An invitation to two different events this coming
SATURDAY 26th JUNE
at the CLF Art Cafe
in the Bussey building, 133 Rye Lane.
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If you haven't yet experienced the view and the experience of being on the Bussey building roof, this Saturday is your chance!
2.00PM TO 10.00PM
Bussey building rooftop SKA-B-Q [Jamaican Jerk Barbeque]:
variety of local live music and good Caribbean food
on Peckham's roof with one of the best views of central London!
Admission Free.
See photos from previous events: www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/CLF_Weekender
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9PM TO LATE
JazzHeadChronics, Orgiastic, Fantastic Musiquarium :
Chapter 2 of a brand new bi-monthly night at
The CLF Art Café & Warehouse Lounge / The Bussey Building.
Hosted by JazzHeadChronic Mickey Smith + special guests
serving up an eclectic globalistic selection of cutting edge music.
Dub Step to Batucada, Future Jazz to Jungle & Afro Beat.
Admission Free before 10pm
See further details below.
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CLF EVENT INFO
2PM - 10PM
BUSSEY BUILDING ROOFTOP SKA-B-Q - SAT JUNE 26TH
NEWSFLASH!!!! The CLF & NEEDLE & THREAD Presents THE BUSSEY BUILDING ROOFTOP 'SKA-B-Q' taking place from 2PM - 10PM this SAT JUNE 26TH. Serving up the best in Local LIVE /
ACOUSTIC MUSIC, SKA, ROCKSTEADY and ROOTS DJS from The NEEDLE & THREAD Collective + a selection of Barbecued JERK CHICKEN / FISH, RICE & PEAS + MOJITOS & JAMAICAN RUM PUNCHES to die for care of THE CLF COCKTAIL BAR. ADMISSION IS FREE + as well as giving you access to one of the most stunning Panoramic Views of London, THE SKA-
B-Q also gives you FREE ACCESS to JAZZHEADCHRONICS, ORGIASTIC, FANTASTIC MUSIQUARIUM.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127893980575480&ref=mf
9PM - LATE
JAZZHEADCHRONICS,ORGIASTIC, FANTASTIC MUSIQUARIUM
SAT JUNE 26TH sees Chapter 2 of a brand new night at The CLF Art Café & Warehouse Lounge / The Bussey Building. JAZZHEADCHRONICS, ORGIASTIC, FANTASTIC MUSIQUARIUM. Hosted By CLF Founder JAZZHEADCHRONIC MICKEY SMITH + special Guests - The Experimental, Broken Audio Beat Head C.O.N.E. [Rotterdam] and Old Skool Ragga Jungalistic DJ BEATROUTE. Serving up tasty plates of DUB STEP to BATU, FUTURE JAZZ to JUNGLE and AFRO BEAT, running from 9pm to Late on the 1st Floor. 100% Pure Summer Soulshine!!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121686297850747&ref=mf
All Events take place @
THE CLF ART CAFE
1,2 + 5/F THE BUSSEY BUILDING,
133 Rye Lane, London SE15 3ST
MEMBERSHIP TO THE CLF [CHRONIC LOVE FOUNDATION]
Simply turn up at the MUSIQUARIUM EVENT or SKA-B-Q to receive your free Membership card or register on-line join@clfplanet.com Membership gives you access to CLF Sessions in Film, Animation, Theatre and Music. For Info, updates and Invites, pls join our facebook group at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128910941497
For More Info on these + upcoming events with Cuban Multi- Instrumentalist OMAR SOSA and Dub Pioneer LEE SCRATCH PERRY as well as the CLF pls contact
Mickey Smith @ The CHRONIC LOVE FOUNDATION [CLF]
E: info@clfplanet.com
Tel: +44 0 7941 429 374
www.facebook.com/clfartcafe
www.myspace.com/clfplanet
www.youtube.com/clfplanet
www.clfplanet.com
See yehs all there,
The CLF
GETTING TO THE BUSSEY BUILDING
The venue is less than 60 secs walk from Peckham Rye Station. Right out of the station onto Rye Lane, cross the road and the venue is just after the bridge, 50 metres up on the left hand side, at the end of a long coridoor directly opposite Blenheim Grove.
Full Address: 133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
Nearest Train Station: Peckham Rye Station [10 mins from London Bridge, 16 Mins from Victoria]
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Flat Time House Bellenden Rd 24 June - 25 July
An invitation to visit the next show at Flat Time House. This is the remarkable building with a huge book emerging from the front (see photo). It is 210 Bellenden Road, near the Bellenden shopping parade. The show is free, everybody is welcome, and it is open Thurs to Sun 12pm - 6pm from 24 June - 25 July. More information below about the history of the building, the artist John Latham and their significant role in the art world.
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BLOW UP: EXPLODING SOUND AND NOISE (LONDON-BRIGHTON, 1959-69) with material from
AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more.
Exhibition dates: 24 June 25 July 2010
Opening times: Thursday to Sunday, 12pm 6pm
Preview: Friday 25 June, 6 8pm
Venue information: Flat Time House, 210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW
http://www.flattimeho.org.uk info@flattimeho.org.uk
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A new exhibition of artworks, archive, movies and sound curated by Tony Herrington (Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Wire) and David Toop (musician, curator, long-time collaborator of John Latham).
For a period in the 1960s there was a great creative synergy in the UK between the visual arts, experimental film, free jazz, psychedelic rock, and the energetic poetry scene that formed the UK¹s so-called Underground. BLOW UP will present a visual and aural map of those connections through art works, recordings, archival film and documents, contemporary accounts, posters and album art.
The artist John Latham, who lived at Flat Time House until his death in 2006, was a central protagonist in this explosion of cross-talk and the mythologies surrounding his film Speak (1962) were a catalyst for exhibition. Speak is a powerfully strobing, paper-disc animation and, although it precedes the psychedelics of the high sixties by half a decade, its physical effect on the viewer is typical of the whole mind/body experiences of the early light-show gigs of Soft Machine or Pink
Floyd and the environmental happenings of the late 60s organised by artists ncluding Cobbing, Keen, Latham and Jeff Nuttall.
