I decided to take the summer off! I’ve been putting this together solo, almost every single week since July 2025, and I love it, but I need to stop, catch my breath and reflect.

There’ll be no Peckham.Live through August and September. The next news from me lands on 1 October. I’ll use the time to rest, get properly back to London, and have a think about where this goes next.

And before I go, a couple of numbers that still make me grin. A year ago there were 20 of us here. Today there are 292 — and the newsletter’s been read nearly 16,000 times in the last year, up from under a thousand. No ads, no budget, no algorithm doing us any favours: all organic, all word of mouth, all you. Whatever happens next, we built something real together, and I’m proud of it.

To everyone who’s opened these emails, turned up to things, sent tips, forwarded a link or said hello on Rye Lane: thank you. Really. You made a weekly newsletter feel like a proper community, and that’s not nothing.

This week’s issue is below as usual. One last wander before I go. See you on the other side of summer.

Cat 🐾

PS: I don’t want SE15 to go quiet just because I do. If curating this sounds like your idea of fun, I’d genuinely love for someone (or a few someones) to take the reins for the next two months. You’d have the format, the tools, the workflow and all the support you need — you’d just bring the local eyes and the energy. If that’s you, get in touch.

🌤 Sun then cloud: Thu · ☀️ Sunny & dry: Fri · 🌞 Warmest day: Sat · ⛅ Bright, clouding up: Sun

Thursday starts bright with a mostly sunny morning, before cloud builds in from the north in the afternoon and brings the odd spot of light rain — drying out again through the evening. Friday’s a lovely one: mostly sunny and dry, with just a few bits of cloud drifting in later. Saturday stays largely sunny and dry, and a touch warmer — the pick of the weekend for getting out. Sunday should be sunny to start before cloud builds through the afternoon, though it stays dry throughout. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Half Closed Eye at Outhouse Gallery

There’s something lovely about this one. Half Closed Eye is a small group show curated by SADESIX — a collective of six siblings, named after their mother Sade, working across London and Nigeria and building everything around family, collaboration and community. Here they gather nine artists around a single idea: the in-between. Those moments of transition we fall into, run from, run towards, and eventually surrender to.

It’s a show about the body as a place of awareness, rest and reflection — which feels like exactly the right thing to find in a small Brunswick Park gallery in late July. Expect original small-scale works and a slower, more inward tempo than your usual gallery dash. A gentle one to build a weekend around, especially if you like art that leaves a little room to breathe.

🗓 Opening Thu 30 Jul, 6–9pm · then Fri 31 Jul–Sun 16 Aug, Fri–Sun 12–5pm
📍 Outhouse Gallery, Unit 1, 24 Brunswick Park, SE5
🎟 Free – grab your tickets here

🎹 Isata Kanneh-Mason: Halo

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason — eldest of the celebrated Kanneh-Mason siblings — first played Bold Tendencies’ Concrete Concert Hall back in summer 2020, when the rooftop was one of the only live venues still open through lockdown. She’s back this July with Halo, a new solo programme in the open-air space she clearly has a soft spot for.

Expect the warm, considered playing that’s made her one of the most quietly compelling pianists around, set against a Peckham summer evening and the low hum of the city below. Hard to think of a better way to spend a Thursday night.

🗓 Thu 30 Jul · doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, Floors 7–10, 95A Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £17.50 · tickets via DICE
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎂 Cake Sit 15

Cake Sit is back upstairs at The Old Nun’s Head: a queer talent show where every act somehow involves a cake. Expect performers sitting on, dancing around, singing to, eating or otherwise making glorious use of baked goods.

It’s silly, sensual, political, messy and genuinely community-minded, with clear safer-space guidelines and performer sign-ups still open if you fancy a go yourself. A very Peckham kind of Friday night.

🗓 Fri 31 Jul, 8pm–midnight
📍 The Old Nun’s Head, 15 Nunhead Green, SE15
🎟 £10 · tickets via OutSavvy
♿ Function room is upstairs and not wheelchair accessible; accessible toilet on ground floor

🔊 REVERSE at Ormside Projects

Berlin party REVERSE lands in London with a line-up built around women, trans and non-binary artists in underground techno. Residents of Tresor — Berlin’s legendary techno institution — Kerrie, Chloe Lula and Ireen Amnes are joined by V.40, founder of queer party Soma People, for a hard, hypnotic, industrial-leaning night.

Techno with a point of view: visibility, pressure and no decorative nonsense. Bring stamina.

🗓 Fri 31 Jul, 11pm–5am
📍 Ormside Projects, 32 Ormside Street, SE15
🎟 £10–£25 · tickets via Resident Advisor
♿ Check venue directly for full access details

🕺 Deep Funk with Mati Baz and George Aresti

The long-running Deep Funk spirit carries on at The CLF Art Lounge Pop Up with a free-entry, first-Saturday dance session. Mati Baz and George Aresti dig into deep funk, soul, boogie, Latin, disco and beyond — strictly for people who intend to move properly.

Vinyl-led, joyful and uncomplicated. The funk is on.

🗓 Sat 1 Aug, 5pm–1am
📍 The CLF Art Lounge Pop Up, 120 Peckham Hill Street, SE15
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Step-free venue with accessible toilets; contact CLF for reserved access space

🌈 SET Social Pride Community Day & Market

SET Social throws open its doors and garden for a Pride edition of its Community Day & Market — an all-day, all-ages one.

Expect market stalls, food from Plateful Café, and a bake sale raising money for Dinner on the Hill and the ESEA (East and South East Asian) Community Centre. A midday Kids Rave kicks things off, then Raze Collective bring their Scratch Sunday to SET — a Pride edition of queer performance and joy, with featured performer Darcy, a South London artist working across acting, singing, DJing and movement. Flash Folk round the day off with a performance of Queering the Tradition.

🗓 Sun 2 Aug, 12–9pm
📍 SET Social, 55A Nigel Road, SE15
🎟 Free
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🎶 GAUCHOWORLD daytime dance at Jumbi

GAUCHOWORLD lands at Jumbi for a Sunday daytime dance with a stacked local lineup: akuonthebeat, Imana Aliyah, Sweeetjuan, Arinola, Karanikarani, Dean Je George, Temporary Melly, Misfya, The Klonde and Noliiitha. It runs through the afternoon into early evening — so one for the sunshine dancers rather than the 3am goblins.

🗓 Sun 2 Aug, 3–9pm
📍 Jumbi, Copeland Park, SE15
🎟 From £5.50 · tickets via Resident Advisor
♿ Check venue site for full access details

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎤 The Poetry Foyer: Open Verse (Thu 30 Jul, 6:30–9:30pm, Theatre Peckham, free): Poetic Unity throw the mic open — bring a poem, an unfiltered story, or just come to listen. Read well and there’s a paid feature slot up for grabs in August.

2. 🎸 Hang The DJ Vol. 8 (Thu 30 Jul, 8pm–late, TOLA Peckham, £3–8): Indie till late with contemporary art on the walls and student-friendly prices before midnight. An easy, cheap Thursday out.

3. 🎹 GBSR Duo: Ray Lynch & Charles Ives (Sat 1 Aug, 7:30pm, Bold Tendencies, from £17.50): The duo pair American maverick Charles Ives with a brand-new synth-and-acoustic take on Ray Lynch, up in the rooftop concert hall.

4. 🌿 Community Wildlife Garden volunteer morning (Sun 2 Aug, 10am–12pm, Peckham Rye Park, free): A gentle morning with the Friends of Peckham Rye Park — hands in the soil, keeping the wildlife garden thriving. All welcome.

5. 💖 Fruity Singles Mix (Sun 2 Aug, 6–9:30pm, The Ivy House, £5–10): Queer Love Co keep dating low-pressure — small-group chats, conversation cards and live music between mingling rounds. Come as you are.

📽️ Cinema

Big one this week: Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings in, with Tom Holland back as a forgotten Peter Parker living alone as a full-time Spidey — until the pressure tips him somewhere darker and a new enemy shows up (Zendaya, Sadie Sink and Mark Ruffalo along for the ride).

Lovely one for the little ones, and a good cause: Sun 2 Aug, 11am, there’s an advance charity screening of Paw Patrol 3: The Dino Movie, with all proceeds going to MediCinema — a charity that runs cinemas inside hospitals so patients can watch films as part of their care. More Paw Patrol screenings land Tue–Thu, some captioned, if Sunday doesn’t suit.

Something different on Wed 5 Aug (19:45): Turandot, filmed on Sydney Harbour — Puccini staged outdoors with a 25-metre dragon, a 20-metre pagoda and a proper big-lunged “Nessun Dorma”. Grand doesn’t quite cover it.

Subtitled screenings this week are The Invite (15) on Mon 3 Aug at 17:00, and Paw Patrol 3: The Dino Movie (U) on Tue 4 Aug at 11:30 and 14:00.

And if none of this week’s headliners land for you, there’s plenty else on the board: The Odyssey (15), Moana (Live Action) and its Sing-a-Long version (PG), Minions and Monsters (U), The Invite (15), Backrooms: Everything Must Go (15), Obsession (18) and Toy Story 5 (PG) are all still playing.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🔥 A performance encounter · Fri 7 Aug · Old Waiting Room
Future Ritual puts two major performance artists – Marilyn Arsem and Anne Bean – into one of Peckham’s strangest rooms, each working from a suitcase of unknown found objects. Expect live risk, odd materials and a post-performance drink across the road at STUDIO. Booking ahead feels sensible for this one. Tickets are selling fast. 🎟 £15 / £18 advance · £10 low wage · £20 on the door · tickets via OutSavvy.

🌞 Melt My Heart Summer Daytime Dance · Sat 8 Aug · The Ivy House
Melt My Heart brings its first summer daytime dance to The Ivy House, moving from hazy afternoon heat into midnight soul. Tickets are optional rather than mandatory, but buying one helps support and sustain the party — a useful little act of dancefloor solidarity. 🎟 Free / donation ticket optional via DICE

📷 All The Rage · 18–31 Aug · Outhouse Gallery, SE5
Photographer Sukhy Hullait’s ongoing project, shot over more than twenty years across Peckham and East Dulwich. Two decades of returning to the same streets, paying attention to the people and places that might otherwise slip from view — a love letter to a community, and to an area shaped by constant change. One to catch while I’m off for the summer. 🎟 Free · Outhouse Gallery, Unit 1, 24 Brunswick Park, SE5.

💬 Local shoutout

💖 Fundraiser: SET Social passes £9.5k
SET Social has now raised £9,549.56 towards its £23k reopening fundraiser — £8,226.56 from the Grand Reopening Fundraiser and £1,323 in online donations. The team says it still needs around £13.45k by September to steady the ship, cover lost costs and keep its arts and community programme running. If SET has held you, now is a good moment to hold it back.

📚 Open call: Time & Space residencies for Black feminists
The Feminist Library is offering three residencies for Black feminists in London in 2027, each with a £1,500 stipend, four consecutive weeks of free private office space, mentoring, and access to the library’s collection and facilities. It’s built for self-directed development, study, reflection or recuperation — no portfolio or CV required. There’s an info day at the library on Sun 30 Aug, 12–2pm, and applications close 15 Oct 2026.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🥤 Extra treat: MULTI STORY’s iced specials (and a new Tuesday)

Multi Story up at Peckham Levels has rolled out a run of iced specials on the coffee shop menu, and they sound like exactly the thing for a warm week: a salted banana iced latte with vanilla cold foam, a miso maple iced latte, a strawberry iced matcha, and a yuzu iced Earl Grey. Sweet, a little unusual, very drinkable in the sun.

They’re also now open on Tuesdays from 9am — handy news for anyone whose week doesn’t properly start without a cold coffee in hand.

🗓 Wed–Thu 9am–midnight · Fri 9am–1am · Sat 12pm–1am · Sun 12pm–9pm · Mon closed · Tue 9am–5pm
📍 Multi Story, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, SE15

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15.

No issue for August or September — the next one lands Thursday 1 October. See you in the autumn.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

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It’s shaping up to be a hot one — Friday especially — so this is a week for getting outside and letting the good stuff come to you. And it will: dance roaming through Nunhead Cemetery, Oona Doherty back on the Bold Tendencies rooftop, a quiet exhibition in the old station waiting room, a warehouse birthday at Jumbi. A lot of what’s on is happening somewhere that isn’t a stage.

There’s plenty to feel good about doing, too — £10 plates across Peckham raising money for Peckham Pantry, a comedy night for Black Minds Matter, and a couple of local meetings if you fancy having your say. Pace yourself, wear decent shoes, and I’ll see you out there.

🌦️ Showers: Thu · 🌞 Sunny: Fri · 🌤 Sunny spells: Sat · 🌤 Cooler: Sun

Thursday turns cloudier for a spell with a few light showers possible in the afternoon, then dries out with more sunshine by evening. Friday’s the standout — dry, very warm and full of sunshine, if a little hazy at times. Saturday and Sunday keep the sunny spells but bring patchy cloud and the odd isolated shower, turning cooler across the weekend. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: dispersal at Nunhead Cemetery

dispersal is a series of roaming, improvised performances that respond to spaces not normally used for it — co-ordinated by Iris Colomb, Joy Salomon-Corlobé and Daryl Worthington. Each one pulls together a different cast across poetry, performance, music and visual art, and moves through the space as it unfolds.

This Saturday it comes to Nunhead Cemetery with its biggest group of performers yet — a cast of 15, including Kate Carr, Petra Haller, Rick Jensen, Carys Mai, Agathe Max and Luigi Monteanni. It begins in the chapel by the Linden Grove entrance, so aim for the 2:30pm start; once it moves off, you’ll be following it through the grounds. Full line-up is on Instagram.

🗓 Sat 25 Jul, 2:30–3:30pm
📍 Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove entrance, SE15 3LP
🎟 Free · details via Instagram
♿ The grounds are wooded and uneven underfoot, so decent shoes are wise; check with the organisers for specifics

🎤 Special Guest at Multi Story

Special Guest is the open mic night where anything goes: one mic, one minute, and a room full of people deciding what happens next.

Expect true stories, hidden talents, shower thoughts, confessions, tiny performances and unexpected little acts of bravery. Taking the mic is optional; listening and clapping are the core functions.

🗓 Thu 23 Jul, 7–10:30pm
📍 Multi Story, Peckham Levels
🎟 £8–£15 · tickets via Special Guest
♿ Step-free access via lifts within Peckham Levels

💃 Oona Doherty at Bold Tendencies

If you were up on the roof for Hope Hunt last week — the solo that opened Doherty’s Life starts at 40 season — good news: she’s back for two more nights. On Thursday, Almost Blue & Navy Blue pairs a lone trumpet with her searching, physical farewell dance; on Saturday, Leather Jacket gets its world premiere.

Leather Jacket is Bold Tendencies’ second full-length commission: a violent, relentless work built around “the bounce”, where the dancers’ bodies become the sound and the score. Rooftop concrete, dusk, grit, weather.

🗓 Thu 23 Jul & Sat 25 Jul, 8pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £20 · tickets via Dice for Almost Blue & Navy Blue and Leather Jacket
♿ Check Bold Tendencies’ accessibility page before booking

🪩 Until The Morning… #001

Rago launches Until The Morning… at TOLA — a new late-night party series built from years of records, radio shows and curating dancefloors.

For the first edition, Goya Gumbani, Rago, Faye Frazer, Nina Yamada and Rimix take things from 10pm to 4am. Dress intentionally; stay a little longer than planned. A sensible instruction, for once.

🗓 Fri 24 Jul, 10pm–4am
📍 TOLA Peckham, 56 Peckham High Street, SE15 5DP
🎟 £7–£12 · tickets via RA
♿ TBC — check venue directly for access details

🎂 Jumbi 4th birthday warehouse party

Jumbi turns four with a two-venue birthday takeover — friends, family, selectors and food from Original Flava Kitchen.

Leading a weighty line-up: NTS resident Martelo, No Requests (Tiffany Calver), Mia Koden, dare balogun and Maxwell Owin, with live sounds from Mangrove Steel Band and the Jumbi Family — plus a headline guest still kept under wraps. A big Copeland Park celebration with enough corners to scratch several musical itches. Last year sold out and this one’s already moving, so grab tickets ahead.

🗓 Sat 25 Jul, 2–10pm
📍 Jumbi, Copeland Park
🎟 £15–£36.90 · tickets via RA
♿ Check venue site for full access details

😂 It's A Laughing Matter — charity comedy night

Black Minds Matter UK brings a one-night comedy bill to Theatre Peckham, headlined by Slim and hosted by Chizzy Akudolu.

Wes Defoe, Chantel Nash, Nadz, Micah Hall, Kobi Coker and Max McKenzie round out the line-up, with ticket sales supporting culturally appropriate talking therapy for Black individuals and families.

🗓 Sun 26 Jul, 6:45–9:15pm
📍 Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, SE5 7SB
🎟 From £22.38 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ TBC — check venue site for full access details

🎨 Peckham Art Flea Market

Peckham Art Flea Market brings independent artists to Peckham Oasis Gallery for a Sunday rummage through prints, stickers and one-off handmade pieces.

Ghostflower Creations and Sojaded Arts are among the makers. Free to get in — the sort of afternoon where you pop in for a sticker and leave with a stack of prints.

🗓 Sun 26 Jul, 3–6pm
📍 Peckham Oasis Gallery, Unit 4, Dovedale Trading Estate, SE15 4QN
🎟 Free · details via Instagram
♿ Check gallery directly for access details

🖼️ WANDER / WONDER: Are You Still Here?

The final chapter of Shirin Majid’s WANDER / WONDER series brings 21 sculptors, writers, painters, photographers, ceramicists, designers and makers into the Old Waiting Room.

Expect miniature still lifes, small worlds and quiet responses to presence, waiting and the strange little pause between where you’ve been and where you’re going.

🗓 Sun 26 Jul, 1–6pm
📍 Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station
🎟 Free
♿ Check venue directly for full access details

✨ Quick hits

1. 🌈 Club Bananas Pride collaging workshop (Thu 23 Jul, 7–9pm, Bussey Rooftop Bar, £5–£8): Make collages for your idols, icons, mothers and queens in a relaxed queer sunset session.

2. 🎂 Diasporas Now fifth anniversary at IKLECTIK (Fri 24 Jul, 7–11pm, IKLECTIK, £12.35–£24.69): Five years of Diasporas Now, marked with movement, live score, sound, archive, birthday cake and a closing set.

3. 🎶 Friends of Music and Life at SET Social (Sat 25 Jul, from 2pm, SET Social, free): A monthly jam-and-hangout for musicians, writers, artists and curious listeners — no experience needed.

4. 🌱 Plant & Bake Sale at Glengall Wharf Garden (Sun 26 Jul, noon–7pm, Glengall Wharf Garden, £2 · free under-16s): Plants, bakes, honey, Indonesian street food, hen hugs and botanical drinks in the garden.

5. 🎮 CONTROL panel discussion (Tue 28 Jul, 7–8pm, Peckham Oasis Gallery, free): Artists and curator Julia Greenway unpack video games, simulated worlds, control and contemporary art.

📽️ Cinema

Leading the new releases is Spider-Man: Brand New Day (12A) — Tom Holland back as a forgotten Peter Parker, living alone as a full-time Spider-Man until the pressure tips something dangerous loose and a powerful new enemy turns up. Zendaya, Sadie Sink and Mark Ruffalo round out the cast. Opens Wed 29 Jul, then daily from Thu 30 Jul.

One night only: WHAM! 10 Days in China (12A), a music doc built around restored footage of the band’s 1985 tour of China — the trip that helped launch them worldwide and, at the time, had plenty of people calling them Britain’s biggest group. In English and Chinese. Tue 28 Jul, 8:30pm.

Also showing: The Odyssey (15), both Moana live-action screenings (regular and sing-along), Minions and Monsters (U), The Invite (15), Backrooms: Everything Must Go (15), Obsession (18), Toy Story 5 (PG), The Mandalorian & Grogu (12A), and Michael (12A) — the Michael Jackson biopic, which just tipped past a billion dollars worldwide, joining only 63 other films to reach ten figures.

Subtitled screenings this week: Toy Story 5 (PG) — Sun 26 Jul, 3:45pm; The Invite (15) — Mon 27 Jul, 2:20pm.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — three to pop in the diary.

🎬 Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival · Fri 4–Sun 13 Sep · various Peckham & Nunhead venues — the volunteer-powered neighbourhood film festival returns for its 17th year, with free screenings across SE15. Planning’s underway now, and volunteers are welcome if you fancy helping bring the programme to life. 🎟 Free · details via PNFFF.

🎭 Peckham Playground · Wed 30 Sep–Sun 4 Oct · Copeland Park — the comedy festival returns to Peckham’s cultural quarter for five days, with line-up and tickets still to be announced. Presales start Thu 23 Jul, so join the mailing list for a code if you want first dibs. 🎟 Join the mailing list.

🎤 The Poetry Foyer: Open Verse · Thu 30 Jul · Theatre Peckham — Poetic Unity’s July edition throws the mic open for first-come open-mic slots, with a competition where poets can win a paid feature slot at August’s edition. Runs 6:30–9:30pm, fully accessible venue. 🎟 Free · register via Theatre Peckham.

💬 Local shoutout

A few bits of neighbourhood news (and a couple of ways to have your say) this week.

📣 Copeland Community public meeting on the Arada development
Copeland Community is holding a final public meeting before Arada’s development plan goes in for planning approval. Representatives from Arada and Southwark planning officers are expected, and residents are invited to share concerns and feedback. It’s at The Green, Nunhead (SE15 3SS) on Thu 23 Jul, 6–8pm.

🎨 Open call: Anglican Chapel ruin projects
Southwark Council is inviting proposals for art exhibitions, performances, workshops and engagement activities in the Anglican Chapel ruin at Nunhead Cemetery, part of the East Lodge restoration. Family-friendly ideas are especially welcome — email Catrin Podgorski at catrin.podgorski@southwark.gov.uk to talk through an idea.

🎓 Pecan is now a training centre
Trainers can now hire rooms at Pecan — the Peckham community charity — for their courses. For information and costs, including on accredited training programmes, email employment.support@pecan.org.uk.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Peckham Weekend 2026

Peckham Weekend is back for a third year: 20 local restaurants, bars and cafés each serving a £10 special, with £1 from every one going to Peckham Pantry — the membership food club at Pecan that helps local families on lower incomes eat well for less.

Here’s the bit worth shouting about: last year the weekend raised over £1,000 for the Pantry. There are even more places taking part this time, so there’s every reason to think we can beat it — and it’s about the easiest kind of giving there is, since you were going to eat out anyway.

The edible map runs from Mr Bao’s BBQ mackerel and Lai Rai’s roast pork bánh mì to Forza Wine’s cauliflower fritti, En Root’s crispy jerk shroom burger and Ganapati’s prawn dosa — plus Rice Paddy, Peckham Cellars, Shorty’s, Janda Diner, NOLA, Bà Ba, Kruk, Bara, Eastern Bloc, Maiz and more. Useful, delicious, pleasingly SE15.

So pick a few, eat your way round, and know that every plate and glass chips in. Twenty kitchens, one Pantry — let’s beat last year’s total.

🗓 Fri 24–Sun 26 Jul
📍 Across Peckham
🎟 £10 specials · see the full line-up

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
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Well, that one stung. Argentina are through, England are out, and half the neighbourhood is nursing a very particular kind of heartbreak.

The good news: the sun’s got our back. It’s a proper warm one all week, the kind of stretch where Peckham spills outdoors and everything feels a little easier. And there’s plenty to spill towards — a fierce Oona Doherty solo up on the Bold Tendencies roof, a whole community day in Burgess Park, late club nights, youth-led art at the South London Gallery, and The Odyssey finally landing at the Plex.

And yes, there’s still a final on Sunday — Argentina v Spain, 8pm, big screens on across Peckham. No dog in the fight this year, but sometimes neutral is the most relaxing way to watch.

Grab some shade, drink some water, and I’ll see you out there.

☀️ Hot + sunny: Thu · 🌞 Sunny + warm: Fri · 🌞 Sunny + warm: Sat · 🌤 Cooler, still bright: Sun

A proper sunny run this week — make the most of it. Thursday opens bright and hot, clouds over for a spell in the afternoon, then clears again by evening. Friday and Saturday are the pick of it: dry, sunny and very warm from morning on. Sunday keeps the sunshine but dials the heat back a little — easier going if the week’s warmth has worn you out. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Hope Hunt & The Ascension into Lazarus

Oona Doherty opens Life starts at 40 — Bold Tendencies’ season marking the choreographer’s 40th year and a decade of her work — with Hope Hunt, the solo that made her name. Part dance, part physical theatre, part social commentary, it’s furious, precise and full of swagger: a piece about masculinity, class and finding beauty at the margins.

For the finale, Ascension into Lazarus, the stage floods bright and Caravaggesque — deep shadow, sudden light — as postgraduate dancers from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, where Doherty is an Honorary Fellow, join her in the hunt for hope. A strong pick if you want something with a bit of voltage in the bones.

🗓 Wed 22 Jul, 8pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, 95a Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 £20 · tickets via DICE
♿ Check Bold Tendencies’ accessibility page before booking

🖼️ Desire Paths at South London Gallery

SLG’s youth collective, the Art Assassins, take over the gallery for a weekend of new work, discussion, workshops and live performance. Over nine months they’ve worked with artist Halina Edwards around the idea of “desire paths” — the unofficial routes people wear into the grass when the paved way doesn’t go where they want — using it to think through ‘community’, ‘present self’ and ‘future worlds’. The exhibition is where that journey lands.

Saturday’s the big one: new artworks, a panel led by the Art Assassins, drop-in workshops, live poetry, and free food, drinks and music — a room of young creatives finding their own routes through the art world. On Sunday the show stays open to the public. Come alone or bring someone.

🗓 Sat 18 Jul, 2–5:30pm · Sun 19 Jul, 12–6pm (exhibition open)
📍 South London Gallery, 65–67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH
🎟 Free / £5 donation · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎛️ LOVE IS THE END: daisy live

Electronic artist daisy (formerly BABii) lands at Vespers Club for LOVE IS THE END, a late-night club bill from promoters XPHORIA with Akiko Haruna, Artur M Puga, 飞飞 and more. Expect breakcore, club pressure and an experimental dancefloor with a DIY, make-and-let-go streak.

One for the heads who like pop fragments pulled through bass, noise and 3am energy.

🗓 Sat 18 Jul, 9pm–3am
📍 Vespers Club, 133a Rye Lane, SE15 4BQ
🎟 £18.50–£22.50 · tickets via Resident Advisor
♿ Compact club space — contact the venue or promoter for access

🎪 SE Fest: Making Our Neighbourhood

Sounds Between People brings a proper neighbourhood day to Chumleigh Gardens: local musicians, speakers, food traders and community stalls sharing the same Burgess Park patch. It’s built around the useful stuff — meeting, sharing, making, speaking, eating and organising — with enough live music and garden energy to feel like a small SE London festival rather than a meeting with bunting.

Go for grassroots groups, local ideas and a low-pressure Sunday wander through people trying to make the area more connected. And if you’d rather roll your sleeves up, Sounds Between People CIC needs hands to make it happen — set-up, artist liaison, driving, pallet-shifting and on-the-day support, no experience needed. Drop them a DM to get involved.

