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Category Archives: Art
Living history exhibit on display at Stanley Halls: Dec 4
The Lives of Stanley Halls: Theatricals, Community and Entertainment, a touring exhibition, has its special introductory night at the South Norwood venue tomorrow night, December 4. The exhibition has been organised by the Stanley People’s Initiative and funded by the … Continue reading
Crystal Palace Overground Festival meeting: Dec 5
Local people are being asked to help develop more ideas for the 2014 Crystal Palace Overground Festival at the first of its monthly drop-in meetings on Thursday, December 5 from 8pm at the Methodist Church Hall on Westow Hill, Crystal Palace. … Continue reading
Council’s cultural vandalism leaves borough short-changed
102,440,000 That’s how much Croydon Council raised from the auction in Hong Kong this morning of 24 pieces of the borough’s priceless Riesco Collection of Chinese porcelain. Unfortunately for the likes of florid-faced Mike Fisher and his cronies Dudley Mead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Community associations, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Mike Fisher, Museum of Croydon, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Hall, Hong Kong, London, Mike Fisher, Museums Association, Tony Newman
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One million pages and our loyal reader is our latest winner
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, Ken Towl, is the winner of the site’s latest free-to-enter competition. Towl got the correct answer to our question (Katharine Hepburn was the subject of the first play at the new venue on Katharine Street), and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, England, Fairfield Halls, London, Theatre
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Brown’s ghost train ride offers a twin track approach
STEVEN DOWNES reviews a novel set in our part of south London that straddles three centuries You don’t need a Tardis to embark on a bit of time travel if you are out and about in Crystal Palace. The area … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Commuting, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Transport
Tagged Camberwell Green, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Dulwich, London, Ripper Street, Sydenham Hill
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Cinema Ruskin plays the Sim card for its opening night
The revival of interest in mid-20th century British cultural icons – yesterday was the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, who was celebrated recently at the Fairfield Halls – continues tonight with the first screening at Cinema Ruskin featuring … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema
Tagged Benjamin Britten, Colorado Sunset, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, London, Ruskin House, South Croydon, Steamboat Willie
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Council’s botched attempt to airbrush Riesco from web history
Croydon Council breaks its own policy and goes against its own legal advice next week when part of the publicly owned Riesco Collection of precious Chinese porcelain, which was given to the borough by Raymond Riesco half a century ago, … Continue reading
More Than Honey free screening: Nov 20
Posted in Activities, Charity, Cinema, Croydon Greens, Environment, Transition Town, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, London
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Competition: Win tickets for Twelve Dates of Christmas
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer free tickets to The Twelve Dates of Christmas for the performance next Tuesday, November 26, at the Spread Eagle Theatre. Courtesy of the Old Joint Stock Theatre Company, Inside Croydon’s loyal … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Birmingham, Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, Christmas, Croydon, London, Twelve Dates of Christmas
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Sex in the Cronx is coming to the Spread Eagle Theatre
The Spread Eagle Theatre has a lot to live up to. After the touching pathos of Tea at Five and the visually stunning Dr Frankenstein’s Travelling Freakshow, Croydon’s newest little theatre is delivering up for its final production before Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Bridget Jones, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, England, London
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Museums Association kicks out Croydon over Riesco sale
The president of the Museums Association, David Anderson, used his keynote speech at his organisation’s annual conference in Liverpool yesterday to announce that Croydon Council has been expelled from the MA and to warn that it will be barred from … Continue reading
Costs force campaign to abandon Riesco legal case
The battle to stop what is widely believed to be the unlawful sale of some of the most valuable pieces from the Riesco Collection by Croydon Council is over. In a statement issued by local campaigners, Charlotte Davies, chair of … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, History, Museum of Croydon, Riesco Collection, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard
Tagged Arts Council, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hong Kong, London, Riesco collection
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Shake the crowd from their uproarious calm
As we have done in the past, on this Remembrance Sunday, our single posting is a war poem. This year, we have chosen Verity, by Drummond Allison. Allison was born in Caterham and he lived in Kenley when he was commissioned … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History
Tagged Drummond Allison, England, Hedley Verity, Kenley, Oval, Prisoner of war, Remembrance Sunday
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Stanley Halls group celebrates “winning” the Lottery – twice
The Stanley People’s Initiative has received more than £18,000 in grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to assist in establishing the long-term future of Stanley Halls in South Norwood. The Stanley People’s Initiative is a group of local people committed … Continue reading
West takes on impossible job without pausing for breath
On Sunday, Samuel West will attempt the impossible at the Fairfield Halls. It is almost 80 years since the public information film, Night Mail, was produced by what was then the GPO Film Unit to promote the work of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Aurora Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Britten, Fairfield Halls, GPO Film Unit, Night Mail, Samuel West, W. H. Auden
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Pollard’s cinema scheme suffers from a light bulb moment
The suggestion that Tim Pollard’s “announcement” that the David Lean Cinema is to re-open was in fact just a clumsy PR ruse to deflect attention from Croydon Council being taken to court over its proposed Riesco Collection sale appears to … Continue reading
Please join us in the fight to save Croydon’s arts and heritage
CHARLOTTE DAVIES, pictured right, has started legal proceedings to stop Croydon Council selling the most valuable pieces of the publicly owned Riesco Collection of Chinese procelain. The case has the support of the Museums Association, the Croydon Natural History and … Continue reading
Going for a song? Tory candidate’s Riesco connections
This is obviously just a coincidence. It has emerged, more slowly than the other names reported by Inside Croydon this morning, that a 15th name on the long list for selection to become the Conservatives’ candidate in Croydon South at … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Art, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Riesco Collection
Tagged Christie, Conservative, Croydon, Hong Kong
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School’s new building may be dazzling, but not in a good way
Don’t know much about art, but know what you like? How about architecture? Inside Croydon received a plea recently to provide an “article more balanced than the original” after the new golden facade of part of Whitehorse Manor schools in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Environment, Local media, Planning, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Guardian, London, London Borough of Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Liberace bio-pic sprinkles glitter over latest movie programme
The latest month’s programme of films from the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign begins next Monday with more sparklers than Bonfire Night. Behind the Candelabra, the Steven Soderbergh bio-pic about the life and times of the flamboyant pianist Liberace … Continue reading
Steve Knightly announced as opening act for Stanley Halls
Stanley Halls’ first major public performance since the historic venue was taken over by a local community group has been announced for February 5, featuring Steve Knightly, whose group Show of Hands has been described by Peter Gabriel as “one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, South Norwood, Stanley People's Initiative
Tagged Black History Month, Croydon, England, London, Peter Gabriel, Royal Albert Hall, South Norwood
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