East Dulwich Sat 18 Sep - Meeting People From Different Cultures and Backgrounds

To East Dulwich, SE22 and Peckham Rye lists on the PRN - not all of you in East Dulwich but best we can do on this list!
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Imagine!
Meeting People From Different Cultures and Backgrounds
Sharing food and ideas

East Dulwich Community Centre,
46-50 Darrell Road, SE22 9NL
Saturday 18th September 2010
5.30pm -9pm
Entrance by dish or donation
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The East Dulwich Community Centre invite YOU to an early Autumn Celebration Discovering different, cultures & communities in East Dulwich Imagine how we could understand each other better, by sharing ideas, music and food.
Please bring a dish representative of your country or your favourite dish to talk about and share, or a song to sing, dance…..

East Dulwich Community Centre,
46-50 Darrell Road, SE22 9NL
Saturday 18th September 2010
5.30pm -9pm
Entrance by dish or donation
For more information contact Kate Start
Email: Kate@ImagineHealth.org.uk

This event is funded by a Community Development grant from Southwark
Council

4th & 5th September events

Some events next weekend, first weekend in September:
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FRIENDS OF PECKHAM RYE PARK SUMMER FETE
SATURDAY 4th September 12 noon till 5pm.
Our own local annual Village Fete, run by residents for residents.
For details, scroll down.
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PECKHAM EXPERIMENT ARCHIVE FILM & CELEBRATION
SUNDAY 5th September, 8.00pm - 10.00pm,
The Pioneer Centre, St Mary's Rd, London, SE15 2EE.
A rare chance to see archive film & find out what this was all about,
and why it is still important today to Peckham and the world.
For more information scroll down.
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COUNCIL DEMOCRACY COMMISSION CONFERENCE
SATURDAY 4th September 1.30pm to 5.30pm.
St George's Cathedral Southwark, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HY.
http://southwarkcouncil.createsend1.com/t/r/l/cdjthd/hyirxlid/r
For more information scroll down.
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FRIENDS OF PECKHAM RYE PARK SUMMER FETE
SATURDAY 4th September 12 noon till 5pm.
Fun Races for all the family - egg and spoon, sack races, 3 legged etc
Green gym, Face painting, Friends tea and cake marquee,
Crafts, Books, Plants, Vintage clothes, Charity and many more stalls,
Treasure map, Sparrow project,
Coconut shy, Punch and Judy,
Hog roast, PIMMS TENT, French Cider,
Doggie games
.....all at unbeatable prices!
Events:
1 pm - Children's fancy dress competition
2 pm - Fun Dog show

Organised by the residents for the residents of our local community!
Offers for help on the day to FOPRP@aol.com.
Contributions for the stalls books, plants or cakes stalls:
BOOK stall - call 0208 299 2680 for delivery or collection of books.
PLANTS - please leave outside 3 Elland Road, SE15. or call 079 684 16108.
CAKES - home-made cakes etc bring along on the day to the tea and cake marquee. Call 0770 446 3614
We welcome your support and let us all hope the SUN SHINES!!
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PECKHAM EXPERIMENT ARCHIVE FILM & CELEBRATION
SUNDAY 5th September, 8.00pm - 10.00pm,
The Pioneer Centre, St Mary's Rd, London, SE15 2EE
Special screening of archive film and reflections on the life of the Peckham Experiment.
This event launches the first Peckham Free Film Festival (www.freefilmfestivals.org).
a celebration of the life of the famous 1920s-1940s Peckham Experiment

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Pioneer Health Centre, you are warmly invited to a special screening of archive footage and reflections on the life of the Peckham Experiment:
Sunday 5th September, 8.00pm - 10.00pm,
The Pioneer Centre, London, SE15 2EE
8.00PM: Welcome, refreshment and reflections
8.20PM: Two films:
* The Story of the Peckham Health Centre: the 1947 film of the work of the centre
* Pool of Information: film documentary by film-maker Jini Rawlings including reflections from Centre members and staff
9.15PM: Refreshments and music from the era

Please bring a picnic blanket and join current residents of the Pioneer Centre and people from Peckham and beyond for a celebration of the work of the Peckham Experiment: the inspiration it has provided over time, and the potential of a New Peckham Experiment to meet a range of contemporary challenges.
RSVP: ruthpotts@gmail.com to say if you are coming.
The Pioneer Centre is two minutes walk from Queens Road Peckham rail station

BACKGROUND see also http://thephf.org
The Peckham Experiment: An experiment in the living structure of society

Between 1926 and 1950 experimental biologists George Scott-Williamson and Innes Hope Pearce developed what was to became known as the 'Peckham Experiment', a pioneering project that set out to make health 'more contagious than disease'. Built around principles of self-organisation, local empowerment, organic farming and a holistic focus on social connection as fundamental to health, the learning from the Peckham Experiment is as relevant today as it was then.
In a time of climate change, the imminent peak and decline of fossil fuels and with levels of inequality in the UK reaching record levels (with negative impacts for all of us), the need for creative, participatory thinking about whole community well-being has never been more necessary. As the Peckham Experiment showed, healthy, equitable, economically resilient and environmentally thriving communities can be cultivated if we work together to make them happen. 70 years after the purpose-built Pioneer Health Centre opened, the legacy of the Peckham Experiment echoes through community initiatives around Peckham and beyond.
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COUNCIL DEMOCRACY COMMISSION CONFERENCE
SATURDAY 4 September from 1.30 to 5.30pm.Amigo Hall, St George's Cathedral Southwark, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HY.

