RCDT News - 11 January 2008

Can you help distribute the flier to neighbours in your block or street, to members of your organisation, and hand out copies at any events you are running before 26 January? If so please contact: the North Lambeth Town Centre team on 020 7926 2758; peoplefirstexpo@lambeth.gov.uk

THE WEEK’S DIARY

Saturday 12. 10am-3pm. Oval Farmers’ Market. St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube)

Saturday 12. Last day of Anne Collier exhibition at Corvi-Mura, and first day of Katie Deith exhibition at Danielle Arnaud galleries. See Arts Galleries & Exhibitions section below).

Monday 14. 5.30pm. Friends of Spring Gardens meeting. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St.

Tuesday 15. 3-9.30pm. Ellen Groth Reddie Exhibition. Start of at Oval House Café. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section below.

Tuesday 15 - Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub. The Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and open jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kennington Lane. 83-0-11pm. ADMISSION FREE Jazz fans, singers and players welcome.

Friday 18. 2-6om Ryan Ras Exhibition. Start of at Man&Eve gallery. See Art Galleries & Exhibitions section.

NEWS

All Sewn Up To Restart. Lambeth Endowed Charities gave a good piece of pre-Xmas news to Lady Margaret Hall Settlement. It will fund the excellent All Sewn Up Project which teaches local women skills in sewing and soft furnishings. The project had to close for the autumn term because of the end of funding. The women have been keen to re-start if further funding could be obtained. So a big thanks to Lambeth Endowed Charities. People who took part in the Textiles event in the Lambeth Riverside Festival in July 2006 will re-call the excellence of the work the women were producing.

Good Luck to Jeffe Jeffers. Jeffe Jeffers has retired as Director of Lady Margaret Hall Settlement. Sean Creighton writes: Jeffe and I have been friends since 1970s community action in the Clapham Junction area, including Louvaine Area Residents Association and Junction Action Group. His contribution to the Settlement in the 1970s was innovative setting up Lambeth Tiles, the specialist tile makers, and All Sewn Up Project, and providing important assistance to starting new groups such as Roots & Shoots. He had to move the Settlement down the Wandsworth Rd from Kennington. Years later when I worked for the British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres I alerted him to the problems Lady Margaret Hall was then facing. He put a rescue package together which included the sale of the property on Wandsworth Rd and the return to Kennington. The Settlement has since specialised in funding, advice and services to other groups including Vauxhall Gdns Community Centre, RCDT, Thessaly Community Project and Recycle, the bikes to Africa project. Drawing on his experience in setting up Science Parks and involvement in other economic development initiatives over the years, he conceived the idea of the Artisan School as a potential contributor to skilling local, especially young, people. He spelt out his perspective on this at the Push the Envelope event at Beaconsfield during the Lambeth Riverside Festival 2006 - see www.beaconsfield.org. He then developed the concept of the Kennington Quarter strengthening the creative industries and their potential role in providing skilled jobs for local people. He launched the proposal at the Beaconsfield/RCDT/Settlement Push the Envelope Further event last July. He has been a strong advocate of groups working together and setting a common agenda, as can be seen from his contribution to the Planning Our Future event in June 2006 - see www.rcdt.org. He has been central to the lobbying with the Council and the Charity Commission over the future of the Beaufoy Institute. Jeffe will be spending some of his retirement as a volunteer with the Settlement. He will speaking on the history and work of the Settlement at the 18 February meeting of the Friends of Durning Library (see Diary section below).

Susannah Yorke plays Kennington. Actress Susannah Yorke is starring in Walking on Water by Paul Minx at the White Bear Theatre Club till 28 January. Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm. Sundays 5pm. Presented by King William Productions. Self styled fashion designer Betsy has come to the American Midwest at the request of her old sister Frances. Their mother has shown increasing signs of Alzheimer’s and has acquired a habit of digging up long dead family pets in the back garden: Frances feels she can’t cope and it’s not fair that she be asked to. Betsy, who ran off to California, comes back with intentions of only staying a weekend, but provoked by the efforts of her sick mother and Betsy’s fifteen year old daughter Henny, she soon finds herself forced to deal with the truths of a past she has been avoiding. 138 Kennington Park Rd. Box Office: 020 7793 9193 or link to TicketWeb on line via White Bear’s website: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/contact/

New Planning Applications: 32 Fitzalan St, 157 Kennington Lane, 365 & 377 Kennington Rd, 59 Richbourne Terrace, See details below.

