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Saturday, September 28, 2024 9.30am-11am
FREE, but booking essential as places limited, please click on the headline for more info and the booking link.
Join West Norwood's best known birder, Lev Parikian, for a special seasonal bird watching session in the cemetery.
This is a FREE event, but booking essential as places are limited, click on the headline for more info and booking link ...
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Saturday, September 28, 2024 10.30am - 12noon
A guided walk in Streatham and West Norwood, including West Norwood Cemetery, to discover some of the locations once occupied by the ‘Great North Wood’, and how these places have changed over time. Can we find remnant trees from that astonishing woodland complex, or the other ways people have managed and used the land?
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 11am-1.30pm
Join artist Alice MacKenzie and Maria Cabrera from the South London Botanical Institute for a plant walk around West Norwood Cemetery and a botanical cyanotype workshop.
This is a completely FREE event, but numbers are limited so booking is essential, click on the headline for further details and to access the booking link ...
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 2.30pm - 4pm
The Victorian period (1837-1901) saw the emergence of distinct gendered spheres for men and women―the woman’s sphere of influence being entirely domestic, an innately caring role supporting her husband and children (this, in a nutshell, was ‘woman’s mission’). Such patriarchal attitudes underpinned matrimonial law, so that married women had no legal identity: men had absolute rights over their wives’ property, earnings, their children, even their bodies.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024 EXTENDED DEADLINE
This exciting and unique project is part of the West Norwood Cemetery: A New Beginning National Lottery Heritage Fund programme of work that seeks to conserve the Cemetery’s magnificent landscape and built structures, as well as offer new experiences and facilities to increase community use.
This project - led by Lambeth’s inaugural Poet Laureate Abstract Benna - is a competition to showcase, acknowledge and reward the talent and creativity of young spoken word poets aged 18-30 years old.
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Friday, October 4, 2024 7pm-9pm
An Evening Torch-lit Walk and Storytelling in West Norwood Cemetery with Robert Stephenson and Giles Abbott
Once revered as a sanctuary for the departed and the living alike, West Norwood emerged from the depths of Victorian London in 1837. With an air of aristocratic reverence, it swiftly earned its place among the illustrious Magnificent Seven cemeteries, becoming a haven where souls sought solace beneath the watchful gaze of towering monuments.
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Friday, October 11, 2024 8pm-9.30pm
Loremen is a funny podcast about local legends, forgotten folklore and obscure curiosities from days of yore. Hosted by award-winning comic and star of The News Quiz, Alasdair Beckett-King, and his accomplice James Shakeshaft. Come get locked in our local cemetery for an evening of smart and sinister giggles.
“Clockwork comedy perfection.” Stewart Lee
Booking is essential as places are limited, tickets are £12 + £1.20 booking fee - download the ChooSE27 app for an exclusive discount code.
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Saturday, October 12, 2024 2pm-3.30pm
Combining the most exciting comedians on the circuit with favourite cultural sites, Cultural Comedy Tours brings the best of both worlds together for an unforgettable tour. Our guides will reveal the funnier side of one of London’s Magnificent Seven Cemeteries, including Mrs Beeton’s secret, an unlikely squirrel and the coffin that got away.
This is a FREE event but its essential as places are limited - booking link to follow shortly
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Saturday, October 19, 2024 There are two tours: 11am and 2pm
Once revered as a sanctuary for the departed and the living alike, West Norwood emerged from the depths of Victorian London in 1837. With an air of aristocratic reverence, it swiftly earned its place among the illustrious Magnificent Seven cemeteries, becoming a haven where souls sought solace beneath the watchful gaze of towering monuments.
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 11am - 12.30pm
Join local writer and storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton on this inspiring walk through the autumnal beauty and grandeur of West Norwood Cemetery. This workshop is suitable for teens over 12 and adults.
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