One Big Summer Guide 2015

A warm welcome to 2015’s One Big Summer

Your go to guide for the most inspiring events and activities taking place in Vauxhall, London Bridge, Bankside, South Bank and Waterloo

Delve in and discover what London’s Riverside has to offer from festivals and theatre to foodie events and family fun.

There are so many things to do this summer including Summer Screen free movie nightsin Vauxhall Pleasure gardens , Underbelly festival and live theatre at OvalHouse .

Get your free guide in shops and cafes all over the Vauxhall area or follow this link now.

Marketing and Communications Considerations for the ‘New Normal’

One of the biggest challenges coming out of lockdown is effective communication and targeted marketing for your customers.

The shift of focus to a hyperlocal audience, emerging trends from lockdown living and new working practices have transformed marketing and communications strategies, with messaging aimed towards reassuring customers and boosting community spirit.

Download Vauxhall One’s new guide to navigating the ‘new normal’, to help you rethink your marketing and communications when reopening your doors to the public after lockdown. Find easy to digest insights and support, as well as a hub of links to practical information and advice.

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‘BECAUSE I’M A LONDONER’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO HELP BUILD CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND KICKSTART ECONOMY

New citywide campaign launched to build consumer confidence and encourage a responsible recovery in consumer spending.

The campaign is led by an Alliance of more than 100 major London businesses and brought together by London & Partners and supported by the Mayor of London, London Councils and Transport for London.

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In a collective response to the coronavirus pandemic, the London Alliance brings together London’s businesses, brands, cultural organisations and city authorities to sustainably kickstart London’s consumer economy. The London Alliance will come together under the campaign Because I’m a Londoner, that aims to join Londoners as a united community, committed to helping renew the city.

The campaign, backed by Alliance members including Mastercard and O2, supported by Salesforce and strategic partners Adam&EveDDB, is encouraging further support from across London’s business ecosystem and seeks to inspire large brands, small businesses and Londoners to join in and be part of building a responsible part of promoting consumer confidence.

The Because I’m a Londoner campaign forms one part of the Mayor of London’s #LondonTogether initiative, which brings Londoners together in this challenging time through helping them access the information and support they need and shining a light on great examples of community action taking place across the city. The campaign will encourage responsible behaviour, in full alignment with Government and public health advice.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I’m delighted to support the ‘Because I’m a Londoner’ campaign, which showcases the capital’s fantastic local businesses and encourages Londoners to safely and responsibly rediscover their local high streets and town centres. I’m determined to do all I can to help our city’s businesses navigate the continuing uncertainty. I’m confident this London Alliance will help build new partnerships and collaborations and, ultimately, help London emerge stronger than ever.”

How can businesses get involved: 

  • Sign up to join the London Alliance: download the free-to-use marketing assets – accessed via a dedicated website at: londonandpartners.com/JoinAlliance
  • Join businesses across London in a social conversation highlighting London’s amazing local areas, using the hashtag #BecauseImALondoner
  • Encourage other businesses and their networks to share stories across their own channels using the campaign hashtag

Laura Citron, CEO, London & Partners, said: “This campaign is the London business community at its best – coming together to support each other and restore confidence. London’s culture and lifestyle make this city amazing: from markets to museums, cafes to clubs, bakeries to ballet. I am confident that Londoners will come together to support their local businesses. The campaign captures the unique spirit of Londoners. We’ve overcome big challenges in the past and we will do so again.”

The London Alliance is running the Because I’m a Londoner campaign to inspire Londoners to safely explore their own areas and support local businesses, boosting consumer confidence and stimulating spending, to help the city reshape and recover. It will support London’s culture, retail, hospitality and events sectors to thrive while we adapt to life after coronavirus lockdown is lifted, saving the jobs of some of the most vulnerable Londoners, and securing the unique culture and lifestyle that make London a global magnet for talent and investment.

The campaign will: 

  • Reassure Londoners that going out responsibly is safe for them and for others https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus 
  • Show that businesses are responding to the new aspirations of Londoners.
  • Give Londoners confidence that going out responsibly will be a great and safe experience.
  • Help Londoners support businesses which are currently struggling, in industries including hospitality, retail and leisure.
  • Encourage Londoners to share their passion for the city, giving others confidence to experience it too.

Cllr Clare Coghill, London Councils Executive Member for Business, Europe and Good Growth said: “Many businesses have been dealt a huge blow as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. As we begin to emerge from lockdown, Londoners have a real opportunity to make a difference by supporting and celebrating hard-working local traders. This campaign shines a spotlight on the businesses that make London such a vibrant and unique place to live and work. We may be a big city, but the spirit of our communities is present in every borough. Now more than ever is a time to show our support for London’s diverse and wonderful high streets and local businesses.”

