Caribbean culture was celebrated in earnest at The City Splash Festival at Beckenham Place Park
on Sunday, with reggae music across four stages, featuring everything from Ska, Rocksteady, Dub,
Roots, to Dancehall and Lovers Rock.
Sustainability in all things, that’s the message coming over loudly and clearly. Sweet relief therefore that drinking rum, while keeping an eye on a greener plant is actually possible.
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Throughout the last year, various research organisations have been talking to theatregoers to find out if and when they’ll feel comfortable returning to theatres. The research is designed to help us plan our programme for the near future
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Growing up, Sidcup was the last place one would describe as a beery oasis but in the intervening years no fewer than four micropubs have sprung up, creating its own little ecosystem of ale.
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No one was ever convicted of the murder on a Wandsworth train of Elizabeth Camp. Was she bludgeoned by a crazed sports journalist who had lived in Walworth and been spurned by a similar-looking woman? JAN BONDESON sifts through the evidence.
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10 years ago
Herne Hill Harriers teenager Katie Snowden won a gold medal in the women’s 800m at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
The term ‘theatre of war’ has been in use for more than 300 years. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, its first use was recorded in 1703, but while the expression originally related simply to the contained area in which a military campaign was to take place, without any kind of performative connotations, in more recent years the theatrical nature of conflict has become ever more evident.
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Theatre Peckham’s Young, Gifted & Black Season 2021 will run for five weeks from September to November, and champions a mix of experimental theatre focusing on new writing, poetry, film and discussion.
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An arts organisation in South London has received new funding for a scheme which harnesses the creative talents of young people with learning disabilities.
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A community-based creative arts initiative in Bromley is working to change the lives of people with experience of mental ill-health, writes Alexandra Causer.
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Sarah Davachi x LCO As part of Purcell Sessions, the LCO’s boundary-pushing musicianship adds a brand new level of scale to the stirring feelings conjured by Davachi’s slow-moving compositions.
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