All Welcome!
Meet: 11am Bus Stop KH Kennington Lane
(Corner Black Prince Road)
Take 59 bus to Holborn
from where we will walk down Long Acre
to Covent Garden underground station
Live timetable and map of bus stop:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/text/stopinfo.aspx?s=2650&r=3
Start/Finish: Covent Garden underground station
Distance: 2 miles
This walk begins in Covent Garden, which today is one of London's busiest shopping areas but in medieval times belonged to Westminster Abbey. The Abbey's 'convent garden' covered 40 acres and produced fruit and vegetables for the Abbey, with surplus produce being sold to the public near the Strand.
Visit...
The Royal Opera House
Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E
www.roh.org.uk
London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E
www.ltmuseum.co.uk
Freemasons' Hall
60 Great Queen Street, WC2B
www.ugle.org.uk
The Phoenix Garden
21 Stacey Street, WC2H
www.thephoenixgarden.org
Eat, Drink...
Food for Thought
31 Neal Street, WC2H
www.foodforthought-london.co.uk
Angel Public House
61-62 St Giles High St, WC2H
Lamb and Flag
33 Rose Street, WC2E
www.lambandflagcoventgarden.co.uk
Rules
33 Maiden Lane, WC2E
www.rules.co.uk
31 December 2012
30 December 2012
Kennington Companions: V&A Museum of Childhood - Thursday 10th January 11am
All Welcome!
Meet: 11am Imperial War Museum (SE1)
Take the Route Bus 344 from Stop: K towards Liverpool Street Station, Worship Street
We'll meet at Bus Stop K at the Imperial War Museum
Live timetable and map of Stop K at Imperial War Museum:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/text/stopinfo.aspx?s=8315&r=344
Imperial War Museum (SE1)
Take the Route Bus 344 from Stop: K
towards Liverpool Street Station, Worship Street
Buses every: 6 mins
Max journey time: 29 mins
From there:
Liverpool Street Station
Take the Route Bus 8 from Stop: F
towards Bow Church
or Route Bus 388 from Stop: F
towards Hackney Wick
Buses every: 3-7 mins
Max journey time: 19 mins
Walk
Bethnal Green
Walk to E2 9PA 3 minutes
V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-and-displays/modern-british-childhood
Meet: 11am Imperial War Museum (SE1)
Take the Route Bus 344 from Stop: K towards Liverpool Street Station, Worship Street
We'll meet at Bus Stop K at the Imperial War Museum
Live timetable and map of Stop K at Imperial War Museum:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/text/stopinfo.aspx?s=8315&r=344
Imperial War Museum (SE1)
Take the Route Bus 344 from Stop: K
towards Liverpool Street Station, Worship Street
Buses every: 6 mins
Max journey time: 29 mins
From there:
Liverpool Street Station
Take the Route Bus 8 from Stop: F
towards Bow Church
or Route Bus 388 from Stop: F
towards Hackney Wick
Buses every: 3-7 mins
Max journey time: 19 mins
Walk
Bethnal Green
Walk to E2 9PA 3 minutes
V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-and-displays/modern-british-childhood
29 December 2012
28 December 2012
Kennington Companions: On the Buses - Route 1: Sun, 6 January 2013, 11:00 – 14:00
We're off!
All Welcome!
Happy New Year!
Bring your Freedom Pass!
Meet: 11.00 London Road, Elephant & Caste, Bus Stop E
(The 360 will take you to Bus Stop C on London Rd)
Live timetable with map at Bus Stop E
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/
Sunday Timetable
http://www.londonbusroutes.
About Route 1
http://www.londonbusroutes.
Possible short walk when we get there:
http://walkit.com/circular-
All Welcome!
Happy New Year!
Bring your Freedom Pass!
Meet: 11.00 London Road, Elephant & Caste, Bus Stop E
(The 360 will take you to Bus Stop C on London Rd)
Live timetable with map at Bus Stop E
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/
Sunday Timetable
http://www.londonbusroutes.
About Route 1
http://www.londonbusroutes.
Possible short walk when we get there:
http://walkit.com/circular-
FoDL: Last Man Standing - Jack Straw
Mon 18 February: Jack Straw,
long-term Kennington resident, an MP for 33 years and a senior minister
throughout the 1997-2010 Labour government, will talk about his
recently published memoirs, Last Man Standing, which describe his life from his childhood in Epping Forest to his long ministerial career.
