Telegraph Hill Festival Programme - 30 March-14 April 2019
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2 1 Telegraph Hill Festival: Celebrating To book tickets go to telegraphhillfestival.org.uk the arts, and building and sustaining a strong community. You don’t need to print your ticket, just have the QR code ready on your phone or make a note of the name in which the booking was made. Now in its 25th year, Telegraph Hill Concession prices are in brackets. Concessions are under 18s, full time Festival shows what working together as students and people in receipt of state benefits. Some ‘free’ events volunteers and building on past Festivals may need reservations. We almost always have tickets on the door, can achieve. Over four weekends and 16 and there are usually returns at events that have sold out. Bring cash for days, and more than 140 events and returns, and smaller events or those not taking place at our core venues whole-day ‘mini-festivals’, there’s so of St Catherine’s Church, Telegraph Hill Centre and Hill Station. much to explore and enjoy. What to expect In addition to the community musical, we have classical concerts, bands, Suitable for children and families comedy, theatre, murder mystery, visual Food served at this event art and open studios, and wellbeing Wheelchair accessible workshops and talks. We’re also celebrating the outdoors, with a folk festival in a forest, children’s secret nature trail, and a downloadable podcast for an immersive walk through Access the park. Our 25th anniversary ‘Park St Catherine’s Church has an Share the Love Spectacular’ will see Telegraph Hill induction loop hearing aid system. Lower Park pulse with light, music, @thfest installations and more. Join us on Toilets for disabled guests are #THFestival 13 April to celebrate the past, present available at the Telegraph Hill Centre. and future of the Festival. Experience Now it’s over to you. Come along, Disabled tickets allow additional Find out more: the park like it’s never been seen before. support your Festival, but most of all free entry for one carer to events. telegraphhillfestival.org.uk have fun! Events with are fully accessible We have also expanded our food to people in wheelchairs. offering this year to bring you delicious Huge thanks to our wonderful core dishes from fantastic local suppliers and partners, St Catherine’s Church and For a large–print version of this are continuing our efforts to leave no Telegraph Hill Centre for putting up brochure or for any queries please trace, looking at viable alternatives to with upheaval, hosting rehearsals and email thfestival@gmail.com or call plastic cups and food containers. the bulk of our events, and ceaselessly our access line on 07428 291 066 Can you help us? Will you bring your supporting the whole Festival. Thanks own refillable cups to help reduce too to Goldsmiths for the graphic waste? Can you take away empty design of this programme and for bottles for recycling in your events in the programme from staff and recycling bin? students there.
2 3 Telegraph Hill Centre Little Shop of Horrors Book & Lyrics by Music by HOWARD ALAN ASHMAN MENKEN This year the Centre has been Based on the film by Roger Corman renovated and redecorated in time Screenplay by Charles Griffith for the Festival. So visitors will notice Originally produced by the WPA Theatre a new coat of paint, comfy chairs, a (Kyle Renick, Producing Director) redesigned Cloister Garden and a new community space – Studio 3 Hub. Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron This Festival offers something for Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization everyone from health and well–being, to music, art, drama and beyond. There will be tears and laughter, but most of all it’s a time to celebrate the greatest foundation of all – community. Synopsis Saturday 23 March 4.30pm–6pm The Telegraph Hill Centre, which is A kitsch cult classic re–imagined St Catherine’s Church funded by St Catherine’s, its rentals in 80s LA (Skid Row). Our hero, £7 (£2) and local fundraising, welcomes over flower shop assistant Seymour, Public dress rehearsal. Babies 1,000 people each week to classes, finds a “strange and interesting” and toddlers are free at this events and individual therapy sessions. plant transforming his fortunes performance but pushchairs must overnight. But a Faustian pact be left in the side chapel. We are sure the Festival will spark with an insatiable plant craving 7pm–8.30pm ideas and new possibilities so please world domination spells trouble. St Catherine’s Church Each year the Telegraph Hill Centre come and talk to us and see how we £9 (£4) No children under five and St Catherine’s church open can help them flower. We look forward Just how much is Seymour prepared their doors to the Telegraph Hill to welcoming you not just during the to sacrifice for this newfound Sunday 24 March Festival. Like everyone else we look festival but throughout the coming year. fame and to win the heart of 4.30pm–6pm forward to this annual gathering sweet, but troubled, Audrey? St Catherine’s Church of local creativity and talent. www.thcentre.com £9 (£4) No children under five Full of deliciously dark humour with an irrepressible 7pm–8.30pm Telegraph Hill Centre & St. Catherine’s Motown-inspired score – it’s a St Catherine’s Church monstrously magical show! £9 (£4) No children under five proud to host the Telegraph Hill Festival No flash photography please.
4 5 Looking ahead Nunfest Telegraph Hill Soapbox Derby Saturday 20 April, 1pm–Late Monday 6 May 12pm–6pm Telegraph Hill Lower Park A free one-day community music festival for Nunhead SE15. Part funded by the Telegraph Hill festival, Help make it happen – please we are delighted to announce the derby donate to our crowdfunder at is running again! Build a cart and race it crowdfunder.co.uk/nunfestlondon or come along to watch the thrills. If you wish to enter a cart please go to telegraphhillsoapboxderby.wordpress. New Cross & Deptford com. The deadline for entries is 30 April 2019. Free Film Festival Friday 26 April – Sunday 5 May Telegraph Hill Open Gardens RumBQ Various venues 18–19 May Sunday 26 May The New Cross and Deptford Free Telegraph Hill (location TBC) Film Festival returns for its 8th year of A weekend of Open Gardens around screenings in unusual local venues. Telegraph Hill! Be inspired by local Lionbeat and Unit 137 bring back the Expect bike–powered Mexican wrestlers gardens of all sizes and styles. Visit RumBQ! Expect a reinvigorated format as in Telegraph Hill upper park, May the the Plant Fair to buy high quality sound system culture meets live music; fourth Star Wars in Deptford, cartoons, plants and chat with plant experts. for the community, and drawn from the documentaries and much more. community. Saturday Brockley Max The Big Green Day 10am–2pm Open Gardens 31 May–8 June Saturday 4 May 2019, 12–3pm 1pm–4pm Plant Fairs Roadshow at the Locations across Brockley, Ladywell, Telegraph Hill Lower Park Telegraph Hill Centre Crofton Park and Honor Oak. A fun-packed afternoon in the 2pm–4pm Gardening workshop for Community arts festival celebrating park based around reducing our children at the Telegraph local talent. If you’d like to perform, carbon footprint, and reducing, Hill Centre volunteer or be kept up with the festival’s recycling and reusing. There will news, sign up to the mailing list be games, stalls and food galore! Sunday brockleymax.co.uk/contact–us 2pm–6pm Open Gardens St Catherine’s Barn Dance More info on the Festival website soon! It’s back sometime this summer If you live in Telegraph Hill and want to know more about showing your garden, Come and dance with family, friends please contact Louise Shepherd at and neighbours to the Plow’d Garlic louiseshepherd@btopenworld.com Crusties and a professional caller. by Monday 15 April.