🗓 Sun 19 Jul, 12–6pm
📍 Chumleigh Gardens, Burgess Park, SE5
🎟 Free / donation ticket options · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Step-free, outdoor site

🎹 Carolina Cury’s GLISSBLISS

Italian-Brazilian pianist, vocalist and composer Carolina Cury brings GLISSBLISS to IKLECTIK — a launch night for her new album, blending piano, voice, strings and electronics into avant-garde pop that slides between intimacy and theatre.

It’s an immersive one: movement, costume and visual art wrapped around the music, with costume and installation work from Ofildesoie and a closing DJ set from felicita (PC Music).

🗓 Sun 19 Jul, 7–11pm
📍 IKLECTIK at Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £15 · tickets via DICE
♿ Lift access at Peckham Levels

✨ Quick hits

1. 📚 STST Word Club: IN-HOUSE with Alice Hattrick (Thu 16 Jul, 7–10pm, Staffordshire St, £3–£9): Staffordshire St brings writers and readers in-house for readings, works-in-progress and word-world chat with Alice Hattrick, Joe Conroy, Flora Elmi Beagley and Sufiyaan Salam.

2. 🍖 Neighbours summer issue launch (Sat 18 Jul, 5–9pm, Burgess Park BBQ Area, free): F.A.T. Studio brings its summer issue to the park with food, performance, games and BBQ-area looseness.

3. 🌱 Summer Cuttings Workshop (Sat 18 Jul, 10am–1pm, Burgess Park Community Plant Nursery, free): A hands-on morning for plant-swappers, with practical propagation tips for edible, ornamental and wildlife-friendly cuttings.

4. 📚 Miki Berenyi (Lush) in conversation (Tue 21 Jul, 7–10pm, The Ivy House, £14.79–£38.62): Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club brings the Lush co-founder in to talk her memoir Fingers Crossed, 90s music stories, Q&A and signing.

5. 🍲 Festival of Community consultation (Wed 22 Jul, 4:30–7pm, Staffordshire St, free): Drop in for food + chat and help shape Staffordshire St’s Festival of Community.

📽️ Cinema

Just the one new arrival, but it’s a giant: The Odyssey (15) has finally sailed in. Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer, with Matt Damon as Odysseus making the long way home to Ithaca — past the Cyclops, the Sirens and Calypso — ten years on from the Trojan War.

It’s his 13th feature and the first shot entirely on IMAX cameras: a reported $250m, 5,000 extras and locations across Greece, Italy, Morocco, Scotland, Ireland and Malta. The cast keeps going too — Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth. It sold out around the world a year before release; now it’s on daily on Rye Lane. Runs 172 minutes, so settle in.

Otherwise a quiet week: there are subtitled screenings on Mon 20 Jul — Minions and Monsters (U) and Evil Dead Burn (18) — and plenty’s still playing, from Toy Story 5 to Moana (live action) and The Mandalorian & Grogu.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🎤 The Poetry Foyer: Open Verse · Thu 30 Jul · Theatre Peckham
Poetic Unity throws the mic wide open for a July edition built around Open Verse: community poems, first-come open mic slots, and a chance for performers to win a paid feature at August’s Poetry Foyer. Free, but one to register for early if you want a seat or a slot. 🎟 Free · tickets via Theatre Peckham.

🥞 Paratha Club screens Cactus Pears · Tue 28 Jul · SET Social
Homemade mooli (radish) parathas, masala chai and the Sundance-winning Marathi queer drama Cactus Pears make this a proper cosy food-and-film night from Mala Lal of Tava Rakh. Limited spots, supper-club energy, actual dinner included, and a Tuesday plan that doesn’t involve scrolling yourself into standby mode. 🎟 £17.50 · tickets via Eventbrite.

🧶 Soft Ground: Textiles and Self-Soothing · Fri 31 Jul–Fri 11 Sep · SET Social
Looking Forward’s free weekly textile sessions return, with Sue Mayo and Jenny McIlhatton leading gentle workshops using recycled materials and fashion waste. Open to all, with a particular welcome for neurodivergent participants — and free spots worth reserving before the thread runs away from us. 🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite.

💬 Local shoutout

✊ Fundraiser: Peckham Not For Sale
Aylesham Community Action (ACA) — the residents fighting Berkeley Homes' plan to demolish the Aylesham Centre and replace it with 867 flats (just 50 of them social housing) in blocks up to 20 storeys — won a big one in May, when the planning inspector rejected the scheme on design, heritage and small-business grounds. Southwark Council and local MP Miatta Fahnbulleh opposed it too. Now Berkeley are challenging that decision in the High Court, and ACA needs to stay in the room to defend it: they're raising £5,000 towards court costs. Any amount helps, and if you can't give, sharing the campaign counts. They beat this scheme once already — this is about holding the line.

✏️ Jitesh Patel’s Peckhamplex illustration reel
Local illustrator Jitesh Patel has been sketching Peckhamplex in pleasingly obsessive detail — around 20 hours on the drawing, three more on the reel. No event, no catch, just a nice bit of Peckham worth a watch.

🖼 Portraits of Peckham at Peckham Clock Tower
Myah Asha Jeffers' new Peckham Platform commission is up at Peckham Clock Tower: a 9.8m × 7.3m billboard of portraits she took at last year's Circular Square summer event, celebrating the people who make Peckham home. Look up next time you pass the Clock Tower.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Old & Young Dinner at BAR D4100

Dinner for One Hundred is bringing back the community dinner that started it all: a three-course meal, pub quiz and a very wholesome premise. Buy a ticket, bring your granny or an older neighbour who deserves a night out, and their place is free. It is part of a two-dinner run from the D4100 crew. The second date — a secret garden party on Thu 23 Jul — is already sold out, so this BAR D4100 dinner is the one to move on if you want in.

Bring good judgement on the “old” and “young” question. BAR D4100 has explicitly declined to solve philosophy for us.

🗓 Tue 21 Jul, 7–11pm
📍 BAR D4100, 143 Evelina Rd, SE15 3HB
🎟 £25, older guests free · tickets via Dinner for One Hundred
♿ TBC – check venue directly for access details

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
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Little milestone before we get into it: Peckham.Live turned one last week (2 July, if you’re keeping score). A year ago, 23 of you were reading. Now it’s 261 subscribers, 14.9K reads and 1,330 of you on Instagram — all of it word of mouth, all of it you.

One year of scrolling so you don’t have to, of pointing you towards good things happening on your doorstep — all because you keep reading, sharing and sending tips. Thank you, genuinely. Here’s to the next lap around Rye Lane!

Now, this week. It’s a hot one and a big one: England are in the quarter-finals, Bold Tendencies is humming, and there’s art, wine, film and experimental sound scattered right across SE15. Grab a cold drink and dig in.

☀️ Sunny: Thu · ☀️ Sunny: Fri · 🌞 Hot: Sat · 🌤 Bright, breezier: Sun

Thursday’s another hot, dry one — widespread sunshine and barely a cloud in sight. Friday and Saturday keep it up: dry, fine and sunny, with just the odd cloud drifting through. Sunday stays bright but eases off a touch, with north-easterly breezes picking up to take the edge off the heat. A proper sunny stretch — slap on the suncream, carry water, and find some shade when you need it. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: England v Norway

England are through to the quarter-finals, so the question isn’t whether to watch — it’s where to put your nervous little body while it happens. Pick your temperament: big community screen, pub-and-pizza chaos, food-hall buzz, or rooftop ease. Peckham’s sorted on all four.

For the full screening-room version, Shai Space takes the match to Livesey Exchange on a 16-foot cinema screen, with food, drinks and a deliberately welcoming crowd. Or go to SET Social, showing it free in the Hall, with DJs in the Red Bar after the final whistle. A lovely way to back a space that’s fighting for its future (more on that in Local shoutout).

For the pub version, John the Unicorn does a warm up properly: JRK on the decks from 7pm, Yard Sale Pizza before kick-off, big screens and an afterparty till 2am. The White Horse has been doing crowd-pleasing matchdays since the 1800s, all well-kept ales and cold lagers. And the Nag’s Head on Rye Lane is your no-fuss community boozer — big screens, cheap pints, proper local crowd.

Fancy food-hall energy? Multi Story at Peckham Levels (big screens, street food, table football to burn off the nerves) and Peckham Arches joins them with screens all round the venue — walk-ins from 6pm, so get there early.

🗓 Sat 11 Jul, kick-off 10pm

🎻 The Multi-Story Orchestra: Have Mercy

The Multi-Story Orchestra is back at Bold Tendencies with Have Mercy, a new piece built for the car park’s concrete-cathedral acoustics. It follows Mercy — the girl everyone expects big things from, top of the class, “most likely to succeed” — who feels unseen at home, until her Grandad recognises what she’s really worth: not her grades, but her words. Composed by Yshani Perinpanayagam with songs by Gabrielle Chudi and a story by Montel Douglas, it’s made alongside the orchestra’s Young Creatives — a proper local, made-here piece. Classical music with height, echo and a bit of Peckham sky around it. Two nights only.

🗓 Thu 9–Fri 10 Jul, 7–8pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, 95a Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 £9.50 · tickets via Dice
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎮 CONTROL (group show) at OHSH Projects

OHSH Projects opens CONTROL, a group show taking video games seriously as a cultural form — not just play, but world-building, character-making, rules, systems and feeling. Fifteen artists, spanning Suzanne Treister’s early fictional game stills through to contemporary work that treats rendered worlds as places with their own emotional logic.

One for anyone who likes art with a controller-shaped shadow: digital culture, design thinking, speculative worlds and the strange intimacy of games that stay with you after the screen goes dark.

🗓 Open Thur-Sat, 12-5pm until 1 Aug
📍 OHSH Projects, Peckham Oasis, Unit 4 Dovedale Trading Estate, SE15
🎟 Free
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎪 Feminist Library Summer Fair

The Feminist Library throws its doors open for a Summer Fair — stalls from friends and comrades selling zines, art and things they’ve made, a jumble table, arts-and-activism workshops and summer refreshments. Expect Rachael House (zines, art), Ayshe-Mira (tarot, zines, art), Khidr Collective (zines) and Yasamin (art prints), plus cakes and sweet treats from Savannah. The Library’s own bookshop, pre-loved goods and drinks are all in aid of a trans mutual aid fund. More stalls still to be confirmed.

🗓 Sat 11 Jul - 12-5pm
📍 Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite (few tickets left for the workshops)
♿ Fully accessible venue

🔊 IKLECTIK 12th Anniversary Party

IKLECTIK celebrates 12 years at its new Peckham Levels base with a pay-what-you-can night of strange frequencies and beautiful creatures. The line-up folds together Quieting’s London premiere, DUSHUME X DHANGSHA, aya on DJ duties and a live techno set from Rrose — with more still to come. A birthday party, yes, but also a small act of backing a space that’s spent 12 years making room for experimental sound.

🗓 Sat 11 Jul, 6pm–1am
📍 IKLECTIK at Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 From £5 / PWYC · tickets via Resident Advisor
♿ Step-free access via lifts

🖼️ Telegraph Hill Arts Club: exhibition opening + celebration

Hill Station Café opens a community exhibition with work by more than 50 local artists aged 5 to 88. Opening day comes with free food and drinks, music and creative activities — less quiet private view, more Telegraph Hill putting its art on the table. One for neighbours, families and anyone who likes local culture with actual local people in it.

🗓 Sat 11 Jul, 4pm–late
📍 Hill Station Café, Kitto Rd, SE14 5TW
🎟 Free · RSVP via Outsavvy
♿ Step-free access and accessible toilet, per organiser

✨ Quick hits

1. 🚶 Living Streams Connect promenade (Sat 11 Jul, 4–6pm, Round Café, donation): A gentle exploratory walk around Peckham Rye, animated by original music, tracing rivers, migration and sanctuary.

2. 🎶 Astra Forward + Spy From Moscow (Sun 12 Jul, 7:30pm, The Ivy House, £12 / £8): Experimental songwriting, grunge-laced alt-rock and cinematic folk from Astra Forward, Spy From Moscow and Mock Deer.

3. 🎨 PLAY DATE (Tue 14 Jul, 6pm, The Old Waiting Room, free / donations welcome): Miranda Pissarides and Dirrty Harry turn food, body and paint into a live cycle of excess and transformation.

4. 🧪 TRASHHHEAP workshop (Wed 15–Thu 16 Jul, 2–5pm, London Performance Studios, £5): Horizontal Practices invites artists into a two-day workshop for messy research, collective making and productive creative debris.

5. 🌀 The Conch (Wed 15 Jul, 7–8:45pm, South London Gallery, £10 / £5 members & concs): Artists share works-in-progress where language, images and technology break down, repeat and glitch in front of the room.

📽️ Cinema

More heat, more movies — and the Plex is the coolest room on Rye Lane, so consider this your excuse.

🆕 New this week
🌊 MOANA (PG) — Young Moana leaves her island for the first time on an epic seafaring adventure to restore her people’s fortunes. Dwayne Johnson’s back as Maui — the first time an actor from a Disney animation has physically played the same character in a live-action remake. (115 mins)
🗓 Fri/Sun 15:00, 17:50, 20:30 · Sat 12:10, 17:50, 20:30 · Mon/Tue/Thu 17:50, 20:30 · Wed 20:30
🎶 MOANA (Sing-A-Long) (PG) — Same voyage, now with the words on screen. Belt it out.
🗓 Sat 15:00 · Sun 12:10 · Wed 17:50
🩸 EVIL DEAD: BURN (18) — After losing her husband, a woman takes refuge with her in-laws — until, one by one, they turn into deadites. Turns out the vows she took survive death too. Proper gory horror. (109 mins)
🗓 Advance screening Thu 9 July 20:45 · then Fri–Sun 16:00, 18:30, 21:00 · Mon–Thu 18:30, 21:00

✨ One night only
🎞 OUT OF PRINT (18) — A love letter to watching films on 35mm, in independent cinemas, with an audience. Shot on digital and film, it visits LA’s New Beverly and London’s own Prince Charles Cinema as stand-ins for the picture houses keeping cinema alive. Ten years on and more relevant than ever. (90 mins)
🗓 Mon 13 July, 18:30

💬 Subtitled screenings
THE INVITE (15) Fri 10 July 15:45 · OBSESSION (18) Wed 15 July 20:40

🍿 Also playing
Minions and Monsters (U) · The Invite (15) · Backrooms: Everything Must Go — Bonus Edition (15) · Supergirl (12A) · Obsession (18) · Toy Story 5 (PG) · The Mandalorian & Grogu (12A) · The Sheep Detectives (PG) · Michael (12A) · The Magic Faraway Tree (U)

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 2 dates to bookmark now.

🍽 Peckham Weekender · Fri 24–Sun 26 Jul · Across SE15
Back for a third year: 19 of SE15’s best kitchens each serving an exclusive £10 special across one weekend, with £1 from every dish going to Peckham Pantry for local families facing food insecurity. Mr Bao, Forza Wine, Peckham Cellars, Ganapati, Lai Rai, Kruk, Rice Paddy and more are in. No tickets, no booking — just rock up and order the special. 🎟 Free entry, pay per dish · more info via Shortlist

🎨 Desire Paths at South London Gallery · Sat 18–Sun 19 Jul · Peckham Road
SLG’s youth collective, the Art Assassins, take over the Clore Studio after nine months working with artist Halina Edwards on the idea of “desire paths” — thinking through community, present selves and future worlds. 🎟 Free, drop-in · book ahead via Eventbrite

💬 Local shoutout

🏗️ SET Social at risk of redevelopment
The Cherwell Group has put forward redevelopment proposals for 55 Nigel Road — the building that houses SET Social. There’s a public exhibition on Thu 9 Jul, 4–8pm, where you can see the plans, ask questions and have your say. If SET’s been part of your Peckham, this is the moment to turn up and be counted.

☕ Summer Community Coffee Morning at Bold Tendencies
Bold Tendencies is putting on a relaxed morning for local community groups on Thu 16 Jul: free tea, coffee and refreshments from Frank’s Café, creative activities and a tour of the visual arts commissions on site. An easy way to meet neighbours, get to know Pecan and have a gentler look around the car park’s summer programme.

🎥 Open call: film and video artists at Peckham Oasis Gallery
Peckham Oasis Gallery is opening a new screening space next to its main gallery, and it’s after experimental film and video art to show there. No fixed theme — so this one’s for moving-image artists with something strange, tender or unruly ready to go. Submission details are in the gallery’s post.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍷 Peckham Cellars Annual Summer Wine Fair

Peckham Cellars pours 30 wines for its annual summer fair, with two ticketed Sunday sessions and wine reps on hand to talk you through what’s in the glass. Fair warning: this one usually sells out, so future-you with a glass of chilled something interesting will thank present-you for moving quickly.

🗓 Sun 12 Jul, 1pm and 3:45pm sessions
📍 Peckham Cellars, SE15
🎟 £35 · tickets via Eventbrite (1pm and 3:45 pm)

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
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Big day for football — England beat DR Congo 2–1 yesterday to stay in the World Cup, with Mexico up next on Sunday. Screens are already going up around SE15 for a late night show, so tell us: where will you be watching?

Beyond that, this is a proper Saturday of a week. SET Social throws its doors open from midday to 3am for a reopening fundraiser (our pick of the week), while Bold Tendencies, Ivy House and Copeland Park all have full days and nights of their own — punk all-dayers, Reich’s Drumming, outdoor dancing till 9pm. Sunday’s a little gentler: a gallery finissage, a new weekly flea market, and Lai Rai’s first birthday party. Plenty to fill the diary either way.

☀️ Warm: Thu · 🌤 Hazy: Fri · ☀️ Very warm: Sat · ☀️ Sunshine + high cloud: Sun

Thursday starts cloudy with the odd spot of light rain, but turns dry and warm by the afternoon as the cloud clears and sunshine takes over. Friday is dry and sunny, hazy at times, with the warmth building. Saturday stays dry and very warm — sunny in the morning, patchy cloud and sunny spells later. Sunday rounds things off dry and very warm again, with sunshine and a few bands of high cloud. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: SET Social’s Grand Reopening Fundraiser

SET Social is back — and throwing the doors open properly to celebrate. After an unexpected six-week closure during a lease transition, it is reuniting the community this Saturday for a day-to-night Grand Reopening Fundraiser: DJs, stalls, workshops, performances and more, running from midday right through to 3am.

The closure hit harder than a normal quiet patch. As a lean, community-funded space, SET relies on steady trade from the bar, café, memberships and bookings just to stay afloat — and six weeks with the doors shut, but the bills still coming in, broke that cycle. They’re now running a £23,000 campaign to cover the overheads and utility costs racked up while closed, so future income can go straight back into programming rather than plugging a hole. Worth being clear: this isn’t a last-gasp save-our-venue appeal — it’s SET being proactive about staying stable for the long run. Saturday’s aim is to clear the first £5,000 of that.

The easiest way to help is simply to show up. Come for the free daytime programme, which folds in SET’s regular Community Day + Market — stalls across crafts, ceramics, zines, vintage, records, bakes and books, plus drop-in life drawing and a charity book sale. SET’s still calling for traders, so if you make or collect things, get in touch. Stick around into the evening for DJs and the rest of the lineup, and if you can, spend at the bar or grab a raffle ticket — no outside drinks, as every sale on the night goes straight toward the goal. Can’t make it down? Sharing or donating to the GoFundMe helps just as much.

🗓 Sat 4 Jul, 12pm–3am
📍 SET Social, 55A Nigel Rd, SE15
🎟 Free entry 12–6pm (donations welcome) · £5 members / £7 guests from 6pm
♿ Wheelchair accessible venue

🎭 London Fantasia: an electric-folk voyage into Thames Valley myth

Magic Ted and friends bring electronic folk, performance art and Thames Valley myth-making to The Ivy House for the first London Fantasia. Across three acts, expect Evanion’s electric-folk album launch, Rain, Steam + Speed’s shadow-and-song river journey, and Chloe Langlois mixing comedy, art and the occult.

A strange little voyage, in the best possible way.

🗓 Thu 2 Jul, 7:30–10:30pm
📍 The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, SE15
🎟 £7 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Limited accessibility; ramp available, no accessible toilets

🥁 Colin Currie Group: Steve Reich’s Drumming

Steve Reich’s Drumming is a proper stamina piece: nine percussionists plus two vocalists and a piccolo player, moving through tuned drums, marimbas and glockenspiels as tiny rhythmic cells expand into something vast over four connected parts.

Bold Tendencies is a good room for this kind of repetition — architectural, hypnotic, a little bit out of ordinary time. One for minimalism heads, percussion nerds and anyone who likes their Saturday night with serious pulse.

🗓 Sat 4 Jul, 7:30pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, 95A Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 From £20 · tickets via Dice
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎸 Tell Me I’m Pretty

A punk, dreampop and grunge-leaning all-dayer at The Ivy House, built around female and non-binary-fronted lineups. On the bill: BOSHE, Faint Images of the Radio Sky, Jackie Sees Red, Kalyani, Kaye and Milkstone.

Proceeds go to an LGBTQIA+ charity, so the brief is pleasingly simple: loud guitars, good cause, excellent pub. Very sensible behaviour, by rock standards.

🗓 Sat 4 Jul, 5–11:30pm
📍 The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, SE15
🎟 £7 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Limited accessibility; ramp available, no accessible toilets

🌀 Feel Good: Jorg Kuning live

Feel Good returns to The Carpet Shop with Jorg Kuning bringing one of his live electronic sets, plus support from Fern Clifton and local selectors.

The poster confirms a late one — 11pm until 4am, tickets on the door. Expect intimate, locked-in dancefloor energy rather than an early night.

🗓 Sat 4 Jul, 11pm–4am
📍 The Carpet Shop, Arch 164, 115 Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 £18 · tickets via RA
♿ Limited accessibility

🪇 Jumbi’s Daytime Dance

A new one for the summer: Jumbi is launching an open-air daytime series in Copeland Park, running every Saturday and Sunday from May through to the end of September.

The idea is simple — togetherness through music and dance, outdoors, in daylight. Each session runs 3–9pm and brings together local and global selectors for a few hours of dancing under the sun, rooted in the same energy sound systems have always carried across cultures and generations. Capacity’s limited, so advance tickets are the sensible move.

This weekend brings two dates back to back:

🗓 Sat 4 Jul, 3–9pm — SUNBEAT with Dare Balogun, Mr. Loose Egusi and Volta 45
🎟 From £5.50 · tickets via RA

🗓 Sun 5 Jul, 3–9pm — EPOKA with Cami Layé Okún
🎟 From £11.50 · tickets via RA

📍 Jumbi, Unit 4.1, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, SE15 3SN
♿ Check Jumbi’s accessibility info

🧵 Silvia Ziranek: BY A THREAD closing event

A closing chance to catch Silvia Ziranek’s BY A THREAD incorporating UNSUNG SONGS at MOCA London. The centrepiece is a large-scale mobile — over ten foot — made from everyday materials like carpet tiles, wallpaper and picture frames, combining sculpture, text and audio to address violent behaviour towards women and girls and offer strength through solidarity.

The finissage includes live readings at 3:15pm, plus a screening of SHE’D SAY, a new work filmed at MOCA London. Drinks sponsored by Whitebox Cocktails.

🗓 Sun 5 Jul, 2–4pm
📍 MOCA London, 113 Bellenden Road, SE15 4QY
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Check venue directly for access details

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎧 Samoota Mini-Festival (Sat 4 Jul, 5–9pm, Outhouse Gallery, free): An evening of Sámi sound and storytelling, with a reading and Q&A featuring Sámi and Indigenous rights lawyer Rebecka Ekberg.

2. 🎤 Finding Rhythms live showcase (Tue 7 Jul, 7–9pm, Peckham Levels, free): A live showcase from the music charity turning lived experience into original songs, with performers sharing new work in the room.

3. 🛠️ I MADE THIS… show & tell night (Tue 7 Jul, 7pm, John the Unicorn, free): A friendly makers’ show-and-tell for works in progress, odd projects and brave little ideas that want a room.

4. 💘 Art Dating Club: Pitch Your Mate (Wed 8 Jul, 7:30–10pm, John the Unicorn, £10): Friends pitch their single mates to the room, making dating feel more like a chaotic community PowerPoint night.

5. ✍️ Resonance Poetry Collective: summer poems workshop (Wed 8 Jul, 7–9pm, Feminist Library, free): A gentle writing workshop for turning summer heat, memory and feeling into poems with other curious local writers.

📽️ Cinema

This week’s headline new release is Minions and Monsters (U) — the yellow chaos agents relocate to 1920s Hollywood, teaming up with a green creature to track down movie monsters and, naturally, ending up saving the planet. Advance screenings run Wed 1 & Thu 2 Jul at 18:00 & 20:00, before it settles into the regular schedule from Friday.

Also new this week: The Invite (15) — Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde (who also directs) star as a couple whose dinner party for their odd upstairs neighbours spirals fast, with Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton rounding out the cast. And for something stranger, Nirvanna: The Band, The Show, The Movie (15) follows two Toronto musicians whose plan to land a gig at their favourite venue turns into an accidental trip back to 2008 — daily at 21:00.

Special events

🎬 Beyond the Silk Road (12A) — Mon 6 Jul, 18:30. Dominic West-led documentary exploring Kyrgyzstan, part of the Documentary Season.

🎭 Aida on Sydney Harbour — Wed 8 Jul, 19:45. Verdi’s opera staged against the Sydney Opera House, part of the Peckhamplex Opera Season.

HOH subtitled screening

♿ Supergirl (12A) — Wed 8 Jul, 18:00

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

❤️‍🔥 The Soft Launch: queer singles mixer · Thu 9 Jul · Staffordshire St
Staffordshire St’s matchmaking night returns with its first queer edition — a 27+ singles mixer built for meeting people off-app, in the room, with a bit of structure and a lot of flirtatious possibility. This sold out last time! 🎟 £15 · tickets via Tickettailor

🍽️ Old & Young Dinner · Tue 21 Jul · Bar D4100
Dinner for One Hundred hosts a joy-forward community dinner where you bring an older person who deserves a night out: three courses, a pub quiz and very good intentions. Older guests go free — booking ahead strongly advised for a table with this much wholesome logistics. 🎟 £25 (older guests free) · tickets via Dinner for One Hundred

🩰 Oona Doherty: Almost Blue & Navy Blue · Thu 23 Jul · Bold Tendencies
A solo farewell dance work by Irish choreographer Oona Doherty, performed with live trumpet — exploring chaos, grief and the space before the beginning. Physical, poetic and quietly devastating. 14+. 🎟 From £20 · tickets via Dice

💬 Local shoutout

🎬 Volunteers wanted: Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival — The festival’s back Fri 4–Sun 13 Sep, and the team’s after volunteers to help make it happen. Drop into Peckham Palms on Sun 5 Jul, 11am–1pm to meet them, ask questions and find out how to get involved.

🎨 Open call: Nunhead Art Trail — Registration’s been extended to Sun 5 Jul for artists wanting to show work in the 11th annual trail, running 26–27 Sep. Returning names and first-timers both welcome — register via the Nunhead Art Trail website or email info@nunheadarttrail.com.

🛍️ Peckham Oasis Gallery launches weekly art flea — Every Sunday from 3pm, Peckham Oasis Gallery turns into an artist flea market, selling art, handmade crafts, prints, jewellery and second-hand clothes — with a bar and Phuc Mi Vietnamese street food on hand to keep shoppers going. It's an independently run space, so the team's asking people to show support by grabbing a drink at the bar while they browse. Fancy a table yourself? Book a stall here — it's free to reserve, and all profits go straight to the artists. This Sunday's the next date.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Lai Rai turns one

A proper Peckham success story hits its first birthday this week. Lai Rai — bánh mì, skewers and bia hơi that’s become a genuine local fixture in twelve months — is marking one year with a week of deals building up to an all-day party.

