To Friday 31 August. Celebrating the Horse
Today. Contemporary Equine Art Fair pop-up exhibition. Wandsworth Museum, West Hill, London, SW18.
Highlights the role of the horse in art, sport and education. www.wandsworthmusuem.co.uk.
To
12 September. Portrait of London exhibition. Wandsworth Museum, West Hill, London, SW18. www.wandsworthmusuem.co.uk.
To 21 October. The Plant Seekers.
Exhibition at Garden Museum of material from the RHS Lindley Library, tells the
story of many of history’s most important plant collectors who travelled the
globe and overcame life-threatening situations to transform our landscapes and
grow our knowledge of plants and horticulture. It demonstrates how
international plant hunting has influenced modern British gardens, and show the
wider impact of plant collecting, from its influence in medicine and science,
to the role it has played in biodiversity and other environmental issues. Members
of the RHS with a valid membership card will receive half price entry to the
exhibition. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk.
To 14 January 2013. North East Sport
& the Olympics.
Exhibition at Newcastle’s Discovery
Museum examining the sporting history of the North East.
Sunday
19 August. 3.30pm and 7.30pm. Jamaican 50th Celebrations Tour. Musical that tells the history
of Jamaica from before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, through the
centuries to present day, noting the icons and heroes along the way including
Nanny, Marcus Garvey, Mary Seacole, Sam Sharpe and Bob Marley. Fairfield Halls,
Park Lane, Croydon, CR9. From £22, children £16. 0208-688 9291. www.JAStory-Croydon.DJMrP.com.
Thursday
23 August. Commemorating International Slavery Remembrance Day 2012. Talks,
gallery tours, archive journey sessions, a singing workshop, and a commemorative
riverside ceremony. Contributors will include Dr Hakim Adi, Angelina Osborne,
Ethnovox and S.I. Martin. The actor and broadcaster Burt Caesar will be Master
of Ceremonies. Organised by S.I. (Steve) Martin. Free but booking is essential.
Please email: rsvplearning@rmg.co.uk. Royal
Museums, Greenwich. www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/slavery-remembrance-day-2012
Thursday 23 August. 1.15pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Talk by Charles Elford. Free. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2.
Thursday 23 August. 1.15pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Talk by Charles Elford. Free. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2.
Thursday 23 August. Close of consultation on the future of Thameslink. See story ‘Threat to Thameslink Wimbledon Loop’ in News section below.
Friday 24 August.
1pm. Two New Notting Hill Carnival Plaques. Two Blue Heritage Plaques will be unveiled in honour
of Russell Henderson and Leslie Palmer, as pioneering fathers of the Carnival.
69 and 70 Tavistock Road, (aka Carnival Square), London, W11. There will be
music, dancing and theatre on the Square followed by light refreshments at
Tabernacle, Powis Square, W11. The plaques are being put up by Nubian Jak
Community Trust. The unveiling of the plaques will officially open up the 2012
Notting Hill Carnival Weekend celebration. www.nubianjak.com.
August – November. Call Mr
Robeson performances
Saturday
6 October. Capstone
Theatre,
Liverpool.
Saturday 13 October. Otley Courthouse.
Sunday 14 – Sunday 21 October. South Yorkshire Schools.
Saturday 13 October. Otley Courthouse.
Sunday 14 – Sunday 21 October. South Yorkshire Schools.
Monday 22 October. Hawth
Theatre,
Crawley.
Tuesday 23 October. Merlin Theatre, Frome.
Wednesday 24 October. Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury.
Sunday
18 November. Royal
Exchange Theatre,
Manchester.Tuesday 23 October. Merlin Theatre, Frome.
Wednesday 24 October. Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury.
For
appreciation see review of June performance at Warehouse Theatre Croydon by
Penny Corfield and Tony Belton on: www.penelopejcorfield.co.uk/discussion-point_june2012.html.
Wednesday 29 August. 9.30am–1pm. Consultation Event on
Lambeth Council’s Draft Community Assets Transfer Framework Policy. This
Lambeth Voluntary Action Council event will feedback on the Council’s plans for
community hubs across the borough but the main purpose will be to consult on
the Council’s draft Community Assets Transfer Framework Policy. The Council
would like your input to help shape the future management and ownership of
community assets across the borough! LVAC is organising and facilitating the
event on behalf of the Council. Lambeth
Accord, Brixton Rd, London, SW9. Further details from lvac@lambethvac.org.uk
September - January. The
Hartley Pit Calamity 1862.