Download Vauxhall Social Distancing Poster

With lockdown measures being eased and Vauxhall businesses set to reopen, it is important to ensure that workplaces are kept safe and secure.

Remind your customers and staff to maintain social distancing measures with our free download poster, in an easy A4 print out format, to display in customer facing and staff areas.

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Coronavirus: Support for Lambeth’s at risk arts and cultural sector

Lambeth Council’s new fund to support the borough’s crucially important arts and culture organisations is now open – with £10,000 and £25,000 grants available in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

The council’s funding initiative has been backed by City Hall’s Justine Simons and leading arts figure Jude Kelly.

The £300,000 fund will be open to not-for-profit arts and culture organisations, including charities and social enterprises, with a proven track record of providing opportunity to residents experiencing inequality – but whose survival is now at risk due to Covid-19.

Cllr Sonia Winifred, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture, said: “We have worked with our Business Improvement Districts and other community partners to lobby government for better support for arts and cultural organisations facing very difficult times as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.

“These organisations have an incredibly important place in the social fabric of our borough, and to see them unnecessarily go under as a result of the coronavirus would be a massive loss that may take years for recover from. So we have secured some limited funding from Government, and by using the council’s own resources we are now able to open this Arts and Culture at Risk Fund for applications.”

Among those invited to apply for the new grants are not-for-profit workspace providers that are supporting other creative organisations and artists that are not already benefiting from rent relief from the council. The fund also aims to support arts and cultural organisations that rely on bringing people together in physical spaces – and as a result will really suffer under prolonged social distancing demands. Reflecting the borough’s diverse cultural sector, the council will be ensuring that at least 40% of organisations benefiting will be BAME or female led.

Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Director for Culture and the Creative Industries, said: “Covid-19 is having a devastating effect on arts and culture so these funds are a real lifeline. Lambeth is showing great leadership with its continued commitment to supporting its cultural organisations, charities, workspaces and creative businesses, alongside its successful Creative Enterprise Zone.

“Through this pandemic we have seen the value of culture and creativity across society through drawing, poetry, music and more. Cultural organisations provide an important role supporting communities throughout the year and these grants will go a long way towards helping sustain them into the future.”

The aim is that this support will help organisations who will struggle to recover once the coronavirus crisis recedes so that they can, in time, continue supporting our wider economy and residents. Supporting those not-for-profit workspace providers that are hosts for other creative organisations and artists will also be vital in Lambeth’s recovery.

Arts organisations in the borough have been encouraged to apply by British theatre director and producer Jude Kelly who was artistic director of the Southbank Centre in Lambeth and is now director of the WOW Foundation, which organises the annual Women of the World Festival.

She said: “Having been artistic director of one of Lambeth’s major cultural centres for more than a decade I have seen the incredible diversity, creativity and commitment to the community of the many hard working and successful arts organisations in the borough.

“It’s both tragic and potentially very damaging that as a result of this disease, which has taken lives, worsened isolation and exacerbated inequality, we could now lose many of the organisations who will be so valuable once we start to recover as a society from the outbreak.

“This funding could play an important role in ensuring the survival of Lambeth’s arts and culture organisations, and I’d really encourage them to apply as well as support community lobbying efforts for proper government support.”

The fund has been developed after local analysis found arts and culture organisations have been hard hit, despite robust and sustainable business models dependent on earned income and avoiding over-reliance on grant subsidy. It is part of the £4.2m Lambeth Local Economy Hardship fund programme announced on 27 May.

Cllr Matthew Bennett, Cabinet Member for Planning, Investment & New Homes, said: “Lambeth’s arts and cultural sectors play a critical role in Lambeth’s thriving local economy, creating new education, training and employment opportunities for our residents. They are also an important part in what makes our town centres, and Lambeth as a whole, so vibrant.

“We are committed to doing all we can when it comes to putting in place the support that will allow the most vulnerable sectors of our local economy bounce back once the coronavirus crisis has come to an end, and we embark on a new beginning.”

For full details of the Fund please visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/hardshipfund

Vauxhall One Supports So remember the liquid ground

Vauxhall One is proudly supporting Gasworks and the Royal College of Art’s new programme So remember the liquid ground.

Launch date: 15th June 2020

Live events and performances: 15th June – 21st June 2020

Vauxhall One is proudly supporting Gasworks and the Royal College of Art’s new programme So remember the liquid ground.

