Easter at Charlton House

Craft activities in celebration of Spring. Be inspired by Charlton House and its beautiful grounds. Children of all ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free event. 10am - 11:30am and 12noon - 1:30 pm on Saturday, April 3, 2010. Charlton House, Charlton Rd, London, SE7 8RE.

Lambing Day Is Here

Join Woodlands Farm staff for Lambing Day on Saturday April 3, 2010. The event takes place between 11am - 4pm to see the new-born lambs, and enjoy the chance to buy quality local produce at reasonable prices, including home-made preserves, cakes and honey. Relax in the café, enjoy the treasure hunt or get involved in craft activities. All proceeds go towards caring for the animals.

Woodlands Farm, Shooters Hill. £1 adults, 50p kids, for more info, click HERE.

Cafe Jazz Comes to the Royal Arsenal In Woolwich

The evening of Friday 9 April will see the start of a new season of jazz and showtime sessions and musical suppers taking place at the Firepower Museum Café in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Music will be provided by Continental Drift, fronted by Sarah Jane (photo attached) and featuring the profound pianistic skills of Roger Lewin. Both of these gifted performers are well-known in the Medway area and South East London and will be joined on double bass by Dave Silk for an evening of musical nostalgia in a uniquely atmospheric riverside setting in the historic Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

Tickets do not include dining or drinks but bar snacks and evening menu will be available. Show starts at 7.30pm. Entry costs just £5.50 and to book tickets call the ticket hotline on 020 8312 7123 or visit www.firepower.org.uk/events.

FIREPOWER MUSEUM TO MAKE SURE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS GO WITH A BANG

Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich has announced its programme of family activities for the coming school holidays. Firepower is always a favourite destination for families looking for a fun and interesting day out and these school holidays will be no exception. The famous museum has lined up activities and experiences that will guarantee that a visit to Firepower really does have something for the whole family.

Day-long programmes of free activities will include military drill, crafts, films, meeting wartime characters and playing games. Extra activities (small additional cost of £1.50 per activity) include Firepower’s popular Camo Zone where children can try their skill on the Firing Range, take the Bungee Run challenge or do battle in Tank Command. Perhaps the most exciting of all is the chance to fire a genuine Second World War 25 pounder gun and everyone who fires the gun gets a commemorative certificate.

Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum is based at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich - the birthplace of the Royal Artillery that was founded there in 1716. The Museum is acknowledged as the world’s oldest and premier artillery museum. Firepower tells the story of the Gunners – the more than 2.5 million men and women of the Royal Artillery, and the part they have played in history and their role today in the front line with the British Army. Tales of extraordinary heroism and endeavour are presented alongside explanations the technological and scientific advances driven by the development of artillery from Roman times to the present day. Experiences at Firepower include the ground-shaking Field of Fire audio-visual show where visitors are put in the midst of battle as shells and aircraft fly overhead and guns roar all around, giving an insight into the experiences of an artillery gunner.

Firepower will be open daily from 10.30 to 5pm during the school holidays and is located in the historic Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London, between the A206 and the Thames. Woolwich Arsenal DLR station is just a five minute walk.

Admission costs: Adults £5.00, children £2.50, concessions £4.50. Discounted family tickets are also available.

Rory Bremner's Election Battlebus Tour 2010 For One Night Only!

As Britain gets ready to vote in the biggest election in a generation, the country’s top satirical impressionist takes to the road again for his first stand-up tour in five years. In the run-up to polling day, Rory Bremner will give his own unique take on the characters and events dominating the news, with impressions ranging from Gordon Brown to Louis Walsh and back again. WARNING: May not contain Nick Clegg!

Described as a ‘one-man opposition party’ Rory has been at the heart of political comedy for twenty years. Here’s a chance to see him in action live.

Venue: Greenwich Theatre
Price: £15
Time: 7:30pm

Date: April 27, 2010

For more info and to book tickets, click HERE.

Easter In Greenwich: What's On?

Easter at the Theatre: Have a great easter with the best shows in town. Click HERE for more info.

Easter Egg Hunt at Pleasaunce: Click HERE for more info.

