the local line-up for your diary

cALLing ALL movie buFFs

Are you a cinephile and a dab hand at quizzes? Form a team of fellow movie buffs and enter Picturehouse’s Big Ritzy Quiz. Flex your film knowledge, meet like-minded cinema enthusiasts and be in with a chance of winning some topical prizes. It’s for a good cause too, with money raised going towards a charity chosen by the cinema. Ready, steady, quiz!

The Ritzy, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, London SW2 1JG. February 5, 7:30pm (and monthly on Sundays). Admission: FREE. www.picturehouses.com/cinema/the-ritzy

Pots meet PLAnts

Choose between the green shoots of 15 different houseplant shops at Peckham Grown and Thrown, a ‘mega market’ from pop-up botanical hub Green Rooms. Also on site is the Independent Ceramics market, selling all sorts of pots, planters and vases to house your new leafy friends.

Unit 8 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, London SE153SN.

February 12, 11am - 5pm. Admission: £1. www.greenroomsmarket.com/upcoming-events/ grown-and-thrown

History revisiteD At PeckHAm tHeAtre

An Anti-vALentine’s bALL

LGBTQ+ championing nightclub Vauxhall Tavern is marking the day of love with… “hate, venom and gore”. Yep, you read that right. Its popular antiValentine’s ‘Pop Horror’ show returns for the fifth year running, promising cabaret, drag acts, games and some mischievous surprises. Belt out your frustrations at its power ballad sing-a-long, then heal old wounds at its broken-hearted disco.

Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY. February 14, 7pm - 12am. Admission: £10 - £15.

www.vauxhalltavern.com/events/event/pophorror/?oid=4626

tHrougH tHe Lens

oF tHe PeoPLe

The Royal Photographic Society’s Landscape Group is showcasing its members’ work in a series of outdoor exhibitions across the UK. The nearest can be found outside Southwark Cathedral, and comprises 61 prints splashed onto 22 panels – that’s 24 metres of landscape photos to ponder. Free and fully accessible to the public, the exhibition is a chance to discover new names photographing the great outdoors.

Find it at the main entrance to Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA. Until January 31, open daily. Admission: FREE. www.rps.org/Landscape-EXPO22/

An 85-year-old play is making its UK debut at Peckham Theatre this month. Pocomania, by Jamaican writer and feminist Una Marson, is set in the aftermath of the First World War. It follows Stella Manners, a young middle-class woman who has lost the love of her life in the war, but is comforted by ancient religious traditions. As focal as its narrative is its themes of colonialism, social change and the emergence of a new middle class in Jamaica make Pocomania as much a history lesson as a piece of theatre. Suitable for ages 12+.

Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, London SE5 7SB. January 31 - February 5, 7:30pm / 2pm on February 4. Admission: £6 - £20. www.theatrepeckham.co.uk/show/pocomania/

Arts unDergrounD

London’s wintertime, subterranean answer to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back. For the first time since the pandemic, VAULT Festival returns to the tunnels beneath Waterloo Station with over 500 acts and an all-new, 300-capacity venue, The Flair Ground, promising family entertainment by day and raucous parties by night. The festival is your one-stop-shop this month for experimental theatre, cabaret, immersive entertainment and late-night parties. Having been unable to launch for the past two years, it’s returning with a spirited theme of 'reclaiming joy and holding onto beauty in bleak circumstances'.

The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 8SW. January 24 - March 19, various times.

Admission: dependent on show. www.vaultfestival.com/