Display in words and images to mark its 150th anniversary. The Calamity, when 204 men and boys lost their lives, was the
first large scale mining disaster of Victorian times. The extent of the
Calamity, together with the spreading of news by rail and telegraph, brought
this tragic event in rural Northumberland into the homes of families throughout
the land on a daily basis. The reaction
from the public, together with the interest shown by Queen Victoria, kept the
story in the press for more than a month. Just as evidenced in 2010 in the
Chilean mine rescue, the public were gripped by the horror of men trapped
underground and the heroic efforts made to rescue them. The display has been
compiled by Dr Keith Armstrong and Peter Dixon of Northern Voices Community
Projects and members of the Hartley1862 Research Group. It was commissioned by North Tyneside Council with
the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. With historical documents and images,
alongside the background history and poems and photographs by local people, it
forms part of a series of events and activities intended to ensure that the
story of Hartley is not forgotten.
Monday
3 – Saturday 29 September. St. Alban's
Church, Earsdon
Friday
7 - Saturday 29 September. New Hartley
Memorial HallMonday 1 – Friday 26 October. Blyth Library
Monday 1 – Friday 12 October. Wallsend Memorial Hall
Monday 15 – Friday 26 October. Linskill Centre (North Shields)
Thursday 8 – Wednesday 21 November. Newcastle Library.
Friday 9 November - Friday 7 December. Segedunum Museum (Wallsend)
Friday 23 November - Friday 7 December. Seaton Sluice Community Centre
Monday 20 – Friday 21 December. John Willie Sams Centre (Dudley)
Monday 10 – Wednesday 19 December. Wellfield Middle School (Whitley Bay)
Monday 7 January 2013 onwards. St. Alban’s Church, Earsdon on permanent display
k.armstrong643@btinternet.com.
Saturday 1 September. 11am – An
SC-T Picnic Pilgrimage
on the actual day he died 100 years ago. Commencing at St Mary Magdalene
Church, Canning Road, Addiscombe,
Croydon, CR0 6QD (parking available) we will walk to various houses, churches
etc. where SC-T lived, worked, sung, got married etc. ending up at Aldwick, St
Leonards Rd, where he died. Picnics can then be consumed on Duppas Hill
Recreation Ground. If the weather is inclement we can eat our picnics in the
Parish Church Junior School. Jeffrey Green, author of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
a Musical Life will give informal talks along the route. Approximate length of
walk – 2 hours. After lunch those who wish can take a tram back to Lebanon R
tram stop – the nearest one to St Mary Magdalene.
Saturday
1 September. 1.30pm. Engels and Central Manchester Walk led
by Jonathan Schofield. Meet Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland
Street, City centre, M1 Price £7. Further details at www.jonathanschofieldtours.com.
Monday 3 September. 7.30-9.40pm. BBC Proms 70 (Desert
Island Discs 70th Anniversary). Kirsty Young interviews guests from
the series and introduces the most popular music choices, including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Coates’s The Dam
Buster March and The Sleepy Lagoon;
and excerpts from Beethoven’s Emperor
Concerto, Coleridge-Taylor’s The Death of
Minnehaha, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Madam
Butterfly and Tosca, plus
arrangements of Ailish Tynan (soprano), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Peter Donohoe (piano), Wayne Marshall
(organ), Sir Willard White (bass-baritone), Huddersfield Choral Society, BBC
Concert Orchestra. Keith Lockhart (conductor). Live on BBC Radio 3 – www.bbc.co.uk/proms.
Wednesday
5 September. 7pm. Riot City: Protest and
Rebellion in the Capital. Clive Bloom discusses
the past, present, and future of unrest and rebellion in London, as explored in
his latest book. Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1. £3, redeemable against any purchase.
Saturday
8 September. Over 60s 1950s Tea Party. As you enjoy the tea and cakes,
some of the 1950s objects from the Museum’s collection will be passed around to
spark your memories. Chat with the 12
young people who will be taking part. If you still have something from the 1950s, bring it along and share
your memories! Free. Limited places so to book please telephone 020 88706060 or em.
ail bookings@wandsworthmuseum.co.uk. Wandsworth Museum, 38 West
Hill, London, SW18. www.wandsworthmusuem.co.uk.
