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Issue 108 | 18 November 2002

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>> IN THIS BULLETIN 
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* What's on this week
* PROMOTION: Theatre deals with lastminute.com
* In brief 
* Local news and features from London-SE1.co.uk
* Arts Reviews from London-SE1.co.uk
* SE1 news from around the Web
* In the London SE1 Forum

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[ What's on this week ]

Each week we highlight a selection of community and
cultural events:

WATERLOO TIME BANK TO BE LAUNCHED
Monday 18 November
5.30pm at St John's Church, Waterloo Road
SE1-based think tank the New Economics Foundation will
launch the Waterloo Time Bank,  a mutual volunteering
project which is working to develop and strengthen
community participation in the SE1 area. Time Banking
is a tool that focuses on peoples skills. A paid broker
links people up matching people's skills with people
that need the skill. Every hour a time bank participant
spends helping another participant they earn a time
credit. Already at the Waterloo Time Bank one
participant has earned time credits by playing the
piano at a sing-song at sheltered accommodation in
Waterloo, another spent her time credits on help with
her English, and someone else is earning time credits
by helping pensioners with their gardens. Already over
70 hours have been exchanged. That's 70 hours of people
spending time together, sharing skills and building
community. 
Watch this space for more details on how you can get
involved.
http://www.neweconomics.org
 
 
ST HUGH'S DAY CELEBRATIONS AT CHARTERHOUSE-IN-SOUTHWARK
Tuesday 19 November
7.30pm at St Hugh's Church, Charterhouse-in-Southwark,
Rainbow Building, Crosby Row
Patronal festival Eucharist with the Charterhouse
School Choir and an address by artist Adam Boulter on
the painting of "Spirituality in the Wilderness", a
series of five canvasses now hanging in the church,
each revealing an aspect of spirituality which is
common to the Christian faith and one or more of the
world faiths. Followed by refreshments.


SADDAM HUSSEIN: AN AMERICAN OBSESSION @ CALDER BOOKSHOP
Thursday 21 November
6.45pm at the Calder Bookshop,51 The Cut; �3 (�1
students and pensioners); includes a glass of wine
Due to a diary mix-up, Tariq Ali has again had to
postpone his talk (as listed for 21 November in 'in
SE1') at the Calder Bookshop (he will be speaking in
Madrid). Patrick Cockburn is currently based in
Jerusalem - writing for The Independent - and he was
one of the few Western journalists to remain in Baghdad
during the Gulf War. Originally published in 2000, he
has just launched a revised paperback edition of his
book Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (written
together with Andrew Cockburn) - which makes chillingly
clear just how terrible the price of the 1991 Gulf War
has been for Iraqis.
http://www.calderpublications.com
Buy the book: http://www.se1direct.co.uk/amazon/?id=245


AMY SALISBURY AT THE WATERLOO GALLERY
Until Friday 22 November
Phone for times on 07811 905162; at the Waterloo
Gallery 14 Baylis Road; free
Landscape paintings and drawings of the South Bank
area, from the London Eye to the Old Vic.


CELEBRATION - ELIZABETHAN STYLE 
Saturday 23 November 2002
11am-4pm at John Marshall Hall, Christ Church, 27
Blackfriars Road; �22.50 (concessions �17.50;
schoolchildren �5 - age 5-17, to be accompanied by an
adult, maximum of two per adult)
Learn how the Elizabethans prepared for special
occasions (and some things they did at table that we
wouldn't dream of doing now...). Make Elizabethan
biscuits called 'Jumbles', prepare sweet-smelling herb
bags against the plague and the 'penny-stinkards',
devise and draw your family shield for your place at
table and 'Foot it feetly' - learn some simple dances.
Eat the lunch you have brought with you while the
Renaissance Dancers get dressed for the feast Some of
our guests will be dressed up too - will it be you?
Email [email protected] for details


