What’s On this Week: 8th-15th April
Tara Theatre’s new season will be centring around women and their stories, marking the 75th Anniversary of Partition with politically charged, innovative theatre.
The season will start with a hyper-local show working with young women and non-binary people aged 14-18 years old who will create a new devised performance by Tara Theatre artistic associate Beth Kapila, Our Streets – April 8-10 – in which through film and live performance audiences will be taken on an adventure through the city, all while never leaving the theatre.
Following their critically acclaimed productions of Noughts & Crosses and Crongton Knights, Pilot Theatre are set to return to Theatre Peckham with the world premiere of award-winning Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan’s adaptation of The Bone Sparrow.
It’s Zana Fraillon’s beautiful, vivid, and deeply moving story for young adults about a Rohingya refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre in Australia.
Directed by Pilot Theatre’s artistic director Esther Richardson, it features a refugee, Subhi.
Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he has ever known. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world.
One night, Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost.
Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family’s mysterious and moving history.
Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before.
The Bone Sparrow until April 23 at the Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, SE5 7SB.
There is Gala Night tonight at 7pm.
Tours of Clapham South Tube station’s deep level shelter will return for the first time in two years, taking visitors down into the eerie tunnels of this little-known location that is steeped in history.
Hear the extraordinary tales of Londoners seeking refuge in this labyrinth of underground passages during the Second World War as well as the stories of Caribbean migrants arriving on the Empire Windrush who, temporarily, made this deep-level underground shelter their home.
It’s open on selected dates until August 28.
Tickets – Adult £37, Concession £32 from: ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london
Lewisham Shopping Centre is hosting free, interactive Easter-themed workshops this April for all the family to enjoy.
Guests are invited to take part in a variety of exciting craft activities, including Easter-themed crowns, masks, cards and decorations.
The workshops will take place on April, 2,3, 9, and 10 from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Hop along to Central Square to take part.
Paul Redden, Centre Director at Lewisham Shopping Centre, said: “We are delighted to launch our Easter-themed craft workshops at the centre.
We think the workshops will add an extra element of seasonal fun to our guests’ visit, and we can’t wait to see all the fantastic craftwork.”
A retrospective exploring the often-surprising history of one of the UK’s oldest and most revered applied arts organisations.
In 1872, the Royal School of Needlework was founded on two key principles – the first, the preservation of hand embroidery as an art form and the second, the support of women’s independence through work.
In the intervening 150 years, the RSN’s journey towards these goals has taken many unexpected forms and featured countless high-profile projects.
150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework will explore this historic organisation’s contribution to the world of embroidery.
The exhibition will present collaborations with the great names of the Arts and Crafts movement, commissions produced for the British royal family, contemporary works created for top, international designers and pieces by the RSN’s talented students.
Presenting textiles from the Royal School of Needlework’s own 5,000-piece archive, alongside examples from museums and collections across the UK, this in-depth retrospective will display the often surprising history of one of the UK’s oldest and most revered applied arts organisations.
The exhibition is curated by Dennis Nothdruft, head of exhibitions at the Fashion and Textile Museum, in collaboration with Dr Susan Kay-Williams, chief executive at the Royal School of Needlework.
Fashion and Textile Museum,
83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF
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