Saturday
8 September. 12-8pm. Second Wigan Diggers' Festival. The
Wiend, Wigan. This free open air
festival celebrates the life and ideas of Wigan-bon Gerrard Winstanley and the
17th century diggers' movement of which he was the leader. Performers include
Alun Parry, Claire Mooney and James Quinn, and there will be a showing of a film
about Winstanley plus exhibition, refreshments etc. More details at http://wigandiggersfestival.org.
Saturday
8 (11am-1.30pm & 2-5pm) & Sunday 9 September (2-5pm). Washington Pit
Heritage Open Days. One of the country’s oldest working pits. Learn
about Washington’s coal mining heritage. Free. Washington ‘F’ Pit, Albany Way Washington, NE37. See: www.twmuseums.org.uk/washington/latest/news/heritage-open-days-at-washington-039-f-039-pit.html.
Saturday
8 September. 12-4pm. Friends of Kennington Park 10th Anniversary
Event.
Includes Nature Trail Safaris and a Big Draw
event for children. Further details from Friends Chair Gordon Johnston: johnston.methley@nujj.com.
Saturday
8 September. 6.30pm.
King’s Cross: a sense of place. Photographer Angela Inglis will
be presenting her new book which examines the area’s ever-changing landscape.
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1. £3, redeemable against any purchase.
Sunday 9 September. 11-5pm. St. John’s Hill
Festival, Clapham Junction. Organised
by the Traders Association of St John’s Hill. All along the pavements of St
John’s Hill. StJohnsHill.co.uk. Editorial Note. St
John’s Hill was one my walks in the 2011 Wandsworth Heritage Festival.
Tuesday
11 September. 11.30am. Launch of Smith Institute report
Making the Most of Housing and Growth in the East Midlands. The report provides a critical
and timely perspective on the plight and future prospects of the East Midlands,
with a particular focus on recent allocations of the Regional Growth Fund to
the region and the performance of East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Could this be a model for analysis in other regions?
Tuesday 11 September. Lunchtime
concert 1.05pm. Waka Hasegawa
plays SC-T’s Valse Suite Three- Four Op.71, Forest Scenes Op.66 (selections),
Moorish Dance Op.55, and Cameos Op.56. Fairfield Halls, Croydon. www.fairfield.co.uk/showHome.php. Waka writes: ‘I think his
piano music deserves more exposure and having performed Valse Suite at concert a few months ago back I know audience love
his music! They went crazy afterwards!’ To see more about Waka go to Duo Piano
4 Hands www.piano4hands.com. She is Co-Artistic Director
of Bristol International Piano Duo Festival www.pianoduofest.org.uk.
Tuesday 11 September. 7.30pm.
Tooting Local History Group Meeting.
Tooting Progressive Club, Mitcham Road, London, SW17. All welcome.
Thursday 13 September.
Industrious Women:
A one day conference to Celebrate the Life and Work of Katrina Honeyman School
of History, Room 331, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds. The
programme includes papers on: “The Export of Children. Katrina's Work on the
Children's Friend Society”; “Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep
apprentices, 1770-1840”; “What happened to (some) parish apprentices”; “Child
Factory Workers, Exploitation and Overwork in the Early Nineteenth Century”;
“Gender and American Automobility: Cars, Women and the Issue of Equality”;
“"We liked the Ladies' little double bed": Pilgrimage, Sexuality and
Domesticity in the Historic House”; “The Currency of Cloth in Yorkshire in the
Long Eighteenth Century”; and “Menswear, Cloth and Consumption in Post-War
Britain”. Plus tour of M&S Company Archive. Public lecture: Laura Ugolini (Wolverhampton) on “Dull
Uniformity, Style Monotony and Masculinity: First World War British uniforms.”
For more information contact Kate Dossett k.m.dossett@leeds.ac.uk.
Friday
14 September. Closing date for submission of views on Draft Water Bill. The Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs Committee intends to conduct pre-legislative scrutiny of the
draft Water Bill and invites all interested parties to submit written views.
The draft Bill can be seen on www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/water/legislation/water. See News and Information
Section below.
Saturday
15 September. 11am–1.30pm & 2-5pm. Washington Heritage Festival. www.twmuseums.org.uk/washington/latest/news/washington-heritage-festival.html.
Sunday
16 September. 6.30pm. Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Civic Service - Festival Evensong at
Croydon Minster, Church Street, Croydon. Minster Choir; Tom Little, organist;
Adrian Adams (St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, music director).
Programme:
Magnificat
& Nunc Dimittis in F by SC-T; Psalm 150, Laudate Dominum, O Praise God in his Holiness. Chant by Sir C. V.Stanford – SC-T’s composition professor at the Royal College of Music.
