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Welcome to Sydenham Croquet Club?  We are a small, sociable club, and play?Golf Croquet, from April to? September,? inclusive. Beginners can quickly learn and play this form of croquet.? ? Golf croquet is played by women and men of all ages. It involves skill and tactics and is great fun to play. On average, a game of golf croquet takes only around 40 minutes, which leaves you with ample time to socialise.? We are moving to the former bowling green in ?Mayow Park,?Sydenham, SE26 4JA, with the usual sessions (see below) starting on Wed 4th May. Our friendly members will be happy to introduce you to this fascinating game. Please?contact us?to try one of our free taster sessions. No experience needed, just come in flat shoes as we supply the necessary equipment (including mallets). We look forward to seeing you on the lawn! Visit our new website at www.sydenhamcroquet.com Email us at [email protected]

Sydenham Croquet Club is moving to the former bowls green in Mayow Park, starting to play on 2nd April. We usually play on Sat, Sun and Wed afternoons, but will organise other sessions as required. We welcome new members, so to arrange a free taster and find out more, please contact [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you!

Ever thought about learning to play croquet? Come along and have a go ! We are a very friendly group that meets up during the week and at weekends. See attached poster for details.

This is the first gallery showing by a young artist I met last year. I was lucky enough to attend Jamie Evans? final degree show in London where I purchased my first ever major piece of artwork. (This is now hanging in my lounge). His work uses a number of different media and ranges from large scale canvasses to smaller drawings. I'd highly recommend you to attend the private opening of his exhibition. "Asymmetric Yellow is the debut solo exhibition of up-and-coming painter Jamie Evans, based in Newcastle Upon-Tyne, whose work blends a graffiti-inspired aesthetic with fine art technique. Evans, 24, from Ashington, Northumberland initially developed his skills on the streets of the North East, before turning his attention to the canvas as his appreciation of the wider art world grew. Asymmetric Yellow - a reference to his ongoing quest to balance two seemingly opposing forces - will run at 5th Base gallery in Heneage St, London, from October 31st to November 5th. "The ideology behind my work comes from my background in graffiti, I consider myself a participant in shaping the world around me, not a spectator; However, the methods I employ are very traditional - carefully priming canvases the correct way, making my own oil paint from pigment, taking care to source the best possible quality materials available to me. I?ll then mix that together with spray paint in ways that create something uniquely new with great vibrancy. Graffiti taught me that things don?t last forever, but in my art I?m looking for longevity - so again, it?s a matter of bringing together those forces that don?t necessarily sit side by side. Some see graffiti and fine art as things that can?t be merged, but the show represents the culmination of my efforts to join two elements of art that I have an equal love for." Since graduating from a BA in fine art at Newcastle University in 2015, Jamie has exhibited in shows in Newcastle and Bremen, Germany. And recently, he was commissioned by Rocnation to spray paint a piano for singer Emeli Sand? as she prepares to go tour. ?I see my art as positivity - positive vibration - and when I look at a blank canvas or a wall outside, I?m inspired to turn what I see in my mind into a physical reality. Painting is very intuitive to me. I don?t think too much about it, it just comes out fluently.? Jamie, who works seven days a week in his studio at Bamburgh House, Newcastle, has been supported by patron, Dean Coyle, whose generosity has funded the solo show. Asymmetric Yellow will open on the 31st October at 06.30PM.

