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Freak storm strike in Greenwich Park AN 80-year-old Cedar in Greenwich Park lies blown apart by freak lightning.

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The tree was destroyed by the bolt. Park Manager Graham Dear says it’s the worst damage he’s ever seen. He said: “I’ve seen trees that have been struck by lightning before. But I have never seen a mature tree completely destroyed like that. The tree quite literally exploded. Large splinters of wood were sent 25metres through the air and stuck into the ground.” Graham added: “We have kept the trunk for now as a reminder of this exceptional event. It’s amazing.” ParkLife Column – Page 22

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ascinated by the history of Greenwich Park? You can help discover more next month – from July 4 to 15 – at a community archaeological dig. It’s the third and final year of the dig at the Old Keeper’s Cottage, which has also found goodies inlcuding a bronze Roman brooch. Anyone is welcome. Call Assistant Park Manager Michael Loughnane on 0300 061. eader Brian Cross contacted us this month to remind us that – far from being a childhood memory – you can still enjoy a donkey rides on the Heath. And he’s spot on. Rides are normally available at Duke Humphrey Way near the Blackheath Gates. during school holidays, Bank Holidays and at weekends from 10-5. Giddy-up!

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ood luck to organisers of the famous Plumstead Make Merry – the longest-running festival in these parts. It’s on June 11. But ahead of that you can help it win £25,000 of funding in a public vote for Regional Community Initiative of the Year. Go to plumstead makemerry. co.uk to help.

HREE of our readers will be seeing Greenwich in a new way after winning unlimited family travel tickets for the Thames Clipper and Emirates AirLine.Congratulations to Jo Phillips, Lynsey Smith and S. D.Purmanan. Last month reader Linda Tilling won our Greenwich Market

This is the place where groups and people tell us what they do, why, and how you can help. This month:

EMMAUS Greenwich – which supports homeless people by giving them a stable home and meaningful work – is looking for volunteers in its shops here. Around 30 people help our charity at its five stores based in Plumstead, Welling, Lewisham, Poplar and Islington. Volunteers’ Week – from June 1 to 12 – will be marked with hundreds of events to say thank you to people who give their time and energy throughout the year. Last year more than 750 events took place, from awards ceremonies to tea parties and barbecues. Greenwich volunteer Alice said: “I have been volunteering with Emmaus since October 2015. That summer I’d had to stop working because of severe anxiety. I found it difficult to leave the house or be away from my close family. “When I was first started volunteering with Emmaus I could only manage being at the shop for a few hours, and then I would have to return home. Over time my confidence grew and I felt more comfortable and relaxed in the shop. I now volunteer two full days a week. I am happy to be left in the shop by myself and lead in unexpected situations, such as when our shop flooded. “I love seeing regular customers in the shop, dressing the windows and working with the kind staff and companions. Volunteering at Emmaus has given me the strength to keep going and given me strength and belief in my own capabilities”. Emmaus Greenwich is one of 28 communities across the country. For every £1 invested in a community, there is an £11 return, research shows, reducing the UK’s benefits bill, crime re-offfending and health service costs.

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ongratulations to Blackheath writer David Weir whose awardwinning play Better Together at the Brockley Jack theatre won rave reviews and regularly sold out. Greenwich Theatre is about to close for a welcome three-month refurb. Perhaps it could bring the intelligent, funny and wonderfully-acted story of a post-Referendum Fife family to a wider audience when it reopen this autumn. Fingers (and ballot papers) crossed. iles Hedley reveals the great work done by Greenwich Dance on Page 10 this month. If you’ve never been to a performance now’s your chance – a limited number of £1 tickets are available for residents for three paidfor events (the rest are free) during the Greenwich Dances festival. Apply at www.greenwichdance.org.uk

I heard there’s a lot of work going on at Greenwich Elizabeth played under the oak that bears her name in Market...are they building the new hotel they were Greenwich Park. Queen Elizabeth granted us Royal talking about? Not any more! In April the Duke of Status in February 2012. York officially opened the renovated Greenwich Market. Greenwich Hospital, the charity which owns We’re visiting. What should we do today? You’ve the site, has renovated the roof and cobbles and has picked up a Greenwich Visitor – good start. Next visit added a new smaller Pavilion Market – it will be the the Tourist Information Centre. It’s award-winning base for the Market’s well-known Street Food stalls, staff has just relocated from Pepys House into the Discover Greenwich centre next door at the while the rest concentrates on arts, crafts, Old Royal Naval College. Get advice, designer-makers and collectibles. There’s buy tickets for boats, tube, DLR, rail, been a market here since the 1300s. buses and coaches, book tours, buy Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? tickets for London attractions. After Greenwich Council’s botched WANT TO ADVERTISE? £11.5million refurb, the 114-yearIs anyone using the cable car old Greenwich tunnel reopened in yet? Cheek! The Emirates Air HAVE A STORY? 2012. But problems persisted. A Line isn’t much use for getting friends group Fogwoft.com has about – and it often shuts in high Call Matt on 07802 743324 pushed the Council for winds – but is a futuristic attraction Matt@TheGreenwich improvements. Lifts are said to be we love. working better and lift alerts and a Visitor.com Wasn’t the Olympics in Greenwich? movement management system is There was a controversial 20,000-seater imminent. However when we walked stadium in Greenwich Park 2012 for through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel last month a new electronic sign said the lift was working when equestrian events. Hard to see much evidence of it it wasn’t. Greenwich Council still has much to do. now though...or any Olympic legacy. Will the new system cool competing demands of Museums. Are they free? Yes – except the Fan walkers and cyclists? We’ll have to wait and see. Museum, which has no public funding but a worldI read that Greenwich is a World Heritage Site? Yes, leading collection of fans. And the Wernher Collection it won World Heritage Site status in the 90s. It means of art at Ranger’s House, run by English Heritage. our treasures are so good, they’re protected by the UN. There are some paid for shows at the National And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We have 1,000 years Maritime Museum. You pay to stand on the Meridian of Royal links. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born Line inside the Royal Observatory too. And it’s 20p here and christened at St Alfege Church. In fact Queen to use the loos in Greenwich Park!

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9 days of free fun! “LONDON’S biggest and most ambitious festival of outdoor arts” is back here for nine days of spectacular free fun. Greenwich+Docklands International Festival is 21, and marks it with six world premieres, beginning with The House (pictured below) on Friday 24 June (10pm) – “a mythic contemplation of the rise and fall of civilisations” inspired by the reopening in July of The Queen’s House. Greenwich town centre goes car-free on Saturday June 25 (1-9.30) and Sunday June 26 (12-7) for Greenwich Fair with circus, theatre, dance, street games, cabaret, live art and mass participation. There are five days of after-school outdoor children’s theatre, dance puppetry with Moat Island at Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham from June 27 to July 1 (4-7), in association with Greenwich Dance. A performing digger, a herd of mechanical animals and even rotating musicians fill Woolwich for Ignite! on Saturday July 2 (3-9). The finale is The Clash of Drums at the Royal Artillery Barracks at 9pm – a fusion of percussion and fireworks from the French company Les Commandos Percu and the Spanish street theatre group Deabru Beltzak. Other events take place in the Isle of Dogs and the Olympic Park at Stratford. See the full programme at www.festival.org

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the lure of the open road IT gives a hole new meaning to the open road – a car dangles on the edge of a huge chasm that suddenly opened up here. The Vauxhall Zafira people carrier had been parked overnight in Charlton. But when owner Ghazi Hassan returned the next morning the ground had opened up and the car was sticking out from the chasm at a crazy angle. It was only stopped from falling in completely by a water pipe wedged under the back wheels.

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Giant hole engulfs car The hole opened up in Woodland large parts of the area. Our Te r r a c e s o o n a f t e r a h e a v y Greenwich Undergound expert Anthony Durham said: rainstorm. A leaking pipe allowing water “Subsidence of that type is almost invariably due to flowing to erode the earth under the water, with the road is believed to probability of an old more likely to be human sand or the cause than chalk mine there old chalk being being mines, which exist under Send us a photo. Email: very low. High

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JAZZ returns to Greenwich Park this month with the Friends of Greenwich Park’s Mid-Summer Jazz Concert. The Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band star in the family event at the Observatory Garden on Sunday June 19 (1). Gates open at noon and there’s a bar, food and ice cream. To book call 020 8853 2150 email cnbevan@hotmail.com or write to Friends of Greenwich Park, 52 Greenwich Park Street, SE10 9LT. Make cheques payable to Friends of Greenwich Park. The Friends have also lined up a summer of Sunday Bandstand concerts from June till August (3pm). Info: www.

