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Category Archives: Dance
Get your teeth into a panto classic with Sanderstead club
The Sanderstead Dramatic Club celebrates its 110th year by staging a panto classic that offers tales of witches, wolves and dark, dark woods. Running from January 6 to 13 at the All Saints Parish Hall in Sanderstead, audiences will be … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Theatre
Tagged Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club
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Newman sacks two councillors over bashment ban debate
WALTER CRONXITE on the latest power move by Labour’s council leader Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour-held council, with Soprano-esque savagery, has sacked two councillors in the festering dispute over the implementation of a new licensing policy to favour … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Boxpark, Business, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Dance, Jane Avis, Music, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Callton Young, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Tony Newman, Waddon, Westfield
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Croydon condemned for ‘cultural apartheid’ over music ban
One of the country’s most prominent black activists has condemned Croydon Council’s suppression of its own report into the town centre’s night-time economy. Lee Jasper has described Croydon police’s “bashment ban” – withholding licences from nightclubs that want to play … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Lamé Limited, Andy Tarrant, Business, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Dance, Jeff Boothe, Jo Negrini, Ken Livingstone, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Music, Policing, Pubs, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
Tagged Callton Young, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lee Jasper, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Night-time economy, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman
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Council wanted to whitewash report on police ‘bashment ban’
Today, we publish the review on the borough’s night-time economy and the police’s licensing policies, which council leader Tony Newman and chief exec Jo Negrini didn’t want you to see. WALTER CRONXITE reports Croydon Council officials have suppressed a report … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Dance, Jo Negrini, Music, Tony Newman
Tagged Callton Young, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Westfield
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Giant-sized laughs make for an Awsum pantomime
SRITHAN CHANDA found something for all ages at a not-to-be-missed production of Jack And The Beanstalk. Oh yes he did! This year’s Croydon Pantomime at the Waddon Theatre, Jack And The Beanstalk, is a fabulous and entertaining show, especially for … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Panto, Jonny Awsum, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Waddon panto comes a cropper due to ‘technical issues’
Today’s matinee and evening performances of Jack And The Beanstalk at the Waddon Leisure Centre have been cancelled by the producers due to “technical issues”. Q Productions declined to elaborate on the nature of the “issues”, but a spokesperson said … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Panto, Jonny Awsum, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Developers appoint Hoodoos to run rebuilt Matthew’s Yard
Regent Land and Developments, a company which specialises in developing brownfield sites, has announced that a building on Surrey Street, including the premises known as Matthew’s Yard, is to be re-built to include a purpose-built café and arts performance space. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Comedy, Dance, Music, Surrey Street, Theatre
Tagged Hoodoos, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Council’s underwhelming programme for Black History Month
BELLA BARTOCK, our culture correspondent, on the uninspiring offer from Croydon Town Hall It is hard not to have a degree of ambivalence about this year’s offering from Croydon Council for Black History Month. Just like last year, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Black History Month, Dance, Education, History, Libraries, Music, Poetry
Tagged BHM, Black History Month
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Origami to unfold a dance festival in Queen’s Gardens
This Saturday will see two free dance performances in Croydon town centre. Dance Umbrella, the annual London-wide contemporary dance festival, is coming to Queen’s Gardens to present a work called Origami which, according to a council-issued press release, is “a … Continue reading
Croydon International Mela 2017 – in full colour
After a Tory-imposed austerity hiatus of four years, the Mela was back in Croydon on Saturday. Wandle Park was transformed into a forum of colour, sound and celebration. Here, with contributions from numerous loyal readers, is a small selection of … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydon International Mela, Dance, Music, Wandle Park
Tagged Conservative, Croydon International Mela, Labour, Tory, Wandle Park
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Wandle Park’s International Mela announces line-up for Sep 30
The Colors Croydon International Mela in Wandle Park on September 30 will celebrate the culture of the local Asian communities and showcase a combination of international artists, local talent, extraordinary dance and spectacular street theatre. “There really be something for … Continue reading
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Festival helps puts cheer and colour into Thornton Heath
The 2017 Thornton Heath Festival was bigger and better than ever before. Here’s LEE TOWNSEND’s photo-essay from the event
Posted in Dance, Music, Thornton Heath
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Overground Festival’s dance music night, Penge, Oct 13
The Crystal Palace Overground Festival is close to reaching its fund-raising target, with just one week left to go with its crowdfunder. The organisers encountered thousands of pounds of additional security costs this summer, with their event being staged soon … Continue reading
Dance night at Builder’s Arms of ales, Belles and bells
Photographer CAROLYNNE FEREDAY captured some of the colour of this year’s Croydon Night of Dance
Thornton Heath Festival, music and carnival, Sep 3
Posted in Dance, Music, Thornton Heath
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Builder’s Arms new landlord gets ready for Night of Dance
The new landlord of the Builder’s Arms is gearing himself up for something the like of which he has never experienced before. The Croydon Night of Dance takes place this Tuesday, August 15, when nine Morris sides – bands of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Dance, Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Builder's Arms, Croydon Night of Dance
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Security costs force free festival organisers to appeal for help
Additional security measures following the terror attacks in Manchester and at London Bridge earlier this year saw the Crystal Palace Overground Festival overspend its budgets by £8,000. Now the organisers are appealing for public help to pay off its staging … Continue reading
Park’s Pirates are a magical delight around the bandstand
Our arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK got all hot and bothered on a cool summer evening by some of the racier performances at CODA’s outstanding production of Pirates of Penzance Such fun! I was saying only the other day over coffee … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Wandle Park
Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Wandle Park
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£240,000 Arts Council grant sees return of Mela to Croydon
The Mela is to return to Croydon later this summer, thanks to a £240,000 grant from the Arts Council. Seven years after the last Croydon Mela in Lloyd Park – axed by the then Tory-run council in a first wave … Continue reading
There will be jangle bells in Addiscombe for the Night of Dance
This year’s Croydon Night of Dance, a gathering of Morris dance groups, clogs, sticks and jangling bells from across south London, Surrey and Kent, will take place in Addiscombe on Tuesday, August 15. Based around The Builder’s Arms on Leslie … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Dance, Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon Night of Dance, North Wood Morris Men
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