From Mon 30 Jun through to Sat, expect two beers for £8, wine from £4, and a bánh mì + coffee lunch deal for £12. Then on Sunday, the doors open properly: DJs from 3pm, food and drink deals with an extra 20% off, and a £1 raffle for exclusive Vietnam-made merch, with every penny going to Peckham Pantry.

Twelve months of feeding the neighbourhood well — feels right to return the favour.

🗓 Birthday week: Mon 30 Jun–Sat 4 Jul · All-day party: Sun 5 Jul, 12–9pm
📍 Lai Rai, 181 Rye Lane, SE15 4TP
🎟 Free entry · £1 raffle tickets on the day

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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It’s a hot one, properly hot. Thirties, thick humidity and a couple of thundery mornings, so this is a week for shade, cold drinks and picking your moments. One heads-up before you head out: heat and storms can pull plans at short notice, so check with organisers before you travel.

The World Cup is everywhere too — barely a screen in SE15 that isn’t showing it, and every match brings its own crowd. We’re steering around the fixtures (there are a lot of them) and pointing you at the rest: Pride-season wellness, late club sets, a graduate photography takeover, and a few cool corners to duck into when it all gets too much.

It's Pride weekend in the borough, too — Southwark's own is on Saturday, more below. And one to raise a glass to: SET Social is back on its feet, with a proper re-opening party next week, more in Save the Date below.

🌞 Hot + sunny: Thu · ⛈ Hot, storms: Fri · ⛈ Hot, storms: Sat · 🌤 Cooler, sunny: Sun

Thursday is exceptionally hot and humid with near-unbroken sunshine — an easterly breeze builds through the afternoon, which should take a little edge off. Friday and Saturday hold onto the heat, still very hot and humid with plenty of sun, though both mornings carry a risk of scattered thunderstorms. Sunday eases off — cooler and more comfortable, still sunny, with only a small chance of a thundery shower. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Gosnells Brewery Yard (closing) Party

Gosnells is closing its Peckham brewery — though “closing” is doing some heavy lifting here. The team’s scaling up, not winding down, so the brand isn’t going anywhere; it’s the yard that’s meant to be shutting. And it keeps not shutting. The send-off was supposed to have happened already, but a ridiculous run of sunshine and a deluge of orders kept the tanks on and bumped the whole thing to Saturday. Call it attempt two.

So there’s one more big party in the sun before the shutters finally come down: fresh Gosnells straight from the tanks, music all day, a brewery yard sale, and afters rolling on at John the Unicorn. It’s the yard where Gosnells grew up, it’s free to get in, and dogs are especially welcome. At the rate they’re going, we wouldn’t bet on those shutters actually closing — come down and test the theory.

🗓 Sat 27 Jun, 2–8:30pm
📍 rch 1, Bellenden Road Business Centre, SE15 4RF
🎟 Free · RSVP via Design My Night
♿ Fully accessible venue

🏠 Almost Home

A roaming, immersive night built around an open call on displacement and temporary belonging — experimental screenings, live sound, DJs and a temporary exhibition unfolding throughout the venue. No fixed route, just fragments that almost feel like home.

🗓 Fri 26 Jun, 9pm–3am
📍 Vespers Club, 133A Rye Lane, SE15 4BQ
🎟 £15 (concessions £7.40) · tickets via RA
♿ Please contact the venue

📷 Spiral — UWE BA Photography graduate show

The graduating BA Photography class of 2026 from UWE Bristol takes over Copeland Gallery — 55 emerging artists across photography, film and installation, plus an artist-book room and a shop for books, prints and postcards.

🗓 Fri 26–Sun 28 Jun, 11am–6pm (5pm Sun) · Private view Thu 25 Jun, 6–10:30pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park (Peckham)
🎟 Free · RSVP via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🔊 Altered Levels Vol.1 — Altered Images × IKLECTIK

A night where live performance, techno, EBM and dark electronics fold into audiovisual installation: sound, moving image and the space itself working as one across the IKLECTIK floor at Peckham Levels. No clean line between gig, club night and art piece; you move through all three.

It's the first time Altered Images and IKLECTIK have joined forces, two platforms rooted in experimental art, underground music and immersive A/V. Years of Denial headline, with Machine Woman, Inda Flo, Gertie Adelaido and more across live sets, DJ sets, projected visuals and installation work — light, noise and movement, dusk till dawn.

🗓 Fri 26 Jun, 8pm–4am
📍 IKLECTIK @ Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £24.86 · tickets via Dice
♿ Lift access at Peckham Levels

💛 Pride Wellness Festival

Two days of Pride-season care centring queer talent and community — movement and somatic dance, sound baths, yoga, spoken word and live music, with market stalls and treatment rooms alongside.

🗓 Sat 27 Jun, 1–8:30pm · Sun 28 Jun, 6–10am
📍 Innervisions Alchemy, Unit 1, Rollins Street, SE15 1EP
🎟 From £5 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Please contact the venue

🎤 Free University of Glastonbury (SE15 edition)

Glastonbury's spoken-word corner relocates to Nunhead for a one-day mini 'free university' — clever, funny talks, the occasional musical interlude, and a boogie if time allows. Profits go to Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity.

🗓 Sat 27 Jun, 2pm
📍 The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, SE15 3BE
🎟 £10 · tickets via Outsavvy
♿ Limited accessibility (ramp available, no accessible toilets)

✨ Quick hits

1. 💃 Josey Rebelle + Lena Willikens + Vlada @ Palais (Fri 26 Jun, 10pm–4am, Palais (Peckham), from £23): Three club-culture heavy-hitters in the booth at the newly revived Peckham Palais.

2. 🖼️ holding pattern (Fri 26 Jun, 6–9pm opening, then Sat–Sun 10am–6pm, Peckham Oasis Gallery, free): A five-artist group show — Chris Wieland, Georgina Woods, Jonathan Ind, Kazuma Watanabe and Medb Laing-Gatehouse. The poster keeps it cryptic: a ghostly, near-negative image of a half-built structure, all exposed steel and scaffolding — which, with a title like that, points at things caught mid-change and held in between.

3. 🏳️‍🌈 Pride in Southwark (Sat 27 Jun, march from 12pm, festival 1–6pm, Mint Street Park, SE1, free): The borough's grassroots Pride is back for a fourth year — no corporate sponsors, just a march from the London LGBTQ+ Centre into an afternoon of music, drag and community stalls. Kate Butch, Son of a Tutu and host Anna Toni lead the stage, and the after-party rolls on at The Rising from 6pm.

4. 🎶 Community choir fundraiser for Robes Project (Sat 27 Jun, 7:30–10pm, Copleston Centre, SE15 4AN, £6 / £4 conc): Four local choirs — Nunhead, Palace A Cappella, Beckenham A Cappella and Telegraph Hill — raising funds for Robes Project's winter shelter.

5. 🎬 An Evening with Ben Wheatley (Wed 1 Jul, 7pm, MULTI STORY @ Peckham Levels, £14.63): Director Ben Wheatley in person — a live Dave Welder set (his project with Richard Norris), a screening of Bulk, and a Q&A.

📽️ Cinema

With the forecast doing what it’s doing this week, a dark, properly cooled room starts to look like the smartest plan in SE15 — and the Plex has a mixed bag to match it.

Leading the new releases is Supergirl (12A), with Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El alongside David Corenswet and Eve Ridley — an interstellar story of vengeance and justice that kicks off when an unexpected threat lands close to home. There are advance screenings this Thursday (6pm & 8:30pm) before it opens properly on Friday.

For something gentler, 500 Miles (12A) puts Bill Nighy at the centre of a road-trip drama: two brothers, worried their parents’ marriage is coming apart, set off to reach their troubled grandfather in Ireland.

Two more land this week. Jackass: Best and Last (18) brings Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest back for a final round of stunts and pranks to close out the franchise — dangerous humour, billed accordingly.

And Obsession (18) is the horror wildcard: a low-budget film that came from nowhere, picked up a stack of awards, and is now drawing Backrooms comparisons — a hopeless romantic breaks the “One Wish Willow” to win his crush, gets exactly what he wished for, then finds out it comes at a price.

Advance screening

🍿 Minions and Monsters (U) — the Minions loose in 1920s Hollywood, hunting creatures for their monster movie. Wed 1 & Thu 2 Jul, 6pm & 8pm

Special screenings

🎭 NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (15) — Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner in Christopher Hampton’s adaptation, broadcast from the stage. Thu 25 Jun, 7:30pm

🎸 Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (12A) — back for one night on the Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf songbook. Wed 1 Jul, 8:15pm

Subtitled screenings

🔤 The Mandalorian & Grogu (12A) — Sun 28 Jun, 12:40pm

🔤 Toy Story 5 (PG) — Tue 30 Jun, 8:10pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🛍️ SET Social community day + market (traders wanted) (Sat 4 Jul, 12–5pm, SET Social, 55A Nigel Road, SE15 4NP, free): Part of the Grand Re-opening Fundraiser Day after SET Social's unexpected temporary closure — stalls (crafts, ceramics, zines, vintage, records, bakes, books), a charity book sale and Peckham & Nunhead Elvis. Traders wanted

🎨 Art Dating Club: Pitch Your Mate (Wed 8 Jul, 7:30–10pm, John The Unicorn, Peckham, £10–£15): A chaotic art-meets-dating night where you pitch your mate, not yourself.

🍷 Peckham Cellars: Summer Wine Fair (Sun 12 Jul, 1–3pm or 3:45–5:45pm, Peckham Cellars, Peckham, £35): Taste 30 wines and meet the producers behind them.

💬 Local shoutout

🧊 Need to cool down? London's Cool Spaces map is updated for 2026
The Mayor of London's Cool Spaces map covers libraries, leisure centres and community venues you can step into during hot weather — plus water refill points and shaded spots. In Southwark all libraries are open as Cool Spaces except Camberwell, Canada Water, Nunhead and Una Marson libraries, which are closed until Friday 26 June.

🌱 Seeding Space — residency call-out
London Performance Studios' Seeding Space one-week residency (Round 11, Aug 2026) is open for applications. Deadline Mon 29 Jun, 9am — includes studio time, feedback and a £200 seed fund (eligibility notes apply).

🎨 Open call: WANDER / WONDER — Are You Still Here?
Contribute a miniature still life (50cm × 50cm max) on presence, stillness and the liminal in-between, for a one-day exhibition inside the Old Waiting Room. Deadline Tue 30 Jun — email everythingyouseehere@gmail.com. One-day show: Sun 26 Jul, 1–6pm.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
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It’s solstice week — the longest day lands Sunday, the forecast’s finally gone properly hot, and half the listings below have quietly arranged themselves around being outside with other people. Meadows, gardens, a rooftop, a chorus or two.

Plenty to build a week around: openings on Thursday, a big Friday at Palais, the football back on at Jumbi, and a couple of book-it-now bits so next-week you isn’t kicking themselves.

🌥 Warm, late showers: Thu · 🌞 Hot + sunny: Fri · 🌤 Cloudy, brightening: Sat · ☀️ Sunny + hot: Sun
Thursday starts cloudy and dry, then breaks into sunny spells through the day — with a chance of showers pushing up from the south later, possibly thundery. Very warm throughout. Friday is the one to clear your diary for: largely dry, plenty of sunshine and hot for many. Saturday opens mostly cloudy but dry, turning sunnier as the day goes on, though a touch chillier. Sunday rounds things off sunny, dry and hot. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: 🌿 Summer Solstice Party

A DIY solstice party on the meadow at One Tree Hill — poetry, ecology, radical history and tree lore, plus zines, crafts and extremely local folk music.

It’s free, bring-a-blanket vibes: pack a picnic, bring something to sit on, and settle in for an afternoon that feels like the most wholesome version of London summer.

🗓 Sun 21 Jun, from 4pm
📍 One Tree Hill meadow (Honor Oak) — w3w: clever.singer.duty.
🎟 Free · info via Instagram
♿ Technically step‑free, but the gradient is steep + bumpy

📷 Why Can’t I Touch It? — opening night

Opening night energy at Copeland Gallery: Swansea College of Art’s third-year photography show lands, with a proper big‑room wander and a chance to meet the artists while the work’s still fresh on the walls. All artists will be present for the opening night.

🗓 Thu 18 Jun, 6–9pm (open until Sat 20, 10am–6:30pm)
📍 Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free
♿ Fully accessible venue

🦇 Cinema F’el Salon: Fangs (1981) — Egyptian disco-horror chaos

NAFS’ cosy-but-wild film hang lands at MULTI STORY for a cult screening that sounds like a dare: Fangs / Anyab (1981), a famously chaotic Egyptian musical-horror fever dream.

Subtitled, open to all, and absolutely built for a room that likes its films a bit unhinged. (Worth reading the content warning on the event page before you go.)

🗓 Thu 18 Jun, 6pm doors (7:30pm film)
📍 MULTI STORY, Peckham Levels, SE15 4ST
🎟 £15 · tickets via Zeffy
♿ Fully accessible venue

📝 An Image Expressed by the Action of Light

STST Word Club offers an evening of cross‑disciplinary performances celebrating summer solstice, light and seasonal song — a rich, sun-flooded mix of prose, poetry and performance.

Curated by Lu Rose Cunningham, and always a good place to hear something new (and leave with a line stuck in your head).

🗓 Thu 18 Jun, 7–10pm
📍 Staffordshire St, SE15 5TJ
🎟 £0–£15 · tickets via Ticket Tailor
♿ Step‑free access via a side entrance. Wheelchair‑accessible

🏚️ House of Impermanence — opening night

A new exhibition by Sila Sen built around the afterlife of spaces — miniature environments, experimental terrariums and layered studies where growth, decay and memory play out in real time.

It’s landing in Copeland’s raw, domestic-feeling Safehouse, which feels like exactly the right setting. Go on the Thursday for the opening-night wander, then come back for a slower daytime visit if you get hooked.

🗓 Thu 18 Jun, 6–9pm (open until Sun 21, 12–6pm)
📍 Safehouse 1&2, Copeland Park, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free
♿ Not wheelchair accessible; ground floor spaces accessible

🎭 Tupac — A Hip Hop Opera (R&D showing + Q&A)

A work-in-progress staging of Tupac’s life told through music, text and movement — tracing the arc from his childhood as the son of Black Panther leader Afeni Shakur to the rapper and actor he became. Malcolm Kamulete (Top Boy, BBC’s Champion) takes the lead, with a Q&A with the cast and creative team after.

Written and directed by Alison Ray, it lands in Tupac’s birthday week — he’d have turned 55 on 16 Jun. Catch it mid-making and you’re in the room helping shape the next version. A proper Friday plan.

🗓 Fri 19 Jun, 7pm
📍 Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil St, SE5 7SB
🎟 £5 · tickets via Theatre Peckham
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎻 Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra: Turangalîla

Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphony at Bold Tendencies on a summer night — a ten-movement giant from 1948, scored for 106 players plus piano and ondes martenot (an early electronic instrument that swoops and glides in long, otherworldly notes). The composer called it a love song and a hymn to joy, and it mostly plays out exactly that big.

The players come from Trinity Laban, the South East London conservatoire, conducted by Oksana Lyniv in her first UK appearance in two years, with Christos Fountos on the demanding solo piano and Imsu Choi on ondes martenot. About 75 minutes of full-tilt, technicolour orchestral music. If you want your weekend to feel cinematic, this is the one.

🗓 Sat 20 Jun, 7:30pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £20 · tickets via DICE
♿ Fully accessible venue

🌞 Songs of the Summer Solstice @ The Ivy House

An afternoon-to-evening solstice gathering that’s part ritual, part live-music spell — the kind of soft, communal Sunday that resets your nervous system.

Expect movement, storytelling, community time and gentle folk/experimental sounds, in one of SE15’s most beloved rooms (and gardens). A good one to go to with someone, or to arrive solo and leave with a few new friendly faces.

🗓 Sun 21 Jun, 4pm
📍 The Ivy House, SE15 3BE
🎟 £16.69 · tickets via DICE
♿ Limited accessibility (ramp available, no accessible toilets)

✨ Quick hits

1. 🪩 Musclecars / Ruby Savage (Fri 19 Jun, 10pm–4am, Palais, 1a Rye Lane SE15 5EW, £10–£25): NYC house meets South London — Musclecars and Ruby Savage headline a big Friday at the newly reopened Palais.

2. 🗣️ SLG talk: Olukemi Lijadu + Pamela Dayes (Rooms of Neighbours) (Wed 24 Jun, 6:30pm, South London Gallery, free): A bright, neighbourly in‑conversation about collaboration, family photos and shared histories — part of the Rooms of Neighbours exhibition.

3. 🎶 Trans Chorus: Summer Solstice Sing @ Staffordshire St (Sun 21 Jun, 2–5pm, Staffordshire St, free to £10): A solstice sing‑along with Trans Chorus — come for the voices, stay for the warm-room feeling.

4. 🔥 Summer Solstice Garden Special with Folk of the Round Table (Sun 21 Jun, 7pm, Glengall Wharf Community Garden, free): A community knees-up around the fire to mark the solstice — folk tunes, friendly faces, and a bar on site.

5. ⚽ England World Cup games @ Jumbi (Tue 23 Jun, 9pm, Jumbi, free): England vs Ghana on the big screen, with a jerk & jollof menu special from Original Flava Kitchen just for the night. Limited capacity and kitchen on till 10:30pm — get down early, grab a table, settle in before kick-off. More fixtures running through the tournament.

📽️ Cinema

Plenty of you are already piling in for Disclosure Day (12A), Spielberg’s 37th and this week’s big draw. If you fancy something gentler, the one to slow down for is Familiar Touch (12A) — writer-director Sarah Friedland’s quiet, precise film about ageing and what stays with us as memory fades. Kathleen Chalfant plays Ruth, a retired cook moving into assisted living, with H. Jon Benjamin as her son. 92 minutes, and a real change of pace.

The other arrival is Toy Story 5 (PG), with Woody, Buzz and the gang facing their most modern threat yet: screen time, in the shape of a tablet called Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee).

Documentary Season: Rain Bomb (12A) — international scientists investigate the destructive "rain bomb" weather phenomenon, introduced by director Tom Ranson. Mon 22 Jun, 6:30pm.

Subtitled screenings: Masters of the Universe (12A) — Mon 22 Jun, 8:30pm; Backrooms (15) — Wed 24 Jun, 6:15pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🎸 Jam Sandwich gig @ CLF Art Lounge · Thu 25 Jun, 7:45pm · CLF Art Lounge
Last Jam Sandwich gig until September, with FLAMA, MO MOON, EPONINE and MARIEQ on the bill. If you like your Thursdays loud, sweaty and local: this is the one. 🎟 From £11 · tickets via Design My Night

🎤 Free University of Glastonbury (SE15 edition) · Sat 27 Jun, 2pm · The Ivy House
Glastonbury’s spoken‑word corner comes to Nunhead for a mini day of clever/funny talks (plus musical interludes). All profits go to Centrepoint. 🎟 £10 (profits to Centrepoint) · tickets via Outsavvy

🎬 Ben Wheatley + Richard Norris (My Eyes! My Eyes!) · Wed 1 Jul, 7pm · MULTI STORY
A dream pairing: director Ben Wheatley and musician/producer Richard Norris in conversation — expect South London weirdness, film obsessions, and a room full of people who get it. 🎟 £14.63 tickets via Ticket Source

💬 Local shoutout

🥯 Banook Bagels has opened on East Dulwich Road
It’s technically SE22, but close enough to count as actionable intel — and it’s already pulling queues. Bagels, cookies and big fillings (including fish and chicken), per Eats Dulwich’s review. If you’ve got a free morning this weekend, go do the “walk there, queue a bit, feel smug” thing.

🎧 Join South London Drone Orchestra (open invite)
A welcoming, collaborative drone orchestra that’s explicitly queer friendly, trans inclusive and anti‑racist — and genuinely beginner‑friendly (no gear required; they’ll help). They’re starting to do the odd performance, but regular sessions are still open to anyone who just wants to come and make sound.

🧖🏽‍♀️ Call for participants: Innervisions Alchemy x Treacles — queer practitioners
Innervisions Alchemy is putting together a pre-Pride wellness weekender (Fri 26–Sun 28 Jun) and is looking for queer practitioners — massage, energy work, performers, makers and more. They’re offering discounted treatment rooms, market stalls and studio space. Email: talia@innervisionsalchemy.co.uk to get involved.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Bara Café’s Refugee Week bun

It’s Refugee Week, and Bara — the newish Welsh café on Choumert Road — has a special bun on the counter to mark it. The Chai Latte Iced Bun is their bake for Bake for Courage, a campaign running across UK bakeries this week.

The chai comes from NEMI Teas, a tea company and social enterprise that puts its profits into hospitality training and jobs for refugees at its TRAMPOLINE Café in London. Here it turns up as a soft finger bun soaked in NEMI’s spiced chai syrup, filled with coffee chantilly and finished with vanilla bean icing.

A small, sweet way to back a good cause mid-walk. On the counter until Sunday.

🗓 Until Sun 21 Jun
📍 Bara Café, 44-46 Choumert Rd, SE15 4SE
🎟 Just turn up

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

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There’s a proper start-of-summer feel this week: long light evenings, the SE15 rooftops open again, and every excuse to be outside.

Expect big music up on Rye Lane, a sunny-afternoon dance at Jumbi, art to browse at Copeland, and a Refugee Week supper club doing real good with food and music.

A few things further ahead worth booking now, too, plus the usual local notices below.

🌧 Wet, grey: Thu · 🌦 Windy, clearing: Fri · 🌤 Dry, sunny: Sat · ☀️ Warm, bright: Sun
Thursday's a wet one: cloud and a band of rain in from the south-west, locally heavy at times, easing off but staying overcast into the afternoon. Friday's windy with variable cloud and the odd shower, turning largely sunny by evening. The weekend delivers: Saturday and Sunday mainly dry and sunny with the odd patch of cloud, and warmer too. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Oliver Leith: Garland

When Garland premiered on the Bold Tendencies rooftop last September, critics came away a little dazed — Bachtrack called it “dreamlike chaos in a Peckham car park,” all musicians, objects and voices (and a horse), thrilling and gloriously over-the-top. It’s back for two nights.

Oliver Leith’s hour-long piece is built for this exact space: an orchestra and chorus of around 130 singing, chanting and processing across the concrete levels, dragging metal poles and shopping trolleys as they go. Leith pictures it as a busy village watched like an exhibition — tiny repetitive activity everywhere, sitting somewhere between unsettling and beautiful. Words by Charlie Fox, costumes by Ellen Poppy Hill.

🗓 Sat 13 Jun, 8pm (Friday is sold out but you can join the waitlist)
📍 Bold Tendencies, Floors 7–10, 95A Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £20 · tickets via DICE
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎨 This Is Allowed Space

A free exhibition in the Clore Studio at the South London Gallery, made in collaboration with SEND school pupils and teachers from Peckham and Camberwell. Three artists — Yolanda Shields (Milktooth), Jenny Pengilly and Billy Ash Sakula — worked with young people from Tuke, Highshore and Cherry Garden schools to create new sensory and inclusive work.

This Is Allowed Space platforms voices that rarely make it into gallery spaces, and celebrates the creativity of young people with complex needs. It’s a quiet, generous show — and the kind of thing the SLG does really well.

🗓 Wed 10 – Sun 14 Jun, 12–6pm
📍 South London Gallery, 65–67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH
🎟 Free
♿ Fully accessible venue

💆 Back to Breath: FAUZIA live × guided breathwork

FAUZIA is one of those artists who makes a room feel different the moment she starts. A multidisciplinary composer, producer and vocalist, she builds immersive sound worlds from ambient electronics, live instrumentation and experimental performance — her work has been picked up by Pitchfork, Resident Advisor and NTS Radio, with shows across London, Berlin and New York.

For this second Back to Breath session, she teams up with Barbora Pátková (a.k.a. B’licious) — founder of Innervisions Alchemy and voice of The Heliocentrics — for something genuinely rare: a live performance designed to soundtrack a guided breathwork session. It sits somewhere between a gig and a healing practice, and feels like the kind of thing you might not know you need until you’re in the room.

🗓 Fri 12 Jun, 12–2pm
📍 Innervisions Alchemy, Unit 1, Ilderton Wharf, Rollins St, SE15 1EP
🎟 £30 · book via Momence
♿ Located in an industrial yard setting. Check venue for access details.

🍩 Donut Jam 019

STST’s monthly exploration through sound, light and movement is back for its 19th edition. London musicians take it in the round — live sets in direct conversation with each other — while visual artists respond in real time, projecting across the walls. It’s the kind of night that builds its own atmosphere: interdisciplinary, open, and hard to describe until you’re in it.

Whether you’re a listener, a musician, or somewhere in between, there’s space for you here.

🗓 Fri 12 Jun, 7:30pm–11pm
📍 Staffordshire St, 49 Staffordshire Street, London SE15 5TJ
🎟 £10 · tickets via DICE
♿ Fully accessible venue

🖼 Four Leaves Bad & other collections

A weekend pop-up from Nunhead illustrator SJ Gilmore, bringing her narrative illustration to Strange Parade. Picture-book warmth with a slightly uncanny edge, drawing on cloud formations, benevolent cemetery mounds, and an increasingly unsettling hunt for four-, five-, six- and seven-leaf clovers.

Gilmore has a background illustrating picture books, and it shows in the storytelling. Drop in any time across the weekend.

🗓 Sat 13–Sun 14 Jun, 10am–5pm
📍 Strange Parade, 123 Evelina Rd, Nunhead, SE15 3HB
🎟 Free · drop in
♿ Check venue for access details

🎨 London Illustration Fair: Summer Showcase

A weekend takeover of Copeland Gallery, packed with affordable prints, zines and originals from 40+ illustrators and designers — the kind of place you “just pop in” and leave with a new wall buddy (and a small bag of stickers).

Go for the browsing, stay for the live painting + general creative buzz around Copeland Park.

🗓 Sat 13–Sun 14 Jun, 11am–6pm
📍 Unit 9, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, SE15 3SN
🎟 £3 entry on the door · info via London Illustration Fair
♿ Fully accessible venue

👯🏽‍♂️ Daytime Dance: KIN KIN

A proper open-air Sunday session at Jumbi — sunshine (hopefully), big sound, and that specific 3pm energy where you’re still fresh enough to actually dance. DJs + special guests, plus a low-pressure “come as you are” daytime crowd.

Runs 3–9pm, so you can get your fix and still make it home before you turn into a pumpkin.

🗓 Sun 14 Jun, 3–9pm
📍 Jumbi, Unit 4.1, Copeland Park. 133 Copeland Rd., SE15 3SN
🎟 From £11.50 (entry before 4pm) / up to £17.30 final release · tickets via RA
♿ Check venue for access details

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎶 Darwin, Marylou & Re:ni (Sat 13 Jun, 10pm–4am, Palais, £10–£25): three selectors lined up at Palais for a long, no-filler club night — built for people who came to dance.

2. 📚 The Butterfly Bush pamphlet launch (William Wyld) (Sun 14 Jun, 6:30–9:30pm, The Ivy House, free): A cosy early-summer poetry night with readings + guests — plus limited edition hand-printed covers for the pamphlet.

