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21 March – 5 April 2020 TELEGRAPH HILL FESTIVAL www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk
Welcome to the
Telegraph Hill Festival 2020!
Now in its 26th year, the Festival Look out for:
has grown to become one of South
London’s largest independent Beautiful new venues in Grade II
festivals. What binds all of us - listed buildings at Hatcham House and
artists, performers, workshop Deptford Town Hall
facilitators and volunteers - is the
Family Activities - including dance,
shared vision that collaborating
drumming, crafts and an outdoor
voluntarily builds and sustains a
nature scavenger hunt. All FREE
strong and vibrant community.
In today’s rapidly polarizing climate Food stalls - delicious locally
we believe that the Festival provides produced food at our larger events
a much needed platform for anyone
and everyone to come together.
The diversity of events in this year's
programme is testament to the
energy and creativity of our
community. With well over 100
events, half of them free, featuring
live music, theatre, art, comedy,
walks, talks, workshops and classes
we hope there is something for
everyone in this year's Festival.
Now it’s over to you. I hope you find
this year’s offerings engaging and fun.
Please come along, join in and
support your Festival!
India Lovett
Festival
For Chair information:
up-to-date
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Join the Telegraph Hill Festival
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Box Office
To book tickets go to What to expect
telegraphhillfestival.org.uk or call Check out the icons listed next to
0333 666 3366 and ask for Telegraph each event entry to help you to decide
Hill Festival or event by name. which events are best for you
Telephone bookings can be made Event aimed at children and families
Monday- Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday Talks and walks
9am -5pm. This costs an extra
£1.75 per booking but tickets can Live music event
be posted. Some event bookings
are not available by phone. Performance or spectacle
Arts and crafts
Advance bookings available until
2 hours before the event. We also Participate in a workshop, class or quiz
almost always have tickets on the
Food served at this event
door and there are often returns
for events that have sold out.
Access
You don’t need to print your ticket Events with are fully accessible to
just make a note of the name in people in wheelchairs.
which the booking was made. Disabled tickets allow additional free
entry for one carer to events.
Concessions For a large print version of this
Concessions available for many events. booklet or any queries please email
Concessions are under 18s, people on thfestival@gmail.com.
state benefits or low income.
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Find out more:
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Food and Drink
Treat yourself to something special FOOD
at our Festival bars and food stalls! We have teamed up with an exciting
All Festival bars take payment by card range of local food suppliers to
and other contactless devices and offer meals at our larger events:
we would love you to use this method
of payment if you can in order to Accidentally Healthy is a
reduce the amount of cash that we social enterprise providing
have to process and carry round. delicious and healthy food
that doesn’t compromise
on taste. Expect anything
BARS
from Asian flavours to rich
Our Festival bars stock a wonderful
Italian cooking and more.
range of beers and spirits produced
by local micro-breweries, distilleries
Flock & Herd
and others and are committed
Home of London’s Best
to minimising waste by using
Sausage, Flock & Herd will
recyclable bottles and glasses.
be supplying delicious
hot dogs to the Festival.
Brockley Brewery
Formed by locals who want
Hill Bakery & Deli
to positively contribute
Purveyor of excellent artisan
to the local community
breads, farm-made cheeses
by brewing great beer in
and a whole host of other
the heart of Brockley.
lovely things to eat! Look
out for bread and cheese
Ignition Brewery
platters served at events.
A vibrant South London
Brewery (based in
Linda’s Journey
Sydenham) which employs
Delicious Goan curries and
and trains people with
sides with fresh seasonal
learning difficulties to
produce and vibrant flavours.
brew and serve great beer.
More beer, more jobs.
Fat Slice brings New York
pizza to Telegraph Hill,
Little Bird
with the dough for their
A small independent
massive 22 inch pies made
distillery operating out
on their New Cross site
of Bermondsey.
and proved for 48 hours.
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Venues
Insert: For map see middle pages
A St Catherine’s Church / Telegraph Pepys Road, SE14 5TY
Hill Centre
B The Hill Station Kitto Road, SE14 5TN
C The Telegraph Hill Playclub Erlanger Road, SE14 5TJ
D The Telegraph at the Earl of Derby Dennett’s Road, SE14 5LW
E Somerville Youth and Play Provision 260 Queen’s Road, SE14 5JN
F Hatcham House Hatcham Liberal Club (side entrance),
367 Queen’s Road, SE14 5HD
G New Cross Learning 283-285 New Cross Road, SE14 6AS
H Goldsmiths, University of London Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall,
SE14 6AF and 310 New Cross Road,
SE14 6AF
I Goldsmiths, University of London Art and Drama Studios
entrance Richard Hoggart Building,
SE14 6NW
J Brockley Nature Reserve Vesta Road, SE4 2NH
K waterintobeer 209-211 Mantle Road, SE4 2EW
L m2 Gallery 2C King’s Grove, Peckham, SE15 2NB
M AMP Studios 897a Old Kent Road, SE15 1NL
We’re really grateful to all the venues for the space
and support they give the Festival. Thank you!
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Looking Ahead Nunfest
Saturday 11 April
The free all-day family-friendly music
festival, taking place across nine
Nunhead venues, is back for 2020.
For more info and to support
the crowdfunder check
crowdfunder.co.uk/nunfest2020
or @nunfestlondon
New Cross & Deptford
Free Film Festival
1 to 10 May
The 9th annual festival takes place from
1 to 10 May with 30 free events in quirky
venues across SE8 and SE14. Expect
the usual entertaining mix of outdoor
pedal-powered movies, family films,
documentaries, shorts and more.
freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/
new-cross-deptford
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Telegraph Hill Open Gardens The Telegraph Hill Festival
16 and 17 May is proud to sponsor...