Friends of the Durning Library is a voluntary organisation which exists to promote and support our local library.
Events are normally held on the third Monday evening in the month at
6.45 for 7.15pm at the Durning Library
Light refreshments. Everyone welcome.
No admission charge, but a £2 donation towards costs is invited.
Friends of Durning Library
http://www.durninglibraryfriends.org.uk
Friends of Durning Library
http://www.durninglibraryfriends.org.uk
Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor
Jack Straw
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/09/2012
ISBN: 9781447222750
Publication Date: 27/09/2012
ISBN: 9781447222750
As
a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that
one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five
children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get a scholarship
to a direct-grant school, but spent his holidays as a plumbers' mate for
his uncles to bring in some much-needed extra income. Yet he spent 13
years and 11 days in government, including long and influential spells
as Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. This is the story of how he got
there.
Friends of the Durning Library is a voluntary organisation which exists to promote and support our local library.
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09 November 2012
FRIENDS of KENNINGTON CROSS AGM
The Friends of Kennington Cross and the ArtsLav AGM will take place
on
THURSDAY 29th NOVEMBERat7:00PM at St. ANSELMS.The FKCA are looking for new members for the board
and
would welcome your involvement.
06 November 2012
05 November 2012
30 October 2012
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17 September 2012
Blue Elephant Theatre – 2012 Autumn Season
Blue Elephant
Theatre – 2012 Autumn Season
Blue
Elephant Theatre Celebrates:
Let’s
make a Song and Dance about it
“This really was the most beautiful piece of
theatre I have seen all year.”
Stage Won on Blue Elephant In-House Production:
The Fantastical
Adventures of [Not] Being With You
Following a jubilant Spring Season, the
Blue Elephant Theatre is delighted to celebrate the success of the companies it
has worked with. Not only did the season garner four and five star reviews from
What’s On Stage and Time Out but two productions, The Fantasist and Machines For Living, have furthered their success with acclaimed
Edinburgh runs.
Both Machines
For Living and The Fantasist made
it into Spoonfed’s Top Ten Theatre Shows To See in Edinburgh as
“Blue Elephant finds” while What’s On
Stage predicted in March that “haunting and enchanting in equal measure, The Fantasist would surely be a hit at the Edinburgh
fringe”. It seems the secret is spreading that you
should head to the Blue Elephant for a programme of exciting new work that you
won’t find anywhere else in London. On this high note, the Blue Elephant
announces its Autumn Season.
Music and dance feature strongly this
season with choreographer Heather Cupid presenting the first show of the season
during Black History Month, followed by puppetry, physical theatre and live music in The Wordcatcher and
Shakespeare retold in Beatrice on Fire. In October, emerging company Sounding Motion explores the
relationship between music and dance in their show Signs, Games and Messages,
a cross art form collaboration which follows in the wake of last season’s
“strikingly innovative” Sonata Movements (The Daily Telegraph).
Fringe Report’s Best Artistic Director of
2012, Ricky Dukes, returns in October with the European premiere of Australian
musical, The Hatpin, co-produced
with Greenwich Theatre, the first time the Blue Elephant has collaborated with
another venue in this way. Fans of Dukes’ contemporary retellings of classic
works will also not be disappointed as his Lazarus Theatre Company will present
the Blue Elephant’s Christmas show, the enchanting A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Listings
Information:
Venue: Blue Elephant
Theatre, 59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Nearest
tube: Oval (Northern Line)
Wheelchair accessible
Box
Office: 020 7701 0100/084 4477 1000
Twitter: @BETCamberwell
Please Note: Tickets for The Hatpin should be
booked through Greenwich Theatre at www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk or 020 8858 7755.
For press enquiries, please contact Niamh de Valera:
niamh@blueelephanttheatre.co.uk
or 02077010100
VISUAL ARTS - Image-in Self (migration) Our Tell-Tale Bodies- 27 September – 27
October
Image-in Self (migration) runs throughout
Black History Month to explore what we reveal and conceal in our bodies,
sometimes unbeknownst to ourselves.
The body is one of a myriad of means of inscribing
culture. And of the millions of ways to inscribe culture, be it music, language
or government, the body harbours the closest connection to identity.
Image-in Self (migration) explores how much
information is encrypted on our bodies through migration and how it is
communicated back to others. The beliefs we grow up with and those we learn all
impact on that which we are.
Is this lost in every new place we go? Or is it
compromised by the new way of living? Where do we cross the line?
