BOYS INTERRUPTED
Hot off the heels of the US Hella Mega Tour, supporting Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy, and playing UK’s Slam Dunk Festival, Los Angeles band the Interrupters (comprised of Aimee Interrupter, partner and guitarist Kevin Bivona, and his younger twin brothers Jesse on drums and Justin on bass) return to Europe and the UK this summer with a performance at Brixton’s O2 Academy.
September 3 at the O2 Academy Brixton,
211 Stockwell Road, SW9 9SL.
Tickets: wearetheinterrupters.com
PACK YOUR TRUNK FOR AN ELEPHANT FOODIE SAFARI
Take a culinary tour around the world from the comfort of Elephant and Castle as Picnic at Elephant Park returns for its second year.
Picnickers can depart on a foodie safari, picking up samples from the participating cafes, restaurants and bars, before choosing an al fresco dining spot in the new two-acre Elephant Park and Elephant Springs rock and water landscape.
Offerings on the menu include: loaded fries or nachos from Four Quarters, pastry or ice-cream from Little Louie, arancini from Sugo82, spiced potatoes, falafels and hummus from Bayroot, dumplings and salt fish fritters at Tasty Jerk, and plenty more.
Picnic at Elephant Park is available throughout
the summer until August 31.
Dishes and drinks are priced from £1 – £5.
www.elephantpark.co.uk/picnic
YOUR VOTE MATTERS!
Four Crystal Palace businesses have reached the final of the annual Croydon Business Excellence Awards. Businesses have been selected for Contribution to The Community (Shop SE19), Business Resilience (Craft & Courage), Best New Business (Haven Wellness) and best social enterprise (ClearCommunityWeb).
Shop SE19 was founded in 2019 to formalize the links between local independent businesses in Crystal Palace and has grown to offer much-needed peer support to local independent businesses, help them weather the storm during the height of the pandemic and to promote and increase the profile of our local high streets. ClearCommunityWeb is a social enterprise/CIC which supports those who are ‘digitally excluded’ with access to training and reconditioned equipment.
They work across Croydon, Bromley, Lambeth and Southwark. Craft & Courage has just celebrated its 5 year anniversary in Crystal Palace and like many hospitality businesses soldiered on during the many different phases of lockdown by partnering with local food businesses and launching new products. Their latest venture is an in-house gin distillery producing Antenna Gin with their own botanical family recipe. Haven Wellness is a shop, apothecary and suite of therapy rooms which opened at the height of lockdown in 2020 and has rapidly gained a following, offering ethically produced wellness products.
Voting is now open with winners being
announced in September.
For more information visit:
https://croydonawards.co.uk
FREE CLAY WORKSHOPS
As part of Crystal Palace Festival, ClayKilnCraft are throwing open their doors for an Open Studio. Go along and see what members have been making, buy some early Christmas presents or treat yourself to some handmade pottery.
The clay-makers are also holding free tile decoration and pinch pot making workshops between 12pm and 2pm. These are 20 minutes long and open to adults and children. There is a small charge if you want your work glazed and fired.
Sunday 18 September from 11am-4pm.
http://claykilncraft.com
NEW SEASON FOR BRIXTON HOUSE
It’s a jam-packed line-up for autumn/winter at Brixton’s newest theatre.
From October 5-7, Black Corporeal (Breathing By Numbers) continues Juliaknxx’s investigation into the ways in which Black psyches are affected by their physical experiences.
The film is anchored by the returning voice of Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, as she traces her journey to having air pollution officially listed as a cause of death of her 9- year-old daughter, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the first time this had happened in the UK.
Knock Down is a promenade, site-specific production journeying along Brixton (October 7-9). A collaboration between local talent and local businesses to celebrate and explore the memories and stories of those who call Brixton home.
Dance Umbrella brings three international artists to Brixton House for a mixed bill exploring themes of transformation, transmission, and representation in Change Tempo (October 12 and 13).
The season culminates with multi-awarding winning company Poltergeist’s production of Alice in Wonderland (December 1-31), which sees 11-year-old Alice leap onto a tube seconds before the doors shut, following an explosive argument with her Mum at Brixton Underground station.
Trapped on a train speeding into Nonsense, surrounded by weird and wonderful passengers, and at the mercy of a Queen who won’t relinquish the controls, can Alice turn this train around?
For the full line-up of events, visit:
https://brixtonhouse.co.uk
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