Archbishop Sumner School. Next week Year 1 pupils will visit the Science Museum and Year 3 the Tutankhamun exhibition. Year 3 will also be starting their swimming lessons.

The Hain Affair. You may be wondering 'Who is the Stephen Morgan in the Peter Hain expenses row?' You will be pleased to know that it is not Prince's Ward Councillor Stephen Morgan.

Councillor Sam Townend’s Bristol Website. Prince’s Ward Councillor Sam Townend was adopted last year as prospective Parliamentary candidate for Bristol North West, and now lives in Bristol. To keep up-to-date with what he is doing in Bristol see: www.samtownend.com/news

Kennington Association. To keep up-to-date with what Kennington Association is doing have a look at its special website presence, which includes the draft minutes of its December AGM. http://journals.aol.co.uk/kenningtonassn/KenningtonAssociation

What Future for the North Lambeth Town Centre Office? According to the minutes of Lambeth Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting held 13 December on ‘A replacement structure to the current Town Centre teams was being developed and the appropriate human resource processes were underway. The proposal would be re-drafted for consideration by Cabinet (28.01.08).’ The draft budget review report before the Committee talked about axing the teams but that there were issues relating to commercial town centre management arrangements, neighbourhood working and the Communities First approach.

New Worker at Gasworks Gallery. Amy Walker is joining Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust this month from the Whitechapel Gallery where she was the Capital Project and Funding Officer working on their new development.

Spring Gardens News. London Buses were involved in an accident in which the wall next to the Vauxhall Tavern and Spring Gardens entrance was demolished Kennington Lane entrance. Lambeth is seeking compensation. Surveys are to be carried out which may reveal some element of contamination. The Friends hope that the £110k Section 106 money from St George’s Wharf can be divided into - £12k paths; 40k soft landscape and £30k hard landscape. There is also £129k from Queensborough House Hotel. The Friends would like to see some of Section 106 money due on Hammond House, if the planning application is approved, be spent on Spring Gardens. The Friends continue to pressure for better site security on the Lord Clyde site. The Friends next meeting is Monday 14 January at 5.30pm Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St. All welcome. The Friends are looking someone to take on the job of being Treasurer.

London Forum of Amenity & Civic Societies. Jim Nicolson of Vauxhall Society is offering to email to local interested people editions of 'NewsForum', the newsletter of the London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies. If you would like to be on the list please email Jim on jasnicolson@waitrose.com.

DYEWORK SATURDAY CLASSES

January 19. Fancy Spinning

January 26. Fancy Spinning II

February 2. Obtaining and dealing with rare breed wools

February 9. Hand spinning Alpaca fibre

February 16. Week I of two-Saturday natural dye workshops. Week 1 – mordanting and Indigo dyeing. Soaking plant and wood dyes from garden.

February 23. Week II Natural dye workshop. Dyeing and overdyeing for range of repeatable colours.

March 1. Blending from coloured wool fibres. Carding into coloured rolags.

March 8. Blending II

March 15. Spinning colour-effect yarns from coloured fibres

1.30am-2pm. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St. Penny Walsh 020 8692 2958. Diane Sullock 020 7622 4913. PennyWalsh@Dyework.co.uk. www.dyework.co.uk

MORLEY COLLEGE COMMUNITY COURSES

Morley College is providing Salsa , Dance Exercise, Computing, English Language, Painting & Drawing, Keep Fit and other classes for local people. There are concessions for pensioners, those on means-tested benefits, job seekers allowance, working family's tax credits, asylum seekers and their dependents and other concession categories – in these cases the learners only pay a one-off £5 enrolment fee until September 08 and do not need to pay the fees stated below. This is a great opportunity for Lambeth residents to take advantage of the services their local Council is investing in. These courses will be running in January and April 2008.