3. 🎬 HAUSU Film Club: Looking for Alibrandi (Sun 14 Jun, Hausu, £10.46): A generation-defining Aussie coming-of-age classic, introduced by journalist and programmer Ying-Di Yin — with Hausu’s Tomato Day energy (salted tomato martini + Aussie/Italian wine list).

4. ✏️ Kings for Life (Drawing) (Mon 15 Jun, 7–9pm, Prince of Peckham, £11.30): A chilled, inclusive life drawing session with drag performer Breakfast as your model — perfect if you want a low-key creative Monday night pint.

5. 🎸 New Lands: Add Some More Blue + S.W Gothic (Tue 16 Jun, 7:30–10:30pm, The Ivy House, £7): New Lands returns with alt RnB / electronic indie from Add Some More Blue, plus S.W Gothic.

📽️ Cinema

The big one this week is Disclosure Day (12A), Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi. Emily Blunt — fresh off The Devil Wears Prada 2 — plays a TV weather presenter who picks up strange abilities after an encounter with aliens, with Josh O’Connor as a true believer and Colin Firth as the shadowy exec they end up tangled with. Peckhamplex reckons it’s Spielberg’s best in twenty years.

There’s also a new Monday-night documentary strand worth a look — Rain Bomb, The Mystery of the First Temple and Beyond the Silk Road, all at 6:30pm.

Accessible screenings this week: subtitled showings of Scary Movie 6 (15) on Mon 15 Jun at 6:30pm and Tuner (15) on Wed 17 Jun at 8:50pm, plus a relaxed screening of The Magic Faraway Tree (U) on Sun 14 Jun at 12:45pm — a good shout for a low-key family outing.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🦇 Cinema F’el Salon: Fangs / Anyab (1981) · Thu 18 Jun · MULTI STORY (Peckham Levels) NAFS’ cosy-but-wild film hang lands at MULTI STORY for a disco fever-dream cult screening — Egypt’s gloriously chaotic, musical-horror answer to Rocky Horror (but weirder). 🎟 £15 · tickets via Zeffy

🎻 Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra: Turangalîla · Sat 20 Jun · Bold Tendencies (SE15) Messiaen’s vast, ecstatic ten-movement symphony — massed orchestra, piano and the eerie hum of an ondes martenot — up on the rooftop a week after Garland. 🎟 From £20 · tickets via DICE

🌞 Songs of the Summer Solstice · Sun 21 Jun · The Ivy House (Nunhead) Folk and experimental music, storytelling and gentle movement to see in the longest day — an afternoon-into-evening of solstice ritual from Turning of The Seasons. Starts 4pm. 🎟 £16.69 · tickets via DICE

💬 Local shoutout

💪 Natural Fitness class has launched on Saturdays
Natural Fitness is back for summer: a weekly, outdoors movement class in Peckham Rye Park (Arboretum, dog-free area). Starts Sat 13 Jun, 10–11am. £12. WhatsApp + booking links here.

🏳️‍🌈 Queeriosities 2026 — open call for artists
Open call for queer artists + makers to exhibit at Copeland Gallery. Apply by Mon 30 Jun. Preview Fri 2 Oct; fair Sat–Sun 3–4 Oct. Info: https://www.queeriosities.co.uk/

🎨 Free Arts Week for young people at Peckham Platform
Peckham Platform is running a free Arts Week for 15–18s, Mon 3–Fri 7 Aug at The Hub: practical workshops with an artist, screen printing, portfolio support, a gallery visit and free professional headshots, with lunch provided daily and no experience needed. Limited spaces available — sign up here to secure your spot.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Paired by SUP: East Asian Heritage Supper Club

The idea behind ‘Paired’ is a good one: put an artist and a chef of shared heritage in a room together, and let food, music and solidarity do the rest. After a sold-out first run, SUP’s supper club is back at Jumbi for Refugee Week — this time built around the theme of Courage.

This edition pairs South East London artist Jianbo with chef Andrew Ha of cult Vietnamese pop-up Angie’s Caphe, both drawing on their East Asian heritage for a one-off three-course menu: bo tai chanh beef carpaccio, grilled betel-leaf bo la lot (veg), Hainanese chicken risotto, sweet-and-sour aubergines, and a kalamansi-curd pavlova to finish. There’s a welcome drink made for the night by Malik Acid, and a live PA from Jianbo once the plates are cleared.

Run with Counterpoints, it raises funds for the South East and East Asian Centre — and five seats are held back for asylum seekers from local hostels, so if you can’t make it, you can still pay one forward.

🗓 Mon 15 Jun, 6:30–10pm
📍 Jumbi, Copeland Park (SE15)
🎟 £57 veg / £60 halal non‑veg (plus “pay it forward” option) · tickets via Ticket Tailor

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
📬 Local business? Get in touch — let’s chat collaborations

PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15

June’s arrived, and with it Pride season getting underway, a BBQ residency moving into Copeland, and the rooftops above Rye Lane back in action. The weather, meanwhile, has completely lost the plot — straight out of a heatwave and into thunder, showers and one redeemable Friday — but there’s plenty indoors to keep the week good either way.

It’s a queer and quietly experimental week: Pride kicks off at The Old Nun’s Head, an afternoon of LGBTQIA+ history among the gravestones at Nunhead Cemetery, trans-made short films at Staffordshire St, and a drone orchestra playing live for the first time after years in a Croydon flat. Wrap up, check the listings twice, and I’ll see you out there.

🌦 Showers: Thu · 🌞 Sunny: Fri · 🌦 Showers, clearing: Sat · ⛈ Thunder: Sun
Thursday stays mostly cloudy with more showers pushing through — heavy at times, with a risk of thunder and the odd sunnier break in between. Another windy one. Friday is the pick of the week: mainly dry, plenty of sunshine, just a few patches of cloud. Saturday clouds over as showers move in from the west, some falling locally heavy, before turning drier in the evening with some late sunny spells. Sunday sees more heavy showers arrive from the west, again with a risk of thunder. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Friary Road & Ledbury Estate Street Party

The annual Friary Road & Ledbury Estate street party is back: a free, all-day community party the organisers (fairly) reckon is the best in Peckham. Black Obsidian Sound System are on sound — the Black, Queer, and Trans Collective who know exactly how to hold a space like this.

It’s a full day of it. Folk of the Round Table open at noon, then Bee Anchor b2b Sham, Bambi, Rosie Riot, Sekuru, Chooc ly, Mark-Ashley Dupe and mellowdramatics, with Jay Jay Revlon closing at 8pm — plus food, games, a bouncy castle, and space for anyone who wants to sell something, run a workshop or bring an activity (just turn up).

There’s an afters lined up too, with a few DJs they’re keeping quiet about.

🗓 Sat 6 Jun, 12–8pm (afters to follow)
📍 Friary Road (near Bird in Bush Rd), SE15 1QS
🎟 Free

🎶 Utopia Ghost Ensemble & Friends

An album launch to open the week on something properly otherworldly. Utopia Ghost Ensemble — members drawn from Office of Aurora, Spy From Moscow and Astra Forward — bring their debut record to life at The Ivy House, joined by Flo Lines (lo-fi pop that edges into sound art) and the South London Drone Orchestra, playing live for the first time after years of practice in a Croydon flat.

Expect drone, a lot of people singing, and several attempts to render the unknowable as sound. A Thursday night well spent.

🗓 Thu 4 Jun, 7–11pm
📍 The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE15 3BE
🎟 £8 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Limited accessibility (ramp available, no accessible toilets)

🏖️ STST Film Club x Tranz Tropez IIII

A proper holiday-from-the-world evening of trans-made short films at Staffordshire St, with a Q&A afterwards and time to meet other filmmakers and film lovers. The programme’s community-first and curious, with plenty of room to talk.

Free to book, and donations help keep it accessible — so grab a ticket and bring a pal who’s overdue a cinema night that actually feels like it’s for them.

🗓 Thu 4 Jun, 7–9pm
📍 Staffordshire St, SE15 5TJ
🎟 Free · tickets via Ticket Tailor
♿ Step-free access via side door; wheelchair-accessible toilet; bright lighting; some seating available (see venue accessibility rider for full details)

🎭 Knickers CHAOS Cabaret

Part comedy show, part theatre, part sweaty club night — Knickers throws the lot together. A line-up of London’s more unhinged alternative comedians, then a dance party to follow. Expect interactive bits, big laughs and a fair amount of chaos.

🗓 Fri 5 Jun, 7:30pm–midnight
📍 Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £17.50 · tickets via DICE
♿ Step-free access is available via lifts

🪩 bless! – Pride kick-off

A Pride warm-up back at The Old Nun’s Head, kicking off the pub’s packed month of June Pride nights. Big DJ sets, no ego, proper dancefloor energy — plus pizza from Slice Circle if you get there early.

🗓 Sat 6 Jun, 9pm–1am
📍 The Old Nun’s Head, 15 Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ
🎟 Free · book via OutSavvy
♿ Accessible toilets · step-free access · wheelchair accessible

🎹 Euphoria Opening Concert: Ryan Wang

Bold Tendencies opens its 20th anniversary season with an evening of solo piano from Ryan Wang — an award-winning 18-year-old who’s performed around the world. The programme’s kept a surprise, written for the Steinway grand that sits high above Rye Lane, as the first night of this year’s Euphoria Live programme. Doors 6:30pm. 14+.

🗓 Sat 6 Jun, 7:30pm
📍 Bold Tendencies, Floors 7–10, 95A Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £17.50 · tickets via DICE
♿ Fully accessible venue

🌈 Here Lies Love with Dan Glass and Betsy Echessa

An afternoon celebrating LGBTQIA+ history at Nunhead Cemetery with author and activist Dan Glass. Drawing on archival research, local storytelling and queer South East London history from the 1800s to now, Dan leads a 90-minute walking tour across the cemetery’s 52 acres, then gathers in the Anglican Chapel for an oral histories workshop and a performance by the South East London Queer Choir. The day ends with a social at The Old Nun’s Head from 5pm.

Organised by ACT UP London as part of the East Lodge Restoration project, this one also celebrates the late Rex Batten — long-time Friends of Nunhead Cemetery supporter, popular tour guide and author of Rid England of This Plague. Tickets are free but booking is encouraged for the walking tour, as places are limited.

Walking tour (from Linden Grove gates): 1–2:30pm · Drop-in oral histories workshop (Anglican Chapel): 2:30–4pm · South East London Queer Choir performance (Anglican Chapel): 4–4:30pm · Social at The Old Nun’s Head: from 5pm.

🗓 Sat 6 Jun, 1–5pm
📍 Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 3LP
🎟 Free · book via OutSavvy
♿ Accessible toilets on site; paths vary — some uneven/sloped ground; ramp at Anglican Chapel entrance; assistance dogs welcome

✨ Quick hits

1. 🍷 The Grand Pour @ The Montpelier (English wine month) (All June): The Montpelier’s joined The Grand Pour, a month-long celebration of English wine with Henners — order a Henners serve to collect stamps towards freebies and a prize draw.

2. 🕊️ Pigeons at the Pelican (Nathan Jeffers) — opening night (Thu 4 Jun, 7–11pm, The Peckham Pelican, free): One-night opening bash for Nathan Jeffers’ 35mm love letter to London’s rock doves — exhibition runs till Sat 27 Jun.

3. ☀️ Little Miss Sunshine turmeric latte (Sat 6–Sun 7 Jun, Shop from Crisis Peckham): a sunshine-yellow turmeric latte collab with Volcano Coffee Works, landing in the Peckham café this month. The first 5 drinks on Saturday & Sunday will be free.

4. 🎷 Grass Roots starring Tom Stringer (Live Jazz) (Thu 4 Jun, 8–11pm, CLF Art Lounge, pay what you can): Monthly night backing young, emerging London jazz. June’s guest is Tom Stringer, a trumpeter, composer and arranger fresh out of Trinity Laban.

5. 🛍️ The Big South London Flea (Peckham Salvage Yard) (Sat 6–Sun 7 Jun, 10am–5pm, Unit 8, Copeland Park, £2): Two-day indoor flea with the Hackney Flea Market crew — rummage-friendly chaos, and worth a second dig on the Sunday.

📽️ Cinema

Leading the week is Tuner (15), the cinema’s own film of the week — and you can see why. Leo Woodall plays a piano tuner with unusually sharp hearing who gets pulled into a criminal gang to help pick locks: a blue-collar virtuoso with a sideline in safe-cracking. Dustin Hoffman co-stars. A tight, well-pitched crime drama that knows exactly what it is.

The big noise, though, is Backrooms (15) — the odd little horror about a doorway that appears in the basement of a furniture showroom, which has somehow stormed to $117.5m worldwide in its opening week. If you grew up on a certain creepy YouTube short, this is pure nostalgia; if you didn’t, the teens in the queue will fill you in.

Also new: Savage House (15), a darkly satirical 18th-century tale with Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy as a pox-era couple chasing the good life through decadence and bloodshed; Scary Movie 6 (15), exactly what it says on the tin (Regina Hall, Anna Faris and Marlon Wayans, back for more bad taste); and Masters of the Universe (12A), the big He-Man reboot landing this week. Plenty still playing for younger ones too, from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG) to The Magic Faraway Tree (U).

A few one-offs worth flagging: Riverdance - 25th Anniversary Show (U) gets a single 25th-anniversary screening on Sun 7 June (8:30pm), and there are advance screenings of alien-conspiracy thriller Disclosure Day (12A) — Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth — on Wed 10 and Thu 11 June (8:30pm). Subtitled screenings this week: The Mandalorian & Grogu (12A) on Mon 8 June (8:40pm) and Backrooms (15) on Wed 10 June (6pm).

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎤 Free Delivery Comedy · Sun 7 Jun
Free stand-up comedy every Sunday in June, brought to Peckham by new London brand Free Delivery. Come in something cute, expect emerging talent and good vibes. 📍 MULTI STORY · 🎟 Free · book via Eventbrite

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 2 dates to bookmark now.

🍩 Donut Jam 019 · Fri 12 Jun · Staffordshire St
STST’s monthly exploration through sound, light and movement — musicians play “in the round” while visual artists respond live on the walls. Proper atmosphere-builder, and a great one if you like your nights out a bit interdisciplinary. 🎟 £10 · tickets via DICE

🎬 Hausu Film Club: Looking for Alibrandi (with Ying-Di Yin) · Sun 14 Jun · TBC Hausu’s film club returns with a screening of Looking for Alibrandi, plus a guest intro and Q&A from Ying-Di Yin. A sweet one for anyone who wants a cinema night that feels like a hang. 🎟 £9 · info via Instagram

💬 Local shoutout

🎨 Open call: Nunhead Art Trail 2026 (early bird extended)
Nunhead Art Trail has extended its early bird registration by 2 weeks, so there’s still time to lock in a spot for September’s open studios. If you’re planning to take part (or know an artist/venue who should), hit the registration form and spread the word.

📚 Open call: Page of Wands #3 — MUSIC
Page of Wands’ next anthology theme is MUSIC, and submissions are open Sat 6–Sun 21 Jun (11:59pm). They’re taking poetry (up to 3 poems / under 40 lines) plus prose/essays/performance text (up to 1500 words). Send your work (PDF/Word) to pageofwands111@gmail.com and include a couple of lines about you. More info here.

🫶🏽 Volunteer taster session @ Nunhead Cemetery
Curious about volunteering in the cemetery but want something low-stakes to start with? Friends of Nunhead Cemetery are running a free taster session this Sunday — email volunteering@fonc.org.uk to sign up (or turn up on the day, TBC).

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: The Homie’s Kitchen takes over Copeland Social

Copeland Social’s getting a proper summer glow-up. The Homie’s Kitchen is in for a three-month residency of fire-led cooking — Indian and Latin flavours, smoke and char — with new dishes landing as the summer goes on and a proper drinks list from the bar.

Bring your people, take a table inside or out in the sun, and stick around — they’ll have the World Cup on too. Full menu still to come; for now, the kitchen fires up today.

🗓 Jun–Aug (opens Thu 4 Jun)
⏰ Thu–Fri 12–3pm & 5:30–9pm · Sat 12–9pm · Sun 12–6pm
📍 Copeland Social, Copeland Park, Peckham SE15
🎟 See the menu here and book here
♿ Fully accessible venue

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
📬 Local business? Get in touch — let’s chat collaborations

PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15

May has done its thing — heat, headlines, a long weekend that landed properly. This week’s a softer one, with the bank holiday behind us and a slightly cooler weather ahead. Still plenty on though: cult cinema, a soft launch worth catching, and some quietly excellent exhibitions.

Quick tip before we get into it: MULTI STORY at Peckham Levels is doing £7 cocktails and £4 house pints, Wednesday to Sunday. Handy to know if you’re heading to anything up there (and a lot of this week’s listings happen to be up there).

🌤 Hot, thundery: Thu · 🌞 Sunny: Fri · 🌞 Sunny: Sat · 🌥 Sunny, odd shower: Sun
Thursday clears bright and turns hot again, though afternoon cloud could bring a thundery shower. Friday's a touch cooler but still warm — dry and largely sunny. Saturday stays warm and sunny throughout, then Sunday cools into a mix of sunny spells and patchy cloud, with the odd light shower not quite ruled out. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Erotic Art London Exhibition

The annual EAL exhibition returns to Copeland Gallery for the third year — five rooms of sensual and erotic artwork from artists around the world. Expect video work, sculpture, visual installations, live performances, workshops, guided tours, and an awards ceremony for the call-for-art competition. All four days sold out in 2025, so booking ahead is the smart move.

🗓 Thu 28 – Sun 31 May · Thu from 6pm, Fri–Sun from 12pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, 133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £7.50 · tickets via Tickettailor · Solidarity tickets for those experiencing financial hardship and free carer tickets (email info@ealexhibition.co.uk)
♿ Wheelchair accessible · gender-neutral toilets

🎬 HORROR-TASTIC: Dan Martin’s Party Tape Clip Show

From his lair in deepest South London, Dan Martin of 13 Fingers FX designs the makeups, puppets and props behind some of the freakiest films around — including Peter Strickland’s In Fabric and Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, both of which have screened at My Eyes! My Eyes! before. On Thursday he’s coming in person.

Expect a Party Tape Clip Show — deep cuts, visual treats and behind-the-scenes stories from the wild fringes of cinema — plus a surprise feature-length treat. My Eyes! My Eyes! is Peckham Levels’ cult cinema collective, championing the strange, the singular and the wildly independent. If you’ve been before, you know. If not, this is a great one to start with.

🗓 Thu 28 May, 7pm–11:30pm
📍 Multi Story, Level 6, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £11.92 · tickets via TicketSource
♿ Fully accessible venue

🌀 Diasporas Now: Macrocosmic Futures

Four Global Majority artists take over South London Gallery for an evening of live sound and audiovisual performance, moving through Afrofuturism, speculative fiction and what the programme calls ancestral technologies. Expect live sampling and remixing in a loud, low-lit room. Closer to a gig than a gallery night.

Heads-up: there’s flashing imagery in one projection, and chairs are available on request.

🗓 Wed 3 Jun, 6:30–9:30pm
📍 South London Gallery, 65–67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH
🎟 TBC · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Chairs available on request — check venue for full access details

🎤 Live&Lit: Poetry & Painting / Open Mic & Band

Live&Lit returns to Peckham Levels with spoken word, an open mic and a smooth live band behind the poets. If you want to be part of the night, doors open at 6pm for open mic sign‑up (limited spots) and the show starts around 6:30pm. Painting tickets include a seat, supplies and a canvas so you can paint along while the room listens.

🗓 Sun 31 May, 6pm–11pm
📍 Multi Story (Peckham Levels), SE15
🎟 £15.87 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🍻 SE15 Nights launch

Two different nights, two different flavours of Peckham — SE15 Nights’ launch week kicks off with a smaller Hidden Gems crawl (proper local bars you might walk past), then comes back with a bigger Tuesday-night circuit designed for meeting people and stretching the week out.

Hidden Gems Thursdays (Thu 28 May) stops at Shorty’s Peckham, Xoto and Kruks — with food available from Phuc Mi Kitchen. Tuesdays Just Got Better (Tue 2 Jun) runs across The Angel Oak, John The Unicorn, The Red Bull (quiz stop), The Copper Tap, and finishes at Nag’s Head for anyone who wants to keep going.

🗓 Thu 28 May & Tue 2 Jun, 6pm–11:45pm
📍 Start points vary (see listing)
🎟 Free · RSVP via Arcus

📷 Rewild: Navigating Space

Four photographers — Ciaran Inns, Eia Hopkinson, Léa Chen and Tanja Krebs — come together at Rabbet in Copeland Park for a collaborative exhibition exploring the relationship between the self and the environment. Using the camera as both document and meditative practice, the work moves between the interior and the exterior: staged portraits rooted in childhood memory, studies of how female bodies adapt to urban space, dreamlike figures suspended in dissociation, and ultramacro shots revealing hidden landscapes in the smallest organic structures around us.

It’s the kind of show that rewards slowing down — each photographer brings a distinct lens to the same questions, and the dialogue between them is very much part of the point.

🗓 Private View: Thu 28 May, 6–9pm · Exhibition: Fri 29–Sun 31 May, 12–5pm
📍 Rabbet, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free

🎶 Jam Presents Live Music in Peckham

Jam Sandwich Live has been running nights of music discovery in Peckham since 2012, and this one brings three original artists to Mountview — James Crowley, Maeve and Solar, moving between soulful, groove‑led and more experimental sets. Hosted by local curator Lou, it leans as much on real talk and community as on the music. 18+.

🗓 Thu 28 May, 7:45–10:45pm
📍 Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill St, London SE15 5JT, Reino Unido
🎟 £11 · tickets via DesignMyNight
♿ Fully accessible venue

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎭 POMP! (Fri 29 May, 8pm, The Old Nun's Head, £12): Alternative cabaret back from a break — drag, inflatable art and unhinged pop, hosted by the one and only Dirrty Harry.

2. 🛍️ Fashion Thrift Society Tour (Sat 30–Sun 31 May, 11am–5pm, Unit 8 Copeland Park, from £4): Two days of vintage and preloved fashion from one of the world’s biggest travelling thrift markets: hundreds of rails, serious finds, reasonable prices.

3. 🧵 MOCA London: Silvia Ziranek ‘By a Thread’ — opening event (Sun 31 May, 12–4pm, MOCA London): Exhibition launch with performance readings at 2:30pm and 3:40pm — come for a gallery wander, stay for the live text.

4. 🎬 Rooftop Cinema Club x Sofar: The Breakfast Club (Tue 2 Jun, 7pm doors, Rooftop Cinema Club (Peckham), £34): Silent-disco-style live band set, then the film under the open skies — address revealed 36 hours before.

5. ♻️ Waverley Garms — Free Clothes Swap (Mon 1 Jun, 5–8pm, The Waverley Arms, free): Bring what you don’t wear and leave with something new‑to‑you — plus 50% off veggie and vegan food for Meat Free Monday.

6. 🎭 God’s Gift (Mon 1–Tue 2 Jun, 8pm, Theatre Peckham, from £7.50): A multigenerational drama spanning 1911 and 2020 — two stories, one school, a century apart. Part of Peckham Fringe. 70 mins, 16+.

📽️ Cinema

The record-breaking heat is set to break next week — good timing for a cool, dark screening room. Three new releases lead the week:

Power Ballad (15) — Paul Rudd as a wedding singer out to reclaim a song stolen by a fading pop star (Nick Jonas). A warm, daft musical comedy. (98 mins)

Fairyland (15) — produced by Sofia Coppola: a true-story drama about a girl growing up with her gay father in the bohemian San Francisco of the 1970s, and the AIDS crisis that followed. Tender and real. (94 mins)

Backrooms (15) — a therapist follows a missing patient through a doorway in a furniture-showroom basement and into a nightmarish parallel dimension. Horror. (110 mins)

HOH subtitled screenings

Passenger (15) — Mon 1 Jun, 5:30pm | Finding Emily (12A) — Wed 3 Jun, 8:20pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎲 Persepolis Rooftop Board Game Nights · Every Tuesday in June · The team at Persepolis are taking things outdoors — and upward. Every Tuesday from June, the Peckham High Street deli and food hall opens up its rooftop for board game nights — backgammon, chess, and the kind of slow summer evening that does you good. Bring a friend or come solo and see who’s around.📍 Persepolis, 28–30 Peckham High Street, SE15 5DT 🎟 Free · book a spot by calling 020 7630 8007 or popping into the shop

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 2 dates to bookmark now.

🧩 Turncoats: The Ick (Love, Dating, London & Landlords) · Fri 12 Jun · SET Social
A properly punchy night of comedy-meets-debate on London dating, housing pressure and the whole “is it you or is it the city?” spiral. Expect a panel with writers, architects and broadcasters, plus an open mic element — so it’s part audience, part group therapy, part urbanism chat. Turncoats nights tend to draw a full room at SET Social, so it’s worth bookmarking and grabbing a ticket early. 🎟 From £8 · tickets via Phineas Harper

🌈 bless! – Pride kick-off · Sat 6 Jun · The Old Nun’s Head
A high‑energy Pride warm‑up launching the pub’s stacked June celebrations, with big DJ sets and serious dancefloor joy (come early for pizza from @SliceCircle). 🎟 Free · tickets via Outsavvy

💬 Local shoutout

📸 Women of South London photobook — launch party
Jasmine Waldorf’s debut photobook lands this Friday after two years of work — over 30 women photographed across South London, all shot on 35mm film. The project documents womanhood, identity, community and how gentrification reshapes who gets to call this side of the river home. Postcards, prints and the book itself will all be on sale, with a one-night-only discount on the book. 🗓 Fri 29 May, 6–10pm 📍 Paintbox, New Cross 🎟 Free entry

🎬 Submissions are open for SET Film Festival 2026
The grassroots festival returns to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition this November. They’re calling for short films of all genres: experimental, documentary, drama, animation, artists’ moving image, essay film and everything in between. It’s free to submit (one film per artist), films must be under 30 minutes and completed after 1 Jan 2023. Deadline: 23:59 on Sun 7 Jun. Full guidelines and submission link at setspace.uk/set-film-festival.

🎨 Open call: Palais wants a visual artist for In House
Palais is opening up a collaboration for its In House club series. They’re after a single piece of lead artwork for the next edition, which they’ll then adapt across digital formats. Open to any discipline: photography, video, illustration, painting, 3D or digital, mixed media. Budget is £250 all-in, and previous editions are viewable here for reference. Submissions stay open — next two editions are Fri 20 Jun and Fri 28 Aug. Apply here.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Tava Rakh — soft launch, week two

A year ago, Tava Rakh served its first masala chai and Indian-inspired truffles at SET Social — quietly, to almost no one. A week ago, the plant-based Punjabi kitchen opened its first proper restaurant at Copeland Park, and it's worth marking.

The name means “put the hot plate on” in Punjabi — a phrase founder Mala grew up hearing from her mum, signalling tasty food was on the way. We’re catching it mid-launch. Each week of the soft launch has a different focus. Breakfast already came and went; lunch is on right now through Sunday, and dinner lands next week.

Expect crispy paratha with yoghurt, pickle and butter, and masala chai to finish — Mala’s idea of a perfect plate.

🗓 Lunch (now on): Thu 28–Sun 31 May, 11am–4pm
🗓 Dinner: Thu 4–Sun 7 Jun, 5pm–9pm
📍 Copeland Park & Bussey Building, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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It’s a bank holiday weekend and, for once, the weather’s playing along — warmth, long stretches of sun, GALA at the Rye and a free festival to follow. If there was ever a weekend to be out in SE15, this is it.