In fact, Speak illuminated some of the seminal events of the UK¹s new counter culture: it served as the Floyd¹s light show at early gigs at the UFO club and the Roundhouse; it was screened at Better Books on Charing Cross Road, the bookshop where Bob Cobbing hatched plans with Allen Ginsberg and Alex Trocchi for the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall, and founded the London Filmmakers Coop with Keen and others in 1966. But it is the film¹s soundtrack that
really connects the dots between London¹s art scene and contemporaries in free jazz and psychedelic rock: remarkably Latham rejected as Œtoo musical¹ scores recorded for him first by the Joe Harriott Quintet and then the Pink Floyd, before adding his own circular-saw soundtrack, pointing towards the simultaneously emerging noise aesthetic.
This exhibition begins to write a history of these connections, artistic, personal, or just in the air, and Speak¹s story is just one of the many told in BLOW UP.
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BLOW UP: EXPLODING SOUND AND NOISE (LONDON-BRIGHTON, 1959-69) with material from
AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more.
Exhibition dates: 24 June 25 July 2010
Opening times: Thursday to Sunday, 12pm 6pm
Preview: Friday 25 June, 6 8pm
Venue information: Flat Time House, 210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW
http://www.flattimeho.org.uk info@flattimeho.org.uk
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A new exhibition of artworks, archive, movies and sound curated by Tony Herrington (Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Wire) and David Toop (musician, curator, long-time collaborator of John Latham).
For a period in the 1960s there was a great creative synergy in the UK between the visual arts, experimental film, free jazz, psychedelic rock, and the energetic poetry scene that formed the UK¹s so-called Underground. BLOW UP will present a visual and aural map of those connections through art works, recordings, archival film and documents, contemporary accounts, posters and album art.
The artist John Latham, who lived at Flat Time House until his death in 2006, was a central protagonist in this explosion of cross-talk and the mythologies surrounding his film Speak (1962) were a catalyst for exhibition. Speak is a powerfully strobing, paper-disc animation and, although it precedes the psychedelics of the high sixties by half a decade, its physical effect on the viewer is typical of the whole mind/body experiences of the early light-show gigs of Soft Machine or Pink
Floyd and the environmental happenings of the late 60s organised by artists ncluding Cobbing, Keen, Latham and Jeff Nuttall.
In fact, Speak illuminated some of the seminal events of the UK¹s new counter culture: it served as the Floyd¹s light show at early gigs at the UFO club and the Roundhouse; it was screened at Better Books on Charing Cross Road, the bookshop where Bob Cobbing hatched plans with Allen Ginsberg and Alex Trocchi for the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall, and founded the London Filmmakers Coop with Keen and others in 1966. But it is the film¹s soundtrack that
really connects the dots between London¹s art scene and contemporaries in free jazz and psychedelic rock: remarkably Latham rejected as Œtoo musical¹ scores recorded for him first by the Joe Harriott Quintet and then the Pink Floyd, before adding his own circular-saw soundtrack, pointing towards the simultaneously emerging noise aesthetic.
This exhibition begins to write a history of these connections, artistic, personal, or just in the air, and Speak¹s story is just one of the many told in BLOW UP.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Hannah Barry Gallery & Frank's Cafe Return!
Frank's Cafe and the Hannah Barry Gallery Bold Tendencies sculpture exhibition are back on the top four floors of the multi storey car park this summer from 30th June to 30th September. Frank's Cafe opens 2nd July. Thereafter all opening days for exhibition and cafe are: THURSDAYS – SUNDAYS 11am - 10pm. See all details below.
This was one of THE happenings in Peckham last year - a fabulous experience. If you missed it then, try not to miss it this year. See here for some reviews from last year: http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Hannah_Barry_Gallery#Exhibitions
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BOLD TENDENCIES: SCULPTURE PROJECT 4
BOLD TENDENCIES SCULPTURE PROJECT is an annual exhibition held on the top four floors of the disused car park in Peckham, South London. The exhibition runs from June 30 – September 30, 2010.
BOLD TENDENCIES 4 will present new works by: Rachel Adams, James Balmforth, Nicholas Byrne, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Matthew Darbyshire, Edward Fornieles, Lauren Gault, Anthea Hamilton, Alex Hoda, Sam Kennedy, George Henry Longly, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Florian Roithmayr, Giles Round and Alexandre Singh.
Last year the project commissioned 14 works by new artists and had over 30,000 visitors in the three months it was open. For this fourth year, the structure of the project has been changed to reflect its position in the public realm and to encourage an ongoing conversation about new sculpture in London. An external council has been created through which individual sculpture projects are recommended, reviewed and commissioned.
Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar, designed by Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley and run by Frank Boxer and chef Michael Davies, will return for a second year. The food at Frank's is a reflection of the best available British summer produce - fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, cooked with consideration and presented simply.
Admission Free
Dates: Wednesday 30 June – Thursday 30 September 2010
Exhibition and Frank’s opening hours: Thursday – Sunday 11am - 10pm
Address: Level 7-10, Peckham Rye Multistory Car Park, 95A Rye Lane
Peckham, London SE15 4ST
Access: On foot via entrance on Rye Lane or drive into the car park on Cerise Road (SE15 5HQ), parking is available on level 6.
Enquiries: telephone: 02074934224 or 07850 639 570 or email hannah@hannahbarry.com
Restaurant bookings and enquries: 07580 545 837
Website: www.hannahbarry.com and www.frankscafe.org.uk
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Notes to Editors
The council members are: Rachael Barrett, Oliver Basciano, Jack Bell, Katherine Brinson, Anna Colin, Julie-Ann Delaney, Noah Horowitz, James Lindon, Arsalan Mohammed, Lizzie Neilson, Inigo Philbrick, Claire Shea, Sam Thorne and Adam Waymouth.
Our grateful thanks for the support of: Arts Council, England, Southwark Council, TATE ETC. Magazine, Campari, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Montblanc, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and University of the Arts London.
Frank’s was designed by Paloma Gormley and Lettice Drake and built over three weeks with a team of volunteers. Their firm Practice Architecture is a design-build practice working on small-scale projects with an emphasis on pragmatic design. Recent projects include Bench 1, an amphitheatre on stilts designed for the New Art Centre in Salisbury.