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PHOTOGRAPHY students showcase their pictures of Hidden London in The Gallery at the Discover Greenwich this summer. The students – on the Adult Community Learning courses on Advanced Digital Photography at Greenwich Community College – have curated the exhibition. “The theme Hidden London is demonstrated in the broadest sense,” says student Colin Mackenzie, “from literal to su g g e s te d , e n c o mp a ssi ng locations above and below the ground, little known corners of London and a variety of other interpretations.” The free show runs till Saturday July 2 (10-5).

Kids & cabbies beside seaside HUNDREDS of children and their carers will enjoy a trip to the seaside thanks to the world famous Albany Fund run by London Taxi Drivers charity. The drivers set off from Charlton Athletic’s ground in a huge convoy to Hastings on Monday June 6 for the 25th time. They’ll have fish and chips by the sea, enjoy a funfair and a disco. “It means children from local schools with special needs have a fun-packed day of l a u g h t e r, ” s a y s c h a r i t y spokeswoman Angela Roney. New Mayor of Greenwich, Olu Babatola will wave off 100 drivers and 300 children and their carers at 9am. The convoy even starts with a police escort!

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PRE-RAPHAELITES Art experts will be at Deptford Lounge to talk about individual paintings by the likes of Millais, Rossetti and Holman Hunt and there will also be workshops, drawing classes and an exhibition in this interactive project, which is aimed at all ages but has a special emphasis on youngsters. June 1-29

BRITISH This couldn’t be more relevant. In the week before the EU referendum the London Theatre in New Cross stages John Whyte’s drama which looks at the immigration debate from the point of view of a refugee, a working-class man and a toff and asks: What does it mean to be British. June 14-19

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STAR TREK REALITY CHECK Ever wondered how much of the cult TV show was based on real science? More than you think, if this planetarium talk at the Royal Observatory is anything to go by. So when Captain Kirk ordered the Enterprise to go to warp-drive, he was actually heralding a real-life possibility in future. June 16

TWILIGHT CONCERT Cellists Boris Atanasov and Nikolay Ginov are accompanied by Asako Ogawa on virginal for a baroque recital at Severndroog Castle which will end with a tour of this fascinating building and a climb on to the roof terrace as the sun goes down to enjoy the finest view of London you’ll ever see. June 19

INSIDE OUT Trinity Laban’s annual jazz celebration brings together some of the conservatoire’s most brilliant students with iconic figures from the world of music. This year’s guest star is veteran guitar legend Jim Mullen whose Wednesday gig at Oliver’s is an unmissable highlight of the festival. June 21-24

G+D INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL What a month for festivals! The Greenwich +Docklands one starts with music, dance and light in front of the Queen’s House, takes in historical Greenwich Fair and familyfriendly events in Woolwich and Eltham, then returns to Woolwich for an after-dark percussion bonanza finale. June 24-July 2

BARDS WITHOUT BORDERS A group of poets with backgrounds in Jordan, Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kosovo, the UK and the British Roma community headline a Global Fusion Music and Arts’ event at Mycenae House to mark both Refugee Week and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. June 24

GREENWICH STEEL BAND An irresistible Caribbean groove will be the perfect compliment to the Royal Greenwich Big Band’s swing as they launch another summer of free Sunday afternoon concerts on the bandstand in Greenwich Park. The gigs are once again being organised by the Friends of Greenwich Park. June 26

ROYAL GREENWICH GUITAR FESTIVAL Globally-acclaimed musicians Roberto Aussel and Carlos Bonell hold masterclasses and play recitals at Trinity Laban’s Old Royal Naval College home while Graham Anthony Devine will perform at Our Ladye Star Of The Sea on Croom Hill in this celebration of the classical guitar. June 29-July 1

BANISHED Blackheath Halls hosts the world premiere of this important new opera by awardwinning composer Stephen McNeff and librettist Olivia Fuchs which tells the harrowing story of the first women prisoners to be transported to Britain’s penal colony in Australia 200 years ago. June 29-July 2

Greenwich was gridlocked last month when the Blackwall Tunnel was blocked for nearly 24 hours. There are plans for the Silvertown Tunnel to be built just yards away. But will it ease the pressure or just add to it? Before being voted new London Mayor, Sadiq Khan voiced scepticism about the tunnel but now appears to be considering a U-Turn. Darryl Chamberlain of Campaign group No Silvertown Tunnel argues that it will be bring more traffic and deadly pollution.

IT was the day the nighmare came true for hundreds of thousands of drivers – as morning rush hour began a mobile crane shed hydraulic fluid along the northbound Blackwall Tunnel.

Cue huge jams and a lengthy closure as south east London’s roads ground to a halt. Howls of frustration could heard as far away as the Kent coast. None of this is good for Greenwich. It’s not good for the wider economy, either. But the proposed Silvertown Tunnel is no solution. Nor is it a solution for frequent minor closures after accidents or overheight vehicles. As a diversion route, the proposed tunnel is inadequate for the levels of traffic that use Blackwall each day. Many drivers from south London and Kent assume they’d be able to just fly away from the Silvertown Tunnel after crossing the Thames. That won’t be the case on a good day, and it certainly won’t happen on a bad day. Northbound traffic would emerge in Silvertown at a rebuilt Tidal Basin Roundabout – a junction controlled by traffic lights. At Tidal Basin Roundabout, you can head right towards Silvertown and local roads through the Royal Docks; or left to the Lower Lea Crossing and the Docklands. There’d be no direct route for the majority of diverted Blackwall Tunnel traffic to reach the A12 towards Bow – to do that you’d need to go through three congested junctions, all vulnerable to jams on the A13 or on the Limehouse Link/Aspen Way. With the Silvertown Tunnel in place, a Blackwall Tunnel closure would be likely to spread jams across both sides of the Thames, grinding Lower Lea Crossing, Leamouth Road and East India Dock Road to a halt. If you were heading towards Essex, you’d end up on local roads through Silvertown and Beckton which aren’t up to the job of taking all the diverted traffic. Meanwhile, traffic would queue from Tidal Basin Roundabout, through the Silvertown Tunnel, and back down the A102 as before. Buses would take the biggest hit, with route 108 unusable, just as it is now. Gridlock would return to Greenwich town centre as drivers headed for the Rotherhithe Tunnel. It’d be the same old story as now. And all this is taking TfL’s dubious assertions of a minimal traffic increase from the Silvertown Tunnel at face value. New roads have an unfortunate habit of generating new traffic, so the combined Blackwall and

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Silvertown approach would be significantly busier than it is now. It’s also worth saying that the location of the Silvertown Tunnel makes it impractical for A12 drivers when the southbound Blackwall Tunnel packs up. River crossings and the roads around them will always be vulnerable to disruption – even the network of bridges in west London suffers badly when one is closed. The Silvertown Tunnel would merely add pressure to existing roads –particularly the A102 – and would be

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Tunnel triggers day of traffic hell... 5.25pm @maria_pretorius records drivers out for a stretch

9pm Karen Storey @HomespaceUK shows traffic still blocking Maze Hill

Unlocked Evening tour Thu 30 June & Fri 12 August, 18.30 & 19.30 Explore over 500 years of hidden history and discover some of our scret spaces. The tour will finish beneath the picturesque collonades with a complimentary cocktail. Tickets £30 at ornc.org Meet at Upper Grand Square in front of the Painted Hall

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leaked hydraulic fluid on the road just 7am on May 24. By 7.30am roads in after Green wich were at a stand still. By East traffic began to be diverted out along9am roads. Buses parked up on approach slip as delays stretched to four hours. TfLroads dug up 15 lorry loads of damaged asphalt and relaid a 1km section of road. Maria Pretorius sent us a picture of at a stand still nearl y 11 hours aftertraffic the incident. There were still queues as night fell, when reader Karen Storey posted pictu res of jams in Maze Hill. Greenwich Visitor reader Acrelda Farrell said: “We live close to the Sun in the Sand s and the Here’s how we traffic was bad till 10pm. The helped tell the story air quality was shocking.” The tunnel finally opened on Twitter. You around 3am. can follow us helpe d alert peop le @GreenwichVisitr t h We oughout the day on (Just leave out T w i t t e r , w h e r e fo l l o w e r s posted updates and opinions. the o) Follow us @GreenwichVisitr

Greenwich Fair Fri 24 - Sun 26 June, 12.00 – 18.00 London’s leading festival of free outdoor performing arts returns with extraordinary dance, art, street theatre and night-time spectaculars. Venue: ORNC grounds

The Fire and the Chapel Restoration Free Talk Sat 11 June, 12.00 & 13.00 Join this free talk and learn about the history of Gin drinking, its effect on English society, and explore its intriguing connection to the devastating Chapel fire. One of the most colourful episodes in the history of the Greenwich Hospital. Venue: Chapel

3am Tunnel finally reopened after resurfacing work through the night. Picture: TfL little use when things go wrong with Blackwall. The only guarantee of reducing congestion is by reducing the traffic on the roads – and giving Londoners alternative ways to cross the river, such as by public transport, on foot, or by bike. This would free up space for those who need to use the roads. Now he is Mayor, we are calling on Sadiq Khan to commission a thorough review of

the Silvertown Tunnel, as he promised, along with the other crossings proposed under his predecessor. You c a n s i g n o u r p e t i t i o n a t www. toxictunnel.co.uk. Because all of us – drivers, residents, commuters, visitors – deserve fresh thinking on this issue, and not the same old “solutions” that are bound to fail, just as the Blackwall Tunnel does all too often.

