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You can also check out the users group which deals with them both: https://www.facebook.com/peckhampulseusers, https://www.instagram.com/pulsedulwichusers

Just had a great treatment with reflexologist Kaylaa Sandwell situated in Bellenden Road. Front room treatment with a calming view of trees! The session began with a brief assessment and conversation over a cup of herbal tea,followed by an hour-long treatment which nearly put me to sleep on several occasions. That's relaxing! Lots of good grounding work, explanation given when asked for, dietary and other healthy recommendations provided. Kaylaa doesn't seem to have a website but she's on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KaylaaSandwell/ where you can pick up on alternative health ideas. Just in case you don't use Facebook, her listed contact number there is 07505 662312

Herne Hill Music Festival opens its 7th Music Festival tonight the 6th with two events - a recital from award-winning harpist Alexander Thomas at Herne Hill School (behind St Paul's on Herne Hill) at 7:30pm, and a cabaret produced by Sixteenfeet Productions featuring West End performers (and including a 3 course meal) at The Half Moon Pub at 7pm. Tonight launches a run of 19 events in 10 days! More details about tonight's performances and many others - from a student body musical based on a children's book and scored by Simon Speare at St Jude' School, to the debut of dance in Herne Hill with 7 originally choreographed dance pieces performed by dynamic new dance talent - from our programme at http://hernehillfestival.org/programme#content

Opportunity for GCSE Music Students! One of the set works on your syllabus is Mozart?s Symphony number 40 in G Minor. You have a unique opportunity to hear this work played live by a symphony orchestra this week end in a concert in the Herne Hill Music Festival. In a live performance you get additional insight into how the themes get passed between the sections of the orchestra. As well as just listening, you get to SEE how this piece fits together. You can see at first hand the instruments of the orchestra that are involved. In this concert you will also hear a symphony by Mozart?s older friend and mentor Joseph Haydn. There will be similarities and differences between them in this key period in the development of the classical symphony which was happening in Vienna at this time. Also on the programme is a piano concerto by Mozart. Again you can listen for common characteristics across the three works. As a special opportunity for music students, the conductor Rupert Bond, an experienced music educator, invites you to attend a rehearsal of this work before the concert, so you can observe how he works with the orchestra on the final finishing touches for a concert performance. He will provide an informal talk to students on this piece. We have established a special student rate for this concert, which includes attendance at the rehearsal. Here are the details. The concert is on the afternoon of Sunday 16 October at St Faiths Church, Red Post Hill North Dulwich SE24 9JQ starting at 3:45. This is the final concert in the Herne Hill Festival hernehillfestival.org. Tickets are ?12 and ?8 ? the special student discount is ?5. This option is not available online but will be offered at the door. The rehearsal of the symphony starts at 2pm in the church hall adjacent to St Faiths church. If you would like to attend this please let us know in advance by contacting Roger, the orchestra manager [email protected] Event details and tickets: http://www.hernehillfestival.org/programme/124-Chamber+Orchestra+Concert -- Roger Mundy, Orchestra Manager for the Southwark Sinfonietta & Sinfonietta viola player

The Get Well Clinic in Camberwell offers "Community Acupuncture" or "multi-bed" treatment for Camberwell, Herne Hill, Dulwich, and Peckham every Tuesday at Zen Yoga in Camberwell Grove from 3:30-5:30pm. Community acupuncture means numerous patients share the same space which lowers cost. Community acupuncture is becoming a popular form of care for many people. It is seen as a health movement by many. Multi-bed treatment dramatically reduces cost by pricing on a sliding scale, which makes it possible for patients to afford more regular or frequent courses of treatment. Local practitioners George Monkhouse and Marion offer full body treatment from ?20-40 (booking required) and ?5 for ear acupuncture on a drop-in basis. Acupuncture treatment is followed by Qi Gong from 6pm priced at ?10 (concessions ?8). ZenYoga, 2D Camberwell Grove (opposite no.43) Camberwell London SE5 8RE Get Well Clinic website: http://camberwellacupuncture.co.uk Get Well Clinic on Facebook: www.facebook.com/camberwellacupuncture For more information about Community Acupuncture in general see the film "Community Acupuncture: The Calmest Revolution Ever Staged" at

