Deptford X - A series of exhibitions and events throughout Deptford, London SE8

Deptford Marbles’ Tea and Dance Event

Artmongers and Laban students
Saturday 3rd October, 3pm to 6pm
New Cross Square, Deptford Broadway, SE8 (opposite the Anchor sculpture)
For the second year running, this event replaces the usual alcohol-fuelled disputes with gentle tea sipping and contemporary participatory choreography.  On the Theme of 'Deptford Spirit', a cake competition will have a prize.

Babylon

Tuesday 29th September, 7.30pm , door open at 6.30pm
Albany , Douglas Way, Deptford

Screening of the film Babylon made in Deptford in 1980, featuring actors from the Albany 's Combination Theatre group, as well as locations in Deptford.
Food and drinks available

The Beastly Beauty

By Alison Ward / Curated by Jenny Doussan
Saturday 3rd October, 2 to 3pm

Deptford Project Space

In the social space of the market, identities are fluid rather than fixed, a flow of constant negotiation and exchange that evades the discriminatory principles that seem so rigid in other aspects of society. Inspired by Deptford Market, The Beastly Beauty aspires to perform the tensions that arise in a community in flux by inducing a joyful catharsis. Bringing together traditional English street theatre and contemporary performance art, The Beastly Beauty combines the use of staged fighting with cheerleading and acrobatics to comment on the nature of violence and upend the traditional roles of masculine and feminine and the distinction between highbrow and popular genres of art.

The Deptford X Factor

Friday 2nd October, 10pm to 3am  
The Bunker, 46 Deptford Broadway, SE8
Entry: £4/£2 NUS /Music Tourist Board
Deptford X parties the night away on Broadway with visual delights on walls, on stage, and on the dance floor with live entertainment from female-fronted party starters Toy Toy, billed as ‘thrillingly filthy electro poppers’ by Time Out, the electronically charged boy/girl duo Motel Blitz, plus some intergalactic DJs. 18+ venue; if you need ID, please bring it.

Fragmented Series of Movements

26th and 27th September 7.30

SE8, 171 Deptford High Street

Film screenings curated by Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez. Samuel Dowd /Aron Kitzig & Lars Dreiuvker / Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez /Antje Majewski/Juliane Solmdorf / Amy Patton / Mario Pfeifer / Laure Provost / Miriam Steinhauser. 'Fragmented series of movements' brings together films that address aspects of architecture through different modes of video making. Far from trying to analyse the complexities of language between architecture and film making, these videos offer forms of narrative that speak of the heterogeneous relationship between space and memory.
The screenings will run for approximately 45 minutes. There is limited capacity so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. The films are projected outside so please wrap up warm!

Nestled

Drawing/Photography Workshop
Sunday 4th October, 11.30am to 6pm ; £15/ £10 students
Viewfinder Gallery, Linear House, Peyton Place, off Royal Hill, Greenwich, SE10
A fun and creative day of photography and drawing, inspired by the current exhibition Nestled (see separate entry).  Following a discussion of the current exhibition with the curator and exhibiting photographers, participants will take photographs of buildings and spaces in the local area, reconvening at the gallery to discuss the photographs taken.  A selection of these photographs will be projected onto the gallery wall as background images for a live model to interact with. This two hour drawing session will be guided by illustrator Mark Long.  Part of the Big Draw festival.