A weekend of Open Gardens The Telegraph Hill
around Telegraph Hill. Be inspired Soap Box Derby
by local gardens of all sizes and
styles. Visit the Plant Fair on Sunday 10 May
Saturday at the Telegraph Hill
Centre to buy high quality plants The Soapbox Derby is back - in
and chat with plant experts. If the Telegraph Hill Lower Park, this
you are interested in opening time with more food and more
your garden this year please toilets! A fun day for all the family.
contact: louiseshepherd@ Come and enjoy the spectacle,
btopenworld.com. admire the brilliant creative efforts
of your neighbours and then see
them destroyed on the first bend.
Brockley Max Or enter a cart yourself –
29 May to 6 June applications are going fast, so
reserve your place and get creative.
The Brockley Max festival kicks off
with the Opening Night of six hours See telegraphhillsoapboxderby.
of live music, and ends with Art wordpress.com
In The Park on 6 June. In between for photos and video, plus
are over 70 events of music, art, application form and rules.
theatre, comedy and poetry. See you there!
www.brockleymax.co.uk
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Pause
Throughout
m2 Gallery, 2C King's Grove,
Peckham, SE15 2NB
Pause is a 24/7 public exhibition of moving-image
portraits that elicit face-to-face conversations
without words between diverse people
engaging deeply but silently with each other.
Not Another Grey Day
Telegraph Hill Centre, Foyer
LED based work which senses air
temperature, pressure and humidity and
pollution levels and displays colourful
patterns based on their values.
The Equiano Exhibition
St Catherine's Church and
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
The Festival is pleased to host the Equiano
Project's Touring Exhibition, celebrating the
extraordinary life of Olaudah Equiano, whose
Deptford connection is commemorated
by the artwork in the Lower Park, and his
contribution to the Abolition Movement.
Saturday 21 March 7
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES South Circular presents: New Cross
Rocks 2
Hiya! 12.30pm to 8pm
10am to 11am The New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Road,
Telegraph Hill Playclub SE14 6AS
Free with £4 suggested donation per £5 in advance (www.newcrossinn.com/
family gigs), £6 on the door
A playdate of immersive physical All day music event featuring eight up-
absurdist expressionism “comedy” and-coming local young rock bands.
art for 3-5 year olds: may include This is the future of New Cross rock!
climbing trees, slapstick Rhinos and
Gruffaloes?!
Lent Quiet Afternoon
2pm to 5pm
soundSPARK’s Trip to the Movies St Catherine’s Church
10am to 12pm Free, email stcatherinehatcham@gmail.
St Catherine’s Church com to register
Free A time of prayer, stillness, renewal,
Join creative woodwind quartet guided meditation and reflection.
soundSPARK for a relaxed interactive Preceded by an optional bring and share
concert designed for children with lunch from 1pm.
SEND up to age 8 and their siblings
who live in the borough of Lewisham.
Check website for details and to
make your booking. Yoga for Gut Health
6pm to 7pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Free
Sand Art Workshop
One hour introduction to the many ways
12pm to 4pm yoga can help support the health of your
Telegraph Hill Centre digestive system.
Free
Create a Sand Art picture using your
imagination. Express your creativity
Yoga for Artists
and have fun! A mess-free, arts and
crafts activity! 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Free
Unleash your creativity, and your
fingers, arms and shoulders! A yoga
sequence designed for those who
love to create but need a good stretch
out between projects. Relax and chat
afterwards at our pop-up bar.
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There’s No Business Like Community TH CENTRE SHOWCASE
Show Business…!
7.30pm to 10pm (doors open 7pm) 12pm to 4pm
St Catherine’s Church Telegraph Hill Centre and
£5 (£3) St Catherine’s Church
‘Wouldn’t It Be Luvverly’ to ‘Sit Down’ Showcasing the network of local
and celebrate our musical journey practitioners and community
through 25 years of the Telegraph Hill groups that work from the Centre
Community Production. throughout the year.
Wonderful songs from ‘our’ classic See thcentre.com for the
musicals ‘On the Street Where You Live’! final programme of free
From the team that brought you the events. Look out for:
Community Shows.
Taster Sessions:
Pilates – undoing hours
of sitting at a desk
Crystal Queer
Massage
8pm to 12am
The Hill Station Yoga
£3 in advance £5 on the door Private consultations:
Bursting out of the closet and on to the
Hand massage
stage, Crystal Queer presents up-and-
coming queer artists of multiple art Posture analysis
forms, live on stage for your enjoyment. Somatic experiencing
Workshops:
Mindfulness
South Circular live in New Cross
Breath work
8.30pm to 10.30pm
Dance workshop for women
The New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Road,
SE14 6AS Tough Mudder
Free Introductory talks:
Come and party with the South Circular
Feldenkrais
Rock Band, playing Rock and Indie Rock
classics from the 80s the present day. Acupuncture
Parenting
Performances:
Band camp
Telegraph Hill Centre
Drumming
NETWORKSunday 22 March 9
Hiya! Get into your body... Get rid of stress
10am to 11am 2pm to 3.30pm
Telegraph Hill Playclub Telegraph Hill Centre, Studio 2
Free with £4 suggested donation per Free
family Stressed or anxious? Learn simple tools
See Saturday 21 March at 10am. for bouncing back from life’s challenges.
