For the final weekend, the high street of Sydenham transforms into a cavalcade of free music, theatre and activities for all the family. Pavements are changed into stages and music venues, shop-fronts converted into playgrounds, empty premises become art galleries and theatre spaces, with buskers, performers and pavement artists along the whole street.

Provisional Schedule

DOLPHIN STAGE
11.30am:	Belly   Dancing
Noon:	Marriamba   Samba
1.00pm:	MARS music – A LUVVED-UP folkROCKtronic SOUND
1.35pm:	DD Glee   Choir
2.00pm:	Floodliners   (rock band)
2.30pm:	Amy Love
MASTERCUTTERS	(opposite Dolphin Stage)
3.00pm:	drumming   demo & workshop
PEDDARS	Estate   Agents Pitch
3.00pm:	Sebastian   Genovese – Classical Guitarist
KIRKDALE BOOKSHOP
Poetry,   Music, etc

Who will it be this week who reads gripping tales to your youngest children at Kirkdale Bookshop? Come and find out!Date: Saturday 16th July
Start time: 10.30am
Finish time: 11am
Venue: Kirkdale Bookshop – 272 Kirkdale, Sydenham SE26 4RS
Tickets: FREE EVENT
Sponsor:
Website: www.kirkdalebookshop.com
Categories: CHILDREN

Open Houses and Studios 2011 This summer more than sixty artists from Sydenham, Forest Hill and further afield will showcase their work during the last two weekends of the festival. We aim to bring the visual arts to your doorstep with exhibitions in cafes, pubs, restaurants and shops. Go to the Visual Arts Trail website

As part of the Street Celebration, the pavement outside the bookshop will become an artists’ quarter with painters,  caricaturist Terry Christien, performance poets, children’s activities and live music with Peter Caesar.Date: Saturday 16th July
Start time: 11-1pm & 2pm-4pm
Venue: Kirkdale Bookshop – 272 Kirkdale, Sydenham SE26 4RS
Tickets: FREE EVENT
Website: www.kirkdalebookshop.com
Categories: OUTDOOR, FAMILY

A unique collaboration between local theatre companies and Sydenham Arts Festival, the Pop Up Theatre Project brings live theatre into the high street. Audiences will be invited to sample innovative theatrical experiences in empty shops and premises, specially converted into performance spacesThere are FOUR theatre companies performing at FOUR separate venues. Performances at each venue start at the same time and there are FIVE performances at each venue on each day.

• The Woodman, 110 Kirkdale SE26 4BG
• Thomas Ford and Partners, 177 Kirkdale, SE26 4QH
• 18 Sydenham Road SE26 5QW
• The Golden Lion, 116 Sydenham Road, SE26 5JX

Performance times on each day are:
Friday 15th July: 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm & 7pm
Saturday 16th July: 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm & 5pm

Sydenham Film Club present Monsoon Wedding.  Garam Masala restaurant becomes a cinema with a screening of this much-loved Indian comedy drama. In modern day Delhi, the arrangements and celebrations for a spectacular wedding are disrupted by family secrets – and unexpected romance.
SOLD OUT!

presented by GewGaw Children’s Theatre.If you turn right, walk up to the top of the hill and then stop… look straight ahead… just behind the trees… can you see it? That strange looking house. Do you know who lives there…? Spend an evening in the company of Cedric Hatworthy Esq, late of this parish. But don’t touch his things, that’s what started all the trouble…Date/time:
— Friday 8th – 6pm
— Saturday 16th – 6pm
— Sunday 17th July – 3pm
Venue: The Hob Upstairs – 7 Devonshire Rd, Forest Hill SE23 3HE
Tickets: £5 (£4 concessions) Children £3
Sponsor: Teach Sport & Sarm Studios

Have you ever wondered if Heathcliff was a murderer? Can Jane Eyre ever be happy? And who fed the Hound of the Baskervilles? Then you share the questing mind of John Sutherland, English Literature professor and author who believes literature should be fun.
Limited availability now – please contact box office!

For more details and to order tickets visit www.sydenhamartsfestival.co.uk