Gay Camberwell

by Layla

My main purpose in blogging today is that a variety of people have recently e-mailed me about interesting Camberwell participatory happenings and I thought I'd promote them. Enjoy!

First, the Volunteer Centre Southwark is holding a series of free events to promote community engagement in Camberwell in March and April. The workshops are Art in Camberwell, Volunteering with Young People, Speak Up in Camberwell, Better the Camberwell Environment, Work Experience through Volunteering, and How to Become a Magistrate. Something for everyone. The details are on their flyer here:

Next up is a new community gardening project, known as the Secret Garden. They are having two days on 25th and 27th March when they are asking those who pine for a garden to come and help them dig and plant this one. They provide refreshments and gardening equipment. They have received a nice £25,000 grant for this project, so they want to share the opportunity with all interested Camberwell residents. All the information is on their website here.

Third is Cooltan Arts, the arty mental health wellbeing charity based on the Walworth Road. As well as their monthly 'Largactyl Shuffle' walks, they are offering free workshops to all Southwark residents on a first come first serve basis. Come fast though, as some have already started and some are about to. The courses include machine sewing, creative writing, local history, basic IT, podcasting, photoshop, portrait drawing, batik and screen printing. All for free. Hooray! Details here.

I've just heard a new Facebook page to campaign for train stations in Camberwell and Walworth has started up. Join here if you fancy. And look forward to the East London Line in 2012 (here, link pilfered from Camberwell Online Blog).

Finally, the Camberwell Village Hall campaign continues - keep up to date here, and here, including downloading their new poster to distribute. 

Oh, and don't forget to come to our Sunday gay films here.