1. Walworth Society General Meeting – Wednesday 17th January 7pm – NB Venue is St Peter’s Church.
Our next general WS meeting will be held on Wednesday 17th January starting at 7pm. For those attending in person the venue is St Peter’s Church Liverpool Grove SE17 2HH.
You can also join the meeting online via Zoom. To join on Zoom please click here or go to Zoom and join with Meeting ID: 839 8691 3292 Passcode: 596823
Our draft agenda for the meeting is:
- Welcome, apologies and introductions.
- Action points from our November meeting and matters arising.
- Guest Speaker and Q&A with Miatta Fahnbulleh Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and Labour parliamentary candidate for the new Peckham constituency.
- Planning matters – Beehive PH appeal, Chatelain House redevelopment, Walworth Town Hall construction update.
- Other current issues.
- AOB.
To download the minutes of the November 2023 click here
2. Guest Speaker 17th January WS Meeting – Miatta Fahnbulleh.
We are pleased to welcome Miatta Fahnbulleh to our January meeting. Miatta is the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation which strives to create a new economy for the UK that works for people and allows us to live within environmental limits. Miatta has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for the new Peckham constituency at the forthcoming General Election. This is significant as two of the Walworth wards – North Peckham and Faraday – will be moving into the Peckham constituency.
3. Southwark Pensioners Centre Consultation – closes 22nd January. News from Southwark Council. Southwark Council is working with the Southwark Pensioners Centre (SPC) to open a new facility at 201-205 Camberwell Road. The current SPC premises has a number of spatial constraints and is in need of investment. With the increasing ageing population in Southwark there is also the need and opportunity for the centre to expand its services, activities and membership. Southwark and SPC intend to develop a new fit-for-purpose facility for older people in the borough. The aim is to: 1. Design and deliver a well configured centre that is welcoming, inclusive, stimulating and comfortable 2. Improve access for over 50s to support services 3. Improve over 50s health and wellbeing by increasing opportunities to contribute and participate in a range of learning, leisure, wellbeing and consultation activities 4. Encourage people from across the borough to come to this new centre and take part in all it has to offer. Southwark and SPC have launched a consultation that aims to share the design process to date, to get comments on the exterior designs and how they might like to get involved with the SPC. There will also be a drop in event early in 2024 at SPC. For more information and to contribute to the discussion click the consultation and survey link here For more information about Southwark Pensioners Centre, their services and activities or to join just pop into the Centre at 305-307 Camberwell Road, SE5 0HQ, ring 020 7708 4556 or email info@southwarkpensioners.org.uk. Website Southwarkpensioners.org.uk. |
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| 4. Cinema Museum: The Gothique Film Society Present. Founded in 1966, the Gothique Film Society specialises in double bills ‘for the connoisseur of the macabre’. The Gothique Film Society are delighted to be presenting two genuine classics from the Golden Age of Horror – plus a ‘bonus extra’!  Murders in the Rue Morgue was director Robert Florey and star Bela Lugosi’s ‘consolation prize’ for them both missing out on Universal’s Frankenstein. Florey had been replaced by James Whale, while Bela did not fancy a non-speaking role. Well, he certainly got a speaking role in this film, in which he plays the mad Dr. Mirakle with his customary gusto and much arm-waving and emoting! Running a sideshow at a Parisian carnival, he aims to prove that man has a kinship with the apes; specifically Erik, his own giant ape. Capturing a young prostitute, he injects her with Erik’s blood, but she dies. But then, when two young lovers attend his show, Dr. Mirakle can’t help noticing that Erik shows a particular interest in lovely young Camille… Mad Love is another of those perverse, outrageous horrors produced as the other studios tried desperately to cash in on Universal’s runaway successes. This time, it was MGM, with its version of the 1920 story The Hands of Orlac. Fresh from his success as the child murderer in Fritz Lang’s M, Peter Lorre stars as mad Dr. Gogol, tortured by the macabre credo that “Each man kills the thing he loves”. He becomes obsessed with Yvonne Orlac, an actress at the Theatre des Horreurs, who suffers ‘torture and degradation’ nightly. Then, when her husband Stephen, a concert pianist, suffers a terrible injury to his hands, Dr. Gogol is only too pleased to help when Yvonne approaches him… Rather ironically, Stephen Orlac was played by Frankenstein himself, Colin Clive, who is now, in a perverse role reversal, himself a victim of science. The ‘bonus extra’ is a reel from a 1923 Western, The Love Brand, recently discovered in the vaults at the British Film Institute and which features a very early appearance of Gothique favourite Boris Karloff. This will be on 35mm, courtesy of the BFI. Doors open at 18.00 for a 19.00 start. Refreshments will be available in the licensed cafe/bar. Tickets and pricing: individual tickets at £8.00 can be purchased on the door or via TicketLab: click here. For more information click here or go to cinemamuseum.org.uk. |
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