There is funding available for a mural to be installed on Walworth Place off East Street Market as part of a broader initiative to enhance community engagement and visual appeal. The commissioned artwork is expected to celebrate local cultural diversity, revitalise the space, foster pride...
Potters Fields Park's 21st birthday festival will take place in the park on Saturday 20 June 12-8pm. It will be free with something for all the family. For music, Doolally tap will be starting the celebrations with two sets of New Orleans jazz, followed by a dance...
Team London Bridge has organised outdoor Fitness Sessions through the summer starting on Wednesday 17 June, outside Shepherd’s House, King’s College London, SE1 1UL. The sessions, Wednesdays 5.15-6pm starting on 17 June, will be delivered in partnership with Tom Manning Fitness. They are friendly and...
King Richard (2021) is a sports biopic that follows the early lives of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. The plot centers on their father, Richard Williams, who is determined to execute a meticulous 78-page plan developed before his daughters were born to turn them...
Andrew Marr has admired Gillian Ayres' work from afar for half a lifetime and now they are exhibiting their colourful work together at Eames Fine Art Gallery. Andrew Marr's colourful paintings and drawings are a foil to Gillian Ayres' woodcuts and carborundum etchings. She is...
What happens to the contents of our bins once the bin lorry drives away? To answer that, a BermondseyStreet.London committee colleague joined a tour of Southwark's Integrated Waste Management Facility, operated by Veolia. It handles almost all Southwark's household waste. The mixed recycling is sorted...
The next concert by the Bermondsey Chamber Orchestra, Vienna in Mediterranean Light will take place on Wednesday 17 June at 7pm at St Mary Magdalen Church. The musicians will fill the church with beautiful music by musicians from Vienna: Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 and...
A new exhibition will open at White Cube, Bermondsey Street from Wednesday 10 June. The show Back Again, by Georg Baselitz is one of the last the artist conceived before his sad death in April 2026. It is a distillation and resolution of the motifs that...
The London Glassblowing Centre has shared exciting news that local glass artist Peter Layton will appear on the BBC's Desert Island Discs on Sunday 7 June. Peter will reflect, in conversation with Lauren Laverne, on the experiences, influences and music that have shaped his life...
Not-for-profit organisations, community groups or individuals can now apply to the 2026 Sustainability Fund from Veolia, Southwark Council's recycling and waste partner. The fund provides cash sponsorship, resources or staff volunteers to help people transform their local community or environment in a sustainable way. If you ...
Another amazing month of arts to get stuck into (poetry writing, life drawing, book club) and to enjoy (live jazz, folk, comedy) along with something a bit different this month - screenings of football championship matches. Morocco Bound is at 1A Morocco Street SE1 3HB. More ...
Team London Bridge invite you to become a citizen scientist in your lunch break to helping to identify and count pollinators. This is a call out for anyone passionate about saving essential species that keep our plants alive and our food growing. Join us for...
The Council's Highways team have published a notice that streetworks are needed in Whites Grounds and that traffic will be prevented from entering part of the road from 10pm on Thursday 11 June till 6am on Friday 12 June. Exemptions will be made to allow...
June is PRIDE Month and Southwark Council is supporting a programme of events over the summer to celebrate, including a A Queer Prom, cabaret events and Southwark’s annual Pride March. The Council's funding helps create events that celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer identity and...
Want to see what happens to your recycling? If you’re a Southwark resident, you can find out more about your recycling right here in the borough. The Council's partner Veolia offers regular tours of the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility (just off the Old Kent...
London Bridge City welcomes the return of Summer by the River, reimagining the Thames riverside as a dynamic playground of sport, entertainment and summer celebration. The riverside comes alive with an action-packed programme of music entertainment, sports coverage, open-air family films and seasonal experiences designed...
This year's Thames Estuary Partnership photography competition focuses on The Thames Path National Trail from the source of the river in Gloucestershire to the sea. Along the trail, there are new riverside public spaces created by the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, each incorporating newly commissioned...
Flour & Grape have opened The Cellar Club, a basement cocktail bar for pre- and post-dinner drinks. It is open from 5pm to diners and non-diners alike. Flour & Grape founder Nick Crispini and his team have come up with a selection of cocktails, wines,...
Hiver will be sharing its enthusiasm for all things bees, beer and honey this Friday at a fun day for all ages.: 11am - hands on workshop uncapping and extracting honey from the hive - need to book - link here 3-8pm - honey-tasting competition - tell by...
Team London Bridge has pulled together a schedule of local events for next week, the bank holiday week. The webpage includes the events they organise themselves and those in the wider London Bridge community, called At London Bridge. It includes music at Amazing Grace in...
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery is delighted to present Tainted Love, a group exhibition co-curated by Soheila Sokhanvari and Kristin Hjellegjerde. The show explores the complexities of relationships in all their forms – from romantic heartbreaks to unrequited love, fractured family bonds, friendships that fade and internal...
José Pizarro arrived on Bermondsey Street 15 years ago and opened José tapas bar, and now has six restaurants including three on the street. José, Pizarro and Lola all offer traditional Spanish cooking and a great atmosphere. The street has changed a lot in that...
A new show opens at Eames Fine Art Gallery this week on Thursday 21 May. It is called The Shape of Things: Abstraction and Printmaking in St Ives. It includes prints by many of the great artists who have worked in St Ives including Terry...
In a recent newsletter, Southwark Council publicised its offer to help residents who find it hard to afford mobile internet. Southwark residents can get a free SIM card from O2 that gives you: 12 months of free internet Free calls and texts No contract and no...
Local playwright Camilla Elerman has written and produced her first professional stage show, Patronage, which will be performed Tuesday 26 - Saturday 30 May at the Drayton Arms Theatre in South Kensington. The production team is Happy Gal Collective (all ex-Mountview Drama School in Peckham)....
The festival at The Blue market will open on Saturday 16 May with Bangladeshi-born storyteller, Raz Kabir sharing a story blending myth and legend. Once the story has been told, Sarah Sparkes will be sharing how to make tree spirit marionette puppets. The following Saturday,...
Hiver, local producer of honey-based beer and cider, has produced a handy planting guide that is friendly to bees. The more plants of these kinds that there are growing in our area, the more food there will be for bees, and other pollinators. Hiver's beginner's...
On Thursday 7 May, a new set of Councillors was voted in for our ward, London Bridge and West Bermondsey. They are: Sam Dalton, Labour, re-elected Selena Gray, Labour, elected David Noakes, Liberal Democrat, elected. Many congratulations to all three. BermondseyStreet.London looks forward to working with them in the coming...
There is a busy and exciting range of textile workshops locally over the coming week: At the Science Gallery on Saturday 9 May a participatory weaving workshop Connecting Threads. This is aligned with the Gallery's current exhibition of tapestries - The Thread that Binds us. The...
Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing. She faces off against Emily Charlton, her one-time assistant, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group, with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs. The film is showing at The Arzner supports independent...