Artist: Sanaa AbstraKt
Dates: Thursday 27 –
Saturday 27 October (open pre- and post-show).
Appointments may be arranged in advance during other times.
Admission
Free
DANCE: What
The Soul Can’t Hide/Harbour - 4 – 6 October
A Double-Bill of Contemporary and Caribbean/Afro-Contemporary Dance
Marking Black History Month at the Blue
Elephant, What The Soul Can’t Hide/Harbour brings two separate stories together in a vibrant and resonant
performance.
Together they bring us on a journey of
personal battle, cultural difference and ultimately celebration.
Choreographer Heather Cupid presents an
evening of work where contemporary and Caribbean/Afro-contemporary
dance coincide.
Choreographer:
Heather
Cupid
Dates: Thursday
4 – Saturday 6 October
Time: 8pm
Tickets: £10 (£9 conc.), £8 Southwark
residents
THEATRE - Beatrice on Fire, 12 – 13 October - Much
Ado About Beatrice
A comedic and
absurd retelling of Shakespeare's Much
Ado About Nothing, as presented by a young woman navigating her way through
depression, bereavement and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: FREE but must be reserved in advance.
THEATRE- The Wordcatcher - Smoking Apples, A Bizarre Tale of Something and Nothing
16 – 20 October
Welcome to the world of The
Wordcatcher – a world of sound and of silence both in the
heart and in the mind, where we try to fix things in place that don’t fit
together.
Through the expert use of miscommunication,
the holes and gaps in this story fill a void rather than leave one.
Following Seemingly
Invisible last year, Smoking Apples return to the Blue Elephant with a new
piece using puppetry, physical theatre and live music. Smoking Apples aim to
ignite the adult imagination to find wonder in the most human and mundane of
situations.
“…a heart-melting play, especially for those
hardened by fast city-living, about the magic found in the simplest of human
exchanges” Katie Shellard, Running in
Heels
"Smoking Apples is a company to watch. Their
use of puppetry, in the broadest sense, is creative and exciting.” Linda Lewis,
Puppet Centre Trust
Devising Cast: Molly Freeman,
Matt Lloyd and Hattie Thomas.
Dates: Tuesday
16 – Saturday 20 October
Time: 8pm
Tickets: £8 (£6 conc.), £5 Southwark
residents
Post show discussion: Wednesday 17
October
DANCE and MUSIC - Signs, Games and Messages - Where Dance and Music Meet…
Fusing
electronics, innovative choreography and the music of cutting-edge composers, Signs, Games and Messages probes the subtleties
of being human: the minute signs and idiosyncrasies that let us glimpse who we
truly are, the games we play with each other and the hidden messages we send.
Music by György Kurtág, Tigran Mansurian, Javier Alvarez and Sounding
Motion's resident composer Benjamin Graves
Musicians: Stephen Upshaw (viola), Calie Hough
(percussion)
Dancers: Imogen Bland, Adrian
Gillott, Jaya Hartlein, Michael Kitchin and Anne Marie Kristensen
Choreographers: Imogen Bland, Anne Marie Kristensen and Dominick Mitchell-Bennett
Lighting Designer: Greg Gould
Choreographers: Imogen Bland, Anne Marie Kristensen and Dominick Mitchell-Bennett
Lighting Designer: Greg Gould
Dates:
Wednesday 24 - Saturday 27 October
Time:
8pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 conc.), £7 Southwark residents
THEATRE: The Hatpin - 30 October – 24 November
Heather Doole, Blue Elephant Theatre and Greenwich Theatre in
association with Lazarus Theatre Company
Press Night: Thursday
1 November
An Award-Winning Musical, brought to the UK for the first time
Amber Murray gives up her son to the
wealthy Makin family in the belief that he will have a better life. When she is
unable to visit him, her suspicions are aroused. Refusing to be brushed off
with excuses, she begins to look more closely into the family she has entrusted
with her son. The Hatpin is about being brave enough to find the truth, and
then having the strength to face it.
One of
the most shocking and influential trials in Australian history inspires this
haunting musical, receiving its European premiere at the Blue Elephant.
Described
as “a must see” and “a landmark moment in Australian musical theatre” by The Sydney Morning Herald when it was
first produced, The Hatpin is
directed by Ricky Dukes, named Fringe
Report’s
Best Artistic Director earlier this year.
