Cockpit Arts, Enclave, Deptford Film Club and APT

A weekend of arty events coming up in Deptford...

Cockpit Arts Open Studios
Deptford's craftspeople and designers open their studios.
Friday 14th June 6-9pm
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th 11am–6pm
Free entry. Download the event guide.
www.cockpitarts.com
18-22 Creekside SE8 3DZ

Block Party at Enclave
Enclave are celebrating their first birthday with an open weekend of art, performance, live music and exhibitions, featuring an art flea market with a host of artists, and a fundraising Art Raffle with the chance to win an artwork by five prestigious artists. 
Friday 14th June 7-11pm: DJ sets and performances
Saturday 15th June 1-10pm: Cash&Carry Market till 6pm, performances, exhibitions
Sunday 16th June 1-4pm: Cash&Carry Market, BBQ, Bloody Marys, Art Raffle
Check the website for full details www.Enclave Projects.com
Enclave, Resolution Way SE8 4NT

Deptford Film Club at St Nicholas' Church
Saturday 15th June 1pm and 3pm Free entry
As part of St Nick's annual community festival Deptford Film Club will be showing short films by Russian animator, Yuri Nostein, in the crypt.
Check the Deptford Film Club website for details.
St Nicholas Church, Deptford Green SE8 3DQ

Creekside Open 2013 at APT Gallery
Work from artists all over the UK selected by Ceri Hand
Thursday to Sunday 12noon- 5pm Free entry
Exhibition runs till 30 June.
www.creeksideopen.org
www.aptstudios.org
APT Gallery, 6 Creekside SE8 4SA

SLAM Last Fridays

Last Fridays is an opportunity for arty types to meet up and preview what's going on in galleries and spaces in Deptford, Bankside, Peckham and Bermondsey. It's organised by South London Art Map (SLAM).

This Friday SLAM have planned a 'Pay What You Can' tour of Peckham 'art hot spots' which starts at Camberwell College of Arts in Peckham Road at 6.20pm. See here and the Facebook page.

But if you're hanging out in Deptford, between 6pm and 8pm (9pm in some cases) you can visit Bearspace in Deptford High Street, APT Gallery in Creekside, Number 82 on Tanners Hill, and Enclave in Resolution Way, off Deptford High Street.

A little further afield are ASC Studios in New Cross and CueB in Brockley Road, plus a special event at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in the Old Royal Naval College. Each area has an "After Party" – the Deptford After Party is at The Old Police Station in Amersham Vale.

See full listings.

New Deptford cafe opens in Resolution Way

New cafe Kitsch in Sync opens to the public tomorrow and Holly (pictured behind the counter) will be serving coffee, speciality teas, homemade cakes, scones and ice cream, plus sandwiches made with artisan breads, salads and homemade quiche.

The cafe adjoins new gallery Occupy My Time, and both are situated opposite Arch Materials in Resolution Way, in the studio spaces under the new flats behind the new Tidemill School.

The strip of studio spaces here are now (mostly) all occupied as independent 'project spaces' and galleries and were launched last Friday by the umbrella organisation Enclave, headed up by Anthony Gross who also runs The Old Police Station.  

Occupy My Time Gallery, run by Sue Cohen, and the new cafe are just two of the several spaces, all of which will be open tomorrow and over the weekend. We missed the opening last week, so cannot comment on the other spaces, but the current exhibition at Occupy My Time is well worth a look.

The cafe is a little out of the way, being off the high street, but can be accessed from Giffin Street via Tidemill Way, between Wavelengths and the school (as well as from either end of Resolution Way). We look forward to the Deptford Dame's review of Holly's coffee and homemade cakes!

According to the Enclave website, their project space "is a flexible infrastructure with display space, utility area, Enclave’s and temporarycontemporary’s (aka The Old Police Station) new art offices, a future residency module ('unit') and pop-up charity fundraising bar. Due to be completed in August 2012, this space is the command-centre for Enclave operations. The Gallery and Project Space are connected and can be used together or separately for simultaneous projects".

'Enclave tenants' will each present a project in the main gallery every year in addition to the programme in their own spaces. The Enclave gallery will present a programme of exhibitions, events, projects, symposia, and film clubs – including an International Film Club programmed by Phoenix Fry from Deptford Film Club.

Perhaps the first film to be shown here should be Hide & Seek, the Children's Film Foundation production shot on location in Deptford in 1972, which shows Deptford as it was then (partly demolished as a result of the 'clearances'), just to establish the scene a little bit better than Secret Histories of our Streets recently did. It's a great film and could fill the Enclave space all weekend.