Thursday 25 June, 7pm-9pm, Bell House, 27 College Rd, SE21 7BG
Anne Shelton was one of Britain's most prominent singers during the 1940s and 1950s. She was known as the 'Lili Marlene Girl' and during the war years she sang with Glenn Miller and Bing Crosby. Shelton resided in Dulwich for over 50 years and was proud to refer to herself as ‘Anne Shelton from Dulwich’.
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Dulwich candidates for the local elections on 7 May 2026 are as follows:
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We are delighted to offer these events for this year's Dulwich Festival. Get your tickets now as events are selling out. All proceeds to Dulwich Festival, St Christopher's Hospice or Friends of West Norwood Cemetery.
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Talk and Q&A: Thursday 7 May, 7pm-9pm at Bell House, 27 College Rd
The Society is hosting a talk aimed at homeowners considering changing from a fossil-fuel boiler to an Air Source Heat Pump. Experts will demystify the big questions around heat pumps and offer practical advice on successfully planning, installing, and running heat pumps, including in the Dulwich Estate and Conservation Areas.
-What are home heat pumps and how do they work?
-What do I need to do to my house before a heat pump will work?
-What about planning permission or a Dulwich Estate Licence?
-How to successfully commission the design and installation
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Refreshments will be provided. Tickets £10/members £7.50/concessions £5 available here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellhouse/2139222
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In Real Life is the current exhibition at Green's Gallery, Dulwich Village which runs from 27 March to 19 April. It is a community wide show with over 40 artists. The emphasis is on the shared experience of drawing/painting together with a real life model in many settings around Dulwich from studios to galleries to pubs! It is also a chance for you to find out what is on offer if you want to try it for yourself.
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This spring the Dulwich Society invites residents across Dulwich to join a simple community initiative: plant sunflower seeds and watch them bloom through the summer. Sunflowers are easy to grow and wonderfully uplifting. Whether planted in a garden, balcony or sunny doorstep, they bring colour and cheer wherever they appear.
To get you started, we are hosting sunflower seed distribution points on Saturday, 25 April, 10am-1pm:
East Dulwich: Ben Oakley Gallery, 20 North Cross Rd
West Dulwich: Dulwich Trader, 9-11 Croxted Rd
North Dulwich: West 16th Cafe, 137 Half Moon Lane
Dulwich Village: junction of Dulwich Village & Calton Avenue
Stop by your nearest location, collect a packet of seeds, and plant them at home. Whether your sunflower grows tall or small, every one will help bring a little more brightness to Dulwich this summer.
Photo credit Bonnie Kittle
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South London Women Artists, a collective of nearly 100 members, has opened a landmark exhibition Sisterhood at Lambeth Archives. It celebrates International Women’s Day and marks 18 years of supporting and showcasing women artists across Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.
Sisterhood brings together the work of 76 local women artists from Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisahm working across painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, printmaking, ceramics and mixed media. The exhibition is free and runs from 2–31 March 2026 at Lambeth Archives, 16 Brixton Hill, SW2 1ET.
Find out more about South London Women artists at their website here.
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Online talk: Tuesday 7 April, 8pm-9pm
Join Ian McInnes for this fascinating online talk. Over the last two hundred years many Dulwich residents have been in the forefront of the food and drink industries. Bovril and the Vestey's meat business may be the best known but there are countless others ranging from brewers to lemonade and mineral water producers, and fish paste to mustard manufacturers. There were major names in sugar, ships biscuits, and tea, and there were also our restauranteurs, two of whom funded the English cricket team's first to tour Australia in 1861/62.
This talk will be held online via Zoom.
Tickets are £5 per person, available here. Proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice
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Online talk: Tuesday 3 March, 8pm-9pm
In 2017 Brian Green wrote: ‘In East Dulwich, when people walk down the street, there is a tendency to think all the houses look alike. But look closer and you’ll see they are not. There will be a row of houses with a group of four, a group of twelve or a group of twenty, and that is a clue that they were all built by different builders, and they’ll all have their own little architectural details.’
Based on research by local historian Julia Atkins on a small study area of East Dulwich, this talk 'looks closer'. It reveals a typology of the houses in the area, how they have been lived in, why and how they have survived and what is happening to them in the 2020s.
Tickets are £5.60 per person, available from the Bell House website here. Proceeds to Bell House's Sunshine Stitchers.
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The Local History Group has started a newsletter to actively promote more of its research into the fascinating stories of Dulwich’s past, from the history of individual houses and streets to the people who have shaped the area over time. Subscribing is free, and you will receive new articles directly into your inbox as they are published. The first articles are already online and can be found here: https://dulwichpast.substack.com/
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The Herne Hill Forum is raising money to replace the much-loved but decrepit wooden children’s trains outside Herne Hill station. The new train benches will be made of stainless steel with seasoned oak slats to sit on. The design is based on the Lord Nelson Class engines which passed through Herne Hill Station between 1926 and 1962 and the Pullman carriages in service at the same time. The trains will be painted green, the livery colour for Southern Railway in the 20s and 30s. Youngsters peering inside the carriages will glimpse some unexpected passengers: penguins commuting to work, an owl in a flap, a ghost on its way to Halloween, a fox and his friends, a heron migrating back to the hill and a bear checking tickets have all been smuggled on board. The carriages themselves will be clad with painted wooden boards for local artists and school children to repaint when necessary. The quality of the materials and the design should ensure the trains’ longevity but also come at a price. To cover the costs, the Forum has launched a crowd funding campaign and if all goes well, the new train benches should be installed by the spring.
Back the project here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/herne-hill-train-benches
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11-13 March, 7:30pm, 14 March, 2:00pm & 6:30pm. At the Theatre Peckham, 221 Havil St, SE5 7SB
The Dulwich Players present ENRON by Lucy Prebble
It’s 2001: As the millennium rises, a giant falls. Lucy Prebble’s explosive drama dissects the hubris at the heart of the spectacular rise and fall of Texan energy giant ENRON, the largest corporate scandal in history. Were ‘the smartest guys in the room’ tragic heroes, or just common crooks? This Amateur production of Enron is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Tickets: £17/U18s £10 (Adult themes and language, suitable for ages 14+). Available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/dulwichplayers/e-zkxjpl
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