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inin Richmond Richmond upon upon Thames Thames artsartsrichmondrichmond BarnesBarnes – – Sheen Sheen –– MortlakeMortlake –– The Hamptons – PetershamPetersham – Kew – Kew - Richmond - Richmond – Teddington – Teddington – Ham – MayMay 2015 2015 – HamWhitton – Whitton - Twickenham - Twickenham Richmond’s splendid views e are served in Richmond working sessions, also had its Spring upon Thames by some first Exhibition at the Landmark earlier in Richmond May Fair Wclass art societies with April, as did the Richmond and extensive memberships, from Twickenham Photographic Society , The Richmond May Fair is on Saturday 9 established painters to total novices, which has regular expert talks at the May on Richmond Green and in St Mary Magdalene churchyard. and of course with many talented Kew Community Centre, including artists in between many of whom will sessions for specialist photographers. Orange Tree Theatre’s be taking part in arts richmond ’s The Fountain Gallery at 26 Bridge Road Affordable Art Tent during the May Fair Gala Evening in East Molesey, near Hampton Court, Richmond May Fair (see box opposite). is a cooperative of professional artists Friday 8 May from 7.00 pm. Glamorous You can find a list of all societies with a diverse programme of evening’s entertainment, featuring West affiliated to arts richmond on the End singers and surprise celebrity guests, exhibitions, principally by its members, arts richmond website. with first-class four-course dinner – great throughout the year. See Visual Arts. fund-raising event for the Orange Tree On top of this, we have borough-run Orleans House Gallery’s current Theatre in the May Fair Marquee. galleries worthy of much larger cities: exhibition, Richmond Views , is of 020 8940 0141 Orleans House Gallery on Twickenham special interest, building on the Riverside, with the Stables Gallery in arts richmond Book Picnic borough’s collection of magnificent the grounds housing more views by showcasing the work of with David experimental shows (and with an contemporary artists – it’s on until 31 excellent café in the stables block Starkey May. OHG Transforming Orleans House especially enjoyable in spring and project, to create new amenities, The always summer, plus a great educational controversial including to the spectacular Octagon suite), and the satellite Riverside historian and famed Room very much needs your financial Gallery in the Old Town Hall in TV presenter talking about his new book support to carry the project through to th Whittaker Avenue in Richmond town, and programmes on the 800 anniversary conclusion with added lottery funding. also with exciting events. OHG curates of Magna Carta, and more, during Election Weekend. the borough’s superb art collection and There’s a special late-night opening of May Fair Marquee on Richmond Green runs exhibitions and arts-based courses the Gallery on Friday 15 May as part of Sunday 10 May from noon. Bring your own and events throughout the year. Museums at Night , with a buffet picnic. Tables, chairs, PA system provided. richmond.gov.uk/arts. supper, to raise funds for the project. Tickets £14; Friends of the Arts £13; Under 020 8831 6000 Most of the art societies also run 16 £7; Tables for 10 people £120; Family ticket (two adults and two children) £30. excellent exhibitions of their own. Next When you’ve seen Richmond Views at one up is Richmond Art Society’s OHG, you can go to the Bowman arts richmond Spring Exhibition from Friday 15 May Gallery in Worple Way, where you can to Sunday 17 May at the Landmark see and purchase views of Richmond Affordable Art Tent Arts Centre in Teddington. Ham Art from Bowman’s own exhibition, from 2 Saturday 9 May: 10 am to 4.30 pm on Circle has its Spring Exhibition from 23 to 31 May. Richmond Green - Original Paintings for to 25 May at St Thomas Aquinas sale under £100 from local artists. Church Hall, Ham. Twickenham Arts Circle , which has Saturday afternoon Richmond upon Thames Arts Council (arts richmond ) a voluntary body supporting the arts and libraries in and around the borough www.artsrichmond.org.uk [email protected] 020 8892 9446 Room 16 ETNA Community Centre 13 Rosslyn Road Twickenham TW1 2AR Charity No 251359 P a g e | 2