With body-mind principles we will
explore old patterns and discover new
ways of being.
Mothering Sunday Service
10am to 11 .30am
St Catherine’s Church “A Glimpse of Gingham” A Tribute to
Free John Denver
Come and celebrate mothers and all
2.30pm to 3.30pm
who care for us! Special groups for
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
children, as the adults enjoy music,
£5 (£3)
worship and some time to reflect.
Time Out and Funny Woman Awards
nominee, Celia Byrne, revisits her youth
and pays tribute to her musical hero.
Watercolour Workshop with Rocky Mountain High on Telegraph Hill!
Rima Bray
11am to 2pm
Telegraph Hill Centre Craftroom Kimchi Fermentation Workshop
(entrance from St Catherine’s Drive)
2.30pm to 5.30pm
£6
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Back to basics, looking at applying
£9 (includes mason jar and ingredients)
washes and drawing with the brush.
Learn how to make your own kimchi!
We’ll also use other materials to create
This Korean fermented food is very
effects. All abilities welcome. Basic
beneficial to gut health and tastes
materials provided, but do also bring
delicious. All participants will make a
your own.
0.5l jar of kimchi to take home.10 Sunday 22 March
Street Trees for Living Talk and AGM “A Glimpse of Gingham” A Tribute to
3pm to 5pm John Denver
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex 7.30pm to 9pm
Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
An AGM starring Greg Packman, £5 (£3)
award winning tree specialist, on “The See above at 2.30.
Heritage and Cultural Value of London’s
Trees”. Tea, coffee and home-made
cakes - and a Q+A session too.
Tell me the Truth about Love
7.30pm to 9pm
St Catherine’s Church
£6 (£4)
Mezzo soprano, Miriam Sharrad, and
pianist, Elspeth Wilkes, showcase an
eclectic selection of cabaret, classical
and opera pieces. A Mother’s Day treat
that’ll have you swooning in your seats.
A Quietly Cerebral Quiz
8pm (doors open 7.30) to 9.45pm
The Hill Station
£3
Some simple questions, some maybe
harder. Lots to learn along the way, with
a bit of jeopardy thrown in. Includes
a round on London, but nothing on
celebrities!Monday 23 March 11
Breathe Yourself to a Happier Life Poor Little Jazz Rat
11am to 12.30pm 9pm to 11pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room The Hill Station
Free Free
A taster workshop teaching the Take a short trip down memory lane
Transformational Breath(R) technique. looking at the history of jazz through
Discover the power of your breath to the eyes of a young woman (Poor Little
transform your physical, mental and Rat) and then join in, if you like, with an
emotional wellbeing. experimental jam session.
Kettlebells Taster Class LONDON AFRICAN GOSPEL CHOIR
7pm to 7.45pm + DJSNUFFONE
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Taster Free Doors open 7.30pm, live music at
Strength and toning class using cast 8pm, DJ set from 9.30pm, event
iron kettlebells. Class is suitable closes 11.30pm
for beginners, however experience St Catherine’s Church
with gym weights and training £7 (£5)
advisable. Booking strictly required. Phenomenal voices and a 10
alexandra@fit-me-training.co.uk piece band perform songs
from across Africa in a mix of
languages. Followed by DJSnuffOne
spinning the best of afrobeats,
Shakespeare Workshop 1 soukous, highlife, afrohouse and
7pm to 9pm more rooted yet progressive
Meet 6.45pm at the Telegraph Hill sounds of the African continent.
Playclub An incredible live experience!
£6
Now entertain conjecture of a time…
Revisiting the first workshop for
anyone who missed it before. This is an
interactive, no-previous-experience
introduction to the ways in which
Shakespeare’s poetry can work in
performance, followed by a glass of
something nice.12 Tuesday 24 March
Iyengar Yoga Class taster session THE JOURNEY TO THE
10.15am to 11.45am MAYFLOWER
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Free 8pm to 9pm
Mixed ability. Equipment provided, St Catherine’s Church
but do bring your own if you have it! £4
Pre-book only - call 07727 083 817 to 2020 is the 400th anniversary of the
book and confirm a place. sailing of the Mayflower. This talk tells
the story of the illegal underground
English religious movement which
faced prison and execution before
Iyengar Yoga Class taster session leaving for the New World.
7pm to 8pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Free
See above.
The End of the World Pub Quiz
7.30pm to 10pm
The Hill Station
£3
Worried? It’s not too late! Come and use
your knowledge, creativity, curiosity and
humour to tackle the End of the World in
our Pub Quiz presented by artists from
Lewisham Arthouse.Wednesday 25 March 13
Ukulele Taster Workshop for Adults (A) TELEGRAPH HILL SINGS
6.30pm to 7.30pm
7.30pm to 9.30pm (doors open 7pm)
Telegraph Hill Centre, Craftroom
St Catherine’s Church
(entrance through St Catherine’s Drive)
£4
Free
Returning to the Festival this year, a
Do you have a ukulele that is just
joyous evening of song featuring an
gathering dust? Did you never get
eclectic mix of local choirs including
around to learn how to play? Pick up the
The Hasty Nymphs.
basics at this workshop aimed at total
The Hill is alive with the sound of
beginners. Ukuleles available to borrow
music - come and help raise the roof!
if required.
