sax, Sarah Jane Hassell voc, Roger Lewin piano Dave Silk contracello. Mermaid Inn, Mermaid St. Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7EY. £25, £10 non-diners. 01797 223065. 8pm Friday May 27 CHARLEY MORRIS JAZZMEN with Jacci Norris vocals. Prince of Greenwich, Royal Hill SE10 8RT. Free. 1pm Friday May 27 PERFORMANCE CLASS Enhance your entertaining and presentation skills amongst a group of likeminded creative souls. Singing, comedy, dance, instrumental music all welcome. Shrewsbury House, Shooters Hill, Bushmoor Crescent, SE18 3EG. £5. 7.30pm Saturday May 28 LUNCHTIME JAZZ Dave Silk’s Jazz band with guests and open mic. Live music, drinks & Sicilian food. Up the Creek, Greenwich SE10 9SW. Free. 1pm Dave Silk Jazz Band in action
PLAY Heartbeat Churchill 2.30, 7.30 BOXING Haye Day II O2 TRIBUTE Visions Of Elvis IndigO2 PLAY Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 FOLK Kathryn Roberts, Sean Lakeman Blackheath Halls 8 COMEDY Up The Creek JAZZ Dave Sutherland Oliver’s Sunday 22 TRIBUTE Lee Rigby Memorial Ride Greenwich Park 10 MUSIC Naufal Mukumi Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Meet Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6 TALENT Something for Sunday
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Hope Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE Untouchable Albany 8 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 26 MUSIC Trinity Laban Harps St Alfege 1.05 TALK The Magical Art Of Camouflage In Warfare Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Soc, St Mary’s Church Hall 2.30 MUSICAL Legally Blonde Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Black Milk Brooklyn Bowl CARS Park It In The Market Vintage vehicles & music Greenwich Market 7-10 TALK Honeybeekeeping In Oxleas Woods Severndroog Castle 7 DANCE Transitions Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Black Milk Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PERFORMANCE Untouchable Albany 8 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton MUSIC Joel Culpepper Oliver’s Friday 27 MUSIC Lunchtime Concert by Trinity Laban students. Age Exchange 12-1 Free VOLUNTEER Dig-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 CRAFTISAN Craft & Design Month Greenwich Market till May 30 ART WORKSHOP Ania Bas Nat Maritime Museum 11 TALK Tristan Gooley NMM 1 MUSIC Alysha Paterson, Sam Jewison Vocal recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Tamesis Trio Blackheath Halls 6 MUSIC Migos IndigO2 MUSIC Africa Day Acoustic Night Global Fusion event Mycenae House 7 PLAY Street Girl Albany 7.30 DANCE Transitions Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Legally Blonde Churchill 7.30 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Busted O2 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 COMEDY Up The Creek JAZZ David Angol Oliver’s Saturday 28 KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALK Charlotte McDonaldGibson Nat Maritime Mus, noon FAMILY Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 MUSICAL Legally Blonde Churchill 2.30, 7.30 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 MUSIC Junior Trinity Old Royal Naval College chapel 5 PERFORMANCE Magcon IndigO2 MUSIC Busted O2 CONTEST London’s Got No Talent Prince of Greenwich 7.30 Free PLAY Street Girl Albany 7.30
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Bach To Baby Critically aclaimed classical music for Baby
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June GREENWICH OPEN STUDIOS: Basia Burrough and other artists show on June 11/12 & 18/19, (2-6)
BARN DANCE The Woodlands Farm Trust 7.30 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 COMEDY Up The Creek Sunday 29 NATURE Guided Bird Walk Meet at Blackheath Gate, Greenwich Park 9 KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Joe Brown Old Royal Naval College, noon PLAY Cymbeline London Th 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 30 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Project Icarus NMM 11.30, 2 KIDS Dancing Sailors Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Tuesday 31 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Project Kraken NMM 11.30, 2 KIDS Dancing Sailors
Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Ettore Strangio, Min Young Bae Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 FAMILY Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks Churchill 2 FAMILY Horrible Histories: Incredible Invaders Churchill 7 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Laika Lost In Space London Th 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday June 1 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 ART Pre-Raphaelites Artistic Movement Interactive show at Deptford Lounge, Giffin Street, till June 29. 8-10 (Sat 9-5 Sun 105) Free KIDS Pond-Dipping Friends of Greenwich Park event Wildlife Centre 10.30 HISTORY Ivy Higgins Part of Here Come The Girls exhibition.
