Fred Karno and the Clockwork Studios Grand Photographic Event

The Clockwork Studios are hidden away on Southwell Road, a quiet and elegant street which runs parallel with Coldharbour lane, there are some extraordinary buildings along the road, but none more prominent than the Clockwork Studios which towers proudly above its neighbours.  Located at 38 Southwell Road, the studios are home to a busy and energetic team of private artisans, who twice yearly open their doors to the public.

5-7 December 2008

The Clockwork Studio's Open Day 5-7 December 2008

The studios next Open Weekend runs from the 5th - 7th December, and you are invited to browse, discuss and buy the latest designs.

As a centenary event, Conor Masterson has proposed to shoot an extraordinary image celebrating the work and productions of Fred Karno at “The Fun Factory” as it was then known. Conor is a professional photographer and resident of Southwell Road, he is also a enthusiastic and out spoken community member and Co-secretary of the Loughborough Junction Action group. LJAG.

Fred Karno - The Fun Factory centinery photograph

Fred Karno - The Fun Factory centinery photograph - You are invited to help recreate this photograph at 11.15am on Sunday the 7th of December 2008

“I first saw a copy of it when I visited the Clockwork Studios and was being shown around almost 4 years ago by Noel, the landlord and ‘magician’ behind the studios. He showed me a series of black and white photocopies he had framed telling the story of ‘The Fun Factory’. These old photographs showed the house as it was in 1907 as well as behind the scenes images of the factory at work. At his peak Fred Karno was producing many different productions of his companies performances throughout the country and the world. The sets were built in the back yard, the trapeze artists practiced in the tall three story building and with a little imagination you can picture the slapstick routines, typical of Vaudeville, being worked out in and around the rehearsal rooms.”

Conor will be recreating the photograph  outside the ‘Fun Factory’ in 1907 celebrating the fact that the area and indeed the Clockwork Studios is still a vibrant creative community.The plan is to shoot the image at 11.15am on Sunday the 7th of December 2008. You are invited to help recreate this superb photograph 101 years on. Following this, at midday, The Clockwork Studios will be open for its Christmas ‘Open Day Studios’.

Essential Dates for your diary

Photo Shoot : 11.15am on Sunday the 7th of December 2008

The Clockwork Studio’s Open Days 5-7 December 2008

Websites ::

The Clockwork Studios

Conor Mastersons Blog

Conor Masterson Photography

November 28, 2008
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Friends of Ruskin Park Newsletter 08

Ruskin Park Newsletter Autumn Winter 2008

Ruskin Park Newsletter Autumn Winter 2008

Download the autumn-winter-08 newsletter

I’m delighted to upload the latest newsletter from the Friends of Ruskin Park.

In this issue::

Chair’s park update
Crisis looms for our park
The BIG Draw
Deloitte community day
Play area renovation
Ruskin’s trees – The Oak
How to become a friend

Download the autumn-winter-08 newsletter

November 30, 2008
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Vote for Camberwell Green !

Camberwell Green was once a village green, but is now little more than a traffic island. A grant would help to restore it as a valuable community space by:

  • improved entrances;
  • new interpretive signs;
  • public artwork;
  • new seating;
  • a refreshment kiosk as a meeting point;
  • attractive planting;
  • and new loos!

Click Here to Vote for Camberwell Green!!

Camberwell Green

Camberwell Green

November 29, 2008
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ELAM STREET OPEN SPACE

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Found this on my computer the other day. I think it probably dates from last year. I don’t remember writing it, though I must have done. This seems like the best place for it. I don’t have any pictures of ESOS alas.

This morning

This morning, like every year,

mid-October spoke to me in Elam Street Open Space.

The crisp yellow leaves said, listen to us crackle, look at our pointy fingers!

Of course there are leaves like us everywhere in every year,

but this year it’s our turn to be the crisp leaves in Elam Street Open Space

and it’s you we’re calling to.

The blue sky said, how blue does a moment have to be

for you to want to rescue it from time?

The sun said, it’s your cheek I’m warming,

and this is a now worth any other,

so do something!

But I thought of all the other mid-October days

and all the other people who’ve done their bidding.

I went home to dirty breakfast bowls

and a computer full of other people’s words.