Anthem By the waters of Babylon. Psalm 137 by SC-T.
Hymn tunes - Luconor, Jesu, the very thought of Thee by SC-T and Engelberg,
For all the Saints by Stanford.
Organ voluntaries and solos by SC-T & Stanford.
Thursday 20 September. 2-3pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Talk with
audio-visual presentation on his life and introduce some of his works,
including Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. The
talk will be followed by a Question and Answer session during which
Coleridge-Taylor's life as an African living in England at the turn of the 20th
century will be explored. Speaker Kwaku
is a music industry and history consultant. National Archives, Kew. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/events/samuel-coleridge-taylor.htm.
Thursday 27 September – 24
February 2013. Tues-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Painting Wandsworth.
Watercolours 1770-1925. Exhibition
of 60+ watercolours. Wandsworth
Museum, West Hill, London, SW18. www.wandsworthmusuem.co.uk.
Friday
28 September. Closing Date for Proposals for North-West Sport
and Leisure History Network Workshop, Saturday
24 November. See News and Information section below.
Saturday
29 September. 1.30pm. Remembering Dorothy and Edward.
Sheila
Rowbotham. Inaugural Dorothy and EP Thompson Lecture. The
Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Club, Droitwich Road, Worcester. Sheila
Rowbotham was a student, colleague and friend of the renowned historians.
Tickets price £3/£1. More details from dandeptlecture@talktalk.net.
Saturday
29 September. 7.30pm. “From
Coleridge-Taylor to Chopin”: piano, soprano and tenor recital including
songs and
piano works by Coleridge-Taylor, alongside piano solos, operatic solos and
duets by Chopin, Mozart, Donizetti, Gershwin (Porgy and Bess) and Scott Joplin (Treemonisha). The programme features three performers of Black
heritage. Maxine Franklin (piano), Royal College of Music graduate and BBC
Mozart competition prizewinner, has given numerous concerts in London, Europe,
Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and USA. Abigail Kelly (soprano), Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire graduate and prize winner, has
performed in Birmingham, London, across Europe, Jamaica, and with English
Touring Opera and Opera South Africa. Peter Brathwaite (tenor), Royal College
of Music graduate and prize winner and Winston Churchill Opera Fellow, has
performed operatic parts in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Aldeburgh,
Edinburgh Festival and with Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the
Diamond Jubilee River Pageant. Piano accompanist is Oliver Davies, former piano
professor at the Royal College of Music, piano and chamber music performer,
music historian and Coleridge-Taylor specialist. This is a charity concert
organised by Kiwanis (UK) international charity raising funds for a global
UNICEF mother-and-baby project. Tickets £25 (students/children £15) from the
Fairfield Halls Box Office, 0208 688 9291.
Sunday 30 September. 7.30pm. A
Dream of Africa 2012.
Gala Concert in aid of Ashanti Development. Programme to include
Coleridge-Taylor: Five Negro Melodies
for piano trio (Robert Gibbs, violin; Adrian Bradbury, cello, Oliver Davies,
piano) and dancers from the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet in new and
recent works by Tamara Rojo, Thomas Whitehead, Nathalie Harrison, Daniel Jones,
Erico Montes and other choreographers. Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Road, London, SW7. Tickets £30 from RCM Box Office, www.rcm.ac.uk/ box office. For more
information please visit: www.ashanti-development.org.
Monday 1 October. 10am -
4.30pm. Plant Hunting in the 21st Century. Symposium. ‘Our gardens and public spaces
are adorned with the results of previous generation’s plant hunting. Today
however, plant hunting is at a crossroads. The expectation that countries of
origin gain some benefit from ‘their’ plants, concerns over invasive aliens and
a growing interest in native plants has raised questions over the future of
plant hunting. With so many species in cultivation - do we even need more?
Conservation and the pressures of climate change also raise issues.’ Speakers
include Roy Lancaster, Bleddyn Wynne-Jones, Tim Enwisle (Kew), James Hitchmough
and Michael Wickenden, with opportunities for audience participation. The day
will be chaired by Dr Noel Kingsbury. Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd, London,
SE1. Tickets £70; Museum Friends, Full-time students and Members of the RHS
£50. Click here
to book a place online. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk.
