Category Archives: Art

Victorians’ favourite artist for capturing lines of Classic winners

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: From his home on Warrington Road, George Paice became one of the leading Victorian and Edwardian-era artists, specialising in painting the gentry’s pets and racehorses. DAVID MORGAN traces his career, beginning from a WWI memorial in Croydon Minster … Continue reading

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Chase The Tail, live music at The Builders Arms, Oct 14

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Loach, Doris and Johnny Moped: David Lean Cinema in Oct

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Open invitation to new singers for choir rehearsals, Sep 27

The Croydon Bach Choir is looking for new members in all voice parts, but particularly tenors. The choir is one of Croydon’s longest standing classical choral societies. They will be holding a free open rehearsal next Wednesday, September 27, at … Continue reading

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Riddlesdown Art Showcase and sale, Mitchley Hill, Sep 24

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Talawa star Tanji is nominated for Black British Theatre award

Kibong Tanji, the star of the Fairfield Halls-based Talawa Theatre’s original musical play, Recognition, based around the life and works of Croydon-based composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, has been shortlisted for best female lead actor in this year’s Black British Theatre Awards. … Continue reading

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Councillor’s complaint sees Fairfield Halls drop mix-sex loos

Within a week of a Conservative councillor grumbling on social media about the “awful misogyny” of having mixed-sex signs on toilet doors at the Fairfield Halls, the management at the arts venue has abandoned the idea and removed the offending … Continue reading

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Ruskin House Film Club: radical screenings through to Nov

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Croydon Male Voice Choir open evening, Sandilands, Oct 19

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Taking Liberty with the arts in a way that celebrates us all

KEN TOWL takes hope, and much joy, from last week’s Liberty Festival, where deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists injected some much-needed culture into the borough. Photos by PAUL FULLER The Liberty Festival, which landed in Croydon last weekend, represented the … Continue reading

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Choir starts a recruitment drive in the search for new voices

One of the borough’s long-standing and much-respected musical organisations is launching a recruitment drive this week. The Croydon Male Voice Choir will be holding an “Open Evening” at its rehearsal room in Sandilands Sports Club, Addiscombe, on October 19, open … Continue reading

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Tik-Tok organ player named as Fairfield’s first Associate Artist

Matt Walters, a 23-year-old organ-playing Tik-Tok star, will headline at Fairfield Halls as the first Associate Artist in the 2023-2024 season. Walters, a Cambridge graduate, has been announced under the Fairfield Halls’ Associate Artists scheme, which aims to support the … Continue reading

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Barbie, David Lean Cinema ‘Babes in Arms’ screening, Sep 15

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Tudor sculptor’s Minster memorials stand the test of time

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Following up on an enquiry from a visitor to Croydon Minster, DAVID MORGAN goes in search of the sculptor of one of the church’s best-known tombs Visitors to Croydon Minster often ask interesting questions about the history of … Continue reading

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3 lucky patrons win tickets for Budapest Concerto on Sep 12

Congratulations to three loyal readers, each of them winning a pair of tickets worth nearly £90 each for the next concert in the International Orchestral Series at the Fairfield Halls. The Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra will be performing in Croydon … Continue reading

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New edition of Nairn takes us on a journey back in time

JOHN GRIDROD reviews a favourite old book, reborn Fancy a spot of mid-century time travel? Well, take a trip back to London in the early 1960s, and go exploring with Ian Nairn, in his recently reissued 1964 guidebook to modern … Continue reading

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Carnival of Invention, Stanley Arts, South Norwood, Sep 10

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Jason Perry’s Croydon: a place with all the wrong priorities

Inside Croydon’s loyal reader was strolling along the High Street in the town centre this morning and captured this wonderful scene Our reader dropped us a note in which they say, “Think this illustrates nicely Jason Perry’s Croydon. “Two workers, … Continue reading

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The Robin Bibi Band, Blues at The Oval, Addiscombe, Sep 3

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Perry is director of company handed £50,000 culture grant

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES One of the biggest single grants handed out by Croydon Council for Borough of Culture projects has gone to a company where Mayor Jason Perry is a director. While several long-established, recognised community arts groups had … Continue reading

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Oppenheimer, Barbie and Hitchcock: David Lean Cinema, Sep

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80 years on the stage – taking Croydon from the Blitz to Narnia

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first performances by CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, making it one of the longest-lasting community arts organisations in the borough. DAVID MORGAN looks into how the group came … Continue reading

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Dance Festival Croydon, Shoestring Theatre, Sep 9

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Nae Pasaran! at Ruskin House Film Screen, Sep 8

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A town centre amble that goes from the sublime to ridiculous

KEN TOWL took a stroll down Surrey Street and Church Street and encountered two different takes on what passes for ‘culture’ in Croydon The Croydon Clocktower has an exhibition of the works of Evacustes Phipson. “Evacustes who?” you may ask … Continue reading

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