Monday 12 May
Dulwich Festival – until Sunday 18 May
See our website for further details of all events. www.dulwichfestival.co.uk.
Herne Hill Free Film Festival (until 23 May)
8pm-11pm. The 12th Herne Hill Free Film Festival is back. Find out more on our website.
London Craft Week The Cockpit Edit: An Exhibition of Leading and Next Generation Makers (all week until Friday)
Discover The Cockpit Edit – an exclusive selling exhibition celebrating and supporting Cockpit’s vibrant maker community.
Step into an extraordinary world of making at Cockpit Bloomsbury and experience an ambitious exhibition of incredible objects by leading craftspeople and next generation makers working across twenty craft disciplines – available to purchase exclusively during London Craft Week.
Tuesday 13 May
Weekly Online Breathing Class
7pm-7.40pm. Weekly virtual online breathwork class Join me every Tuesday at 7pm for a 40-minute breathing and relaxation class.
Conscious Connected Breathwork
7pm-8pm. Join a powerful breathwork session designed to help you unlock deeper layers of your mind and body. Through the profound practice of conscious connected breathing, you’ll create space to connect, feel, and release in ways you may not have thought possible.
Life Drawing & Painting
7pm-8.30pm. This is an online drawing & painting session conducted via Zoom. Long pose life painting and drawing. A single pose is held for three hours with 5-minute model breaks every 25 minutes.
Socials Runs with DPR
7.30pm-8.30pm. Fantastic local running club. Social runs every Tuesday 7.30pm at Trevor Bailey Sports Ground on the South Circular.
Evening Gong Bath/Sound Journey
8pm. Step into the magical realm of my Secret Soul Sanctuary by the woods! It is a safe haven in the heart of South London, where I invite you to join me for an evening Gong Meditation / Sound Journey.
Wednesday 14 May
Goose Green Coffee Morning
11am-12.30pm. Do drop into Goose Green Coffee Morning, which is open every Wednesday between 11 o’clock and 12:30pm. It’s a great place to meet others from the local community and enjoy a coffee or tea and some cake! All welcome!
Free singing groups for new mums in Southwark
11.45am-12.45pm. Hello new mums! Do you live in Southwark? Are you finding the first few weeks or months of motherhood a bit tough? If so, we’ve got the perfect solution!
Zoom Portraiture @ Dulwich Art Group & School
2pm-5pm. This is now a hybrid session with 15 artists allowed into the studio and also cameras for artists attending through Zoom.
An evening with the bees at Bell House
6pm-7.30pm. Discover the delights of bees in the hive and in the wild.
Our Bell House beekeeper Annie has been keeping honeybees in six apiaries around our area for 8 years. She is committed to helping all pollinators and honeybees have enough forage for them to thrive. In each session we will explore the Bell House Garden and pollinator bed.
Smartphone Nation: Why We’re All Addicted to Screens and What You Can Do About It by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr
7.30pm-8.30pm. Join Village Books and James Allen’s Girls School for an evening with Dr Kaitlyn Regehr.
Smartphone Nation will transform the way you – and your children – understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr – one of the UK’s leading experts on digital literacy – sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you’re over-reliant.
EDWI – How to use your own Makeup with Makeup artist Sinead Bevan
7.30pm-9.30pm. Our May event is with Makeup artist Sinead Bevan (@sineadbevanmakeup). This event is about using your own Makeup that you already own and how best to use it and create your look. Would you love to create that smokey eyes look? Just need some general advice how best to use your Makeup? Come along and learn how to do it. Please bring your own Makeup with you and a mirror.
Thursday 15 May
BNI Adventurers
6.30am-8.30am. Part of the award-winning multi-national networking organisation, BNI, Adventurers brings together businesses local to Dulwich with the aim of passing business and keeping money in the local community.
Goose Green Lunch Club
12.30pm – 2pm. The lunch club is a friendly and informal club for people over 55. We meet every Thursday during term time and enjoy a delicious main course and dessert with tea and coffee for £5.
South African Winemaker’s Dinner with Andries Burger of Paul Cluver Wines
6.30pm-10pm. Join us for the next in our London Exclusive winemaker dinners, another to remember, with none other than Andries Burger who makes World Class Burgundian-style Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, and who will whisk us away to glorious Cape Winelands region of ELGIN, sharing his stories from the vineyards while presenting what’s in the glass. Andries is Cape Winemaker’s Guild member, which is a very exclusive club that only awards such prestige to those who deliver class and quality consistently!