“…An evening of unusually strong and emotive theatre…Ricky Dukes has directed an astonishing interpretation…” Kevin
Quarmby, Big Q Reviews on Women of Troy
*The Hatpin was originally produced by Neil Gooding Productions
and White Box Theatre at the York Theatre, Sydney, February 2008. The American
premiere was presented at the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Music: Peter Rutherford
Book and Lyrics: James Millar
Director
and Designer: Ricky Dukes
Musical
Director: Aaron Clingham
Costume
Designer: Alice Pocock
Associate
Director: Gavin
Harrington-Odedra
Dates: Tuesday 30 October – Saturday 24 November (Tuesday – Saturday only)
Times: 7.30pm
Tickets: £16.50 (£12.50 conc.) £10 Southwark Residents & previews Tuesday
30 and Wednesday 31 October
THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 27 November – 15 December
Press Night:
Thursday 29 November
A Spell-binding
and Striking Re-Imagining
Lazarus Theatre Company returns to the Blue Elephant to herald in
Christmas with a touch of magic and enchantment.
One of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is transported to a frozen forest by a
company whose work is “a superb lesson
in how to adapt an old classic for a contemporary audience" (Spoonfed).
High in the mountains, four young lovers
find themselves far from home, following romance at all costs. With the fairies
at hand to weave their spells, nothing is quite as it seems until confusion
gives way to happily-ever-after.
"If you know anyone unsure of Shakespeare
then take them to see this and have them fall in love!"
Dave Jordan, WhatsonStage on
Macbeth
Director
and Designer: Ricky Dukes
Lighting
Designer: Alex Musgrave
Costume
Designer: Rachel Dingle
Dates: Tuesday 27
November – Saturday 15 December (Tuesday – Saturday only)
Times: 8pm (Wednesday
matinees at 4pm on 5 and 12 December)
Tickets: £15 (£10 conc. and previews Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 November), £9
Southwark residents
16 September 2012
07 September 2012
06 September 2012
01 September 2012
FRIENDS of KENNINGTON PARK 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT
We will hoist the Green Flag this year again, celebrating the standard of excellence achieved through efforts of the Friends.
It will be a family occasion with displays by local community organisations, live music and children’s entertainment.
This event is funded by The Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All scheme.
For more information, contact
friends@kenningtonpark.org.
I hope you can come and join us on the day.
friends@kenningtonpark.org.
I hope you can come and join us on the day.
31 August 2012
27 August 2012
24 August 2012
18 August 2012
16 August 2012
White Bear Offer:IT'S ALL TRUE 14th August - 9th September Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Sunday at 6pm
"Fringe theatre of the first order" - Guardian *****
IT'S ALL TRUE
by Jason Sherman
Broadway, 1937. A young genius named Orson Welles is the toast of the New
York theatre, following groundbreaking productions of Dr. Faustus and a
voodoo version of Macbeth. He's about to follow these up with The Cradle
Will Rock, a new left-wing opera for the Federal Theatre Project. But, on
the first night, the US government have withdrawn their support, and locked
the company out of the theatre. Can they find another venue? And what got
them to this situation?
Jason Sherman is one of Canada's leading playwrights. His other work
includes The League of Nathans, Patience, (seen at the Finborough Theatre in
2005) and Reading Hebron (Orange Tree, 2011). He has received the Governor
General's Award for Drama, and the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, twice.
It's All True tells the story of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and
its legendary first night when Welles, and his producer John Houseman,
walked their audience to a newly-hired theatre and the cast, banned from the
stage by union rules, sat in the auditorium, standing to speak or sing their
parts. This performance led to the formation of the Mercury Theatre, and
Welles' later sensations on radio with War of the Worlds and in the cinema
with Citizen Kane. It's All True is a play about idealism, expediency and
the necessity of art, and what happens when a politically engaged composer
entrusts his work to a young meteor on his way to fame.
The play is directed by David Cottis, who has directed at the Finborough
Theatre, Catford Broadway and the White Bear, most recently The Lady of
Pleasure by James Shirley. His short opera She Stops at Costa's is
currently a finalist in the English National Opera's Mini-Opera's
competition. Design is by Andy Robinson, whose most recent work at the
White Bear was Ayn Rand's The Night of January 16th.
"Sherman has created a titillating, tabloid-style glimpse at an intersection
of art, government and outsized personalities that punctures all egos; a
crisp and manic...juggernaut that sweeps one along in its portrayal of a
colorful and famous dramatis personae."
-Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times, Chicago
Directed by David Cottis.
Designed by Andy Robinson.
Music by Don Horsburgh and Jonathan Cohen.
Lighting by Mathew Breslin.
The cast includes Ian Mairs as Marc Blitzstein, returning to the White Bear
after Mummies and Daddies in 2010, Sam Child, Robert Durbin, Edward Elgood,
Elizabeth Guterbock and Loriel Medynski.
Performance Dates:
14th August - 9th September
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Sunday at 6pm
Tickets: £14 (£10 Conc.) but only £10 to Kennington Association Members
Box Office:
Online Booking: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
<http://www.whitebeartheatre.
co.uk/>
Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
White-Bear-Theatre/
108903865805670?ref=search
White Bear Theatre
138 Kennington Park Road
SE11 4DJ
2 minutes walk from Kennington Tube (Northern Line)
Buses: 133, 155, 196, 333, 415
SPECIAL OFFER
The White Bear Theatre Club is offering concession rate to all Kennington
Association members. That's only £10 per ticket!
To book call and quote 'Kennington Association Offer'.
The White Bear now has it's own Exclusive Lounge Area where patrons can sit
and enjoy a drink and a chat before the show. The theatre itself is fully
air conditioned and is now thoroughly soundproofed from the pub.
IT'S ALL TRUE
by Jason Sherman
Broadway, 1937. A young genius named Orson Welles is the toast of the New
York theatre, following groundbreaking productions of Dr. Faustus and a
voodoo version of Macbeth. He's about to follow these up with The Cradle
Will Rock, a new left-wing opera for the Federal Theatre Project. But, on
the first night, the US government have withdrawn their support, and locked
the company out of the theatre. Can they find another venue? And what got
them to this situation?
Jason Sherman is one of Canada's leading playwrights. His other work
includes The League of Nathans, Patience, (seen at the Finborough Theatre in
2005) and Reading Hebron (Orange Tree, 2011). He has received the Governor
General's Award for Drama, and the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, twice.
It's All True tells the story of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and
its legendary first night when Welles, and his producer John Houseman,
walked their audience to a newly-hired theatre and the cast, banned from the
stage by union rules, sat in the auditorium, standing to speak or sing their
parts. This performance led to the formation of the Mercury Theatre, and
Welles' later sensations on radio with War of the Worlds and in the cinema
with Citizen Kane. It's All True is a play about idealism, expediency and
the necessity of art, and what happens when a politically engaged composer
entrusts his work to a young meteor on his way to fame.
The play is directed by David Cottis, who has directed at the Finborough
Theatre, Catford Broadway and the White Bear, most recently The Lady of
Pleasure by James Shirley. His short opera She Stops at Costa's is
currently a finalist in the English National Opera's Mini-Opera's
competition. Design is by Andy Robinson, whose most recent work at the
White Bear was Ayn Rand's The Night of January 16th.
"Sherman has created a titillating, tabloid-style glimpse at an intersection
of art, government and outsized personalities that punctures all egos; a
crisp and manic...juggernaut that sweeps one along in its portrayal of a
colorful and famous dramatis personae."
-Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times, Chicago
Directed by David Cottis.
Designed by Andy Robinson.
Music by Don Horsburgh and Jonathan Cohen.
Lighting by Mathew Breslin.
The cast includes Ian Mairs as Marc Blitzstein, returning to the White Bear
after Mummies and Daddies in 2010, Sam Child, Robert Durbin, Edward Elgood,
Elizabeth Guterbock and Loriel Medynski.
Performance Dates:
14th August - 9th September
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Sunday at 6pm
Tickets: £14 (£10 Conc.) but only £10 to Kennington Association Members
Box Office:
Online Booking: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
<http://www.whitebeartheatre.
co.uk/>
Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
White-Bear-Theatre/
108903865805670?ref=search
White Bear Theatre
138 Kennington Park Road
SE11 4DJ
2 minutes walk from Kennington Tube (Northern Line)
Buses: 133, 155, 196, 333, 415
SPECIAL OFFER
The White Bear Theatre Club is offering concession rate to all Kennington
Association members. That's only £10 per ticket!
To book call and quote 'Kennington Association Offer'.
The White Bear now has it's own Exclusive Lounge Area where patrons can sit
and enjoy a drink and a chat before the show. The theatre itself is fully
air conditioned and is now thoroughly soundproofed from the pub.
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