Sydenham Town Forum

Purelake, the developers of the Greyhound pub, as part of the planning permission, have to incorporate the installation of a piece of public art, constructed from ceramic tiles, to cover the new north wall of the building. A new design competition for 2012 is therefore being launched, replacing the ...

There’s a new exhibition to enjoy with your coffee, or over lunch at Sugahill Cafe until 4th December. Ky Lewis is a fine art photographer and Lomographer, living in London for over 25 years. Having worked in design and illustration she now concentrates on making images via photographic methods. Her...

We are fortunate to have a new exhibition of African art at Kente coffee shop, 16 Sydenham Road until the end of October. The pieces displayed exhibit the talents of artists from Ghana. Enjoy the art, have a drink, relax and soak up the atmosphere. The featured artist: Emmanuel Mawuko Arkutu Born i...

A new exhibition of watercolour paintings at Sugahill cafe, 250 Kirkdale, until 29 October. Anne Harrison is a local artist, a retired school teacher who has taken up watercolour painting, enjoying its flow and subtlety. Her work is inspired by plant life, its patterns, textures and colours. Workin...

The Sydenham Arts Festival really shows what a fantastic, multicultural, multitalented community we live in and is great opportunity to meet friends, old and new and see a few celebrities to boot! It’s great that so many local people are prepared to share their talents. There are events every day: m...

As a taster for the Sydenham Arts Festival visual arts trail local artist Tony Tidy is now exhibiting some fish paintings at Billings in Sydenham Road. Tony's paintings provide something interesting to look at while you fish is being expertly de-scaled and filleted. In addition Tony will be “artist ...

Sugahill cafe’s vibrant new exhibition celebrates the wonderful Sydenham International Music Festival 8) Six local artist and photographers have contributed artwork on a musical theme: four lively “ Mariace musicians ” performing in a Mexican street; a colourful “ African rhythm band ” with ladies d...

Sugahill cafe needs your art! Next months exhibition at Sugahill, to coincide with the Sydenham International Music Festival, http://www.sydenhammusic.net will display two hand made mandolins by Sean, a local luthier http://www.ashmandolins.co.uk To complement the instruments I would like to borrow...

A new exhibition at the Sugahill cafe opens today, 28th April ( yes, the cafe will be open in Kate and Will's big day if you feel the need to get away from it all ). The exhibition is by six local artists, all architects from the Thomas Ford office on Kirkdale. Their artwork is incredibly varied fro...

The petitions to save Lewisham libraries attracted more than 20,000 signatures - sufficient to make the council take notice. Let's see if we can get as many signatures now against the proposed closure of the Kirkdale adult education centre in July. All we want is that the Mayor and council should co...

We all need to be vigilant. Some people will break in anywhere on the off-chance they will find something worth stealing. The week before the community garden break-in one of the cafe's in Sydenham Road was broken into and trashed (nothing much was taken as they, like most shops, don't leave cash th...

UNA JOY PLACING A SEED IN THE GROUND. Pastels and watercolour. An exhibition at Sugahill cafe and gallery, 250 Kirkdale, SE26 4NL from 17 March, 2011 Una Joys most recent work has, at the back of it, a focus on minutiae and mutability, involving particles, seeds and seasons. This focus expands and ...

The third Sydenham Arts Festival Artists’ Trail takes place this year in and around Sydenham on two weekends: July 9th & 10th, and July16th & 17th. We’re looking for artists to take part: to exhibit their artwork, by opening their houses or studios and for residents to open their homes and “...

Only 2 weeks remaining.

This is your last chance to look at Carol Edgar's collorgraph's and a few etchings, watercolours and digital prints left in the gallery from Gill Dove's exhibition earlier this year.

Enjoy!

We are fortunate to have an exhibition of Carol Edgar's delightful prints at Sugahill cafe. Her inspiration is drawn from natural observation and the subject matter is varied though there are recurring themes around plant forms and landscape. She works towards simplifying her chosen subject aiming t...

In case anyone has seen the South London Press article today " the Greyhound to be renamed The Ravensbourne Arms " it seems this is totally wrong. I spoke to Antic pub owner today and he confirmed that they have no plans to change the name of the Greyhound and that the Ravensbourne Arms is...

Thank you for all your great comments, here and at the Kirkdale Bookshop where all the entries will remain for a short while. On Saturday the judging panel met and decided not to choose any of the entries submitted for the competition. Some of the entries were liked very much by some of the judges b...

Thanks for all the comments so far.
There are still a couple of days to comment on your favourite / least favourite entries to try to influence the judging panel before they meet to try to make a decision this Saturday.

Why not look at the entries on the Town Hall Forum here http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5691 or visit the exhibition at the Kirkdale Bookshop.

Why not look at the entries on the Town Hall Forum here http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5691 or visit the exhibition at the Kirkdale Bookshop.