Basic Strumming Tips (guitar or
Kahoot: Battle of the Neighbourhood
ukulele)
7pm to 8pm
7.45pm to 8.45pm
The Telegraph, Dennet’s Road -
Telegraph Hill Centre, Craftroom
downstairs
(entrance through St Catherine’s Drive)
Free
Free
Come and play Kahoot - the game for all
Are you having trouble learning
ages (8-80) that's escaped the university
strumming patterns? Improve your
lecture theatre to take the world by
playing by mastering basic strumming.
storm. Fast thinking, fast fingers and
Workshop for those who are learning the
loads of fun.
ukulele or guitar.
The Shakespeare Workshop 2
Motion is the Lotion!
7pm to 9pm
8pm to 9pm
Hatcham House, Hatcham Liberal Club
Telegraph Hill Centre, Studio 2
(side entrance up the left hand path)
Free
367 Queen's Road, SE14 5HD
A one hour, one off chance to dance
£6
with music and gentle guidance.
Arising from conversations arising last
Clothes you can move in and prepare to
year, the group will explore a couple of
take your shoes off. No previous formal
texts in the light of recent traditional and
dance training needed.
more modern interpretations. Expect
Everyone can dance!
a lively and possibly humbling debate.
Newcomers welcome.14 Thursday 26 March
Boppin’ Bunnies Music Classes Earl of Derby Open Mic
9.30am to 11.30am 7.30pm to 11pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room The Telegraph, Dennet’s Road -
An exciting interactive half-hour music downstairs
session for 0 - 5 years led by trumpeter, Free
Ben Day, incorporating singing, music Everyone is welcome to play an open
making, instruments and live trumpet mic spot at this friendly weekly session.
and ukulele performances. See SIgn up for a spot from 7.30pm.
website for details of time slots and This week featuring Kevin Campbell
please pre-book as spaces are limited! Davidson.
boppinbunnies.co.uk
QUIZ NIGHT
Core Strength Class
8.30pm (doors open 8pm) to 10pm
7pm to 7.30pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
£6 (£4)
Taster Free
If you want questions (and answers
Strength and toning class with
too) plus competitive chocolates,
main focus on core strength.
then look no further – come and give
Booking strictly required.
those brain cells a good, sweaty work-
alexandra@fit-me-training.co.uk
out. Hot food available, come early!
AN EVENING OF ITALIAN
BAROQUE MUSIC BY
CANDLELIGHT
7.15pm (doors open 6.45pm) to 8.15pm
St Catherine’s Church (entry through
side chapel bar)
£6 (£4)
Daniel Thomson’s tenor voice,
accompanied by Aileen Henry on
one of the most beautiful instruments
of the period, the Italian Triple Harp,
introduces you to this exciting period
of music history.Friday 27 March 15
Edmund Waller Orchestra and Friends: THE HATCH HOUR - STORIES FOR
Spring Concert THE SOUL
7.15pm (doors open 6.45pm) to 8.15pm
8pm to 10.30pm
St Catherine’s Church
Hatcham House, Hatcham Liberal Club
£5 (£3)
(side entrance up the left hand path)
Come and be uplifted, soothed and
367 Queen’s Road, SE14 5HD
inspired by the wonderful Edmund
£3
Waller Orchestra and Alumni. We will
Come to see this newly available
get your feet tapping, faces smiling and
space, gather around the hearth
hearts beating!
and listen to four remarkable stories
of change. Prepare to be moved,
inspired, challenged and revived.
The PGs in the Pub with the Deptford
Wives
8pm to 10pm Synth Jam 2.0
The Telegraph Dennett's Road -
8.30pm to 11.30pm
downstairs
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Free
Free
Folk, foley and more, The PGs use
Grab your modular, drum machine
teacups, whirly tubes, megaphones,
or synth, plug in and let’s jam!
door latches and harmony to bring
Be part of an evening of live
a fresh approach to their material
improvised electronic music.
- originals and covers. Then The
Deptford Wives, bring New York style
to classic Lee Hazlewood, Peggy Lee
and other covers, while original lyrics
chart a wry and dry course through
the perils of modern middle age.16 Saturday 28 March
Bootcamp Class Telegraph Hill Festival Craft Fair
8.15am to 9.15am 11am to 4pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex St Catherine’s Church and Telegraph Hill
Taster Free Centre, Narthex
Strength and conditioning high intensity Free
class using bodyweight exercises This is a great chance for you to meet
only and running. Class is suitable for and browse crafty items from lots of our
beginners, however due to the intensity, lovely local makers.
some level of fitness is advised. Booking
strictly required.
alexandra@fit-me-training.co.uk
FUNSHOP2020
11.30am to 6pm
Hiya! Goldsmiths, University of London
(check Goldsmiths events page for
10am to 11am
directions)
Telegraph Hill Playclub
Free
Free with suggesed donation of
FUNshop2020 is an afternoon of
£4 per family
amazing creative workshops led by
See Saturday 21 March at 10am.
Goldsmiths International theatre
students. Come and try something
completely new to you, like Chinese
Cake Competition: 12th Glorious Year Calligraphy, Improvisation, or making
Makaton make your work accessible
10am to 4pm to more people. This is for adults and
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room young people from 8 upwards.