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A SEDIMENTAL JOURNEY

58MILLION years of our geological history is on show again – including evidence of the days when we were beside the seaside.

Gilbert’s Pit – a former quarry in Charlton – offers a unique cross section of sediment from the past, including beach pebbles, fossilised sea shells and rainforest leaves! A £10,000 grant from Natural England and £1300 from Greenwich Council has paid for the area to be cleared of debris and for new steps and a viewing platform to be built.

See seaside past at 58m-yr-old pit

Gilbert’s Pit exposes the top of the important Thanet Sand Formation. The quarry, which provided materials for Woolwich Arsenal and glass manufacturing, closed in 1881. It was designated an area of Special Scientific Interest in 1953 but fell into disrepair in the early 2000s because of erosion, vandalism and vegetation.

Jonathan Larwood, Natural England’s Palaeontologist, said: “Gilbert’s Pit is one of the few places in London where fossils can be seen in their natural position and this is made easier with the new access and clearance work. The site is famous amongst geologists – now everyone can see why.” Access to Gilbert’s Pit – for groups or individuals – is by arrangement with Greenwich council. Contact Senior Parks Ranger Larry Blake on 020 8921 4124 or email him at larry. blake@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

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Here’s our Greenwich Visitor underground expert’s view DESPITE a ceremonial ribbon cutting on May 18, the new steps at Gilbert’s Pit are not actually open yet. When the Council removes the padlock everyone should be able to step up close to a cliff face and see what lies under the ground in Greenwich. Gilbert’s Pit is a former quarry, whose working face shows the layers of sand and gravel laid down millions of years ago when Greenwich was underwater or at the seaside, with beaches of sand or gravel. Everyone should go there and take a look – even if you are not officially studying geology and required to know your Blackheath Beds from your Thanet Sand. Trees that obscured the cliff face have been cut down, which enabled me to get a sneak preview of some of the strata, such as this white sand (valuable for glass making or spreading on floors), or a layer of pebbles (just right for your gravel path or for ships’ ballast).

REVEALED: Strata of Gilbert’s Pit

Unfortunately you still need very keen eyes to read the explanatory panel, which lurks in a poor position behind a fence. Also disappointing is that another set of steps leads up towards the historically important high point from which people have gazed out over the Thames for thousands of years. At the top I was blocked off by another locked gate. A work in progress. But a welcome one, LOPPED: Trees cut to show view

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IT’S 45 years since legendary Doors frontman Jim Morrison died and the world of rock lost one of the most original voices. But his music has lived on and 50 years since the band formed in LA it’s back with a bang in Greenwich, writes TONY CLARK. Celebrating Morrison’s life, music and poetry The Manzarek Doors – the most authentic of Doors’ tribute bands – play the best of the band’s hit with guest musicians, on favourite’s such as LA Woman, Touch Me and Roadhouse Blues. But the 45th Memorial Show at the Brooklyn Bowl on July 2 has an extra special feature – for the first time in 50 years, new material will be showcased. The Manzarek’s have taken the songwriting methods of Jim Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek to produce their own unique Doors hit, for their Light My Fire Tour 2016. Manzarek Doors singer Bill McGruddy said: “We thought it would be a fitting tribute to a remarkable man and offer fans the chance to come together and capture some of that magic live on stage!” Info: www. manzarekdoors.com

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With free outdoor events and family performances across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, this year’s Greenwich Dances festival is bigger than ever. Join us for world-class inspirational performances across the Royal Borough – including at The Borough Hall, Greenwich Dance’s beautiful Grade II listed home. Plan your summer of dance by visiting greenwichdance.org.uk or call us on 020 8293 9741.

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THE â&#x20AC;&#x153;best book sale in Londonâ&#x20AC;? returns for its 42nd year with more than 10,000 titles at low prices. The Blackheath and Greenwich Amnesty Book Sale has raised more than ÂŁ300,000 so far and is the charityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;most successful local fundraising event in the UK,â&#x20AC;? says organiser and Chair of the Group Simon Ware. The events are so popular that there is always a queue of people waiting with some of them travelling many miles to attend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The quality of books is very high and prices are astonishingly affordable. There is a wide variety of bargains to be found, from second-hand paperbacks to review copies of recent novels.â&#x20AC;? Amnesty International works worldwide to protect men, women and children wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Simon adds: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The book sale is also a campaign event so people should come prepared to both buy books as well as to s i g n p e t i t i o n s f o r t h e g r o u p â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaigns.â&#x20AC;? The sale is on Saturday June 18 (9-5) at the Church of the Ascension on Dartmouth Row â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10 minutes walk up Lewisham Hill from Lewisham National Rail, and DLR Station.

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in America. They spend most of their time in 4ft x 11ft cells. Art Reach was conceived that day when I asked my penfriend if some of the inmates might be interested in showcasing their work in exhibition in the UK. I was amazed at the response, and have since received some beautiful pieces of artwork, poems and stories from them. My main aim was to give these

men the opportunity to express themselves and to share their art from within the prison walls. As an artist I am only too aware of how important it is to be able to share your art with others. Whatever you think about the death penalty, the artwork and poems provide an insight into the minds of the men incarcerated there. Inspiration, regrets, happiness, sadness, yearnings,

CAMEL racing; bands; BMX; the Essex Dogs display team; falconry – Armed Forces Day 2016 promises to be the biggest event of its kind yet. Over 25,000 people are expected at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich on Saturday June 25 which also boasts a kids army assault course, Laser Quest and fairground rides. Info: www.

longings – from a place known for death and despair, beautiful art with hope for life can emanate. The show is at Made In Greenwich, in Creek Road, from Friday June 24 to Wednesday July 6. There will be a private view on Sunday June 26 (47pm), with a short talk at 5pm by a representative from Amicus, a small charity which helps death row inmates with representation. Most artwork will be for sale as well as prints and cards with proceeds going to Amicus and to help inmates buy art materials. My own art is mostly collages and small sculptures created from broken pieces of pottery and glass, metal, plastic and wood – discarded and forgotten objects considered to have no further use to society. I like to put these pieces together and give them a new meaning and a new life in a piece of art. Maybe there is a link.

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let’s da dance! DANCE is unique among major art-forms because Europe. The piece has already been seen in 23 countries. On June 26 the action moves down the road to the it combines the physical, intellectual and emotional National Maritime Museum for We May Be Some Time, in equal measure.