Before that, the Bowman Gallery has 12 to 24 May: Richmond Printmakers ; richmondorchestra.org.uk Colour Journeys with paintings by 26 May to 7 June: Andrew Blythe with Andrew Wilder and Jabeen Ghauri until Andy Wood and Andrew Ashton, Concert in memory of 25 April. bowmangallery.co.uk cityscapes and seascapes. Jill Grist fountaingallery.co.uk The Rainbow Fund for South Africa , Richmond and Twickenham arts richmond office the Richmond-based charity which Photographic Society : Main weekly supports an after-school club in Please note that arts richmond is now meetings on Thursdays at 8.00 pm, and Guguletu, Capetown, invites you to a at a new address: group meetings on Tuesdays, at the concert in memory of Jill Grist, founder Kew Community Centre, The Avenue, arts richmond trustee and eminent local councillor, Kew. 23 April: African Dream with Bob Room 16, ETNA Community Centre on Thursday 21 May at St John the 13 Rosslyn Road Webzell ARPS; 30 April: Print Analysis Divine, Richmond, at 7.30 pm. The Twickenham TW1 2AR with Helene Rogers FRPS. 7 May: Wet programme of chamber music, and Dry with Len Deeley FRPS; 14 May: performed by international pupils from Visual arts Review of Open Challenge Trophy the Yehudi Menuhin School, will be Prints with Walter Benzie ARPS; 21 introduced by Sir David Attenborough. At Orleans House Gallery on May: Pairs, Panels and Projects with Tickets for concert (and supper Twickenham Riverside, Richmond Susan Brown FRPS; 28 May: PDI afterwards) from David Martin, 71A Views , showcasing the work of Analysis with Don Byatt ARPS. See Princes Road, TW10 6DQ. contemporary artists exploring the website for group meetings. There’s an [email protected] borough’s landscapes, urban open evening for new members at 8.00 environment, buildings and pm on Tuesday 28 April at the Vestry Richmond Concert Society: Tuesday 19 inhabitants, continues until 31 May. Hall, Paradise Road, Richmond. May at the German School, Petersham rtps.org.uk at 7.45 pm: Gaudier Ensemble with At the Stables Gallery at OHG, A Guest Dvorak’s String Quartet No 2 in G and in Turner’s House continues until 24 Network Magazine Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor. May, then Beep Beep! Trains, Planes richmondconcerts.co.uk and Automobiles from 28 May to 30 16 page magazine written and August. At the Riverside Gallery in the produced by and for local artists Hampton Choral Society is performing Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, covering local and national art topics . the Durufle Requiem , John Rutter’s Richmond, Metamorphosis open , £12.50 for a year’s subscription. Gloria and Vaughan Williams’s Five themes of transformation and change, E-mail [email protected] Mystical Songs with the Pro Re continues until 16 May, then Drawing Orchestra at 7.30 pm on Saturday 30 Closer to the Masters, reflecting Old Music May at All Saints Church, Campbell Master techniques as studied by a Road, Twickenham. Barnes Music Society: Thursday 30 small group of artists meeting in a hamptonchoral.org.uk April at 7.30 pm at the Methodist church hall in Ham, from 23 May to 1 Kew Sinfonia is playing Britten’s Church: Karolos Ensemble with Harriet August. richmond.gov.uk/arts Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge , Mackenzie (violin), Sarah Jane Bradley Schumann’s Violin Concerto with Richmond Art Society’s Spring (viola) and Graham Walker (cello) with soloist Konrad Elias-Trostmann, and Exhibition is from Friday 15 May to Schubert, Dodgson and Beethoven. barnesmusicsociety.org.uk Finzi’s Love’s Labour’s Lost: Incidental Sunday 17 May at the