Free to enter the competition;
£1 for adults and 50p for
children to taste and judge
Bake a cake, large or small, fancy or
plain, decorated if you wish, and then
let the public of Telegraph Hill judge the
results! Categories: Teatime Favourites,
Decorated, Cakes Made by Kids. And,
new for this year, a dozen mini-bakes
to celebrate 12 glorious years. Entry
forms can be downloaded from the
website or picked up from the Hill
Station or Telegraph Hill Centre. Bring
your entry between 10am and 12 noon,
judging 1pm to 3pm, prize-giving 4pm.Saturday 28 March 17
Ukulele Taster Workshop (B) Board Games Night
12 noon to 1pm 6.30pm to 11pm
Telegraph Hill Centre Craftroom The Hill Station
(entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) Free
Free Play boardgames, card games and
Do you have a ukulele that is just other tabletop games with your family,
gathering dust? Learn the basics of how friends and neighbours. Discover
to play during this hands-on workshop. hidden gems and modern classics
Some ukuleles available to borrow if you from our collection, or bring along
don’t have one. one of your favourites to share.
Brockley Nature Reserve Open Day The Festival Fashion Show presents...
1pm to 4pm 7pm to 10pm
Brockley Nature Reserve, Vesta Road, St Catherine’s Church
SE4 2NH £5 (£3)
Free Ten brilliant upcoming designers from
Come for a stroll around your local around the world, now all based in
nature reserve. Bonfire, marshmallows South London. Opportunity to buy the
and activities for kids. creations at discounted prices. Live
music and catwalk show.
Caribbean Folk Song Workshop
1.30pm to 2.30pm Fun, Musical, Serious, Personal and
Telegraph Hill Centre Craftroom Political Original Songs
(entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) 8pm to 9pm
Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
Have fun learning to sing folk songs from £3
the Caribbean. No experience needed. Award-winning mother-and-daughter
Learn a song from Jamaica, Trinidad and entertainment. Professional singer/
Tobago, Barbados and Guyana. songwriters Lizzie Shirley and
Izabella Finch introduce each
other and even sing a song or
two in harmony, accompanying
POW - Women’s Boxfit themselves on guitar and ukulele.
6pm to 7pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
Free
Unleash the power of women. Unwind,
have fun and get a great workout while
learning an empowering new skill.18 Sunday 29 March
Celebrating International M is for Menopause
Women's Month 11am to 5pm
Check out our wellbeing Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
events highlighted below. Free
Sculpture, soundscape and multi-
Hiya! media work to promote conversations
and awareness about the menopause.
10am to 11am Concluding at 4pm with Punk Karaoke
Telegraph Hill Playclub F*** the Menopause- contribute in
Free, with suggested donation of verse your own experience to this
£4 per famlly punk song and join in a cathartic
See Saturday 21 March at 10am. experience (adults only).
Festival Sunday Big Book Sale
10am to 11.30am 12pm to 4pm
St Catherine’s Church New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to
Come and join us for this all-age, Iceland)
interactive, joyful, contemplative, holy Find some bargains among the everyday
mash up around worship, wellbeing and beach-reads, fascinating non-fiction
community. This year sees a special and fabulous vintage books. Plus tea
focus on Nepal, so come ready to have and home-made cake, all raising funds
your eyes, ears and hearts open to the for your local community library.
stories of Asia. We’ll be using silence,
song and prayer to connect to the
divine, with ourselves and with each
A Walking History - Further Afield
other. All welcome - believers, doubters,
seekers and cynics. Let’s find some holy 2pm to 4pm (or leave at any point!)
head-space together. Meet at Aske's Jerningham Road site
Free
On this walk, Malcolm will be
venturing further afield into New
A Walking History of Telegraph Hill Cross and exploring the history
of its residents and buildings.
11am to 1pm
Meet in St Catherine’s Churchyard
Free
A stroll around the core of Telegraph Gender Free Jewellery Workshop
Hill, looking at our architecture and 2pm to 5pm
galloping through some of the history The Telegraph Hill Centre, Craftroom
with Malcolm Bacchus of the Telegraph (entrance from St. Catherine’s Drive)
Hill Society. Scheduled for two hours - £9 (materials included)
but feel free to leave at any point! Make your own gender free jewellery.
Participants will make one piece - ring/
pendant/earrings to take away with
them from materials provided.Sunday 29 March 19
Body Balance Holistic Festival She Drum
2pm to 6pm 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex St Catherine’s Church
£5 Free
A wide range of therapies that support Celebrate International Women’s
health and well-being, and 30 minute Month at this drumming session.
treatments. One trial included in A safe space to let things flow and
ticket price, others can be booked at find those inner beats. Mothers and
a discount. See website for details. daughters welcome. No experience
needed and drums provided. needed and drums provided.
Trials and Errors: interactive, site- Big Band Night
specific murder mystery play 6.30pm to 10.30pm
2.30pm to 4pm St Catherine’s Church
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs £5
£15 Come and boogie with London
2022: Regulation unravels. The Hornstars big band, who present an
trade deal done; US pharma covets exciting evening of jazz, funk, and soul.
Lewisham Hospital. The Firestation is Before the band there will be an open
for sale. When activists uncover what’s jam for anybody who wants to play (or
really planned things turn deadly hear) some jazz, then Hornstars from
serious. Interactive performace: after around 8:30. Dancing shoes advised,
witnessing the events leading up to but not mandatory.
the murder, interrogate the suspects
to help the Detective identify the
perpetrator. Interval drink included.
A Gorgeous Night In with Peter York
7.30pm to 9.30pm
The Hill Station
£7 (£5)
The social commentator Peter York – the
Sloane Ranger and Hipster Handbook
man – describes Donald Trump’s gilded
penthouse life and his own obsessional
experience of self-storage.