It’s also something almost everyone takes part in from an interactive work based on the history of exploration time to time – even if it’s only, as in my case, to be created by the museum’s choreographer-in-residence Embarrassing Dad at a family wedding disco, writes Bethan Peters and a cast drawn from local communities. Greenwich Dances 2016 finishes with a double bill at MILES HEDLEY. We are spoilt in London if you want to watch great Borough Hall on June 30 – Jan Martens’ Ode To The choreography and performances. If you want to combine Attempt and Hannah Buckley’s Woman With Eggs. The two-week extravaganza is quickly followed by the that with the chance to take part yourself, Greenwich joyful Greenwich World Cultural Festival, an afternoon Dance fulfils a role that is much tougher to find. The agency was founded in 1993 and these days it’s of international dance, music, theatre and circus at based at the Borough Hall, an art deco gem at the heart historic Eltham Palace on July 3. Meanwhile, between July 2 and 10 there will be a series of local events for Big of the World Heritage Site of Royal Greenwich. Its programme of professional productions is of the Dance, a nationwide celebration of the art-form. And that’s just the performance side. Professional highest quality and over the winter I have had the good classes for all ages and abilities are held year-round and fortune to see three breathtaking works. Quests, created by Tara D’Arquian specifically for the there are close links with schools and community groups in Greenwich and in neighbouring boroughs. venue, took us out of the auditorium into the backArtistic director Kat Bridge said: “There are rooms and corridors of the building on a multisometimes 50 professional dancers in the media exploration of the twilit world building and some of them have been between creativity and despair. Rahel working here since the 1990s, which says Vonmoos’s To Find A Place used shadow Greenwich Dance a lot about the way we operate.” lighting, film soundbites and movement al Hill She sees Greenwich Dance as a body to create a swirling yet intense study of Borough Hall, Roy that exists to further the appeal of the art displacement. And Dan Daw, one of the and to provide the best-possible facilities world’s foremost disabled dancers, bared for choreographers and performers. She greenwichdance his body and soul in Beast with such said: “We believe in growing ideas and .org.uk courage and dedication that we were left supporting others, not parachuting in and exhausted but elated. taking over. Next up on the calendar is Greenwich Dances, “People can find dance difficult because it’s a a biennial festival which this year concentrates on Woolwich and Eltham as well as Greenwich itself. It visual art-form with no words and can be tricky to get begins on June 17 with Moving Woolwich, a day packed hold of. They think it holds a secret that’s not accessible with performances and workshops in General Gordon to them – yet we’ve just had a completely sold-out Square which features emerging artists Joseph Toonga season. I believe it’s the beauty of dance that wins them and Lee Griffiths whose work fills the space between over. And we have so much to offer.” One of the things on offer is the ground-breaking hip-hop and contemporary dance. Over in Eltham, a double bill on June 28 and 29 at partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Well Hall Pleasaunce is aimed at under-12s and is and Dance which brings together two of the great centres designed to encourage them and their families to of learning in British dance. Its latest project is Dance Directions, a programme experience the arts. The first piece, Grass, features worms, slugs, snails designed to help primary schools provide dance in their and what its creators Second Hand Dance intriguingly curriculums to boost the quality of PE and encourage more youngsters to get active. describe as spontaneous outbreaks of ant-dancing. The The partnership also jointly commissions great second is Darren Ellis Dance’s Meeting Mr Boom artists to bring their work to Greenwich. Rahel – a journey of discovery in a magical bouncy land. Vonmoos’s To Find A Place was one of its Back at Greenwich Dance’s Borough Hall HQ more recent triumphs. there’s a fascinatingly varied series of Dance-fans can look forward to many more entertainments. In The Mix is a cabaret night on productions by amazing professionals, lots June 18 to mark the silver anniversary of more educational work and the prospect of Candoco, an acclaimed dance company for helping Greenwich Dance celebrate its 25th disabled and non-disabled performers. birthday in 2018. Four days later, you can see the UK As Kat points out: “Greenwich is a premiere of revered choreographer worldwide icon because it’s the centre Francesco Scavetta’s Surprised Body of time and space. That’s very Project #London, a work devised over appropriate for dance.” three weeks at his Swedish base in Info: www.greenwichdance.org. collaboration with dancers from across BELIEF: Kat Bridge

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GREENWICH Open Studios celebrates 39 years of wonderful art here with another festival in venues across the borough. The Open Studios began as part of a popular community Greenwich Festival, writes Penny Matheson. We were one of the first group of artists in London to open their studios to the public and were part of a popular community Greenwich Festival. This Festival has now become a cross-river international event but GOS is still celebrating the achievements of locally based artists each summer – this year on the weekends of June 11/12 and 18/19. Visitors are welcome to come and look at our art work in a more domestic EARLY MORNING IN GREENWICH: setting, as well as seeing first By Elaine Marshall hand how the artworks – sculpture or print-making in particular – are produced. We have three hubs – West Greenwich, East Greenwich, Various venues. Info: including the Westcombe greenwichopenstudios.co.uk Park area, and in Blackheath Park – and will be the only Greenwich artist group here June 11&12 to open studio homes to the June 18&19 public this summer. By recruiting new members we try to make sure and would be willing to regular visitors to the Open show your work from your Studio events have new home, please do email me: people to visit each year as matheson.pen@virgin.net well as enjoying revisiting for more information about artists whose work they joining. know they enjoy. Find more details of this If you are an artist living in year’s GOS weekends at: the Borough of Greenwich www.greenwichopenstudios. who has exhibited in the past co.uk.

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MAKE a date for Mycenae House’s third Summer Sunday Extravaganza garden party event. Events planned on July 10 include a world record attempt, community games, cooking workshops and arts as well as music and dance shows. “Last year more than 1,000 people came,” says Centre Manager Mark Johnson-Brown. “The day turned out to be great fun with lots and lots activities for all. This year we’ll have another packed programme of workshops and activities. Want to be involved? Mark adds: “Please get in touch if you’d like to join in in some way to discuss how we can work together to provide the best day we can.” Myceane House is a community centre based in a historic building with beautiful public gardens in Blackheath, with flexible spaces available for community, private and commercial use. Info: www.mycenaehouse.co.uk

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RIVKA Golani is perhaps the most fearlessly, so dynamically and so intensely into a piece as Golani did. Her gorgeous famous viola virtuoso ever. She’s had more works written for her than any other violist in history and she’s played as a guest soloist with pretty much every major orchestra and conductor on the international classical music circuit. In short, she’s a global superstar. She’s also a professor at Trinity Laban in Greenwich – SO we lucky locals get to enjoy her stunning skills from time to time. Her most recent appearance here was at St Alfege’s when she led five Trinity musicians in a performance of Brahms’ magnificent Sextet No2 in G major. And what a performance she – and they – gave for a packed house. I can’t remember seeing anyone launch themselves so

playing and her restless figure at the heart of the sextet combined to leave the audience spellbound. Yet despite her extraordinary presence, she never overwhelmed the ensemble violinists Andrea Montalbano and Nandita Bhatia, violist Jordi Morell and cellists Fraser Bowles and Olivia Clayton - and between them they gave a rendition of this Brahms’ masterpiece that it’s hard to imagine being equalled any time soon. It was a privilege to sit in Greenwich’s lovely parish church and hear such sublime sounds. Judging by the volume of the applause at the end, the rest of the audience thought so too.

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TWO of the finest books about the plight of the poor are George Orwell’s 1933 memoir Down & Out In London And Paris and Polly Toynbee’s 2003 homage Hard Work, so it was only a matter of time before someone stuck them together in play form. That person was David Byrne and his production for New Diorama at Greenwich Theatre was simply brilliant.

This adaptation is not designed to lighten your spirits because poverty is as alive and well today as it was in the 1930s. Yet thanks to an excellent script and a great cast - with standout performances by Richard Delaney and Karen Ascoe as the two writers and Andy McLeod as desperate kitchen-slave Boris the gloom was never unbearable. And the staging was magical, with the action switching between the two timeframes continually, sometimes in mid-

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sentence and sometimes thanks to clever prop-shifts. The bed with some kind of hidden compartment was particularly ingenious. I was delighted to see that the auditorium for Down & Out In London And Paris was packed for the occasion. Theatre like this deserves the widest possible audience. (optional link par if you want to add my Grimms review held over from last month): Speaking of lessons from the past, (it’s more

THANK God for the Albany and its fearless patronage of old-fashioned political theatre. Its latest venture was Philip Osment’s Hearing Things, an all-out attack on the increasingly scandalous state of mental health care funding in the NHS. Though flawed, the play spits and fizzes with righteous fury. It is also deeply moving, unsettling and, periodically, witty. The Albany’s production, by the company Playing ON, had the added advantage of being brought to life by director Jim Pope and a brilliant cast - David Annen as psychiatrist Nicholas, Jeanette Rourke doubling as his vicar wife Grace and an enraged patient called Janet and Seun Shote playing his dementia-battling doctor father Patrick and a potentially dangerous paranoid named Innocent. The performances were flawless, full of anger but also awash with realism and humanity - never more so than in a heartbreaking scene in which Nicholas tries to show Innocent how to turn off the voices in his head. And Osment’s writing was almost perfect for an in-the-round auditorium like the Albany’s because his wonderfully clever interweaving of plots and timelines, often mid-sentence, meant there was a reduced need for the scene-changes that would otherwise have damaged the narrative flow. The only downside to the play was that Nicholas’s catastrophic home life was too obviously a self-serving plot device designed - unnecessarily, I felt - to contrast the different aspects of the shrink’s existence. That said, Hearing Things deserved every whoop and holler the audience gave it at the end because this is an important new piece of drama of a type we see too little of in theatres these days - but which the Albany continues to nurture.

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ELTHAM’S Bob Hope Theatre marks its 70th birthday this month with a series of magical shows and events called Every Little Thing...

