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On the Street Where You Live: Dulwich Homes - A Mid Century Oasis  with Ian McInnes
Dec
7
8:00 pm20:00

On the Street Where You Live: Dulwich Homes - A Mid Century Oasis with Ian McInnes

Ian McInnes, Chair of the Twentieth Century Society, will give an illustrated talk on the collaboration between the Dulwich Estate, house builder Wates and the Estate's architects, Austin Vernon & Partners, which saw over 2000 new houses built in the area from the late 1950s through to the early 1970s. Book here.

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Book Talk: The Fell by Sarah Moss
Nov
25
7:30 pm19:30

Book Talk: The Fell by Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss who will be talking about her new book The Fell with Village Books.

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period, but she just can’t take it any more… The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. Book here.

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Why do Birds suddenly Disappear?
Apr
21
7:30 pm19:30

Why do Birds suddenly Disappear?

Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? is the story of a year in which Lev Parikian set himself the challenge of seeing two hundred species of British birds, it is a story about birds, family, music, nostalgia, the nature of obsession and obsession with nature. It's about finding adventure in life when you twig it's shorter than you thought, and about losing and regaining contact with the sights, sounds and smells of the natural world. Book here.

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