Croydon University Hospital Arts Evening

CROYDON CULTURAL PICNIC – 20 NOVEMBER 2013, 5.30pm

Art amuses, entertains and lifts the spirits. But at Croydon University Hospital, staff and patients are working together to transform the experience of patients through music, comedy, exhibitions of paintings, poetry and drama. For patients staying in hospital, time can drag between visits from family and friends, for those lucky enough to have people in their lives. Long hours, with little to break up the time can mean concerns about their physical condition, worries and anxieties can become bigger.

Bringing arts into the hospital transform the experience of patients, and indeed staff who are lifted to see patients entertained. To bring more arts into the hospital, the Arts Group will be holding a fundraising, arts entertainment evening. Free to attend, but with donations welcomed, an evening of fun, music, and mingling is guaranteed!

Popular local choir Soul Symphony will be serving up sweet melodies of soul, gospel, and pop, aided and abetted by the staff choir. Dance, performance poetry, and many more acts will join forces to ensure fun is had by all.

The Croydon Cultural Picnic is on 20 November, 5.30 – 7.30pm in the Oasis Restaurant, Croydon University Hospital, London Road, Croydon. Bring some food and drinks to share.

Soul Symphony Choir

Places are limited, click here to book yours!

How to get there:

Croydon University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon, CR7 7YE

Tel: 020 8401 3000

Nearest train station: West Croydon. 15 minutes walk

Buses: The hospital is well served by a number of routes including numbers 198, 64, 60, 109, 250

Croydon North Trumble Gardens

The lack of investment in Croydon North is often noted, as well as the lack of a civic focus, and beautiful spaces. Make the most of what there is in the area, such as the pretty, ornamental Trumble Gardens on Brigstock road.

“The walls around Trumble Garden give a clue to the history of this garden; they are built of bricks from bomb damaged houses.  During the second world war three house in Brigstock Road were badly “blitzed” and reduced to piles of rubble.

The site was acquired by the council in 1947/8 and cleared to make room for ornamental gardens in the built-up area of Thornton Heath.  Several individual gardens were laid out including a rose garden and an Italian style garden on the road frontage.  Tennis courts were constructed and a childrens playground was built.

The gardens were ideally situated beside the Brigstock Road where passers-by could see the ornamental gardens with quiet seating areas and the popular tennis courts.

The original name of Brigstock Road Gardens was changed to Trumble Gardens after the late Alderman Trumble.”

(Croydon Council Website)

Autumn in the middle of Thornton Heath!

A calm place to sit and reflect, maybe after shopping at Tesco’s on Brigstock

CDN Magazine – the new, cool magazine for Croydon’s creative community

A new magazine is launching in Croydon to harness the amazing energy of our creative community. Founded by Wes Baker, he says:

“CDN is a magazine aimed at promoting the wealth of creativity within the borough of Croydon to Croydonian’s and the rest of London and hopefully the world.  All too often we are the butt of jokes and have too much bad press.  Home to many famous creative’s such as Frankmusik, Omar, St Ettienne etc we feel this needs to be promoted more and in a creative way”.

“Be it art, design, music, dance, the written or spoken word, film or fashion we want to give an insight into your world. CDN will be published as an A5 magazine for ease of travel and a downloadable version. We will have a launch event for each issue which will be quarterly and plan other events throughout the year. Merchandise will follow as part of the CDN brand and we hope people will wear it as a mark of pride.”

 

Contact Wes Baker, CDN founder, to take part:

 

Follow on Twitter:  @CDN_zine

 

Email: cdnzine@gmail.com

 

Free entertainment on a sunny Saturday in North End Croydon