It begins with an Open House where you can explore the theatre, discover its past and its plans for the future, on Sunday June 12 (10-1). On Monday June 13 (7.30) the 18-piece Clint’s Jazz Band performs (7.30pm) and the following day there’s folk music with The Grizzly Mutts and special guests. Entry is free but donations are welcome. The theatre’s Eltham-born Hollywood benefactor Bob Bob Hope Theatre, CELEBRATE: Bob Hope Theatre in Eltham Hope is celebrated on am White Hart pub or call the box office on Wednesday June 15 (2pm) with Wythfield Road, Elth 020 8850 3702 (Open 10am-1pm a free movie matinee of The Tuesdays-Saturdays) or online at www. Seven Little Foys. There’s Olde bobhopetheatre.co.uk. Tyme Music Hall variety on Sun June 12 to Theatre Membership Secretary Ted Friday June 17 (7.30) ) and Sat June 25 Parker says: “Appeals for donations to the Sunday June 19 (3pm) – come in costume! Bob Hope Theatre Building Fund will be made Local theatre groups, operatic societies throughout our celebratory fortnight. Please give and dance schools take the stage in With A Little what you can.” Info: bobhopetheatre.co.uk Help...on Saturday June 18 (7.45pm). ARE you a fairly fit man aged 16 to 45? Project London’s best stand-ups provide comedy on Octagon needs thousands of men across the country Sunday June 19 (7.30pm) and the celebrations end to take part in a National Theatre event this summer. with two Gala Nights celebrating the anniversary on Ninety-minute taster sessions are being held at the Friday June 24 and Saturday June 25 (7.45). Bob Hope Theatre in Eltham. Even if you don’t want Tickets to all shows are available in person from to perform, Octagon needs volunteers to help the the theatre box office in Wythfield Road or The event run smoothly. Info: www.theatreboard.co.uk.

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ur CD will soon be ready to launch! Aspects of Winter – The Eltham Collection is an album of 10 original songs written and recorded here as part of our Winter Song Challenge. Some musicians are well known performers and others are newbies. But all have a love of music and are part of our arts community. e’re launching the album on Saturday July 2 at Capital Art Gallery, 13 Well Hall Parade SE9 1SP (3-6pm). You can hear the CD, buy a copy and meet the musicians, some of whom will be playing live. Do come along (but email if possible so we have some idea of numbers). The stunning CD cover has been designed by local Eltham artist Himani Weir, catching the Winter theme creatively. It’s a wonderful work of art in its own right. We also hope to make songs available to buy as a download. apital Arts Gallery has a great range of artwork on the walls from local, national and international artists. You may see something which is just right for your lounge. Such a great venue for our album launch. Thank you Karl for hosting us!

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he music programme is coming together for the Eltham Music Festival on July 9,16 and 23 in Passey Place (11am to 4pm) featuring popular musicians, newcomers, choirs and dancers. There will also be a free craft session organised by Pragya Kumar for kids to make innovative musical instruments. It’s free and fun for all the community and it’s the third year we’ve produced it with the Royal Borugh of Greenwich. ob Hope Theatre – celebrating 70 years – has so many different events in June to fundraise for their building project. Check www. bobhopetheatre.co.uk. You can book tickets for events or donate and be an important part of continuing the thriving theatre scene in Eltham. It is the home of eight local theatre groups, showcases five local dance schools and puts on over 30 productions a year. Crucially, it offers a chance for young people to learn and perform. Many go on to national theatre. It’s a fantastic local resource with a reputation extending much further than SE9. So lots going on here this summer! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and join in.

GREENWICH’S unique Fan Museum follows up an exhibition of its own treasures with one highlighting another’s. Unique items from the collection of The Worshipful Company of Fan Makers – founded in 1709 – are here this summer. Its rarely-seen collection includes fans presented to it by Past Masters and from Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and covers three centuries of fan artistry. “In the 18th century London’s fan making trade thrived and the Company comprised mostly of fan makers, painters and publishers,” says Fan Museum curator Jacob Moss. “The company continues to actively promote the craft of fan making and has instigated many fan design competitions throughout its history. A selection of prize-wining designs is included in this fascinating exploration of one of

the City of London’s most historic organisations.” The Fan Museum’s last show featured treasures from its own collection, amassed since it was launched by Hélene Alexander MBE in 1991 in two restored Grade II listed Georgian townhouses in Crooms Hill. The Museum holds more than 5,000 objects – arguably the UK’s largest collection – including fans dating from the 12th century and works by Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin and Walter Sickert. Curator Jacob Moss said Treasures was “one of the most spectacular displays of fans the Museum has ever staged. It proved to be the success we had hoped for. Visitors commented on the quality of craftsmanship; the lace fans, in particular, seemed to chime with visitors across the board.” Fans of the Livery is open from June 7 till September 4. Info: www.thefanmuseum.org.uk

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The secret of its success is down, I believe, to the fact that it’s not just about the music. OnBlackheath embraced the foodie factor early on, which helped create the family friendly and upmarket ambience that attracted John Lewis as a sponsor. So this year, as well as bands like Primal Scream and (appropriately) Hot Chip, a delicious array of cooking talent is lined up, I can reveal, including a healthy scattering of TV celebrities. Taking over the Chef’s Demo Stage is Saturday Kitchen favourite and the hottest Chinese chef of the moment Ching-He Haung. Ching is known for Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure which she copresented with Ken Hom. For the program, the two chefs travelled through China in search of their culinary roots. At OnBlackheath she will be demonstrating her mouth-watering recipes. Jun Tanaka, star of Chopped, the American reality-based cooking television gameshow, will demonstrate how to create her Dartmouth Field mouth-watering dishes while Blackheath Jack Stein – son of Rick – will be instilling his passion for all things fishy. Barbecue and meat fans Sat Sept 10 & have not been forgotten and Sun Sept 11 they are in for a couple of sizzling performances. On stage will be Caravan’s Mat Blak and Smokehouse resident Neil Rankin who has pioneered high-end barbecueing. Returning from last year is Christian Stevenson – aka DJ BBQ. There will be inspiration from around the world with mum and 2014 Master Chef Champion Ping Coombes, who will share the secrets and delights of Malaysian cuisine, and Olia Hercules, born and raised in Ukraine. The first I read about Olia was her interview with local guy and British Bake Off winner John Whaite. John will be OnBlacheath too – sweet! Food philosophiser Madeleine Shaw will be giving us a lesson or two in healthy eating and the dynamic Hemsley + Hemsley sisters who have just landed their own show on Channel 4 will be

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La Fete des Vins: FORMER BBC newsreader Jan Leeming was special guest at the Museum’s In Celebration event. Jan gave an insight into her stories and memories from 50 years working in TV and theatre. Jacob said: “Jan Leeming brought the house down with her witty, memory-filled presentation. She even donated to the Museum’s collection a fine quality late 19th century ostrich feather fan.” Greenwich Visitor reader Tony Kemp sent us this selfie with Jan at the event. Thanks Tony. Glad you had a great night.

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is an internet sensation whose online videos have been watched by a cool 30million+ people – twice the number of people whow saw the new Star Wars films in the UK. Caroline Whitmey, festival Project Manager, tells me: “We wanted to bring the very best chefs out there, including new rising talents, to OnBlackheath. Being a total foodie, this was an easy and most enjoyable task. Our line up this year has something for everyone to taste and enjoy.” OnBlackheath takes place over the weekend of September 10 and 11. Tickets available online, Under 12’s go free. Info and tickets: www. onblackheath.com

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ho’s been following The Great British Bake Off: Creme de la Creme On BBC2? I have to admit I was cheering on Christophe Le Tynevez-Dobel, who led an international team from Blackheath-based artisan bakery Boulangerie Jade. Christophe and his team reached the finals and in doing so, bombed, flattened and totally destroyed the basic dining etiquette principle of “Never mention politics nor religion...” In episode 3, the team created purple macarons religieuses, which were described as “Sexy” by one of the scary judges. Their semi-final showpiece was a “mouse-bank” or in Christophe’s words “an anti-capitalist protest.” A chocolate bank, marshmallow gold bars and miniature marzipan mice wearing tiny-red thief masks. For that – and for reaching the final – congratulations to Christophe & Co. id you know it’s the third time a TV food show finalist has come from here. Tony Rodd reached MasterChef’s final – you might remember him for his bowties, dandy mustaches and, of course, his desserts and chocolate creations. Tony has been hosting regular supperclubs at the Guildford Arms. And John Whaite won the third series of Great British Bake Off. He’s just published Perfect Plates in 5 Ingredients and will be appearing at OnBlackheath. t’s not only on TV that we excel. Victoria Aguda, chef at Busy Bees nursery in Greenwich, has created a completely allergen-free Chocolate and Avocado Puddingt, and starred in the final of a national chef competition. Victoria kindly agreed to share her recipe with The Greenwich Visitor readers. Have a go...it’s refreshingly simple: Avocado Chocolate Pudding To make 2 puddings Ingredients: 1 Avocado, 1 Banana, 1 Cup of coconut milk, 2 Tbsp Honey, 1/4 Cup Cocoa Powder, 1 Tsp Lemon Juice. Method: Peel the Avocado and Banana. Place with the rest of the ingredients in a food processor. Pour into individual cups and refrigerate for 1 hour.

