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Live Wrestling comes to Deptford

Posted 30 August 2012
This Sunday 2nd Of September sees Live Action British wrestling returning to Deptford for the first time in years here at The Deptford Project!! Fun for the whole family with a mixture of Professional wrestling styles, cheer on your good guys, and boo the bad guys! Starts at 5pm, Tickets from £4!!! Turn up on the day or buy from the carriage.

Live Action British Pro-Wrestling. Fans of WWE, TNA, and World of sport British Wrestling Must see. Tickets £4-7, family tickets from BECW.co.uk.

Free Film 25th 26th of May

Posted 02 May 2012
FREE FILM 
Rumble Fish On friday night. We will have a licneced bar selling beer, wine and fresh Mojito. usual menu with special which will be Homemade Hamburgers with fries and popcorn. Open from 6.30. film starts at 7.30 night goes on until 11.00.
Why not come and join us.
The same deal for Saturday night but we will be screening Big Night.

Rockers Free Film Screening Sunday 29th April 7.30pm

Posted 10 April 2012

 

Sunday 29th we're going Jamaican style our free screening of Rockers.

 

Bring your own booze gates open at 6pm screening starts at 7.30.

the future

Posted 26 January 2012

The Deptford Project - INSA from Umlaut Collective on Vimeo.

After our Silent Cinema season finished back in the summer, we were left with a big blank canvas screen which was crying out for a little attention. We asked INSA if he would like use this canvas for a piece of his art and of course he was more than happy to oblige. Here is a great video of his progress as he painted a picture of our future development there. The video was shot by local creative agency Umlaut Collective. We love their work too.

Christmas Market Day

Posted 19 December 2011
What a lovely Day,a spot of rain but really lucky with the weather. Thankyou to all of the fantastic artists and traders who put on such lovely displays, all sorts of unique Christmas presents were to be found. Kingston City Farm turned up with a mix of reindeer and pearly sheep and raised an impressive £330 for the animals!! Santa Claus took time out of his busy schedule to pay a visit to the children at The Deptford Project and turn on the solar powered lights on our beautifull 12ft christmas tree bought from flower man on Douglas Way and lovingly decorated by Clyde Early Childhood Centre!
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!!
















Christmas Market 2011

Posted 06 December 2011

Come along to The Deptford Project Christmas Market for a day filled with festive fun.
 
Warm up with a hot chocolate amongst the fairy lights...Rummage through unique vintage treasures or pick up a lovely hand made gift and say hello to the animals from Kingston City Farm. 
 
Hand drawn illustrated cards and posters here on the day!

Why not visit the guys at Massive Little World arch for a Norwegian Waffle,Fabulous recycled 50's/60's chocolate boxes, delicious home made truffles and chutneys and a fantastic sit down dinner made by The Deptford project Chef to be won!! 
 
Christmas Tree lights turned on at 4pm by a mystery special guest!!

Here are some of the lovely people who will be there on the day...

Heather Snowdon - Vintage and Bric a Brac

Lou Rose - T-shirts / Plates / Jewellery / Wall Stickers
 
Rose Dale - Hand crafted accessories / Hand drawn designs

Jaine Laine - Vintage chocolate boxes and christmas decorations / homemade chutneys and truffles

Jessica Childs - Illustrations / Prints / Cards

Niki Burgess - Flower arrangements

Brown Paint - Christmas cards / prints

La Tentation - Cupcakes / French Pancakes



  

Union Cycle Works

Posted 04 November 2011
if you haven't popped down to see them at the weekend already then have a listen to their story here. 