A conference getting to the heart of local democracy
Tell the Council how to improve Southwark's Council Assembly, your local parliament. They want you to tell them how you would like to get involved in the debates and decisions on issues such as housing, transport and schools.
You are invited to a community engagement conference
http://southwarkcouncil.createsend1.com/t/r/l/cdjthd/hyirxlid/r ,
hosted by Southwark's democracy commission
at Amigo Hall, St George's Cathedral Southwark, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HY
on Saturday 4 September from 1.30 to 5.30pm.
There will be a keynote speaker and lots of opportunities to meet councillors, talk to other active citizens and for you to ask questions and give your views.

Southwark Council's democracy commission is aiming to bring the council closer to its residents, making it more accountable to them and more connected with their concerns. It was established in July this year and is made up of seven councillors.
For more details, to ask questions about the democracy commission or give your views
go to www.southwark.gov.uk/democracy
email democracy@southwark.gov.uk or
phone Julie Timbrell on 020 7525 0514.
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Camberwell Village Hall - planning application

To the Camberwell list of PRN
for your information, In case you are not yet aware of this campaign:

NEWS FROM THE CAMBERWELL VILLAGE HALL CAMPAIGN
For a summary of the issues and the campaign, see the website http://www.camberwellvillagehall.com and click on the links at the top of the page.
Latest news from the Campaign is:
The House of Praise have made no attempt to engage with the community and have made no guarantees that the building will be available for community use outside of the church's own activities.
They have said that they hope to have at least 850 people for each Sunday service, and that about a third of the people arriving will come by car. However, there is provision for at least 1500 seats so that could equate to a lot of cars coming and going for each service (around 450). And with less than 50 car parking spaces available, that's a lot of people looking for somewhere to park.
In addition there is no evidence that it will benefit the local economy and they expect people to come from all over London.

You can still sign the petition To do so, click on the link below.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/camberwellvillagehallcampaign
And you can still send letters to the planning department about .
* Amenities and Regeneration
* Transport and Noise
* Consultation and the Arts in Camberwell
see website for information http://www.camberwellvillagehall.com

Bussey music+bar-b-q on the Panoramic roof, + PeckhamPlex charity film

Some events in Peckham town centre next weekend:

BUSSEY PANORAMIC ROOF SUMMER BAR-B-Q + MUSIC
CLF Weekender 2010 free August Bank Holiday weekend festival
Saturday 28th August 4pm - 10pm on the Bussey building roof
Friday + Saturday 9pm - late on floors 1+2
Venue: The CLF ART CAFÉ, 133 Rye Lane
Admission: FREE
see further information below.
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CINEMA FILM - CHARITY SCREENING
28th AUGUST 12noon at PeckhamPlex Cinema, Rye Lane
MICHAEL JACKSON'S - MOONWALKER
Tickets £3.99 Available from the box office or www.peckhamplex.com
see further information below.

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THE CLF WEEKENDER 2010
FREE AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND FESTIVAL
a chance to experience the fabulous panoramic experience on the Bussey roof on Saturday 28th August, five years after we first heard it was to be demolished for the tram depot. Now the threat has gone completely as TfL discovered it was in fact the worst site for the tram depot. - see http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Bussey_Building
 
Dates: Friday August 27th + Saturday August 28th
Times 1: Fri August 27th 10pm to 5am
Times 2: Sat August 28th 4pm - Late
Venue: The CLF ART CAFÉ
Address: 1st, 2nd, 5th floors The Bussey Building
133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
Admission: FREE

On level 5 The PANORAMIC ROOF offers one of the best views of London anywhere in the capital, and will be -
serving up the best in local live music,
great food with award winning Jamaican Jerk SKA-B-Q,
CLF Cocktail bar [Jamaican rum punch, moujitos + more]
Interactive DJ exploration on levels 1 + 2
And, best of all, the CLF WEEKENDER is 100% ADMISSION FREE!

For Info, updates and footage of past projects + info on future events, visit:
http://www.myspace.com/clfplanet

THE CHRONIC LOVE FOUNDATION [CLF]
http://www.clfplanet.com
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CHARITY SCREENING
arranged by PeckhamPlex Cinema for Heal the World for Children
at our very own independent Peckham Cinema

MICHAEL JACKSON'S - MOONWALKER
28th August 2010 marks the weekend in which the late Michael Jackson would have celebrated his 52nd birthday. In honour of this occasion, PeckhamPlex Cinema is screening the movie Moonwalker. All proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to Heal The World For Children, a not-for-profit organisation that provides benefits and events for sick and underprivileged children in the local area.