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June 2016 Page 18 Wednesday June 1 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Pond-Dipping Friends of Greenwich Park event Wildlife Centre 10.30 HISTORY Ivy Higgins Part of Here Come The Girls exhibition. Old Royal Naval College 11 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Light Show, Tramshed 11, 2 FAMILY Project Icarus National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2 KIDS Dream Catchers Woodlands Farm Trust 1-3 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Timeshift Philip Ayckbourn premiere. 8 Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com PLAY These Four Walls London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 2 KIDS Pond-Dipping Woodlands Farm Trust 10-2 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 WORKSHOP Window Gardens Charlton House 10-1 KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Project Kraken NMM 11.30, 2 MUSIC Georgios Vardakis, Oda Vottersvik Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 KIDS Spot Tramshed 2, 4 SEMINAR Charles McGuire Laban Theatre 5.15 PLAY Timeshift Philip Ayckbourn premiere. 8. Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com PLAY These Four Walls London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Joel Culpepper Oliver’s Friday 3 FAMILY Mission To Mars Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Jessie & The Cloud Machine Tramshed 11, 2 KIDS Brilliant Bees Woodlands Farm Trust 11-3 FAMILY Project Icarus National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2 MUSIC Bellot Ensemble Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Sgt Pepper’s 49th Birthday Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Timeshift Philip Ayckbourn premiere. 8 Alexandra Hall,

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Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com COMEDY Paul McMullan London Theatre 8 PLAY These Four Walls London Theatre 8 COMEDY John Hastings, Funmbi Omotaya, Dave Green, Adam Bloom Up The Creek JAZZ Jo Wilkes Oliver’s Saturday 4 KIDS Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: Beata 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 DANCE BA3 Degree Show Laban 2.30 MUSIC Grandmaster Flash Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Public Image Ltd IndigO2 MUSIC Imagine... The Beatles Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 PLAY Timeshift Philip Ayckbourn premiere. 8. Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com COMEDY Greg Burns, Jess Fostekew, Adam Bloom Up The Creek JAZZ Tom Harrison Oliver’s Sunday 5 SALE Art & Craft Friends of Age Exchange Blackheath 10-2 WEDDING FAIR Designer makers Greenwich Market KIDS Meet Captain Woodget Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Summer Show Woodlands Farm Trust 11-4.30

KIDS Colourful Cockerels Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Wheatus Brooklyn Bowl PANEL Connecting The Cultural Community Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016 Blackheath Halls 6.30 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 6 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Corinne Morris Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Meantime Jazz Blackheath Halls 7 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 PLAY Against All Odds London Theatre 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 8 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: The Blind Girl Deptford Lounge 11 FILM/PLAY Hamlet From RSC Greenwich Picturehouse 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 LITERATURE Misha Glenny Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Against All Odds London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 9 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FILM/PLAY The Audience From NT. Greenwich Pic’house 7

MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Birthday Street Fair Greenwich Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 Market 3-5.30 TALK Prof Robert Winston KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Blackheath Halls 8 Old Royal Naval College, noon PLAY Against All Odds PLAY Against All Odds London Theatre 8 London Theatre 5pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton TALENT Something for Sunday JAZZ Ben Treatcher Oliver’s Vanbrugh 7 Friday 10 MUSIC Clint’s Jazz Band MUSIC Giulia Semerano, YaoBob Hope Theatre 7.30 MUSIC The Black Heather Club ying Wang Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Busta Rhymes IndigO2 Monday 13 MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC James Kirby Piano recital. PLAY Against All Odds Blackheath Halls 1.10 London Theatre 8 COMEDY Johnny Cochrane, MUSIC Folk & Blues Brennan Reece, Roger Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Monkhouse Up The Creek JAZZ Graham Pike Oliver’s Ladies Night Oliver’s Saturday 11 Tuesday 14 FUND-RAISER Run For Diabetes FILM/PLAY Hamlet From RSC Greenwich Park 9.30am Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon ART Greenwich Open MUSIC Tetsuya Yesuda, Studios greenwichoPhillip Leslie Piano reADVERTS penstudios.co.uk cital. Old Royal Naval HERE COST FROM JUST 020 8692 5824. College chapel Various venues 1.05 DANCE BA1 2-6 TALK PrePerformance Raphaelite Project Laban 7.30 Art: Isabella/ MUSIC English Isabella & The AND ARE READ EVERY DAY. folk Star & Pot Of Basil CALL MATT CLARK ON Garter Deptford 07802 743324 PLAY British Lounge 11, 12 London Th 8 KIDS Meet Nannie JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s The Witch Wednesday 15 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: The TOUR No Grave But The Sea Princes In The Tower National Maritime Museum 11 Deptford Lounge 11 TALK Chapel Fire/Restoration FILM The Seven Little Foys Old Royal Naval College, noon Bob Hope Theatre 5pm FAIR Plumstead Make Merry, DANCE BA1 Performance Project Common Road. 12-6. Free MUSICAL Merrily We Roll Along Laban 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 MUSIC Neil Young O2 PLAY British London Th 8 PLAY Against All Odds JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s London Theatre 8 Thursday 16 COMEDY Michael Legge, Maff MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Brown, Ro Campbell, Ian Stone Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 Up The Creek PERFORMANCE A Sailor’s Life JAZZ Wild Card Oliver’s For Me National Maritime Sunday 12 Museum 6.30 MUSIC Jazz Train Isfield, Sussex FILM/ART Leonardo da Vinci Greenwich Picturehouse 6.30 www.JazzNights.co.uk 11-4 TEA PAR Queen’s 90th Tea Party MUSIC Public Enemy IndigO2 TALK Star Trek Reality Check The Tarn, Court Road 2-30-5 Royal Observatory 7 KIDS Meet Jock Willis PLAY British London Th 8 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton ART Greenwich Open Studios JAZZ Stella Band Oliver’s greenwichopenstudios.co.uk 020 8692 5824. Various venues 2-6 Friday 17 CELEBRATION Queen’s 90th MUSIC Trinity Laban Harps Old

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Royal Observatory Garden 1 ART Greenwich Open Studios greenwichopenstudios.co.uk 020 8692 5824. Various venues 2-6 VARIETY Olde Tyme Music Hall Bob Hope Theatre 3 MUSIC Twilight Concerts Severndroog Castle 5pm, 7 PLAY British London Th 5pm MUSIC Stone Free Festival O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 20 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Inside Out Festival Oliver’s Tuesday 21 MUSIC Trinity Laban Flutes Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Israel Nash Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Inside Out Festival Oliver’s Wednesday 22 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: DewDrenched Furze Deptford Lounge 11 DANCE Francesco Scavetta Borough Hall 7, 9 DANCE One-Year EOY Show Laban 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jim Mullen Part of Inside Out Festival. Oliver’s Thursday 23 MUSIC Brace & Bit St Alfege 1.05 TALK Extravagant Collections of Napoleon & Josephine Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Soc, St Mary’s Church Hall 2.30 FILM Gravity (2013) Royal Observatory 6.30 MUSIC Thrash N Bowl Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Barry Manilow O2 DANCE One-Year EOY Show Laban 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton MUSIC Jazz At The Duke Inside Out gig, Deptford 8 JAZZ Sarah Gillespie/Clyde Oliver’s Friday 24

June 2016 Page 19 ART Art Reach Work by prisoners on Death Row. Made in Greenwich, Creek Road. Till July 6 VOLUNTEER Dig-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 MUSIC Joe Howson, Francesca Fierra Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Blackalicious Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Acoustic Night GFMA event, Mycenae House PERFORMANCE Gala Night Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 COMEDY Ian Smith, Prince Abdi, Rob Deering Up The Creek JAZZ Maurizio Minardi Oliver’s DANCE/MUSIC The House In front of Queen’s House 10pm Part of Greenwich/Docklands International Festival (GDIF) Saturday 25 FAMILY Greenwich Fair Old Royal Naval College and Royal Museums grounds. All day. Part of GDIF KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALK Pre-Raphaelite Art: The Awakening Conscience/The Light Of The World Deptford Lounge 11, 12 FAMILY Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 MUSIC Tortured Soul Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Soul Legends IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Gala Night Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Joy Division London Theatre 8 COMEDY Kevin McCarthy, Jonny Aksum, Milo McCabe, Gavin Webster Up The Creek JAZZ Hannes Riepler Oliver’s Sunday 26 FAMILY Greenwich Fair Old