Landmark Arts Music to Shakespeare’s Play at 7.30 pm Centre in Teddington. Cantanti Camerati (Conductor: on Saturday 16 May at St Anne’s richmondartsociety.com Stephen Gregson) will be putting on Church, Kew Green. Saturday and Sunday 25 and 26 April at their next concert at 7.30 pm on kewsinfonia.org.uk the Redlees Studios in Redlees Park, Saturday 9 May in St. Anne’s Church, The Dysart in Petersham has classical Kew Green, TW9 3AA. Accompanied Worton Road TW7, London Potters’ recitals on the first Sunday of the by strings, trumpets and timpani, the Local – the work of London potters, month. Dinner music on Thursday, programme will include Haydn’s Te ranging from sculptural to functional. Fridays and Saturdays. londonpotters.com Deum in C, 3 pieces by Mozart: Kyrie in thedysartpetersham.co.uk 07967 481 625 D minor K. 341, Vesperae Solennes de Ham Art Circle has its Spring Exhibition Confessore K. 339, Serenata Notturna Putney Choral Society’s Spring Concert from 23 to 25 May at St Thomas K. 239, and Britten’s Hymn to St. is on Saturday 16 May at St Paul’s Aquinas Church Hall, Ham Street, Ham. Church, Augustus Road, Southfields at 020 8940 5725 Cecilia. 020 8898 8020 or at the door. 7.00 pm. Brahms’s German Requiem Fountain Gallery in East Molesey: 14 to Richmond Orchestra’s children’s event (soloists Huw Montague-Rendall 26 April: Linda Walsh; 28 April to 10 on Sunday 17 May at 2.00 pm is a (baritone) and Jessica Gillingwater May: Maureen Farr with colourful collaboration with the Otakar Kraus (soprano) and his Violin Concerto in D mixed media paintings of still life and Trust (of Twickenham) with a children’s Major (soloist Nicola Bates). landscapes; choir, at St James’s Church, Hampton putneychoralsoc.org.uk 07909 981 278 Hill. See website for details. P a g e | 3
Wathen Hall at St Paul’s School, Drama ShowCoach visits Lonsdale Road, Barnes, has Rossini’s The Barber of Seville with Orange Tree Theatre has Doris Top quality outings and OperaUpClose on Thursday 30 April at Lessing’s Each His Own Wilderness , holidays with like- minded 7.00 pm, pianist Ivana Gavric on directed by Paul Miller until 16 May. companions Thursday 7 May, and Charlie Parker on Then buckets by Adam Barnard, 5 May: Live streaming of the ROH La Dial , ‘a thrilling journey through a key directed by Rania Jumaily, from 28 May Fille Mal Gardee at Odeon Cinema, period in saxophone legend Charlie to 27 June. Richmond. Parker’s recording career’, on Friday 15 May, 7.30 pm. May Fair Gala Evening: Friday 8 May 23 June: Visit to River and Rowing wathenhall.com 020 8746 5322 from 7.00 pm. Glamorous evening’s Museum at Henley, with boat trip on entertainment, featuring West End Regatta course. The Eel Pie Club: 23 April: Birdwood, singers and surprise celebrity guests, th celebrating the Eel Pie Club’s 15 with first-class four-course dinner – 23 July: Apsley House and Wellington birthday; 30 April: The Others ; great fund-raising event for the Orange Arch Thursday 7 May: Miller Anderson and Tree Theatre in the May Fair Marquee. 19 August: Chichester Festival Theatre: The Sensational Desperate Dan Band ; For information, phone 020 8940 0141. Mack and Mabel. Thursday 21 May: Paul Lamb and The orangetreetheatre.co.uk 020 8940 3633 King Snakes ; Thursday 28 May: The 23-25 September (tbc): Short break to Richmond Theatre has Twelve Angry Rollin’ Stoned. 