Monday, March 15 at the EDT

A civilised table. Hugo Simms talked about his interview with the Fentimans, former landlords of the Ivy House, who turned a struggling pub into a popular music venue – a blueprint that perhaps could be followed.  Chris Clack described the Peckham Space interview with Jessica Voorsanger in which questions were welcomed - though his was not. Nigel Soper showed an iPhone video of the work of Anthony McCall (pictured below) who has a commission for a large work for the Olympics. Angie Macdonald talked about the new Panda algorithm coding that Google is introducing, which will make any text copied from the web traceable, and thus help protect copyright. Louise Murray is making plans to take her cameras to the Russian Arctic. Dejla Kadim arrived after a day at Gorkhana, a media data base that, once signed up for (free), for has lots of information about jobs and industry staff movement.
Evadne Rickets sent reviews for her recent sell-out play Keeping Mum, in which she is described as being "miraculous in her restrained performance".

• The NEXT GROUCHO is on Tuesday, March 29 at the EDT. Heather Davies and Richard Leeming have an audio proposition they want to bring along to try out on Grouchers.

PRIVATE VIEWS

* 40 Hours 10 Artists. Friday, March 25, 6-9pm, Nolia gallery, 60 Gt Suffolk Street. Groucher Joan Byrne won a free show here, described in Dulwich on View:
* Shaun McDowell, Recent Works March 16, 6.30–8.30 Hannah Barry Gallery

MUSIC

* Renato di'Aiello at The Lodge above the EDT on Sunday, March 20. (The food here was much better organised last time). Renato is also playing Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's on Monday, March 21, which is his birthday and promises to be a good session.  On the 25th he's at The Poet in Herne Hill.

WORDS

• April 7, Wordsworth's Birthday, is being celebrated in the back room of the Montpelier.