Our Spring/Summer 2023 What’s On Magazine is due back from the printers soon, pop in and pick up a copy once it arrives or read online now via issuu.com
Find out more about:
– the latest news and updates
– the regular programme of activities
– room hire for weddings, parties, meetings and conference
– our Reach Out Projects
– upcoming live music and comedy club events
Our What’s On September-December 2022 Magazine is out now, pop in and pick up a copy or read online via issuu.com
Find out more about:
– the latest news and updates
– our Reach Out Projects partnerships with The John Roan School and person trainer Darren Holness
– the regular programme of activities
– upcoming live music events
– Christmas plans
and much more!
Keep the children entertained throughout the summer holidays here at Mycenae House with an array of activities and classes for families & children, including Music, Drama, Engineering, Photography, Games, Animation, Theatre, Coding, Concerts & more! Enjoy our Family Friendly Café Bar, Free Wifi and the great outdoors in Mycenae Gardens!
24 July 11am-4.30pm Free Family Arts Festival All Ages
www.mycenaehouse.co.uk/events/greenwich-family-arts-festival/
26-29 July 10am-4pm Engineering Minds 6-11yrs
www.engineeringminds.org.uk
Saturdays 30 Jul-20 Aug Early Years Music 0-6yrs
www.greenwichmusicschool.org.uk
2 August 9.30-11 or 1-2.30 Fourtissimo! Fun Club 4yrs
www.greenwichmusicschool.org.uk
3-4 August 9.30am-12pm Music Club Play Morning 5-6yrs
www.greenwichmusicschool.org.uk
Thursdays 4-25 August 10am + 11am Baby Sensory birth-13mths
www.babysensory.com/woolwich-greenwich
8-12 August 9am-3pm Bo Peeps Pre-School 2-4yrs
kathryn.algar@btinternet.com
11 August 11am Baby Broadway concert All ages
www.babybroadway.co.uk
15-19 August 9.30am-3.30pm Young Musicians Course 7-10yrs
www.greenwichmusicschool.org.uk
17-19 August 9am-3pm JK Performing Arts Club 4-11yrs
www.jkperformingarts.com
25 August 10.30am Bach to Baby concert All ages
www.bachtobaby.com
Mondays + Tuesdays various times Force 5 Taekwondo 3-12yrs
www.livingwelltkd.com/force-5-london
Mondays + Wednesdays 10am diddi dance 16months – 5yrs
www.diddidance.com
New art exhibition now on display running throughout March and April 2022 by Tanaz Assefi, Iranian Fine Artist & Painter.
“My greatest passion is the ‘art of expression’ on canvas using my chosen materials, be it pencil, paint, collage or physical making.”
Tanaz was born and raised in Iran, a land of contradictions where deserts and forests are a few miles apart; a land of snow covered mountains and green valleys where palm trees and apple trees grow only a few miles apart from one another. The extraordinary geographical and historical conditions have deeply influenced its culture and people.
Traditions and ceremonies are intertwined with an exotic blend of symbolism and metaphoric language; which is visible in our literature, art and handicrafts…
“…this is my heritage and a part of my being. As an artist, I have always been in search of a relationship between the mysterious and symbolic world of ideas and allegories which take place in mythology, poetry and dreams.”
Tanaz Assefi’s art is mainly based on her visual dream diaries which she’s been keeping for a number of years; where she expresses her inner self, dreams, memories and reflections.
Tanaz has a studio at Thames Side Studios, an artist community located next to the Thames Barrier.
www.tanazassefi.com
Our What’s On Spring 2022 Magazine is out now, pop in and pick up a copy or read online via issuu.com
Find out more about the activities and events that take place here which fall broadly into the following four sections:
Children & Learning
Arts & Leisure
Health & Wellbeing
Social Inclusion & Reach Out
We are delighted to welcome back the Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society members after such a long time for an exhibition of photographs of the finest quality.
The Society who meet weekly for training and mutual support have long set the standard for the best possible work made at a local level.
Come and enjoy their work during opening hours at Mycenae House throughout November and December.
Visit www.woolwichphotographic.com to find out more about the Society.
We are part of Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Greenwich Get Digital Loan & Learn Scheme, where Royal Greenwich residents can loan a tablet for four weeks, as well as accessing free digital training.