9.15 pm (doors open Stratford upon Avon, including RSC Men from 27 April until 2 May, then 8.30 pm) at the Cabbage Patch, 67 performance of Henry V. from 12 to 16 May To Kill a London Road, Twickenham. Please see website and yellow flyers in mailing. eelpieclub.com 07732 322 610 Mockingbird , based on the Harper Lee novel, and from 26 to 30 May Agatha Also at Patchworks at the Cabbage TOpS has Fiddler on the Roof , also at Christie’s And Then There were None , Hampton Hill Playhouse, from Tuesday Patch, Twickfolk meets on Sunday with Paul Nicholas. Special events evenings at 7.45 pm. 26 April: Kelly 19 to Saturday 23 May. include comedian Reginald D Hunter ticketsource.co.uk/tops McRae Duo ; Sunday 3 May: Michael on Sunday 17 May at 8.00 pm, Sex in McDermott (USA), Chicagoan folk- Suburbia on Monday 18 May at 7.30 The Rose Theatre at Kingston from 28 rocker and Singaround; 10 May: Ben pm, Paul Merton’s Impro Chums on April to 2 May: The Boy in the Striped Bedford (USA); 17 May: Twickfolk Tuesday 19 May at 8.00 pm, The Pyjamas from the Children’s Touring participates in the Folk Afternoon and Carpenters Story on Wednesday 20 Partnership; 19 to 23 May: King Lear ; BBQ at Uxbridge Folk Club; 24 May: May at 7.30 pm, One Night of Elvis on 26 to 31 May: The Tiger Who Came To Singaround ; 31 May: Jeni Hankins and Thursday 21 May at 7.30 pm, and Ben Tea . More events on website. rosetheatrekingston.org Billy Kemp (USA), Appalachian Holly’s Little Kingdom on Saturday 23 mountain songs. twickfolk.co.uk May at 1.00 and 4.00 pm and Sunday The Normansfield Theatre in
Twickenham Jazz Club , at the Cabbage 24 May at 10.00 am and 1.00 pm. Teddington: Italian pianist Francesco Patch, meets on second Tuesdays of atgtickets.com/richmond Attesti in concert on Saturday 25 April 0844 871 7651 the month at 8.30 pm. 21 April: Alan at 7.30 pm; Saturday 9 May at 10.00 Barnes (saxophone) with the Robin Richmond Shakespeare Society is am: Normansfield Theatre Tour; Aspland Piano Trio ; 28 April: Rob playing All’s Well that Ends Well from 2 Saturday 23 May at 7.30 pm: Barron Quartet with Colin Oxley to 9 May at the Mary Wallace Theatre, Commedia with cameo scenes from (guitar); 5 May: Kelvin Christiane Twickenham Embankment. The Society favourite operas; Saturday 23 May at Allstars Big Band; 12 May: Sirkis/Bialas is also giving a Shakespeare’s birthday 7.30 pm: Frank Sinatra – The Movie International Quartet , Polish performance at Garrick’s Temple to Years sung by Robert Habermann; vocalist/composer Sylwia Bialas; 19 Shakespeare on Saturday 25 April at Saturday 30 May at 7.30 pm: Kenfig Hill May: Tumultuous Tenors , Sam Walker 3.00 pm (free admission). & District Male Voice Choir . and Kelvin Christiane with the Jim richmondshakespeare.org.uk langdondowncentre.org.uk 020 8744 0547 Treweek Trio ; 26 May: Jo Fooks Quartet Drama St Mary’s at St Mary’s with Ted Beament. OHADS (Old Hamptonians Amateur University, Strawberry Hill, has a twickenhamjazzclub.co.uk 020 8898 8112 Dramatic Society) is playing The God of Second Year Physical Theatre Devised Way Out West , collective of jazz Carnage in the Hampton Hill Playhouse production from 29 April to 1 May, musicians in West London, meets at Studio from 29 April to 2 May. Third Year Arts Showcase on 5 May, the Bull’s Head, 373 Lonsdale Road, ohads.org.uk and Third Year Theatre Pub Show on 8 Barnes, on Wednesday nights from Teddington Theatre Club at Hampton May. dramastmarysreservations.weebly.com 8.00 pm. 22 April: Mingus Mingus Hill Playhouse is doing the joyous Dad’s Mingus, a celebration of Charles Army from Sunday 10 May to Saturday Film Mingus’s 93 rd birthday; 29 April: Mick 16 May. ttc-boxoffice.org.uk Arthur’s Screen On The Green, The Sexton’s Torus with Mornington Lockett. See website for May events. Green, Twickenham, restaurant with wowjazz.org Sunday film evenings at 7.00 pm. 26 P a g e | 4
April: My Old Lady , an American o Thursday 30 April at 7.30 pm: 17 May, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm, inherits an apartment in Paris with an former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion Shabbytique Vintage Brocante , vintage unexpected resident; 10 May: Saint with the Poetry Archive The Customs stalls. Vincent , comedy drama with Bill House and Owen O’Neill with Licking Saturday 9 May, 10.00 am to 2.30 pm: Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi the Matchbox. Barnes Societies and Volunteers Open Watts; 17 May: Roald Dahl – Esio Trot; o 21 to 30 April: exhibition of Day, organised