Saturday and Sunday 1pm onwards
The free Lambeth Country Show community festival, returns to Brockwell Park this weekend on Saturday and Sunday with organisers Lambeth council “promising the best of the city and the countryside in one unique celebration.”
The event which started in 1974, and annually attracts more than 120,000 people across the weekend, features a roots and reggae led main stage line up, animal shows, vegetable and flower competition displays, over 200 traders and exhibitors, a LatinoLife big top music experience, sports sessions, funfair and so much more.
Big names set to appear include legendary Jamaican roots reggae singer Luciano and top reggae and dancehall DJ, David “Ram Jam” Rodigan who will be performing on the main stage on Sunday from 5.30pm.
Venetia Reid-Baptiste, a corporate director at Lambeth council, says: “This is the 50th time we have held the country show, and the council has worked really hard to keep it going, to make it a safe event and to keep it as a free event because we know how much it means to our residents. “It has been months in the planning.
“You really have to be there in person to appreciate how much it offers – there’s so much to see.”
Opening times are from 1pm to 9pm with last entry at 8.30pm on both days.
- The Lambeth Country Show is organised by Lambeth council in partnership with Brockwell Live. To find out more about the Lambeth Country Show please visit www.lambethcountryshow.co.uk and follow twitter.com/lblcountryshow.
A Lambeth council spokesperson said: “Running the show in partnership with Brockwell Live saves the council £700,000 from the cost of putting on the event, as well as securing more than £100,000 for community investment. “Work to restore any impacts on Brockwell Park from the two week pre-summer series of events in Brockwell Park will start as soon as the country show ends, and will be paid for by Brockwell Live.” (Source: Lambeth council’s official website)
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TONIGHT – FRIDAY 7.30PM
Shakespeare in the Squares at Crystal Palace Park
Watch an open-air production of ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ in Crystal Palace Park
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SATURDAY
10am to 3pm – CRYSTAL PALACE FOOD MARKET – Please see separate item – Ed.
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3.30 pm
Musical Adventures of Stan the Dog and Mabel the Cat
St John’s Church, Auckland Road, SE19 2RX
Saturday 8 June, 3.30pm | St John’s, Auckland Road SE19 .We know it’s hard to entertain the kids; let us do the work for you. This short interactive concert packs a whole lot of fun into an hour – projected illustrations, friendly narration and an introduction to the orchestra for your little ones.BOOKING INFORMATION
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SUNDAY
10 am to 1 pm
Join Friends of Stambourne Woods for Pond improvements, path clearance, litter picking … light duties in the summer in Stambourne Woods – entrances 1) via The Park (Tarmac road opposite the Queens hotel, Church Road SE19) or 2: From Auckland Road (to the right of Stambourne Way)
SUNDAY 7.30pm
A charity rehearsed reading at the Bridge House theatre Penge West
From the Bridge House theatre:
We thought you might want to know about a last-minute rehearsed reading that we’re hosting this Sunday (9th) at 7.30pm
Theatre collective Drama On The Rise usually present a monthly rehearsed reading of female-led plays at Books on the Rise in Richmond, as they were unable to do so this month they’re holding it here instead! Happily it is a reading of our very own Luke’s award nominated play: ONE LAST WALTZ.
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MONDAY
2.30 pm
Phoenix Retirement Association, Phoenix Centre, Westow Street SE19
The speaker is Wendy Moore, a freelance journalist and a local author of six well-received books on medical and social history. Wendy will be telling us about the plot of her latest book, Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War.
This book tells the remarkable story of Vera ‘Jack’ Holme and Evelina Haverfield, suffragettes, life partners and trailblazing feminists who carved radical new paths for women during the First World War. Jack worked as a cross-dressing actress before becoming official chauffeur to Emmeline Pankhurst. Eve, the daughter of an English baron, was 14 years older.
They met in 1909, fell in love and threw themselves into suffragette action, enduring prison for the cause. When war began, Eve helped found pioneering organisations to recruit women for war work. Then she travelled with Jack to Serbia, Russia and Romania to run field hospitals for allied soldiers and drive ambulances at huge risk to their lives.
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