Human Rights Watch film festival starts for 12th year
	10:04am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Clapham Picturehouse has teamed up with cinemas across the capital and Time Out magazine for the 12th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. In all, 25 films and documentaries will be screened from 19 countries, and seven of them will be featured at the refurbished Picturehouse.

	Battersea art fair teams up with zoo
	10:08am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Art and nature: polar opposites, yet in many ways joined at the hip. And, in a beautiful consummation, Battersea Park Children's Zoo has joined with the Affordable Art Fair for a special offer this weekend.

Rambert raises the barre

10:18am Friday 14th March 2008

A triumphant first for Richmond Orchestra: a ballet with choreography and dancing by Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance students.

Treat for wine buffs at art fair

9:24am Wednesday 12th March 2008

Gallo Family Vineyards will be the official drinks sponsor of the Affordable Art Fair for the second successive year.

	Talking Heads at Happy Soul Festival
	11:39am Fri 7 Mar 08
	For all its razzamatazz and explosions, the cinema screen can be an effective tool for bringing taboo subjects to the attention of the masses. And what is more taboo than our own frailties and mortality?

	Chris Atkins takes to Picturehouse stage
	5:33pm Sat 16 Feb 08
	An increasingly sensitive issue in Britain since New Labour came into power is civil liberty. You only have to flick through a few news channels of an evening and you will find Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, opposing some new initiative that promises to smash terrorism by putting fully operating film and sound crews in every UK residents' bedroom.

Honeywood takes trip to China

2:34pm Monday 11th February 2008

No sooner have the Chinese New Year celebrations started, then the Honeywood Museum get involved like the proverbial up a drainpipe. For it is Year of the Rat, meaning an afternoon of Chinese and rat-related activities down by Carshalton ponds.

	Jan Etherington has it all Pegg-ed Up
	2:43pm Thu 7 Feb 08
	Fancy writing for the likes of Richard Wilson and Simon Pegg? Jan Etherington has. And now the award-winning comedy writer is running a two-day course in Sunbury to show you how it's done.

Battersea Beer Festival: a Carling free zone

5:20pm Friday 25th January 2008

The way I see it, you can legitimately attend this year's Battersea Beer Festival by claiming medicinal purposes'. Why? Because the festival is an antidote to the groundhog day feeling one gets, simply by entering a pub in the 21st century and scanning the choice' of beers.

Hot new talent to enter the Furnace

11:58am Monday 21st January 2008

A night of fresh, young artists and performers is fanning the flames of south west London underground talent.

	Ice skating at Kew Gardens
	4:46pm Fri 21 Dec 07
	Worried you are not good enough to attempt skating at one of London's outdoor rinks or, perhaps worse, are too good to be fenced in by a bunch of amateurs? Our two reporters, Nancy Groves and Paul Fleckney - of vastly differing skating abilities - went to Kew Gardens rink and found that, regardless of talent, Christmas spirit binds us together like sticky tinsel. Merry Christmas everybody!

	Winter Open Studios - Wimbledon Art Studios
	3:03pm Thu 29 Nov 07
	It is an unlikely place to go hunting for art - down behind the rubbish bins and warehouses of a south London industrial estate.

	Not a masterpiece, but priceless
	3:07pm Thu 29 Nov 07
	New research into a painting rescued by Bucks County Museum has caused ripples throughout the art world. Francine Wolfisz reports

	Picture Gallery tells a thousand stories
	2:46pm Fri 23 Nov 07
	For all the delight and innocence of Dulwich Picture Gallery's new exhibition, there lies some pretty sad tales of the artists behind them. The Age of Enchantment is a unique collection of fantasy illustrations from the late 1800s to the inter-war period, charting the transition in style from decadence to playfulness and whimsy.

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