by the Barnes 24 and 31 May : Paddington , Tom Farmer’s photography project Community Association. Wednesdays 13 and 27 May, 7.00 pm: Thames: Dark River, Still Shining. osoarts.org.uk Leo Appleyard – an evening of mellow o 6 to 12 May: Joanna Jackson jazz with resident guitarist. mini-art exhibition. The Museum of Richmond is hosting a arthursscreenonthegreen.co.uk o Saturday 9 May: Flamenco touring exhibition, Feeding London: The Forgotten Market Gardens , funded The Musical Museum near Kew Bridge dance workshop o by the Heritage Lottery Fund and has regular showings of classic films on 15 to 17 May: Richmond Art sponsored by the Environment Trust , Sunday afternoons: 26 April The Great Society Spring Exhibition. o telling the story of how the district Caruso; 17 May : The Glenn Miller Story; Thursday 21 May: Liz Lochhead - Somethings Old, became the garden for the supply of 31 May : Summer Stock , all at 3.00 pm. the expanding population of London. musicalmuseum.co.uk Somethings New. o 27 and 28 May: Half-term The exhibition opens on 1 May. Olympic Studios , Barnes: Full activities museumofrichmond.com 020 8332 1141 programme of current films, plus one- o Wednesday 27 May: The Twickenham Museum on Twickenham off events streamed live from cultural Arabian Nights Riverside has its 2 nd Jack Ellis Memorial venues. In addition Sir Tim Rice will landmarkartscentre.org. 020 8977 7558 Lecture on Tuesday 28 April in St take to the stage at 8.30pm on 27 April Old Sorting Office Arts Centre on Mary’s Church Hall, Church Street, to discuss his peerless five-decade Barnes Green: Twickenham, at 7.30 for 8.00 pm: career in musical theatre. o Tracy Borman on The Life and Times of olympicstudios.co.uk Most Fridays from 1.00 pm, and Saturdays from 12.00 pm: OSO Henrietta Howard, King’s Mistress, The Twickenham Alive Film Festival Friday Jazz afternoons and Saturday Queen’s Servant. Family Jazz Brunches. twickenham –museum.org.uk has announced the closing date for entries for the 2015 festival: 1 May. o Saturday 25 April: Barnes Strawberry Hill House has a day of The awards and screenings will be on Children’s Literature Festival. medieval fun for all the family at o 11 June. Wednesday 22 April at 8.00 Horace Walpole’s little gothic castle twickenhamfilmfestival.com pm: Barnes Literary Society: Harriet from 11.00am to 4.30pm on Sunday Gilbert on A Good Read – the 31 May. Booking not required. Museums, arts centres and broadcaster’s view. historic houses o Tuesday 5 May at 8.00 pm: Garrick’s Temple Jazz Jam hosted by Sarah Chaplin with Hampton Court Palace is celebrating the OSO’s regular house band and Conservation th pianist and composer Ross Lorraine. its 500 anniversary over the summer. Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on o Tuesday 12 May at 7.30 pm: From 23 to 31 May, there’s Hampton Riverside is undergoing a The Golden Age of Violin with Dunja TimeQuake, a 360 ° cinema experience major programme of conservation and Lavrova (violin) and Viv McLean which has caused characters from the improvement. The Temple will reopen (piano). past 500 years to return to the Palace. on Sunday 26 April, but there’ll be a o Friday 15 May at 7.30 pm: As you step out of the TimeQuake, Loki Music Shakespeare Birthday Castelnau Chorale, relaxed evening of follow a young Time Explorer who will Concert concert on Friday 24 April at easy listening. take you on a mission to find the lost 7.30 pm (tickets at door) and a o Saturday 16 May at 7.30 pm: historical figures. 7 to 14 year-olds. Richmond Shakespeare Society hrp.org.uk/hamptoncourtpalace Soul Jazz Collective . birthday performance on Saturday 25 o Tuesday 19 May at 7.30 pm: Li At Kew Palace , see the Royal Kitchens April at 3.00 pm (free admission). Chun Su celebrity piano recital. and enjoy open weekends at Queen garrickstemple.org.uk o Sunday 31 May at 6.00 pm: AB Charlotte’s Cottage. hrp.org.yk/kewpalace Music Dreams summer concert.