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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: 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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MARKETS Greenwich Market: 10-5.30. Sat and Sun: Arts & crafts, food, fresh produce. Tues, Wed: Food, fresh produce, homewares. Thurs: food, antiques & collectables, crafts. Fri: Food, arts & crafts, antiques & collectibles Clocktower Market: 166 Greenwich High Rd. Sat, Sun 10-4. 50 quirky stalls specialising in vintage, retro and antiques. 07940 914204 Blackheath Farmers’ Market: Blackheath Station, 10-2 every Sun. lfm.org EXHIBITIONS/CRAFTS/COMMUNITY Royal Observatory: Asteroid: Mission Extreme. Till June 30 rmg.co.uk Fan Museum: Fans Of The Livery. June 7-Sept 4 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Old Royal Naval College: Photo exhibition: Hidden London. Till July 2, daily. Discover Centre. ornc.org Blackheath Halls: Blackheath Art Society summer exhibition June 2-29, daily. blackheathhalls.com Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk. Nat Maritime Museum: Above & Beyond. Till August 29. rmg.co.uk Made In Greenwich: Howard Colyer June 4-19, Nicola White: Death Row Art June 24-July 6, Art Of Surveillance July 14-24. 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk 020 8293 9823 Greenwich Gallery/The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Paul McPherson Gallery: 77 Lassell St SE10 9PJ Ben Oakley Gallery: 9 Turnpin La SE10 9JA Blackheath Bowling Club: Practice every Thus 2.30 nr Ranger’s House The Forum: Disabled drop-ins, mums’ groups, kids’ classes, advice. Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 020 8853 5212 Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square SE18 4DX. 020 8854 2452 WALKS Greenwich Guided Walks: Local experts. Walks daily at 12.15 and 2.15 from the Greenwich Tourist Information Centre. £8, £7 cons. Greenwich Tour Guides Association 07575772298 guides@greenwichtours.co.uk Rich Sylvester: Guide, historian, storyteller. 07833 538143. richs@onetel.com Dotmaker: Alternative guided walks. dotmakertours.co.uk FAMILY ACTIVITIES National Maritime Museum: Explore Saturdays. Free. Performance and storytelling for over-5s from noon. Discover Sundays. Free. Activities for families from 11.30am. Play Tuesdays. Free. For under-5s from 10.30

Royal Naval College and Royal Museums grounds. All day. GDIF 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 Nat Maritime Museum 1 PARKSFEST 2016 Song & Dance The Tarn, Court Road 2.30-5 MUSIC Greenwich Steel Band, Royal Greenwich Big Band Greenwich Park bandstand 3 DANCE Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet 3-6 www.haventstoppeddancingyet.co.uk MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Choir ORNC chapel 3.30 PLAY Joy Division Lon Theatre 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 27 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 FAMILY Moat Island Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham 4-7. GDIF PLAY Joy Division London Theatre 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 4pm Well Hall Pleasaunce SE9 Part of GDIF MUSIC Brandy IndigO2 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Joy Division London Theatre 8 JAZZ The Belleville Hot Club Quintet 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 FAMILY Moat Island Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham 4-7. GDIF OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 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 Room, Trinity Laban 1.15 MASTERCLASS Carlos Bonell Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Room, Trinity Laban 3 FAMILY Moat Island Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham 4-7. GDIF TOUR The ORNC Unlocked Old Royal Naval College 6.30 MUSIC Roberto Aussel Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 7 MOTORS Park It In The Market Vintage cars & bikes. Greenwich Market 7-10 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 JAZZ Reiss Beckles Oliver’s 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 Room, Trinity Laban 3 FAMILY Moat Island Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham 4-7 Part of GDIF MUSIC Earth, Wind & Fire O2 MUSIC Carlos Bonell Royal

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Greenwich Guitar Festival. Peacock Rm, Trinity Laban 7 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 Saturday 2 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 WINE Le Fete Des Vins. Free talk (6) followed by Winemaker Party £40pp (8.30). Vinotech Compass, Greenwich Peninsula FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College, noon FAMILY Ignite Royal Artillery Square and Gen Gordon Square, Woolwich. 3-9. Part of GDIF MUSIC Jim Morrison Tribute Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 OPERA Banished Blackheath Halls 7.30 ARTS Clash Of Drums Finale of GDIF, Woolwich 10pm Sunday 3 SALE Art & Craft Friends of Age Exchange Blackheath 10-2 FAMILY India Day Severndroog Caste 10.30 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30

MUSIC Belvedere Concert Band Greenwich Pk bandstand 3 FAMILY Greenwich World Cultural Festival Eltham Palace TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 DANCE Make Your Move IndigO2 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 FESTIVAL 2Cellos Part of Greenwich Music Time Old Royal Naval College 6 READINGS Poetry-Makers Made In Greenwich 7 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 6 FESTIVAL Seal Greenwich Music Time Old Royal Naval College 6 MUSIC Lionel Richie O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 7 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05

FESTIVAL Joe Bonamassa Greenwich Music Time Old Royal Naval College 6 MUSIC Booker T Jones Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 8 FESTIVAL David Gray Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Booker T Jones Brooklyn Bowl Saturday 9 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 TALKCamilla Hiscock Curator in Residence Fan Museum DANCE TL Children’s Class Show Laban 3, 4.30 FESTIVAL 10cc Greenwich Music Time Old Royal Naval College 6 MUSIC Lakhwinder Wadali IndigO2 BARN DANCE The Woodlands Farm Trust 7.30 Sunday 10 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PARKSFEST 2016 Summer Sunday Extravaganza Mycenae House 12-5.30 MUSIC London Gay Symphonic Winds G’wich Pk bandstand 3 FESTIVAL Jamie Cullum Greenwich Music Time ORNC 6 MUSIC Marc Anthony O2 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 11 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 FILM/THEATRE Romeo And Juliet Greenwich Picturehouse, noon 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 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 13

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OPERA Carmen Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 14 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 DANCE TL Graduate School Showcase Laban 7.30 MUSIC Cantina Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 15 TALK Margot Cooper Blackheath Flower Club Mycenae House 2 OPERA Carmen Blackheath Halls 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 Old Royal Naval College, noon FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PLAY The Sixpenny Memorial Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.30 COMBAT Bellator MMA O2 DANCE CAT End Of Year Show Laban 7.30 Sunday 17 FAMILY Haymaking Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 OPERA Carmen Blackheath Halls 2.30 MUSIC The Crystal Palace Band Greenwich Pk bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 DANCE CAT End Of Year Show Laban 7.30 Monday 18 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 19 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 20 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 21 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 HISTORY May Pinson & Nell Clancy Part of Here Come The Girls exhibition. Middle Park Community Centre 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 22 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Moonshine’s Entirely Necessary Adventure Albany 2 Saturday 23 KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College, noon TALK Jacob Moss Curator in Residence Fan Museum FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY GFMA Community Day Charlton House 1-5pm MUSIC Blackheath Halls Community Opera Greenwich Park bandstand 3 Sunday 24 CELEBRATION Our 2nd Birthday Severndroog Caste 9am FAMILY Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Lewisham Concert Band Greenwich Pk bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 25 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 26 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter

JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 27 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Summer Meadow Sweep Greenwich Park 10.30 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 28 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Fun Day Charlton House 11-3 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 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC Acoustic Night GFMA event, Mycenae House Saturday 30 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Character Encounters Cutty Sark noon, 1, 2, 3 FAMILY Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1 GONGS Drum & Bass Awards Building Six MUSIC Afrobeats IndigO2 Sunday 31 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30

August JAZZ BAND: South London Youth Jazz Orchestra at Greenwich on Sunday August 14

FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Silver Ghosts Greenwich Pk bandstand 2.30 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday August 1 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 2 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 3 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson

Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 4 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 5 KIDS Polar Voyage Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 Saturday 6 KIDS Pirate Takeover Cutty Sark & Queen’s House grounds 11.30-4 TALK Shells, Fruit & Flowers Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Proms At The Chapel Old Royal Naval College 3 Sunday 7 KIDS Pirate Takeover Cutty Sark & Queen’s House grounds 11.30-4 FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Lambeth Wind Orchestra Bandstand, Greenwich Pk 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 8 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 9 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 10 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 WALK Bird-Spotting Greenwich Park 10.30 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 11 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 12 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 Saturday 13 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 Sunday 14 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Meet Joe Brown Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC South London Jazz Orch Greenwich Pk Bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan O2

Monday 15 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 16 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 KIDS Mythical Creatures Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 17 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Mythical Creatures Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 18 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Magnetic Fish Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 19 FAMILY American Encounter Nat Maritime Museum 10-5 WALK Interesting Invertebrates Greenwich Park 10.30am TALK Eleanor Bracken Blackheath Flower Club. Mycenae House 2 MUSIC Lloyd Cole/The Leopards Brooklyn Bowl Saturday 20 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College, noon COMEDY Miranda Sings IndigO2 Sunday 21 FAMILY Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC Hooray Tabasco Greenwich Pk Bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 22 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 23 FAMILY International Slavery Remembrance Day National Maritime Museum 10-5 KIDS Pacific Quest NMM 10-5

June 2016 Page 21 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Magnetic Fish Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2 MUSIC Sharon Jones/The Dap Kings Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 24 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 WALK Terrific Trees Greenwich Park 10.30am FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Peek-A-Boo Portholes Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 25 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Peek-A-Boo Portholes Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 26 VOLUNTEER Dig-In Greenwich Park 9.30am KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 Saturday 27 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1 Sunday 28 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley Old Royal Naval College, noon MUSIC Greenwich Concert Band Greenwich Pk Bandstand 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 29 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 30 KIDS Pacific Quest NMM 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 31 KIDS Pacific Quest National Maritime Museum 10-5 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, noon, 1.30, 2.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s

