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Category Archives: Art
David Lean Cinema screenings for May at the Clocktower
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Time travel by velvet and smoke back to a Paris club in 1896
STEVEN DOWNES takes a trip back in time and a sip of a once-banned liquor Everyone these days appears to be on “a journey” of some kind or another. If you were to take a half-hour journey from East Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Coco Belle, Croydon, East Croydon station, Joe Morose, Le Chat Noir, Secret Cinema, The Lost Estate, West Kensington
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Croydon Bach Choir choral workshop, South Croydon, May 16
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Blues at The Oval Tavern, May and June, free entry, 6pm start
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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True crime show live on stage at Cryer Arts, Carshalton, May 10
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Crime, Cryer Theatre
Tagged Carshalton, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Croydon, Cryer Arts, David Swindle, True crime
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Coleridge-Taylor’s old band preparing for fresh set of encores
PETER GILLMAN drops in on a rehearsal at Croydon’s 120-year-old orchestra, as they prepare to perform ‘the greatest symphony ever written’ Who knew that Croydon had its own symphony orchestra? A straw poll among fellow members of the Croydon Male … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield Halls, Music, Peter Gillman
Tagged Chris Braime, Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Fairfield Halls, Godstone, Orpheus Centre, Peter Gillman, Phil Myers, Rachmaninov, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
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David Lean Cinema screenings for May at the Clocktower
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Blues at The Oval Tavern, May and June, free entry, 6pm start
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Playground named after Star Wars star to open on May 4
‘My dad was Darth Vader’ No, not a line uttered in the blockbuster movie series by Luke Skywalker, but the intro on a piece in a residents’ association newsletter, as Bingham Park gears up to celebrate the life of resident … Continue reading
Croydon Minster choir on the road to Windsor and the Abbey
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Windsor, who as Queen Elizabeth II set records as the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch – 70 years and 214 days – until her death in September 2022, aged 96. So … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Music, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster choir, David Morgan, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II, St George's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, Whitgift School, Whitgift School Choir
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‘Modern-Day Art’ Exhibition at Croydon Art Space, to Apr 30
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Croydon Art Space
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Art Space
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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Croydon Bach Choir choral workshop, South Croydon, May 16
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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A Vue to a killing: Grants landlords to blame for cinema closure
The closure this week of the Vue Cinema in Grants in the town centre was down to the building’s new owners’ greed, in ratcheting up the rents for businesses already struggling for survival in Croydon’s run-down high street. That’s according … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cinema, Grants, Tokia Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, David Lean Cinema, Grants, Grants Centre, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, Tory, Vue Cinema, Vue Grants, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Newcastle’s Brown puts charity in the picture with Ted Lasso
By NADIA AZIZUDDIN For fans of Ted Lasso, portraiture and charity, artist Davey Brown is hosting a charity art exhibition and auction of his work in Richmond and Crystal Palace this summer. The exhibition is taking place at two of … Continue reading
From Sloane Square to Penge, choirs are making sweet music
PETER GILLMAN sings the praises of local choirs Streatham Choral does not lack ambition. The 150-strong amateur community choir, which rehearses every Monday at St Leonard’s Church, has hired one of London’s prime concert venues for its next concert. The … Continue reading
Streatham Choral: Haydn’s The Creation, Cadogan Hall, Apr 11
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Tagged Cadogan Hall, Haydn, Streatham Choral, The Creation
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Perry makes no formal intervention as Mayor over Vue closure
Tory Mayor fails to act over doomed multiplex cinema, as he uses latest blow to ‘evolving’ town centre as an opportunity for a bit of late-term cosplaying. SANDRA STEAD reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s impotent and out-of-touch Mayor, had no idea … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cinema, Grants, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Tokia Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Cllr Rowenna Davis, Conservative, Councillor Rowenna Davis, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Grants, Grants Centre, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Vue Cinema, Vue Grants, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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‘Modern-Day Art’ Exhibition at Croydon Art Space, to Apr 30
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Croydon Art Space
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Art Space
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Town centre multiplex cinema to close in latest blow for Perry
KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter, on how Croydon’s failed Mayor has been blindsided, again, by another major loss to the High Street The latest hammerblow to Jason Perry’s bogus election claims that he has Croydon “back on track” and that … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Cinema, Grants, Tokia Square, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon High Street, Grants, Grants Centre, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Tory, Vue Cinema, Vue Grants, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Our news podcast looks at bins, cold cases, LTNs and Reform
The new episode of The Croydon Insider, our regular round-table, news panel discussion podcast thingy, looks at recent events in Croydon, including the Reform party’s rally at the Fairfield Halls, where they revealed their candidate for Croydon Mayor – and … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Ben Flook, Community associations, Croydon Insider, Fairfield Halls, Fly tipping, Inside Croydon, Litter Free Norbury, Nadia Azizuddin, Neil Bennett, Refuse collection, Tony Hooker, Under The Flyover, Veolia
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Lanfranc air disaster, Litter Free Norbury, Nadia Azizuddin, Neil Bennett, Nigel Farage, Norbury, Reform, The Croydon Insider, The Lanfranc Boys, Tony Hooker, Tory, Under The Flyover, Veolia
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Streatham Choral: Haydn’s The Creation, Cadogan Hall, Apr 11
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Tagged Cadogan Hall, Haydn, Streatham Choral, The Creation
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‘Modern-Day Art’ Exhibition at Croydon Art Space, to Apr 30
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Croydon Art Space
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Art Space
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