6 7 Branching Out Mural Adventure Play – for “Friendship Quilt” Exhibition Throughout Collaboratively mapped memories, children aged 7+ 2 to 4 April (check website for times) places and belonging on the Hill on a New Cross Learning, SE14 5AS (next Term time, Monday to Friday 3.30pm to painted mural three metres long. to Iceland) 7.30pm, Saturday 12 noon – 5pm. Easter Come and experience the Branching Out Holidays 5–18 April Monday–Friday Lewisham Pensioners Forum have (art class for 55+) exhibition in the Foyer 10.30am– 6.30pm. brought together people young and old of the Telegraph Hill Centre. Somerville Adventure Playground, to create a fabulous wall-hanging 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN celebrating the culture and diversity of Nature Trail Hunt Lots of activities including sports, the Borough. Now being exhibited to Telegraph Hill Lower and Upper Parks engage and inspire - plans are afoot to cooking, arts and crafts, as well as Join the Secret Adventurers’ Club on a adventure play – have a go on the make a companion piece and anyone super, secret nature trail. Can you find bouncy platform built on springs or can contribute with an A4 all the answers and work out all the clamber across the climbing nets. landscape panel. clues without being spotted? This family–friendly trail will take you around Parents and carers can pop in to register some of the parks and outdoor spaces children Monday to Friday after 3.30pm around Telegraph Hill and surrounding and from 12 noon on Saturdays. area. You should allow approximately one and a half hours to complete the Our Patch:Work in Sound whole trail, which is better suited to children over 5. Families with younger Youth Club for children Telegraph Hill Lower and Upper Parks children can take part in a smaller aged 11+ Enjoy a walk in the park guided by nature trail with things to spot in the our podcast – a patchwork of stories Upper and Lower Parks. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, narrated by local residents. 6pm to 9pm Trail sheets can be printed off the Download podcast from Soundcloud. Somerville Adventure Playground, website or collected from the com – search OurPatchWork or visit 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN Telegraph Hill Centre on 30 March and https://soundcloud.com/user– 6 April. Sports, games, cooking, music 401211058 workshops and much more. Spring Chicks Open Art Show Monday to Friday 9.15am–12.30pm and Saturday 9.30am–11.30am The Hill Station Telegraph Hill Playclub, Lower Park This year the Open Art Show will present Come and experience friendly, free, small–scale works (drawings, paintings, six–days–a–week drop–in provision for photos etc.) by local artists in the Hill under–5s and their carers. During the Station. Festival we will have spring–themed To take part, please contact John craft activities, sensory and active play Knepler (jknepler@mac.com) by and singing at 11.00am.every day. On Wednesday 20 March for further details. Thursday 11 April we will have our brilliant annual Egg Hunt in the Park. Bring your bunnies! Refreshments available. Drop in any time.
8 Friday 29 March Saturday 30 March Saturday 30 March 9 Edmund Waller Orchestra and Alumni Cake Competition Baby Bounce! Making Sense of the World: a Day 7pm (doors open 6.15pm) to 8pm 10am to 4pm 11am to 12 noon of Creative Workshops St Catherine’s Church Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to 12 noon to 5pm £5 (£3) Free to enter the competition; £1 for Iceland) Goldsmiths Be enthralled, stirred and amazed by adults and 50p for children to taste and Free Free the fabulous Edmund Waller Orchestra, judge All welcome at this regular weekly Explore a day of creative theatre supported by its talented alumni and a Bake a cake, large or small, fancy or session where under–5s enjoy rhymes, workshops at Goldsmiths University. tango band. Bar and snacks available. plain, decorated if you wish, and then songs and stories. Come and enjoy Bring the family – or don’t! Learn let the public of Telegraph Hill judge the yourself with baby in tow! new skills, make friends, think about results! Categories: Teatime Favourites, our world and help us make sense Decorated, Cakes Made by Kids. of it all. Powered by Goldsmiths MA Entry forms available on the day, from the Theatre Students. See Goldsmiths website or email rozsalik@yahoo.com. Code Club website “events” pages for details Bring your entry between 10am and 11am to 12 noon and directions. 12 noon, judging 1pm to 3pm, New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to prize–giving 4pm. Iceland) There’s so much to see and do Free at the Telegraph Hill Festival. Knitting Club Learn to code or improve your skills. See our ‘top picks’ Regular weekly session for children 1.30pm to 3pm highlighted each day. Secret Nature Treasure Trail aged 8–12. New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to 10am to 4pm Iceland) Free Free Collect your trail sheet from the Knitting for all the family. We can all Telegraph Hill Centre, then go on The Thinkery (Children’s) make squares, beanies aren’t difficult a super, secret nature trail. Once 12 noon to 1pm and there are cute toys too. Come to you’ve completed your trail, return to Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex learn, share and improve your skills. the Telegraph Hill Centre and collect £2 your treasure! Come and join our “Thinkery”, a See page 6 for details. thinking party where we will explore South Circular presents... strange questions using stories, New Cross Rocks drawing and our imagination. For children 6–12 years. Juice and grapes 1.30pm to 1.30am Shamelessly Healthy Circle provided. The Montague Arms, 289 Queen’s Road, 10.30am to 11.30am SE15 2PA Be Bright (above the Hill Station) Free Free A day of exciting new local rock bands Claim back your physical and mental and established acts including the health and thrive as you face everyday mighty South Circular themselves, plus life challenges, while also keeping track a DJ. Join our festival opening party and of your dreams! Today’s topics: fighting dance ‘til late! cravings, switching behavioiur. Book on http://raphaelle.eventbrite.com or email raphaelle@shamelesslyhealthy.com.
