27 September 2011
20 September 2011
Calling all volunteers! Helpers needed for the Auction!
Dear Volunteers
Calling all volunteers! Helpers needed for the Auction!
we'd all be very grateful for any help you can offer.
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
Calling all volunteers! Helpers needed for the Auction!
- Can you help David with the bar, please?
- Set up on Thursday evening
- Manning the bar during the auction from 5pm for the viewing
- Closing down on Thursday evening after the auction
- Dismantling on Friday morning
- Manning the Preview from 5pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday evening
- Dismantling the auction on Friday morning
- Taking leftover items to the garage - Car Pool volunteers?
we'd all be very grateful for any help you can offer.
It's all for great causes:
- Secret Santa
- Grey Power
- Art School Hardship Bursary
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
The Kennington Bookshop Supper Club: "A Line in the Sand" on Wednesday 28th September 2011 at Doost Persian Grill & Vodka Bar
Dear Friend,
Please find below a flyer for our next
Kennington Bookshop Supper Club event. Local author James Barr will be
talking about his latest book "A Line in the Sand" on Wednesday 28th September
2011 at Doost Persian Grill & Vodka Bar, 305 Kennington Road. We look
forward to welcoming you to a lively evening of stimulating book talk
and excellent food & drink, with friends old and new.
Sincerely,
The Kennington Bookshop
19 September 2011
Kennington Country Life - Friday 30th September
St Anselm's Church is having a service next Friday (30th September) to celebrate rural life in Kennington. There are several local organisations involved with the service - the Garden Museum, Urban Bees, Tomorrow's People, the Countryside Alliance, Roots and Shoots, Project Dirt, Incredible Edible Lambeth and Vauxhall City Farm.
There will be animals from Vauxhall City Farm outside the Church from 3pm, and a short service begins at 5.30. Inside the church will be drawings and exhibitions of plant life from the children at Archbishop Sumner's school, as well as a baking competition and flower arranging. The Tea House Theatre will also have a stall with tea!
--
Liz Whyte
Pastoral Assistant
North Lambeth Parish,
Centenary Hall
Cottington Street
London SE11 4RZ17 September 2011
Monday, 10 October is the Kennington Association AGM!
Dear KA member
Monday, 10 October is the Kennington
Association AGM!
This year, we have a guest speaker, Val Shawcross, CBE, member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark, who will give a brief talk and answer
questions, so come prepared!!
Plus, most important, you will get an
update on what the KA has been doing, and
ELECT NEW MEMBERS TO THE KA COMMITTEE!
The Kennington Association is completely
dependent on volunteers and needs many to make it a successful concern.
The Executive
Committee is made up of up to12 members plus at least four Officers (Chair, Deputy
Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) for a total of no more than 16. We also depend heavily on our administrative
assistant, Charity Auction leader, Bazaar Coordinator, and Planning Forum
head.
If you would like to volunteer to serve on the
committee, or would like to nominate anyone else to be a committee member,
please use the following (and attached) form.
Nominations
will also be accepted from the floor at the AGM . The Officers are elected by
the committee at the first meeting committee meeting following the AGM.
Those
serving on the committee must be members of the KA.
So please join us 10 October, 6:30pm, Durning Library.
From:
CONTACT
NAME ______________________________
ADDRESS
______________________________
______________________________
Telephone
______________________________
Email
______________________________
Signed ______________________________
NOMINATION(S)
I nominate
the person named below:
NAME
_________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS
______________________________
______________________________
Telephone
______________________________
Email
______________________________
FoDL: "Harare North" at Durning Library on Monday 19 September
Monday 19
September
"Harare North"
Zimbabwean
writer and musician
Brian
Chikwava
reads
from his novel, set in Lambeth where he now lives.
A great tale
of scams, scrapes and survival
in a city of
immigrants,
it focuses on
one of Mugabe's Green Bombers:
a young man
trying to earn money in a land far from home.