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EXPLOSION: Cedar wrecked by lightning. Pictures: BEV MEEKINGS

JAZZ TRAIN ALL ABOARD: Dave Silk and Jazz Train

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y dad was a comedy writer in the 80s and 90s. He was a gag writer for Bob Monkhouse and the head writer on Noel’s House Party, he also wrote for Bob Hope. Lots of comedy writers are actually rather serious but he was a barrel of laughs and our house was always full of comedians. hen I was 13 I used to go swimming every Saturday at Eltham Baths with my friend Lew. One Saturday my dad took me to the Bob Hope Theatre as he had just found out it was around the corner from us and wanted to go and explore. I hadn’t shown any interest in performing until we came across their New Stagers theatre group. Thirty 13-17 years olds learning every side of theatre. “I want to do that,” I said, and I didn’t go swimming again! t 15 I was in the Caucasian Chalk Circle playing the Fat Prince and Jude Law was the Narrator. I watched him act out this huge speech thinking ‘Wow, he’s good. I am never going to be that good.’ I forgot that my line was next. After a long silence I looked out and said ‘It’s me, isn’t it!’ The audience laughed and I loved that sound. ne day I remember going to a geography exam and when I left my dad was in the garden playing table tennis with Shane Richie. When I came back they were still playing table tennis. “I want your job!” I told them. My first ever stand-up spot was five minutes during a members evening at the Bob Hope Theatre in 1989 and shortly after I started my career as a Pontins Bluecoat. You had to have a talent and the closest thing I had was an ability to tell jokes. t 21 I became a professional stand-up and I’m 43 now. Apart from an 18-month spell as a Eltham’s chubbiest fitness instructor – I’d just bought a house and decided I need a regular income – I have been working in comedy ever since and it’s taken me all over the world working on cruise ships, at festivals, in comedy clubs and casinos. n 2014 I started a stand-up comedy club at the Bob Hope Theatre (www. bobhopetheatre.co.uk). As well as established comedians we always have new comics. It makes sense as the Bob Hope theatre has helped launch so many careers, not just famous actors like Jude Law but others who now work in all aspects of live theatre. Our next show is on June 19 as part of the theatre’s 70th birthday celebrations. I’ll be hosting comedy in other venues too. I’m only in the UK about 100 days a year but when I am you’ll often find me in the White Hart pub. It’s a 30 second walk from the Bob Hope Theatre. The food’s great and there’s always a lovely atmosphere. It’s home from home.

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PEOPLE get ready...the Jazz Train is coming with Greenwich’s JazzNights founder Dave Silk on board. Dave, who ran MayFest at venues here last month, is celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday with a trip on the Lavender Line steam railway at Isfield, Sussex, on Sunday June 12. From 11-4 you can travel through the Sussex countryside in Camilla – a 1903 Edwardian railway carriage built for King Edward Vll. YOu may even get to meet the driver and stand on the footplate. “Folk duo Skinners Rats perform and there are stops at the Laughing Fish, a charming dog friendly pub,” Dave says. Isfield station is just off the A26, south of Uckfield. Tickets are £9 and booking is advised – call the Lavender Line on 01825 750515. Info: www.jazznights.co.uk

here’s a TV programme called World’s Weirdest Weather. It shows amazing hurricanes and typhoons in exotic locations. I am glad to say I have never experienced any of these but I have witnessed some remarkably weird weather events closer to home – not tropical typhoons but more British and understated, and nonetheless weird for that. bout 10 years ago we were looking for adders and orchids on the old Shoreham Rifle Range which I managed as a countryside site for Kent County Council. It was a hot June day without a breathe of wind. Around the field was woodland and we became aware of the clattering sound of branches, which got quite loud. The movement came to the edge of the field and suddenly dust and grass rose in a spiralling vortex into the air. It was a mini-wirlwind or dust-devil, which moved slowly across the field towards us. My son Matt was with me and he ran towards the wind. I had a brief Wizard of Oz moment as Matt stepped into the vortex. His long hair stood up on end and afterwards he said the wind was so strong he could lean forward without falling over. The wind kept moving slowly across the field and into the woods. It was gone and all was quiet again. he second weirdest event, I must admit, I didn’t actually see myself. I don’t think anyone did but we all saw the aftermath. It happened a few weeks ago. On Friday April 29, while I was at Hyde Park, a lightning storm hit Greenwich Park. Lightning hit the Royal Observatory and the Pavilion Café, knocking out the computers in both. It struck the Park Police Station and in the Park Office my colleague Christine got a shock off of her desk. In the Flower Garden the lightning struck an 80 year old Cedar tree beside the lake. I’ve seen trees that have been struck by lightning before. You often see a long scar of dead wood down the trunk. In Manor Park, West Malling, lightning blew a large limb off an oak tree a few years back. But I have never seen a mature tree completely destroyed like the Cedar in the Flower Garden. The tree quite literally exploded. Large splinters of wood were sent 25m through the air and struck into the ground. The bark was blown off. hen lightning strikes a tree it tends to follow the course of water down the outside of the trunk. Unless it isn’t raining and the trunk is dry. Then it follows the moisture inside the tree and the tree can explode. On April 29 it wasn’t raining when the lightning struck and our Cedar exploded. All that is left of this mature tree is one side of the trunk to a few meters high. We have kept the trunk for now, fenced off, as a reminder of this exceptional event. Go and have a look. It’s amazing.

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WE’RE not always fans of graffiti. but we agree this is a quite a striking piece of art. “It was taken on my way to Woolwich,” says Anna Lubanska-Wilk. “I know it does not look very inviting but I think there is a certain kind of beauty to it…” Thanks for the picture, Anna. Have you Send us a photo. Email: taken a memorable picture of Greenwich, matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com

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The Blog of Samuel Pepys T onight my wife averred that she has wearied of the making of our dinner; saying that it was time I did play my part in roasting the viands.”I am as apt to do the cooking,” I said, “as a bear is to lay an egg.” “It takes just three minutes to boil one,” she said. Within that time I could have drained a glass of sherry-sack and frisk’d the maid, but I forbore from saying so. She then did point to the door and said “Takeaway”. In this fit she brooks argument less willingly than does the Empress of Russia when buying shoes and I crept out in a most mouse-like manner. id see that the Takeaway-Shop hath a sign which did say “King Wok” and was put in a stound to find that was full of Chinese. It is known that the Chinese King does demand obeisance from visitors to his court, so I knelt upon the floor and lowered my head, my wig falling off and the woman beside me walking onto it and giving a loud cry thinking, as she said, that she had stepped upon a dog. Much embarrassed, I stood and the fellow at the counter asked what I did want. When I demanded a brace of boiled mutton legs and ten quails he shook his head and pointed to a board

which was full of words of which I knew not and did think they were rules of etiquette of which we know the Chinese place much importance. As the fellow explained that the words were but dishes the churl behind me told me to hurry, I telling them that his rough manners were ill-suited to the Orient. I did make my order and can say, to my pleasure, that I now know the Chinese words for “Chicken” and for “Pork.” They are “Seventeen” and “Twenty Six.” In the Chinese manner, after asking for the food one must stand aside and wait, no doubt for the King in the next room to finish eating. he Chinese do wrap their chicken and pigs into small boxes. On opening them, I found the meat to be pack’d with straw which I threw away. My wife did say, “Don’t do that, those are bean shoots,” but I told her that I was the one who had learnt the Chinese ways and she knew naught. After eating the meat, I can say that their food hath much flavour but there is little of it after the packing has been thrown away. I am yet hungry and must return to the Takeway-Shop for my fill. I do ponder on the Chinese word for two chickens: “Thirty-Four?”

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Summertime at the Market Greenwich Market – London’s beautifully restored arts and crafts 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

The Greenwich Creative Wedding Fair Sunday 5 June

Something old, something new – designer makers, vintage specialists and clever cooks showcase their finest bridal wares. The English Flowerhouse floral bridal workshops and Elizabeth Avey vintage dress viewings.

HRH The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations Sunday 12 June, 3pm – 5.30pm

Join us for a bit of a party at our tea dance and street fair in Durnford Street. Alexandra Jones sings songs from the 1940’s, dancing, teas and home-made cakes.

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Music in the Market

Friday 17 June, 7pm – 8.30pm Enjoy live performances by local choirs, jazz and folk groups for an uplifting start to the weekend!

Park It in the Market

Thursday 30 June, 7pm – 10pm Award winning vintage car and bike meet. Fabulous food and family fun.

“At any time of the year, Greenwich boasts one of London’s favourite markets.” Time Out

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