 

JAILMake

Posted 04 November 2011
Nice video put together of Liam and Jamie, since they started their business Jail Make one year ago they have worked on many exciting projects. see what they have been up to in their arch in this video or visit their wessite
jail-make.co.uk  






Goldsmiths

Posted 04 November 2011
We have a little feature in this Goldsmiths video 
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Jamie Oliver

Posted 31 October 2011

Jamie Oliver’s new TV show was at The Deptford Project.  Jamie spent a day with us earlier in the year cooking up burgers with Yanni and his pop up guerilla burger van.  We all worked together to create a lovely BBQ style venue with our recycled straw bales, log fires and music from Hayseed Dixie. Perfect.
copy and paste this url to view the episode 
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jamies-great-britain/4od#3245699

Autum Harvesting with Clyde Nursery

Posted 13 October 2011
On Monday morning we had a few children from Clyde nursery pop along and help us harvest the crops we have been growing on site.
We managed to harvest lots of kale,cabbage, chives, vietnamese coriander, sage, bay leaves and thyme.
It was lovely to see all the children getting their hands messy and enjoying new smells and learning about how things grow and can be taken care of.

They took lots back to school with them to do drawings and to tell the other children at Clyde about their finds.


Launch Party for MyDeptfordHighStreet.com

Posted 13 October 2011
Last night we hosted the launch party for MyDeptfordHighStreet.com a wonderful new website created to help promote local business in and around Deptford High Street.

We also had a lucky dip to raise money for the Lavender Trust. This is a picture of one of the prizes a beautifully designed cake by Sarah Chitty of our very own train .


new design going up....

Posted 23 September 2011
 lucas shows us how to brighten up our day with his colourful installation. One side complete if you want to see him designing he will be back next week to complete the other side. why not see him work. 

Small things, big thoughts

Posted 23 September 2011
 
Chrissie Stewart and Janet Currier showcasing their lovely work during Deptford X. 





Javier Molina photographer gives us a taste of Bolivia La Paz

Posted 17 July 2011


 
Ski-Fi silent cinema line up, check out the trailers 
 ...hmmm which will be be. To book a ticket click on the Silent Cinema Icon on the left hand side.

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This weeks Silent Cinema

Posted 12 July 2011

This Thursday - St Elmos Fire, Friday - Pretty Woman, Saturday - Dirty Dancing. Doors open at 7pm film starts at 9pm. there will be food served if you fancy a bit to eat.

If you Click on the Silent Cinema icon you can find out more about this years schedule and book your tickets. 

Thursday St Elmos Fire 


Friday Pretty Woman 


Saturday Dirty Dancing

Silent Cinema is back....

Posted 20 June 2011



 

THE DEPTFORD PROJECT ANNOUNCES SILENT CINEMA’S RETURN THIS SUMMER

 

Urban cool meets outdoor cinema as The Deptford Project hosts its second season of Silent Cinema as part of their regular Summer events programme.

 

In its inaugural year Silent Cinema @ The Deptford Project proved to be of London’s most unusual, exciting and popular movie experiences. Due to demand, this year the run has been extended to four weekends in July and August, with each featuring films themed around 80’s Classics, Sci-Fi Alien Invasion, Americana and Weepies. Highlights include Coppola’s brilliant coming-of-age movie ‘The Outsiders’, starring a baby-faced and almost unrecognizable Tom Cruise, Brat Pack classic, the nostalgia and heartthrob-tastic ‘St Elmo’s Fire’, Ridley Scott’s Oscar winning Sci-Fi horror ‘Alien’ and the ultimate tear-jerker ‘Beaches’.

If you Click on the Silent Cinema icon you can find out more about this years schedule.

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Kate and Will getting hitched

Posted 30 March 2011



like 'em or lump 'em nobody can avoid the fact that Kate and Wills are getting hitched! 

And us South Eastenders aint gonna let them have all the fun! The Royal Family are giving us the day off work on the 29th April and we
are going to throw a BIG STREET PARTY not just for them- but for DEPTFORD! 

come and join us bring your instruments, wear your best and look forward to a day of celebrations.

Arch 1 will be curated by Jaine Laine as part of The Deptford Arechive to represent an ordinary working class couple at their wedding breakfast during the last years
of the Second World War. Projections from The Deptford Archive will be shown and music of the era will be played.