Frank's is run by Frank Boxer and Michael Davies who met working at the Anchor and Hope in Waterloo. Head chef Michael Davies trained under Lawrence Tottingham currently of the Aumbry in Prestwich, and has been working at the Anchor for the last 18 months under Johnathan Jones. Frank Boxer established the successful Italo deli in Vauxhall with his father and has recently opened the Brunswick House Cafe also in Vauxhall
This was one of THE happenings in Peckham last year - a fabulous experience. If you missed it then, try not to miss it this year. See here for some reviews from last year: http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Hannah_Barry_Gallery#Exhibitions
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BOLD TENDENCIES: SCULPTURE PROJECT 4
BOLD TENDENCIES SCULPTURE PROJECT is an annual exhibition held on the top four floors of the disused car park in Peckham, South London. The exhibition runs from June 30 – September 30, 2010.
BOLD TENDENCIES 4 will present new works by: Rachel Adams, James Balmforth, Nicholas Byrne, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Matthew Darbyshire, Edward Fornieles, Lauren Gault, Anthea Hamilton, Alex Hoda, Sam Kennedy, George Henry Longly, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Florian Roithmayr, Giles Round and Alexandre Singh.
Last year the project commissioned 14 works by new artists and had over 30,000 visitors in the three months it was open. For this fourth year, the structure of the project has been changed to reflect its position in the public realm and to encourage an ongoing conversation about new sculpture in London. An external council has been created through which individual sculpture projects are recommended, reviewed and commissioned.
Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar, designed by Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley and run by Frank Boxer and chef Michael Davies, will return for a second year. The food at Frank's is a reflection of the best available British summer produce - fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, cooked with consideration and presented simply.
Admission Free
Dates: Wednesday 30 June – Thursday 30 September 2010
Exhibition and Frank’s opening hours: Thursday – Sunday 11am - 10pm
Address: Level 7-10, Peckham Rye Multistory Car Park, 95A Rye Lane
Peckham, London SE15 4ST
Access: On foot via entrance on Rye Lane or drive into the car park on Cerise Road (SE15 5HQ), parking is available on level 6.
Enquiries: telephone: 02074934224 or 07850 639 570 or email hannah@hannahbarry.com
Restaurant bookings and enquries: 07580 545 837
Website: www.hannahbarry.com and www.frankscafe.org.uk
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Notes to Editors
The council members are: Rachael Barrett, Oliver Basciano, Jack Bell, Katherine Brinson, Anna Colin, Julie-Ann Delaney, Noah Horowitz, James Lindon, Arsalan Mohammed, Lizzie Neilson, Inigo Philbrick, Claire Shea, Sam Thorne and Adam Waymouth.
Our grateful thanks for the support of: Arts Council, England, Southwark Council, TATE ETC. Magazine, Campari, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Montblanc, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and University of the Arts London.
Frank’s was designed by Paloma Gormley and Lettice Drake and built over three weeks with a team of volunteers. Their firm Practice Architecture is a design-build practice working on small-scale projects with an emphasis on pragmatic design. Recent projects include Bench 1, an amphitheatre on stilts designed for the New Art Centre in Salisbury.
Frank's is run by Frank Boxer and Michael Davies who met working at the Anchor and Hope in Waterloo. Head chef Michael Davies trained under Lawrence Tottingham currently of the Aumbry in Prestwich, and has been working at the Anchor for the last 18 months under Johnathan Jones. Frank Boxer established the successful Italo deli in Vauxhall with his father and has recently opened the Brunswick House Cafe also in Vauxhall
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Peckham Power events
News from Peckham Power http://www.peckhampower.org
Peckham Power is a local energy infrastructure project, and as part of its activities is keen to showcase what local people are already doing to produce and use energy differently.
We are therefore holding a series of events called "the real thing..." in which local people, with experience of using low energy or low carbon equipment, share their experiences with others so that we can learn what this is really like. The next events are:
FOLD UP BIKES
Thursday, 17 June at 7pm, at 55 Blenheim Grove, SE15.
Two local people with fold-up bikes, one a Brompton, the other a Birdy, will be talking about their experiences of using them and showing how they work.
INSULATING VICTORIAN BUILDINGS
Thursday 15 July at 8pm, at 240 Bellenden Road, Peckham.
"the real thing..." will be about insulating Victorian buildings with two local people who have experience of doing this.
SUMMER MEMBERS' EVENT
On Saturday 31 July, refreshments from 1pm, formal meeting start at 2pm
venue to be confirmed nearer the date
For more information, please see http://www.peckhampower.org
e-mail info@peckhampower.org or phone 0207 7617 7650
Peckham Power is a local energy infrastructure project, and as part of its activities is keen to showcase what local people are already doing to produce and use energy differently.
We are therefore holding a series of events called "the real thing..." in which local people, with experience of using low energy or low carbon equipment, share their experiences with others so that we can learn what this is really like. The next events are:
FOLD UP BIKES
Thursday, 17 June at 7pm, at 55 Blenheim Grove, SE15.
Two local people with fold-up bikes, one a Brompton, the other a Birdy, will be talking about their experiences of using them and showing how they work.
INSULATING VICTORIAN BUILDINGS
Thursday 15 July at 8pm, at 240 Bellenden Road, Peckham.
"the real thing..." will be about insulating Victorian buildings with two local people who have experience of doing this.
SUMMER MEMBERS' EVENT
On Saturday 31 July, refreshments from 1pm, formal meeting start at 2pm
venue to be confirmed nearer the date
For more information, please see http://www.peckhampower.org
e-mail info@peckhampower.org or phone 0207 7617 7650
Saturday, 12 June 2010
leading walks training
Would you like to lead walks around the East Dulwich/Dulwich area?
The East Dulwich Community Centre Association is holding a workshop on
Walk Leader Training - How to lead walks around the local area
Open to all ages, backgrounds
Tuesday 29th June 2010.
9.30am - 2pm
East Dulwich Community Centre,
46 Darrell Road, SE22 9NL
To reserve your place at this event Please RSVP by 15th June 2010 to
Kate@imaginehealth.org.uk
This event is supported by a community development grant from Southwark Council
The East Dulwich Community Centre Association is holding a workshop on
Walk Leader Training - How to lead walks around the local area
Open to all ages, backgrounds
Tuesday 29th June 2010.