10 Saturday 30 March Sunday 31 March 11 Afro-Beat/Hip Hop Dance Workout HAYA Actors Showcase 2019 Twitter, Live! Salon to Stage – Art Song, Arias and 2.30pm to 3.30pm 7pm to 9pm 7am to 8am Gershwin Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex St Catherine’s Church Meet in St Catherine’s Churchyard 7.30pm (doors open 7pm) to 9pm Free £5 suggested donation Free St Catherine’s Church SpringsFitness810 are a fun and The Hunt Academy for Young Actors Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, £6 (£4) energetic dance and fitness duo, presents its annual actors showcase. I wonder where them birdies is? On its way to Edinburgh, join an providing you with an amazing full– An evening of our best–loved comedic Well, the birdies is in the Park and we are eclectic journey from Mozart to body workout with great music and and dramatic scenes from theatre, film going out to listen for them. musical theatre, performed by local nice vibes. Book through https:// and TV performed by the incredible pianist and mezzo–soprano, Adrian springsfitness810.eventbrite.com or just young talent at HAYA. Mothering Sunday Service Sims and Miriam Sharrad. turn up. For adults and young people 10am to 11.30am aged 14+. St Catherine’s Church Free Mindfulness and Meditation Have I Got Nudes For You Van Gogh in Therapy – with Come and celebrate mothers and all 7.30pm to 9.30pm Motherhood and Dragons 5.30pm to 6.30pm who care for us! Special groups for Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge children as the adults enjoy music, 8pm to 9.30pm Free £5 (£3) Free for teenagers worship and some time to reflect. The Hill Station Enjoy experiencing and learning A timely round–up of recent topical £4 (£2) relaxation techniques, understanding news stories and events, enacted in A two–handed play about Van Gogh and what mindfulness and meditation multi–model tableaux for you to draw or his therapist, plus Poetry Please with a means, as you learn to breathe deeply even join in modelling! Big Book Sale bar. To have a favourite piece read – not and explore the restful and rejuvenating 12 noon to 4pm necessarily on these themes – email state of being, in an environment with New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to tamsin_bacchus@hotmail.com or get in aromatherapy scent and relaxing Iceland) touch through the Centre. sounds. No need to book, just turn up. Hungarian Folk Music Night Find some bargains among the everyday 7.30pm to 11pm beach–reads, fascinating non–fiction The Rosemary Hungarian Restaurant, and fabulous “vintage” books. Plus tea 178 New Cross Road, SE14 5AA and home–made cake, all raising funds An evening with a band playing for your local community library. Hungarian folk music. An opportunity to learn Hungarian folk dances (csardas, palotas). Restaurant is open as normal, à la carte and menu on offer. The Thinkery (Adults) 5pm to 6.30pm The Hill Station “A Glimpse of Gingham” – a Tribute Free to John Denver Come and join our “Thinkery”, a thinking party where we will explore why things 8pm to 9pm are and what exists. For adults or young The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, people over 14 years. SE14 5LW £6 (£4) Time Out and Funny Women awards nominee Celia Byrne revisits her youth and pays tribute to her musical hero. Rocky Mountain High on Telegraph Hill!
12 Monday 1 April Tuesday 2 April 13 Diddi Dance Comedy Night Pilates – End Back Pain and Improve Classics on the Hill 10am to 10.45am 8.30pm (doors open 8pm) to 10.30pm Well-being 7.30pm (doors open 6.45pm) to Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge Telegraph Hill Centre,Narthex 9.20am to 10.25am 10.30pm Free £12 (£7) Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex St Catherine’s Church Come and try out funky pre–school Six of the finest and freshest local Free £10 (£5) dance classes for boys and girls. comedy acts storm the stage for Do you want to end back pain and One of the most popular events in the Festival’s 25th Anniversary. improve core strength, posture and the Festival. International classical You will laugh. well-being? Pilates can help so come musicians living locally get together and try it. Booking essential to confirm a to play for you. Stripped back and Bubbles and Slime place, email ankor.pilates@gmail.com. beautiful – pure sound, pure pleasure! 3.45pm to 5.15pm Come early food available. Besson Street Community Garden, The Long Letter Baby Bounce Besson Street, SE14 5AS 8.30pm to 11pm 11am to 12 noon An opportunity to make giant bubbles The Hill Station New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to you can stand inside and slime you just £5 (£3) Telegraph Community Choir Concert Iceland) won’t be able to put down. Have fun A performed reading of a new play Free 8pm to 9pm and learn the science behind these written and devised by the Telegraph See Saturday 30 March at 11am. The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, activities and take home your own slime. Hill Players. Actress Mary Ann Hunn SE14 5LW For children 8 to 12 years old. Places seeks reconciliation with her son, Free are limited, so please book in advance the statesman and Prime Minister Lovely tunes and harmonies sung by the at www.nxgtrust.org. Click on the George Canning. Cultures on the Catwalk – Telegraph Community Choir, in their Eventbrite button on the right–hand side Fashion Show popular contribution to the Festival. of the home page. 7pm to 9pm Shanties, folk, pop, world songs to make The Rosemary Hungarian Restaurant, 178 you tingle, cry and laugh. New Cross Road, SE14 5AA Free That’s Brilliant! Creativity Down A Festival first: a fashion show the Pub of different designers with a 8pm to 9pm multi–cultural twist. The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, SE14 5LW Free Can anyone be creative? Will creativity Film Screening of The Boat That make me happy? Come join a Rocked (2009) Goldsmiths teaching fellow and get a 7pm to 9pm taste of creativity research while taking The Hill Station part in a creativity pub quiz. Free Fictional comedy inspired by the pirate radio of the 1960s. Join JOY – Just Older Youth – at this monthly film club aimed at older people. Refreshments available at the interval.