* TEA DANCING* FOOD & DRINK  * THE DEPTFORD ARCHIVE (Old archive of Deptford Photos by Jaine Laine)  * THE 'ROYAL' DEPTFORD PHOTO STUDIO (Your chance to update the archive!) * PLENTY OF CAKES AND CREAM TEA* MARKET STALLS- local arts/craft/clothing* BUNTING* TA NA DEPTFORD STREET THEATRE PERFORMANCE!

.....and just so the happy couple don't feel too left out- we will be running a LIVE SCREENING OF THE ROYAL WEDDING! 
'So move your ham and eggs down to THE DEPTFORD PROJECT for a DING DONG and a nice cuppa ROSIE LEE on the 29th of April, don't forget to wear your best!' wedding look-a-likes welcome. 


Reggae DJ's, African Poetry, Lion Dancer, Dhol drummer, Food Stalls

Posted 24 February 2011

WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US ON
Saturday, 12th March
10 am until 7 pm

 

For a day of fun, food and entertainment and a chance for you to take a look at our plans for the future of this site and give us your views.

Look for us in Arch No. 1. On the day we will have Steel Bands, DJ's that represent Runtings Radio 
mr classicique playing ska-reggae robbie dread playing dub and root n cluture Sisstarmama playing afro jazz latine and african music, Dhol Drummer, Face Painting, Lion Dancer, Food Stalls and lots more.

If you can’t get along on Saturday – don’t worry. Drop in to Arch No. 1 at the Deptford Project site between 10 am and 5 pm any day from Monday 14th to Friday 18th March.

Times:
10am-7pm:  Market/  Geo Dome/
Arch 1 Gallery open to public

11am: Poetry by Sisstamama
and Chris Bowsher

1pm:  Lion Dancing by
Jimmy Lee's Pak Mei Kung Fu Club

Food & Face painting
around the Dome

2pm-7pm:  DJ's/ Live musicians & Singers:

2 pm: Dhol player (TBC)

3:30pm: Heart of Steel Band

Runtings Radio.com Presents:
mr classquie
sisstar Dawn, robby dread
masky  john, Sisstamama
& M dot Rich


Happy New year

Posted 28 December 2010
 



Just to let you all know we will be open again on Sunday 2nd of January. Here's is to an amazing new year with lots to come.

a charlie brown christmas

Posted 01 December 2010
On the 12th of December we will be screening A charlie brown Christmas every hour from 3pm. We will have blankets, mulled wine and hot chocolate to keep you warm. This is a real christmas family affair. Tickets on the door Children £3.50 and Adults £4.50, this includes your seat as much mulled wine or hot chocolate you need to keep warm. 


Deptford christmas

Posted 01 December 2010
 

Barn Dance Video

Posted 08 October 2010

The Deptford Project - Barn Dance from Jack Barker on Vimeo.


last minute eat.street The Meat Wagon

Posted 05 October 2010

 

 

 

We are pleased to announce that Eat Streets very own Yianni Will be down tmrw night (Wednesday 6th of October) from 6pm. Yianni brings America to South London...
with The Meat Wagon which is a really exciting street food venture run by someone who has the right idea about the new direction of mobile eating in Britain. Yianni goes on regular research trips (gotta love a research trip) to the States and returns to Peckham with great new recipes: chicken wings, sliders, proper french fries and the now famous Bobcat Burger. Not so much a market trader as a true itinerant, Yianni and his Meat Wagon pop up in parking lots around and about. Add a bit of music and an interesting mix of people and all of a sudden there's an underground street food scene going on - great food unencumbered by the strong arm of the law. The Meat Wagon represents the best of what eat.st looks for: great food, served with imagination and offered up by people with personality and pioneering spirit. Join us at the deptford project to meet Yianni and other eat street traders, we will also be screening Metropolis on our huge out door cinema screen. A night not to be missed..

 

this saturday honky tonk and raw rockabilly

Posted 30 September 2010

Fun on the day includes a real life caller, a band named Blue Abuse that’ll be banging out country & western ditties as hogs are roasted and lines are danced to a background of much a-whoopin’ and a-hollerin’ in the hay bales setting. The animals from Kingston City Farm are also, charitably, going to be making their way down there for this family-friendly, Deptford redneck extravaganza. This Saturday 2nd of October
11.30am-6pm £2


Last night tonight...

