PLEASE READ: Changes to our Screenings in light of Covid19
This October we are back with a Black History Month double bill special. Ava DuVernay’s eye-opening timely, “Selma” is on 8 October 2020, while Jordan Peele’s masterfully eerie “Us” is on 29 October 2020, just in time for Halloween. In order to safely enjoy both,…
Virtual Artisth Trail Artists: Christophe Pointreau
Artist Christophe Pointreau participates in Sydenham Arts’ Virtual Artists Trail, that has been bringing art in your home, online, for the past few weeks. Click on the photo to find out more about his work today!
Sydenham Arts new Managing Director: a farewell and a welcome
At the end of February, Rachel D’Cruze, Sydenham Arts’ brilliant Managing Director, departed the organisation. She oversaw the Film Club’s progression under the Sydenham Arts’ umbrella, welcoming us, taking care of us every step of the way to our monthly screenings, and helping us feel…
New partnership: Eli and Pie
We’re excited to be partnering up with Eli and Pie, starting from this month’s screening on 30 May. They make delicious pastry parcels filled with fresh and tasty ingredients and flavours! “Inspired by the pasty and their exotic cousins, Eli’s small but feisty pastry parcels made their…
Card payments
We are now taking card payments on the door and at the bar with our nifty new @sumup machine 🤗 If you need a receipt let us know and it can be sent to your email address. Of course, you’re still welcome to pay in cash too….
Sydenham Arts merger
After many successful collaborations with Sydenham Arts over the years, we came under their banner in late 2018 as their official film branch. Our programmer, Ioanna, will be working with Sydenham Arts’ Managing Director, Rachel D’Cruze to bring you more great screenings to come in the future…
Revisit the magic of “Orphée”
There are some films that creep into your subconscious, take root and never stop nourishing it. Expanding it. Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic “Orphée“, a new restoration of which the BFI is currently re-releasing, is one of these films. Hauntingly re-imagining the Greek myth of the…
An end and a new beginning
All good things (must) come to an end, they say. But more often than not, an end is followed by a new, promising beginning. This is the case for the Sydenham Film Club at the start of the new season. Because after six years of…
Local events survey
We’ve just found out about a survey being conducted for local events in South East London, why not take part? From the survey organisers: Local Events Survey for South East London We’re conducting a survey of people that live and work in South East…
New privacy policy
To comply with the new GDPR rules effective from 25th May 2018 we’ve added a new privacy policy page to outline how we keep and store your data. Essentially we only collect your email and name for our Mailchimp mailing list if you sign up….