So remember the liquid ground is conceived as a programme of meditative and sensorial experiences across the digital, physical and spiritual realms. The immersive programme features newly commissioned live sound streaming, moving images and performances, contributed by: Soundcamp collective, Myriam Lefkowitz and Julie Laporte, Zoë Marden, Eduardo Navarro, Anna Nazo, Himali Singh Soin and Linda Stupart.

Responding to and expanding from the forgotten social histories and ecologies of Vauxhall in London, the programme has been inspired by the secret and suppressed River Effra, which flows underneath the area. The river acts as a way to re-imagine, navigate, feel, and find ways in which we connect and synchronise with our surroundings.

The title so remember the liquid ground derives from the writings of feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray who considers water as a site of possibilities and a force of differentiation.

The immersive programme features Acoustic Commons Underground Test Site, a live sound feed developed by the Soundcamp collective that explores the sounds, tensions, histories and mobilities of the hidden aqueous ecosystems of South London.

Connecting the Effra to its wider ecology, Linda Stupart’s film Watershed begins a mapping of the River Cole in Birmingham. With fictionalised, scientific and historical narratives of water, pollution and contagion, Linda creates an intimate non-division between their body and the river.

The notions of fluidity and interspecies entanglements are further explored in Zoë Marden’s live lecture-performance Mermainia: Tales of Tentacularity. The myths and stories of the mermaid, a hybrid creature that is both animal and human, is central to Zoë’s performance in which she unfolds symbiotic thinking and ways of togetherness across species.

Anna Nazo’s brainwave performance explores the ethics of the technological, together with sympoietic relations through AI poetry and drone performance. The work reflects on themes of otherness, distributed forms of sensuousness and symbiotic relationship with technology.

40 Quarantine Dreams is a short video work that reveals drawings made by artist Eduardo Navarro during the recent lockdown. The gesture of a hand in a moment when touch is precarious and precious lends intimacy and pertinence to the moving image work.

To Tehran in My Dreams by Himali Singh Soin traces the historical development of long-distance communication. Himali’s emotive narrative unfolds the idea that language works like electricity, circuiting from sender to receiver, and that love is a glitch that can disrupt the linear logics of time and capital.

Myriam Lefkowitz Remote Dances is a dance experiment and a one-to-one session, as a means to connect, visualise and come together through physical distance. Myriam is collaborating on this practice with dancer and performer Julie Laporte.

The programme also includes a Reading Room that acts as a circadian space for collective imagining and reflection on the body, with contributions from Clay AD, Helga Schmid, Ignota, PaperWork Magazine and NXS.

The new decade has brought with it a new pandemic, a global crisis that has shattered what we thought we knew about our realities locally and globally. Belonging to a new generation of curators, we feel responsible to contribute to a collective consciousness, one which reconsiders human relations to nature, communities and our surroundings. A collectivity that actively aids in dissolving the schisms between nature and culture, ourselves and others, requires searching for new tools in order to navigate and connect across species, non-visible worlds and technological ontologies. The programme presents artists who are exploring some of these ideas through imagining speculative futures, fluid landscapes and interdependent bodies.

So remember the liquid ground is curated by Benjamin Darby, Yoojin Kang, Akis Kokkinos, Angelina Li, Lenette Lua and Louise Nason as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2020, Royal College of Art in partnership with Gasworks.

It is also generously supported by Vauxhall One.

A physical iteration of the project will be presented in Autumn 2020 in the wider area of Vauxhall.

All events and performances are free of charge.

New Pocket Garden in Vauxhall

Vauxhall One has transformed a site between Wandsworth Road and Bondway into a new pocket garden.

Working in partnership with TfL who own the site, Vauxhall One has completed its most recent soft landscaping project, planting a mixture of shrubs and perennials to create an oasis of green space in the middle of Vauxhall. The space now boasts 300 plants, with an additional 200 geraniums grown locally by the Vauxhall One team.

As well as giving a splash of colour and vibrancy, the plants have been carefully selected by designer Vedrana Komljenovic to enhance local bio-diversity.  The garden includes RHS certified year-round pollinators such as berberis thunbergii, chaenomeles and echinacea, with many of the plants flowering later this summer.

This new pocket garden is part of the BID’s greening strategy, aiming to help improve air quality, enhance local biodiversity, and make the area more vibrant. Part of the decision to transform this site was based on feedback from our ‘Have Your Say on Vauxhall’ survey, with many respondents requesting more greening attention along Wandsworth Road, and main roads in Vauxhall.

If you would like to bring any areas in central Vauxhall to our attention that would benefit from a greening project, get in touch.