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JAZZ AT MYCENAE FT. KARL CHARITY
The best kept secret in London live jazz. Mycenae showcases Karl Charity (trumpet) 8pm £10 door
Fri 20 & Sat 21 May at Greenwich Theatre
JAZZ LATE SHOWS IN THE BAR Ace Flamenco guitarist Ramon Ruiz stars alongside a selection of other emerging talented musicians 9:30pm £5 door
Sun 22 May at Greenwich Theatre
YOUNG TURKS & OLD TIGERS
Sam Barnett teams up with sax-supremo Derek Nash with Simon Da Silva on trumpet 9:30pm Seats £5/£10/£15 Tickets 020 8858 7755
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Albany, Deptford Lounge: Douglas Way SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Bakehouse Theatre: Age Exchange, Blackheath Village SE3 9LA. 020 8318 9105 Blackheath Conservatoire: 19-21 Lee Rd SE3 9RQ. 020 8852 0234 conservatoire.org.uk Blackheath Halls: 23 Lee Road SE3 9RQ. 020 8463 0100. blackheathhalls.com Bob Hope Theatre: Wythfield Rd SE9 5TG. 020 8850 3702. bobhopetheatre.co.uk The Centre: New Eltham Methodist Ch, Footscray Rd. newelthammethodist.org.uk Charlton House: Charlton Rd SE7 8RP. 020 8856 3951 Churchill Theatre: High St, Bromley BR1 1HA. 0844 871 7620 Clarendon Hotel: Montpelier Row SE3 0RW. 020 8318 4321. clarendonhotel.com The Duke: 125 Creek Rd SE8 3BU. 020 8469 8260 The Eltham Centre: 2 Archery Road SE9 1HA. 020 8921 4344 Eltham Palace: Court Yard SE9 5QE. 020 8294 2548. english-heritage.org.uk The Forum: Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 0208 853 5212. office@forumatgreenwich.org The Green Pea: 92 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9UW. 020 8858 9319 Greenwich Communications Centre: 164 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9TZ. 020 8269 2103 Greenwich Dance: Borough Hall SE10 8RE. 020 8293 9741 greenwichdance.org.uk Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 4DX Greenwich Theatre: Crooms Hill SE10 8ES. 020 8858 7755. greenwichtheatre.org.uk Greenwich West Community Centre: 141 Greenwich High Rd SE10 8JA Laban Theatre: Creekside SE8 3DZ. 020 8463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk London Theatre: 443 New Cross Rd SE14 6TA. 020 8694 1888. thelondontheatre.com Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk Mycenae House: 90 Mycenae Rd SE3 7SE 020 8858 1749 mycenaehouse.co.uk National Maritime Museum: Romney Rd, SE10 9BJ 020 8858 0045 www.nmm.ac.uk 02, Indig02, Building 6, Brooklyn Bowl: 0844 8560202 www.theo2.co.uk Old Royal Naval Coll, Discover: SE10 9LW. 020 8269 4799 oldroyalnavalcollege.org Oliver’s: 9 Nevada St SE10 9JL. 020 8858 3693 www.oliversjazzbar.co.uk Pelton Arms: 23-5 Pelton Street SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com Prince Of Greenwich: 72 Royal Hill SE10 8RT 020 8692 6089 St Alfege: Greenwich Church St. 020 8853 0687. st-alfege.org Severndroog Castle: Off Shooters Hill SE18 3RT. severndroogcastle.org.uk The Star And Garter: 60 Old Woolwich Rd SE10 9NY. 020 8305 1144 Steinberg Studio: 137 Vanbrugh Hill SE10 9HP. steinbergduo.com Tramshed Theatre: 51-53 Woolwich New Rd SE18 6ES. 020 8854 1316 glypt.co.uk Trinity Laban: King Charles Court SE10 9JF. 020 8463 0100. trinitylaban.ac.uk Up The Creek (UTC): 302 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 4581. up-the-creek.com Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk
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Beatrix Deptford Lounge 11, 12 KIDS Pitschi The Kitten With Dreams Tramshed 11, 2 FAMILY Project Kraken NMM 11.30, 2 KIDS Colourful Cockerels Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks Churchill 2 DANCE BA3 Degree Show Laban 2.30 MUSIC Grandmaster Flash Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Public Image Ltd IndigO2 FAMILY Horrible Histories: Incredible Invaders Churchill 7 MUSIC Imagine... The Beatles Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 THEATRE Timeshift Alexandra Players, Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. 8 Sunday 5 SALE Age Exchange Art, craft, cards, vintage & retro bric-abrac, books. Cafe open 10-2 WEDDING FAIR Designer makers Greenwich Market KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Colourful Cockerels Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Wheatus Brooklyn Bowl TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 SHOW Menopause: The Musical Churchill 7.30 Monday 6 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Corinne Morris Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Meantime Jazz Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Chas & Dave Churchill 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 7 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter HEN The Dreamboys Churchill 7.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 8 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: The Blind Girl Deptford Lounge 11 FILM/PLAY Hamlet From RSC Picturehouse 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Tell Me On A Sunday Churchill 7.30 MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 LITERATURE Misha Glenny
