Flamenco Music and Dance

Saturday 20 March

6.30pm St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich Village £17, £15 Friends, £10 Under 16s

Includes a glass of Amontillado sherry or juice

Juan Ramirez and his troupe, Viva Flamenco, with food by Barcelona Tapas

Enjoy a family evening of vibrant Flamenco music and dancing with Juan and his troupe
thrilling you with their virtuosity. Delicious tapas on sale for your supper. Please bring your
own wine or soft drink. Aspiring young dancers and flamenco aficionados – this is the
evening for you. Tables of eight will be set up so if you want to book a table just let us know.

Phone 020 8299 8750

Friends of Carnegie Library AGM

Thursday 18^th March 2010    6.30 for 7pm

In the Gallery at the Library, 188 Herne Hill Road

Drinks & nibbles.  Everyone welcome.

Support your Library  - use it or lose it.

Dulwich and District Twins Club Nearly New Sale - with Cakes and Coffee stall.
Lots and lots of great clothes, baby equipment and toys.
Saturday 13th from 10 am until 12.
St Faiths Church
Red Post Hill
Herne Hill
SE24
Entry £1

BROCKWEL PARK LIDO CAFÉ PRESENTS

AN EXCITING ART EXHIBITION

WORK BY EMERGING ARTIST BEVERLEY MASON.

Sunday 28^th February until Saturday 27^th March. 

Opening Times: Sunday-Wednesday 9.00-18.00.

Thursday-Saturday 9.00-23.00.

Private View: Sunday 28^th February 18.00-21.00.  All welcome.

Playwright, journalist and artist Beverley Mason presents a series of strange, fantastical paintings/collages to illustrate a tantalising new narrative of A Midsummer Night’s Dream entitled Trouble in Paradise.  These illustrations bring to life the otherworldly creatures and landscapes from this modern take on a classic favourite.  She will also show for one night only a series of paintings entitled SACRIFICIAL BURLESQUES.  Because of their adult content this is at the Private View only.

GETTING THERE:  British Rail: Herne Hill.  Nearest Tube: Brixton.  Buses: 68, 468 from Elephant and Castle.  3, 37, 196 from Brixton.  Stop: Brockwell Park.  DIRECTIONS: enter Brockwell Park through main entrance. Turn right and follow the path to The Lido.  The Café is behind the main building.

CONTACT The Lido Café: www.thelidocafe.co.uk.  Email: info@thelidocafe.co.uk.  Tel: 0207 737 8183

CONTACT Beverley Mason: b.mason70@ntlworld.com.  Mobile: 07948 727035. Blog: beverleymason.blogspot.com

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

This series of paintings and collages are works I have created to illustrate a new version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which I have rewritten.  Shakespeare’s play celebrates the rituals of love and nature.  This fun loving story translates easily into a modern idiom.  I have set it on a mythical party paradise island like Ibiza where Julian and Camille “the most famous couple in the world” are to be married. Long time lovers Seraphim and Avatar are their hosts with troubles of their own. Add an assortment of quarrelling couples, mysterious Mr Fix It, some frolicking nymphs, a sprinkling of illicit substances, a bit of a romp and a fun time is had by all.     

February 28^th only

SACRIFICIAL BURLESQUES

Taking references from Lady Gaga, Max Ernst, 18^th century erotic art, Indian and Egyptian Deities, Dita Von Teese and English Lad’s magazines, I have created a series of paintings under the title Sacrificial Burlesques.  These works are a play on the current obsession with the perfect female form and the “Barbification” of women.  Porn to pole dancing is now seen as “liberation”.  As a satire on this I have created hybrids with connotations of perversion, sex, death and danger. These unsettling creatures, whist being grotesque parodies of their real life counterparts, have, I believe, a subversive fetish power, which is ultimately violent and destructive. Their retaliation as victims is a form of sacrifice.

Sacrificial Burlesques is the first in a series I am working on under the heading CHIMERAS – those mythical things that we believe in but which may not be true.  Among my future projects are Haunted Daughters - studies of extreme beauty; and I Made Myself Like This - a series on iconic victims such as Marilyn Monroe.

 **The Community Shop and Remade in Brixton Work-Shop,

6 and 5 Granville Arcade (Brixton Village) SW9 8PR. (just inside first

entrance from Coldharbour Lane after the railway bridge.)

has been open since December, 9.30-5.30, 6 days a week. TTB shares it

with B£ <http://www.brixtonpound.org>, Friends of Brixton Market

<http://www.friendsofbrixtonmarket.org> and the Brixton Market Traders

Federation <http://www.brixtonmarket.net>.

SHOP VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help maintain our presence in central Brixton.

Please have a look at the Brixton Community Shop Google Calendar

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or join the shop volunteers list by filling in this form.

<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGg2Yl9zRmlPSElyME4yeTBzQjRSYXc6MA>

Either way please do contact us on 07985 635181. We can give you access

to the calendar so that you can sign yourself up according to your

changing availability.

Every Saturday, the Space Makers pop-up shops project in Brixton Village

arcade is putting on a mini-festival with a different theme each week.

At the Remade in Brixton Work-Shop they are hosting drop-in workshops

each Saturday.

Popchoir in Dulwich  -  New Junior and Teen choirs starting in January

After a hugely successful first term culminating in a fantastic concert in St Barnabas Hall,  Popchoir is now expanding in Dulwich with the launch of Popchoir Junior (7-11) and Popchoir Teens (11+).  These two new choirs will also be held on Wednesdays :  Juniors  4.30 - 6.00pm and Teens 6.15 - 7.45pm.  giving younger singers the opportunity to experience Popchoir for themselves.  Joining any of our Popchoirs is easy.  Anyone who loves to sing can become a member and there is no audition or any need to be able to read music.  Being part of a choir is known to increase self-confidence, encourage social skills and  team-work and has proven health benefits, as well as providing the 'feelgood' factor.   

For the Juniors and Teens there will be an opportunity to come along and try the choirs before joining, on Wednesday 6th January.  Please call or email for more information.

The adult Popchoir has gone from strength to strength but there are still places left, especially for low altos/men and 'sopranos' .  Popchoir rehearses on Wednesdays from 8.00- 9.30pm.  The new term starts on January 6th.  Please call or email to register.

We look forward to welcoming you to Popchoir

www.popchoir.com      info@popchoir.com   0845 5 190 890

 F LAMENCO OLIVAR NEWS   

Stressless Yoga (suitable for all) on Thursday night at St Johns the Evangelist Church on Goose Green  from 7.45 to 9.15pm.   Cost £60 for 6 classes which can be taken over 8 weeks.  Stretch your body, relax your mind, experience a sense of peacefulness and feel much less stressed with Julie’s Stressless Yoga.

Also TOTAL ESCAPE HOLISITIC HOLIDAYS TO Turkey, Morocco and Egypt where you will experience fun and laughter, pampering and a really good stretch.   You will learn to relax and feel more positive about life in general.

Call Julie on 07973 164 369