14 Wednesday 3 April Wednesday 3 April 15 Men’s Shed The World’s first Wikiqual Centre at Shakespeare Workshop with Sylvestra The Hasty Nymphs 9.30am to 1.30pm Thrive Together 7pm to 9pm 8pm to 9.15pm Somerville Adventure Playground, 5pm to 6.30pm Meet by the Telegraph Hill Playclub at The Rosemary Hungarian Restaurant, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN Be Bright (above the Hill Station) 6.45pm 178 New Cross Road, SE14 5AA Free Free £5 (£3) Free Put your practical skills to use, learn new An exciting new way to learn with Interactive workshop beginning Join the Hasty Nymphs, a local techniques and make friends. Enjoy our educators, without the price tag of to understand how Shakespeare’s parlour choir, plus talented friends. well-equipped workshop, bringing your universities. Come along to discover language can work to move an We sing what cheers our hearts – let own project or working with others. more about the topics you can study, audience. No previous acting us cheer yours too. how you structure your learning and experience necessary – ability to read Building Friends @ Somerville who helps you achieve your outcomes. English required. 12 noon to 3pm Somerville Adventure Playground, 260 Girl in Suitcase Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN 7.30pm to 9pm Earthing, Circling – with MIMIRA.com Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, (the Horrors session) Cookery, games, gardening and craft. SE14 5LW Have a healthy lunch and chat with 6pm to 7.30pm £8 (£5) friendly faces. Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge Performance art theatre where audience Adults of all ages welcome. Free have a chance to draw and otherwise Exploring circling, earthing ourselves get involved in the action. A tale of in present potential, checking in on our ancestors, migrations and uprisings. gurgling “horrors” and letting it all go. Senior (55+) Stretch, Move and Shamelessly Healthy Circle Strengthen 7.30pm to 8.30pm 12.15pm to 1.15pm Be Bright (above the Hill Station) Iyengar Yoga Class Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Free Free 6.45pm to 8.15pm See Saturday 30 March at 10.30am. A fun senior aerobics class that has been Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Today’s topics: set your priorities, running for nearly ten years. Improve Free reduce your stress. Book on http:// your posture and all–round well–being. Challenging, non–competitive, friendly raphaelle.eventbrite.com or email Just drop in, first session totally free, or class, not suitable for beginners. raphaelle@shamelesslyhealthy.com. phone Gus on 07766 005 139 to find Bookings preferred (see website entry for out more. email link) but you can just come along. Children’s Film Club 4pm to 5.30pm New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to Iceland) Share the Love Free Come and enjoy regular screenings for children. Families only, children need to be accompanied. If you’re going to a great event, tweet about it, and become a Festival follower – @THFest or find us on Facebook – facebook.com/groups/ telegraphfestival.
16 Thursday 4 April Thursday 4 April 17 Boppin’ Bunnies Music Classes Film screening of High Society (1956) Ukulele Taster Workshop (A) for Adults Girl World: a Madcap Comedy 9.30am to 11.30am 2pm to 4.30pm 6.45pm to 7.45pm Two performances: Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room 7pm to 8pm and 9pm to 10pm Free Free (entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, Award–winning Boppin’ Bunnies is an 1956 American romantic musical Free SE14 5LW interactive half–hour music class for comedy starring Bing Crosby, Grace Do you have a ukulele that is gathering £6 (£4) 0 – 5 years led by one of our brilliant Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Free screening dust? Did you never get around to Heartfelt and hilarious coming–of– musicians performing live on their for older citizens with complimentary learning how to play? Pick up the basics age comedy. Hill musical veterans instrument for the children in each hot drinks, sandwiches and cakes. at this workshop. Ukuleles available to Camille and Franklin Dawson bring session! See Festival website entry borrow if required. their original Edinburgh Fringe for details of time slots and please 5–star hit musical home at last! pre–book as spaces are limited! “Has its audiences splitting at the Email: info@boppinbunnies.co.uk Ballet and Street Dance seams” A Younger Theatre. Taster Sessions Sex and Drugs in Victorian Britain 3.30pm to 5.10pm 7pm to 8pm That’s Brilliant! Creativity Down Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge The Hill Station the Pub Free £5 (£3) 8pm to 9pm Ballet and street dance for Vanessa Tait, author of The Looking The Montague Arms, 289 Queen’s Road, enthusiastic children. Enjoy fun–filled Glass House and The Pharmacist’s Wife, SE15 2PA classes in a friendly atmosphere. takes a look at women and drugs in Free Booking essential; see Festival website Victorian Britain in this surprising and See Monday 1 April at 8pm. entry for details and link. informative talk. Branching Out – Festival Special Play “Over the Rainbow” 10am to 2pm – then stay on for Argentine Tango Chord–melody Style on Ukulele the film 7pm to 11pm 8pm to 9pm Code Club St Catherine’s Church Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room Branching Out is a busy, bustling 3.45pm to 4.45pm £10 (£5) (entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) weekly gathering for those aged New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next Argentine tango class for complete Free over 55 – but it is also a haven for to Iceland) beginners, followed by social dancing: Learn how to play chords and melody those who want gentle conversation Free discover the beautiful, improvised, at the same time in this famous song. and company. See Saturday 30 March at 11am. close–embrace Argentine tango as it is Suitable for those who have been playing It is a chance to make friends, join danced in Buenos Aires. for at least one year and want a taste of an art class, do tai chi, join monthly finger–style playing. book and crochet clubs, play boules Crisis, Comfort and Celebration: Conversation Club non–religious community services and board games or come along on 5.30pm to 7pm 7.30pm to 9.30pm group outings. New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next Showcase Gig (1) There is always tea, coffee and to Iceland) to Iceland) 8pm to 10.30pm biscuits, and a hot lunch is Free Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, available too. Want to improve your spoken English? Would you like to know more about SE14 5LW Come to this weekly club to chat, build Humanist ceremonies (e.g. weddings Free A friendly weekly meeting group up vocabulary and improve fluency aimed at older people – but everyone and funerals), pastoral care in From catchy folk/punk to mutant blues, and listening skills in a friendly informal hospitals, education work and more? via majestic multiculturalism – three is welcome. setting. Talk/discussion with Teddy Prout of very different sets to amuse, amaze and Humanists UK. entertain you.
