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Category Archives: Art
Seconds out! Coulsdon’s Art Trail goes another two rounds
The Coulsdon Art Trail, which commemorates the history of an area that was once known as Smitham Bottom, now has seven finials, after the addition of one outside Coulsdon Library, the other outside Aldi. Finials are small, stylised metal models, … Continue reading
iC supporters win tickets for Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Congratulations to loyal readers Ethel Corduff and Angus Hewlett, who will be going to the theatre next week accompanied by a friend or partner, all thanks to Inside Croydon. Ethel and Angus both answered the (very) simple question posed in … Continue reading
Plucky CODA bring The 39 Steps to the stage in Carshalton
CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, will be staging their new production in Sutton, with The 39 Steps at the CryerArts Centre in Carshalton this November. Using Patrick Barlow’s adaptation from John Buchan’s famous thriller novel and the Hitchcock … Continue reading
There’s A Bit Of A Do going on in Croydon’s Front Room
There is going to be A Bit of A Do in Croydon later this month. Ahead of Croydon’s turn as London’s Borough of Culture (details of which we await with bated breath), the Drunken Chorus Theatre Company sets out its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, The Front Room, The Wreck, Theatre
Tagged A Bit Of A Do, Drunken Chorus, Fairfield Halls, The Front Room, The Fun House, The Oval Tavern, The Wreck
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The Sixteen’s return adds up to wonderful music at The Minster
Slowly life, and arts, are getting back to ‘normal’, as our veteran culture correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, was delighted to discover at a concert by the choral group The Sixteen at Croydon Minster on Monday I was getting impatient. I had … Continue reading
Part-time Mayor Perry to re-boot Negrini’s design review panel
The council is looking to re-set its Place Review Panel – now to be renamed the Design Review Panel – and is inviting applications from architecture and design experts to sign up for two or three days’ work each year, … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Art, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Design Review Panel, Environment, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Planning, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Design Review Panel, Jo Negrini, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Scott, Place Review Panel, Tory
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WIN!!! Exclusive competition: Twopence To Cross The Mersey
Inside Croydon is delighted to offer our loyal readers the chance to see a new theatre production coming to the Fairfield Halls next month: the play Twopence To Cross The Mersey. We have two pairs of stalls tickets – face … Continue reading
St Paul’s Jubilee Barn Dance, South Croydon, Oct 1
Posted in Church and religions, Dance, Music, South Croydon
Tagged South Croydon, St Paul's Croham Road
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Depression-era drama brings Mersey beat to Ashcroft Theatre
The first national tour of Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey is coming to Croydon’s Fairfield Halls next month. The new touring production of Twopence To Cross The Mersey is produced by Rob Fennah and Lynn McDermott and directed … Continue reading
Coleridge-Taylor hits the right notes for Black History Month
Croydon’s very own black classical composer is to be celebrated in a prestigious concert at Fairfield Halls on Sunday, October 9, part of the arts venue’s programme of events marking Black History Month. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor wrote his epic choral work … Continue reading
Black British Classical Foundation concert, St Mildred’s, Oct 1
Posted in Art, Music
Tagged Addiscombe, Black British Classical Foundation, Black History Month, St Mildred's
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Bailiffs instructed after council breaks High Court injunction
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The discredited council under Newman and Negrini won their bid for ‘Borough of Culture’ status by using material that senior staff knew to be stolen intellectual property. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Katherine Kerswell, the chief exec of … Continue reading
Posted in Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Paula Murray
Tagged Adam Chamberlain, AdavoMedia, Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Paula Murray, Tony Newman
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Closed doors in Croydon for London’s Open House festival
If the 2022 Open House Festival is anything to go by, then when Croydon is London’s Borough of Culture next year, the capital could be looking at a cultural desert. There are only nine venues in the whole of the … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Stranack, Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Fairfield Halls, History, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Property, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, South Norwood, Waddon, Walks, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside
Tagged Addington, Andy Stranack, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Minster, Elis David Almshouses, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Croydon, Open House London, South Norwood, St Mary's Church, Tory, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation, Woodside
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Crystal Palace Festival is going back to its roots for return
After a three-year wait, the Crystal Palace Festival is back, on September 17 and 18. The Festival marks its return post-covid by going back to its high street roots, with festival hubs popping up all around the high street area … Continue reading
CODA’s Old Time Music Hall, Sanderstead, Sep 30-Oct 1
Posted in CODA, Music, Sanderstead, Theatre
Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Sanderstead
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Podcast: Will Travers on climate challenges and the Mane Event
Will Travers has been involved in wildlife conservation all his life, from the moment when his parents, actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, took him as a youngster off to Kenya for a year-long adventure to film the acclaimed movie … Continue reading
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Ruskin House Screen Club, Sep 16
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Ruskin House
Tagged Peterloo, Ruskin House, Ruskin House Screen Club
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Two Days At The Opera: Fairfield’s match with Glyndebourne
It’s been a non-stop summer of social whirl for our veteran arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, who has popped her corks at Glyndebourne one week and found herself sitting in the ‘cheap seats’ at the Fairfield Halls the next… The expensively … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BH Live, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Alexandra Oomens, Croydon, Croydon Council, English National Opera, ENO, Fairfield Halls, Glyndebourne, La Boheme, Long Long, Trinity Boys' Choir, Yaritza Véliz
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From Picasso to Whiteread in Dulwich, courtesy of the RMT
Last month, KEN TOWL visited Museum of the Year, the Horniman. This week, in his quest for the treasures of south London, he has trekked across the borough boundary again to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, with some help from a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ken Towl
Tagged Dulwich, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ken Towl, Mick Lynch, Pablo Picasso, Rachel Whiteread, Woman in the Window
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4 former council bosses charged by police… as Croydon waits
Investigations into wrongdoing in local government can take many years. A meeting at the Town Hall next week could provide a long-awaited chink of public accountability into the mismanagement – possibly worse – that led to Croydon Council’s financial collapse, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Guy van Dichele, Hazel Simmonds, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hazel Simmonds, Jason Cummings, Jo Negrini, Joe Anderson, Katherine Kerswell, Kroll, Labour, Lancashire County Council, Liverpool City Council, Local Government Association, Mayor Jason Perry, Richard Penn, Simon Hall, The Penn Report, Tony Newman, Tory
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Red faces after doomed supermarket is shortlisted for award
Red faces at Grey Label, the marketing agency that organises the “Croydon Business Excellence Awards”, where they have managed to shortlist as “Best Employer” a business that is about to make its 70 workers redundant. As exclusively revealed by Inside … Continue reading