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Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 9 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FILM/PLAY The Audience From NT. Greenwich Picturehouse 7 OPERA Live Verdi’s Royal Opera Nabucco with Placido Domingo Big Screen, Gen Gordon Square. MUSIC Up On The Roof Churchill 7.30 MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 TALK Prof Robert Winston Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 10 MUSIC Giulia Semerano, Yaoying Wang Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Busta Rhymes IndigO2 TRIBUTE A Night Of Elvis Churchill 7.30 MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 Saturday 11 FUND-RAISER Run For Diabetes Greenwich Park 9.30am ART Greenwich Open Studios greenwichopenstudios.co.uk 020 8692 5824. Various venues 2-6 BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop Age Exchange 10-4 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: Isabella/Isabella & The Pot Of Basil Deptford Lounge 11, 12 KIDS Meet Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALK Charles Wheeler NMM 11 TALK Chapel Fire/Restoration Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 MUSIC Neil Young O2 MUSIC Dancing In The Streets Churchill 7.30 Sunday 12 OPEN HOUSE Bob Hope Theatre 70th celebrations 10-1 Free ART Greenwich Open Studios greenwichopenstudios.co.uk 020 8692 5824. Various venues 2-6 KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College, noon TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Clint’s Jazz Band Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 MUSIC The Black Heather Club Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Dire Straits Experience Churchill 7.30 Monday 13 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew
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Churchill 7.30 PERFORMANCE Gala Nights Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 Sunday 26 ARTS G+DIF Greenwich Fair. Town Centre KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College, noon DANCE/MUSIC We May Be Some Time NMM 1 MUSIC Greenwich Steel Band, Royal Greenwich Big Band Greenwich Park bandstand 3 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Choir ORNC chapel 3.30 PLAY Joy Division London Th 5 FAMILY The Sound Of Music Singalong Churchill 7 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 27 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 ARTS G+DIF Moat Island Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham 4-7. Till July 1 FILM/OPERA Werther From Covent Garden. Picturehouse 7 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 28 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 KIDS Grass/Meeting Mr Boom 4 Well Hall Pleasaunce SE9 SHOW That’s Entertainment Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Brandy IndigO2 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 29 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: The Woodman’s Daughter/Bubbles Deptford Lounge 11 MUSIC Brazil! Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Room, Trinity Laban 1.15 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 SHOW That’s Entertainment Churchill 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Graham Anthony Devine Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. 7.30 at Our Ladye Star Of The Sea, Crooms Hill SE10 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 30 MUSIC London Brass St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Trinity Laban Guitars
Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 1.15 SHOW That’s Entertainment Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MASTERCLASS Carlos Bonell Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 3 TOUR The ORNC Unlocked Old Royal Naval College 6.30 CARS Park It In The Market Vintage vehicles & music Greenwich Market 7-10 MUSIC Roberto Aussel Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 7 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton DANCE Jan Martens, Hannah Buckley Borough Hall 7.45 Friday July 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 MUSIC Trinity Laban Guitars Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 1.15 MASTERCLASS Roberto Aussel Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 3 MUSIC Earth, Wind & Fire O2 MUSIC Carlos Bonell Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 7 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 SHOW That’s Entertainment Churchill 7.30 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 Saturday 2 FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College, noon SHOW That’s Entertainment Churchill 2.30, 7.30 ARTS GDIF Ignite Royal Artillery Barracks, Royal Artillery Square, and General Gordon Square 3 MUSIC Jim Morrison Tribute Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 ARTS G+DIF Festival Finale Clash of Drums Woolwich. 10.