I want to be straight with you, though. I’ve been making Peckham.Live on my own, every week, from Brazil, since last summer… and I’ve hit a real dilemma. In a month’s time we mark our first year, and I’m genuinely not sure I can keep doing this solo beyond it. So there’s a chance I close the shop when we hit that milestone. Nothing’s decided yet, and you’ll be the first to know either way.

But fear not — even if Peckham.Live winds down, the listings won’t disappear. Townspot is now up and running, so SE15 still has a home for what’s on. More on that as it grows.

For now though: it’s sunny, it’s a bank holiday, and the Rye is calling. Let’s make the most of it.

☀️ Sunny + cloudier: Thu · 🌞 Warm: Fri · ☀️ Settled: Sat · ☀️ Warm: Sun

Thursday turns warmer, with a sunny start before cloud builds in from the west around the middle of the day — then clearing back to mostly sunny by late afternoon. Friday gets very warm, possibly locally hot, under long spells of sunshine. Saturday and Sunday stay very warm and settled, with plenty of sun as high pressure holds. A proper bank holiday window, get out if you can. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: On the Rye Festival

The bank holiday belongs to the park. While GALA runs its ticketed weekend, On the Rye is the free, open-air thank-you to the neighbourhood, back for its second year and built for everyone.

Three stages spread across Peckham Rye Park, with Carroll Thompson (the Queen of Lovers Rock), a Buena Vista Social Club live revue, Rebel Clash, Born N Bread, Donut and Prince of Peckham among the names. Reggae, soul, R&B and more, from one in the afternoon until the light goes.

It’s a good family day too: bouncy castles, workshops, karaoke, face painting, community traders and a long run of Peckham’s street food.

🗓 Mon 25 May, 1–9pm
📍 Peckham Rye Park, the entrance is near the end of Strakers Road
🎟 Free, grab an RSVP if you like, or just turn up

🎉 GALA festival (and where to go after)

GALA’26 takes over Peckham Rye Park across Friday to Sunday, themed “The Floor Is Ours” — Giggs headlines, with CASISDEAD, Saoirse, Seth Troxler, Todd Terje and Novelist among the rest. It’s independent, as ever. Saturday’s already sold out, so it’s Friday and Sunday or nothing.

🗓 Fri 22–Sun 24 May, from 10am
📍 Peckham Rye Park
🎟 Fri £76.50 · Sun £82.50 (Sat sold out) · via RA

The afters ↓ — when the park empties out, the weekend keeps going across SE15.

🎶 The Greyhound — third year as the unofficial home of the GALA afterparty, this time across all three nights. Facta & K-Lone open things up on Friday; Saturday and Sunday lineups still to be confirmed. Part pub, part late dancefloor. Fri–Sun, 8pm–4am · 109 Peckham High St · £0–£8

🎶 Jumbi — official after parties run back at Jumbi all weekend, off the back of their Cornerstone Tent takeover inside GALA on the Sunday. All weekend · check Jumbi for times and entry

🎉 BAR D4100 — Cherry B’s and Nana on the decks in Nunhead, plus a guest still under wraps. Tickets dropped on 5 May and there’ll likely be none on the door, so check before you bank on it. Fri 22 May, 10pm–3am · 143 Evelina Road, SE15 3HB · £5 · access TBC

🎶 Clock House Tavern — three days of DJs and a daytime BBQ for anyone who’d rather catch the buzz without the wristband. Joe Milli and a Gengelly’s/Jubel BBQ on Friday, Revstreet and Lewis Preston Saturday, LT & Special Friends to close on Sunday. Fri–Sun · 196A Peckham Rye, SE22 9QA · price + access TBC

🎨 InterPlay at Copeland Gallery

A four-day show from students at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, where art and code share a room. Expect interactive installations, generative pieces and live audiovisual work — the kind of thing that responds to you rather than just hanging on a wall.

Thursday’s the private view if you want it at its liveliest; Friday adds a live AV performance night, and Sunday closes with public workshops.

🗓 Thu 21 May (private view, 5–9pm) · Fri 22 (2–10pm) · Sat 23 (11am–8pm) · Sun 24 (11am–4pm)
📍 Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎨 Collective Voices 2nd Edition (JustArt)

JustArt’s second group show brings back artists from the first edition alongside new names, hung in the raw, unpolished rooms of Safehouse. It's run on a community-first footing — art without the gatekeeping — so it's an easy, low-key one to wander into over the weekend.

🗓 Fri 22 May, 5–8pm (then Sat 23 May, 12–5pm · Sun 24 May, 12–5pm · Mon 25 May, 11am–3pm)
📍 Safehouse 1&2, Copeland Park, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free

🎭 What Are You Waiting For?

A one-day, drop-in art-making session inside the Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station — the handsome Victorian room that sat shut for decades. Artist Athena Paginton and Everything You See Here invite you to make something in the time you’d usually spend waiting: a few lines of a poem, a small object, something built alongside other people.

No skill needed, come and go as you like. Part of the ongoing Wander / Wonder series.

🗓 Sun 24 May, 1–5pm
📍 Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, Station Way, SE15 4RX
🎟 Free, open to all

🎨 The Fluid Body, Between Lines and Space

A free, drop-in animation screening tucked inside Ukkei, the coffee bar in Rye Lane Market. Taiwanese artist DanFong Wang has curated short moving-image work from four artists from Taiwan — grab a coffee, settle in, and watch as much or as little as you like.

🗓 Saturday 23 May, 11am–5pm
📍 Unit 30, Rye Lane Market, 48 Rye Ln, Peckham, SE15 5BY
🎟 Free, drop in

🎭 Costumes of Sound

A one-night performance evening at IKLECTIK from four artists — Luca Bosani, Isabel Castro Jung, Katy Howe and Natalie Price Hafslund — working across live performance, wearable art and sound. Part show, part dancefloor: you're welcome to watch or to move, and a DJ set and exhibition space run in the gaps, so you can stay as long as it holds you.

🗓 Sat 23 May, 7:30–11pm
📍 IKLECTIK, 95a Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
🎟 From £12 · tickets via Dice

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎤 Dane Baptiste: The End of Danes (Thu 21 & Fri 22 May, 7:30pm, The Pen Theatre, £11.55): South London's Dane Baptiste brings his farewell show to Peckham's own Pen Theatre — two nights of sharp stand-up and big exit energy.

2. 🎛️ Origins & Small Talk: A Day With Sofia Kourtesis (Sat 23 May, 4–10pm, Palais, from £10 before 5pm): Peruvian producer Sofia Kourtesis takes Palais for a daytime takeover: bright, melodic, movement-first house, wrapped up by ten.

3. 🎶 HIGH HATS Vol 3 (Sat 23 May, 10pm–4am, TOLA, price TBC): Affordable, inclusive late-night deep house and disco — a warm crowd and a budget-friendly dancefloor.

4. 🎶 Bird On The Wire: Fly The Nest — Saint Jude, ashnymph & Lover1k (Tue 26 May, 7pm, The Greyhound, free): BOTW’s monthly Peckham residency brings a first-ever triple bill — free RSVP on Dice, or try your luck on the door.

5. 🎤 Open Projector (Tue 26 May, 6–9pm, Copeland Social, free / RSVP): Plug into the projector and share anything — a work in progress, an idea, a performance — no polish needed, just good company.

📽️ Cinema

Star Wars lands on Rye Lane this week, which sets the tone. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (12A) picks up the TV series and runs it into a full film — Pedro Pascal’s bounty hunter Din Djarin and his small green apprentice back in action against the Imperial warlords still scattered across the galaxy after the Empire’s fall. Jon Favreau directs, Sigourney Weaver joins the cast, and it’s sci-fi popcorn through and through (132 mins).

Also new: Finding Emily (12A), a campus rom-com where a lovesick musician gets handed the wrong number for his dream girl and ropes in a psychology student to track her down — a search that escalates to a chatroom of 380 Emilys (Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn).

For something darker, Passenger (15) is a monster horror with Melissa Leo and Jacob Scipio, in which a couple realise the highway crash they witnessed left them with a demonic stowaway. And for the little ones, Tom & Jerry: Forbidden Compass (U) sends the pair to ancient China via an astral compass — daytime screenings through the week.

Subtitled screenings this week: The Sheep Detectives (12A) on Fri 22 May at 15:20, and Michael (12A) on Wed 27 May at 18:20.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎶 Tawai at El Vermut · 1st & 3rd Thursday · El Vermut
World musician Tawai brings cumbia, rumba, bossa nova and latin folk classics to this vermut bar on Nunhead Green. An unhurried Thursday night hang. No booking, just good sounds and a glass of something Spanish. Free entry from 7:30pm. Starting on 21st May.

💬 Local shoutout

🏆 Peckham wins the planning battle
The Planning Inspectorate has dismissed the developer's appeal, a huge moment for SE15. Community fundraising covered the cost of a proper legal team, and the campaign delivered. There's still a 6-week window for the developers to challenge the decision, but for now it's one to celebrate. Full update via @acapeckham.

🛋️ SET Social is still temporarily closed
SE15's beloved social space has had to pause all upcoming events while navigating a tricky landlord transition. The team has paused all event promotions until they can share a firm reopening date. If you've got a specific booking, reach out to your event organiser directly; for venue questions, the SET team is at social@setspace.uk.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Thai on the Rye

Thai BBQ boxes on Peckham Rye every day of the bank holiday, straight off the grill until they sell out. Three to choose from, all on sticky rice:

Gai yang — Thai-marinated chicken slow-cooked over coals, with som tam (pounded green papaya salad) and a tangy tamarind nam jim jaew. Sai ua — house-made Northern Thai sausage off the BBQ, with puffed pork skins and a green chilli relish. And for the veggie option, yam makeua yao — BBQ aubergine with a boiled hen egg, lime dressing, herb salad and toasted chilli.

Orders from the grill only, first come first served. Fuel up before you head to the Rye, or make it the whole plan.

🗓 Sat 23–Mon 25 May, from 11:30am
📍 The White Horse, 20–22 Peckham Rye, SE15

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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A big one this week. Bold Tendencies’ rooftop season opens on Friday and Frank’s Cafe is back up top with it.

Meanwhile, down in Nunhead Cemetery, artists take over the grounds at dusk for something genuinely eerie and beautiful. If you’ve only ever visited in daylight, this is a very good reason to go back.

Peckham 24 celebrates its 10th anniversary at Copeland Park all weekend, and the Ivy House in Nunhead packs 3 days of free live music into its beer fest.

Brilliant stuff, and almost all of it free. Dive in — there’s a lot to pick from this week.

🌦 Showers: Thu · 🌤 Sunny by eve: Fri · ⛅ Bright, cloudy: Sat · 🌧 Wet pm: Sun

Thursday clouds over from the west with scattered showers and the odd rumble of thunder, before turning drier with sunny spells by evening. Friday is a mix of cloud and sunshine with a few afternoon showers, clearing into a bright dry evening, good news for the Nunhead Cemetery Late and Bold Tendencies opening. Saturday starts sunny but clouds in through the day, with a chance of drizzle by afternoon. Sunday is cloudy with heavy rain likely in the afternoon, though temperatures rise across the weekend, so it’s milder if wetter. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Nunhead Cemetery Late

This weekend, Nunhead Cemetery opens up in two very different ways — and both are free.

On Friday evening, Goldsmiths artists take over the grounds at dusk. Masked performers emerge between graves to honour the future dead, a living sculpture grows out of a ruined chapel, puppets process the paths, and a wandering cat guides you through stories buried beneath the soil. Add headphone soundscapes, a living plant tapestry to weave into, and food from Dinner for One Hundred. Strange, beautiful, and families welcome.

🎁 Sold out — but we’ve got a pair to give away to the first reader who reaches out. Reply to this email or DM @peckhamlive and they’re yours.

Saturday is the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery’s annual Open Day: guided tours, crypt visits, ecology walks and community stalls. The East Lodge restoration team will be on site too, opening up the scaffolding for a first look inside. Whether you’re a regular or have never made it past the gates, it’s a gentle and genuinely lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

🗓 Fri 15 May, 6–9pm — Nunhead Cemetery Late · sold out (walk in available depending on capacity on the night)
🗓 Sat 16 May, 11am–5pm — Open Day · free, drop in
📍 Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 3LP

🎨 Occupied: Strange Company

A group exhibition that temporarily inhabits the two Safehouse buildings on Copeland Road, placing painting, sculpture, print, installation and moving image within the remnants of domestic space, and making the familiar feel strangely alive.

The show brings together artists from Royal Academicians to emerging practitioners, including those working in disability and community contexts. Curated by Julie Hoyle, it runs across 3 days with a private view on Friday evening if you want to catch it at its most buzzing.

🗓 Fri 15–Sun 17 May, 11am–4pm (Private view Fri 15 May, 5–8pm)
📍 Safehouse 1&2, 139 Copeland Road, SE15
🎟 Free

🎨 Peckham 24: The Eras Edition

Ten years of Peckham 24, and this one’s a proper milestone. The Eras Edition takes over Copeland Park for 3 days of contemporary photography on the theme of time — memory, identity, ecological change and nostalgia. Fourteen photographers including Vinca Petersen, Cian Oba-Smith and Eugenie Shinkle show new work across the site, while A Bigger Book Fair brings 80+ independent publishers to Unit 8 for a weekend-long celebration of photography in print.

Friday opens late from 6pm — a good one to kick off the weekend. Saturday and Sunday are gallery days, with talks and events running alongside the exhibitions.

Saturday also brings The Messy Truth — a full day of live conversations hosted by writer and podcaster Gem Fletcher. Four back-to-back sessions with photographers, writers and thinkers including Amelia Abraham, Bernice Mulenga, Max Ferguson and Charlotte Cotton. Each is ticketed separately, so pick your conversations and book ahead.

🗓 Fri 15 May, 6pm–midnight · Sat 16 May, 10am–6pm · Sun 17 May, 11am–6pm
📍 Copeland Park & Bussey Building, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free (exhibition) · Messy Truth sessions £5 / £3 conc. · book via Ticket Tailor

🎻 A Night of Folk Music (OffBeat Art Club closing party)

A folkie knees-up to mark the final weekend of the first edition of The OffBeat Art Club. Expect live folk music from the Flash Folk Choir and the Black British Folk Collective, plus a mystery headliner to be announced closer to the date. Don your glad rags and raise a glass to the artists who’ve made the debut edition what it is.

🗓 Fri 15 May, 7–11pm
📍 Staffordshire St, 49 Staffordshire Street, SE15 5TJ
🎟 £12-15 · tickets via Ticket Tailor

🍺 The Ivy House Beer Fest 2026

A whole weekend of free live music at Nunhead’s beloved community pub, with a lineup that bounces from indie folk and pop to full-band yacht rock, then into Sunday jazz and open decks. Come for one set, stay for the beers, ciders and ales — and that feeling that summer’s properly started.

The full three-day lineup spans Matthew Ryan Thomas, Garden Centre and Animal Soup on Friday; Steely Dan 2, Sinatra... Lives!, Scrounge, flytrap, tall child and Free Lunch on Saturday; then Doolally Tap and open decks (BYO vinyl) on Sunday.

🗓 Fri 15–Sun 17 May (Fri 5–10pm · Sat 12–10pm · Sun 12–6pm)
📍 The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, SE15 3BE
🎟 Free · no booking required
♿ Limited accessibility (no toilets)

🔠 Weaving Trust + Peckham Chamber Orchestra

Peckham Chamber Orchestra join NICE & GRAPHIC’s Michelle Dwyer for a third collaboration — a free live concert on the closing day of the Weaving Trust, a typographic poster installation shaped by community conversations on trust. It’s a proper celebration: music brought into the print space, marking the final day of the Dulwich Festival with something a bit special. This one feels like a nice end-of-something moment — warm, local, and completely free.

🗓 Sun 17 May, 2:00pm
📍 Amott Road Baptist Church, 47 Amott Road, SE15 4HU
🎟 Free · no booking required

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎬 Shorts for Palestine (Fri 15 May, 6:30pm, The Feminist Library, £5/£10 suggested donation): A fundraiser evening of Palestinian short films and badge-making in remembrance of Nakba Day — all proceeds to MAP: Medical Aid for Palestinians.

2. 🎶 Improv Lazy Sunday II (Sun 17 May, 6:30–9:30pm, The Meeting House, cash donation on door): A loose afternoon of improv music, spoken word, handmade instruments and DJ from a rotating cast of local artists — no set list, just good vibes.

3. 🎭 PalesTEENian (Mon 18–Tue 19 May, 8pm, Theatre Peckham Studio, £12.50 / £10 concs / £7.50 Peckham Local): A sharp, funny solo show about growing up Palestinian in South London — identity, diaspora and comedy in a 70-min debut at Peckham Fringe.

4. 🎶 Töpia’s Homies – The Welcome Back Show (Wed 20 May, 7–10:45pm, Jumbi Peckham, TBC): London collective Töpia and The Homies return with their live fusion open mic — punk-soul, funk, jazz and indie-RnB in one warm room.

5. 🎷 Live Jazz at Palais Ballroom (Wed 20 May, 6pm, Palais Ballroom, free): A rotating four-piece brings timeless jazz and loose improvisation to Palais every Wednesday evening — free entry, 18+, no booking needed.

📽️ Cinema

This week at Peckhamplex is led by The Christophers — Steven Soderbergh’s new comedy with Ian McKellen as a reclusive London art-world legend, and Michaela Coel as the young painter (and sometime forger) sent in by his estranged children to weasel her way into his studio. James Corden and Jessica Gunning round out the cast. Reviews are glowing: TIME calls it “one of the best movies of the year so far”.

Also new this week: Northern Soul: Still Burning, a music documentary tracing how Northern Soul has kept reinventing itself over the decades, featuring Wayne Hemingway, Tony Blackburn, Elaine Constantine and many more. Nightly screenings plus weekend matinees.

One for the art lovers: Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo screens Tue 19 May at 18:30 — a deep dive into her life and work, timed ahead of Tate Modern’s major Kahlo exhibition opening in June.

Subtitled screenings this week: Mortal Kombat II on Mon 18 May at 18:00, and The Devil Wears Prada 2 on Wed 20 May at 20:30.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
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Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎶 Mixtape · Every Friday · Prince of Peckham
The long-running Friday night residency at one of SE15’s most-loved venues, Mixtape brings a different guest to the decks each week — global club sounds, heavy bass and a late-night crowd that knows its music. This Friday, AMASSE (presented by Prince FM) takes the helm. A good one to end the week on. Doors from 9pm. 21+ only. Tickets via DICE, £9.

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — dates to bookmark now.

📽️ Open Projector · Tue 26 May · Copeland Social
A playful twist on the open mic format — anyone can plug into the projector and sound system and share something for a couple of minutes. Works in progress, finished projects, artwork, ideas, performances: all welcome. No polish required. 🎟 Free (RSVP) · 6–9pm

🎶 Euphoria Opening Concert: Ryan Wang · Sat 6 Jun · Bold Tendencies
Bold Tendencies opens its 20th Anniversary Season with something quietly special — an evening of virtuoso solo piano from Ryan Wang, the award-winning 18-year-old musician captivating audiences worldwide. The programme is a surprise, imagined specifically for the Steinway grand piano high above Rye Lane. 🎟 From £17.50 · tickets via DICE

💬 Local shoutout

🍻 Prince of Peckham turns 9

The Prince is celebrating 9 years with a 5-7-9 birthday deal all week (11–17 May): £5 Prince of Peckham Stout, £7 cocktails, and £9 jerk chicken & chips from WMCJ. A proper excuse to pop in and raise a glass to one of SE15’s most-loved locals.

💬 Bold Tendencies is back — and it’s their 20th

The rooftop season returns to Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park on 15 May with Euphoria, marking Bold Tendencies’ 20th anniversary. Five new large-scale visual arts commissions (including work by Andreas Gursky and Emma Hart) sit alongside a programme of orchestral music, dance, performance and talks running through to 12 September. Frank’s Cafe is back on the roof too, with seasonal food and drinks and the best view in SE15. Full programme and tickets via boldtendencies.com/events-tickets.

If you sing, there’s also an open call for the Bold Chorus joining Oliver Leith’s Garland, led by conductor Oli Kitching — no experience needed. Rehearsals Thu 11 + Fri 12 June, performances Fri 12 and Sat 13 June. The piece involves physical movement across the site, with access support available. Lunch and a complimentary guest ticket to one performance included. Sign up via the form or email community@boldtendencies.com.

🍹 Golden Hour: £22 Aperol jugs at Bussey Rooftop

Bussey Rooftop is running its Golden Hour deal: 4 Aperol Spritzes in a jug for £22, Thursday to Saturday from 5–8:30pm. Sociable, easy, and a fine way to catch the evening light.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🌮 Extra treat: Camberwell Food Festival

Just around the corner, the annual food festival takes over Camberwell Green for a full day of eating, browsing and bumbling about — with traders bringing dishes from five continents, bars, live music and a farmers' market stocked with fresh produce, hand-grown herbs and deli bits. The kind of thing you can dip into for an hour or linger in all afternoon.

🗓 Sat 16 May, 11am–7pm
📍 Camberwell Green, Camberwell
🎟 Free entry (no need to register or reserve a spot)

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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This week SE15 is doing two things at once, and doing both well.

On one hand: Shortwave Festival bringing commissioned sound art and performance across four venues, WePresent landing at Copeland Gallery with 16 artists and free brunches, a new gallery-bar opening on the Dovedale Trading Estate. Big culture energy.

On the other: 40 hot sauce makers setting up in Copeland Park, a community-wide yard sale meandering through front gardens, and a car boot doing what it always does on a Sunday morning. Bring a bag, bring cash, bring your dog.

Both versions of Peckham are happening this weekend, and you could do both. Start the weekend at someone’s garden gate with a tote bag. End it at IKLECTIK at midnight. That’s a pretty good Saturday.

☁️ Light cloud: Thu · 🌦 Showers: Fri · 🌤 Sunny spells: Sat · 🌧 Rain: Sun

Thursday looks dry and settled with sunny spells: a good day to be outside. Showers move in on Friday, Saturday mixes sunshine and cloud, and Sunday turns wetter. If you’re heading to the Yard Trail, pack a tote you don’t mind getting damp. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Peckham Yard Trail

The Peckham Yard Trail is back: a community-wide yard sale spreading across SE15 streets and front gardens, with an official trail map so you can wander door-to-door, find some treasure and actually meet your neighbours. Buyers roam free — RSVP and the map lands in your inbox Sunday morning. Want to sell? £5 gets your household on the trail.

Local businesses are laying on deals for trail-goers all day (grab a stamp as you go): tacos at Taquiza, coffee discounts at NOLA, Bara Café and Cotton’s, a £7 spritz and vintage stalls at Oasis, flash tatts at Rye Lanez, 2-for-1 rum punch at Jumbi, 20% off at Mélange Chocolate, 10% off at Coodie Cookies, 20% off at Pure Cane, and Ron's Coffee selling bits and bobs from home.

🗓 Sun 10 May, 10am–4pm · Peckham Car Boot runs alongside as usual (10am–2pm).
📍 Across Peckham (~1 mile radius of SE15 5DZ)
🎟 Free to browse · Sellers: £5 per household · tickets via Eventbrite

✨ Peckham Oasis Gallery & Bar

A new gallery-bar has arrived on the Dovedale Trading Estate, and it’s a good one. Peckham Oasis Gallery is a creative space where art, cocktails and craft beer share the same room.

They’re launching with South Open, a free group exhibition by OHSH Projects. Vietnamese street food is joining the mix too, with Phúc Mi, who’ve built a quiet following. And on Sun 10 May, they host their first flea market in collaboration with Peckham Car Boot. Bloody Mary optional, but recommended.

🗓 Open Thu–Sat, 12–5pm · Flea market: Sun 10 May
📍 Peckham Oasis, Dovedale Trading Estate, SE15 4QN
🎟 Free

🎨 OffBeat Art Club — Opening Night

The first ever OffBeat Art Club lands at Staffordshire St this Thursday, and it’s a proper one: an open-submission show with 80+ artists working across ceramics, textiles, painting, print and sculpture, rooted somewhere in folk, outsider and vernacular traditions.

Curated with London portraitist Wilfrid Wood (yes, the Spitting Image one) and orbiting the OffBeat Folk Film Festival world. Expect work that’s weird, playful, and just outside the ordinary. Free entry, but RSVP — the space holds around 100 so there may be a short wait on the door.

🗓 Thu 7 May, 6–9pm
📍 Staffordshire St, 49 Staffordshire Street, SE15 5TJ
🎟 Free · RSVP via Ticket Tailor
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎶 Shortwave Festival

A new two-night festival of sound and performance spreading across four independent South East London venues. Shortwave brings together international and local artists for commissioned live works, DJ sets and sonic experimentation, creating spaces where disciplines and communities meet.

🎵 London Performance Studios · Fri 8 May, 7:30–10:30pm
Harilay Rabenjamina premieres attentions — a live audio-visual concept album traversing familial, intimate and political registers. Part cinematic performance, part pop concert, blending ambient, R&B, classical and pop influences across London, Paris, Antananarivo and Pessac. Performed live with Thelia.

🎵 Ormside Projects, Penarth Centre · Fri 8 May, 10pm–4am
Brief Encounters × Kindred Spirits open the festival with a night of sonic experimentation and left-field club transmissions — ambient collage, sound fiction, dub techno and bass, through to deep small hours selections. Artists: Yawning Portal, VISIO, Jiyoung Wi, NEXCYIA, LC, and Harilay Rabenjamina behind the decks.

🎵 South London Gallery · Sat 9 May, 6–7pm (doors 5:30pm)
Krystle Patel presents CLOUT — a four-player performance weaving writing, spatialised sound and video to investigate the artist’s bio as a site for doppelgängers, interrogating power structures through score, choreography, spoken word and light. ⚠️ Contains flashing lights.

🎵 IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels · Sat 9 May, 7:30–10:30pm
Joshua Woolford, I Am Fya and K’BOKO close the festival, each bringing distinct approaches to sound as embodied practice — spanning socio-political realities, diasporic identity and Afro-Brazilian rhythms woven through electronic production.

🗓 Fri 8 & Sat 9 May
📍 See above
🎟 £15 for one event · £25 for two · tickets via Bookwhen

🎨 WePresent Spring Show – On Belonging

WePresent is bringing its first ever Spring Show to Copeland Gallery: a free three-day exhibition featuring 16 artists exploring identity and community. The centrepiece is On Belonging: a curated exhibition featuring work from 16 artists exploring identity and community. Alongside the show: film screenings, panel discussions, a dedicated print library and more.

A free brunch will be provided by Salsa Rose on Saturday and Sunday, ice-cream sandwiches from Happy Endings will be available daily, and complimentary cocktails by Peckham Social will be served between 5pm and 7pm each day, alongside music from Balamii’s DJs.

🗓 Fri 8–Sun 10 May, 11am–7pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🌶️ Hot Sauce Society

London’s biggest hot sauce festival is back to Copeland Park, and it’s two whole days this year. Expect 40+ independent small-batch makers (rare single-origin sauces, ferocious habanero numbers, the lot), plus street food, craft beers, frozen margaritas, HB&B Chilli Karaoke, competitions and DJs. Bring your friends, bring your dog, bring an empty stomach.