Posted 25 September 2010
 


Last night (Friday) we had a sell out Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Party hats, newspapers and confetti were employed in an audience participation extravaganza.  Withnail and I closes our current run this evening (Sat) but watch out for more announcements soon - sign up to our newsletter if you want to hear from us direct.

First week success - and not a drop of rain!

Posted 13 September 2010
 





Our first week of movies finished with on Saturday with a day of detention at The Breakfast Club.  Sell out nights for Ferris Bueller, Heathers and Breakfast Club and not a drop of rain in sight.  Everyone loved the seats with the cushions, handmade by the Crafty Bitches.  The cafe's chorizo hotdogs kept everyone warm (with the odd glass of wine, obv).  Twitter went crazy, lots of lovely comments on Facebook and we can't wait for next week's horror fest.  American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later.  Click on the Silent Cinema logo above left to book.

              

Silent Cinema arrives in Deptford

Posted 07 September 2010


If you're coming to The Deptford Project for one of our film nights, here's some information that might help.  The Deptford Project is located less than a minute's walk from Deptford High Street station (regular trains from London Bridge - one stop, journey time, 6 minutes).  Come out of the station, turn right, The Deptford Project is 100 yards up the road on the right - you can't miss the train carriage cafe.

If the weather is going to be a little less than kind, we have constructed a really beautiful canopy over our cinema from old parachutes.  It might be a little chilly, so come prepared.  Cushions are available for all the seats, made specially by Crafty Bitches.

Food will be available from The Deptford Project Cafe to eat while you watch.  A special BBQ will operate every night that the cinema is open selling freshly made chorizo and roasted pepper hot dogs, Toulouse sausage hotdogs and vegetarian options of tarragon and mushroom or butternut squash and garlic sausage hotdogs.

A bar will operate throughout the evening - eat, drink, watch and be merry.

Saw, nail, paint, sew...

Posted 19 August 2010

Carlos hard at work making the seats for The Deptford Project Cinema. Tickets selling fast.

Tickets selling fast

Posted 18 August 2010


Tickets for our cinema project are selling fast.  Everyone is furiously working away to get everything ready.  This is Zoe from Crafty Bitches who are making the cushions for the seats.  Book tickets by clicking on the Silent Cinema link above left.

love Deptford, love film...

Posted 12 August 2010
 

Tickets are now on sale for our movie season.  Click on the Silent Cinema button on the left to book. Three weekends of films - an 80's extravaganze, a horror fest and 3 nights of the best cult classics.  A completely unique London outdoor cinema experience, brought to you by all the people involved in The Deptford Project.





kissing in the back row...

Posted 10 August 2010
 

Our cinema seating is coming along.  Cushions next...

More and more arches...

Posted 09 August 2010


More people moving into the arches every day.  

 

The arches

Posted 09 August 2010
 This is INSA's custom Paint Shop.  He's going to be painting cars from his arch and we'll be holding events for people to come and see the results throughout the next few months.

Silent Cinema 2011...Shhhhh!

Posted 03 August 2010

In its inaugural year Silent Cinema @ The Deptford Project proved to be of London’s most unusual, exciting and popular movie experiences. Due to demand, this year the run has been extended to four weekends in July and August, with each featuring films themed around 80’s Classics, Sci-Fi Alien Invasion, Americana and Weepies. Highlights include Coppola’s brilliant coming-of-age movie ‘The Outsiders’, starring a baby-faced and almost unrecognizable Tom Cruise, Brat Pack classic, the nostalgia and heartthrob-tastic ‘St Elmo’s Fire’, Ridley Scott’s Oscar winning Sci-Fi horror ‘Alien’ and the ultimate tear-jerker ‘Beaches’.

