Thursday, February 24 at the Montpelier

  

The next Groucho is on Thursday February 24 at The Montpelier in Choumert Road, from 7.30pm. The Sunday Painter, a couple of minutes away at 12–16 Blenheim Grove, has a  Private View for The Ready Meal, 6–9pm on the same night and could provide an apperetif to the evening.

• SLAM Fridays is part of the newly launched South London Arts Map. Galleries will open on the last Friday of the month from 6–8.30pm, starting February 25. Flat Times House in Bellenden Road has a John Latham installation opening on the night, and Peckham Space is also keeping its doors open.

• PeckhamPlex has been in touch to say it now has regular Thursday morning screenings for the over 60s (Silver Screen Club), and for parents with children (Watch with Baby). Tea and biscuits, coffee and cake, are included. To get on the mailing list, email: peckham.managers@movieshack.co.uk

• Peckham is the highlight of this issue of the Portuguese magazine Revistas Blue, which Ros at the Review bookshop brings to our attention. Stroll through 16 pages of glorious pictures and words – it makes Peckham look like the best place in the world to be. Which of course it is.

• bibliotastic.com is a new website for free ebooks, and a platform for aspiring writers to reach an audience and for the growing community of ebook readers to access free content.

• Renato d'Aiello, who had a great night at Ronnie Scott's on Monday, with more gigs there promised, is playing at The Poet Bar, 215-216 Railton Road in Herne Hill on Friday 25th, and in The Lodge, upstairs at the East Dulwich Tavern on Sunday 27th Lunchtime