Community events file
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Event: Aerobics/Circuits Class
Date: Every Monday
Time: 6-7pm
Location: Clapham Park Homes, Community Resource Centre, SW4, corner of Headlam Rd & Kings Avenue
Description: £1.50 per session.
First session FREE for residents.
Event: Community Exercise Classes
Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 10am – 11am
Location: Clapham Youth Centre, 61 Lyham Road SW2
Description: Gentle exercise for all ages and abilities. Qualified exercise instructor. £1.00 per session.
Contact: 020 7926 0761 for more information
Event: Coffee Morning
Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 11am-12.30pm
Location: All Saints Church Lyham Road SW2 5NP
Description: Community Development co-ordinate a weekly coffee morning where residents can meet their neighbours, socialise, make new friends and receive information about activities of interest.
Contact: For more information please contact Candice Ampah Community Development Team on 020 8678 5926 or email campah@claphampark.org.uk
Event: Seated Exercise Classes
Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Location: All Saints Church, Lyham Road, SW2 5NP
Description: Seated exercise classes suitable for older persons. Qualified instructor.
Contact: Call 020 7926 0761 for more information
Event: Clapham Park Time Bank Tea 'n' Chat
Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 2:30-4.00pm
Location: All Saints Church, 250 Lyham Road, London SW2 5NP
Description: Pop in for a quick cuppa and learn about what is happening in your area. Find out about Time Bank and the benefits it can offer you.
Contact: Call 020 8671 4809 or email funmi.olowe@slam.nhs.uk or roz.mccarthy@slam.nhs.uk
Event: Women’s Group
Date: Every Wednesday
Time: 9.15 to 11.30am
Location: Clapham Park Project, Brixton Hill Place, London SW2
Description: An opportunity to share fun ideas and activities with other women, meet neighbours and enjoy some light refreshments.
Contact: For more information contact Roz Thompson on 020 8678 5923 or email rthompson@claphampark.org.uk
Event: Story time for under 5’s
Date: Every Wednesday
Location: All Saints Church, Lyham Road, SW2
Description: Join in the stories, singing and fun every week during term time.
Free.
Contact: Eve Levic on 020 8678 5900 or email elevic@claphampark.org.uk
Event Inspiring Spanish through arts
Date Every Thursday
Time 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location All Saints Church, Lyham Road, SW2
Description A new service brought to you by Clapham Park Project with the aim to provide families with children under 5 the opportunity to learn Spanish in a creative, musical and playful way. The art workshop for adults and children promises an inspiring and very fun way to learning Spanish.
Contact Eve on 020 8678 5900 or Sonnia on 079 4652 9717
Event: Clapham Park Time Bank Social Club
Date: Fridays
Time: 5pm-8pm
Location: All Saints Church, 250 Lyham Road
Description: Want to make new friends? Looking for something different to do? Drop by and find out what is going on in your area.
Contact: Jennifer on 020 8671 4809
Event: The bike repair shop
Date: Saturdays
Time: 1pm to 6pm
Location: At the junction of Plummer Road and Poynders road, SW4 (just behind Poynders Parade shops)
Description: The Clapham Park BikeClub is funded by Clapham PArk Project to give young people the skills to build and repair bicycles and also ride them safely and properly.
Contact: Mick Pettifer-Project Manager 020 8678 5900 or email mpettifer@claphampark.org.uk
Event: Clapham Park Over 50’s Social Club
Description: For residents of the Clapham Park Area who would like to make new friends.
The Over 50’s Social Club holds regular lunches and outings.
Contact: For further details call: Erica on 079 5063 7695,
Grace on 078 5521 4838 or Candice on 020 8678 5926
Event: Time bank and Clapham Park Reading Group
Date: Various dates/times/venues in Clapham Park
Description: Meet others and discuss books in an informal and non-judgmental atmosphere. All types of books and interests. Find a group to suit you. Free.
Contact: For more information contact Eve Levic on 020 8678 5900 or Funmi Olowe on 020 8671 4809.
Event : Lambeth Youth Council
Description: The Youth Council is an award-winning project that allows young people to give their views on issues affecting them and their community. It also works as an aid for other organisations, creating opportunities for young people to get involved in other types of projects and provide them with useful training.
Contact: To find out more or to join the Youth Council phone 020 7926 2193 or email youthcouncil@lambeth.gov.uk
Event: Vocation Matters
Location: Vocation Matters, 65 Effra Road, Brixton SW2
Description: If you use mental health services in Lambeth you can contact Vocation Matters to find out about vocational opportunities, employment, education and benefits entitlements.
Contact: To make an appointment phone Shaun Williams on 020 7926 2327 or email him at vocationmatters@aol.com
Event: Clapham Park Homes Residents’ Panel
Description: Clapham Park Homes invites you to join their key consultative body and directly influence its policies, strategies and budgets.
The Residents’ Panel seeks to reflect the diversity of the community and provides the opportunity for residents to be recruited to the CPH Board.
Contact: Sandra Ferguson or Alexandra Frost on 020 8623 8933
Email: Sandra.Ferguson@cph-online.co.uk or
Alexandra.Frost@cph-online.co.uk
Event :Dazzle
Date: Until Saturday 10th January
Location: National Theatre, South Bank, SE1
Description: This annual jewellery showcase features more than 3,000 works for sale by 77 designers from around the world. This year's exhibition also includes a selection of contemporary embroidered images by four UK artists. Free.
Contact: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Event: Mouth 2 Mouth
Date: Saturday 10 January
Time: 8pm
Location: The Hayward Concrete, South Bank, SE1
Description: Join Mouth 2 Mouth for their monthly party at the Southbank Centre and enjoy the best and freshest sounds from the underground world of Minimal, Abstract and IDM Electronica, little known in the UK. The evening will feature DJ sets from London’s and Moscow’s up-and-coming musical talents. Free.
Contact: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Event: Juliet Kelly
Date: Sunday 11th January
Time: 8pm
Location: Ritzy Café, Brixton Oval, SW2
Description: After her success at November’s Jazz festival, critically acclaimed jazz singer Juliet Kelly will perform songs from her new album alongside jazz classics and her own take on contemporary songs. She wil be accompanied by Australian guitarist Carl Orr. Free
Contact: www.picturehouses.co.uk
Event: King of Kings
Date: Thursday 15 January
Time: 7pm
Location: The Hayward Concrete, South Bank, SE1
Description: One night a month, Southbank Centre brings you the best in ska, calypso, roots, rocksteady and lover’s rock. Phil Wilding (BBC 6 Music, Mojo, The Old Queen’s Head) and Will Lord (Three Blind Mice, The Arches, Stereo) will play selections from artists like Phyliss Dillon, Prince Buster, Horace Andy, Lord Kitchener, Alton Ellis, The Skatalites and Mighty Sparrow, among others. Free.
Contact: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Event: Take a View: Landscape Photographer of the Year
Date: Until 17th January
Time: 9.30am-11pm
Location: National Theatre, South Bank, SE1
Description: For the second year running, this exhibition highlights the best of UK
landscape photography from thousands of entries. Free
Contact: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Event: Amazônia
Date: Until Jan 24 2009
Location: Young Vic, 66 The Cut, SE1
Description: Celebrate Christmas in Brazilian style with this festival of music and dance set in the Amazonian forest. Written by Colin Teevan and Paul Heritage (AfroReggae), who also directs. The set is by Cirque du Soleil designer Gringo Cardia. Ages 7+.
£22.50, under-26s £10
Contact: 020 7922 2922 or www.youngvic.org
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