Craft & Sip Social
7pm-9pm. Sip, chat and craft!
Bring your current knitting, crochet, embroidery, or any other craft project for a delightful evening of creativity and conversation. Enjoy two uninterrupted hours of crafting and socialising, accompanied by a glass of wine and some tasty nibbles. All skill levels and types of crafts are welcome!
A Celebration of Black Composers
7.30pm-10pm. Alleyn’s Community Choir will perform a concert of works by Coleridge Taylor, Florence Price, Scott Joplin, Margaret Bonds, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and many more! With guest artists Grace Nyandoro (soprano) and Rianna Henriques (saxophone / flute). Tickets £15.
Friday 16 May
Free Women’s Taster Golf Sessions
6pm-7pm. We are holding taster sessions for women and girls from age 11 years old, as well as establishing academy groups. Details on dates and times are in the image above. Clubs and balls will be available to use at the sessions, you need only bring yourself.
Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club
7.30pm-9pm. Try out underwater hockey at Forest Hill Pools every Friday evening. We’re a mixed-ability club who play for fun and exercise. Complete beginners welcome.
Evening Gong Bath/Sound Journey
8pm. Step into the magical realm of my Secret Soul Sanctuary by the woods! It is a safe haven in the heart of South London, where I invite you to join me for an evening Gong Meditation / Sound Journey.
Saturday 17 May
Artists’ Open House Weekend
See website for full details.
Dulwich Park parkrun
9am-10am. Free, weekly timed 5k run, jog, or walk in Dulwich Park. Every Saturday at 9am promptly starting from Queen Mary’s Gate. Register once and bring your printed barcode.
Peckham Rye Park parkrun
9am-10am. Peckham Rye parkrun is a 3-lap anti-clockwise course, entirely on tarmac is mainly flat and therefore a potential PB course. The start & finish are located close to the Colyton Road park entrance.
Alleyn’s School (Dulwich Open Garden)
10am-12.30pm. Alleyn’s School has a wide range of garden spaces including the recently opened ‘Coronation Garden.’ The majority of plants have been propagated at the school and the gardens are organically managed.
Gill Hornby
2pm-3pm. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with Gill Hornby who will be discussing her wonderful new novel, The Elopement, which continues her witty, well-researched accounts of the lives and loves of Jane Austen’s family and friends.
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
4pm-5pm. From the Women’s Prize longlisted, British Book award-winning, bestselling author of Small Pleasures, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom.
Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor.
Sunday 18 May
Artists’ Open House Weekend
See website for full details.
Brockwell Park Junior parkrun
9am-9.30am. A free 2km fun run for 4–14-year-olds every Sunday in Brockwell Park. Just register on parkrun.com to get a barcode and meet behind the lido at 8:55 for a briefing.
Peckham Rye Junior parkrun
9am-9.30am. A free, weekly, timed run for 4–14-year-olds, to get fit, stay healthy, and have fun! We run 2km every Sunday at 9am, through rain and shine.
The Weekly Horniman Market
10am-3pm. Located on the Bandstand Terrace, stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, artisan bread and cheese, organic meat and delicious street food.
Pull up a Chair by Martha Collison
12pm-1pm. Pull up a chair to Martha Collison’s table, where the recipes are big on flavour with minimal fuss, making sharing food with friends easier than ever.
Whether you’re looking for a weekend brunch spread, a little treat to share over coffee with a friend, a three-course extravaganza or a weeknight winner for two, Martha has got you covered. The recipes are all easy to follow, and produce delicious results without hours of effort in the kitchen.
Tree Hunting: 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland’s Towns and Cities by Paul Wood
2pm-3pm. In Tree Hunting, Paul Wood seeks out the best individual trees – the most charismatic, quirky or downright spectacular – that grow in Britain and Ireland’s towns, cities and villages (and, in one case, from the crack in a church steeple).
Organ Project Open Day
2pm-5pm. St Stephen’s Church, South Dulwich, London SE21 7HW
With an introduction by our patron Sir Andrew Parmley, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Organists.
Hitler’s People by Richard Evans
4pm-5pm. Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us.
Have fun this week and keep checking here for more events in and Around Dulwich.