18 Friday 5 April Saturday 6 April 19 Baby Tots Group Sonic Imperfections at the Wine & Cheese Pairing Event 11am to 2.30pm Telegraph Hill Festival 10am to 3pm Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex 7.45pm (doors open 7pm) to 10.45pm Telegraph Hill Market, Lower Park Free St Catherine’s Church Free Our playgroup is for parents and carers £8 (£5) Come and try some superb wines, Consultation, Commemoration or childminders to come meet and play. Sonic Imperfections brings us beers and ciders and complement and Celebration So come along and find friendships, four cutting–edge acts from them with some very interesting and 12 noon to 4.30pm have a cuppa and chat while your the field of experimental music. lovely combinations of foods specially Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge babies play. Come early, food available selected by each stallholder. Public consultation led by Goldsmiths on developing a permanent public artwork to Ukulele Taster Workshop (B) for Adults Thidius Pulp Presents Open Studios commemorate the 1977 “Battle of Lewisham”. 6.45pm to 7.45pm Doors open 7.30pm. Live music ends For times see map insert Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room 12 midnight Free Sales of Raymond Thatcher’s book (entrance through Centre and Narthex) Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead, Local artists open up their studios (see Monday 8 April at 6.30pm) with Free SE15 3BE and homes for special exhibitions a running loop slide–show of historic See Thursday 4 April at 6.45pm. £5 on the door – more than half the names on the images of the area. Taking over the Ivy House for one night list new this year. Many items will be Lewisham Pensioners Forum with only, Thidius Pulp presents a fresh night for sale, so this is a chance to buy their display of the new “Friendship of live music and DJs from SE London’s original artwork at affordable prices. Festival Games Night Quilt” wall–hanging celebrating the finest local talents. See Festival website and map insert. 7pm to 11pm culture and history of the Borough. The Hill Station Play “Misty” Chord–melody Style on Craft Fair The Telegraph Hill Society with the Free Ukulele current consultation on the New 11am to 4.30pm Play boardgames, card games and Cross Framework, (including the 8pm to 9pm Telegraph Hill Centre and other table–top games with your family, New Cross Gate Station/Sainsbury’s Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room St Catherine’s Church friends and neighbours. Discover site) and eliciting ideas for a (entrance through Centre and Narthex) Free hidden gems and modern classics, “Lewisham–Wide Heritage Strategy”. Free The annual craft fair returns with lots or bring along a favourite to share. Learn how to play chords and melody at of talented local designers. This is a Come by, find out more and have Beginners welcome. the same time in this song made famous great chance for you to browse some your say. We all want to hear from you! by Errol Garner. Suitable for those who lovely original hand–made items. have been playing for at least a year and A Drinking Guide to Telegraph Hill want a taste of finger–style playing. by Deserter Secret Nature Treasure Trail 7.30pm to 10pm 11am to 4pm waterintobeer, Unit 2, Mantle Court, Free SE4 2EW Collect your trail sheet from the £5 Telegraph Hill Centre, then go on a Join the guys behind infamous local super, secret nature trail. Once you’ve blog, Deserter, as they premiere a new completed your trail, return to the piece about the drinking establishments Telegraph Hill Centre and collect your of Telegraph Hill, alongside some treasure! See page 6 for details. favourite readings from their book Today South London, Tomorrow South London. Tickets can be purchased from: http://bit.ly/DeserterTHF
20 Saturday 6 April Sunday 7 April 21 New Cross Art Wall Launch The Long Letter Festival Sunday Draw that Plant – Drop–in Workshop 1pm to 5pm 7.30pm to 10pm 10am to 11.30am 2pm to 4pm Somerville Adventure Playground, The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, St Catherine’s Church Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room 260 Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN SE14 5LW Free (entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) Food, music and workshops, plus a £5 (£3) Come and join us for this all–age, Free chance to meet some of the artists See Monday 1 April at 8.30pm. interactive, joyful, contemplative, holy Botanical illustration for all ages, who, collaborating with schools and mash up around worship, well–being drawing from observation. Materials community groups, have created a Murder Me Too – Interactive and community. We’ll be using silence, provided, but do also bring your own. collection of work representing New Murder Mystery craft, song and prayer to connect to the Children to be accompanied. Cross – past, present and future. 