Soon though it will be late November, when the leaves are always gone,

so, here – others or no – are this morning, and those leaves.

November 28, 2008
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An exhibition of paintings by Colin McKenzie at the Red Gate Gallery

Red Gate Gallery presents

“The day I went to Woodstock”

An exhibition of paintings by Colin McKenzie

Private View:             Friday 5th of December 2008 - 6 pm to 11 pm
Exhibition runs from:          Friday 5th to 11th of December 2008
Gallery Opening Hours:          Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed: 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Last day of Exhibition:        Thurs 11th of December: 11.00am to 5.00pm

Colin McKenzie @ Red Gate Gallery


“The sun was shining the atmosphere was electric, the sounds were smooth, the people mellow, the reality expanding, the mood inviting. This to me is how I think of Woodstock and how it must have been or hoped it was; with vibrant colours, merriment and music, the psychedelic matched with freedom of the mind and the abandonment of all that was restricted.” (McKenzie 2008)

McKenzie has a deep sense that art ought to feel like a day at Woodstock: electric, dynamic, smooth and mind expanding. Paint should not flow just in one direction across the canvas, but take all manner of paths helping it glide with palette knives merging and smoothing the colours, like the multitude of people blending, mingling at a vast gathering. This highlights movement rather than constrictions of a brush. Flowing and manoeuvring without restriction; this reflects ideas of freedom and lyricism rather than order and sense.

Dynamic and idiosyncratic in style, McKenzie certainly shows his viewers that he is more than able to capture moods and situations in a poignant and self-explanatory way. His palette knifes strokes are in deed a feast for the eye and senses reflecting his craftmanship as a painter. As a main tool he uses palette knives as he feels the brush can become confining for his large scale canvases.

Why Woodstock: McKenzie’s central focus lies with the passage of time, history and questions of freedom and determination. Even if he has never been able to personally experience Woodstock, he strongly feels that one has to be able to create ones own Woodstock. For him the very idea of Woostock represents freedom and progress.

Maybe we should all retreat once in a while into our own imaginary Woodstock….

Colin Mckenzie graduated in fashion and worked in various fashion houses around the world. He trained as a chef  and later abandoned fashion to concentrate soley on painting. Colin says of himself: “I enjoy creating lovely meals in a nice restaurant and painting the world, if I wanted to sum me up  in one sentence it would be:
The world is complicated so am I……….”

Red Gate Gallery
209a Coldharbour Lane
Loughborough Junction
London SW9 8RU
Tel: 020 73260993

e-mail: info@redgategallery.co.uk
www.redgategallery.co.uk


November 25, 2008
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How can we cut knife crime in Camberwell?

Organised by the SE5 Forum for Camberwell www.se5forum.org :: 

Camberwell knife crime symposium

The Camberwell Knife Crime Symposium takes place at 6.30pm on Thursday 13th November 2008, arranged by SE5 Forum, at the Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park.  Download full details here.

Alternatively, download the flyer and distribute it to your neighbours, or put up theA3 poster with the kind permission of a local property owner or the local authority.

 

If you would like to attend please reply to

Barbara Pattinson at barbara@pattinson.org.uk

or 020 7274 8045

November 8, 2008
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Loughborough Junction Action Group - Next Meeting on the 24th

Following last Monday’s meeting at the Harry Caddick centre, I can confirm that the Loughborough Junction Action Group (LJAG) has now been officially constituted and four members have been elected, two co-chairs, Elise Leclerc and Tim Gaymer, and two co-sectretaries Conor Masterson and and myself Nick Wells. The position of Treasurer is currently open.

As a initial objective, we are endeavoring to put Loughborough Junction on the map with the support of the local councillors and give it a visual identity including lamp post signs, tree planting, flower boxes and notice board centrally located in the area for group updates. 

Our next meeting is scheduled for the 24th November, where the group and councillors will be canvasing ideas for the area. The meeting will be held at the Harry Caddick centre on the corner of Lilford Road and Carew Street at 8pm.  

We invite you to come to the meeting, please pass this on to your neighbors, friends and locals.