9.30am - 2pm
East Dulwich Community Centre,
46 Darrell Road, SE22 9NL
To reserve your place at this event Please RSVP by 15th June 2010 to
Kate@imaginehealth.org.uk
This event is supported by a community development grant from Southwark Council
community liaison for new Integrated Waste Management Facility
To the East Peckham list:
See below invitation and message from Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc This will be of interest to anyone living in the areas affected by the new facility in any way in the Old Kent Road area or on approaches to it. Please pass the info on to anyone else who might be affected. Further information from Rachel Jay at: Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk, 020 7525 2423
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MESSAGE:
Please find attached an invitation to represent your community or group at the community liaison group for the construction phase of the new Integrated Waste Management Facility planned for the former gasworks site on Old Kent Road. The first meeting takes place on Wednesday 30 June 2010, from 6pm to 7.30pm.
If you feel that this would be relevant to your group or community please do join us. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards
Rachel Jay
Communications Project Manager
Southwark
Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc
Manor Place Depot
30-34 Penrose Street
London SE17 3DW
Tel: 020 7525 2423
Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk
See below invitation and message from Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc This will be of interest to anyone living in the areas affected by the new facility in any way in the Old Kent Road area or on approaches to it. Please pass the info on to anyone else who might be affected. Further information from Rachel Jay at: Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk, 020 7525 2423
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MESSAGE:
Please find attached an invitation to represent your community or group at the community liaison group for the construction phase of the new Integrated Waste Management Facility planned for the former gasworks site on Old Kent Road. The first meeting takes place on Wednesday 30 June 2010, from 6pm to 7.30pm.
If you feel that this would be relevant to your group or community please do join us. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards
Rachel Jay
Communications Project Manager
Southwark
Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc
Manor Place Depot
30-34 Penrose Street
London SE17 3DW
Tel: 020 7525 2423
Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk
Friday, 11 June 2010
Thurs 24 June Camberwell Beauty
An invitation from the SE5 Forum to
Camberwell Beauty
Thursday 24th June 2010 7pm
Institute of Psychiatry
16 De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF
FASHION SHOW
DESIGN SHOWCASES
REFRESHMENTS
Come and meet designers and makers from Camberwell's creative industries. Further information from http://www.se5forum.org/business
""The Camberwell Beauty event is the SE5 Forum contribution to the Camberwell Arts Festival and a great way to escape the World Cup. We do hope that we will have a good crowd at this fun event. See attached poster. Best Wishes from Ish Lennox, for SE5 Forum for Camberwell""
Camberwell Beauty
Thursday 24th June 2010 7pm
Institute of Psychiatry
16 De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF
FASHION SHOW
DESIGN SHOWCASES
REFRESHMENTS
Come and meet designers and makers from Camberwell's creative industries. Further information from http://www.se5forum.org/business
""The Camberwell Beauty event is the SE5 Forum contribution to the Camberwell Arts Festival and a great way to escape the World Cup. We do hope that we will have a good crowd at this fun event. See attached poster. Best Wishes from Ish Lennox, for SE5 Forum for Camberwell""
23 June The Lane SNT ward panel meeting
To residents in The Lane ward
Safer Neighbourhoods Lane Ward Panel meeting
Wed 23rd June
arrive from 7pm for 7.30pm
McDonalds, Rye Lane
see invitation below from Police Sergeant Mark Hurst
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Dear Residents,
The next ward panel meeting for The Lane ward will be held on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 in the upstairs meeting room at McDonalds, Rye Lane, SE15. The meeting starts at 19:30 but you are welcome to arrive from 19:00hrs onwards.
The Lane Ward current policing priorities as set by our local residents through the Ward Panel last time are:
* Youth Engagement
* Supply and Consumption of Drugs
* Anti-Social Behaviour
I would like to see as many people there as possible as these meetings really are starting to prove useful for the local residents and police alike. Can I ask to let me know if you will be coming so that I can get an idea of numbers. Please email your reply to Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
Finally, if there are any questions you may have then please feel free to email me or give me a ring on the below number. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible.
Kind Regards,
Mark Hurst | Police Sergeant 25MD
The Lane Safer Neighbourhoods Team
MetPhone 788323 | Telephone 020 7161 8323 | Mobile 07766 442999
Email Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
Address Bellenden Road Safer Neighbourhoods Office, Unit 1 Bellenden Road Retail Park,
Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 5DR
www.met.police.uk
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You can also contact The Lane Ward through:TheLane.snt@met.police.uk
Safer Neighbourhoods Lane Ward Panel meeting
Wed 23rd June
arrive from 7pm for 7.30pm
McDonalds, Rye Lane
see invitation below from Police Sergeant Mark Hurst
________________________________________
Dear Residents,
The next ward panel meeting for The Lane ward will be held on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 in the upstairs meeting room at McDonalds, Rye Lane, SE15. The meeting starts at 19:30 but you are welcome to arrive from 19:00hrs onwards.
The Lane Ward current policing priorities as set by our local residents through the Ward Panel last time are:
* Youth Engagement
* Supply and Consumption of Drugs
* Anti-Social Behaviour
I would like to see as many people there as possible as these meetings really are starting to prove useful for the local residents and police alike. Can I ask to let me know if you will be coming so that I can get an idea of numbers. Please email your reply to Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
Finally, if there are any questions you may have then please feel free to email me or give me a ring on the below number. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible.
Kind Regards,
Mark Hurst | Police Sergeant 25MD
The Lane Safer Neighbourhoods Team
MetPhone 788323 | Telephone 020 7161 8323 | Mobile 07766 442999
Email Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
Address Bellenden Road Safer Neighbourhoods Office, Unit 1 Bellenden Road Retail Park,
Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 5DR
www.met.police.uk
*******************************************
You can also contact The Lane Ward through:TheLane.snt@met.police.uk
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Peckham Space: opening 11-13 June
Peckham Space - a new creative building for new happenings in Peckham Town Square opens weekend of 11-13 June. See latest news below.
For forthcoming events: http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme
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Peckham Space Newsletter
Welcome to the fifth Peckham Space e-newsletter. It’s all systems go at Peckham Space right now, as we look toward the launch of the first exhibition in our new venue on 12 June 2010 with a weekend of free events for all.