Trials and Errors: interactive, site-
specific murder mystery play
8pm to 9.30pm
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
£15
See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm.20 Monday 30 March
Kahoot: Battle of the Neighbourhood Trials and Errors: interactive,
7pm (doors open 6.30pm) to 8pm site-specific murder mystery play
The Hill Station 8pm to 9.30pm
Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
Couldn't make last Wednesday? £15
Another opportunity to play Kahoot - the See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm.
game for all ages (8-80) that's escaped
the university lecture theatre to take
the world by storm. Fast thinking, fast
fingers and loads of fun.
CLASSICS ON THE HILL
7.30pm (doors open 6.45pm) to
10.30pm
St Catherine’s Church
£10 (£5)
International classical musicians
living locally get together to play a
wide variety of music for you, this
year to include accordion music by
the Indian composer Naresh Sohal,
who lived and worked in Drakefell
Road until his death two years ago.Tuesday 31 March 21
Festival Pop Up History Shop Sonic Imperfections
4pm to 8pm 8pm to 10.30pm
310 New Cross Road, SE14 6AF St Catherine’s Church
An eclectic selection of vintage posters, £7 (£5)
plus pre-loved books in an interim Crisis A selection of artists performing cutting
book sale. Also displaying domestic edge contemporary experimental music
objects from the Lewisham Local History in the beautiful St Catherine’s Church.
Archive with Clapham Film Unit there to
collect the memories they spark.
The Sporting Landscape of New Cross Blues Night: Deep Blue Sea + Velvet
Picturehouse
7pm to 9pm
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall, 8.00pm to 11pm
SE14 6AF The Hill Station
£3 £6 (£4)
Local sporting history and its places - Live set from Deep Blue Sea, bringing
football grounds, speedway, swimming the passion and power of the heyday of
baths, running tracks, wrestling gyms the blues bang up to date - “a showcase
and more, with Sarah Elizabeth Cox, of powerhouse blues that will leave you
Les Back and Neil Gordon-Orr. breathless” (see website entry for links).
With support from Velvet Picturehouse
presenting their blend of acoustic alt-
Trials and Errors: interactive, folk and swamp blues.
site-specific murder mystery play
8pm to 9.30pm
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
£15
See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm
Telegraph Hill Community Choir Sing
Acapella
8pm to 9.30pm
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road -
downstairs
Free
Concert of songs from round the
world - pop, folk, shanties in our eighth
Telegraph Hill Festival. All welcome.
Great harmonies and rhythms. Laughter
and perhaps tears - with joyful tingles
also guaranteed.22 Wednesday 1 April
Breathe Trials and Errors: interactive,
7pm to 7.45pm site-specific murder mystery play
St Catherine’s Church 8pm to 9.30pm
Free The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
Stillness, poetry, music, and £15
contemplation. Time for busy humans See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm.
to connect with themselves and with the
divine. Rooted in the Christian tradition
but open to everyone.
COMEDY NIGHT
8.30pm (doors open 8pm) to 11.30pm
My Search for Revolution: talk, book Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
reading and discussion £12 (£7)
The Festival Comedy Night is a
7pm to 8.30pm
fixture, offering up fresh and funny
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall,
comedians each year. 2020 will be
SE14 6AF
reassuringly similar; expect laughs, a
£3
musical turn to leave you speechless,
In 1985 the Workers Revolutionary
and enough mirth to curdle your
Party imploded amid scandal and
cordwangle, all ably hosted by Radio
controversy. Clare Cowen’s compelling
4’s Athena Kugblenu. Strictly over 18s.
account, My Search for Revolution, is
relevant to today's predatory power
politics and the "me too” movement.Thursday 2 April 23
BRANCHING OUT John Stainer Orchestra
FESTIVAL SPECIAL 7pm to 8pm
St Catherine’s Church
10.30am to 4pm £5 (£3)
Telegraph Hill Centre Come and see the amazing orchestra
Free and choir of John Stainer Primary
10.30am-12pm: Coffee morning School! We’ll be performing a mix
fundraiser for DementiaUK of pop and classical pieces for your
Join us for a cuppa, some delicious entertainment.
homemade cakes and for lots of
friendly chats while helping us to
fundraise for DementiaUK.
Humanism and Extinction Rebellion
11am-2pm: Table Talk at
7.30pm to 9pm
Branching Out
New Cross Learning, SE14 6AS (next to
Run by local residents, Table Talk Iceland)
aims to point older people towards Free
information they may need or want. Join the South East London Humanist
Just come along with questions, for Group for their monthly meeting, talk
help or simply for a chat. with Robert Launder.
2pm: Free screening of David
Copperfield (1935)
A 1935 American film based on
Hot Desk: rehearsed reading of a new
Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an
TV Sitcom
orphaned boy’s fight for happiness.
Free screening for older citizens 8pm to 9.30pm
with complimentary hot drinks, Hatcham House, Hatcham Liberal Club
sandwiches and cakes. (side entrance up the left hand path) 367
Queen’s Road, SE14 5HD
£3
Branching Out happens every Flirting between a hipster co-working
Thursday in the Centre with a weekly space and a dysfunctional yoga studio,
art group, low cost hot lunch and Tai Hot Desk tells the story of Phin, Ursula
Chi and, on a regular basis once a and a DeliveRhino rider called Gonzalo.
month, there's a book club, a knitting Be at the start of something - audience
and crochet group and a diary discussion at the end.
writing reminiscence group.
