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World Book Night 2018
Blog by elevate products World Book Night 2018 was celebrated in style at the Deptford Lounge by an open mic event in the Library The event was hosted by Sandra Agard and…
Frost Fest
On Saturday, 2nd December, the highly anticipated Frost Fest took place in Deptford Lounge, welcoming people of all ages to spend a family day together. The event was organised in…
Bernadette Russell: Santa's Sci Fi Salon
Santa’s Sci Fi Salon By darkheartblackink on December 19, 2016 On Friday 2nd December I hosted my last live event for the year-long project Hothouse, which has been looking at…
Bernadette Russell: Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat By darkheartblackink on October 31, 2016 Happy Halloween all, here’s the story (I imagined for 5/6 year olds). The Visa Versa There was once a girl called…
London's Burning: Blog by Bernadette Russell
2016 is the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, and this gave me the opportunity to work with the wonderful Vanessa Wolf Hoyle (London Dreamtime) and George Hoyle…
UNINVITED GUESTS: SEPTEMBER HOTHOUSE BLOG
UNINVITED GUESTS – SEPTEMBER HOTHOUSE BLOG It’s September already, and I’m back in Deptford for a few days with Paul Clarke (one third of Uninvited Guests). We’ve had a really…
UNINVITED GUESTS: SUMMER HOTHOUSE BLOG
UNINVITED GUESTS – SUMMER HOTHOUSE BLOG It’s a Wednesday at the beginning of August, I’m sitting in The Albany Café and the sun is shining. Life carries on even though…
100 Years From Now: Blog by Bernadette Russell
A couple of weeks I met an amazing young woman as part of the Albany’s Summer Arts programme. She tried to explain how even though there is loads of bad…
Sign of The Times Hothouse Blog
By Hothouse Artist Bernadette Russell Hello. Since I last posted it feels as though our world has changed. So much has been said and shouted and written about the EU referendum result,…
Tea Party Triumph! Blog by Bernadette Russell
Sorry for the delay between blogs- most of my time has been taken up with editing the children’s’ blogs and making or finding sound effects (great fun), and getting everything…
UNINVITED GUESTS: Lost and found
I came up to Deptford Lounge earlier this week to see Bernadette Russell’s installation titled The Lost Property Office. It was originally developed as part of Deptford X visual arts…
Bernadette Russell: All We Love, All We Have Lost
I’ve now done two of the three creative writing workshops for the libraries, and the ideas for a guidebook for Deptford are building up, as are the ideas for what…