News: Launch Weekend
To launch our new venue, Peckham Space announces a weekend of free events for all from 11 – 13 June 2010 including London’s first mobility scooter meet: Rachael House’s ‘Peckham Peacocks’ on 12 June. Featuring special guests The Red Wheelies mobility scooter formation display team, riders and non-riders are all warmly welcome to this art event. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/peckham-peacocks
Events: Public Programme
Artist Ana Laura López de la Torre has made new work in response to working with Harris Academy Peckham for the launching exhibition of Peckham Space. Her new work consists of documentary film work and a series of events working with local organisations throughout the opening exhibition entitled ‘Neighbours’. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme
News: Opening Exhibition
Peckham Pledge is an artwork by the art collective FREEE. Presented as a series of four photographic postcards available for the duration of the exhibition, the work invited local shops, The Flower Shop, Persepolis, Scope and The Greyhound, to sign a symbolic gesture towards an imagined future inspired by the visions that poet William Blake experienced on Peckham Rye. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/freee
Online: New Website
We are pleased to announce that our brand new website is now up and running featuring project, artist and partner information alongside images, video and podcasts from recent projects. If you have an arts venue that you want to add to our local Art Map email us at info@peckhamspace.com. You can also keep up to date with us on Facebook, Twitter, or join our mailing list. read more http://peckhamspace.com/
For forthcoming events: http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme
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Peckham Space Newsletter
Welcome to the fifth Peckham Space e-newsletter. It’s all systems go at Peckham Space right now, as we look toward the launch of the first exhibition in our new venue on 12 June 2010 with a weekend of free events for all.
News: Launch Weekend
To launch our new venue, Peckham Space announces a weekend of free events for all from 11 – 13 June 2010 including London’s first mobility scooter meet: Rachael House’s ‘Peckham Peacocks’ on 12 June. Featuring special guests The Red Wheelies mobility scooter formation display team, riders and non-riders are all warmly welcome to this art event. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/peckham-peacocks
Events: Public Programme
Artist Ana Laura López de la Torre has made new work in response to working with Harris Academy Peckham for the launching exhibition of Peckham Space. Her new work consists of documentary film work and a series of events working with local organisations throughout the opening exhibition entitled ‘Neighbours’. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme
News: Opening Exhibition
Peckham Pledge is an artwork by the art collective FREEE. Presented as a series of four photographic postcards available for the duration of the exhibition, the work invited local shops, The Flower Shop, Persepolis, Scope and The Greyhound, to sign a symbolic gesture towards an imagined future inspired by the visions that poet William Blake experienced on Peckham Rye. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/freee
Online: New Website
We are pleased to announce that our brand new website is now up and running featuring project, artist and partner information alongside images, video and podcasts from recent projects. If you have an arts venue that you want to add to our local Art Map email us at info@peckhamspace.com. You can also keep up to date with us on Facebook, Twitter, or join our mailing list. read more http://peckhamspace.com/
Tues 8 June - Burgess Park urgent meeting
Please forward this email to anyone with an interest in the future of Burgess Park.
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Message from Burgess Park Action Group:
Burgess Park stakeholders meeting this
Tuesday 8th June 2010 at 6pm
at the Sports Centre in Burgess Park.
Southwark Council plans to destroy large parts of Burgess Park (see draft list below) and use the Aylesbury £4 million to bulldoze the park and replace it with "A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub"
Please could you forward this email to any tenant reps or amenity groups or others that use Burgess Park and that you know would oppose the destruction of the existing park. This is an urgent and important meeting.
Donnachadh McCarthy
pp Burgess Park Action Group
020 7703 8748
07947 884299
3 Acorns Eco-Audits
______________________________________________
DRAFT: List of previous park investments and wild-life sites to be bull-dozed by the latest LDA/Council “masterplan”
1. Landscaping paid for by Groundwork Southwark in front of Library – now mature to be bulldozed.
2. The landscaping and re-tiling and new lighting installed by Groundwork Southwark in Wells Way underpass to be bulldozed. (This is the only safe connection crossing a road that is so busy it carried 50% of the Old Kent Road – essential for parents and very popular with cyclists.)
3. The 20 year old woodland and hill between the lime kiln and library to be flattened.
4. The newly installed Borough’s first LED ultra-efficient park lighting scheme installed on path between Southampton Way and Albany Road to be removed completely.
5. The large and formerly very popular toddler and teenage playground on Wells Way – to be bulldozed and landscaped instead of being repaired, installed by Southwark Council about 15 years ago and which the council had no money to repair even the swings.
6. About 400 meters of the popular cycle and pedestrian Canal Avenue where it passes under the old canal bridge is to be dug up and a pond put in its place, paid for by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.
7. Entire side of the dual line of cherry-blossom trees planted by Groundwork Southwark at same time as laying of Canal Avenue is to be bulldozed for its entire length between the canal over-bridge and Glengall Road on St Georges side of Avenue.
8. The cycle track by the lime kiln is to be bulldozed – part funded by Southwark Cyclists just over two years ago.
9. The woodland, wildlife site and hill at east end of Burgess Park Lake which was planted by Southwark Council rangers service about 15 years ago and now mature to be flattened.
10. A second woodland, wildlife site and hill on other side of closed Calmington Road to be flattened.
11. The wildflower meadow by the Canal Avenue – been colonised by range of wild-plants and flowers for over 10 years and been undergoing meadow management for over 10 years to have the Cycle/BMX track built on it.
12. The mature wildlife woodland sections along St George’s Way which was planted by Groundwork Southwark about 12 years ago and now mature, is to be split up with a complex maze of paths.
13. The landscaping between Lake and Old Kent Road to be bulldozed to allow lake to be seen from the Old Kent Road (disastrously this will allow traffic and pollution from Old Kent Road to be seen from the currently peaceful lake).
14. The entrance at Old Kent Road installed by Southwark Council about 13 years ago to be completely bulldozed rather than revamped.
15. LDA “landscape architects” have been unable to provide a number of mature and semi-mature they intend to kill and remove. Initial guestimates are well over 1,000. Nearly 50 years of planting and growth of trees is threatened in large swathes of the park.