The Herne Hill Music Festival has had its warmup Bandstand in Herne Hill Market and now gets fully underway on October 9th at the Prince Regent in Dulwich Road with folk music evening 'The Singers and the Songs' featuring Liz Simcock, Bob Wood and Nigel of Bermondsey. This kicks off 9 days of events. Listings at www.hernehillfestival.org

The HHMF is working with schools, and also amateur and pro musicians to put on its 2nd community opera The Peasant's Opera (based on the 1381 Peasant's Revolt) after a successful Noyes Fludde (Britten) last year. This opera is an original written locally for the occasion and will be performed at the Charter School in Red Post Hill on October 14th. Dulwich Community Council has provided partial funding and the Festival is down to a final 4 days with its crowdfunder to try and make up shortfall and is well off target. Some of the high cost is due to need for the few professionals to assist - but this will also help make for a wonderful performance while pupils get a lot of great experience working with them. Please help if you can, even if just to spread the word? Read more about opera's goals and the funder at: http://gogetfunding.com/the-peasant-s-opera/ More about the festival and the schedule at: http://www.hernehillfestival.org/

The Herne Hill Music Festival is working to establish a tradition of Community Operas in the Festival. In 2014 the Fest performed Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten at St Faiths in Red Post Hill, with the help of local musicians and Rosendale School. In 2015 it plans to perform The Peasant's Opera (based on the story of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381) at The Charter School, Red Post Hill, on Wednesday October 14th. The Charter School are also providing the majority of the performers and the orchestra. This is a new opera written locally especially for performance by secondary schools and amateur musicians. There will also be four professional singers as soloists, along with a professional opera director and conductor. This means pupils get tremendous experience while working with professionals in the development of the opera, however, it does drive up the cost. The Festival received a partial grant for this community project via Dulwich Community Council but needs to make up some of the shortfall. It is currently running a crowdfunder in an effort to raise ?500 but is currently falling well short with 4 days to go. If you can spare some loose change to help with the effort, anything and everything goes a long way. The funder welcomes donations down to one pound. Just 4 days left! Spread the word! Read more about the crowdfunder and donate at: http://gogetfunding.com/the-peasant-s-opera/

Better Lib Dem page for Yahaya Kiingi standing in Camberwell & Peckham and now scheduled for the Albrighton Hustings. Includes wider links. http://www.markpack.org.uk/107121/yahaya-kiyingi-selected-camberwell-peckham/

LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Word from C&P Lib Dems HQ is that their candidate Yahaya Kiingi will be attending the Albrighton Community Centre Hustings Meeting set for 7:15pm tonight April 13th. His profile has been added to http://ivanhoeresidents.tumblr.com/post/116075052371/hustings-monday-is-april-13th-at-the-albrighton. http://www.libdems.org.uk/yahaya_kiyingi

UPDATE Rashid Nix, who is standing in West Norwood & Dulwich for the Green Party, will represent Amelia Womack, who is the Green candidate in Camberwell & Peckham as she is currently campaigning in the West Country for Young Greens. Stephen Govier will represent Prem Goyal who is the C&P candidate for the All People's Party. We're told by C&P Lib Dems Chair Jonathan Hunt that there will be a rep for C&P candidate Yahaya Kiyingi, who is committed elsewhere

