The Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library with support from Stockwell Partnership and Lambeth Council have launched a campaign to gather your views on the future of the library. This is what they say: The Council has now agreed budgets for all libraries. Together we want to shape ideas on how the Tate South Lambeth library budget could be spent whilst facing a cut in funding to be achieved by April 2014. Some changes are inevitable but funds should be spent...
The Friends of Durning Library have announced a new speaker for Monday 16 July – Lambeth Archivist Jon Newman explores Dickens’ overlapping accounts and descriptions of the place, and in particular of the River Thames that flowed around it and made Lambeth distinct from the rest of London. Monday 16 July 2012, 6.45 for 7.15pm Durning Library 167 Kennington Lane London SE11 4HF Light refreshments. Everyone is welcome. There’s no admission charge, but a £2 donation towards costs is...
The Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library are screening at the Tate South Lambeth Library as part of their free monthly (every 3rd Wednesday) film night. Revolution is an award-winning documentary by young Cuban Director Mayckell Pedrero looking at the lives and struggles of the highly acclaimed Cuban Hip Hop group Los Aldeanos. Shot in Havana and told principally through the words of the two group members, Aldo and Bian; Revolution offers a fascinating insight into modern day Cuba....
Here are two important events coming up via the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library. Wednesday 23 May 2012, 6.45pm for 7.00pm Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library AGM at the Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road. Including an open discussion on the way ahead in the Cooperative Libraries regime proposed by Lambeth Council. New members and would-be members are very welcome – and especially if you are willing to join the committee and get stuck in. Monday...
As part of the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival Lambeth Archives invite you to the launch of their new book Lambeth Architecture 1914-1939 at the Prince of Wales, Brixton (opposite the Ritzy Cinema and Lambeth Town Hall – entrance is next to Barclays Bank). Historian and town planner Edmund Bird is heritage advisor to the Mayor of London’s Design for London. This, his second collaboration with Lambeth Archives, covers Lambeth Architecture from 1914-1939, a period of great development in...
David Coke and Alan Borg’s monumental work on Vauxhall Gardens has been reviewed by Andrew Saint for The Vauxhall Society. David Coke has curated The Triumph of Pleasure: Vauxhall Gardens 1729 – 1786, an exhibition opening at the Foundling Museum on 11 May. Drawing from the collections of major museums and galleries across the country, the exhibition will display works by Hogarth, Canaletto, Hayman, Rowlandson and Gainsborough. One of the last surviving supper box paintings will be on display alongside objects associated with...
Come and learn the basics and sow some seeds with Christine, Garden Organic’s local master gardener, and Sue, Lambeth’s Green Community Champions Officer on Wednesday 28 March at 7.00pm at Tate South Lambeth library, 180 South Lambeth Road, SW8 If you plan to attend, please email friendsoftsl@hotmail.com Master Gardeners www.mastergardeners.org.uk are volunteers managed by Garden Organic www.gardenorganic,org.uk offering growing advice and support. They don’t offer a gardening service. Participation for all involved is free.
Thanks to The Friends of the Tate South Lambeth, the Durning and other Vauxhall libraries and community groups such as The Vauxhall Society, Lambeth’s politicos and officials at last seem to have got the message that closing libraries is both a legal minefield and an election-loser. Jo Cleary, who runs Lambeth’s Adults and Community Services, has now put together a useful guide on how you make yourself heard on the libraries issue between now and when consultation ends on...
Your help is needed! The Friends of Durning Library have launched a survey to assess how best to plan for the library’s future. They say: “Lambeth Council is currently considering the future organisation of its library service. We know that there are to be severe budget cuts and if the community does not step in, our library may not survive. “As the library’s Friends, we need your help to decide how best to plan for its future, and so...
Researchers beware – Lambeth Archives is closed for stocktaking from Monday 23 January to Saturday 4 February. Staff won’t be dealing with personal, phone or written enquiries – this is Lambeth, remember. Normal service (and history) resumes on Monday 6 February, and The Minet lending library in the same building will be open as normal throughout. Lambeth Archives
