Sunday 22 April 2012
News & features published on 22 April 2012
Wild Swans at Young Vic
With elaborate set designs, dozens of props (including a giant aubergine), video projection, puppetry, live music, song, dance and a cast of approximately 37 performers on stage each night, Wild Swans is an ambitious theatre production to say the least.
St George celebrations in Southwark: Catalan, Ethiopian and Somali-style
"As the patron saint of multicultural and multilingual England, St George seems perfect," declared Fr Rana Khan in his sermon at the St George in Southwark Festival service.
Helicopter to drop 100,000 poems on South Bank to launch Poetry Parnassus
100,000 bookmarks printed with the text of poems will be dropped by helicopter onto Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank this summer to launch the world's largest ever gathering of poets.
King's Reach Tower: "harmful and unsympathetic" giant ads blocked
Plans to turn a vacant high-rise office building on the South Bank into one of the biggest advertisement hoardings London has ever seen have been rejected by Southwark Council.
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Sunday recap: Poetry Parnassus, giant skyscraper advert vetoed and more http://t.co/quoTARow
Bill Clinton is coming to Waterloo next month http://t.co/3LJjdhPp
Just published - review - Wild Swans at @youngvictheatre http://t.co/1vlMNTw3
Just published - St George celebrations in Southwark: Catalan, Ethiopian and Somali-style @GeorgeSouthwark http://t.co/KqKcamSP
Celebrating Shakepeare and Dickens: free words/music event tomorrow afternoon with @arfursmith, Rick Jones, Jane Jones http://t.co/jarTceXn
Just published - Helicopter to drop 100,000 poems on South Bank to launch Poetry Parnassus http://t.co/DekGM4tC
Just published - King's Reach Tower: "harmful and unsympathetic" giant adverts vetoed by council http://t.co/YQleM4f0
Anglo-Catalan St George's Day event at @boroughmarket starts 12 noon http://t.co/XG2N6iGm with @GeorgeSouthwark
Two more opportunities to join the Great Southwark Dragon Quest http://t.co/M2bIsXcT @georgesouthwark
Free Shakespeare's Globe Open Day from 10am #sonnetsunday http://t.co/z6RlCuX5 with international food market in UnderGlobe @The_Globe
If you're out watching the @londonmarathon, look out for the Kayakathon on the Thames as well: http://t.co/rG9TBtnI
The Shard: the view from Europe's tallest building http://t.co/3IV70pWZ via @guardian
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