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BRIT in deal to secure free schooling for talented arts pupils
PRS for Music, a world-leading music collective management organisation, is partnering with The BRIT School’s renowned music department to inspire – and fund – the next generation of artists. The partnership will enable The BRIT School to remain free to … Continue reading
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Arcadia’s impressive dancers channel growing anger of youth
KEN TOWL went along to South Norwood for an opening night of dance, theatre, film and rap which displayed young talents and an urgency for action to safeguard our environment Arcadia: the name of the classical ideal of unsullied nature, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcadia, Ken Towl, South Norwood, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls
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Exciting Easter lined up for visitors to Centrale and Whitgift
This Easter, Centrale and Whitgift shopping centres in Croydon town centre will be hosting a roster of interactive activities for families – and helping to raise funds for a local arts charity. From April 1 to 5, you and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Easter, Stanley Halls, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Rewire: free youth mental health summit, Stanley Halls, Feb 24
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Poetry in motion as the dinosaurs descend on Stanley Halls
The Great Big Dinosaur Show is coming to Stanley Halls in South Norwood in half-term week next month. Simon Mole and Gecko will be staging two family shows full of poems, raps and songs about all your favourite prehistoric protagonists … Continue reading
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20% OFF theatre tickets – Book for Stanley Arts’ Night Shift
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer our loyal readers another great money-saving arts offer. We have been offered discounted tickets to Night Shift, a new play from the award-winning, Croydon-based ZooCo theatre company, to be performed at … Continue reading
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London is opening its doors… just not so much in Croydon
The programme for the 2023 Open House London has been released this week. And this year, with Croydon being London’s Borough of Culture, there’s just nine events or buildings, public and private, in the borough listed as being open for … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, Crystal Palace Park, ECCO, Environment, History, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Minster, Crystal Palace, Museum of Croydon, Open House London, Pullman Court, South Norwood Library, Stanley Halls, Streatham, Whitgift Almshouses
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£1.5m being spent on our Borough of not-very-much Culture
We are now well into the third month of Croydon’s year as the Borough of Culture. Waddyamean, you haven’t seen any publicity or signs of anything special being staged? Neither have we, so we sent KEN TOWL off to see … Continue reading
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Tagged Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Four Communications, Grey Label, Heritage Music Trail, Jo Gumb, Katharine Glass, Ken Towl, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Oliver Lewis, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Stanley Halls, Stormzy, White Label
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It’s long overdue that Hurlstone’s music is heard once again
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In the year when Croydon is London’s Borough of Culture, DAVID MORGAN suggests it presents an opportunity to revive some of the music of a once-admired composer Searching through some old press cuttings, I came across one from … Continue reading
Arts Council announces £4.8m grants to six Croydon groups
Six arts groups in Croydon are to receive a share of a £4.8million Arts Council grant over three years, part of £431.2million funding for arts projects across the capital through to 2026. The Croydon groups that have been awarded funding … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts Council, Arts Council England, Boundless Theatre, Croydon, Eye Music Trust, Fairfield Halls, Sir Nicholas Serota, South Norwood, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls, Talawa Theatre Company, Tonya Nelson, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre, Zoo Co Creative
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Art projects can meet funders for culture year at Stanley Halls
Stanley Halls will be hosting a “Meet the Funders” session on November 3, to brief arts centres, arts groups and artists about how to access funding for projects when Croydon is London’s Borough of Culture in 2023. “Croydon in 2023 … Continue reading
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There be dragons in South Norwood Country Park this summer
A dragon has been asleep under the surface of South Norwood Country Park for hundreds of years. It’s been there for so long, a forest has grown up on its back. Now, the dragon guardians are looking for recruits to … Continue reading
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Up the JunkAction: artists pitch to clean up South Norwood
What calls itself an “eco-community art project” has been started in South Norwood, setting out to “transform litter into art”, with sculptures to be exhibited on the same streets from where the rubbish that was dumped had been collected. The … Continue reading
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Stanley Halls receives £99,750 grant for High Street arts
South Norwood is one of four London high streets announced today as receiving tens of thousands of pounds in grants from Historic England to help create High Street Heritage Action Zones – or the snazzily abbreviated HSHAZ. Historic England say … Continue reading
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Tagged Historic England, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, William Stanley
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Stanley Halls has taken arts and crafts online during pandemic
MARY LITCHFIELD reports on how a South Norwood arts venue has managed to extend its reach of workshops over the past year At the Stanley Halls, the “new normal” has seen the South Norwood arts venue have to make significant … Continue reading
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Spooky goings on down in the basement at Stanley Halls
On the eve of All Hallows’ Eve, KEN TOWL ventured off to South Norwood to encounter a weirdly life-affirming live performance Isn’t it always Hallowe’en these days? As if the times aren’t scary enough, I was intrigued by the invitation … Continue reading
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Eunice! The Musical brings some horse play to Stanley Halls
The show must go on at Stanley Halls, with a new, socially distanced Christmas musical coming to South Norwood. Eunice! The Musical promises a heartwarming journey of discovery with lots of seasonal theatre experiences. Capacity at the venue is limited … Continue reading
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5 Croydon arts groups win covid grants, but not Fairfield Halls
The government and Arts Council England yesterday handed out £257million to 1,385 arts and cultural venues and companies around the country. Five of the recipients are based in Croydon. But not a penny of the Cultural Recovery Fund has been … Continue reading
Ghosts of Stanley Halls, South Norwood, Oct 29-31
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Cherrystars’ little actors showcase their talents on screen
For nearly a decade Cherrystars have run their Saturday early years community performing arts classes at the BRIT School in Selhurst. But covid-19 has forced them to take their show from the stage… and using Genie-like magic, put it on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherrystars, Selhurst, Soouth Norwood, Stanley Halls, The BRIT School
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