A former hospital patient has created a music video to share his experience of battling schizophrenia. Cray Allen, 35, was introduced to the Music2Empower programme run by Cygnet Hospital Blackheath while he was a patient there.
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Royston Hall had been the home of ballroom star Peggy Spencer’s famous dance studio for many years. Now after a long time of renovations, the beautiful old building on Royston Road will once again have a total of three different dance spaces all in the same building.
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Small Change is a puzzle, put together from snippets of memory, seen through a clear-eyed but chaotic mind, traumatised by loss and family fury, writes Toby Porter. It’s not an easy night of entertainment – but a little jewel of immense creative and poetic power.
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After 18 months, the Southbank Centre has reopened the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a major new artistic strand, Purcell Sessions. Featuring a year-long programme of more than 100 events and includes a line-up of UK and international artists
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Don’t miss your latest South London Press – out tomorrow! Staff at the school where murdered teacher Sabina Nessa worked have been trying to cope with their own grief while also being strong for the pupils. We also have 11-pages of South London sport, including an exclusive in-depth interview with Charlton Athletic owner Thomas Sandgaard as he reflects on 12 months in charge. All that plus much more!!!
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Celebrate London Design Festival at Oxo Tower Wharf London Design Festival will run from 18-26 September this year. At gallery@oxo for London Design Festival, we have Continuum, a collaboration of MA and PhD alumni makers from the UCA network in Farnham, showcasing ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, metal works and sculpture.
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A 12-year old from Bromley has made the final of a national driving competition – despite not being old enough to hold a driving licence. Stan Owen, who goes to Hayes Secondary School, has achieved a place in the final of the Young Driver Challenge 2021, having beaten off stiff competition from hundreds of other entries
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The family of a boy whose brain tumour surgery was delayed due to Covid have raised more than £69,000 of a half-a-million pound target for treatment abroad. Parents of Alexander Josephs, aged seven, from south-east London, have been told he has a 20 per cent chance of beating his cancer.
Read MoreOur latest PAW Report found that vets estimate nearly half of pooches in the UK to be overweight, so pet obesity is a serious problem. The health risks associated with carrying extra pounds are worrying and as our four-legged friends are such loved members of our family, this is clearly an issue we need to address.
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We’re coming to he end of the second annual Black Maternal Health Awareness Week, founded by fantastic campaign group Five X More. Thanks to them and to other brilliant black birth campaigners, we are now having a serious conversation about these disparities.
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Residents can help improve mental health treatment in the area by taking part in a sponsored walk next month for a hospital. Maudsley Charity is inviting people to take part in ‘5k in a Day’ – a 5k sponsored walk, run or wheel on or around World Mental Health Day, Sunday 10th October.
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Growing up, Sidcup was the last place one would describe as a beery oasis but in the intervening years no fewer than four micropubs have sprung up, creating its own little ecosystem of ale.
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No one was ever convicted of the murder on a Wandsworth train of Elizabeth Camp. Was she bludgeoned by a crazed sports journalist who had lived in Walworth and been spurned by a similar-looking woman? JAN BONDESON sifts through the evidence.
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Sian Bayley, formerly a Local Democracy Reporter, now senior reporter at The Bookseller, has been announced as the winner as part of the Regional Press Awards which showcase the very best in regional and local journalism from across the UK.
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Theatre Peckham’s Young, Gifted & Black Season 2021 will run for five weeks from September to November, and champions a mix of experimental theatre focusing on new writing, poetry, film and discussion.
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A watchdog has found hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of knock-off cigarettes in a raid. Bexley’s trading standards, along with the Metropolitan Police, removed 62,940 of the illegal fags from a grocery store in Erith during a raid recently.
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An arts organisation in South London has received new funding for a scheme which harnesses the creative talents of young people with learning disabilities.
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A community-based creative arts initiative in Bromley is working to change the lives of people with experience of mental ill-health, writes Alexandra Causer.
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Sarah Davachi x LCO As part of Purcell Sessions, the LCO’s boundary-pushing musicianship adds a brand new level of scale to the stirring feelings conjured by Davachi’s slow-moving compositions.
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