Throughout the Waterloo Festival 2020, we’ve been platforming artists who either live in or are connected to Waterloo. Today, we hear today from visual artist Gillian Melling.       As a child I had always loved drawing and art classes at school. When I was 14 I saw an image of a Francis […]

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  Throughout Waterloo Festival 2020, we’ve been platforming artists who either live in or are connected to Waterloo. Sarah Gray is known for her short story collections of supernatural and psychologically dark thrillers, which have been praised by Tracy Chevalier and Clare Balding, no less. She is a proud resident of SE1 and is delighted […]

  The Colombo Centre provides opportunities to stay active and reduce isolation combining friendship, fitness and fun. Our partners at Coin Street need your help to make the Colombo Centre as inclusive as possible. Southwark Council have a pot of money for local projects (the money comes from hotel and office developments in the area) […]

For Waterloo Festival 2020, Rita Says and The Jerico Orchestra were planning a wonderful rendition of La Monte Young’s Composition 1960 #7 in collaboration with Disability Lambeth. Since we’re now going online, we thought of transforming this into a digital feast! Interested in singing? Want to make a vocal contribution to a new choral work […]

  An installation project organised by local artists Chris Clarke, Joao Simoes-Brown and poet Kate Miller following a call for postcards of ‘Respair’.           Below is an archive of all the postcards received, collected and exhibited as part of this installation.                    

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring the Churchyard at St John’s Waterloo, its history, its plants and its kind carers. Jonathan Trustram, from the Churchyard, shares with us a note about sparrows which he wrote back in Spring 2018. I was coming round the corner of the church last Sunday when all of […]

  Location: St John’s Crypt   St John’s Waterloo   Waterloo Road   London SE1 8TY       Exhibition open: Sat 19 June – Sun 27 June       Times: Daily 2-6pm | Sat and Sun, 12 midday-6pm           Video still ‘Weaving in the Dark’       Part […]

  Over the course of a series of features and blogposts, Flux Soup are presenting Waterloo at Home; a sensory journey through a Waterloo micro World. We kick off today with call out!       We would love you to tell us about your Waterloo. What makes Waterloo special to you?       […]

  In an alternate universe, in this year’s Waterloo Festival ERSO would have been proudly presenting a concerto performed by the winner of the 2020 ERSO Soloist of the Year. Sadly that can’t happen, but we wanted you to meet our finalists.               GRADY HASSAN, tuba   What is […]

Shanon Shah is the national coordinator of Faith for the Climate and the author of The Making of a Gay Muslim: Religion, Sexuality and Identity in Malaysia and Britain. He is also part of the Waterloo Festival’s programme committee and sings in the St John’s choir during Sunday service. There’s something about theatre and its […]

  Situated at the heart of London, Waterloo and the South Bank are urban. Yet, a walk around our neighbourhood will unearth several green spaces. In this series, we bring you open spaces in our local neighbourhood that allow us to breathe and connect with nature!       Just a few minutes away from […]

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  Throughout Waterloo Festival 2020, we platformed artists who either live in or are connected to Waterloo. And we are continuing this series of articles. Meet Colette Kelly.       I was born in Dublin but we moved to the North of Ireland early in my childhood as my father, who was originally from […]

It’s exactly 124 years since German pianist and composer Clara Schumann passed away. Conductor of the Nonesuch Orchestra, Dan Shilladay, on performing more music by women. As a proud alumnus of Southbank Sinfonia, the Waterloo Festival’s resident orchestra, I like to keep abreast of their work – they’re always refreshingly ahead of the classical music […]

  Coin Street have been funded by Illuminated River Foundation’s Community Fund to develop and deliver art workshops for young people aged 9+ for the local community. At Waterloo Festival, we are thrilled to be offering a weekly platform from which to showcase and share the work more widely!       Eleanor Watson wrote […]

  Through this series, we explore creative reactions to the recent events in the US and the UK and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Introducing Jaemii-Lee, a 10-year-old artist who wants to make a difference.               During the Black Lives Matter (BLM) conversations occurring all over the UK, one young SE1 […]

  In the run-up to and around the 5th of June, World Environment Day, we’ll be exploring our urban environment, the climate change crisis and more over a series of features. We start with an online gallery of images of indoor plants/flowers and others taken from green spaces in and around St John’s Waterloo by […]

  Anne Abouchar is the volunteer Art Guide at St. Paul’s Cathedral and currently finishing an MA in Christianity and the Arts at King’s College London. During this lockdown, she has posted a daily musing about art and its connection to this unusual experience. You can find her on twitter.       The American […]

  Location: St John’s Crypt   St John’s Waterloo   Waterloo Road   London SE1 8TY       Exhibition open: Mon 17 May – Sun 6 June       Times: Daily 10am-4pm | Sun, 10am-12 midday           Frankie McAllister       As part of Waterloo Festival 2021 Morley […]

  In this weekly series, we are featuring prominent women in our local community, both throughout history and those shaping our world today.       We asked Lorraine Spenceley, from the Creative Curve Theatre Company, to write a set of fictional monologues which give a little insight into women’s roles in Waterloo. Today, we […]

  Waterloo Bridge, connecting our local neighbourhood to the other side of the Thames, was inaugurated in 1817. In the 1930s, the London County Council drew plans for a new bridge with construction kicking off in 1938. A significant number of the work force on this project were women, earning the bridge its nickname – […]

  by Florence Eshalomi MP for Vauxhall       Dear Constituent,           Thank you to everyone who has written to me over the past few days. I have received hundreds of emails, which have been arriving in my inbox at a rate of 2-3 a minute. I am overwhelmed by […]

  Following World Environment Day, we’re now exploring the Churchyard at St John’s Waterloo, a historic green oasis in the heart of London. Jonathan Trustram from the Churchyard of St John’s, provide us with interesting article about plants (and images) from the same garden.         Onopordum acanthium   1. Onopordum acanthium. A […]