Saturday 20th

 

Cake Competition

10.00am to 4.00pm

Telegraph Hill Centre Lounge

free to enter competition, £1 for adults and 50p for children to taste and judge

Deliver before 12 noon, judging from 1pm to 3pm.  For details and entry form call in at the Box Office, email rozsalik@yahoo.com, or see Festival website.

Brought back by popular demand, this will be the second ever Telegraph Hill Festival Cake Competition!  Bake a cake, large or small, fancy or plain, decorated if you wish in your own individual way and then let the Festival-going public of Telegraph Hill judge the results!  A unique opportunity to sample and vote for your top three favourite cakes in each category.  New categories this year, so check for details.  Prizes generously donated by Sainsbury's New Cross Gate.

Craft Fair

11.00am to 4.30pm

Telegraph Hill Centre and St. Catherine's Church

entrance free

Why buy mass produced items when you can have something unique and hand produced locally?  A wide variety of art, crafts and food by local makers, including ceramics, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, cards, prints, metalwork plus homemade refreshments and light lunches (with proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice).

4xB: Boards, Blades,Bikes and Busses

11.00am to 4.00pm

Musgrove Road, SE14

free

Join us on Musgrove Road as the Young People from the Hill take over the street for a special celebration of Skate Boarding, Roller Blading and Biking.  Come along to learn new moves, watch displays, get your bike checked over by maintenance experts.  We've closed off the road for a street party with a difference and the Hillbilly VW Camper crew will provide hot drinks and snacks!

Telegraph Hill Poet Relay Race by Alarms and Excursions

2.00pm to 5.00pm

Telegraph Hill Parks

£2.00 per team

Get into a team of 4+ people, collect a ballot paper from the Box Office in the Telegraph Hill Centre, choose your team name and then get around the 7 poets who will be stationed at various positions in the parks.  Commission each poet to compose a stanza for your team poem using four key words that you give them.  When you have all 7 stanzas return to the Box Office to have your time stamped on your ballot paper.  There will be a prize for the quickest team.

Open Space

1.00pm to 6.00pm

St Catherine's Church

free

Once again a special exhibition space will be created inside St. Catherine's Church to show works created by the many talented artists living on the Hill.  Expect to see paintings, photographs, collages and sculptures.  Should you want to show something yourself, send an email to jknepler@mac.com by 5th March.

Fruit and Vegetable Carving Demonstration

11.00am to 4.00pm

St Catherine' Church

free

In the Church Vestry during the Craft Fair.

Dating from the Sukhothay period in 14th century Thailand, fruit and vegetable carving is a craft art much loved and admired in the Thai culture.  Andrei will be showing how to transform a simple fruit and/or vegetable into a beautiful display of flowers that can be used as decorations or given as a gift to a special person.

Performance Poetry and the Results of the Poet Relay Race

7.30pm to 10.00pm

Upstairs at The Telegraph, Dennetts Rd.

free

Hear all the Relay Race Poems read out and the audience will vote for the best poem which will win a prize.  Plus more poetry and music.

Old-fashioned Poetry Evening

7.45pm to 9.30pm

Meet in Telegraph Hill Centre Foyer. 

£3.00 (£2.00) drink included

Involves a short walk.

A gentle way to begin winding down from the Festival.  Come along to hear old friends and new gems in the domestic setting of someone's front room.  Themes inspired by the wet autumn are 'Water' and 'London' - but the programme is still being put together, so if you have any favourite poem you would like to hear read on our very own 'Poetry Please' just ring 020 7635 9421 or send it to tamsin_bacchus@hotmail.com.

Festival Finale

9.00pm to midnight

Telegraph Hill Centre

£8.00 (£4.00) 

Licensed bar.  Doors open at 8.15

It's the end of another great festival and time to let our hair down (or in some cases, get it out of the laundry bag).  So, put on your glad rags and come along to the Narthex to bop, groove and twist the night away in the company of: Oystar - with a very special surprise up their sleeves - if oystars have sleeves (just who and what are Oystars? - come along and find out!) little devils - playing their 21st century blues - the fast ones!  Teenage Men - bringing the house (and possibly the church) down with their fantastic blend of boogie, blues and bop.   (Oh yes - and there is a very reasonable bar...)     

See 

www.myspace.com/oystar

www.myspace.com/littledevilsmusic

www.myspace.com/teenagemen

c/o Telegraph Hill Centre 

Pepys Road 

New Cross Gate 

London 

SE14