16. In the words of the architects the Canal Avenue mature wildflower meadow will be replaced by “A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub;
17. The wildlife site beside the cricket pitch is to be bulldozed. This is well over 30 years old and is on the site of a garden that predates the park.
18. An area the size of THREE football pitches is to be removed from open space and instead fenced off for polytunnels and allotments.
19. The existing cafe that overlooks the beautiful multi-cultural Chumleigh garden is to be closed and moved inside the building to overlook the Aylesbury Estate and Albany Road. The outdoor tables instead of being placed in a beautiful sheltered Arabic garden with the cafe furniture designed in line with the Arabic heritage of the garden will be on a concrete site exposed to a wind-tunnel funnelled from adjacent buildings.
20. Two sets of paths are to be placed through the existing RSPB maintained special house-sparrow meadows.
21. The 30 year old wildlife woodland and nesting area by the Albany Road side of the lake to be bulldozed.
22. The largest and most mature section of wild woodland along Albany Road at other side of path near lake looks to be bulldozed.
23. Mature shrubbery in front of St George’s Church at junction of New Church Road to be bulldozed –planted by international student workshop 14 years ago.
24. The avenue of mature trees between entrance at corner of Wells Way to the Canal Avenue all look likely to be removed, along with the path installed by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.
_________________________________________
LDA architects and the current council proposals are classic 1960’s style bulldoze and start again disposable landscape school of architecture. The financial, ecological and community investment that is proposed to be destroyed will be painful to the thousands of local people who have watched our park gradually and organically grow from the collection of bombsites and scrap yards that plagued it 20 years ago.
It need not be like this. The existing park is a loved, living and breathing entity in its own right already, with some already beautiful corners already thriving. With careful nurturing and investment, this community led organic growth and investment can continue, so that it continues to provide a green haven and lung for the tens of thousands of people who live within walking distance of the park and the hundreds of thousands of people who play sport, walk or simply picnic in it every year.
An alternative vision to the LDA nightmare would be a national quality Eco-Park designed for the 21st century and based on eco-friendly principles of working and developing the best of what we have already and creating a dream of a zero waste, zero-carbon, green ecological oasis, where people can escape, relax and play, to recharge from the densely built surrounding city – a Hampstead Heath that South Londoners can be proud of.
Burgess Park needs to demonstrate the best of environmental sustainability principles, so that it can act as a beacon of hope in the midst of the threatening environmental crises our children are facing as they grow up. Telling them that the way to treat their own homes and gardens is to bulldoze them every ten to twenty years fails this crucial test of sustainability – the first test of which should always be – is it necessary? LDA’s ecologically disastrous proposals fail this test and are a major crime in wasted carbon terms to boot. Lets show our children instead that there is a different way – one based on community ecology and respect for their future and respect for the wildlife and investments that previous generations have nourished and created.
__________________________________________
Message from Burgess Park Action Group:
Burgess Park stakeholders meeting this
Tuesday 8th June 2010 at 6pm
at the Sports Centre in Burgess Park.
Southwark Council plans to destroy large parts of Burgess Park (see draft list below) and use the Aylesbury £4 million to bulldoze the park and replace it with "A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub"
Please could you forward this email to any tenant reps or amenity groups or others that use Burgess Park and that you know would oppose the destruction of the existing park. This is an urgent and important meeting.
Donnachadh McCarthy
pp Burgess Park Action Group
020 7703 8748
07947 884299
3 Acorns Eco-Audits
______________________________________________
DRAFT: List of previous park investments and wild-life sites to be bull-dozed by the latest LDA/Council “masterplan”
1. Landscaping paid for by Groundwork Southwark in front of Library – now mature to be bulldozed.
2. The landscaping and re-tiling and new lighting installed by Groundwork Southwark in Wells Way underpass to be bulldozed. (This is the only safe connection crossing a road that is so busy it carried 50% of the Old Kent Road – essential for parents and very popular with cyclists.)
3. The 20 year old woodland and hill between the lime kiln and library to be flattened.
4. The newly installed Borough’s first LED ultra-efficient park lighting scheme installed on path between Southampton Way and Albany Road to be removed completely.
5. The large and formerly very popular toddler and teenage playground on Wells Way – to be bulldozed and landscaped instead of being repaired, installed by Southwark Council about 15 years ago and which the council had no money to repair even the swings.
6. About 400 meters of the popular cycle and pedestrian Canal Avenue where it passes under the old canal bridge is to be dug up and a pond put in its place, paid for by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.
7. Entire side of the dual line of cherry-blossom trees planted by Groundwork Southwark at same time as laying of Canal Avenue is to be bulldozed for its entire length between the canal over-bridge and Glengall Road on St Georges side of Avenue.
8. The cycle track by the lime kiln is to be bulldozed – part funded by Southwark Cyclists just over two years ago.
9. The woodland, wildlife site and hill at east end of Burgess Park Lake which was planted by Southwark Council rangers service about 15 years ago and now mature to be flattened.
10. A second woodland, wildlife site and hill on other side of closed Calmington Road to be flattened.
11. The wildflower meadow by the Canal Avenue – been colonised by range of wild-plants and flowers for over 10 years and been undergoing meadow management for over 10 years to have the Cycle/BMX track built on it.
12. The mature wildlife woodland sections along St George’s Way which was planted by Groundwork Southwark about 12 years ago and now mature, is to be split up with a complex maze of paths.
13. The landscaping between Lake and Old Kent Road to be bulldozed to allow lake to be seen from the Old Kent Road (disastrously this will allow traffic and pollution from Old Kent Road to be seen from the currently peaceful lake).
14. The entrance at Old Kent Road installed by Southwark Council about 13 years ago to be completely bulldozed rather than revamped.
15. LDA “landscape architects” have been unable to provide a number of mature and semi-mature they intend to kill and remove. Initial guestimates are well over 1,000. Nearly 50 years of planting and growth of trees is threatened in large swathes of the park.
16. In the words of the architects the Canal Avenue mature wildflower meadow will be replaced by “A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub;
17. The wildlife site beside the cricket pitch is to be bulldozed. This is well over 30 years old and is on the site of a garden that predates the park.
18. An area the size of THREE football pitches is to be removed from open space and instead fenced off for polytunnels and allotments.
