Telegraph Hill Festival

The programme is out for the Telegraph Hill Festival (SE14/SE4), which runs from the 13th to the 29th March. There's lots of new events as well as festival perennials - this is its 15th year. Live music includes a jazz/world music night, Strawberry Thieves choir's night of radical song, an open mic night at Skehans pub, not to mention the community production of the Threepenny Opera. There is also a book group discussing the novel Waterland with its author, Graham Swift, who appparently lives locally. Full details at the festival website.