Saturday
6 October. 10am. Croydon Bach Choir Workshop Day to learn and practise Handel’s
Dettingen Te Deum and then sing it in
an early evening performance. St Mildred's Church, Bingham Road, Addiscombe CR0
7EB www.croydonbachchoir.org.m
Saturday 6 October. 11am-4pm. Mandy Hudson on Trade Unions and Equality and Alex Gordon on Political Education in Trade Unions. Independent Working Class Education group. Brunswick Centre, near Russell Square tube, London. (From Russell Square Tube follow Marchmont Street to Entrance One of the Brunswick Centre/big block of flats. There will be signs. Put Flat 10 (Community Centre) in entry phone and ring. Lift to Floor 2. Follow signs.)
Monday
15 October.10am - 5pm. Symposium on Natives and Aliens: Ethnicity in the
Garden. ‘Gardening is central to English and British
national identity. So how is the gardening scene changing in an increasingly
ethnically-diverse society? What about the people who garden in this country?
Is gardening a predominantly ‘white’ activity? How open is our garden culture
to ‘foreign’ influences? What impact do different cultural attitudes to
gardening have on the landscape in our multi-ethnic society? Is there any significance
in the parallels between the discussion surrounding ‘native’, ‘alien’ and
‘invasive’ species in the UK garden with the discourse about asylum and
immigration in the popular press? This symposium seeks to explore these
questions and more to encourage more debate about ethnicity and garden culture
in the UK.’ Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd, London, SE1. Tickets £50, Museum
Friends £40, Full-time students £20. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk.
Tuesday 16
October. 6pm. Aneurin Bevan and the Socialist Ideal. Talk by
Vernon Bogdanor. Museum of London. 150 London Wall, London, EC2. www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/aneurin-bevan-and-the-socialist-ideal.
Friday
19 October. 6.30pm. Readers Research: Black in Renaissance Britain. Two British Library readers present their research
and talk of the role the British Library collections played. They will be in
conversation with Dr Caroline Bressey, Director of the UCL Equiano Centre. How
did 135 Africans come to spend a week in a barn outside Bristol in 1590? Why
were two Africans examined by an English judge in 1592? Miranda Kaufmann reveals
some untold histories from the Libraries manuscript collection. The image of
the Black Magus has become traditional and iconic. One from a rood screen,
found in Devon and now in the V&A collection, is from early 16th-century
Devon. Discover how Michael Ohajuru made use of the British Library to gain an
insight into the making, location and viewing of the screen. Conference
Centre, British Library, Euston Rd, London. £4/£3 concessions. www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event134333.html.
Saturday
20 October. 12-4pm. London art in the age of jazz. African & Asian
portraits & artists in London between the wars. Free.
Part of Bloomsbury Festival. Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. Organised by Equiano Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/equianocentre/Events.html.
Wednesday 7 November. 6pm. Why the Enlightenment still
matters today. Talk by Professor Justin
Champion (Royal Holloway). Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London, EC2. www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/why-the-enlightenment-still-matters-today.
Friday
9 & Saturday 10 November. From Local to Global the
north's role in peace & co-operation. Annual
national Peace History Conference. Recognising its move from London this year,
and celebrating the International Year of Co-operatives, the title is ‘From
Local to Global - the north's role in peace and co-operation'. This focus will
be reflected in the programme of the conference which covers topics on peace in
its broadest interpretation. Friday Friends ‘Meeting House, Mount St,
Manchester, M2. Saturday The People's
History Museum Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3. Organised by
the Movement for the Abolition of War and peace organisations active in the
north of England in association with The People's History Museum. www.cnduk.org/images/stories/cnd_docs/peace_history_leaflet_2012.pdf.
Tuesday 13 November. 6pm. Iain Macleod and
Decolonisation. Talk by Vernon
Bogdanor. Museum of London. 150
London Wall, London, EC2.
Wednesday
14 November. 7pm. Battles within Battles: Radicals, Secularists,
Socialists and Feminists and the Struggle for Working Class Loyalty at the End
of the 19th Century. Talk. Deborah Lavin. Socialist History Society
& Freethought History Research Group. Bishopsgate Institute, 230
Bishopsgate London, EC2.
Saturday
17 November. Kubla Khan.
The Kent based Hayes Choral Society hopes to perform Kubla Khan. Further details in due course.
Saturday
24 November. 7.30pm. Bach – Cantatas. Croydon Bach Choir. St John the Evangelist Auckland
Road, Upper Norwood, London, SE19.
Tuesday
4 December. 6-7.30pm. "African Americans in Britain 1850-1865". Talk
by Jeff Green. ICS/BASA Seminar. Senate
House, Malet St, London, WC1.