19. The existing cafe that overlooks the beautiful multi-cultural Chumleigh garden is to be closed and moved inside the building to overlook the Aylesbury Estate and Albany Road. The outdoor tables instead of being placed in a beautiful sheltered Arabic garden with the cafe furniture designed in line with the Arabic heritage of the garden will be on a concrete site exposed to a wind-tunnel funnelled from adjacent buildings.
20. Two sets of paths are to be placed through the existing RSPB maintained special house-sparrow meadows.
21. The 30 year old wildlife woodland and nesting area by the Albany Road side of the lake to be bulldozed.
22. The largest and most mature section of wild woodland along Albany Road at other side of path near lake looks to be bulldozed.
23. Mature shrubbery in front of St George’s Church at junction of New Church Road to be bulldozed –planted by international student workshop 14 years ago.
24. The avenue of mature trees between entrance at corner of Wells Way to the Canal Avenue all look likely to be removed, along with the path installed by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.
_________________________________________
LDA architects and the current council proposals are classic 1960’s style bulldoze and start again disposable landscape school of architecture. The financial, ecological and community investment that is proposed to be destroyed will be painful to the thousands of local people who have watched our park gradually and organically grow from the collection of bombsites and scrap yards that plagued it 20 years ago.
It need not be like this. The existing park is a loved, living and breathing entity in its own right already, with some already beautiful corners already thriving. With careful nurturing and investment, this community led organic growth and investment can continue, so that it continues to provide a green haven and lung for the tens of thousands of people who live within walking distance of the park and the hundreds of thousands of people who play sport, walk or simply picnic in it every year.
An alternative vision to the LDA nightmare would be a national quality Eco-Park designed for the 21st century and based on eco-friendly principles of working and developing the best of what we have already and creating a dream of a zero waste, zero-carbon, green ecological oasis, where people can escape, relax and play, to recharge from the densely built surrounding city – a Hampstead Heath that South Londoners can be proud of.
Burgess Park needs to demonstrate the best of environmental sustainability principles, so that it can act as a beacon of hope in the midst of the threatening environmental crises our children are facing as they grow up. Telling them that the way to treat their own homes and gardens is to bulldoze them every ten to twenty years fails this crucial test of sustainability – the first test of which should always be – is it necessary? LDA’s ecologically disastrous proposals fail this test and are a major crime in wasted carbon terms to boot. Lets show our children instead that there is a different way – one based on community ecology and respect for their future and respect for the wildlife and investments that previous generations have nourished and created.
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Thurs 3rd June 6.30pm - Hannah Barry Gallery
See invitation below from the Hannah Barry Gallery. Please note that their next exhibition is also opening tomorrow Thursday 3rd June, at same times as the Son Gallery (see previous email).. So two openings on one evening makes a visit to Copeland Courtyard even more worthwhile. Entrance from 133 Copeland Road - number 9 on the masterplan diagram:
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Image:Masterplan_-_CCQ.png
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Copeland_Cultural_Quarter
Also note that the HB Gallery & Frank's Cafe & Campari Bar are coming back to the multi storey car park for the summer from early July. More details later.
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INVITATION FROM HANNAH BARRY GALLERY
Please join us at the gallery in Peckham from 6.30 pm on Thursday of this week (June 3) to celebrate the opening of TOGETHER AFAR, an exhibition of 30 new paintings by Christopher Green. The show will run through July 29 and is open Friday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm.
BOLD TENDENCIES 4, our annual sculpture project on top four floors of the car park at Cerise Road, will open on June 30 and run through September 30. Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar will also re-open for the summer months.
Hannah Barry Gallery
Unit 9i, Copeland Industrial Park
133 Copeland Road
London SE15 3SN
110 New Bond Street
London W1S 1EB
Tel: +44 7850 639 570
www.hannahbarry.com
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Image:Masterplan_-_CCQ.png
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Copeland_Cultural_Quarter
Also note that the HB Gallery & Frank's Cafe & Campari Bar are coming back to the multi storey car park for the summer from early July. More details later.
________________________________________
INVITATION FROM HANNAH BARRY GALLERY
Please join us at the gallery in Peckham from 6.30 pm on Thursday of this week (June 3) to celebrate the opening of TOGETHER AFAR, an exhibition of 30 new paintings by Christopher Green. The show will run through July 29 and is open Friday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm.
BOLD TENDENCIES 4, our annual sculpture project on top four floors of the car park at Cerise Road, will open on June 30 and run through September 30. Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar will also re-open for the summer months.
Hannah Barry Gallery
Unit 9i, Copeland Industrial Park
133 Copeland Road
London SE15 3SN
110 New Bond Street
London W1S 1EB
Tel: +44 7850 639 570
www.hannahbarry.com
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Copeland Cultural Quarter - Son Gallery exhibition opening 3 June 6.30pm - 9pm
The latest creative enterprise to take root in the Copeland Cultural Quarter (CCQ) is the Son Gallery, located in the same building as the now well known Hannah Barry Gallery. You enter CCQ from 133 Copeland Road, between Bournemouth Rd and the railway tunnel on Consort Rd. The gallery entrance is in the Bussey Passage, off Copeland Courtyard: see note 4 on the plan of the CCQ at http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Image:Masterplan_-_CCQ.png
The next exhibition opens with a private view on Thurs 3rd June from 6.30pm. All welcome.
From The Son Gallery Press Release: "the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions."
For more information:
http://www.songallery.co.uk
info@songallery.co.uk
07735 459 614
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PRESS RELEASE
Son Gallery present DAN HALTER
Shifting the Goalposts: 4 June - 4 July 2010
Private view Thursday 3 June 6.30pm – 9pm
Son Gallery, Unit 9c, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
Son Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new prints by Zimbabwean born artist Dan Halter who now lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Shifting the Goalposts’ is a project based around the Beitbridge border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, a location notorious for illegal immigration. Those coming into South Africa are often met with harsh and xenophobic conditions upon arrival.
In the dozen images that will be displayed, Halter switched a set of goalposts from a football pitch in the deprived Musina South Africa for a set of goalposts from another pitch in Beitbridge Zimbabwe, subtly politicising both pitches which now each have local and foreign goalposts. The photographic series depicts a dirt football pitch in the Musina township similar to those where the majority of South Africans play the game.
