Hither Green Hall

Hither Green Cinema presents 2 films to play with your heart strings, be you single or with the love of your life:

Strictly Ballroom (PG)  – Baz Luhrmann writes and directs this Australian Cinderella story about a young girl desperate to dance and a maverick dancer wanting to break out of the old routine and do something new!!  The film that started, years later, the phenomenon that is ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.  Come see the original and the best!! (Australian – No subtitles)

Amelie (15) – The story of a girl sheltered in her youth by her father afraid the world will be too much for her fragile heart grows up to be a young woman with an overly active imagination who creates fantasy worlds on the streets of Paris but finds that her heart has so much to give but will she find love in the real world?? (French – Subtitles)

The bar will be open with a selection of wines and beers from the Meantime Brewery, warm savoury snacks made on site with tea, coffee, hot chocolate and homemade cakes.

Tickets are £5 for the whole night (So get your moneys worth and come and see both films and we will keep you going with food and drink from the kitchen) and will be available from Cafe of Good Hope on Hither Green Lane and You Don’t Bring Me Flowers on Staplehurst Road as well as on the door which opens at 6.00pm.

We look forward to seeing you at St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road, off Hither Green Lane SE13 6RW and bring a tissue and big cushion for this film extravaganza!!

On Sunday 15th January the Marshmallow Blues Club is proud to present ‘The Little Devils’ voted Best Live Band of 2011 in the Playmusic Awards for unsigned Bands!

Doors open at 7.30pm with admission only £5 at St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road off Hither Green Lane and Ennersdale Road SE13 6RW

The Bar will be open serving Meantime Bottled beer and bar snacks

 Be there and be cool!!

Hither Green Cinema Presents 3 classic films from the silent film era with some of the biggest names of the time with live electric accordion accompaniment from Igor Outkine who has played on some major film soundtracks and played to audiences all over the world.

We have ‘The Champion’ with Charlie Chaplin, ‘Two Tars’ with Laurel & Hardy and ‘The Boat’ with Buster Keaton.

The bar will be open with a selection of beers from the Meantime Brewery, savoury snacks with tea and homemade cakes.

Tickets are £5 for the whole night and will be available on the door which open at 6.30pm.

We look forward to seeing you at St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road, off Hither Green Lane SE13 6RW in the New Year! 

And here we are.  We have reached the Christmas sing-along!  All you have to do is dress up as your favourite character and show up!!  We will provide mulled wine, beer from the Zero Degrees bar in Blackheath, wine, teas and coffee plus mince pies, cakes and savoury snacks plus all the words to this Oscar award winning film!!

Entry is still a low £3, doors will open at 6pm so you can get a drink and some food and find a seat before the film starts at 6.30pm.  Tickets are already on sale and have been selling at Cafe of Good Hope and Cooper Lock Gallery on Hither Green Lane and You Don’t Bring me Flowers on Staplehurst Road so if you want to come along, try and and get a ticket in advance as we had to turn people away from last years Christmas screening!!

Look forward to seeing you in Hither Green Hills at St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road off of Hither Green Lane and Ennersdale Raod SE13 6RW!!!

Guillermo del Toro writes and directs this fairy tale to the back drop of the Spanish Civil War. Ofelia uncovers a strange underworld and the chance to escape the pain and uncertainties of her everyday life, but like any labyrinth you enter, will she be able to escape it and the ‘Pale Man’.

We are also very fortunate to be showing 2 award winning shorts both from Australia but that is where the similarity ends.

Spider – It is a simple thing to say sorry but when you just have to pull one more prank is that a prank too far??  More twists and shocks than you should be able to fit into 9 minutes!!  Thanks to our friends at Blue Tongue Films.

The Cat Piano – A beautifully animated short narrated by Nick Cave.  When the Jazz cats start going missing, someone has to find out what is going on and who is killing the sounds of the streets.  It can only lead to one place….  Thanks to our friends at The People’s Republic of Animation .

As usual beer/wine & tea/cakes will be available and also some hot savoury snacks.

See you in the dark (Bring your duvet to hide under if you really need to!!)

The Lantern Theatre Company presents “The Hiding Place” – The Story of Corrie Ten Boom. The story of a jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Holland during the 1930s.

Saturday 29th October, Doors Open 7pm, Performance starts at 7.30pm, tickets are £3 each.

St Swithun’s Hall, St Swithun’s Road off Hither Green Lane and Ennersdale Raod

This Sunday at St Swithun’s Hall come down and enjoy some South London Blues in the latest of the Marshmallows Blues Club nights, every fortnight in the heart of Hither Green. 

£5 entry with bar and snacks available

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Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star in this screwball comedy classic.  On the run from the mob, Joe & Jerry find that the only job that pays is in an all women’s jazz band which means becoming Josephine & Daphne and dealing with all the consequences that entails!!

Doors open at 7pm and tea & cakes, beer & wine and savoury snacks will be available.  Entry cost is still a mere £3.00. 

Looking forward to seeing you and if you feel the urge, feel free to dress up as your favourite character!!

So here we are at the start of the first Lewisham Literary Festival centred in the heart of Lewisham in Hither Green!!!  There is such an array of authors and events there is something for everyone from children to adults and alot of the events are free with a few ticketed for only £4.00. Go over to the Lewisham Literary Festival website for all the details of where and when as this amazing event covers 8 days (9th – 16th September), 6 venues (St Swithun’s Hall, Cafe of Good Hope, Lewisham Library, Manor House Library, Torridon Road Library & The Ravensbourne Arms) all making one special event on the Literary calendar.

See you there between the pages!!

To start our new season we have Mel Brooks’ zany 1977  ’homage’ to Alfred Hitchcock ‘High Anxiety’ (Cert. 15).

Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous even though he himself suffers from ‘High Anxiety’.  Nothing is quite as it seems and soon he is embroiled in a murder mystery where he is the one and only suspect.  Can he get to the bottom of it before he goes totally insane?!?!

With a bar serving beer, wine and soft drinks and tea & cakes supplied by The Golden Afternoon Tea Company the doors will open at 7.00pm with the film starting at 7.30pm so you will have loads of time to get a drink, a cake and settle down before the film starts.

We have kept the price low at £3, so we look forward to seeing you at St Swithun’s Hall in St Swithun’s Road just off of Hither Green Lane next Sunday, 4th September.  Tickets can be bought in advance at the Cooper Locke Gallery on Hither Green Lane or You Don’t Bring Me Flowers in Staplehurst Road, or at the door on the day.

We look forward to seeing you in the dark!