Archbishop Sumner Primary School, Reedworth St

ESOL with IT (Mon 5.30-8pm) £25 per term from 7 Jan and 7 April

Dance Exercise (Mon 6.30-8pm) £15 per term from 7 Jan and 7 April

Salsa Beginners (Fri 6.15-7.15pm) £15 per term from 11 Jan and 11 April

Salsa Improvers (Fri 7.15-8.15pm) £15 per term from 11 Jan and 11 April

Brit Oval Cricket Ground

Basic Computing (Sat 10am-2pm) Free from 12 Jan and 12 April

Ethelred Nursery, 10 Lollard St

English Language with Drama (Weds 1-2.30pm) £15 per term from 9 Jan & 9 April

Kennington Park Community Centre, Harleyford Rd

Ballroom Dancing (Mon 2-3.30pm) £15 per term from 7 Jan and 7 April

Tomkyns House, Distin St

Keep Fit (Tues 1.30-3pm) £15 per term from 8 Jan and 8 April

Malam Court, Lollard St

Painting & Drawing for Fun (Fri 10am-12.30pm) £15 per term from 11 Jan and 11 April

Vauxhall Primary School, Vauxhall St

English Language & Literacy (Weds 1.30-3.30pm) £20 per term from 9 Jan and 9 April

Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd

DJ Workshop (Fri 1.30-3.30pm) £12 per term from 11 Jan

Music Technology (Tuesday 4-6pm) £12 per term from 8 April

BEACONSFIELD HOSTS SOUND ARTISTS WEEK

Ten experimental sound artists will be exploring in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in Beaconsfield gallery and Glasgow. from 2 to 8 February. They include Rhodri Davies, Gustav Metzger, John Butcher, Ben Drew, Robin Hayward and Lee Patterson. The week has been commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed with Beaconsfield.

2 February – open conference for artists, musicians, academics and enthusiasts

6 February – lecture: Gustav Metzger – Art and Compromise

8 February – performances from 8pm.

Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street. For further information, please contact Rachel Fleming-Mulford e: rachel@beaconsfield.ltd.uk; 020 7582 6465; www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER & RECITAL SERIES AT ST. PETER’S

6.30pm. International musicians and speakers. Free Admission. St Peter's Church, Vauxhall , 310 Kennington London. www.crossoverlambeth.com Tel: 020 7820 9445

Jan 20: Kadialy Kouyate Senegalese Kora. Kike Pedersen Paraguayan harp. Preacher: Revd. James Lawson, Senior Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury

Jan 27: Premier Brass Quintet. Preacher: Canon Peggy Jackson, Dean of Women's Ministry, Southwark

Feb 3: Choral Evensong for Candlemas. Music for Candlemas led by the St. Peter's Singers. Preacher: The Revd. Sally Wright, Chaplain, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Feb 10: Mary Mundy Cello. Paul Wynne Piano, Richard Strauss, Cello Sonata. Preacher: Revd. Jonathan Boardman

Feb 17: Matthew Hunt Clarine. Ian Watson Accordion. Preacher: Revd. Ruth Scott. Chaplain of Richmond Charities Almshouses

Feb 24: Amy Freston Soprano. Catherine Beveridge Piano. Music by Mozart, Strauss and Haydn. Preacher: Ann Morisy. Commission on Urban Life and Faith

Mar 2: Daria van den Bercken Piano. Preacher: Revd. Stephen Tucker, Vicar of Hampstead

Mar 9: Fiona Macdonald Mezzo-soprano, Christopher Gould Piano. Preacher: Revd. Jane Freeman

Team Vicar of St. Bartholomew's, East Ham

OVAL HOUSE CELEBRATES YOUTH THEATRE

33% London is a celebration of Theatre & Film by and for young people between 21 January and 9 February. Oval House Theatre is inviting young artists from across London to take to the professional stage with a season of work that champions new creative voices, challenges perceptions of theatre and reaffirms the notion of ‘youth theatre’ as a powerful and influential force within our creative economy. 33% London is by and for young people; it allows young artists the freedom to embrace their creativity and for audiences to glory in their diverse interpretations of the city in which they live. In partnership with Royal Court, British Film Institute, Young Vic and Tamasha, 33% London is testament of the talents of these young people, acknowledging them as credible artists in their own right. The programme comprises:

Performances

The Bald Soprano. Oval House Youth Theatre Company. Wed 23 Jan – Sat 2 Feb 7.45pm. Tickets £5. Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece about the power of language is brought to a contemporary London where a wealth of languages are part of our everyday experience. The multicultural company uses their first languages to create a production not just in French and English, but rather in eight languages, including Portuguese and Yoruba. The production glories in our shared internationalism: Ionesco reinvented for contemporary London. An energetic adaptation that embraces the play’s absurdist style and powerfully fuses Ionesco’s original text with contemporary pop culture.