🗓 Sat 9–Sun 10 May · 11am–6pm (Sat) / 11am–5pm (Sun)
📍 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN
🎟 £5.60 · tickets via Ticket Tailor
♿ Fully accessible venue

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎭 hippocampus: MONEY DREAMS (Fri 8 May, 7:30–10:30pm, The Old Nun’s Head, £12): Six surreal dream-visions in one cabaret night — puppetry, mask, clown + comedy, equal parts funny and unsettling.

2. 🎶 Bliss Out – All Vinyl, All Night (Fri 8 May, 7:30pm–1am, Multi Story, free): A vinyl-only trio channelling the queer roots of house + disco — warm, community-minded, and completely free.

3. 💛 Heart of the Community: A Spoken-Word Fundraiser (Sun 10 May, 2:30–6pm, Prince of Peckham, £12): Open mic, headline acts + games raising money for Carney's Community, a Wandsworth charity supporting vulnerable young people. Come to share a poem, or just come to listen.

4. 🎨 Female Rage Collage Workshop (Mon 11 May, 7–10pm, The Ivy House, suggested donation £10 / £5 conc.): Cut, paste and channel your rage into collage — a fundraiser for kinder, a new feminist print magazine; nobody turned away for lack of funds.

5. 🎨 Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves – Free Curator Tour (Wed 13 May, 6:30pm & 7:30pm, South London Gallery, free): Two free slots with SLG’s Head of Programme Lily Tonge — a brilliant excuse to slow down and really look.

📽️ Cinema

Two new titles this week, plus a very good reason to dust off your 3D glasses.

Leading the new releases: The Sheep Detectives (PG) — yes, really. Hugh Jackman, Regina Hall, Bryan Cranston and Emma Thompson in a murder mystery where a flock of sheep, having been read detective novels by their now-dead shepherd, decide to solve his murder themselves. It's as absurd as it sounds, and completely charming with it

For something with more blood in it: Mortal Kombat II (15) arrives with Karl Urban, Ludi Lin and Joe Taslim — the tournament is finally underway, Johnny Cage is in the mix, and Shao Kahn needs stopping. Exactly what it says on the tin.

The weekend also brings Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft — The Tour Live in 3D (12A), co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, capturing her sold-out 2025 world tour. Singing and screaming along is actively encouraged. Screens Friday 8 May at 8:30pm, Saturday 9 May at 6pm and Sunday 10 May at 2pm — 3D tickets £7.99, glasses £1.

Subtitled screenings: The Sheep Detectives (PG) — Mon 11 May, 6:20pm · Mother Mary (15) — Tue 12 May, 8:40pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day | 3D tickets £7.99, glasses £1
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — dates to bookmark now.

✨ Born & Bred Cabaret (Kitchen Table Theatre) · Fri 15 May · The Old Nun’s Head
A big-hearted night of cabaret, drag + burlesque featuring Sheep Slagger, Chichi Mann, Tangerine Tassels, Kunty Kutti, Bonnie Banks, The Beach Bums and Babel Beast (their multicultural cabaret of monsters). Karaoke downstairs afterwards. 🎟 £10 · ticket via OutSavvy

✨ Peckham 24 × The Messy Truth · Sat 16 May · Bussey Building
A full day of live photography conversations hosted by Gem Fletcher, with Amelia Abraham, Bernice Mulenga, Cian Oba-Smith, Max Ferguson, Vinca Petersen and Charlotte Cotton. Four sessions run back-to-back — tickets sold per session, so pick your conversations and book ahead. 🎟 £5 per session · tickets via Ticket Tailor

✨ The Whole Routine · Fri 29 & Sat 30 May · London Performance Studios, SE15
Edward Thomasson’s ensemble piece, a moving, sometimes awkward musical exploration of control, longing, and the social rituals we build to manage difficult feelings, returns to SE15 for three shows. Friday is fully booked; Saturday evening has just 7 spaces left. Book fast. 🎟 £10-£18 · Tickets via London Performance Studios

💬 Local shoutout

📍 SET Social closed until mid-May
Creative venue SET Social is temporarily closed while it navigates a landlord transition. The team says a confirmed reopening date is coming soon, mid-May is the target. Questions about a specific booking? Contact the event organiser directly, or email social@setspace.uk.

🎭 £5 Theatre: open call for short script submissions
South London grassroots theatre company £5 Theatre has an open call out for short scripts to be staged at an upcoming show, a genuinely good route in if you’ve been writing in the shadows. Follow the link in their bio to submit. Deadline for submission is May 12.

🎨 Copeland Gallery Emerging Artist Exhibitions — applications open
Copeland Gallery has reopened applications for its Emerging Artist Exhibitions scheme (now in its fourth year). Three August blocks are available: 5–10 Aug, 12–17 Aug, and 18–24 Aug 2026. Applications close 10am Tue 26 May. See full details + info pack at copelandpark.com.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about? Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Rachel Ama x White Men Can’t Jerk Supper Club

Prince of Peckham turns nine this week, and they're marking it with a proper one. Cookbook author and sauce maven Rachel Ama is joining forces with local grill legends White Men Can't Jerk for a one-night tasting menu — Caribbean flavours, smoky and joyful, with Ama's sauces woven through the menu. Strong vegan options throughout, meat well represented too. The kind of dinner worth describing the next day.

🗓 Wed 13 May, 7–10pm
📍 Prince of Peckham, 1 Clayton Road, SE15 5JA
🎟 £65.71 includes five courses + a complimentary cocktail · tickets on Eventbrite
♿ Wheelchair accessible, but no accessible toilets

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
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PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15

Bank Holiday weekend, and SE15 has timed it well. A brand new farmers market opens on Bellenden Road, Peckham Fringe kicks off its biggest year yet, and two brilliant shows open at South London Gallery — all before the long weekend’s even properly started.

One thing worth knowing before you head out: SET Social is closed all week, from today through to Wednesday 6 May. Any events there have been moved or cancelled, so check before you go.

The good news: Bussey Rooftop Bar is back from today, with a freshened-up layout, a fully open roof and soft launch prices all weekend. Get there before the rain rolls in.

Wrap up (it gets showery from Saturday), check the listings twice, and we’ll see you out there.

🌞 Sunny: Thu · 🌤 Hazy spells: Fri · 🌦 Showers later: Sat · 🌧 Heavy rain: Sun
Thursday is the one: dry, sunny and warmer than it’s been. Get out if you can. Friday stays warm with hazy morning sunshine before cloud and thundery showers push in from the west. Saturday starts with sunny spells but turns showery through the afternoon. Sunday looks properly unsettled: save that one for the sofa. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Ranti Bam and Paulo Nimer Pjota – Opening Preview

Two new shows open at South London Gallery this Thursday with a free preview evening — fresh work, opening-night energy, drink in hand. Worth getting there early.

The headline act is Sacred Groves, British Nigerian artist Ranti Bam’s first solo institutional exhibition. She works across sculpture, performance, film and photography, and her practice is rooted in touch, spirituality and our relationship to the earth. Her Ifa vessels are made by pressing wet clay directly against her body — collapsing, cracking, folding — while her Abstract Vessels are pierced, studded and glazed by hand, combining earth, air, fire and water in the firing. Clay, for Bam, is the most primal material: made of earth and water, shaped by hands, transformed by fire. At SLG she also debuts a new film shot at Osun-Oshogbo, a sacred Yoruba site, tracking the river’s path and the human marks left on it.

Also opening: Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Encantados, large-scale paintings that feel like mythology and folk tale colliding — mythical creatures, sun and moon motifs, a three-headed beast playing trumpet, drum and sax simultaneously. His practice draws from Brazilian hip-hop’s sampling instinct and his own graffiti roots. Vivid and slightly chaotic in the best way.

🗓 Thu 30 Apr, 6:30–8:30pm
📍 South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH
🎟 Free, no booking required
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎭 Peckham Fringe 2026

Theatre Peckham's annual performing arts festival returns for its fifth year, and this one carries extra weight. Peckham Fringe 2026 marks Theatre Peckham's 40th anniversary, and to celebrate, they've put together their most ambitious programme yet: over 30 shows across five weeks, spanning new writing, musicals, immersive theatre and spoken word.

The whole thing runs across two venues — Theatre Peckham on Havil Street and Canada Water Theatre — with identity, community and authentic voices as the thread running through it all. Kicking off the Launch Weekend is WITNESS, a new play by Alex Wheatle (Lovers Rock, Crongton Knights): one shocking moment, one choice — it hits hard. And if you're making the most of the bank holiday Sunday, there's a limited-time offer for the Sunday 3 May performance: use code SUNDAY10 at checkout. Snap that one up quickly.

Also opening the festival: Pack It Up (three siblings, a house to clear, a lot of unfinished business), on Sat 2 and Sun 3 May. This year Peckham Fringe is also partnering with Prince of Peckham for post-show drinks.

🗓 Sat 2 May – Sat 5 Jun (Launch Weekend: Sat 2–Sun 3 May)
📍 Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, SE5 / Canada Water Theatre
🎟 Varies by show · see full listings at theatrepeckham.co.uk
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎭 JC LOVES U – Cabaret at The Greyhound

Every first Sunday, Jeanie Crystal, high priestess of chaos, punk prophet, devoted purveyor of the gloriously unhinged, takes over The Greyhound for a monthly variety night that’s equal parts cabaret, congregation and very late bar. The format stays the same: a curated lineup of performers followed by a closing DJ set from Jeanie herself.

May’s first communion brings Antigone, The Weird Weather Underground, Dolly Dolly and The Havocks to the altar, before Jeanie takes the decks for last orders. It’s a Bank Holiday Sunday. You know what that means.

🗓 Sun 3 May, 7pm till late
📍 The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High Street, SE15 5SE
🎟 Free entry · tickets via Dice
♿ Check venue directly for full access details

🎉 Shortlist at The Carpet Shop Peckham

One of those days you'll be talking about after. Shortlist returns to the courtyard at The Carpet Shop for their Bank Holiday Day + Night Special, and this one's even more ambitious than last year's. Bespoke stage design, custom light features, a complete rethink of the outdoor space, all sonically presented on the Shortlist sound system.

Lineup: Lovie, Selassie, Rohan Rakhit, Donut, blissy e, DREY (UK) & more. A genuine labour of love, made on a DIY budget and built on community spirit. With redevelopment of the adjacent land looming, this is one of only two outdoor parties at the venue this year, and it could be one of the last at this location.

🗓 Sun 3 May, doors 2pm – 2am (last entry)
📍 The Carpet Shop, Arch 164, 115 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
🎟 £8–£16 (day/night options) · tickets via RA
♿ Limited accessibility

🩸 DISCHARGE – Strange Goings On, Distasteful Acts & Difficult Performance

Three nights of performance art that turn into parties. Curated by artist Martin O’Brien, DISCHARGE is a space built for freaks, monsters and weirdos: a sanctuary of sickness where ethical perverts and lovers of transgressive, uncompromising work can gather. Five pieces per night, 15–20 minutes each, with breaks between; a DJ from 10:30 and drinks sold by the IKLECTIK team.

This first of three 2026 events revives a notorious DIY performance art series that ran in a Soho kink and fetish club in 2012–2014. Now hosted at IKLECTIK, it’s back with the same radical, cross-disciplinary energy, and none of the compromise.

🗓 Fri 1 May, 7pm–12:30am
📍 Iklectik, Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 PWYC £8–£25 · tickets via Outsavvy
♿ Fully accessible venue · Limited seating · Over 18s only.

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎤 The Poetry Foyer: If I Ruled The World (Thu 30 Apr, 6:30–9:30pm, Theatre Peckham, free): Earth Day open mic from Poetic Unity — bring verses about climate justice and greener futures, or just show up and listen. Sign-up on the door.

2. 🎨 south open 4 (Wed 6 May – Sat 30 May, Thu–Sat 12–5pm, Peckham Oasis SE15, free): Thirteen South London artists debut new work at the newly opened Peckham Oasis — free opening night 6 May, 5–9pm.

3. 🎶 Bowl Cut Summer All-Dayer (Sat 2 May, 2:30pm, The Ivy House, £5–£15): eight acts, a raffle and a big-hearted fundraiser for MIND — Bowl Cut’s beloved annual all-dayer is back.

4. 🌿 Glengall Wharf Garden Spring Fête (Sun 3 May, 2–10pm, Glengall Wharf Garden SE15, PWYC): Sports day, craft stalls, folk music and campfire supper at Peckham’s favourite community garden — fundraising to keep it free and open.

5. 📚 In Her Defence & Notes on a Drowning (Wed 6 May, 7–9pm, Review Bookshop, £5 redeemable): Philippa Malicka and Anna Mazzola chat crime fiction, court dramas and writing whilst parenting — with wine, beer and a book to take home.

📽️ Cinema

Right, first things first: Peckhamplex is putting on an actual runway on Friday evening. 7:30–8:15pm, before the 8:30pm showing of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — dress your absolute best, get photographed, and be in with a chance of winning a prize. It’s very silly and very fun. Full competition details here.

Which brings us to the film. Miranda Priestly has returned, and she is not happy about it. The Devil Wears Prada 2 (12A) lands this week with the full original cast back: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, all navigating print media’s decline, a luxury conglomerate, and each other. Nearly twenty years on, and from the looks of it, the shoulder pads are bigger. New faces include Kenneth Branagh, Lady Gaga and Simone Ashley.

Also new: Hokum (15), a slow-burn Irish horror about a writer, a haunted inn and a witch, if you want your Bank Holiday weekend to end with a scare. From Saturday, advance screenings of The Sheep Detectives (PG): Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Bryan Cranston and Regina Hall in a murder mystery where the witnesses are sheep. Genuinely.

Subtitled screenings this week: Michael (12A) — Tue 5 May, 6pm. Lee Cronin's The Mummy (18) — Thu 7 May, 8:40pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🥬 Peckham Farmers Market · Every Saturday · 165 Bellenden Road
A brand new weekly market lands in SE15 this Saturday — organic seasonal veg, day-boat fish, grass-fed meats, handmade bread, British and continental cheese, pastries, coffee and street food. The kind of morning that starts with one bag and ends with four. Free to enter, outdoors and step-free. First date: Sat 2 May, 9:30am–3pm.

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — dates to bookmark now.

✨ Ranti Bam: Sacred Groves Curator Tour · Wed 13 May · South London Gallery
A free guided tour of British Nigerian artist Ranti Bam’s debut solo show Sacred Groves, led by SLG’s Head of Programme Lily Tonge. Working with sculpture, performance, film and photography, she explores our relationship to the environment through touch, spirituality and healing. Two tour slots: 6:30pm & 7:30pm. 🎟 Free · booking required via Eventbrite

✨ CIRCULATE · Saturdays, May–Jul 2026 · MOT / Jumbi→ Phonox, Brixton
Phonox's new 13-date South London summer series starts on May 16: day parties in the sun at MOT's open-air space or Jumbi's terrace in Peckham, then a full night inside Phonox well into the early hours, with lineups including Optimo (Espacio), Gerd Janson, Leon Vynehall, Make A Dance and Young Marco. 🎟 Tickets via RA

💬 Local shoutout

⚠️ SET Social is closed this week (30 Apr–6 May)
Peckham’s community living room will be shut from Thursday 30 April, reopening on Wednesday 6 May. All events during that window have been cancelled or rescheduled. If you’ve got a booking, drop them a DM. They’ll be back and ready from 6 May — follow @set.social.peckham for updates.

☀️ Bussey Rooftop Bar is back from today
The nap's over. Your neighbourhood rooftop reopens today with a freshened-up layout and a fully open roof. New addition: The Cut, a laid-back lounge at the back with DJs every Friday and Saturday. To ease you in, they're doing a soft launch this weekend: £10 pizzas and £6 cocktails all day Saturday and Sunday, with @bmc.radio on the decks from 6pm Saturday. Bank Holiday sorted. Free entry; tables at busseyrooftopbar.com.

🗺 SE15 Nights is building Peckham’s biggest pub crawl (and wants your tips)
A new Instagram account, @se15nights, has hit the ground running with a bold idea: building the biggest pub crawl Peckham has ever seen. They’ve confirmed two regular nights: Tuesdays and Thursdays, doing local independent bars and hidden gems. Got a favourite boozer that deserves a spot on the crawl? Tag it in the comments or DM them directly. If you run a venue in SE15 and want customers on quieter nights, talk to them.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: JURKISH Launch Party

Jamaican-Turkish fusion sounds like a bold bet — but Peckham-born Nazli Ramadan has been perfecting this collision of cultures for over a decade, and her new residency at John the Unicorn already feels like it was always meant to be there.

She launched JURKISH after the success of her pop-up at Jumbi. The menu reflects exactly where she’s from and who she is: curry goat manti, hot and cold mezze, Jurkish grill, cornmeal crème brûlée and pistachio brownies. She’s also partnered with John the Unicorn’s brewers Gosnells on a range of naturally brewed honey beers, the raspberry hibiscus a particularly good match for the manti.

Tonight she’s throwing a launch party: new menu discounted, happy hour drinks, belly dancers and all the good vibes.

🗓 Launch party: Thu 30 Apr, from 6:30pm
📍 John the Unicorn, 157–159 Rye Lane, SE15 4TL
🕐 Mon–Thu 12–9pm · Fri–Sat 12–10pm · Closed Sundays
🎟 DM @jurkish_ to RSVP for tonight

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
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PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
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Spring is doing its thing — the sun's out, the bowls are back, and SE15 has turned up with a properly stacked week.

There's more theatre than usual: a chaotic debut, a feminist cave tour, and a performance sampler that genuinely defies description.

IKLECTIK is running three nights in four days that would hold their own anywhere in London. And if you've been watching the multi-storey and waiting, Bold Tendencies just dropped their Euphoria season, tickets are on sale now, and Frank's won't be far behind.

Summer's coming. You can feel it.

⛅ Sunny spells: Thu · 🌦 Variable: Fri · ☀️ Dry + bright: Sat · 🌤 Sunny: Sun
Thursday starts well, largely sunny and dry through the morning, though cloud builds through the afternoon as any showers ease off. Friday stays mostly dry with hazy sunshine, but hold on to your jacket: a few patches of rain are possible come evening. Saturday is the pick of the weekend, dry and fine with plenty of sunshine. Sunday's looking good too, staying bright with gentle winds and just a little patchy cloud to keep things interesting. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Picks of the week: IKLECTIK

I’ve been sitting on three IKLECTIK shows for this issue, trying to pick just one. I couldn’t. And then I realised: three nights that earn it in four days. IKLECTIK has been quietly one of London’s most adventurous music spaces for years. This week it earns that reputation three times over. That’s a moment worth naming.

Fri 24 Apr · 7:30pm · Ruthless Jabiru & Ensemble Offspring: Black Ice
A music-led reflection on Australia's Black Summer — the 2019–20 wildfires that scorched an area three quarters the size of the UK. Ruthless Jabiru and Ensemble Offspring come together for the first time for an evening of contemporary chamber music exploring the sound and emotional landscape of bushfire, and the re/turning to First Nations leadership on cultural burning that followed. The programme features five European premieres, and one world premiere. 🎟 £18 via Eventbrite

Sat 25 Apr · 7:30pm · Acid Mothers Temple ft. Cotton Casino
A rare London appearance from Japanese psychedelic legends Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., joined by Cotton Casino. Expect long-form sonic rituals blending distortion, repetition and improvisation. Support from Michael. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. Running low on tickets. 🎟 £23 via Dice

Sun 27 Apr · 7:30pm · Ex-Easter Island Head
Multiple electric guitars, mechanical preparations, shimmering drones. EEIH make hypnotic, physical music that's been compared to Steve Reich, Glenn Branca and John Cage — and their latest album Norther was named album of the year by The Quietus. Support from Rún. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. 🎟 £22 via Dice

📍 IKLECTIK, Level 5, Peckham Levels, SE15 4ST

🎭 Big Throw #3

Big Throw is back — and this third edition at SET Social is the kind of night that defies easy description, which is sort of the whole point.

Presented by an artist-led, unfunded collective, Big Throw is a live performance sampler that refuses to stay in one lane. This time expect work by Simeon Barclay, Maz Murray, Jennett Thomas (with Richard Whitby), Klara Kofen and Sally O’Reilly — spanning spoken word, music, video, object theatre, animation, opera, puppetry, tap dance and things that don’t have a name yet.

All ticket income goes directly to production costs and modest fees for the performers. This is the real thing: artist-supported, unfunded, genuinely strange.

🗓 Thu 23 Apr, 7:30–11pm (doors 7:30; performances from 7:45)
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, SE15 4NP
🎟 £12 / £10 members + BF · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

😂 CLF Laughter Lounge: Mark Thomas (live) + special guests

Collywobblers Comedy Club’s bi-monthly Laughter Lounge lands at The CLF Art Lounge pop-up with Mark Thomas headlining — a proper South London comedy legend. Line-up notes (from the JokePit listing): Valeria Vulpe, Victoria Howden, Audrey Simmons, plus a mystery special guest, and MC Siôn James.

🗓 Thu 23 Apr, 7–11pm (doors 7:30pm, show 8:30–11pm)
📍 The CLF Art Lounge (Mountview), 120 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JT
🎟 £10–12.50 adv / £20 OTD · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎭 Old Bomb Theatre Company — Craggy Hole Caves

Yorkshire's premier cave guide Nele Poolerton is doing double duty: leading tourists through prehistoric finds by day, living at work by night, and quietly losing the plot over her baffling boss Stanley. Old Bomb Theatre Company's new show takes the humble cave tour and turns it into something sharply feminist, rude in the best way, and very, very funny. Written by Sacha Voit, Craggy Hole Caves moves through "herstory" — from Neanderthal goddess worship to the "basic cradle of life" — with equal parts absurdity and wit.

Expect prehistoric facts, workplace comedy, and a company clearly playing with fire. It's on at The Feminist Library on Sumner Road — a fitting home for it.

🗓 Fri 24 Apr, 7:30–9:30pm
📍 The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
🎟 £11.55 general / £6.13 access / free tickets available · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎭 Pickle Jar Theatre

A brand-new SE15 theatre company is making its debut, and they're doing it in the most gloriously unhinged way possible. Pickle Jar Theatre are dedicated to the weird, the wonderful and the wildly playful, taking big ideas, big texts, and even bigger feelings and running them through a joyfully pickled lens. Their launch night at The Pen is a back-to-back run of five-minute "party tricks" — karaoke, characters, confessions, potential breakdowns, and theatrical chaos.

Each act is a surprise; the only guarantee is that something unexpected is going to happen. Beneath the mayhem there's a good cause: 50% of profits go to Medical Aid for Palestinians, with the rest funding future Pickle Jar projects. Come along, get weird, and do a bit of good while you're at it.

🗓 Sat 25 Apr, 7:30–9pm
📍 The Pen Theatre, Unit 22 Penarth Centre, Penarth Street, SE15 1TR
🎟 £13.70 · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ The theatre is on the 1st floor with approx 30 steps and no working lift

🎶 Hundred Heads LDN

A one-night London debut from Hundred Heads (the 200-cap DIY music festival that’s been running in South Wales since 2019) landing at Vespers for a taste of their wholesome-hedonist energy.

Think weirdo dancefloor eclecticism, community vibes, and music that keeps you on your toes: Am Ubhi opens with dubwise meanderings through the less-visited corners of British music; LRN brings super-charged reggaeton, soca, funk and techy fast-forward house; Midnight Mary delivers post-industrial electro-inflected sludge (their words, our vibe); and Sarjan closes out with hypnotic mind-and-body music from a cosmic elsewhere.

A taster for the full July festival in South Wales — tickets for that are £105 (or £65 unwaged). In Peckham? A fiver.

🗓 Sat 25 Apr, 11pm–4am
📍 Vespers Club, 133A Rye Lane, SE15 4BQ
🎟 £5 · tickets via RA

🎶 The CLF Soul, Funk, Disco All Dayer

Ten hours of soul, funk and disco on vinyl — four selectors, free entry, and spring properly catching fire in the dance. The CLF are doing the thing this Saturday. Deep Funk (Mati Baz x George Aresti) dig through the crates from 3–8pm: funk, soul, boogie, latin, disco — the kind of afternoon session that makes you forget you were only going to stay for one. Then Disco Freaks (Chris Davies & Matt Browning) take over from 8pm 'til 1am — veterans of Glastonbury, Bestival and a residency with John Morales. Let your feet have some fun. Go on.

🗓 Sat 25 Apr, 3pm–1am
📍 The CLF Art Lounge, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill St, SE15 5JT
🎟 Free entry · tickets via RA
♿ Fully accessible venue

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎶 Nancy Kerr, James Fagan & Tim Van Eyken (Fri 24 Apr, doors 7pm / live 8–11pm, The Ivy House, £20): Three award-winning folk musicians reunite. Expect everything from delicate harmonies to full-tilt dance tunes.

2. 🎬 Atropia (Mon 27 Apr, 7:30pm, The Ivy House, free): Hailey Gates’s sharp satirical debut — a fake military city, a real romance, and Alia Shawkat at her best. 18+.

3. 🎶 Alyssa Jinks: ‘To Keep You Company’ EP Launch (Tue 28 Apr, 7–10:30pm, The Ivy House, £10): SE London folk singer-songwriter Alyssa Jinks marks her debut EP with a live show at one of SE15’s most beloved local pubs.

4. ♟️ Pieces Chess Club (Tue 28 Apr, 7pm–12am, Palais, free/donation): Chess meets club culture at their new SE15 home — open to all levels, with guest DJs and donations going to Peckham Soup Kitchen.

5. 🎭 ABri: Viscera (Wed 29 Apr, 7–11pm, Vespers Club, £7 OTD): Six artists, six new works — ABri's debut residency show at Rye Lane is an evening of dance and embodiment, serious and intimate.

📽️ Cinema

Big week at the Plex — the Michael Jackson biopic arrives, and it's exactly as dramatic as you'd expect. Michael (12A) leads this week's new titles: Antoine Fuqua's sprawling portrait of the King of Pop, from the Jackson 5 to Neverland, with Colman Domingo and Jaafar Jackson (Michael Jackson's real nephew) in the cast. It's a 125-minute ride.

Also new this week: Mother Mary (15) — a sleek, stylish thriller starring Anne Hathaway and the electric Michaela Coel as estranged best friends reuniting before a big comeback show. Exit 8 (15) is the one for horror fans — a Japanese psycho-thriller based on the viral indie game, all dread and labyrinthine corridors (with English subtitles).

And Surviving Earth (15) follows a Serbian refugee and harmonica player building a new life in Bristol — quiet but thought-provoking. For families, Hitpig! (PG) rounds out the week with an animated bounty-hunting pig and a dancing elephant.

HOH subtitled screenings this week: My Father's Shadow (12A) — Sun 26 Apr, 12:50pm, and Glenrothan (12A) — Mon 27 Apr, 8:30pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎂 Cake Sit · Monthly @ Old Nun’s Head
This “monthly silly sensual sticky fun” is now on its 14th edition, which tells you everything you need to know. Unapologetically queer, wonderfully chaotic cabaret where performers sit on, dance with, sing to or otherwise lovingly destroy cake. Next one: Fri 24 Apr, 8pm 📍 Upstairs at The Old Nun's Head Pub 🎟 £5–£10 via OutSavvy

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

✨ Shortlist – Bank Holiday Day + Night Special · Sun 3 May · The Carpet Shop
A DIY day-to-night outdoor party with bespoke stage design, custom lights and the Shortlist sound system; one of only two outdoor events here this year. 🎟 TBC · tickets via RA

✨ CIRCULATE · Saturdays, May–Jul 2026 · MOT / Jumbi, SE15 → Phonox, Brixton
Phonox's new 13-date South London summer series: sun-soaked day parties at MOT's open-air space or Jumbi's terrace in Copeland Park, before heading inside Phonox well into the early hours. 🎟 Tickets drop today, Thu 23 Apr at 12pm · circulateldn.co.uk

✨ Pluera: A love note to nature’s flawless pace · Tue 12 May · SET Social
A relaxed writing salon by Thirdlung: journal your wonders onto handmade wildflower seeded paper, then let nature do the rest. 🎟 £12.62 · Tickets via Eventbrite.