White Lodge Museum, Richmond Park, o Thursday 14 May from 7.00 Talks and event s has an exhibition Passion and Politics – pm to 10.00 pm: Local artists’ The Portcullis Trust , which raises funds Macmillan’s Romeo and Juliet, until 2 showcase. for adult learners with learning July. o 18 May to 6 June: Christophe difficulties and disabilities at th e royalballetschool.org.uk/the-school/museum Cohen, Café Wall art exhibition. Richmond Adult Community College , Landmark Arts Centre at Teddington, has a talk by broadcaster Peter Snow th Other events at OSO include: 2 May, celebrating its 20 anniversary: on The Battle of Waterloo Experience, noon, wine-tasting; 13 May, 6.30 pm to his new book written jointly with Dan 9.30 pm, A Taste of Sweden in Barnes ; P a g e | 5
Snow. Queen Charlotte Hall, Parkshot Richmond Local History Society has Le Cercle Français de Richmond meets Wednesday 13 May at 7.30 pm. Ben Copsey of the Peace Pledge Union at the Vestry House, Paradise Road, portcullistrust.org.uk on Tribunals and Tribulations on Richmond at 7.30 pm. Thursday 14 The Hampton-based charity, Monday 27 April , and on 18 May May, David King on Napoleon III en Integrated Neurological Services, Daniel Hearsum and Dr Robert Wood Angleterre. richmondfrenchcircle.org.uk which offers long-term support to on The Hearsum Collection in Probus Club of Twickenham : lunch people with neurological conditions in Richmond Park , plus a party and AGM. meeting on Tuesday , 12 May, David the boroughs of Richmond and 8.00 pm at the Duke Street Church, Henderson, 747 pilot, on Come Fly Hounslow, has a lecture by athlete and Richmond. richmondhistory.org.uk With Me. Fulwell Golf Club at 12.30 pm. twickenhamprobus.org.uk disability campaigner Baroness Tanni Richmond Association for the National Grey-Thompson on Tuesday 28 April at Trust has a coach visit to Claydon Friends of Bushy and Home Park : 7.30 pm at St Paul’s School. House, near Buckingham, on Tuesday Thursday 23 April at 8.00 pm: Talk by 020 8755 4000 (Fiona Muir) 5 May (020 8979 3089), and a visit to Ray Elmitt on Brick by Brick – the The Environment Trust has a lecture, the Faringdon Collection in Brompton building and buildings of Hampton Wild Neighbours, by Sir David Square on Wednesday 20 May at 2.00 Wick . Thursday 28 May, Julia Clark, Attenborough joined by Gordon and 3.00 pm (020 8878 7861). head of ecology at Bushy, on SSSI in Inquiries: 020 8979 3089 Buchanan, renowned wildlife Bushy Park. St John Ambulance Hall, cameraman, and Elly Berry and Judy Barnes Literary Society Wednesday 22 Park Road. Teddington. Sunday 10 Puddifoot from BBC2’s Young Vets April at the Old Sorting Office Arts May: Chestnut Sunday . Saturday 16 programme, at the Rose Theatre, Centre on Barnes Green at 8.00 pm: May, walk with Nicholas Garbutt in the Kingston, on Saturday 16 May at 2.00 Harriett Gilbert on A Good Read – the Paddocks area. 10.00 am at Lion Gate. pm. broadcaster’s view ¸ followed by AGM. 020 8287 2748 fbhp.org.uk 020 8174 0090 between 10.00 am and 6.00 pm Wednesday 13 May at 11.00 am, daily except Sunday Richmond Scientific Society: outing to Strawberry Hill House. Wednesday 11 May at 8.00 pm: The National Archives at Kew is barnesliterarysociety.org.uk Professor Frank Close, University of hosting Writer of the Month , a series of Oxford, on Half Life: Bruno Pontecorvo, talks to broaden awareness of There’s a Children’s Literature Festival in Barnes on Saturday 25 April. Co- father of neutrino medicine, but was he historical records and their uses for also an atomic spy? Vestry Hall, writers. Wednesday 13 May: Alison creator of The Gruffalo Axel Scheffler, Carnegie