Lyrical MC. Tamasha Theatre. Wed 6 –Thurs 7 Feb 7.45pm. Thurs 7^th Matineee, 1:30pm

Tickets £5. A lively new production invites us into the private lives of young people in Britain’s secondary schools. As we tune into their lyrical daily chat, a revealing subtext of stories and dreams, posing and posturing, allegiances and rivalries emerges. Created from real life stories devised through workshops with young people, and performed by Southwark-based youth theatre REACT, Lyrical MC offers a rhythmic, multilingual journey through a typical school day.

Play Readings

Cause and Effect. Wed 23 – Sat 26 Jan 8pm. Tickets £2. 8 Royal Court young writers, 8 Oval House young actors and 4 Young Vic Directors: could you possibly get more young and fresh talent in one space? What happens when you throw 24 dynamic young artists from different disciplines into a project with no parameters? Join us for a week of short play readings written and developed for 33% London.

Theatre Royal Reads @ 33% London. Fri 8 Feb 7.45pm. Tickets £2. Theatre Royal Stratford East and Oval House Youth Theatres unite to present a night of play readings inspired and written by the young people of East London: 3 different plays of 3 different styles exploring the universal themes of home, relationships and belonging.

Films

Short Films. Tickets £2. Fri 1 Feb, 8pm. A selection of innovative short films presenting an alternative view of the Big Smoke, followed by a critical debate of the issues raised. This evening is presented in association with the British Film Institute.

Flash Mob. Sat 2 Feb, 8pm. Max is dead. Who’s to blame? A dark tale of suicide, revenge… and Bluetooth.

Discussion

The Red Room Platform presents Why are we afraid of our young? Mon 4 Feb 7-9pm

Tickets FREE, but booking essential. An interactive evening of film, performance and debate. Amidst a nationwide epidemic of knives, guns and gangs infesting our communities, the award winning Red Room invite you to participate in a timely platform investigating ‘Why are we afraid of our young?’

First Bites

Tickets for First Bites performances are £2

We’re Here Because. Wed 6 Feb, 8pm. A physical theatre performance exploring the parallel experiences of young soldiers in the First World War and modern day Iraq

Scenarios by Collective Artists. Thurs 7 Feb, 8pm. Developed through interviews and workshops with a group of young parents from Lewisham, Scenarios uses music and drama to tell the stories of those young people who from naivety to the search for love found themselves dealing with scenarios that should have waited until they grew up.

God Coughs Uncomfortably. Fri 8 Feb, 8pm. Lucy has traded her soul to the Devil - boyfriend Ricky is on a mission to get it back. But who ever said the Devil played fair?

Freedom 21: Welcome to MOPAC. Sat 9 Feb, 8pm. In a totalitarian future, six teenagers submitted to the Ministry of Politics and Control await their day of freedom.

Professional Development Workshops

Tickets for professional development workshops are £5.

Working with vulnerable and volatile young people. Wed 23 Jan 2-6.30pm

Training for established arts practitioners exploring arts practices that address the needs of vulnerable and volatile young people

How to become a theatre facilitator. Wed 30 Jan 2-6.30pm. Training for 18-25 year olds exploring ways of planning workshops when working with young people as a drama facilitator

Making your way as a theatre artist. Sat 9 Feb 2-6.30pm. Training for 18-25 year olds exploring ways to develop and sustain artistic practice, and make the jump from being a youth theatre member to a professional artist

Box Office: 020 7582 7680 (Tues-Sat, 3pm-8pm)

Address: 52-54 Kennington Oval, London, SE11 5SW

LOCAL PLANNING APPLICATIONS & NEWS

Planning Applications

23 – 29 December

157 Kennington Lane. Approval of details pursuant to condition 8 (A schedule of the restoration works to the existing sash windows) of Planning Permission ref: 07/02692/LB (Extension of rear ground floor extension, replacement of ground floor metal door with timber double french doors, replacement of second floor metal window with timber sash window and the replacement of garage door with similar. Installation of 2 fireplaces to ground floor reception rooms, installation of library shelves, removal of existing cupboards in ground floor reception, removal of existing shelves to second floor bedroom and replacement with 3 shelves, reinstatement of ceiling rose in both reception rooms, restoration of sash windows to front and rear elevations, removal and replacement of existing secondary glazing and installation of secondary glazing to fanlight above the front door. (Town Planning 07/02692/LB and Listed Building Applications)) granted on 22.10.2007. Ref: 07/05033/DET

377 Kennington Rd. Change of use of the rear part of the ground floor from office (Use class B1) to ancillary residential accommodation (Use class C3) in association with existing residential unit at upper level. Ref: 07/04526/FUL.