Zippo's Super Easter Circus: Each day from April 1st until April 13th. Blackheath, A2 Shooters Hill Road, Go to http://www.zippos.co.uk/

Easter Egg Creatures: Make a chocolate creature and find out all about chocolate in this sweet and sticky workshop for children 5+. Time: 12:30 & 2:30pm. FREE adult entry 2-5 April. Kids go free all year round. Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay, E14. http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/ or just click HERE.

Winter Tea Dances with the Hugh Ockendon Band

Sat 20 Mar 2010 2.00PM - 4.30PM

Sat 24 Apr 2010 2.00PM - 4.30PM

gDA invites you to enjoy a taste of days gone by with its traditional Tea Dances. The Hugh Ockendon Band will be striking up all the old favourites in the magnificent setting of the Borough Halls whilst dancers take to the floor to revive the waltz, the Cha Cha Cha and the Lambeth Walk amongst others! There will be refreshments in the form of tea and cake and a chance to win somethiing fizzy in the raffle- what better way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Ticket & Booking Information

£5.00

Concessions: £4.00.

To book, call 020 8293 9741 020 8293 9741

Venue

Borough Hall @ gDA

Alchemists: Exhibition in April / May at Viewfinder Photography Gallery

29 April to 16 May 2010

Alchemists: Unusual processes and media

The Viewfinder Photography Gallery presents a group exhibition of photographic images created using alternative techniques, cameras and media. Taking inspiration from painterly approaches, ‘pure’ photography and specialist printing techniques, these photographers challenge the potential ease and speed of producing a digital image, and defy picture-perfect effects in favour of more whimsical and mysterious images.

Catlin Harrison is a Londoner by birth and inclination, who finds that the city provides a fresh helping of eclectic people to watch and wonder about every day. She is fascinated with the human form, especially meta-figures such as ghosts, dolls or archetypes. Her approach is akin to the Victorian collectors’ sensibility - each piece of work is an independent specimen, a set of examples of a particular type. Presence, oddity, beauty and humour are important elements in all of Catlin’s’ work: strange objects in jars, classification, crypts, fashion, botany and medieval European painting are just some of the things that inspire her. The exhibited series came about after buying a collection of dolls at auction, and reflecting on the dubious privilege of once living in one of the most haunted houses in Britain.

Catlin Harrison

Christophe Dillinger practices what he calls “WYSIWIGOTN” photography, which stands for “What You See Is What I Got on the Negative”. His images are free from digital manipulation and are the result of a single shot. They are a fusion of film-based photography and traditional mark making techniques such as painting and drawing. His photography work features pigments, ink or curry powder, as well as till rolls, sugar paper, receipts, printers’ sample rejects and extracts from technical books. Christophe uses paintbrushes, toothbrushes, charcoal, wax pastels and even sticks, superimposing their textures and graphical dynamism onto classical portraits or local landscapes. Randomness is allowed to seep through the image making process so that photography becomes a game, a discovery for the viewer as well as the photographer.

Christophe Dillinger

Jo Mills is fascinated by the worlds of the real and the unreal, and the places in which they meet and overlap, such as the mirror. She explores the ‘mirror world’ where nothing is as it seems, and where nothing can exist without its polar opposite – light and dark, tragedy and beauty, creation and devastation. In fairytales, myths, legends and gothic literature the idea of the 'looking glass world', where nothing is what it seems, is deeply rooted: the beautiful can be deadly, humans can fly, and anything is possible. Her photographic practice stems from this, as she aims to create immersive spaces for the spectator to interact with and explore, or which hint at the unknown space beyond. Jo's photographs are particularly influenced by the surrealist movement, play and the uncanny.

Jo Mills

Marysia Lachowicz presents 'Shifting Tides', an ongoing series of work about the coast. The exhibited images were all taken during coastal walks in East Fife, Scotland. This area includes picturesque villages, craggy outcrops and rock pools, as well as long stretches of sand. Marysia has captured the changing nature of the villages and continues to document the coastline both in colour and in black and white. She feels that the tactile nature of liquid emulsions and early photographic techniques bring out the history and physical nature of this environment by producing an often imperfect but unique image. Some of the processes Marysia utilises involve salt prints, cyanotypes and using liquid emulsion.