6.45 for 7.15 at the Durning Library
167 Kennington
Lane, SE11 4HF
(at
Kennington Cross, just east of Kennington Road)
Light
refreshments
Everyone
welcome
No admission
charge, but a £2
donation towards costs is invited.
a Friends of the Durning Library
event
14 September 2011
FOLSAP: Lollard Street Adventure Playground
Dear Councillor Robbins
Over the past six months the Friends of
Lollard Street Adventure Playground have been pleading with you to delay the
closure of our Adventure Playground to enable us to find an alternative model
of management that would retain its opening hours to fit the needs of parents
and children for safe after-school provision in an area of great need. You took
the time to listen to parents and the young children who attended a meeting
with you in May. You seemed to understand from what you heard, that this was
not just about the need for free and adventurous play with excellent and varied
indoor provision, important though that is. But, that this was also a
safeguarding issue relating to after-school provision for parents struggling to
work, often in low paid jobs with inflexible hours.
You persuaded us that it would be
worthwhile our trying to produce a business plan and get properly constituted,
in the spirit of the ’cooperative’ council! You assured us that your officers
would provide us with the necessary information to do this so that we would be
able to calculate costs and research outside partners and funders. We were
working hard to do this when we learned that you had already gone out to seek
tenders from a long list of organisations with whom the Council already had
contracts. In the meantime, without proper notice to the parents and children,
you closed Lollard Street Adventure Playground and others.
In
my last letter to you (16th August), I queried the process the
Council had adopted in this case. It did not seem to accord with its own code
of practice. We understand now that only two organisations/businesses applied
to run the Council’s seven Adventure Playgrounds at much reduced hours. In
three of the playgrounds this would amount to only one session a week. The
contract would be for six months starting immediately.
Now we are told that the contract cannot be
awarded as, surprise surprise, the process was wrong! We are told today, that Lollard Street, and
we assume at least three others, will remain closed whilst the Council sorts
itself out.
I ended my last letter to you, asking
whether this was the best we could do for our kids? Is it?
Yours sincerely
Anna Tapsell
Hon Treasurer Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground.
Chair of Kennington Association.
07 September 2011
Beaconsfield: Autumn Exhibitions Preview Wednesday 7th September
New Season Preview
Bruce Gilbert and BAW
Nooshin Farhid
8 September – 30 October 2011
Thursday – Sunday 11am-5pm
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY
Preview: Wednesday 7th September, 6-9pm
Sizewell Beach, Suffolk, April 2011
Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW
Diluvial, 2011
Local preoccupations with rising sea levels fuel Diluvial – a work that dwells on the dynamics of flood geology and global warming; creation stories and climate change.
Diluvial is an evolving soundscape and environment by Bruce Gilbert (ex Wire) and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin). Fifth in the Soundtrap series, this new sonic work was initiated on the Suffolk coast for Faster than Sound, Aldeburgh Music 2011 and is now developed for London.
A new soundtrack will be created on a weekly basis throughout the exhibition and presented within a changing physical environment.
Friday 28 October at 7pm
Post-diluvial performance
Nooshin Farhid
Conic Trilogy, 2010
Parabola 22:00 / Hyperbola 26:00 / Ellipsis 9:00
Conic Trilogy is a series of three digital films made in part on Orford Ness, Suffolk, a small island which politically resonates through its history of espionage, atomic testing and international communications.
The trilogy – Parabola, Ellipsis and Hyperbola – references a mathematical concept whereby those forms are all obtained by intersecting a “conical surface” with a plane, in turn, referring to an intersection of different narratives, disciplines and ideologies in the work. A fictional text links this signature assemblage, written by Nooshin Farhid and narrated by Ross Mullan.
The work is cinematically presented with screenings at 11.30 / 13.00 / 14.30 / 16.00 during gallery hours.
Friday 30 September at 7pm
Screening with live reading by Ross Mullan
22 Newport Street
London SE11 6AY
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
+44 (0)20 7582 6465
http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk
Beaconsfield is a Regularly Funded Organisation of Arts Council England and looks forward to working with ACE as a National Portfolio Organisation.
Beaconsfield’s Canteen and Arch Galleries are fully accessible but we regret that there is no wheelchair access to our Upper Gallery. Please call in advance for a parking space.
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Thank you.