30 December – 5 January

32 Fitzalan St. Removal of existing conservatory and the erection of a part one / three storey rear extension. Removal of existing conservatory and the erection of a part one / three storey rear extension. Ref: 07/05105/FUL.

59 Richborne Terrace. Conversion of the existing single dwelling house into 4 x self-contained residential flats comprising 3 x two-bedroom units and 1 x one-bedroom units, and the infilling of a rear ground floor recess to form additional habitable room for the proposed ground floor flat (revised scheme to 06/04126/FUL granted permission on 28/06/2007, with respect to the erection of a single storey rear extension at lower ground floor, conservatory extension at ground floor level and additional flank window). Ref: 07/05105/FUL.

6-12 January

365 Kennington Rd. Approval of details pursuant to condition 5 (Details of Window to studio flat) of Planning Permission ref: 07/01556/FUL (Conversion of existing single dwelling into three self contained flats (1 x studio flat and two 2-bedroom maisonettes) together with demolition of existing rear garage and replacement with a single-storey rear extension, formation of a courtyard and replacement of existing door with a window at ground floor level side elevation) granted on 16.08.2007. Ref: 07/04975/DET. Applicant: Parsons Green Land Limited

http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publicaccess/dc/DcAplication/weeklylist_searchform.aspx. If this link does not work then go to www.lambeth.gov.uk and track through to Planning and Public Access database. And to go and see any plans is easy from the KOV area as the Town Planning Advice Centre is at Phoenix House, 10 Wandsworth Road, at Vauxhall Cross. 020 7926 1180. tpac@lambeth.gov.uk. Plans can also be seen at Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.

Planning Decisions

23 December. None

30 December – 5 January

42 Cleaver Square. Erection of a single storey rear extension with roof lantern. Application withdrawn.

3 Hanover Gdns. Details of stairs and railings) of Planning Permission granted on 13/8/2007. Application permitted.

351 Kennington Lane. Change of use to restaurant (Use Class A3)with extension and alterations. Application permitted,

Lambeth Palace. Rebuilding of the parapets at Cranmer's Tower. Application permitted.

Vauxhall Gdns Housing Estate. Replacement of existing timber windows and doors with double glazed timber windows and doors to Malmsey, Pella, Dolland, Newburn, Sancroft and Dunmow Houses. Application permitted.

6-12 January (note access fault to most pages 11 January)

19 Claylands Rd. Installation of roller shutter to 1st floor window at front elevation. Application permitted.

Culpepper Court, Kennington Rd. Replacement of existing timber framed single glazed windows with double glazed aluminum windows. Application Permitted.

239 Kennington Rd. Removal of existing single storey rear extension and removal of original rear bay window at basement level and the erection of a new extension with glazed roof and folding doors. Application refused