Trials and Errors: interactive,
site-specific murder mystery play
8 pm to 9.30 pm
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
£15
See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm.24 Friday 3 April
Bumps and Babies Westdal and Hayward Still Need Work
11.30am to 2.30pm 8pm to 9.30pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Free (but donation for refreshments) £10 (£6)
Welcome first day back for our Fresh from their debut at the Edinburgh
playgroup (closed for a couple Festival, Westal and Hayward return
of months maternity leave). This to the Festival with their mix of
relaxed group is for parents, carers or comedy, music and barely contained
childminders to come meet while their exasperation. “The songs are genius...
children and babies play. So come along reminiscent of the late, great Victoria
for friendship, a cuppa and a chat. Wood **** (BroadwayBaby.com)”
Casual Creatives Punk Rock Karaoke - turn up the AMP
6.30pm to 7.30pm 8pm to 12am
Hatcham House, Hatcham Liberal Club AMP Studios, 897a Old
(side entrance up the left hand path) 367 Kent Road, SE15 1NL
Queen’s Road, SE14 5HD £7
Free Fifth year at the Festival now in a
A new group for people (18+) who want brand new venue. My Midlife Crisis
to have fun being creative in a friendly provide the soundtrack to the blank
and relaxed environment. Discover the generation. YOU SING – We Play! Song
benefits of making time for personal list published upfront on Punk Rock
creativity. A lack of experience is Karaoke Facebook page. JOIN NOW!!
positively encouraged!
Trials and Errors: interactive,
site-specific murder mystery play
What’s All This About Mental Health?
8pm to 9.30pm
7pm to 9pm
The Telegraph, Dennett’s Road - upstairs
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room
£15
Free
See Sunday 29 March at 2.30pm.
We know more these days about
everything from neuroscience to PTSD.
Come chat, play, and share resources
around these most human of challenges
and wonderful opportunities for growth.Saturday 4 April 25
SCHOOL'S OUT! Join in our day of free family activities
Les Petit Tigres The Somerville Culture Collective
10.30am to 11.30am 1pm to 4pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room Somerville Adventure Playground,
Free 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN
A fun French language story and Free
singing session, followed by arts Somerville’s first ever fashion
and craft activity - no experience show accompanied by Fab Mosaic
necessary! Suitable for ages two years exhibition, craft from JOY and a
and above. Older siblings welcome. photography display inspired by
Rembrandt.
Take Me Outdoors Book Launch and
Nature Workshop for Children Family Crafternoon with RefugeeED
12pm to 3pm 1pm to 4pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Garden Room Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Free Free
Celebrate the launch of the brand A family art and craft session
new activity journal Take Me Outdoors celebrating creativity and the impact
with author Mary Richards. Take of imagination and play. Donations to
part in creative activities and a the charity welcome. Children to be
nature scavenger hunt created accompanied.
in collaboration with the Secret
Adventurer’s Club.
Let’s Drum Together
12.30pm to 1.30pm
St Catherine’s Church
Free
Family drumming session learning the
sounds and rhythms of the Djembe
drum. No experience is needed. Drums
provided.26 Saturday 4 April
OPEN STUDIOS: DAY 1 Kundalini Yoga for Body and Soul
11am to 12pm
This is the first day of the Open
Telegraph Hill Centre, Studio 3
Studio Weekend when local artists
Free
and craftspeople open up their
Age and yoga experience don’t
studios and homes for special
matter. All that’s needed is a desire
exhibitions. Many items will be
to connect with yourself through
for sale, so this is a chance to buy
this wonderful “technology” of
original artwork at affordable prices.
Asanas and Mantras! Phone 07522
For details of which days each 690 203 to confirm a place.
studio is open, times and
locations see the list and map
insert and the Festival website.
Living Portraits
Twitter, Live! 11.30am to 4.30pm
7am to 8am Outside St Catherine’s Church
Meet in St Catherine’s Churchyard Free
Free Caravan Arts-Living Portraits. Come and
Listen to spring birdsong and identify take part in an ongoing participatory
birds along the way. Join our morning project exploring the stories of travel
neighbourhood walk and have a hot and migration we all have to tell.
drink in the Centre afterwards.
Afro Street Dance & Fitness Workshop
11.30am to 12.30pm
Bloom into Spring Vision Board Telegraph Hill Centre, Narthex
Workshop Free
10am to 1pm SpringsFitness810 are a fun and
Telegraph Hill Centre , Craftroom energetic dance and fitness duo,
(entrance from St Catherine's Drive) providing you with an amazing full-body
£5 workout, coupled with exciting Afro-
Come and have fun creating your own Caribbean dance choreography.
vision board to support your personal
goals and aspirations. Materials
supplied, but do bring an inspiring
magazine or two to cut up. Love Your Body
2pm to 6pm
Telegraph Hill Centre, Craftroom
£4
Recreating the Meadow
A creative workshop celebrating the
10am to 1pm body. Open to all women interested
Meet at the Rangers Hut, Telegraph Hill in empowerment, recognition and
Lower Park change. Ignite your self expression
Free using movement, writing and
Join Nature’s Gym and Glendale in re- relaxation. Refreshments provided.
creating the Wild Flower Meadow in the
lower park. Wear old clothes and strong
shoes, equipment provided.Saturday 4 April 27 An Audience with Rev Max Ripple and FESTIVAL JAZZ NIGHT Professors of Pop 7pm to 9.30pm 7.30pm to 11.30pm The Hill Station St Catherine’s Church £5 £8 (£6) Expect wit, eclectic range and musical An evening of classic jazz from genre-bending from “The Pop” and seasoned performers and guests. Fragile Star while the “Rev” contributes Everything from old favourites to edifying verse, uncomfortable fashion original compositions. tips, fruit and other vicarious pleasures. Climate Emergency (with Strawberry Thieves Socialist Choir) 7.30pm to 9.30pm Somerville Adventure Playground, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN £4 Come and listen and learn some songs. Discover more about Extinction Rebellion. Hear proposals for Lewisham’s contribution to the solution and make your own! Acoustic Anarchy 7.30pm to 10pm waterintobeer, Unit 2, Mantle Court, SE4 2EW Free An acoustic punk and folk night at waterintobeer, local homebrew, beer shop and craft beer bar.