Bruce Gilbert and BAW
Nooshin Farhid
8 September – 30 October 2011
Thursday – Sunday 11am-5pm
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY
Preview: Wednesday 7th September, 6-9pm
Sizewell Beach, Suffolk, April 2011
Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW
Diluvial, 2011
Local preoccupations with rising sea levels fuel Diluvial – a work that dwells on the dynamics of flood geology and global warming; creation stories and climate change.
Diluvial is an evolving soundscape and environment by Bruce Gilbert (ex Wire) and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin). Fifth in the Soundtrap series, this new sonic work was initiated on the Suffolk coast for Faster than Sound, Aldeburgh Music 2011 and is now developed for London.
A new soundtrack will be created on a weekly basis throughout the exhibition and presented within a changing physical environment.
Friday 28 October at 7pm
Post-diluvial performance
Nooshin Farhid
Conic Trilogy, 2010
Parabola 22:00 / Hyperbola 26:00 / Ellipsis 9:00
Conic Trilogy is a series of three digital films made in part on Orford Ness, Suffolk, a small island which politically resonates through its history of espionage, atomic testing and international communications.
The trilogy – Parabola, Ellipsis and Hyperbola – references a mathematical concept whereby those forms are all obtained by intersecting a “conical surface” with a plane, in turn, referring to an intersection of different narratives, disciplines and ideologies in the work. A fictional text links this signature assemblage, written by Nooshin Farhid and narrated by Ross Mullan.
The work is cinematically presented with screenings at 11.30 / 13.00 / 14.30 / 16.00 during gallery hours.
Friday 30 September at 7pm
Screening with live reading by Ross Mullan
22 Newport Street
London SE11 6AY
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
+44 (0)20 7582 6465
http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk
Beaconsfield is a Regularly Funded Organisation of Arts Council England and looks forward to working with ACE as a National Portfolio Organisation.
Beaconsfield’s Canteen and Arch Galleries are fully accessible but we regret that there is no wheelchair access to our Upper Gallery. Please call in advance for a parking space.
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Thank you.
31 August 2011
FOLSAP: Lollard St Adventure Playground
Dear Councillor Robbins
I hope you received my emails dated 13th and 16th August, as I have had no acknowledgement.
I hope you received my emails dated 13th and 16th August, as I have had no acknowledgement.
To summarize:
On June 16th FOLSAP organised a meeting of parents and children to which you explained Lambeth Council's proposals for outsourcing the management of Adventure Playgrounds in Lambeth. You explained that the voluntary and Council-run APs would be brought together under the auspices of some form of Trust. In response to our questions you assured us that if FOLSAP, for example, were to put forward a viable business plan, there was no reason why the Council should not pass the management of this AP to such a local group. If that were to happen you said that the amount of money allocated would be only £45,000.00 for the year, due to the Government cuts.
You told us that the APs would have to reduce their hours to one weekday session and Saturday mornings from September 1st. Parents and children at that meeting emphasised to you how important it was for this AP in Lollard Street to be open during the weekdays after school as parents relied on it as a safe place for their children to be if they were unable to get home from work; afterschool childcare being scarce and expensive with many parents having to take low-paid jobs with inflexible hours to make ends meet and maintain such benefits as they were entitled to. Indeed, it was agreed that this was a 'safeguarding issue' in a significantly impoverished area of Lambeth.
Following that meeting and recognising the very short timescale we had to develop a business plan we worked hard to do so. We consulted with possible partners, such as Lambeth Play Association and the Black Prince Community Trust. We tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain from your officers details of the terms under which the Council would be outsourcing this provision and what the liabilities would be, particularly in relation to existing staff and maintenance issues. Officers were courteous, but uninformative.
On June 16th FOLSAP organised a meeting of parents and children to which you explained Lambeth Council's proposals for outsourcing the management of Adventure Playgrounds in Lambeth. You explained that the voluntary and Council-run APs would be brought together under the auspices of some form of Trust. In response to our questions you assured us that if FOLSAP, for example, were to put forward a viable business plan, there was no reason why the Council should not pass the management of this AP to such a local group. If that were to happen you said that the amount of money allocated would be only £45,000.00 for the year, due to the Government cuts.