8pm to 9.30pm divine, with ourselves and with each Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer other. All welcome – believers, doubters, £15 (£10) seekers and cynics. Let’s find some holy head space together. Inner Light Meditation and Caribbean Creole Cultural Dance 6th May, 1913 – St Catherine’s Church Soundscape 5.30pm to 6.45pm burns down, seemingly torched by suffragettes. And, at home nearby, 2pm to 4pm Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex psychoanalyst Dr Gladstone’s day is Telegraph Hill Centre, Studio 3 Hub Free Open Studios going from bad to worse… £5 (£3) Learn a traditional Caribbean For times see map insert Find your Inner Light through guided dance, brought to you by Deanna Watch events leading up to a murder See Saturday 6 April. meditation and sound. Join a small and of Nzinga Dance. Aimed at adults in this intimate, site–specific, intimate group and enjoy relaxation and aged 40+. Women should ideally interactive, promenade performance, Telegraph Hill Walk self–discovery in a really special space. wear a long, full skirt for the class then interrogate the suspects… 2pm to 4pm Please bring blanket, yoga mat and and men should bring a neck scarf. Meet in St Catherine’s Churchyard, Free some water. Punk Rock Karaoke – Just Like Seven A walk around Telegraph Hill and New BRÅK 8pm to 11pm (venue open until 2.00am) Cross Gate, looking at the architecture Owen Teale in Conversation – with An Evening of Improvised Music The Five Bells, 155 New Cross Road, and history, with Malcolm Bacchus of Musical Interludes 6.30pm to 10pm SE14 5DJ the Telegraph Hill Society. 5.30pm to 6.30pm waterintobeer, Unit 2, Mantle Court, £7 The Hill Station SE4 2EW Second year at the Bells and fourth year An Introduction to Bees and £5 (£3) £5 at the Festival, My Midlife Crisis provide Beekeeping for Families Owen Teale in conversation with A regular happening at waterintobeer the soundtrack to the blank generation. 2pm to 3.30pm Freddie Baveystock – an intimate and where local improvisers pair with YOU SING – We Play! Song list published Besson Street Community Garden, entertaining session of conversation, musicians from around the country to upfront on Punk Rock Karaoke Facebook Besson Street, SE14 5AS music and, if you’re lucky, Game of create spontaneous compositions. Not page. JOIN NOW!! Expect an interactive experience, Thrones gossip. to be missed! Book via http://bit.ly/ learning about honey bees, their BRAK16 role in our eco–system and how to The Long Letter encourage them. A chance to handle 7.30pm to 10pm Leaves from Literary Lewisham live bees, taste honey and make a The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, 7.30pm to 9.30pm beeswax candle – all materials provided. SE14 5LW Lounge Places are limited, so please book in £5 (£3) £4 (£2) advance at www.nxgtrust.org. Click on See Monday 1 April at 8.30pm. A surprising number of authors, diarists the Eventbrite button. and poets have lived here between the Murder Me Too – Interactive Murder 1600s and now. Find out more about Mystery them in this illustrated talk by Malcolm 8pm to 9.30pm Bacchus of the Telegraph Hill Society. Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer £15 (£10) See Saturday 6 April at 8pm.
22 Monday 8 April Tuesday 9 April 23 Bubbles and Slime Murder Me Too – Interactive “Mend It with Mo” Children’s Special Murder Me Too – Interactive 2pm to 3.30pm Murder Mystery 11am to 1pm Murder Mystery Besson Street Community Garden, 8pm to 9.30pm Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex 7pm to 8.30pm and 9pm to 10.30pm Besson Street, SE14 5AS Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer Free Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer See Monday 1 April at 3.45pm. Places £15 (£10) Bring your broken items and watch Mo £15 (£10) are limited, so please book in advance See Saturday 6 April at 8pm. work his repair magic (and maybe learn See Saturday 6 April at 8pm. at www.nxgtrust.org. Click on the a bit yourself). School holiday special – Eventbrite button on the right–hand side London African Gospel Choir your toys can live again! of the home page. 8pm (doors open 7.30pm) to 9.30pm Tai Chi Sword and Spear St Catherine’s Church 7pm to 8pm £5 (£3) Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex A spectacular evening of soulful Leaf Art – Creating Unique Art with Free Ballet and Street Dance Clay and Leaves vocals and African gospel featuring Combat or dance? Come and see Taster Sessions 1.30pm to 3.30pm the London African Gospel Choir a demonstration of these beautiful 3.30pm to 5.10pm in the beautiful surroundings of St Besson Street Community Garden, “forms” and be guided through some Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Catherine’s Church. Besson Street, SE14 5AS “bare hand” moves. Free Free See Thursday 4 April at 3.30pm. Create your own unique leaf art using clay and découpage. This workshop produces fabulous results that make a Breathe delightful gift or a beautiful keepsake. 8pm to 8.45pm From the Domesday Book to For childen 8 to 12 years old. Places St Catherine’s Church Doodlebugs are limited, so please book in advance Free 6.30pm to 8pm at www.nxgtrust.org. Click on the Stillness, mindfulness, and The Hill Station Eventbrite button on the right–hand side contemplation in a sacred Free of the home page. space – for everyone. Forty–five Talk to Raymond Thatcher, author of a minutes of music, silence, and history of New Cross, newly published a short meditative reflection. by the Telegraph Hill Society. Come and No need to book, just turn up. chat over a glass of wine - there’s much Body Balance Day of Holistic Therapies about the area to surprise and interest 2pm to 7pm you. The Rosemary Hungarian Restaurant, 178 New Cross Road, SE14 5AA Jazz Jam Kettlebells Class (Level 1) £5 8pm to 10pm 6.55pm to 7.45pm A wide range of therapies that support The Hill Station Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge health and well–being, and 30–minute Free Free treatments. Two trials are included in Bring your own instruments and join Strength and Tone class with cast iron ticket price, others can be booked at a in, improvising music. Some basic weights (kettlebells). Booking essential; discount. Book via herbaholistic.co.uk/ percussion will also be provided and see Festival website entry for more body–balance–holistic–festival–lond vocal improvisation encouraged! details and link.