THE DULWICH PLAYERS Present The Coarse Acting Plays By Michael Green, Rupert Bean & Simon Brett, with music & Lyrics by John Gould Wednesday 26th October, Thursday 27th October, Friday 28th October at 8pm & Saturday 29th October 2016 at 7.30pm in the Great Hall, Alleyn's School, Townley Road, SE22 8SU Never restrained by their many, many shortcomings the Sir James Smallbone Theatrical Society, fuelled by self-delusion, pomposity and a, unrequited, love of the theatre, will be staging the Society's Annual Jubilee Festival of the Dramatic Arts. A last minute change of venue, double booked with a less than charitable charity event all add to the evening's mayhem. The Dulwich Players in the guise of Sir James Smallbone's finest dare to look at the less accomplished side of amateur dramatics. The four, mercifully, short plays being presented for your entertainment will be 'Streuth' (a little known murder mystery play); 'Pride of Southanger Park '(a previously unknown regency drama); 'The Cherry Sisters' (an undiscovered early Chekhov fragment) and to round off the evening, the stirring romantic musical that is the 'The Vagabond Prince'. The intrepid casts have to battle against the laws of Coarse Acting, where actors fail to appear, props fall to piece, effects fail and fellow actors remember everyone else's lines but their own. Confusion reigns in a joyous evening of comic theatrical fun. Tickets: ?10 (?12 on the door) Available from Dulwich Players Box Office: Email : [email protected] or phone 07936 531356 Online: www.dulwichplayers.org (Ticketsource) And Art Stationers, Dulwich Village This amateur production of the Coarse Acting Plays is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.

Saturday 7th March at the United Reformed Church Hall, East Dulwich Grove SE22. 2pm-4pm Vintage clothing, books, bric-a-brac, children's clothes, toys and much more! Refreshments available!

The Dulwich Players are excited to stage a new translation of Federico Garc?a Lorca?s masterpiece The House of Bernarda Alba from 18-21 February (8pm) at the Edward Alleyn Theatre. Obsessed with respectability and honour, Bernarda Alba rules her house with a rod of iron. Her second husband has just died and in line with family tradition she declares an eight-year period of mourning, effectively incarcerating her daughters. Feelings run high when it is discovered not only that the eldest daughter from Bernarda's first marriage has inherited a large amount of money, but that she is now set to marry the most eligible man in the village, Pepe el Romano, who has transferred his affections from the headstrong youngest daughter, Adela, to the much older Angustias. Despite warnings, Bernarda refuses to see the destructive forces at play within her household until it is too late. A powerful and compelling new translation of Lorca's master work. Edward Alleyn Theatre, Dulwich College - 18th ? 21st February (8pm) tickets are - ?8 (?10 on the door) - Available from:- Tel: 07936 531356 Email: [email protected] - Art Stationers, Dulwich Village, SE21, on the door or online at Dulwichplayers.org via Ticket Source .( there is a small booking charge )

This play is on next week !!

Tickets can also be booked on line at Dulwichplayers.org There is a small booking charge

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Based on the children?s book by Joan Aiken and adapted for the stage by Russ Tunney at St Barnabas Hall, Dulwich Village, SE21 7BT A thrilling and funny musical adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel. Set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and their very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp and her equally evil side-kick, Mr Grimshaw. It is 1832 in the reign of James III and the opening of the Channel Tunnel has led to dangerous wolves roaming Britain. But this is not the only danger that cousins Bonnie annd Sylvia and their friend, Simon the Goose-boy, must face as they encounter unforgettable characters and mysterious scheming. Suitable for children aged 6+ Wednesday 17th and Friday 19th December at 7:30pm Saturday 20th December at 3pm and 7pm Monday 22nd December at 7:30pm Tickets 17th December (preview) : ?5 19th, 20th & 22nd December : ?8 (?10 on the door) / ?5 (under 18s) Tel: 07936 531356 Email: [email protected] Online at : www.dulwichplayers.org Art Stationers, Dulwich Village, SE21 or on the door (subject to availability) An amateur production in arrangement with Nick Hern Books In support of Streetwise Opera Registered Charity Number : 1092931