LOCAL LINKS – see www.rcdt.org

Waterloo/South Bank Events and News – see www.London-SE1.co.uk

JANUARY – MAY DIARY
Every Saturday Oval Farmers’ Market. St Mark’s Church, (opp Oval Tube), 10am-3pm Dyework Classes. Vauxhall City Farm, Tyers St. 11.30am-2pm (Till 15 March)
Every Sunday (till 9 March) Sunday Recitals. St Peter’s Church, Kennington Lane (Vauxhall Station end)
Every Tuesday Jazz at The Pilgrim Pub. The Ned Flanders Quartet featuring Dee Byrn, and opne jam session. Pilgrim Pub, Kenningotn Lane. 8.30-11pm. on Tuesday January 8^th 2008 after a Christmas break. ADMISSION FREE Jazz fans, singers and players welcome.
Museum of Garden History In relation to the many Museum events listed below the venue and contact details are: Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road. Tel 020 7401 8865. info@museumgardenhistory.org. www.museumgardenhistory.org. Booking Tickets: Tickets can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865.
Monday 21	“After Iraq - shall we ever intervene again?” Local resident Paddy Ashdown has had a distinguished career as a commando, diplomat and leader of the Liberal Democrats. From 2002-2006 he was the UN’s High Representative in Bosnia. His experiences have led him to some vivid insights into the handling of conflict and its aftermath. Light refreshments. Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of Durning Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.	6.45 for 7.15pm
	JANUARY
Saturday 26	North Lambeth People First Expo. Lilian Baylis School of Technology. If you would like to come along or to take part contact 0207 926 2784 email: aogunsola@lambeth.gov.uk . See News stories above.	12-4pm
Monday 28th	Field Recording in the City. Workshop with Chris Watson. After leading a late-night recording session of city sounds on the Sunday evening, Chris will run a sound recording workshop on the Monday using the sounds collected the night before which could include anything from London wildlife to Big Ben to the weather. At the end of the day, Chris will critique the field recordings supplied by the workshop attendees. £50 or £40 students and Museum Friends (includes Sunday evening session, Monday workshop, lunch and a copy of the edits on CD/DVD).	10am - 5pm
	FEBRUARY
Wednesday 13	Dark Season Botany: Talk by Nigel Green and Robin Wilson. Nigel Green and Robin Wilson work in a collaborative art and photo-text documentary practice called Photolanguage, which they established in 2000 to work on exhibition and article projects about architecture and landscape. Their talk will be a lavishly illustrated account of the use of plants in their work, focusing on previous exhibitions in Calais, Gloucester and Copenhagen. They will specifically discuss winter botany in the urban landscape and plants will be studied in relation to specific architectural contexts, using photography, text and samples collected from the city. A selection of original works will be on display for the evening. Tickets £5 or £2.50 Museum Friends.	Drinks from 6.30pm. Talk 7pm.
Monday 18	Back to the future: Jeffe Jeffers looks at the highs and the lows of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement’s history, its role as innovator, establishment challenges, the changing role of the voluntary sector over that time, and where LMHS stands in the current government view of that role. Light refreshments. Everyone welcome. No admission charge, but a £2 donation is invited. Friends of During Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.	6.45 for 7.15pm
Wednesday 20	Quadrille Dancing with Elsa or Gentle Exercises with Lullyn. Durning Library Older People’s Group, Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.
Monday 25	Friends Ethical Gardening Workshop. Gardeners, designers and landscape architects are all generally aware of the big issues relating to sustainability that impact on their lives and work, but these seem such global-scale problems that it is hard to know what individuals can do to make an impact. The day is designed to appeal to both professional and amateur gardeners, designers and landscape architects. The aim is to provide a breadth of information that will enable the audience to make informed choices about their garden related work, purchases and designs in the future. Chaired by Dominic Murphy, The Guardian's ethical living journalist, the day will bring together a number of informed speakers such as Nigel Dunnett, Reader in Urban Horticulture at Sheffield University and Mike Calnan, Head of Gardens for the National Trust who will speak from experience about the problems, successes and failures of gardening in a sustainable way. Speakers will address issues relating to garden design, maintenance, planting and hard landscaping. The day will demonstrate that there is rarely a 'right or wrong' answer to many of the problems gardeners face, but the aim of the event is to ensure that the audience leaves feeling better informed about the choices that ultimately influence their work and gardens. £50 or £40 for Museum Friends.	10am-4pm
Tuesday 26	Living With a Legacy: Sir Roy Strong and Fergus Garrett in conversation. Two gardeners talk about the challenge of living with an iconic garden – and of preserving that legacy for future generations. Fergus Garrett began to work for Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter fifteen years ago, and has been Head Gardener since 1993. Fergus will describe the vision for its future. How do you preserve a garden which attracts visitors from across the world – but at the same time keep it alive, changing and new? The Laskett in Herefordshire was created over thirty years by Sir Roy Strong and his wife, the late Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman. She died in 2003. What has it been like to garden without her? And how does he see the future of the Laskett? Tickets £10 or £5 for Museum Friends.	Drinks 6.30pm. Talk 7pm
	MARCH
Monday 17	“A History of the Elephant & Castle”. Far more than the origin of the name! Stephen Humphrey, local historian and Kennington resident, will go back at least to the 13^th century, though his slides date mainly from 1850 to 1940. His family has lived in the area since the 19^th century.

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