In the run up to this years World Cup in particular, this dusty reality sits in stark contrast to the current slick and costly mega-stadiums that have recently been built by the government in South Africa’s major cities.
The phrase ‘Shifting the goalposts’ describes the questionable political manoeuvres carried out by the Zanu-PF in the Zimbabwean government to cling onto power. It also applies to the South African government's attempts to bring an end to the Zimbabwean crisis. Furthermore, it serves to illustrate the tendency towards corruption, and neglect of promises made by both governments. Will South Africa end up like Zimbabwe? Frequently the Zimbabwean immigrants find on reaching South Africa
that the goalposts have shifted, often to their detriment.
The prints will be accompanied by Halter’s video piece ‘Space Invader’. Imitating the 8-bit Space Invader character designed by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978, Halter uses the Chinese made plastic mesh bags which have become synonymous with refugees across the word as pixels to create Space Invader installations. This particular video piece shows an installation at a Johannesburg taxi rank, a port of entry for many African immigrants.
For more information contact
Nicola Jeffs nicola@songallery.co.uk /
info@songallery.co.uk / 07794 694 754
___________________________________________
Notes to editors
Son Gallery would like to thank the What If The World Gallery in Cape Town and the Goethe Institute for their support in creating this exhibition.
DAN HALTER
Dan Halter was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1977. He relocated to South Africa and graduated in 2001 from the Michaelis School of fine Art at the University of Cape Town with a BA (FA). Previous solo-shows were at the João Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town titled Take Me to Your Leader (2006) and another called never say never that took place at the Derbylius Gallery in Milan (2008). He has been part of numerous group shows including Second to None at the South African National Gallery, Zeitgenössiche Fotokunst aus Sud Afrika at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) and
VideoBrasil in SãoPaulo.
In 2008 he was shown at the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial in China, and he was nominated as one of the MTN new contemporaries. That same year he took part in two residencies, one in Zurich and one in Rio de Janeiro. In 2009 he represented Zimbabwe at the 10th Havana Biennale. He teaches part time Videography at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. He will show work at Dakart 2010. After his exhibition at Son Gallery he has been selected for the Glenfiddich residency programme in Scotland.
SON GALLERY
Son Gallery is a photography-led exhibition space in Peckham, South London, which opened its doors in early 2010. After a flurry of opening exhibitions the gallery has earned an excellent reception and is now settled into a longer series of exhibitions for its summer programme. Directed by curator Guy Robertson and photographer Tom Saunderson, who also codirect New Exposure, the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions. For more information visit www.songallery.co.uk
The next exhibition opens with a private view on Thurs 3rd June from 6.30pm. All welcome.
From The Son Gallery Press Release: "the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions."
For more information:
http://www.songallery.co.uk
info@songallery.co.uk
07735 459 614
________________________________________________
PRESS RELEASE
Son Gallery present DAN HALTER
Shifting the Goalposts: 4 June - 4 July 2010
Private view Thursday 3 June 6.30pm – 9pm
Son Gallery, Unit 9c, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
Son Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new prints by Zimbabwean born artist Dan Halter who now lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Shifting the Goalposts’ is a project based around the Beitbridge border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, a location notorious for illegal immigration. Those coming into South Africa are often met with harsh and xenophobic conditions upon arrival.
In the dozen images that will be displayed, Halter switched a set of goalposts from a football pitch in the deprived Musina South Africa for a set of goalposts from another pitch in Beitbridge Zimbabwe, subtly politicising both pitches which now each have local and foreign goalposts. The photographic series depicts a dirt football pitch in the Musina township similar to those where the majority of South Africans play the game.
In the run up to this years World Cup in particular, this dusty reality sits in stark contrast to the current slick and costly mega-stadiums that have recently been built by the government in South Africa’s major cities.
The phrase ‘Shifting the goalposts’ describes the questionable political manoeuvres carried out by the Zanu-PF in the Zimbabwean government to cling onto power. It also applies to the South African government's attempts to bring an end to the Zimbabwean crisis. Furthermore, it serves to illustrate the tendency towards corruption, and neglect of promises made by both governments. Will South Africa end up like Zimbabwe? Frequently the Zimbabwean immigrants find on reaching South Africa
that the goalposts have shifted, often to their detriment.
The prints will be accompanied by Halter’s video piece ‘Space Invader’. Imitating the 8-bit Space Invader character designed by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978, Halter uses the Chinese made plastic mesh bags which have become synonymous with refugees across the word as pixels to create Space Invader installations. This particular video piece shows an installation at a Johannesburg taxi rank, a port of entry for many African immigrants.
For more information contact
Nicola Jeffs nicola@songallery.co.uk /
info@songallery.co.uk / 07794 694 754
___________________________________________
Notes to editors
Son Gallery would like to thank the What If The World Gallery in Cape Town and the Goethe Institute for their support in creating this exhibition.
DAN HALTER
Dan Halter was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1977. He relocated to South Africa and graduated in 2001 from the Michaelis School of fine Art at the University of Cape Town with a BA (FA). Previous solo-shows were at the João Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town titled Take Me to Your Leader (2006) and another called never say never that took place at the Derbylius Gallery in Milan (2008). He has been part of numerous group shows including Second to None at the South African National Gallery, Zeitgenössiche Fotokunst aus Sud Afrika at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) and
VideoBrasil in SãoPaulo.
In 2008 he was shown at the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial in China, and he was nominated as one of the MTN new contemporaries. That same year he took part in two residencies, one in Zurich and one in Rio de Janeiro. In 2009 he represented Zimbabwe at the 10th Havana Biennale. He teaches part time Videography at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. He will show work at Dakart 2010. After his exhibition at Son Gallery he has been selected for the Glenfiddich residency programme in Scotland.
SON GALLERY
Son Gallery is a photography-led exhibition space in Peckham, South London, which opened its doors in early 2010. After a flurry of opening exhibitions the gallery has earned an excellent reception and is now settled into a longer series of exhibitions for its summer programme. Directed by curator Guy Robertson and photographer Tom Saunderson, who also codirect New Exposure, the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions. For more information visit www.songallery.co.uk
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