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Lambeth's Migration Museum is inviting teams from across the borough to compete in a free football and basketball tournament next week.
From model and muse to ground-breaking modern artist, Lee Miller's biography at times overwhelms her aesthetic achievement. Washing in Hitler's bathtub and posing for Picasso are notable vignettes, but Miller was a pioneer who transformed the male-dominated disciplines of Surrealism and war photography.
The artist behind a new exhibition documenting the destruction of Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium hopes her paintings reveal beauty among the bricks.
Lambeth Heritage Festival will give Londoners the chance to explore unbuilt utopias and tour the homes of world-famous cultural icons next month.
Robert cared for his mother, who had frontotemporal dementia, until she passed away. Here Robert shares why he's passionate about dementia research and hopes other carers will get involved, too. After seeing a recent advert to become a Research Network volunteer, I didn't hesitate to apply.
The life's work of Tish Murtha only fully emerged posthumously, yet has won significant public recognition and encapsulated the zeitgeist of two eras. Upon the documentary photographer's untimely death aged 56, her archive of social portraits depicting the Thatcherite north east gathered dust, having only ever gained fleeting exposure.
Questions over Waterloo's suitability and the extent of community consultation have been raised and a petition by Lambeth councillor and cabinet member Sonia Winifred, calling for the monument to be in Brixton's Windrush Square, has more than 1,500 signatures.
Is there a contemporary artist more entwined with their national story? Born in 1978, Cao Fei grew up in parallel with China's technological and consumerist opening-up, and leads her generation's artistic response. Working across photography, video and digital media, Fei considers the complexities of modernity and themes such as mechanisation and cyber identity that have been pushed into the global consciousness by her country's rapid growth.
By Robert Perry September 25 2019, 19.45 Follow @SW_Londoner A MasterChef semi-finalist has realised his dream by opening a new café in Brixton that combines his passions for cooking and design. After competing on the BBC TV show in 2017 Brodie Williams, 29, left his career in architecture behind and in July launched Annapurna café, on Loughborough Road.
St Katherine Docks in east London hosts the Classic Boat Festival this weekend. Visitors can explore over 40 vintage vessels including a number of the remarkable Dunkirk Little Ships that rescued allied soldiers during World War 2.