Following the success of the poetry event we held at Stark Gallery earlier this year we’ve decided to fund a further event from Tall Lighthouse from this year’s locality fund. This one-off special event will take place as part of the popular Open Studios weekend on Saturday 10th November at Stark Gallery, 384-386 Lee High Road, at 8pm. The line up so far for the evening includes:
Elvis McGonagall: stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere near Dundee where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whisky, listening to Johnny Cash & throwing heavy objects at his portable tv. Elvis is a poet in residence on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live - hear him on the day between 9-JOam on R4...
Aoife Mannix: an outstandingly lyrical poet, currently performing her one-woman show growing up an alien across the country - she will read extracts from her show together with poems from her hugely successful collection the elephant in the comer & she lives in Hither Green...
John Citizen: renowned on the London poetry circuit john has been writing & performing his poetry for many years & his work has not only appeared in the national syllabus but also on the No. 38 bus...
Janice Fixter: her debut collection a kind of slow motion was featured in the poetry book society's autumn bulletin - her poems are powerful yet accessible, lingering between home truths & dark matters...
Jasmine Ann Cooray: winner of Europe's longest running slam, Farrago Poetry Summer Slam, a writer and performer she also runs the F10etics performance night in Brighton. A new voice to listen out for...
Plus music from Charles Alexander March and your chance to get a word in with OPEN-MIC.
First rate entertainment and absolutely FREE!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Local events roundup!
FUSS will be having a Street Cleaning Day and Planting Plan for Staplehurst Road on Saturday the 27th October from 10.30 am. Meet in Staplehurst Road.
The Planning Inspectorate will be holding a Local Public Enquiry into the appeal that Yellow Box Self Storage have submitted against the Council's decision to refuse planning permission for their proposed development on the corner of Baring Road and St Mildred's Road. This will start at 10am on Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st October at St Midlred's Church. For further details, contact Mrs Roey Barr at the Council on 020 8314 8075.
Leybridge TRA are holding a children’s Halloween Party at the McEwan Centre on the estate from 6pm until 7.30pm on 31st October. Tickets are £1.50 each from Kirsty on 020 8318 6311.
Lewisham Homes are holding an open day for their tenants on Saturday 10th November from 10.30 until 3pm at the Broadway Theatre, Rushey Green. It’s completely free, and lunch is provided.
Quiz Night at The Good Shepherd, Handen Road - Saturday November 10th starting at 6.30pm. £8 ticket, concessions £5 which includes supper. For tickets and further details contact Elizabeth on 020 8852 1563.
Lee Dancers: Traditional English Country Dancing. Lee Dancers will be meeting up on Thursday 15th November and Thursday 20th December from 7.30 - 9pm in the Church Hall of the Good Shepherd Church in Handen Road. Cost is £3 a session (first FREE) with Under 16s £1 All ages very welcome! Further details contact Elizabeth on 020 8852 1563
There will be a FUSS Meeting at 7 pm, The Hall, Church of Good Shepherd, Handen Road on the 27th November.
The Thirst Friday Café: There'll be coffee, cake and good company between 9.30 and 11.30am every Friday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Handen Road (but not Friday 26th October as that's half term). Why not come along and bring your friends!
And a date for your diary, this year's FUSS Festive Fair will be on Saturday 8th December 2007 – we’d like to thank FM Conway for once again providing the barriers for the road closure, which your Councillors arrange.
Rail survey – thanks for your responses!
Your Councillors were out and about (very!) early on Wednesday 10th October, carrying out a rail survey at Hither Green Station. We were working with our colleagues in Lewisham Central Ward (who represent the other side of the tracks) to find out what local people think of services from Hither Green. We’ve been inundated with responses and my colleague Cllr Brian Robson is currently collating the results so we can take up issues with SouthEastern, Network Rail and TfL. If you have any comments on rail services, do let Brian have them. We’ll take the survey to Lee Station in due course.
Wanted – your driveway!
For some time, your Councillors have been trying to find a suitable location for a car club vehicle in Lee Green ward. Car Clubs are a system where people can book out a shared vehicle for a couple of hours at a time. It’s cheaper than car ownership, and saves much-needed road space!
Click here for more info
We’ve got an operator interested in siting a car in our area, but Lewisham Council aren’t keen on placing cars on-street. So, we’re asking if anyone has a spare driveway they don’t use that they’d be prepared to have a car club vehicle situated on? The car club would pay you a (small!) fee for allowing them to use your drive, and you’d have a car to hire on your doorstep! If you’d be interested let us know.
Locality Fund - £10,000 to spend – we (still!) want your ideas!
Just a quick reminder that we're still after ideas for spending the £10,000 locality fund. Time is running out and we need your suggestions by midnight on 28th October
Residents choose Broomleigh for stock transfer
From the latest edition of my colleague Cllr Brian Robson's E-Focus:
Council estate residents in Lee have chosen Broomleigh Housing Association as their preferred partner for their proposed stock transfer.
Residents of Leybridge Court, Merridale, Woodville Close, Rose Way, Silk Close and the Newstead Road estate have been drawing up plans to transfer their homes from the Council to a not-for-profit housing association. The steering group of Tenants & Residents Association officers chose Broomleigh as their preferred partner from a shortlist of three associations who were interested in working with them.
Subject to approval by the Mayor, Broomleigh will draw up an ‘offer document’ in consultation with the steering group, which will be put to a ballot of tenants before any transfer takes place.
ISP problems
My apologies that posts to Leepedia haven't been that frequent but I seem to be having all kinds of problems with my ISP which sometimes make it almost impossible to upload posts. Hopefully this will sort itself out (or I'll move ISP), but normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Longhurst Road entrance for Manor Park?
As you'll be aware, Manor Park re-opened to the public earlier this year and one of the improvements which was mooted, but didn’t come about was the creation of an entrance to the park from Longhurst Road. This would require the construction of a bridge across the Quaggy at this point.
No funding is available at present for this, but your Councillors have been asked to gauge public opinion in the ward to see if there are strong feelings for or against such an entrance. If there is strong support for a scheme, the Council may investigate options to finance such a bridge.
What do you think? Drop us a line and give us your thoughts!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FUSS FESTIVE FAIR 8 DEC 07
There's a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to be done to close off the road for the annual Staplehurst Christmas Fair so if anyone can help out with any of the following chores we'd be very grateful:
From Wednesday 5th December volunteers needed every evening to put “no parking” flyers on all the cars parked by the station and in front of the shops.
Friday 7th December from 9pm onwards we need volunteers to cone off parking spaces as they become free.
Saturday 8th December, early hours of morning (12.30 am – 1 am) volunteers needed to put the barriers in place in Staplehurst and Fernbrook Road.
Saturday 8th December volunteers needed to man the barriers from 6 am until the Fair closes around 7pm.
Contact me if you can help with any of the above.
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