💬 Local shoutout

🎶 Bold Tendencies: Euphoria – 2026 season · Tickets on sale now
Peckham’s rooftop arts venue returns for its 20th anniversary season, running 15 May – 12 September on top of the multi-storey. The line-up is a proper statement: Steve Reich Drumming, Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphony, world premieres from Oona Doherty and Lily McMenamy, Isata Kanneh-Mason’s Halo, The Multi-Story Orchestra, Mica Levi, Ben Okri, and a Fitzcarraldo Editions summer party. Tickets at boldtendencies.com.

🍹 Pure Cane is adding something new to their menu: meet JUNEE
Jamaican June Plum pressed with their signature pure cane juice. Sweet, tangy, refreshing, and very much worth the detour. They're also rolling out new spring/summer opening hours from next week: Tue–Wed 11am–6pm, Thu–Sat 11am–7pm, Sun 11am–4pm, closed Mondays. More reasons to pull up. 26 Choumert Rd.

🎳 Peckham Bowls is back
Good news for anyone who's been eyeing the park and waiting for an excuse to get outside — Peckham Bowls reopened this week. Open Mon–Fri from 4pm (until 8:30pm in April, 9pm in May) and weekends from midday, stretching to 9:30pm over summer. Large group weekday bookings via hello@peckhambowls.co.uk — everyone else can book at peckhambowls.co.uk.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Lai Rai x Friends – Guest Chef Night with Alastair Walling

Lai Rai, one of Peckham's most quietly excellent spots, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand holder, is launching its guest chef series this month. Vol 01 hands the kitchen over to Alastair Walling, the chef with a serious CV (Albers, Noble Rot, Planque, and now Maset) and a reputation for produce-led cooking that makes you feel it.

One night only: expect seasonal plates with a British-Vietnamese soul. The full menu's still under wraps, so follow @lairai.london for the reveal and booking link — this one will fill up.

🗓 Wed 29 Apr
📍 Lai Rai, 181 Rye Lane, SE15 4TP
🎟 Book your table on their website

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
📬 Local business? Get in touch — let’s chat collaborations

PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15

April’s doing its thing. The mornings are light, the weekend looks dry, and Sunday is shaping up to be a proper one.

We got to a new exhibition at SET Stage Gallery on female desire and digital identity, Yaya Bey’s new album getting its world-first full listen at Shai Space (with the artist joining live from New York on the day of release), and South London Soul Train bringing a Prince tribute to Palais that I’d already have circled twice.

There’s also a Victorian cemetery walk on Sunday that’ll change the way you see Nunhead forever, three bands at The Ivy House on Thursday, and Duda Diner’s collab supper with Singaporean kitchen Soon Tong, worth booking before it's gone.

Sunny forecast. Stacked weekend. See you out there.

🌤 Sunny + cloudy: Thu · 🌧 Variable: Fri · 🌦 Dry: Sat · 🌞 Sunny: Sun
Thursday’s looking good in the morning — largely sunny and dry — but cloud builds through the afternoon as any showers ease away. Friday should stay mostly dry with hazy sunshine, though a few patches of rain are possible in the evening. Saturday looks dry and fine with plenty of sunshine; Sunday stays bright too, with gentle winds and just a little patchy cloud. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Shai Space × Yaya Bey — Fidelity album listening

Shai Space is doing something special on Friday: hosting a full album listen of Yaya Bey’s Fidelity on the day of its release, the kind of evening Shai does better than almost anywhere in London right now.

The night unfolds in layers: the record played in full, then a short film made around the album, and finally Yaya joining from New York for a video Q&A with the room. It’ll be the first time most people there have heard this music, together, in a space built for exactly this kind of listening.

Yaya Bey is soul-rooted and genre-fluid, weaving jazz, R&B, reggae and house into something warm and expansive. Her 2022 record Remember Your North Star earned Pitchfork’s Best New Music. Fidelity is her newest chapter, and you’ll hear it first.

🗓 Fri 17 Apr, 7–10pm
📍 Shai Space, Latona Rd
🎟 £11 · tickets via Shai Space
♿ Step-free access, but there is no step-free toilet

🎸 Starter Car + Kissing Gate + New Hat

Three South London bands worth catching on a Thursday night in Nunhead. If you want something loud, local, and a little bit electric midweek — this is it.

Kissing Gate are a 5-piece art-rock band formed in South London in 2023. Their debut album Funny Dream has been doing the rounds in all the right ears, and their live shows have a reputation for being spellbinding, euphoric, and not-quite-like-anything-else.

Starter Car and New Hat join them on the bill: a properly stacked Thursday night in a cosy Nunhead pub, with a full lineup of new music from bands who clearly love what they do.

🗓 Thu 16 Apr, 7:30pm
📍 The Ivy House, Nunhead SE15 3BE
🎟 £8 + BF / £10 OTD · tickets via Dice
♿ Limited accessibility (no toilets)

🖼️ Softer/Harder

SET Stage Gallery’s new show digs into female sexuality and desire through a digital lens — Tumblr-era nostalgia, Omegle curiosity, bodies and identity remixed online. Photography, nudity, erotic poetry, and a personal essay by Maricel on early online “safe spaces” and how they shaped a generation's relationship with their own bodies and desires.

🗓 Fri 17 – Sun 19 Apr, 2–8pm (open night Fri 17 for ticket holders)
📍 SET Stage Gallery, 55A Nigel Road
🎟 Free · performance sold out
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🎵 Record Store Day at The Greyhound

The Greyhound is making a whole day of it this Record Store Day. Two separate lineups, two different rooms of energy — but really one continuous Saturday at one of Peckham High Street's best-loved boozers.

It starts at 6pm with Profumo Events' live music showcase: three independent South London acts back-to-back. RedEye open with high-energy sets, Zach Thompson follows with melodic originals, then Harrison Affair (back with a new fifth member after a four-month break) close things out. If you want a proper corner-pub gig that feels genuinely neighbourhood, this is it.

Then the basement flips. From 8pm, Palace Vinyl and the OOZ collective take over downstairs for a full dance session: deep, dialled-in selections running all the way to 4am with Georgia, While You're Online opening early doors, then SLVA with Bobby Mac & Lorcan through to close. Upstairs stays pub.

🗓 Sat 18 Apr, from 6pm (afters from 8pm–4am)
📍 The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High St
🎟 Live show: £10.13 · tickets via Resident Advisor
🎟 Afters: £5 (free before 9pm) · tickets via Resident Advisor
♿ Two floors connected by internal stairs; contact venue ahead for access needs

🪦 Cemetery Symbols tour at Nunhead Cemetery

One of SE15’s most atmospheric green spaces has a language of its own, carved into every headstone and monument across the Victorian cemetery. This Sunday, Friends of Nunhead Cemetery are running a guided walk to help you read it. Their walks are unhurried and detail-rich, the kind where you notice things you’ll never be able to unsee on a solo wander.

This Sunday’s tour focuses on symbolism: angels, broken columns, weeping willows, and the striking ouroboros at the Linden Grove entrance. Come along for a gentle SE15 Sunday, a bit of Victorian history, and a new way of seeing somewhere you thought you already knew.

🗓 Sun 19 Apr, 2pm–3:45pm
📍 Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove entrance
🎟 Free (donations welcome) · No booking required

🕺🏼SLST: Prince 10 Year Anniversary Special

Ten years on from Prince’s death, South London Soul Train brings a purple-tinged Sunday day-party to Palais, a tribute to the ultimate showman from two of SE15’s favourite DJs.

Marlon & Kyri will be digging deep: from Purple Rain and Controversy to the weird, sexy late-night side quests most people forgot existed. Expect funk, soul, disco and catharsis on a serious sound system — dropped with relish and real musical mastery.

SLST host Jazzheadchronic opens the session, so the room will be warm before the purple reign begins. Five hours, one genius, one dancefloor. Advance tickets on RA; door tickets also available on the night.

🗓 Sun 19 Apr, 6pm–11pm
📍 Palais, 1a Rye Lane
🎟 £5–10 adv · tickets via RA / £13 OTD

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎤 Poetry Night (Fri 17 Apr, 6–9pm, Innervisions Alchemy, £5): Spoken word, storytelling and open mic — honest words, deep themes and a warm welcome whether you’re performing or just listening.

2. 🧡 Neighbours spring issue launch @ F.A.T Studio (Fri 17 Apr, 6–9pm, F.A.T Studio, free): Grab the new spring issue of Neighbours hot off the press, with readings, guests and a quick after-work hang on Old Kent Road.

3. 🎬 Hausu Film Club: Pieces of April (2004) (Sun 19 Apr, 6:30–8:30pm, Hausu, £8.30): Katie Holmes scrambles to cook Thanksgiving for her estranged family in this funny, tender early-2000s gem. Upstairs at Hausu's Peckham Rye bar.

4. 🔥 Bibi’s Circle | Beltane (Mon 20 Apr, 6–9pm, Rons Coffee House, donation): Mark the spring fire festival with a community gathering by Bibi’s Circle — food and drinks on sale, donations towards materials warmly welcome.

5. 📚 Comedians Do Poems: Spring Edition (Tue 21 Apr, 7–9pm, Review Bookshop, £10): Comics swap punchlines for poems — verse, spoken word and notebook offcuts at this quarterly scratch night, spring edition hosted by Amy Matthews.

6. 🎨 Jace Ambwani & Seonaid Best (Wed 22 Apr, 7pm, Beer Rebellion, free): Two-person opening at the Queens Road bar — sculpture and multimedia from artists whose work is rooted in housing, architecture and the psychological weight of the suburb.

🎬 Cinema

Two new titles this week: Glenrothan (12A) — Alan Cumming and Brian Cox as brothers reuniting after forty years in a beautifully shot love-letter to the Scottish Highlands. And The Mummy (18) from director Lee Cronin — a journalist’s daughter vanishes into the desert and comes back eight years later. What follows is not a happy reunion.

Thursday night is a big one: NT Live: All My Sons (12A) — Arthur Miller’s classic with Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, filmed live from the West End. One of the great American plays on the big screen.

One night only for the Independent Filmmakers Showcase: the multi-award winning horror comedy Loner (15) — Mon 20 Apr, 20:30. Aspiring vlogger Angus escapes to the wilderness to film a nature retreat — but an ancient Celtic presence has other ideas. Tense, strange, and shot through with folk-horror dread. Directed by Charlie Robb and Douglas Tawn. 120 mins.

Subtitled screenings (HOH) The Drama (15) — Fri 17 Apr, 15:50 and California Schemin' (15) — Tue 21 Apr, 18:00 .

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week's pick: 🌿 IKLECTIK LIVE: PARK — Sundays @ IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels
This is the first afternoon of a recurring Sunday series curated by Atay Ilgun: six unannounced live acts, long social intervals, and a no-phones policy that actually lets you settle in. Each edition feels a little different — artists are invited to show up freely, so no two gatherings are the same. General admission £10 / £5 conc. · 'No one turned away for lack of funds' — email atay@iklectikartlab.com · Tickets via DICE.

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

🎬 Rooftop Cinema Club Peckham — 2026 season · From Thu 30 Apr · Open-air screenings are back for summer, kicking off with PTA’s One Battle After Another (ft. Leonardo DiCaprio). 🎟 £8–25 · tickets via Rooftop Cinema Club.

🎥 I Know Catherine, The Log Lady · Thu 30 Apr · Multi Story, Peckham Levels — a moving tribute screening celebrating Catherine E. Coulson and her beloved Twin Peaks character, the Log Lady. 🎟 £11.92 · tickets via TicketSource.

✨ Paratha Club: Supper & Short Films · Thu 30 Apr · SET Social, Nigel Road — plant-based stuffed parathas, masala chai and a sweet treat, then three short films from independent directors with filmmaker intros. 🎟 £17.50 · few tickets left via Eventbrite.

💬 Local shoutout

🛍️ Book your spot for Peckham Yard Trail — Sun 10 May
Peckham Carboot is turning 7 and bringing back the neighbourhood yard sale. This time, you can be part of it without leaving your home. Register your front garden, driveway or doorstep as a host stall for £5 per household, and Peckham Carboot will put you on the official Yard Trail map, sending buyers straight to your door. Sign up via MarketMate · follow @peckham.carboot for updates.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: Duda & Friends x Soon Tong

Duda Diner is marking the final chapter at their Nunhead Green home with a bang — and first up is a four-night guest kitchen with Soon Tong, their Singaporean "rivals" (and brothers, really). Expect family-style plates, big-table energy, and bold Singaporean flavour.

If you've been meaning to make it to Goodcup before Duda's last ever service there on 27 June, this collab is a very good reason to go now.

🗓 Thu 16 – Sun 19 Apr
📍 Duda Diner (at Goodcup), 44 Nunhead Green
🎟 À la carte · book via SevenRooms

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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A quick milestone to mark: we just hit 200 subscribers and 1,062 Instagram followers: all organic, all word of mouth, all you. Over half of you open this every single week, which is honestly mad. Thank you!

It’s also a good moment to say what this is really about. Peckham.Live started as a listings newsletter, but the real goal is simpler: get more people out of the house and into a room with other people. Loneliness is quietly everywhere, and a good Friday night — or a free Saturday afternoon, or a Tuesday film you almost didn’t go to — can genuinely shift something. That’s what we’re building towards.

And this week gives you plenty of reasons to go. Free openings with bubbles, comedy nights that feel like someone’s best house party, and a couple of big community shindigs that’ll run from midday into the small hours.

New music, new work on the walls, new people to say hi to. Here’s what I’d book, wander to, and turn up early for.

🌤 Sunny + cloudy: Thu · 🌧 Variable: Fri · 🌦 Mixed bag: Sat · 🌞 Mostly sunny: Sun

Thursday’s looking good in the morning — largely sunny and dry — but cloud builds from the west through the afternoon and evening before clearing by night. A breezy one. Friday’s still unclear, so worth checking before you head out. Saturday brings early bright spells before patchy rain pushes in from the west as the day goes on. Sunday should be the pick of the weekend: predominantly dry and sunny, with just the odd isolated shower to watch out for. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: Mary Sho — A City Asleep

Mary Sho is a Peckham-connected artist and musician whose practice weaves together photography, sound and storytelling. Their debut exhibition A City Asleep is part of The Palace of the Dogs artist residency at Copeland Park & Bussey Building — and it arrives hand-in-hand with a new EP written and produced entirely by them, with the support of fellow creatives. The record centres on themes of home, community, memory and imagination.

Opening night is a proper Peckham hang: photography on the walls, music in the air, bubbles and nibbles, and the kind of warmth that comes from a room full of people who showed up for someone's first big thing. From 7:30pm, those who've RSVP'd get something extra: an exclusive listening party for the EP before its release date.

Mary Sho will be there to talk through the meanings, the sonics, the production. It's intimate, it's free, and it only asks one thing — be on time.

🗓 Sat 11 Apr, 5:30–9:30pm (listening party from 7:30pm)
📍 Palace of the Dogs (A3B Bussey Building), 133 Copeland Rd, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free · RSVP for the listening party via Partiful

🎤 89th Piñata with Julia Masli

Piñata’s monthly comedy variety night is back at The Ivy House, mixing stand-up, cabaret turns and odd little surprises — plus the ritual papier-mâché smash at the end. This month’s special guest is Julia Masli (Guardian’s no. 1 comedy show of 2023), so expect it to skew delightfully weird and very funny.

🗓 Thu 9 Apr, doors 7:30pm / 8pm start
📍 The Ivy House, Nunhead
🎟 From £10 · tickets via Dice
♿ Limited accessibility (no toilets)

🎬 Underscore 002: My Father’s Shadow + Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra (DJ set)

Crack Magazine and MUBI’s Underscore series is back, pairing film with a night of music shaped by the movie’s sonic world. Duval Timothy and CJ Mirra (who collaborated on the film’s score) take over Jumbi for a rare, extended DJ set, with an intimate Q&A in the mix. It’s the kind of bill that tends to fill up.

🗓 Thu 9 Apr, 7pm–11pm
📍 Jumbi Peckham, Copeland Park
🎟 Free · tickets via Dice

🪩 House of Soul Launch

A brand new Friday night session at CLF Art Lounge Pop Up, hosted by DJ Jeison and built for anyone who likes their dancefloor warm and soulful. Expect a smooth run from jazzy and soulful house into afro-house and RnB/Trap Soul as the night stretches out.

🗓 Fri 10 Apr, 7pm–late
📍 The CLF Art Lounge Pop Up, Mountview
🎟 Free entry · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎞️ Back To School (in a fun way)

Molly Hunt is back with her annual afternoon of unconventional lessons at SET Social — and this year, all proceeds go to Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic abuse charity. The idea is simple: turn a Saturday afternoon into something useful, social, and a bit different.

Expect lessons on topics you definitely didn’t cover at school — from life outside our solar system to the “rejuvenation” craze of the interwar years to how to bake the perfect cake. Each session is interactive and designed to get you talking, with time for questions and a good dose of SE15 community warmth.

🗓 Sat 11 Apr, 2:30–6pm
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road
🎟 Suggested donation: £5 per lesson / £20 for the whole afternoon · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🎉 The Greyhound Turns 2

Peckham's music-friendly corner boozer turns two this Saturday — and they're not doing it quietly. The Greyhound is throwing a full-building, day-to-night birthday party across the pub and basement, with live sets and DJs from midday to 3am.

Organised with The Cause, the lineup so far includes Benyayer, C.A.R., Marie Malarie, Rosie Ama, Harry James and Midnight Runner. Expect football on screens, a pop-up food collab, a dog meet and a few surprises they're keeping under wraps (a magician? Show tunes? Who knows).

🗓 Sat 11 Apr, 12pm–3am
📍 The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High St
🎟 £5–25 · tickets via RA

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎞️ No Data Plan screening + Q&A with Miko Revereza (Sat 11 Apr, 7pm, SET Social, Pay what you can £3–10): Fundraiser screening plus in-person conversation with filmmaker Miko Revereza and Kanlungan in solidarity with migrants.

2. 🎸 Bowie 10 years on: The Classic Album Band live @ The Ivy House (Tue 14 Apr, 8–11pm, The Ivy House, £14): A full-band Bowie tribute night marking a decade since his passing, with London session players recreating the classics.

3. 🎻 Peckham Chamber Orchestra spring concert (Wed 15 Apr, 7:30pm, UNIT/08 @ Copeland Park, free): Genre-melding orchestra night — Mahler + Smyth alongside Bitter Sweet Symphony and a new Ben Davies original. No ticket needed, just turn up.

4. 📚 Resonance Poetry Collective: annual anthology launch + readings (Wed 15 Apr, 7–10pm, The Peckham Pelican, free): A free anthology launch with live readings, plus a cover art reveal — books for sale on the night.

5. 🎷 The Late Late Late Late Late Late Late Late Show with Molly Martian (Wed 15 Apr, 8pm–10:30pm, The Greyhound, £5–£9): Basement chat-show chaos with Molly Martian, plus live music from Simon Gay‑Vid and a new character debut.

6. 🖼️ True Fiction of Fields & Forces (Jack Joiner) (Wed 15 Apr, 6:30–8:30pm, Copeland Gallery, free): 23 new abstract works — a quick, good early-evening gallery wander.

📽️ Cinema

Leading the week is California Schemin’ (15), James McAvoy’s directorial debut and a genuinely charming true-story caper: two lads from Dundee con their way into the US music industry, land a record deal, and make it onto MTV — until it all unravels. Dark, funny, and very well told.

Also new: You, Me & Tuscany (12A), a breezy rom-com with Regé-Jean Page and Halle Bailey. A woman crashes at an Italian villa, poses as the owner’s fiancée, and — you can probably guess the rest. The official tagline is She Came for the Pasta and Got Lost in the Sauce, which tells you everything you need to know.

Subtitled hard-of-hearing screenings: They Will Kill You (15) — Mon 13 Apr, 17:50 · The Magic Faraway Tree (U) — Thu 16 Apr, 17:45.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: Movement at SET · Every week (Sunday)
A Sunday movement session at SET Social that’s welcoming to dancers and total non‑dancers alike. This week’s session will focus on the emotional power within our movement and how to unravel it, and most importantly, how to feel it. Next one: Sun 12 Apr, 2–3:30pm 📍 Set Social 🎟 £5-7 on the door

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

✨ Hausu Film Club: Pieces of April (2004) · Sun 19 Apr · Hausu
A cosy Sunday screening of this early-2000s gem with Katie Holmes and a Stephen Merritt soundtrack. This event always sells out. 🎟 £8.30 · tickets via Eventbrite.

📚 Comedians Do Poems Spring Edition · Tue 21 Apr, 7–9pm · Review Bookshop
A quarterly scratch night where comics share poems, spoken word and notebook offcuts — spring edition hosted by Amy Matthews at Peckham’s Review Bookshop. There are a few tickets left, this night always sells out. 🎟 £10 tickets via Eventbrite

✨ Hot Sauce Society Festival · Sat–Sun 9–10 May · Copeland Park & Bussey Building
London's biggest indie hot sauce festival returns to Peckham for two days of tastings, street food, DJs and a healthy dose of chilli karaoke. 🎟 £5 + booking fee · tickets via Ticket Tailor

💬 Local shoutout

🎬 Open call: SET Film Festival 2026 · Deadline: Sun 7 Jun
The grassroots festival returns to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition this November, and they’re calling for short films (all genres welcome). It’s free to submit (one film per artist), films must be under 30 minutes and completed after 1 Jan 2023. Submissions close 7 Jun; festival runs in November. Check the guidelines + submission form.

💐 Spring is here: Sid’s Flowers · Weekends
Daffodils, forget me nots, tulips: Sid’s Flowers is doing weekly, seasonal small £15 bunches you can pick up at a handful of spots, including Bara Cafe (Peckham), Toad Bakery (Camberwell), Hop Burns & Black (East Dulwich) and Maya’s Bakehouse (Brixton). Great to grab a bunch + brunch.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍷 Extra treat: After Hours

Once a month, the plant shop gets a glow-up. Forest transforms into a candlelit natural wine bar — walls of greenery, bottles from Hop Burns & Black (one of London's finest indie wine specialists), and Jen & Glenn on the decks spinning fresh, botanical-vibes tunes, while Brindisa lay on the tapas.

It's free entry, no fuss, and somehow feels like the best-kept secret around. No bookings needed — just turn up, find a corner between the ferns and the fiddle-leaf figs, and let the evening happen.

🗓 Thu 9 Apr, 6–9pm (also: Thu 23 Apr · Thu 14 May · Thu 28 May)
📍 Forest, 35 North Cross Road, East Dulwich, SE22 9ET
🎟 Free entry

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

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Easter weekend, and SE15 is properly going for it.

Brighter‑evening walks unlocked: from today, Nunhead Cemetery is now open every day from 8am–7pm. A small change that makes post‑work wanders a lot easier.

There’s a gig milestone worth catching on Sunday, a queer art exhibition to see slowly, and enough happening to fill the long weekend without leaving the postcode. The midweek has a few good things for the post-bank-holiday comedown too.

Happy bank holiday, Peckham!

🌤 Mild: Thu · 🌤 Bright spells: Fri · 🌞 Best day out: Sat · ☁️ Cloudy: Sun
A mild stretch overall. Thursday starts largely cloudy but stays dry, with a few brighter spells later. Friday is cloudy and windy with patches of light rain early, then drying out into the afternoon with a brighter evening. Saturday stays generally dry with sunny spells, with winds picking up later. Sunday starts cloudier after overnight light rain, with sunshine developing through the day. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: 🎸 Otala’s 100th gig

London post-rock band Otala hit a proper milestone this weekend — their 100th show. They’re marking it at SET Social’s Red Bar with live sets, an easy jamming atmosphere, and vinyl DJs spinning Northern Soul and funk interspersed with stripped back acoustic sets and jams. Low-key in the best way. A good one to end the weekend on.

🗓 Sun 5 Apr, 7pm–midnight
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road
🎟 £3–7 · tickets via Otala
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🎟️ What Was, What Is, What Could Be

The UK’s only national LGBTQIA+ youth arts service marks seven years with an exhibition at Camberwell Space — and it opens this Thursday.

Artists aged 18–28 were selected through an open call and supported through workshops and mentorship at Camberwell College of Arts. New work sits alongside a seven-year archive, co-curated with The Museum of Transology. The centrepiece is The Hanging Archive — a newly commissioned textile work made with QYAC participants, alumni and LGBTQ+ youth groups across the UK. The archive moves to Bishopsgate Institute after the show closes; this is the only place you’ll see it like this.

🗓 Thu 2 Apr – Wed 22 Apr | Opening night: Thu 2 Apr, 6–8:30pm
📍 Camberwell Space, 45–65 Peckham Road
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite

🎬 Exploding Cinema at SET Social

Exploding Cinema returns with a proper DIY short‑film night: underground and independent films, filmmakers in the room, plus live music, a raffle, and a wall‑to‑wall collage of projections using projectors old and new to create an immersive environment.

🗓 Thu 2 Apr, 6pm–10:30pm
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road
🎟 £7.50 (+ booking fee) · tickets via TicketSource
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🎭 Magic Adventure Comedy II: Bad Friday

Alternative comedy and cabaret on the sixth floor of Peckham Levels, with acts spanning stand-up, character work and everything in between. This edition features Funny Women award-winner Kate Cheka, plus Rohan Sharma, Molly Martian and Sam Dutton. Line-up subject to change — the chaos is not.

🗓 Fri 3 Apr, 7–11pm
📍 Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane
🎟 £6.50–£10 with 2 for 1 deal · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Step-free access is available via lifts

🎶 Sofar Sounds (secret chapel show)

Sofar’s classic ‘secret line-up’ gig lands in a candlelit, Grade II-listed former chapel in Peckham — expect exposed brick, blankets + cushions, and local up and coming talent. Heads up: Sofar reveal the exact street address around 36 hours before doors (even though locals might have guesses).

🗓 Sat 4 Apr, doors 4:30pm · show 5pm–8pm
📍 Peckham (exact address revealed 36h before)
🎟 £28 · tickets via Sofar Sounds

🐣 SET Social Easter Community Day & Market

SET Social is throwing a free Easter Sunday hang-out with a big community market, drop-in workshops and food on site. Come for handmade bits, vintage treasure, zines, prints and bakes, and stay for a long browse with a drink from the café-bar. There’s also a trader call-out if you want to take a table or pitch (sizes vary), with limited plug sockets indoors so bring a power bank if you need one.

🗓 Sun 5 Apr, 12pm–5pm
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road
🎟 Free · tickets via Outsavvy
♿ Mostly step-free venue with accessible entrance and toilets

🪩 Jumbi: The Mighty Link Up

Jumbi's Spring/Summer season opener, and they've built it right. Four collectives — Onda Saoco, Xotic Global, Love in the Endz and Us.Man.Dere — across three rooms of the Copeland Park warehouse. Back-to-backs, deep selections, and different scenes landing on the same floor at the same time. Tickets are moving.