You told us that the APs would have to reduce their hours to one weekday session and Saturday mornings from September 1st. Parents and children at that meeting emphasised to you how important it was for this AP in Lollard Street to be open during the weekdays after school as parents relied on it as a safe place for their children to be if they were unable to get home from work; afterschool childcare being scarce and expensive with many parents having to take low-paid jobs with inflexible hours to make ends meet and maintain such benefits as they were entitled to. Indeed, it was agreed that this was a 'safeguarding issue' in a significantly impoverished area of Lambeth.
Following that meeting and recognising the very short timescale we had to develop a business plan we worked hard to do so. We consulted with possible partners, such as Lambeth Play Association and the Black Prince Community Trust. We tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain from your officers details of the terms under which the Council would be outsourcing this provision and what the liabilities would be, particularly in relation to existing staff and maintenance issues. Officers were courteous, but uninformative.
In the middle of August we were told two new things: that Lollard Street AP would be reducing its opening hours to one session on a weekday only. There would be no Saturday opening. Secondly, the Council would be seeking to offer our building to other voluntary groups who needed meeting provision. Officers would be calling a meeting of 'stakeholders' on 18th August at Lollard Street to tell us about the Cooperative Council (the Council seems to have found money to employ a consultant to do that) and what was the future for us.
Few, if any, stakeholders attended that meeting but the FOLSAP officers were there as arranged. We were told that bids had already been invited from play organisations currently under contract with the Council. The tender process would be closed on August 31st and our AP would be totally closed during the Bank Holiday week despite the fact that children were still on school holiday.
We were also told that there was no £45,000.00 available to a local management project. We asked for details of the Tender Specification and the list of approved contractors but officers did not feel able to share this with us without further advice.
Subsequently, I received from Sarah Warman both the Specification and the Approved List. I have to say that I was surprised to discover that the voluntary Adventure Playgrounds, far from being placed alongside the Council-run ones as you had explained, were actually on the Approved List for taking over the Council-run ones. I was also dismayed to see that the list included some projects that charge for entry.
Along with this information Sarah has also invited FOLSAP to a meeting on September 2nd to see how we could interact with the new provider.
What can I say? We all appreciate the position in which local authorities find themselves. We also thought we understood the ethos behind the 'Cooperative Council' but this experience has been an appalling one. Firstly, it all started too late, well after the Council knew where these cuts would lie. Secondly, Councillors and officers have presented mixed messages, not I think deliberately, but through incompetence and poor coordination. Thirdly, the Council has not acted with transparency and some of us are very doubtful as to the propriety of the tender process and the speed with which it has been implemented. Lastly, as we understand it, the successful bidder will take over its role next week, but only until April 1st. Is that right?
I went to the Kennington AP this morning and found just a scrawled ungrammatical note pinned to the gate saying that it would be closed this week. No explanation or other information about when it might be open. Two little boys were there with their table tennis bats. Their parents were back at work.
At Lollard Street there is no notice, just the timetable of the previous full week’s activities.
Is this the best we can all do for our kids?
Yours sincerely
Few, if any, stakeholders attended that meeting but the FOLSAP officers were there as arranged. We were told that bids had already been invited from play organisations currently under contract with the Council. The tender process would be closed on August 31st and our AP would be totally closed during the Bank Holiday week despite the fact that children were still on school holiday.
We were also told that there was no £45,000.00 available to a local management project. We asked for details of the Tender Specification and the list of approved contractors but officers did not feel able to share this with us without further advice.
Subsequently, I received from Sarah Warman both the Specification and the Approved List. I have to say that I was surprised to discover that the voluntary Adventure Playgrounds, far from being placed alongside the Council-run ones as you had explained, were actually on the Approved List for taking over the Council-run ones. I was also dismayed to see that the list included some projects that charge for entry.
Along with this information Sarah has also invited FOLSAP to a meeting on September 2nd to see how we could interact with the new provider.
What can I say? We all appreciate the position in which local authorities find themselves. We also thought we understood the ethos behind the 'Cooperative Council' but this experience has been an appalling one. Firstly, it all started too late, well after the Council knew where these cuts would lie. Secondly, Councillors and officers have presented mixed messages, not I think deliberately, but through incompetence and poor coordination. Thirdly, the Council has not acted with transparency and some of us are very doubtful as to the propriety of the tender process and the speed with which it has been implemented. Lastly, as we understand it, the successful bidder will take over its role next week, but only until April 1st. Is that right?