'THE BOROUGH' ON ITV1 LONDON
Sunday 24 November
5pm on ITV1 London
Ptolomy Dean meets  MP Simon Hughes to continue his
crusade to save historic buildings. Fish! owner Tony
Allan has completed the refurbishment of his restaurant
and goes off on a shooting trip with his mate Vinnie
Jones. Mushahid Abdul admits he hasn't told his chefs
about the delay in opening.
Discuss the programme in our forum:
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=246

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[ PROMOTION: Theatre deals with lastminute.com ]

SLEEPING BEAUTY @ THE YOUNG VIC - �5 OFF 
Available 23, 25 & 30 November & 5, 6 & 7 December
A chance to see the Young Vic's Christmas show for just
�14. Based on Perrault's 17th century classic, the
story takes us beyond the kiss that wakes the Princess
into a perilous world of bungled spells, awful smells
and a forest full of enchanted trouble. 
TO BOOK, click on this link and then do a search for
Young Vic
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/lastminute/?id=106


AN AUDIENCE WITH MICHAEL HESELTINE @ OLD VIC - JUST �10
Friday 29 November
Known as Hezza to his friends and Tarzan to everyone
else, Michael Heseltine bestrode Britain's political
stage for nearly a quarter of a century.  He is now
revelling in retirement from politics, indulging his
love of botany in his vast personal arboretum. Here he
makes a fleeting return to the limelight, reminiscing
with political journalist Anthony Howard about his life
in Parliament and beyond.
TO BOOK, click on this link and then do a search for
Heseltine
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/lastminute/?id=106

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[ In Brief ]

LOWER MARSH NOW ONLINE
Lower Marsh now has its own website! Developed by
SE1-based User Friendly Organisers Ltd, it includes
information on many of the shops and businesses in this
important market street in the heart of Waterloo.
http://www.Lower-Marsh.co.uk


LONDON PUB SONGS SINGALONG VIDEO
Canada-based SE1 Direct reader Maurice Coveney writes
to tell us of his video of old London pub and wartime
songs, played and sung by Coveney, a professional
accordionist. He describes himself as "a former cockney
from the Elephant". The video has a sale price of $25
US.  Email [email protected] for details.
 
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[ Local News and Features from London-SE1.co.uk ]

Our team of contributors updates our news and features
throughout the week at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk
Here are some of the highlights from the past 7 days:

SE1 SO SOLID CREW MAN REFUSED BAIL
Jason Joab Phillips, leading member of garage group So
Solid Crew and SE1 resident, has been remanded in
custody after being arrested for a firearms offence.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/367


THREE SE1 TUBE STATIONS CLOSE DURING STRIKE
Three of the 20 deep-level tube stations closed during
the industrial action by firefighters were in SE1.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/364


PRINCE CHARLES' SURPRISE BANKSIDE VISIT
The Prince of Wales paid a lunchtime visit to Bankside
on Wednesday.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/363


TAS PIDE ON BANKSIDE
A new Tas restaurant has opened near Shakespeare's
Globe and even Tas fans are surprised.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/366

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News throughout the week at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk
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[ Arts Reviews from London-SE1.co.uk ]

Covering theatre and the visual arts in SE1...

SALVAGE AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE
The time has come for Herzen and the intellegensia to
give way for the new revolutionaries, the nihilists.
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/365

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[ SE1 news from around the Web ]

Every week we trawl the web for news stories and
features on SE1 people, places and organisations

Tracey MacLeod on the River Walk Grill, Oxo Twr (Indy)
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=243

Prince Charles at Hopton's Almhouses (SLP)
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=244

Bermondsey priest ensures future bishops will be
interviewed (SLP)
http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=248

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[ In the London SE1 Forum ]

Our weekly digest of topics raised in recent
discussions at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/

- Bermondsey Kitchen - new restaurant
- Fireworks and subhuman scum?
- Laminate flooring installers
- The old petrol statios on Grange Road
- Draft London Bridge Planning Framework

http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/

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