Hustings Monday at the Albrighton Community Centre - April 13th from 7:15pm. Not many hustings meetings yet (Herne Hill's comes later in the week) but here's one which will be intimate and well-represented. Organised by the Ivanhoe Residents Association with the Albrighton Centre and East Dulwich Estate. Candidates or their agents will chiefly represent Camberwell and Peckham but there will be a candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood. So East Dulwich residents and those of you from other surrounding areas are also enthusiastically invited to attend! We've waited this long to announce because we've just had word on Friday that all parties invited have accepted and have named their representatives for this Hustings meeting - with the exception of the Lib Dems (someone is expected but this remains a TBA). On the table there will be: All People's Party - Stephen Govier Conservative Party - Naomi Newstead Green Party - Rashid Nix Labour Party - Harriet Harman Left Unity & TUSC - Nick Wrack Liberal Democrat Party - TBA National Health Action - Rebecca Fox UKIP - David Kurten Topics will range from Electoral Reform, the NHS and housing to the 20MPH zone, schools, Green Spaces and Dulwich Hamlet FC for more hyper-local discussion. We hope to take questions and complete within 90-120 minutes Smaller party candidates have an earlier candidates meeting at Southwark Town Hall on Monday, so one or two may join in progress. The Albrighton Community Centre is located at 37 Albrighton Road SE22 8AH - on the east side of Dog Kennel Hill, almost opposite Sainsburys, within the East Dulwich Estate. You can read more, including brief profiles of representatives confirmed for the night and greater topic detail, as well as see a map to help you find the Albrighton Centre at: http://ivanhoeresidents.tumblr.com/post/116075052371/hustings-monday-is-april-13th-at-the-albrighton ? Any updates here or on the Ivanhoe Residents Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392 or Twitter @IvanhoeResAssoc (not necessarily in that order. We're all hoping to learn more about how the political system can better work for all of us in the community ... hope you can make it, even at this short notice.

Same guy, same sum, same spiel last night in Grove Hill Road SE5. He followed and pressed a housemate down the road to the front door. Fairly late, around 10.30pm so no one about in cul-de-sac land. Same frantic pace and switched on the tears expertly as well. At this stage it felt risky as the church name didn't stack up but the front door was open, so gave him money basically to be rid of him on the odd chance it might be genuine, esp as eviction is a regular reality these days. Also had a recent experience of giving money to someone who actually returned it. Clearly he is not one of that ilk. But be warned that he is getting about and moving into residential. Wish I'd seen this post earlier. We'll get this reported in.

Southwark Libraries Community Web Resources says EDS is based at 105 Wood Vale SE23 3DT, Executive meets x5/yr + AGM and at different venues. 020 8693 1511. Email: [email protected] http://bit.ly/1JbxKUj. No website and no idea how current.

Fusion raking it in. One way that's accomplished is by delaying new works and maintenance. Another is by using cheap tenders on new build. It's not just ED, been to Peckham Pulse lately? Spa suite is in a shambles, doors rotting, therapy pool shut for years now (due to floor leaks we were told), sauna currently on the blink. Mass migration to Glass Mill, a new build in Lewisham, which not long after opening was shut so that the entire floor space could be dug out to repair structural faults. At Brockwell Lido the pool needed to be repaired twice recently as it wasn't done properly the first time round. In the spa suite the hydrotherapy pool seems to work as often as it doesn't - an operations manager said the actual fibreglass basin should never have been approved in the first place, designed for far lighter duty. Nonetheless users pay full whack. Inaccessible electrical boxes because water pipes were later laid in front of them so interminable delay on electronic shower repair. And, most of the time, musical chairs on facility management so that good managers are moved on to prized startups. Which makes customer delivery agreement responsibilties hard to force adherence to. What's more important for Fusion is expansion (anyone been to their Barbican centre yet?). New centres everywhere. If Peckham ever gets to resurrect their Lido, I think I know who will be running it. ED should get a strong user group going, if Brockwell Lido didn't have BLU, it would be in a real state. However it does take time and dedication to set up and follow through on user group physical meetings and for the most part people are passive: leisure centres not social centres. One of the reasons the Lido users have push is because a passionate group saved the place from being bulldozed several years ago and are not about to allow their legacy to go down the pan.