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Based on the children?s book by Joan Aiken and adapted for the stage by Russ Tunney at St Barnabas Hall, Dulwich Village, SE21 7BT A thrilling and funny musical adaptation of Joan Aiken's classic children's novel. Set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and their very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp and her equally evil side-kick, Mr Grimshaw. It is 1832 in the reign of James III and the opening of the Channel Tunnel has led to dangerous wolves roaming Britain. But this is not the only danger that cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend, Simon the Goose-boy, must face as they encounter unforgettable characters and mysterious scheming. Suitable for children aged 6+ Wednesday 17th and Friday 19th December at 7:30pm Saturday 20th December at 3pm and 7pm Monday 22nd December at 7:30pm Tickets 17th December (preview) : ?5 19th, 20th & 22nd December : ?8 (?10 on the door) / ?5 (under 18s) Tel: 07936 531356 Email: [email protected] Online at : www.dulwichplayers.org Art Stationers, Dulwich Village, SE21 or on the door (subject to availability) An amateur production in arrangement with Nick Hern Books In support of Streetwise Opera Registered Charity Number : 1092931

Excellent family entertainment and a great story

Tickets are selling fast, especially for the Matinee on Saturday.

The sun will shine today and tomorrow! Come and sit in the beautiful American Gardens and enjoy one of Shakespeare's funniest plays .

Come and enjoy an afternoon in the Park and watch Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity and double trouble with two sets of identical twins!!

Don't let the rain deter you from coming along and enjoying one of Shakespeare's funniest plays!

American Gardens, Dulwich Park Saturday 12th July and Sunday 13th July 2pm and 5pm Tickets: ?7 on the grass/bring your own chair Tickets available from the Art Stationers, Dulwich Village Dulwich Players Box Office: 07936 531356. email: [email protected] and at www.dulwichplayers.org - ( there is a small charge for on-line booking )

In a land not that far away, Cinderfella, cruelly cheated out of his fortune by his wicked step-mother Evilla, finds contentment tending vegetables at the Castle allotments. But fate takes a hand when he falls in love from afar with Princess Poppy and finds he has to compete for her hand with his step-brothers Boris and Horace. Can his Fairy Godmother, with her gang of bad-tempered gnomes, get him to the ball in time to rescue the princess from the clutches of Evilla, Horace and Boris? Come and join us for this magical, musical adventure, and discover who will win the princess? hand, what will happen to Cinderfella?s allotments, whether fairies still exist and will the gnomes ever stop moaning. Tickets are ?8 or ?5 for under 18s or the preview night on 18th December and are available via: Email: [email protected] Tel:07936 531356 Or at the Art Stationers, Dulwich Village Or buy tickets online at Dulwichplayers.org where there is a small booking fee

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Unsurprisingly he did not show up. Nor do I expect him ever to darken my doorstep unless it is to break in one night - I even showed him how the window cleaners could get in unassisted into the back garden !! (I must have been in la-la land yesterday) The cheeky s*d even gave me his mobile number (07951900809 ) which I phoned there and then to check it was valid. Since then I googled the number and it came up on a website called " WHOCALLSME" http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/07951900809 and it showed tha this chap has been quite active in South ast London But the local police have been very helpful and did not laugh too much. And I have put in extra security. The police did say that more people should come forward and tell them if they have a similar experience and not to feel embarrassed - it happens to the best of us! (I am going to put up one of those signs my parents have " No hawkers, circulars, callers, etc.... etc...... because a gullible fool lives here!! )

I am writing this feeling very embarrassed and angry as I think I have been scammed by the same chap; well and truly! A stocky chap , 45 - 50, short hair, blue sweat shirt , jeans , trainers. He offered to do windows. claimed to be part of ECLIPSE cleaners working in area. Said his name was Jez. Paid him up front to do windows AND clean guttering to the tune of ?40. I have reported it to local crime officer. Chap is meant to be coming back at 4pm today. some hope. Just letting you know so be warned and don't be as daft as me!! I have no excuse for being so trusting.

Brian Greene at the Art stationers in the village may know. There used to be a local Amateur Dramatic Group, The Village Players who joined with the Dulwich Theatre Group about 40 years ago to form the Dulwich Players. The web site is dulwichplayers.org.uk. I am sure they would be very interested to see pictures. Some of the current members are well over 80 and may also know something about the album. Good luck