If you've not seen it yet, the Kennington, Oval and Vauxhall (KOV) forum will be holding a community expo on Saturday between 12:00 and 17:00 in Spring Gardens (the park). A community expo is a cross between a family fun day and a competition to see which community organisation can hand any given individual the most pieces of paper about local matters. Lots of local organisations will be in attendance, including representatives from the Friends of Spring Gardens, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, the Kennington Association, Vauxhall City Farm, the RVT, The Eagle and no doubt many more. The expo has its own website here and it seems it will be possible to get your dog repaired, get your bike chipped, learn Brazillian football and look at some farm animals.
The event's theme (according to the KOV post here) is "changing Vauxhall: How it has changed, how it might change, and how you would wish it to change. Changing the environment, health, housing, educational opportunities etc."
Even more exciting is the fact that Jason_Cobb of the excellent Onion Bag blog is suggesting a *shhh* Tweetup. If you're on Twitter and want to drop by Spring Gardens from 2pm, you'll be able to meet various other Twitter folk with interests in the community. I'll amend this post with a time it might take place once that's known. This is partly as a followup to the rather excellent tweetup held at Oval market recently. Obviously, in order to preserve my anonymity, I'll have to send somebody that will pretend to be the SE11 lurker :)
I think we could all play a game of Spartacus?
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