Halfway HOUSE


Update October 2011
There has been a lot happening at HOUSE in the last two months.. and a lot more coming.

Events
So far we have had lots of events happening at the HOUSE gallery which has included a film night, where we showed the moving story of Mama Choko, which highlighted the plight of the Afro-Colombians that were forcibly removed from their land by the military and now live in severe poverty in the inner cities of Colombia.We also had a successful Open mic/Jam evening at the House where we saw local musicians with great talent perform bring their instruments and perform together.We had a poetry evening and HOUSE has also been part of the Elephant and the Nun festival, in which we had a professional dancer dancing performing a picnic scene in the window of the gallery, which passers by were able to see. During the months of August and September we have had Katie Keeble, professional dancer and choreographer, produce a contemporary dance class for beginners.We have also had a lovely review from John Prendergast at the Southwark News, that commented on our big sandwiches, relaxing environment and finally stated how HOUSE Gallery oozes with cool.

New menu
To follow from this, we have also had a brand new menu, with fantastic  and yummy breakfast items such as Pancakes with Maples Syrup and Bacon, lunch time ciabattas like homemade roasted vegetables, with pesto, olives and mozzarella and a huge range of new smoothies including the Jamaican me Crazy with apple juice fresh, passion fruit and banana. Not to mention the community inspired Camberwell Crush!!!We have launched competitions at the HOUSE which include, design your own sandwich, with the winner to be announced at the end of the month. We have had lots of crazy sandwich ideas like cheese, coleslaw and bacon!?? We have also invited customers to try different varieties of fairtrade coffee, our vast array of special Tea Pigs tea and cakes.Homemade goods I am very fond of homemade foods so we are now making our own soup specials, like cream of coriander, tomato and basil and other soups. We are also making our own cakes, roasted vegetables and hummus. If you have any further ideas or recipes passed down from mum or dad that HOUSE could serve to the local community, please see Sarah.

Down in the Gallery
We have had Hayley Walker exhibit a series of paintings called Alter Ego and we now have artist Eddie Saul and Adam Dunne, exhibit paintings and drawings for their current exhibition, please come on down and see the talent exhibited in the gallery.

Students
As soon as September started , so did the students and they have been visiting us at lunchtime for our ciabattas, sandwiches soups and smoothies. Anne created a welcome lunch at HOUSE and will soon be starting a Monday evening event at the HOUSE for Camberwell students.VolunteersWe are always busy at lunch time, so if you want to get involved in supplying good food and drinks to the community, do not hesitate to contact me via email on 70housegallery@gmail or on 07939853640. We would love to have you!!

Future events
Please put these dates inn your diary!!

  • Saturday 15th October Anti- Poverty exhibition and poetry evening at the HOUSETuesday
  • 18th October: Open Mic/ Jam night, come on by and bring or instruments, voices or just come along and listen for a lovely evening out.
  • Tuesday 1st November 1pm  ’Make 4 Mums’ – Lucy will be putting on a craft workshop for mums and toddlers  in the area, so if you have a toddler or know other mums that would like to take part, let us know.
  • TBC Every Wednesday during the month of November – Art Talks by Goldsmith studentsArt exhibited by Julian Thomasset
  • Ice and Fire Theatre will perform at HOUSE Gallery, tickets will be available soon.
  • Vintage market, start to stock up for Christmas Christmas craft
  • workshop Human Rights film by Monica AlcazarScratch
  • Night Theatre performance….
  • and lots more;

Halfway House is a series of live art events, taking place some Friday nights in the HOUSE cafe gallery. The programme seeks to support emerging artists, poets, performers, curators and critics in the development of their practice by providing them with a public platform from which to share, develop and showcase their work. Halfway House is a space for showing work in progress as well as for trying out new ideas and initiating

Submissions for performance lectures, live-art, film screenings, ‘hearings’, talks/panels, discussions and other event-based projects are encouraged. If you have an idea for an evening event, please provide the following information and send it to 70housegallery@gmail.com

1. Name of Artist and/or Curator.
2. Contact phone number and e-mail.
3. Brief biog/artist statement (100-200 words).
4. A web link to your work if you have one
5. A proposal outlining the event, those involved, how it will run and any equipment to be used (in 500 words or less).
6. Preferred event date[s] (any Friday).