24 Wednesday 10 April Thursday 11 April 25 Men’s Shed Festival Open Mic Easter Egg Hunt! Sandbell Class 9.30am to 1.30pm 7.30pm to 10.30pm 10am to 12 noon 6.55pm to 7.30pm Somerville Adventure Playground, 260 The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, Telegraph Hill Playclub, Lower Park Telegraph Hill Centre, Lounge Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN SE14 5LW £2 entry per family and £2 to join Free Free Free the hunt! Strength and Tone class with sandbells, See Wednesday 3 April at 9.30am. Come to The Telegraph for an eclectic Come into the Playclub, make a basket great for core strength and overall evening of music, spoken word and and follow the bunny’s pawprints to find fitness. Booking essential, see Festival Building Friends @ Somerville performance. Beer songs, sing–alongs, the eggs hidden in the park! Bouncy website entry for more details and link. 12 noon to 3pm folk songs, pop songs, originals, poetry castle, stories, songs, jolly jar lottery Murder Me Too – Interactive Murder Somerville Adventure Playground, and pie. and more! Mystery 260 Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN 7pm to 8.30pm and 9pm to 10.30pm Free Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer See Wednesday 3 April at 12 noon. Quiz Night An Introduction to Bees and £15 (£10) 8.30pm (doors open 7.45 pm) to Beekeeping for Families See Saturday 6 April at 8pm. 10.30pm 2pm to 3.30pm Showcase Gig (2) Leaf Art – Creating Unique Art with Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Besson Street Community Garden, 8pm to 10.30pm Clay and Leaves £6 (£4) Besson Street, SE14 5AS The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, 1.30pm to 3.30pm Come and enjoy a right good quiz – Free SE14 5LW Besson Street Community Garden, with questions, answers, arguments, See Sunday 7 April at 2pm. Free Besson Street, SE14 5AS chocolates and the chance to eat a hot Two fun, lively acts: Nunhead Folk Circle See Tuesday 9 April at 1.30pm. cross bun in under 10 seconds. handing out percussion for the audience Come early, food available. Tea Dance to play along with their catchy tunes and The Commie Faggots, whose satire 2pm to 5pm makes you laugh – and then think. Concert by Candlelight: St Catherine’s Church So Sweet a Touch £3 (pay on the door) Learn to Play Melodies on the Ukulele 7pm (doors open 6.30pm) to 8pm An afternoon of music and dancing. 8pm to 9pm St Catherine’s Church Sandwiches, tea and home–made cakes Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room £8 (£5) will be available. Come and enjoy! (entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) In a meditative and intimate concert, Free Daniel Thomson (Tenor) and Toby Bored with just strumming? Expand Carr (Lute) explore the moving your technique by learning how to play Mastering Basic Strumming on Ukulele melodies on your ukulele. For those melancholy and the sweet sounds of late 16th and early 17th century 6.45pm to 7.45pm who can play the ukulele a bit. We will be English repertoire. Come early and Telegraph Hill Centre, Craft Room using ukulele tab score. get a drink in our Tudor alehouse in (entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) the Side Chapel. Free Learn the secret of strumming patterns Westdal and Hayward Need Work and how to choose what pattern to use where. For those who can play a 8.30pm (doors open 8pm) to 10pm bit but need help with their strumming Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex technique. £10 (£6) Westdal and Hayward are back with their new show, a not–so–subtle mix of music, comedy and barely contained exasperation.
26 Friday 12 April Saturday 13 April 27 Baby Tots Group The Sound of La La Room with a View Telegraph Hill Festival 2019 – 11am to 2.30pm 8pm to 11.30pm 11am to 6pm 25th Anniversary Spectacular Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex St Catherine’s Churchyard 8.30pm to 10.30pm (last entry 10pm) Free £12 (£8) Free (but donation for tea and art activity) Telegraph Hill Lower Park and Kitto See Friday 5 April at 11.30am. La La Piano Bar proudly brings a Drop by the caravan for a cuppa and Road. Entry from the Erlanger/ fresh version of its New York–style experience “Room with a View” – an Arbuthnot north–western gate. piano bar event back to Telegraph immersive installation that plays on Free Hill for a special Festival 25th attitudes towards migration in post– Murder Me Too – Interactive Murder Anniversary edition. Hosted by referendum Britain. Workshops on the Join us as darkness falls to see the Mystery David Roper from 4 Poofs and a hour and half hour. park illuminated and transformed. 7pm to 8.30pm Piano and the voluptuous Lady La La. Follow a magical trail of music, Meet in the Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer Book early to avoid disappointment Orísun: Spring performance, art, film, poetry and £15 (£8) and be prepared to sing all night! 2.30pm to 3.30pm and 7pm to 8pm sensory installations celebrating See Saturday 6 April at 8pm. Food available. Young people over 12 hARTslane Studios, 17 Hart’s Lane, the past, present and future of the can come with an adult. SE14 5UP Telegraph Hill Festival. Synth Jam £10 (£8) Ensure entry by booking a timed 8pm to 11pm Identity. Depression. Sexuality. ticket otherwise just turn up but The Hill Station Childlessness. Joy. Pain. Spring II is be prepared to wait. Please wear Free an anthology of monologues centred sturdy shoes and warm clothing. Synth Jam!!! Grab your modular, drum around “Spring” in all its incarnations. Not suitable for people with machine or synth, plug in and jam in an Set in a converted motorbike garage limited mobility. evening dedicated to live improvised with a raw, architectural quality, we will electronic music. take you on an immersive emotional journey. A theatre experience Books Quiz like no other. Book direct https:// www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring–ii– 8pm to 9.30pm tickets–56523699908. Some tickets The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road, may be available on the door. SE14 5LW £3 (£2) Acoustic Anarchy A wide–ranging, books quiz on anything from Dan Brown to Graham Greene, 7pm to 10pm Mr Darcy to Mrs Tiggy–Winkle. waterintobeer, Unit 2, Mantle Court, Come in a team of three to six, or join up SE4 2EW with others on the evening. Free A monthly acoustic music night at waterintobeer, bringing together folk, punk and alternative musicians from around the country.