🗓 Sat 4 Apr, 8pm–2am
📍 Jumbi Peckham, Copeland Park (SE15)
🎟 £7.00 Early Bird (entry before 10pm) · tickets via RA

🪩 Faem E Li: malix & friends

Faem E Li hands the keys to malix for a club night shaped by shared taste and instinctive programming—UK-rooted club sounds, plenty of rhythm. What began as a platform for bringing people together has grown into a night known for its instinctive programming and tight-knit feel, spotlighting a mix of new voices and trusted selectors.

🗓 Sun 5 Apr, 10pm–4am
📍 Palais, Rye Lane
🎟 From £23.03 · tickets via DICE

✨ Quick hits

1. 🏖️ Tranz Tropez III: trans-made short films (Thu 2 Apr, 6:30–10pm, Staffordshire St, free): A free STST Film Club screening packed with trans-made shorts in a gallery-with-a-projector setting.

2. 🎲 Come Thru Socials: Games Night (30+) (Sun 5 Apr, 3–7pm, The Golden Anchor, £13.70): A screen-free 30+ hangout for classic games and real chats, with a relaxed house-party feel.

3. ✉️ Snail Mail Isn’t Dead (Wed 8 Apr, 6:30–9pm, Ron’s Coffee House, Free): a cosy letter-writing session with all stationery provided, plus vegan drinks and treats if you want to make an evening of it.

4. 🇵🇸 Fundraiser film night + DJs for Palestine (Wed 8 Apr, 6pm–11pm, The Pyrotechnist’s Arms, £10/£5 + PWYF option): Screening of Censoring Palestine, DJs, a kora performance, and a talk on Palestinian journalism — raising funds for MAP + The Sameer Project.

5. ✍️ In The Arch: songwriter showcase @ Queens SE15 (Wed 8 Apr, 7pm, Queens SE15, Free): Four-songwriter bill in an intimate under-the-arches listening room, spanning emotive keys, folk-psychedelic guitar, funk rhythms and sweet springy folk.

📽️ Cinema

Easter long weekend plans: Peckhamplex is lining up a proper kids-friendly bundle if you’re staying in.

The new arrival is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG) — an animated adventure with Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy and Jack Black, following Mario into space for cosmic worlds and galactic challenges (98 mins).

It’s joined by new releases Fuze (15), They Will Kill You (15) and The Drama (15).

Subtitled screenings (hard of hearing): If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (15) Sun 5 Apr at 16:10, and Project Hail Mary (12A) Wed 8 Apr at 20:15.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎷 Grass Roots · Every month (1st Thursday)
A monthly night dedicated to emerging London jazz. April's edition puts Open Your Mouth! in the spotlight — a jazz fusion outfit built around layered rhythms, tight harmonics and the odd curveball sample. Next one: Thu 2 Apr, 8pm 📍 The CLF Art Lounge 🎟 £0 - £6.13, tickets on Eventbrite

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 3 dates to bookmark now.

✨ New Contemporaries Live · Sat 11 Apr · South London Gallery
A one-off afternoon of live works by New Contemporaries artists — spoken word, performance, live music and choreographed pieces, all responding to the exhibition’s themes of identity, intimacy, diaspora, sound and future worlds. 🎟 £10 / £5 conc. · tickets via Eventbrite

🐕 The Greyhound 2nd Birthday Festival · Sat 11 Apr · The Greyhound
The Greyhound’s turning two and doing it properly: a day-to-night party with music across the afternoon, then a packed room as it tips into nighttime (plus whatever chaotic extras they decide to throw in). 🎟 Early Bird from £0-£11.50 · tickets via Resident Advisor

🍹 En Root Peckham: 10-year anniversary party · Sat 11 Apr · En Root Peckham
En Root is turning 10, and they’re stretching it into a day-to-night community shubz: DJs all day, one-off specials on the menu, and extra bits around the space (second-hand clothes, massages, fundraising stalls, oils + tinctures, kombucha, and small local brands), plus a raffle with prizes announced in the evening. 🎟 Free

💬 Local shoutout

🥚 Virtual Easter Egg donation drive for Pecan · Wed 8 Apr
If you gave something up for Lent — a daily coffee, weekend takeaway, a little treat — Pecan’s asking you to turn that mini sacrifice into a mini gift. You can donate what you would’ve spent, or keep it simple and send a “virtual Easter egg” (£2–£5) to support their work helping neighbours feel less alone and take steps toward independence.

🏠 Venue offer: free space for community events · Ongoing · Clock House Tavern
Clock House Tavern wants to host your recurring community events for free. Their upstairs function room overlooking the Rye is available on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Pitch your idea to info@clockhousetavern.co.uk.

🍸 Bold Tendencies & Frank’s Cafe reopening · Fri 15 May · Bold Tendencies
With Euphoria, its 20th Anniversary Season, Bold Tendencies kicks off on the Peckham Multi-Storey rooftop, with Frank’s Cafe back open for summer hangs, skyline drinks and the first warm‑evening meetups of the year. Frank’s is also recruiting Bartenders, Bar Backs, Floor Staff and Supervisors for the rooftop team ahead of a May start date. Apply here.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: 🥐 Tanya Bush x TOAD Bakery: pastry collab + signed cookbooks

Brooklyn-based baker and writer Tanya Bush is popping by TOAD Bakery for a one-day collab to celebrate the release of Will This Make You Happy (@will.this.make.me.happy). Expect a special strawberry croissant shell pastry inspired by Tanya’s soba cha panna cotta recipe, plus a limited number of signed copies at the bakery.

🗓 Sat 4 Apr, 10am–until sold out
📍 TOAD Bakery, 44 Peckham Rd

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
📬 Local business? Get in touch — let’s chat collaborations

PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15

The clocks go forward on Sunday. An hour stolen from the weekend, which is annoying — but it also means the evenings start stretching, and the next few months are suddenly in reach.

This week has a quiet kind of energy: a lot of short films, a couple of strong opening nights, some good cinema, and a short film club making a long-awaited return. Nothing that needs explaining — just good reasons to get out.

NT Connections at Theatre Peckham continues all week too (from last week’s listings), with double-bills running Thu through Sat — worth catching if you didn’t make the earlier nights.

⛅ Mild: Thu · 🌦 Bright intervals: Fri · 🌤 Decent spell: Sat · ☁️ Duller: Sun
A mild and mainly settled stretch through the week. Thursday and Friday stay mostly dry with some brightness. Saturday looks like the pick — decent afternoon light before the evening kicks in. Sunday turns cloudier as BST begins and your body clock quietly protests. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: In Living Memory: curatorial tour

A chance to get a guided, behind-the-scenes look at In Living Memory with an artist/curatorial tour led by Myah Asha Jeffers.

In a world where diasporic, working-class communities continue to navigate the repercussions of displacement, precarity and social (in)justice, Myah delves into the Black family album through the lens of Peckham.

Photography, collage, sculpture and audio combine as Jeffers expands her photographic practice in this new commission for Peckham Platform as our two-year Memories for the Future project concludes.

If you’ve been meaning to catch the show (now extended until 8 April), this is a solid way to see it with extra context and conversation.

🗓 Sat 28 Mar, 11am–12pm
📍 The Hub, 42 Bonar Road SE15 5FB
🎟 free · Eventbrite

🎬 My Eyes! My Eyes! Short Film Night

The cult film club is back — and it’s been a while. First curated short film programme since November 2023, returning to their home at Multi Story with a strong lineup of beautiful, dark and eye-popping shorts. Full programme still being finalised, but the standard here is consistently high. Come early, stay on to meet the filmmakers.

My Eyes! My Eyes! is dedicated to work you won’t find on streaming platforms or multiplex screens: fringe shorts, experimental pieces, new voices. If that’s your wavelength, Thursday is the one.

🗓 Thu 26 Mar, 7pm
📍 Multi Story, Peckham Levels
🎟 £11.92 · TicketSource
♿ Step-free access via lifts

🎬 Relationship Drama: A Night of Short Films

A lively bill of shorts about make-ups, break-ups, and everything in between, with proceeds helping fundraise for another short film. Doors from 7pm, with the screening starting at 7:30pm at SET Social.

🗓 Thu 26 Mar, 7:30–9:30pm
📍 SET Social, Nigel Road (SE15)
🎟 £11.55 · Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible

🖼️ Strange Parade: Open Studios

Part of the Telegraph Hill Festival, this two-person show brings new paintings by Brian Bushell and Chumbeni Kikon to 123 Evelina Road. The private view is Friday evening — a good excuse to wander somewhere slightly off the usual beat. Open both Saturday and Sunday for anyone who can’t make the opening.

🗓 PV Fri 27 Mar, 7–10pm | Open Sat 28 + Sun 29 Mar, 11am–6pm
📍 Strange Parade, 123 Evelina Road, SE15 3HB
🎟 Free

🌬️ Only Breath by Breath Quartet

A live, immersive performance unfolding over three hours, where electronic sound, voice, movement and ritual meet through the simple act of breathing. Across four continuous phases — WAKE, FLIGHT, DREAM, DANCE — the audience can move, lie down, listen, or dance, shaping a shared atmosphere as a temporary collective body.

🗓 Thu 26 Mar, 7pm doors / 7:30pm start
📍 IKLECTIK, Peckham Levels
🎟 From £6.74 · DICE
♿ Fully accessible

🎥 DFP Film Festival: Awards & Immersive Exhibition

An evening of bold short films, screen-based art and movement-led work, with an immersive exhibition running alongside the live awards. If you like your cinema experimental and your storytelling visual, this is a great way to catch a bunch of new voices in one hit.

🗓 Sat 28 Mar, 6–10pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park
🎟 from £22 · Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible

🧱 Rafael Escardó: Scaffolder

A new show at MOCA London where scaffolding, concrete and textiles become wearable structures — part sculpture, part costume, part architecture. If you can make the opening event, Escardó and two dancers perform among the gallery stairs in a live piece built around repetition and bodily “construction”.

🗓 Sun 29 Mar–Sat 25 Apr, opening event 2–4pm
📍 MOCA London, Bellenden Road (SE15)
🎟 free · Eventbrite

🎭 NT Connections 2026 at Theatre Peckham

Theatre Peckham turns 40 this year, and the National Theatre’s nationwide youth theatre festival is how they’re marking it. The week wraps up with two more double-bills — brand new plays performed by young companies from across London.

🗓 Fri 27 Mar, 7pm — Britney’s Lock (Norlington School) + Ride or Die (Jigsaw Arts Balham) When Ruby acquires a lock of Britney Spears’ hair as a GCSE-season relic, her friends dismiss it — until they feel its power one by one. Paired with the chaotic story of The Kids and a year-long Alton Towers vs Thorpe Park argument that spirals spectacularly out of control. Sharp, funny, very now. 15+.

🗓 Sat 28 Mar, 7pm — Ride or Die (Croydon Youth Theatre) + Cloud Busting (Theatre Peckham Junior Acting Company) Ride or Die gets a second outing with a different company, and Cloud Busting — based on Malorie Blackman’s novel — closes the week: Sam writes a poem about Davey, his secret friend who dances differently and sees shapes in clouds, and has to decide whether he’ll stand up to Morgan’s crew when the bullying goes too far. A story about friendship, difference and finding courage. 14+.

📍 Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, SE5 7SB
🎟 £5 · TicketSolve
♿ Fully accessible

✨ Quick hits

1. 🛋️ The Big South London Flea (Sat-Sun, 10am, Unit 8 at Copeland Park, £2): Hunt for vintage furniture, reclaimed fixtures, lighting and quirky homewares at Peckham Salvage Yard. Dog-friendly.

2. 🌿 Spring Awakening wellbeing walk at Nunhead Cemetery (Sat 28 Mar, 10.30am Nunhead Cemetery, free): a gentle 75‑minute guided walk mixing mindfulness, breathwork and nature immersion — book ahead as places are limited.

3. 🌀 Clothes Swap Fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Sat 28 Mar, 2–5pm, SET Social, £5): Spring-clean swap shop vibes, with all ticket proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

4. 🎶 Nunhead Community Choir fundraiser gig (Sun 29 Mar, from 6pm, Man of Kent, free): community choir set raising funds for The Green Nunhead — a cosy early-evening singalong with a pint.

5. 🎧 A Century in Sound: Dennis Bovell talk + listening session (Mon 30 Mar, 6–10pm, Jumbi, £7): A focused hi-fi listening session and talk on Sakamoto’s Riot in Lagos, with music from Kay Suzuki and anu.

📽️ Cinema

Two new films, and they couldn’t be more different — which feels about right for the first BST weekend.

The Magic Faraway Tree (U) is the big family arrival: Enid Blyton’s classic gets a proper big-screen treatment, with Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy as modern parents whose kids discover a magical tree in the English countryside. Nicola Coughlan is Silky, Jessica Gunning is Dame Washalot, and you’ll also spot Michael Palin, Lenny Henry and Jennifer Saunders. Warm, funny, and genuinely worth the trip.

Dead Man’s Wire (15) is the darker counterpart — and a remarkable true story. Gus Van Sant directs this 1977 Indianapolis drama: a man behind on his mortgage walks into his broker’s office, pulls out a gun, and wires it to his neck. Bill Skarsgård plays the desperate debtor, Dacre Montgomery the hostage, Al Pacino the boss. Tense, strange, hard to look away from.

Subtitled screenings: Project Hail Mary (12A) Mon 30 March, 4.55pm · The Magic Faraway Tree (U) Wed 1 April, 8.20pm

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: The Poetry Foyer · last Thursday of every month
The Poetry Foyer returns to Theatre Peckham for a special Her Words edition — a celebration of women's voices: bold, tender, revolutionary and real. An evening of poetry centring lived experience, sisterhood and the power of speaking unapologetically, with featured performers plus open mic sign-up on the door for anyone who wants to step up. Next one: Thu 26 Mar, 7–9pm 📍 Theatre Peckham 🎟 Grab a ticket here

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — two dates to bookmark now.

🎧 Bradley Zero: Rhythm Section residency · Every Friday in April · Palais
Local hero Bradley Zero takes over Palais for four consecutive Fridays — genre-fluid journeys through house, techno, broken beat and jazz-leaning rhythms from the founder of Rhythm Section INTL. His connection to Peckham runs deep and these will sell out fast. 🗓 Fri 3, 10, 17 & 24 Apr · 🎟 From £18.50 · RA.

🎤 Rhymes & Stitches: Stand Up vs. Comedic Poets · Fri 24 Apr · AMP Studios
Two stand-up comics face off against two funny poets — audience decides who wins. Plus a local artist fair with tattoo studio, custom jewellery, tarot and more, and a DJ on funk vibes until midnight. Capacity 250 and money should never be a barrier — DM @rhymesandstitches if you need a discount. 🎟 £13.70 · Eventbrite.

🌿 Extra treat: Waverley Garms clothes swap + Meat Free Monday

That bag of clothes you keep meaning to donate? This is your moment. Waverley Garms is back with its easy, no-pressure swap setup — bring a few bits you don’t wear anymore and trade them for something new-to-you, all completely free.

It’s as much a social as a swap: expect a friendly, low-key crowd, good chat, and the kind of finds you didn’t know you were looking for. Come early for the best picks, or swing by later for a slower browse.

And it’s Meat Free Monday, so the kitchen’s doing 50% off veggie and vegan comfort food — solid incentive to stick around once you’ve refreshed your wardrobe.

🗓 Mon 30 March, 5–8pm
📍 The Waverley Arms, 202 Ivydale Rd, SE15 3BU
🎟 Free · just bring clothes to swap
🌱 50% off veggie & vegan food

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

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This Saturday brings the tipping point of the year, when the light finally pulls ahead and staying in becomes harder to justify.

SE15 seems to know it: there’s a lot happening this week, from readings and book fairs to big nights at Palais and a whole festival of new theatre just around the corner.

The week is anchored by the Spring Equinox, and a few of this week’s events have built themselves around it — which feels right.

Slow down. Go outside. Stay out a little later than you meant to.

🌤 Mild: Thu · 🌤 Bright spells: Fri · 🌞 Best day out: Sat (equinox!) · ☁️ Cloudy: Sun
A settled, mild stretch. Thursday and Friday stay dry with the odd bright spell — good jacket weather. Saturday is the pick: the Spring Equinox lands on a clear, crisp afternoon, perfect for a market wander before the evening kicks in. Sunday is the quietest of the four. Source: BBC Weather (Peckham)

⭐ Pick of the week: HIPPOCAMPUS

A dream-logic cabaret night of character comedy, clowning and puppetry, hosted by Cabbage The Clown and Lachlan Werner. This very first edition is headlined by Lorna Rose Treen, with Charlie Wood and puppet-makers Ash Appadu & Jess Shead (and more).

Part surreal, part silly, part genuinely moving — HIPPOCAMPUS is one of those nights that earns its reputation by not behaving like a normal comedy show. If you like your Friday evenings a little strange and a lot memorable, this is the one.

🗓 Fri 20 Mar, 7:30–10:30pm
📍 Old Nun’s Head, 15 Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ
🎟 £12 · tickets via Outsavvy
♿ Function room is upstairs (not wheelchair accessible)

✊🏾 Anti-ICE Benefit Night

A night of music, art and collective action at SET Social, raising funds for communities resisting immigration detention and state violence. Expect indie and punk sets alongside art stalls, a clothing swap and a raffle — all proceeds going to Indigenous land defenders and bail funds for families impacted by ICE. Bring extra clothes for the swap. Nobody turned away for lack of funds.

🗓 Thu 19 Mar, 7:30–11pm
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, SE15 4NP
🎟 £10 suggested donation (sliding scale) · tickets OTD
♿ Fully accessible venue

🪩 Palais: Vladimir Ivkovic (All Night Long)

The famously mercurial Vladimir Ivkovic takes full control for a voyage deep into the night. Six hours of the atmospheric — from the ethereal through to the gritty — built perfectly for Palais’ precision-tuned Funktion-One sound system. 21+ with ID.

🗓 Fri 20 Mar, 10pm–4am
📍 Palais, 1a Rye Lane, SE15
🎟 £8–15 before 10:30pm, £10–21 after · tickets on RA
🪪 21+ · physical ID required

🖼️ Point of Reference (opening night)

SET Stage Gallery opens Point of Reference, bringing together brothers Saiya and Yumaani Thomas (Jamaican-Swedish heritage) in an immersive installation shaped like a family living room. A personal space becomes the frame for culture, memory and identity — a warm, atmospheric set-up that feels as much like stepping into someone’s home as into a gallery.

🗓 Fri 20 Mar, 7–10pm
📍 SET Stage Gallery, 55A Nigel Road, SE15 4NP
🎟 Free / £5 donation · tickets via Eventbrite
♿ Fully accessible venue

☀️ The Sun at Night

Not in Peckham, but close enough: a short immersive audio-visual installation by Camberwell artist David Henckel, projected inside St Giles’ Church to mark the Spring Equinox. A 30-minute loop of high-definition NASA footage and a deep, cinematic soundtrack — a lovely way to spend part of the equinox weekend. There are workshops and concerts on during the day but you can drop in at any time and enjoy the spectacle without taking part.

🗓 Fri 20–Sun 22 Mar · Sat 21 Mar, 11am–5pm
📍 St Giles’ Church, Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8RB
🎟 Pay what you feel (min £3) · tickets via Live At St Giles

🤖 The Wrong Biennale: An Authentic Delirium

A compact hit of AI-minded contemporary art: paintings, sound and text-based work that treats algorithms less like tools and more like a force reshaping authorship, memory and value. Expect work that’s messy, mediated and deliberately unstable. Drop in for the private view, then catch the show across the weekend.

🗓 Sat 21 Mar, 6–8pm (private view) · exhibition continues Sat 21–Mon 23 Mar
📍 AMP Gallery, 1 Acorn Parade, SE15 2TZ
🎟 Free · tickets via Eventbrite

🎭 NT Connections 2026 at Theatre Peckham

Theatre Peckham turns 40 this year, and the National Theatre’s nationwide youth theatre festival is how they’re marking it. Four evenings of double-bills — brand new plays performed by young companies from across London, every night at 7pm.

🗓 Tue 24 Mar, 7pm — Fishville (The BRIT School) + Wildfire Road (Plashet School) A coastal mystery about a young man lost to the sea and a myth gaining traction, paired with a prophetic climate thriller set on a hijacked flight. 14+, 2h 15m including interval.

🗓 Wed 25 Mar, 7pm — Britney’s Lock (Brixton Youth Theatre) + The Animals (Black Box Theatre Company) A sharp, funny story about GCSE stress and a lock of Britney Spears’ hair as a relic — then a bruising drama about teaching philosophy inside a youth custody unit. 15+.

Plus further double-bills Thu 26–Sat 28 Mar — full programme via Theatre Peckham.

📍 Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil Street, SE5 7SB
🎟 £5 · tickets via TicketSolve
♿ Fully accessible venue

✨ Quick hits

1. 🎛️ PanOrama (Artist Focus) (Thu 19 Mar, 6:30pm, IKLECTIK, from £11.22): Bristol-based experimental artists and Oram laureates, Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde present PanOrama, an improvised work blending voice, cello, electronics, field recordings, with materials from Daphne Oram’s archive.

2. 📚 Outhouse 2nd birthday + Issue 3 launch (Sat 21 Mar, 4:30–6:30pm, The Peckham Pelican, free — drop in): Birthday party meets magazine launch for the Urban Dreamscapes issue, with contributor readings, special prints and cake.

3. 🛍️ Pearly Makers Market (Sat 21 Mar, 12pm–5pm, Prince of Peckham, free entry): Independent makers taking over the pub for an afternoon browse — jewellery, ceramics, prints and illustration alongside good pints.

4. 🌿 Folk Club x SET Social: Spring Equinox plantlore + tinctures (Sat 21 Mar, 2:30–4pm, SET Social, £10–15 sliding scale): Plant folklore workshop and hands-on tincture-making for the equinox — leave with a personalised label and something herbal.

5. 🪴 Painted Pots & Seed Planting (Spring craft workshop) (Sun 22 Mar, 3–5pm, SET Social, £12 + booking fee): Paint a pot, plant a seedling, and head home with something handmade and growing.

6. 🎶 Mock Tudor: Zine Issue #1 launch (Tue 24 Mar, The Ivy House, £7): Zine launch and live music from Champion Trees, Kaspar Hauser and Florence Shaw.

📽️ Cinema

First, the post-Oscars bulletin: best International Film, Sentimental Value is still playing right now if you want to see what won.

On to this week. Project Hail Mary is the headline this week. Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller in an adaptation of Andy Weir’s space survival novel: a science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship light-years from Earth and has to piece together why he’s there — and the unexpected friendship that might save everything. Advance screening on Thursday at 8:30pm, then into the regular schedule from Friday.

Also new: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come — Samara Weaving is back as Grace, now dragging her estranged sister (Kathryn Newton) through an even more unhinged version of the Le Domas family nightmare, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Cronenberg along for the ride. Dark, splashy, very fun. (Note: contains flashing light sequences.)

And if you want something more Friday-night-pub-energy: One Last Deal has Danny Dyer as a football agent in desperate need of one last payday. It’s what it sounds like, and that’s not a bad thing.

This week’s subtitled screenings for the hard of hearing: Mother’s Pride on Monday 23 Mar at 8:30pm, and Reminders of Him on Wednesday 25 Mar at 6:30pm.

🗓 Full schedule here
📍 Peckhamplex, 95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
🎟 £6.99 every film, every seat, every day
♿ Fully accessible venue

🎡 On repeat in SE15

The stuff that happens every week or month — pub quizzes, open mics, classes, regular nights, deals.

Browse by day:
MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | ALL | HAPPY HOUR | FREE
Know a great recurring event? Spotted something that’s changed? Let me know!

This week’s pick: 🎤 Always On Time · Every month (Sundays)
Legendary DJ Femi Fem takes you back to the golden age of 90s R&B and neo soul with an all-day daytime party celebrating D’Angelo and Angie Stone. Expect a dance-direct journey through Aaliyah, Mary J Blige, Mariah Carey and beyond — tunes guaranteed to get you moving all afternoon. Next one: Sun 22 Mar, 4–10pm 📍 The CLF Art Lounge 🎟 Free entry, walk-ins welcome or grab a ticket on Eventbrite.

📌 Save the date (and grab the ticket)

Looking ahead — 2 dates to bookmark now.

✍️ Poetry Foyer: Her Words · Thu 26 Mar · Theatre Peckham
The Poetry Foyer returns with a Her Words edition — a celebration of women's voices with featured performers and open mic sign-up on the door. Book ahead to guarantee entry. 🎟 Free · tickets via Theatre Peckham.

🪩 FLAPJACK Vol. 24 · Sat 28 Mar · The Old Nun's Head
FLAPJACK's first party of 2026 is back upstairs at The Old Nun's Head — and it's a good one. Hosted by Chiyo (returning for the first time in six years), with drag performances from Die Lemma and Megan Mia Gemini, plus the FLAPJACK DJs spinning pop, R&B, disco and 80s/90s/00s bangers until 2am. Expect queer disco, camp house-party vibes, and yes, flapjacks. 🎟 £8 early bird / £10 advance / £11 very limited on the door ·Tickets via Outsavvy

💬 Local shoutout

📼 Short film submissions: STST Film Club x Tranz Tropez · Deadline Fri 27 Mar
Got something weird, tender, loud or unfinished? Trans film screening Tranz Tropez is collecting short films ahead of a screening with STST Film Club at Staffordshire St. Send your film (or a link) to tranztropez@gmail.com. Screening is due Thu 2 Apr.

👉🏽 Know something local more people should hear about?
Suggest local news here (selected listings featured weekly).

🍽️ Extra treat: STST Word Club x Maison Bertaux Soirées: “Tart”

Maison Bertaux Soirées — the legendary Soho patisserie that’s been serving gateaux to the people since 1871 — crosses south of the river tonight to join Staffordshire St’s monthly Word Club. Theme: Tart. Sour, sweet and a little tongue in cheek.

Readers Phoenix Yemi, Amy Key, Otamere Guobardia, Hannah Regel and Francisco Garcia have all appeared at Maison Bertaux Soirées before. Tonight they respond to the theme. Expect the hard crunch of pastry and the soft surrender of crème pâtissière, the bite of berries that ensnare in sweetness or strike in sourness — or something altogether more alluring.

And if their words incite hunger: they’re bringing a tart. Stay for a slice.

🗓 Thu 19 Mar, 7–10pm
📍 Staffordshire St, SE15 5TJ
🎟 £6 conc / £10 general / £14 pay it forward · tickets via Ticket Tailor
(If you are financially able, please consider the pay it forward option or donating to keep Staffordshire St accessible to all)

🐈‍⬛ That’s your weekend, sorted

That’s it for this week’s wander around SE15. Next issue lands Thursday morning.

If you go to anything here, I’d love photos, tiny reviews, or overheard moments, get in touch or DM @peckhamlive.

See you out there,
Cat 🐾

😺 Small print: double check the details (and the weather!) before heading out — Peckham loves a last-minute change.

😻 Love this drop?

📸 Send in tips or pics to get featured next week
📨 Forward to someone who needs weekend plans
📬 Local business? Get in touch — let’s chat collaborations

PS: Peckham.Live will always be FREE 💌
Buy me a pint if you fancy helping me explore more of SE15