For more information please visit: peckhamplex.com or healtheworldforchildren.org

28th AUGUST 12noon Tickets £3.99
Available from the box office or www.peckhamplex.com

Rye Passage Fri 20 Aug 2.30pm

Improvements to Rye Passage: a celebration
Friday 20 August 2.30pm
in Rye Passage near the Peckham Rye end
If you are around, do come and join us to celebrate the completion of phase one of the Rye Passage improvements.

WHERE IS RYE PASSAGE?
As you walk along Nutbrook Street in the direction of Peckham Rye and pass Anstey Road, you come to a road sign saying Troy Town and a passage way called Rye Passage.
The Troy Town road name plate is all that is left of some Victorian terraced houses bombed during the second world war, and now occupied by the senior residential home formerly called Wilkinson House and now Cherrycroft. We think also that what is now Dewar Street was also called Troy Town originally. To confuse matters further about names, in 1952 after the war, the new block of flats built by Camberwell Housing Association for the elderly between Rye Passage and Nigel Road was named Troy Town flats.
Rye Passage runs alongside and between the boundaries of Cherrycroft and Troy Town flats, and crosses the end of Relf Road, and comes out opposite the Rye Hotel, at the northern triangle of Peckham Rye between East Dulwich Road and Nigel Road.

HISTORY
It has a very long history as a public right of way before the houses and streets were built in the 19th century. Now it provides a lovely oasis from traffic in the hurly burly of the surrounding roads, as well as a very important pedestrian route between Peckham Rye and the surrounding area to the west.
For many years the part of the Passage, which is near the join with the path coming from Dewar Street, has been a mess with corrugated iron, deteriorating fences, rubbish dumping, a blind corner which people could hide behind and anti social behaviour of various obnoxious sorts.
During the Bellenden Renewal Scheme (1997-2007), local residents suggested improvements to Rye Passage, especially to remove the blind spots caused by the line of the fences. But we were unsuccessful in getting it into the programme. However, we successfully applied for funding from the council's Cleaner Greener Safer initiative, for which we are very thankful.

IMPROVEMENTS
Phase one has now been completed by the Council. In agreement with the Camberwell Housing Association, there is a new fence and gates along the Troy Town flats boundary, and new gates at the entrance from Relf Road to stop car parking which was the source of some of the anti-social behaviour. Phase 2 will create improved visibility through the design of the fence on the other side of the passage once the Japanese Knotweed in the Cherrycroft garden has been eliminated.
Public safety has already been boosted, and the appearance of the area substantially improved. See the pictures in the attached poster, and also at http://www.bellenden.net/category/road/rye-passage The dream we always knew was possible is slowly taking real shape.

For further information contact: Eileen
Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG) http://www.bellenden.net

Memories campaign for the re-opening of Dulwich Leisure Centre Sept 2010

Have you ever used the Dulwich Baths in East Dulwich Road, opposite Goose Green? It was opened in 1891 so there will be people living in Peckham and nearby, or known to people living here, who have used it during the many years in the last century. If you have elderly neighbours do ask them if they have any memories of it. It is reopening, fully refurbished for this next century, in September. People with memories and stories of the pool are invited to speak to Julie Vindis asap.
See information below.
Her contact details are:
email: Julie.Vindis@southwark.gov.uk
phone: 07973 753014
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EMAIL FROM JULIE VINDIS, SOUTHWARK COUNCIL
In the run up to the re-opening of the Dulwich Leisure Centre in September I am putting together a 'Memories' campaign.

I am very keen to speak with anyone that has memories of using the Dulwich Baths since it opened on 25 June 1891.  For example:
a) Celebrations held at the baths - weddings, christenings or historical announcements
b) War time use of the baths
c) Use of the first and second class pools and washing facilities
c) Olympic training/ Guinness Book of Record attempts, swimming galas or something else perhaps covered by the media of its time?
I would be delighted to speak with people if they believe they are the longest user of the swimming baths, or have used it for a quirky reason other than swimming!

The reason for this request is that the best archive footage, photos, stories, people I can pool together (sorry about the pun!) I will be sharing with local TV, radio and the press in the run up to the re-opening and indeed well after. So please send me an email with your story and contact details and will be back to you within 24 hours or sooner. A picture says a 1000 words, so if you have a photo, old newspaper or even footage to support your story then that would be brilliant! You can contact me at: julie.vindis@southwark.gov.uk

I have to move rather quickly with this campaign and have all my editorials ready by early September, so please don't delay if you've got a story to share then send it over as soon as possible. Ask family and friends that used to live nearby, local residents, local historians - anyone with a smashing story to tell!
Best regards
Jules
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Julie Vindis, Stakeholder Communications Manager
Investing in Leisure Programme - Southwark Council
www.southwark.gov.uk/InvestingInLeisure
3C/D21 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2TZ
07973 753014