28 Saturday 13 April Sunday 14 April 29 Palm Sunday Service Orísun: Spring Joytribe Wellbeing Festival 10am to 11.30am 2.30pm to 3.30pm and 7pm to 8pm St Catherine’s Church hARTslane Studios, 17 Harts Lane, 12 noon to 5pm 12pm Free SE14 5UP St Catherine’s Church and Opening Circle in Narthex Palm Sunday Service, which includes £10 (£8) Telegraph Hill Centre a lively procession through the Lower See Saturday 13 April at 2.30pm. 3pm–4pm Dance, Laugh, Release, Play, Park, followed by the service in church Conscious Clubbing at St Catherine’s Family Fun!! – with dramatised readings and special Street Trees for Living (free) groups for children. AGM with guest Workshops and free/discounted speaker 12.15pm–4.45pm taster sessions in Hula Hooping, Workshops and Taster Sessions 3.00pm to 5.30pm Aromatherapy, Yoga, Pilates, Healing, Nutrition, Massage, Telegraph Hill Centre, 4.55pm Free Woodland Folk Music Festival Feldenkrais Awareness Movement, Narthex Closing Circle in Narthex 12pm to 4pm Free TRE Trauma Release, Counselling, Brockley Nature Reserve, Vesta Road, Learn about this precious community Psychotherapy, Personal Training, Full programme information at SE4 2NG resource and what you can do to help and more! www.joytribe.me Free green our streets. With guest talks Dance like you have never danced Four local folk bands playing live, and Q&A from a leading landscape Food served from the canteen from the before… Really...? Yes, bring plus woodland den-building and architect and the Foresty Commission’s Hill Station new vegan menu. your family along for Conscious hula-hooping in Brockley’s own London Manager. Clubbing at St Catherine’s, and Please bring cash for food, workshops beautiful nature reserve. Come and dance like no–one is watching in and taster sessions. listen, dance, and have a wander a safe and caring environment, around the reserve. followed by an epic mindfulness Festival Jazz Night sound bath. Find out what people 8pm to 11pm are talking about! Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Inner Light £8 (£6) 2pm to 4pm Now bigger and better in the Narthex, Telegraph Hill Centre, Studio 3 Hub Jazz Night provides its usual rousing £5 (£3) end to the Festival, with local See Sunday 7 April at 2pm. Please bring musicians and singers performing blanket, yoga mat and some water. an eclectic programme of jazz standards and original compositions. Food available.
30 31 Closing notes Festival Food We are delighted to be one of the sponsors of the Telegraph Hill Festival. Goldsmiths The Festival is pleased to announce that we Goldsmiths was established to provide have teamed up with some wonderful local educational opportunities for the people food suppliers to provide food at many of of South East London, and remains our events. deeply embedded in our local area. By harnessing global knowledge, Hill Bakery Purveyor of excellent artisan economic and social capital, we work for breads, farm-made cheeses, the best interests of our communities exceptional wines and a whole and the local economy. host of other lovely things to eat and drink Goldsmiths shares the Festival’s creative and imaginative ethos, and I trust that Masala Wala our fruitful and enduring partnership will Award-winning Pakistani home continue in the years to come. cooking from a family-run restaurant in Brockley Cross Patrick Loughrey Peppeckish Warden Italian home cooking served Goldsmiths, University of London every Wednesday and Saturday at the Hill Station Cafe Flock & Herd Acknowledgements Award winning free range meat, The Festival is organised by the Festival poultry and charcuterie, and Group, which is open to everyone. home of London’s Best Sausage This year the core group consists of India Lovett, Sanjit Chudha, Tamsin Bacchus, Gill Holmes, Mark Martynski, Peter Challis, Rima Bray, Sharon Shamir and Sarah Willerton. Thanks to all of the local venues who work Festival Bars with us to accommodate so many events The Festival is pleased to promote the and put up with having their own products of local micro-breweries activities disrupted. alongside more standard fare. Huge respect and gratitude to all the Treat yourselves to something special at our members of the community who have festival bars and food stalls. These are stepped up to put on events for this Festival staffed by volunteers using basic and to all the volunteers who make the equipment - bear with us if you consider Festival possible: the organisers and service to be slower than the ideal. performers, bar staff, box office and We accept card at most of our bars. stewards, programme distributors, prop-makers and technicians. The Temporary Event Notice has been given by Mark Martynski and he is personally Photographs: Colin Tonks, Electric Pedals liable for any breach, as are Stephen and event managers and other volunteers Carrick-Davies and Jacqui Shimidzu, in including Sophie Stanes, Jay Alix, whose joint names the Hill Station is John Chase and Martin Vickers. licensed. Please note and respect Design by Communications, Goldsmiths. licensing restrictions.
32 Venues 33 A St Catherine’s Church and G The Montague Arms Telegraph Hill Centre 289 Queen’s Road, SE15 2PA Pepys Road, SE14 5TY H Besson Street Community Garden B The Hill Station 81 Besson Street, SE14 5AE and BeBright Kitto Road, SE14 5TN I The Five Bells 155 New Cross Road, SE14 5DJ C The Ivy House 40 Stuart Rd, SE15 3BE J hARTslane Studios 17 Hart’s Lane, SE14 5UP D The Telegraph Hill Playclub Erlanger Road, SE14 5TJ K New Cross Learning 283–285 New Cross Road, SE14 6AS E The Telegraph at The Earl Of Derby Dennett’s Road, SE14 5LW L Brockley Nature Reserve Vesta Road, SE4 2NG F Somerville Youth and Play Provision M waterintobeer 260 Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN 209–211 Mantle Road, SE4 2EW Entrance for the Telegraph Hill Festival 2019 25th Anniversary Spectacular event Lower Park north-west gate, corner of Erlanger and Arbuthnot Roads, SE14 5LS We’re really grateful to all the venues for the space and support they give the Festival. Thank you! Curzon Goldsmiths is an independent, one-screen cinema screening everything from commercial blockbusters to independent gems and are open to everyone. We are based in the Richard Hoggart Building on the Goldsmiths campus, Our ticket prices range from £5 to £11. Student discounts and a variety of other concessions are available. Win tickets to Curzon Goldsmiths every month. For more information like us on Facebook! @curzongoldsmiths @CurzonGsmiths @curzongoldsmiths curzongoldsmiths.com
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