Located next to Deptford station, only six minutes from London Bridge, The Deptford Project (TDP) is one of the capital’s creative gems. As well as housing London’s famous railway carriage café, it is home to a group of creatives-in-residence who are based in studios within TDP’s railway arches.  The community is a collaborative one and this year resident designers, Jamie Elliot and Liam Healy of Jail Make and textile up-cyclers, Crafty Bitches, have again contributed to the Silent Cinema experience by building the screen, furniture and British-weather-proof canopy. Jail Make’s innovative and eco-friendly palette chairs have been redesigned to make them even more movie friendly and Crafty Bitches have hand-made unique and event-specific cushions and fabrics making the whole experience comfortable and beautiful. They will also be creating specially commissioned hankies, which will be gifted to the Weepy Weekend audience!

Throughout the screening season, the Deptford Project team will again be running their delicious barbeque and this year the food, which is made using fresh ingredients grown onsite by the collective, will be customized to suit each weekend’s theme. Mega- burgers and coke-floats that any red-blooded American would be proud of, ‘Salty Tears’ pop-corn and comfort food to help you through ‘Terms of Endearment’ and ‘Space Dust’ Ice-Cream anyone? Enjoy a meal before or during the film, the soundtrack is run through headsets so you can fully immerse yourself and you won't miss a second of the movie grabbing a snack or popping to the loo. 

Silent Cinema provides the perfect private-public cinema experience - It's like enjoying a movie at home only you're in a big group.  You can laugh, crunch and scream as loud as you like - in Silent Cinema no one can hear you!

SILENT CINEMA @ THE DEPFORD PROJECT 2011 SCHEDULE:

 

DATE

FILM

DOORS OPEN

FILM BEGINS

80’s Classics Weekend

 

 

 

14.07.11

St Elmo’s Fire

7pm

9.15pm

15.07.11

Pretty Woman

7pm

9.15pm

15.07.11

Dirty Dancing

7pm

9.15pm

Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Weekend

 

 

 

21.07.11

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

7pm

9.15pm

22.07.11

Total Recall

7pm

9.15pm

23.07.11

Alien

7pm

9.15pm

Americana Weekend

 

 

 

28.07.11

Easy Rider

7pm

9.15pm

29.07.11

The Outsiders

7pm

9.15pm

30.07.11

Grease

7pm

9.15pm

Weepy Weekend

 

 

 

11.08.11

Terms of Endearment

7pm

9pm

12.08.11

Brokeback Mountain

7pm

9pm

13.08.11

Beaches

7pm

9pm

NB:

The Last train from Deptford to London Bridge leaves at 11.34pm. All films will end at last 15minutes before this. The Deptford Project is 2 minutes walk from Deptford Station.

 


book your tickets

 


Deptford high street comes alive for summer

Posted 26 November 2009

We have new neighbours in the railyway arches.  
Artists The Good Life and Jail Make, Crafty Bitches, Boro design, Union Cycles and Insa's Custom Paint Shop.

We've converted the arches into workshop spaces and everyone's working hard to make them their new temporary home.  Watch this space for updates.


In September we'll be doing our very own outdoor cinema space.  The seats are being designed by Jail and Boro using old wooden pallets.  Our Crafty Bitches will then step in to make the squashy colourful bits that make them comfortable.



We're working on plans to run a series of outdoor eating experiences here to - think Cook, Thief, Wife, Lover meets The Mad Hatter's Tea Party.  Watch out for more details.

One of our friends is getting married at The Deptford Project on Saturday 31st July.  This is th  canopy they've made for their party on site.

Union Cycles are going to be curating Espresso Sprinting and The Tour de’ptford, bike riding cinema (with The Bicycle Film Festival) and running bespoke bike workshops where
you can bring your own bike here and customise it.



INSA's Chop Shop has it's first commission, painting this classic Bentley.  We'll let you know when it's done.


Our carriage, currently painted with a design by INSA is being redesigned by our new heroes Airside. They're planning an interactive piece working with Deptford locals. Airside are currently collection a whole raft of local stories and tales which they'll then translate into a graphic extravaganza on the train telling a million stories about Deptford. 

Come and see what's happening. See you soon 








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