November 8, 2008
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Budgets Slashed for Ruskin Park -

The next public meeting of the Freinds Of Ruskin Park is on 13th November at St Saviours church hall, Finsen Road 7.30pm where the Chair gives an update of park matters and people can comment on and discuss park issues.

The main issue is Lambeth’s lack of care of the park due to park budgets being slashed and money for projects taken for other expenditure.

People need to complain to their Councillors or Lambeth Parks directly. Please write to the councillors below, the care and maintanance of Ruskin Park affects us all, currently the park needs funds to continue ongoing work on the bowls green, the tennis courts, playground, the stable block and general maintanace of the park itself.
The Friends ORP are aware from verbal conversations with Lambeth Parks staff that money that was there for park projects is either no longer there or has been reduced, e.g. the bowling green planting. They believe it has been used to cover budget shortfalls elsewhere, but where they do not know. Why Lambeth feel the need to do this or what state their overall finances are in the Friends don’t know either. The Friends know that there is a budget freeze on all but essential park maintenance, i.e. where there are health and safety issues. To find out more come to the Friends public meeting or see the next newsletter due mid to late November.

Councillor Rebecca Thackray (Green Party) 07946 219 394

rthackray@lambeth.gov.uk

Councillor Kirsty McHugh (Labour)

Deputy Cabinet Member for Housing and Neighbourhoods. 07932 792 435

kmchugh@lambeth.gov.uk

Councillor Jim Dickson (Labour)

Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources. 020 3149 6657

jdickson@lambeth.gov.uk

October 28, 2008
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The Whirled Cinema opens its doors again!

After a slightly longer absence than planned a new and improved Whirled Cinema is finally back for another season of great movies, screening films to our friends every Friday and Saturday evening.

For weekly updates please SUBSCRIBE to the Whirled Cinema mailing list

ENTRY: FREE

Friday 31st October
No Screening - Private Function.

Saturday 1st November (8.30pm)
The Flight Of The Red Balloon
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007

If the luscious red orb that sails through “Flight of the Red Balloon” like an airborne cherry looks as if it flew in from another movie, in some ways it did. The film, the latest wonderment from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien, takes as one of its inspirations Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic, “The Red Balloon,” about a young boy and the talismanic sphere that follows him through the gray streets of Paris like a dog, a lover, a ghost — as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence.

Opening times & location details

Doors Open at 7:30 till late

Film Starts 8:30pm

259-260 Hardess St Loughborough Jctn
London SE24 OHN

2mins BR Loughborough Junction;10 mins Brixton

The aim of the cinema is to create a unique environment showing great movies & creating a relaxed atmosphere where you can meet and socialise with like minded people who share a passion for film.

October 28, 2008
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Uniquely Located

Loughborough Junction’s central location makes it a superb point to go pretty much anywhere in London, the train station offers trains to central London, 2 stops to the South Bank, St Pauls, Farringdon and beyond to St Albans. The other way offers direct trains to Streatham, East Croydon and Wimbledon. Within ten minutes walk you can be in Brixton, Camberwell or Herne Hill.

If you want to travel by bike you can be in the city within 20 minutes or if you are feeling energetic Crystal Palace is worth a trip for some super views across London. Within 30 minutes you can be cycling around Regents Park.

Here are some of my favorite destinations.

1) The South Bank. Two train stops to Blackfriars puts you within an easy walk of the Tate Modern, the Globe Theatre, St Pauls and the Museum of London and of course the South Bank itself. By the way I can highly recommend the Haddock & chips at the Tate Modern cafe. (amongst the best!)

2) On Friday or Saturday morning the 35 bus to London Bridge gets you to Borough Market for a gastronomic feast for the eyes and senses. It’s also worth a visit to Southwark Cathedral which dates back to the Domesday Book, and is now the resting place of the American Indian Mahomet Weyonomon who died of smallpox in 1735 whilst petitioning King George II and seek justice for his tribe in America.

3) Dulwich Woods - located just behind the golf course in Dulwich - google maps is the largest single part of the ancient Great North Wood still extant. If you want to get some peace and quite, fresh air and absolutely no idea that you are in London, then pay these woods a visit. I haven’t been for ages however it is always a great place to explore. It will be beautiful now before it gets too muddy.

Where do you like to go? Please add a comment to let us know.

October 13, 2008
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