I went to the Kennington AP this morning and found just a scrawled ungrammatical note pinned to the gate saying that it would be closed this week. No explanation or other information about when it might be open. Two little boys were there with their table tennis bats. Their parents were back at work.
At Lollard Street there is no notice, just the timetable of the previous full week’s activities.
Is this the best we can all do for our kids?
Yours sincerely
Anna Tapsell
Hon Treasurer, Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground
Chair of Kennington Association
Chair of Kennington Association
29 August 2011
Vauxhall Gardens: A History
Simon Coke, co-author of the wonderful new book "Vauxhall Gardens", will be speaking at 7.30pm on Thursday 15th September at the Tommyfield Pub.
It is sure to be an enjoyable evening and we hope to see you there!
With best wishes from all of us at the Kennington Bookshop.
28 August 2011
24 August 2011
19 August 2011
White Bear Theatre: Special offer for Kennington Association Members
Support your Local Theatre (and save money) by seeing:
By
Arthur Schnitzler
Harbinger Theatre Company invites you to their daring production of La Ronde in a new translation by Lukas Raphael. This new version of the Arthur Schnitzler classic fuses theatre, live music and dance to create an exciting, sensual and unique exploration of mankind's on-going obsession: sex.
Although La Ronde was written in 1900 it was so controversial that the first production was not until 1920 and it called caused a massive scandal. While Schnitzler was dubbed a pornographer by some, not all his reviews were bad: Sigmund Freud, for example, thought it was a work of genius.
This is Harbinger Company's second production, following "Romeo and Juliet de Buenos Aires", a mix of Shakespeare, Tango and live music, which premiered at the Cockpit Theatre.
Directed by Joel Cottrell.
Not suitable for under 16s.
Performance Dates:
23rd August — 4th September 2011.
Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Sundays at 6.00pm
Tickets: £13 (£10 Conc.) but only £10 to Kennington Association Members
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
Online Booking: 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 020 7793 9193 and quote ‘Kennington Association Offer’.
The White Bear now has its 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.
By
Arthur Schnitzler
Harbinger Theatre Company invites you to their daring production of La Ronde in a new translation by Lukas Raphael. This new version of the Arthur Schnitzler classic fuses theatre, live music and dance to create an exciting, sensual and unique exploration of mankind's on-going obsession: sex.
Although La Ronde was written in 1900 it was so controversial that the first production was not until 1920 and it called caused a massive scandal. While Schnitzler was dubbed a pornographer by some, not all his reviews were bad: Sigmund Freud, for example, thought it was a work of genius.
This is Harbinger Company's second production, following "Romeo and Juliet de Buenos Aires", a mix of Shakespeare, Tango and live music, which premiered at the Cockpit Theatre.
Directed by Joel Cottrell.
Not suitable for under 16s.
Performance Dates:
23rd August — 4th September 2011.
Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Sundays at 6.00pm
Tickets: £13 (£10 Conc.) but only £10 to Kennington Association Members
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
Online Booking: 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 020 7793 9193 and quote ‘Kennington Association Offer’.
The White Bear now has its 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.
16 August 2011
Bazaar: Garage ready to accept deliveries
Dear Neighbours
We are now ready to accept items for our next bazaar into the garage.
Hurrah!!
If you are having a clear-out
please contact Arfa on 07875 100276
to arrange access to the garage on the Ethelred Estate.
We do not have a van;
however, if items will fit into a car,
we could ask the Car Pool volunteers if they could help.
Please email me with your contact details for forwarding to them.
KenningtonAssociation@gmail.com
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
We are now ready to accept items for our next bazaar into the garage.
Hurrah!!
If you are having a clear-out
please contact Arfa on 07875 100276
to arrange access to the garage on the Ethelred Estate.
We do not have a van;
however, if items will fit into a car,
we could ask the Car Pool volunteers if they could help.
Please email me with your contact details for forwarding to them.
KenningtonAssociation@gmail.com
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
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