Medallist Sally Gardner and Paradise Road, Richmond. Weir, author of The Marriage Game . hampsteadscience.ac.org/rss_prog.htm 2.00 pm. Friday 15 May: Archives at Horrible Histories Martin Brown are Night. See website for more events at among the many celebrated children’s Historical Association , Richmond and the Archives. writers and illustrators who will be Twickenham Branch, Thursday 23 April, nationalarchives.gov.uk taking part, and there’ll be a special Christopher Massy-Beresford on performance by Roger McGough. The Neutrals at War. 28 May : David Richmond Heritage Guides have a 70 th Barnes Community Association is Carpenter , Professor of Medieval anniversary Victory in Europe Day walk supporting the Festival in partnership History at King’s College, London, on on Friday 8 May. Meet at Richmond with the Barnes Bookshop . See full Magna Carta. Vestry Hall, Richmond, Station Visitor Information Stand at programme at: at 8.00 pm. history.org.uk 7.00 pm. No need to book. barneskidslitfest.org 020 8979 `9670. Libraries Richmond Society : Wednesday 22 Richmond and District Decorative and April, in conjunction with the Kew Fine Arts Society : Tuesday 5 May, April Cityread London Festival Society, General Election Hustings - Mary Rose Rivett-Carnac on hear and ask questions of the General Discovering the Paintings that You The Cityread London Festival is a Election candidates. Thursday 14 May, Own: the Public Catalogue Foundation month long celebration of reading Professor Kathy Willis on Kew Science – and the Your Paintings project. Duke throughout April, in which Londoners the next 250 years. 7.45 pm at Duke Street Church, Richmond, at 8.00 pm. are encouraged to come together to Street Church, Richmond. Thursday 7 May, visit to Arundel read at least one book. richmondsociety.co.uk Castle. richmond.gov.uk/libraries [email protected] richmonddfas.com 020 8948 0643 Cityread Events from Monday 20 April: Richmond U3A: The April ‘Wednesday The Borough of Twickenham Local • Tuesday 21 April at 7.00 pm at afternoon’ meeting is on 29 April in the History Society: Monday 11 May at St Teddington Library, 200 years of Clarendon Hall, York House, Mary’s Church Hall, Twickenham at Teddington Lock with Ken Howe. Twickenham at 2.30 pm. Rosemary • 8.00 pm: Dr David Allan FSA on Some Wednesday 22 April at 7.00 pm at Horton on English Cheeses (with Ham Library, Parched City: Drinking from Twickenham Antiquarians and samples). Wednesday 27 May, Ian London’s rivers with Emma Jones. Historians – 1753 to the present day , Bevan on The Inns of Court. Friday 15 • Friday 24 April at 2.30 pm at and AGM. botlhs.co.uk May, visit to the Watts Gallery, 9.30 Castelnau Library, X marks the spot with Elena Forbes. am. u3a-richmond.org.uk P a g e | 6
• Saturday 25 April at 2.00 pm at • Thursday 30 April at 7.00 pm at Saturday 16 May from 11.00 am to the Old Town all, Richmond: Comics Richmond Lending Library, Magical tales of 3.00 pm at Twickenham Library: Craft Workshop – The Spirits of the Place with the Thames with Vanessa Woolf and market richmond.gov.uk/libraries Karen Rubins. musician Nigel of Bermondsey. • Tuesday 28 April at 7.00 pm at East Sheen Library, The history of the Punch Library events in May Flyers for events in June: deliver and Judy Show (adult interest) with John Monday 18 May at 3.00 pm at Ham by Monday 11 May. Deadline Styles. for information for Newsletter • Wednesday 29 April at 7.00 pm at Library: Gerald Stevens on his book Whitton Library, Rivers of London Quiz Childhood Memories of Ham and for June: Friday 1 May. Night. Petersham.
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