Royal Greenwich residents can apply direct at local participating community centres and organisations to borrow a digital device and/or secure training and skills.
Each site will be provided with devices (tablets or laptops) which will be loaned out to individuals for four weeks. Similar to a traditional library, the equipment will be checked in and check out, with pre and post evaluation surveys to ascertain improvements on skills and training. The equipment will be remotely data cleansed and cleaned after each use, ready for the next person.
For further info visit www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/digitalloanandlearn
Contact mark@mycenaehouse.co.uk / 020 8858 1749 to enquire about loaning a tablet from us.
Ian Cook has been a professional photographer since the mid 1960s.
He was born in Brighton and his first employment was with the now defunct Brighton and Hove Herald and also the Brighton Argus. One of his early assignments was to photograph The Beatles who were on their first UK tour. They hadn’t found fame at that time and so he went to the stage door of the Brighton Hippodrome where they were rehearsing and asked the stage manager for them to come down to be photographed, which they duly did.
He also persuaded Marianne Faithfull who was taking part in the first Brighton Music Festival to sit on a table drinking a cup of tea with Kenny Lynch and covered Ringo’s honeymoon in Hove 1965 with Maureen Starkey.
From there he decided to freelance in London and he got a scoop in 1967 when the staff at the Chinese Embassy attacked the police with baseball bats and a gun which landed him a staff job at the Daily Sketch. He was then one of the youngest photographers in Fleet Street.
After two years he decided to go back to freelancing and worked for the Observer and Sunday Times. A trip to the USA for The Observer Magazine led him to contacting People Weekly (a successor to Life Magazine ) which resulted in him becoming one of two photographers based in London covering the whole of Europe and Africa.
He has had over 5,000 assignments photographing subjects as varied as Dali and Henry Moore, Rock Hudson and Liza Minelli, Leonard Cohen, Sting and Tina Turner and travelling round Africa with Bob Geldof during the famine of 1984.
Nowadays he divides his time between Greenwich and Suffolk.
The recent pandemic lockdown has given him the time to sort through his vast collection of photographs and put them in some sort of order. From this he has chosen a number to be exhibited at Mycenae House during September & October 2021.
Prints are for sale as a limited edition of 25.
We at Mycenae House are delighted that we will have more flexibility to welcome more of you back to the house and broaden our programme of activities. However, and most importantly we will continue to put the safety and health of all our staff and users at the very top of our priorities.
To help our users and visitors plan and understand what is happening at the house in the coming weeks, here are six key pieces of information:-
1. Lifting of Restrictions – Covid 19 restrictions in terms of the type of activities are now lifted so we can accommodate all types of events including singing indoors, weddings and parties etc
2. Retaining Safety Measures – Mycenae House will continue with the requirement of visitors to wear masks in public spaces within the building, to sanitise/wash hands on arrival and at regular intervals, to keep distance from other members of the public where possible in public spaces within the building. User groups are responsible for and will set their own requirements for their activity within their rooms.
3. Summer Opening Times – Opening times remain as present until school holidays start week commencing 26th July when we will then open:
Mondays from 9am-10pm
Tuesdays to Fridays from 9am-5pm
Saturdays – 9am-5pm plus evenings when booked for private functions
4. Closedown – The House will FULLY CLOSE for a week from Wed 25th Aug until Tues 31st Aug inclusive.
5. September Full Reopening – We will re-open from 1st September at the following times:
Mondays to Thursdays from 9am-10.30pm
Fridays – 9am-7pm plus occasional evenings for live music events
Saturdays – 9am-5pm plus evenings for private functions
This will remain in place until December and we will update with any changes from January.
We’re thrilled to be re-opening further for Step 3 from Mon 17th May and welcoming more groups back, including many of our adult fitness, well-being and leisure activities.
Our updated opening times for classes and activities from 17th May until at least 21st June will be:
Mondays: 9am-10pm
Tuesdays: 9am-7.30pm
Wednesdays: 9am-10pm
Thursdays: 9am-7.30pm
Fridays – 9am-6pm
Saturdays – 9am-5pm
Visit our Regular Activities page for contact details of our Arts and Leisure | Health and Wellbeing | Children and Learning activity class leaders.