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Sunday 3 SALE ART & CRAFT SALE Age Exchange. Art, craft, cards, vintage & retro bric-a-brac, books and more Cafe open 10-2. FAMILY India Day Severndroog Castle 10.30 MUSIC Belvedere Concert Band Greenwich Park bandstand 3 FAMILY Greenwich World Cultural Festival Eltham Palace TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 DANCE Make Your Move IndigO2 MUSIC Simon & Garfunkel Story Churchill 7.30 Monday 4 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 FILM/ART Papal Basilicas Of Rome G’wich Picturehouse 6.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 5 MUSIC 2Cellos Greenwich Music Time. ORNC 6 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 6 MUSIC Seal Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 7 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Joe Bonamassa Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Booker T Jones Brooklyn Bowl FILM/THEATRE Romeo And Juliet Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 8 MUSIC Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Booker T Jones Brooklyn Bowl Saturday 9 FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 DANCE TL Children’s Class Show Laban 3, 4.30 MUSIC 10cc Greenwich Music Time. ORNC 6 MUSIC Lakhwinder Wadali IndigO2 BARN DANCE Woodlands Farm Trust 7.30 Sunday 10 MUSIC London Gay Symphonic Winds G’wich Park bandstand 3 MUSIC Jamie Cullum Part of Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 11 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 FILM/THEATRE Romeo And Juliet Picturehouse, noon LIGHT OPERA HMS Pinafore Churchill 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 12 FILM/OPERA Die Meistersinger Von Nurnburg Glyndebourne link. G’wich Picturehouse 5.30 OPERA Carmen Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter LIGHT OPERA HMS Pinafore Churchill 7.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 13 LIGHT OPERA HMS Pinafore Churchill 2.30, 7.30 OPERA Carmen B’heath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 14 MUSIC Trinity Laban St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Russell Watson Churchill 7.30 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 OPERA Verdi’s Il Trovatore Live on Big Screen, General Gordon Square Friday 15 FRIENDS FRIDAY The New Towers of London - Martin Lake. Bakehouse Theatre SE3. £5 (AE friends FREE) 1 TALK Margot Cooper Blackheath Flower Club Mycenae House 2
Chris Francis Graham Smith Canned Heat OPERA Carmen B’heath Halls 7.30 TALENT Star Quality Churchill 7.30 PLAY The Sixpenny Memorial Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 Saturday 16 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley ORNC 12 FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 PLAY The Sixpenny Memorial Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.30 DANCE CAT End Of Year Show Laban 7.30 Sunday 17 OPERA Carmen Blackheath Halls 2.30 MUSIC The Crystal Palace Band Greenwich Park bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Never 42 Churchill 7.30 DANCE CAT End Of Year Show Laban 7.30 Monday 18 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Tuesday 19 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 20 KIDS Gangsta Granny Churchill 1.30, 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 21 KIDS Gangsta Granny Churchill 10.3o, 7 HISTORY May Pinson & Nell Clancy Part of Here Come The Girls. Middle Park Community Centre 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 22 KIDS Gangsta Granny Churchill 7 Saturday 23 KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College, noon FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 KIDS Gangsta Granny Churchill 2.30, 7 MUSIC Blackheath Halls Community Opera Greenwich Park bandstand 3 Sunday 24 CELEBRATION Our 2nd Birthday Severndroog Caste 9 KIDS Gangsta Granny Churchill 11, 3 FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Lewisham Concert Band Greenwich Park bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 25 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 26 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 27 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Arms JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 28 HISTORY Ivy Higgins Part of Here Come The Girls exhibition. Charlton House 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PLAY All’s Well That Ends Well Severndroog Caste 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 29 VOLUNTEER Dig-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 MUSIC Acoustic Night GFMA event, Mycenae House Saturday 30 FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 GONGS Drum & Bass Awards Building Six Sunday 31 FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Silver Ghosts Greenwich Park bandstand 2.30 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC The Real Thing Churchill 7.30
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The Blog of Samuel Pepys T uesday. To the ale-house. There talked with a man who did say that my journall may be read across the world, which filled me with hope that the King of India may be dazzled by my wit and give my employment, then with fear that a Dutch Admirall may read of the effete ways of England today and order an attack upon Rochester, and then with terror that my wife may read it. Then to bed, where had a nightmare of a cannonball landing on my best cheese and my wife roaring with laughter. ednesday. Up and out to buy a daily News-Sheet, which contained naught but wars and scandal: pleased that our values under King Charles do yet remain. In the shop did see a shelf marked “Diaries.”. Many of the volumes were exceeding small. The men of today are not permitted to employ maids so thought that mayhap they have little to do with which to fill the diary. icking one up I now did see that every page was naught but blank space. In a rage I took the book to the counter-wench to tell her that she was gaining profit by selling empty books. Not so, she said, the
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diary would be used by people to write in what they would be doing on that day. I asked why they would write what they would do before they did it, and she said it was so that they would remember to do it. That I cried, would make a most poor and predictable journall. The wench did tell me to please myself, an invitation which, as a gentleman, I had the manners to decline, even though she was pretty. She did then say that it was cheap as it was late in the year, a most strange way of costing goods: perhaps if I come in to buy more books in July they will be even cheaper. So I did buy the journal. hursday. It is a most inadequate Diary, with but small space to write my events of the day. Did think that people today must have empty lives or else are lazy. And so to the Parke, which I did yesterday but must put in today as no space. Am writing very small. Perhaps I should use the Diary as the wench said, to plan in advance. Did think of what I have planned to do tomorrow. After twenty minutes had thought of nothing. Did put down, “Write diary.”
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