Display Your Picture at Viewfinder Gallery

The Viewfinder Photography Gallery in Peyton Place is inviting people to submit a photo which will be displayed as part of its Open Salon 2009 project. Every image it receives will be shown between 9th Jan - 1st February.

The photo can be of any subject and its open to anyone to enter, be they professional or amateur snappers. There’s a £10 handling fee to support the gallery (which is an exempted charity) and the picture’s longest edge must be under 32 inches, and it must be provided ready to hang on the gallery’s walls, supplied with any hanging materials required.

Curator Louise Forrester said: “Open Salon 2006 was very exciting. This is a great opportunity for local photographers to show their work, and also for the gallery to raise funds to support future exhibitions.”

Photographs can be dropped off until 4pm on 4 January 2009 (sorry meant to post this up earlier!), at the Viewfinder Photography Gallery at Linear House in Peyton Place.

The exhibition itself runs from Saturday 9 January to Sunday 1 February 2009 with free admission.

Find out more about the Viewfinder Gallery website.

Santa’s Grotto

Santa’s Grotto, Greenwich Market - December 20th - 23rd

It goes without saying that this is the busiest time of the year for Father Christmas, but he has found time in his schedule to come and meet the children of Greenwich to find out what they want for Christmas.

You can find Santa Claus in his wonderful grotto, inside Greenwich Market (unit 5b) from Saturday 20th December until Tuesday 23rd December - 10am to 5pm. Go along and meet Santa, share your Christmas wish with him and receive a delightful gift too. The price of admission is £3.

Christmas Concert in Blackheath

Thursday 11 December 7pm. All Saints’, Blackeath, SE3 0TY

Following on from their extremely successful performance last year, the King William Singers*, directed by Hilary Campbell, once again present a mixture of Christmas music, including:

Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin
Part’s O Weisheit
Warlock’s Corpus Christi
Selection of Rutter
Premieres of brand new carols

There will even be a couple of singalong carols too!

With Inga Davis-Rutter (piano)

Also featuring the Blossom Street Singers

Tickets: £5 (£3) available on the door. All proceeds to the Albany Charity Fund

*The King William Singers comprises Trinity College of Music postgraduate singers and their colleagues.

Carol Service at Old Royal Naval College

Carol Service, Friday, December 5, 2008 at 7pm, Old Royal Naval College

After you’ve seen the Christmas lights switch on in Greenwich, why not hot foot it round to the Royal Naval College for a carol service…

The University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music are holding a carol
service on Friday, December 5, 2008 at 7pm. The service of lessons and carols
offers an opportunity for everyone to celebrate Christmas in the stunning venue
of The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul, courtesy of the Greenwich Foundation, at
the Old Royal Naval College.

Leading the congregation in traditional carols including favourites Once In
Royal David’s City and O Little Town of Bethlehem will be the University of
Greenwich Choir.

Chapel doors open at 6.30pm. Admission is free and no tickets are required.
Drinks and mince pies will be served afterwards in the King William Restaurant.

Britney Spears Live at O2 Arena

Britney Spears has announced that she will be performing at the O2 Arena in Greenwich. The two dates announced are for the 3rd and 4th of June 2009, and will be the only two European concerts in her World Tour.

The singer, who has had a couple of troubled years, looks set to be getting back on track with the release of her new album, Circus.

Tickets for the concerts at the O2 Arena will not be on sale until December 5th - bookmark this page and come back then to try and get hold of tickets.

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