Marysia Lachowicz

Nicolas Gonzalez creates abstract images using light within a photograph. The impressionistic portraits are ‘painted’ straight onto the film using coloured lights and extremely long exposures. Nicolas is interested in exploring the texture, intensity and movement of the light in the image, and in creating a painterly effect.

Nicolas Gonzalez

For David Rann, alternative photographic printing processes like Gum Bichromate and Cyanotype are an occasional but welcome diversion from his day to day photographic work. His first series of Gum prints, 'Know the Place', which depicts details of the Hebridean island of Eigg, has inspired further such projects. David finds the uniqueness and unpredictability of these processes is part of their charm.

David Rann

Curator Louise Forrester comments: "This exhibition focuses on the magical side of photography and on the physical process of creating images - don't miss it!"

THE MUSIC OF THE FANS

04 March 2010 - 04 July 2010

If Music be the food of love, play on....From 4th March to 4th July 2010, The Fan Museum’s latest exhibition delves into the many facets of fans which feature musical instruments, musical themes, opera, ‘musicals’ and other music-related subjects.

Did you know that, in 17th and 18th century Dutch paintings, the bagpipes (on account of their shape) had an erotic connotation? Have you ever stopped to wonder why the lyre is used so extensively in almost every form of decorative art? This, and much more, is revealed in this ‘homage to Apollo’, which celebrates all things musical through the intricate and fine artwork from The Fan Museum’s extensive collections.

Subjects touched upon in this unusual and exciting exhibition relate to the great personalities in music, from Rossini and Wagner to Gilbert & Sullivan, with examples of contemporary ‘specials’, such as a small hand-painted autographed fan painted in a (very) limited edition for members of the Fan Circle International on a group matinée booking for ‘Cats’.

Most of the fans on show belong to the museum’s own collections, including a fan painted by Walter Sickert (after one of his own ‘compositions’) for one of his pupils. This features Little Dot Hetherington pointing to the spotlight in a number which she first sang but which Marie Lloyd made popular: ‘The Boy that I love is up in the Gallery’.

Musical instruments featured on the fans are complemented with loans of the actual objects, kindly lent by private individuals.

Another Fan Museum special, not to be missed.

4th March 2010 until 4th July 2010 - Tue to Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 12noon-5pm

Address: Fan Museum, 12 Crooms Hill, SE10 8ER

The gDA Cabaret Is Back!

Fri 12 Mar 2010 7.30PM

Fri 23 Apr 2010 7.30PM

Fri 21 May 2010 7.30PM

This month’s line up will include a dance with a BMX bike by Etta Ermini, a deadpan duet by Gary Clarke, gDA’s first ever trapeze performance from Aircraft Circus, an excerpt of work from Springs Dance Company and a Fado and Dance collaboration by Nuno Silva. With live jazz and comedy poet compère Elvis McGonagall alongside a well stocked bar.

The gDA Cabaret is a sociable dance event that takes place in Greenwich Dance Agency's beautiful 1930's Borough Hall. It features the best bits of a traditional Cabaret event (table service, live band, compère) alongside a distinctly modern, diverse line up of dance, performance, spoken word, circus and film.

-Dress up or dress down

-Sit at a table with friends

-Order drinks whilst you watch

-Bring your own food

-Haggle for your tickets

-Come back next month with more friends

Ticket & Booking Information

£15.00

Concessions: £10.00.

HAGGLE OFFER AVAILABLE

Venue

Borough Hall @ gDA

Special Instructions

Book early to avoid disappointment and to secure the best ringside seats.
Each month there are a limited number of haggle tickets available, which means you tell us how many people you would like to bring and how much you would ideally like to pay and then we embark on a haggling match. All HAGGLE enquiries to ellen@greenwichdance.org.uk

For more info and for the chance to be part of the Cabaret, click here.

Easter Hunt at Pleasaunce Greenwich

The Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday April 4, from 11am to 1pm. For more details call 020-8858 5193 or email pleasauncefriends@hotmail.com