28 Sunday 5 April
OPEN STUDIOS: DAY 2 Folk Music Festival in a
Woodland Glade
The second day of the Open Studio
12pm to 4pm
Weekend (and don't forget a couple
Brockley Nature Reserve,
are open tomorrow evening as well).
Vesta Road, SE4 2NH
Local artists and craftspeople open
Free
up their studios and homes for
A free folk music festival, featuring four
special exhibitions. Many items will
local live bands, in your local nature
be for sale, so this is a chance to buy
reserve. Den making activity for the kids.
original artwork at affordable prices.
For details of which days each studio is
open, times and locations see list and
map insert and the Festival website. Alice in Wonderland
7pm to 8pm
Palm Sunday Service The Hill Station
£3
10am to 11.30am Join Vanessa Tait, author, for a talk about
St Catherine’s Church her great-grand-mother, the real Alice
Palm Sunday Service, which includes in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, the most
a lively procession through the Lower famous little girl in children’s literature.
Park, followed by the service in church
- with dramatised readings and special
groups for children.
The Festival Ceilidh
7pm to 11pm
KERFUFFLE St Catherine’s Church
£5 (£3)
12pm to 6pm The Plow’d Garlick Crusties and a caller
Telegraph Hill Centre, Craftroom are back to make the church walls
(entrance from St Catherine’s Drive) shake! Come all and dance your socks
Free off! Everyone welcome, no experience
Kerfuffle is a mesmerizing, chaotic and necessary.
playful installation which explores the
act of creativity through stop-motion
film. Experience a spellbinding mix of
moving image and sculptural form.29
We would like to extend our deepest thanks to all the
Thank you!
supporters, partners, venues and volunteers who together
help us to deliver this festival. We couldn’t do it without you!
Supporters
We receive no public finding, but are hugely grateful for
the in-kind support we receive from Goldsmiths and the
Telegraph Hill Centre, without which a festival of this size
would not be possible.
Venues
Partners30
Acknowledgements The Festival is organised by the Festival Group which is open to
& disclaimer
everyone. This year the core team consists of India Lovett,
Tamsin Bacchus, Gill Holmes, Sanjit Chudha, Sarah Willerton,
Mark Martynski, Peter Challis, Sharon Shamir and Rima Bray.
Telegraph Hill Festival is made possible by the amazing talent,
commitment and hard work of all the local artists, performers,
groups, organisations and volunteers that get involved,
donating their time and talents for free.
We are run on a voluntary, collaborative basis. We operate on
not-for-profit principles and are unique in that we are self-
funding. This voluntary ethos extends to everyone involved
with the Festival, from event organisers to bar staff. Any profits
made from ticket sales or the bar are used to fund future
Festivals and to donate funds to the non-profit making
organisations that we work with.
Licences for the bars are held by Festival committee members
who are personally responsible for any breaches of licensing
conditions so we are sure you will understand that:
• We are not able to serve alcohol to anyone who appears to
be under 25 unless they can provide proof of age (we have
a wide range of lovely non-alcoholic drinks)
• We can’t sell alcohol to anyone who appears to be buying
on behalf of someone under 18
• We are happy to accept passports and UK driving licenses
as proof of age (but nothing else!).
The Festival simply provides an umbrella for event organisers.
Responsibility for event content, promotion and emphasis
remains with individual organisers. The programme is
prepared in good faith by the Festival Group. This programme
is correct at the time of printing.
Photographs by event managers and volunteer photographers
including Danny Barnes, John Chase and Jay Alix.
Design by Communications, Goldsmiths.
Cover photo of artwork by Andrew Clarke.31
Each year the Telegraph Hill
The Telegraph Hill Centre Centre and St Catherine’s
Church open their doors
to the Telegraph Hill
Festival. Like everyone else
we look forward to this
annual gathering of local
creativity and talent.
This Festival offers something
for everyone from heath and
well-being, to music, art,
drama and beyond. There
will be tears and laughter,
but most of all it’s a time
to celebrate the greatest
foundation of all - community.
The Telegraph Hill Centre,
which is funded by St
Catherine’s, its rentals and
local fundraising, welcomes
over 1,000 people each
week to classes, events and
individual therapy sessions.
We are sure the Festival
will spark ideas and new
possibilities so please come
and talk to us and see how we
can help them flower. We look
forward to welcoming you not
just during the Festival but
throughout the coming year.
www.thcentre.com
Telegraph Hill Centre & St. Catherine’s
proud to host the Telegraph Hill Festival32
Goldsmiths We are delighted to be one of the sponsors
of the Telegraph Hill Festival. Goldsmiths
was established to provide educational
opportunities for the people of South East
London, and remains deeply embedded in
our local area.
By harnessing global knowledge,
economic and social capital, we work for
the best interests of our communities and
the local economy.
Goldsmiths shares the Festival’s creative
and imaginative ethos, and I trust that our
fruitful and enduring partnership will
continue in the years to come.
Professor Frances Corner OBE
Warden
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