artsrichmond Richmond upon Thames Arts Council, a voluntary body supporting the arts and Arts events libraries in and around the borough www.artsrichmond.org.uk in Richmond upon Thames [email protected] 3 Phoenix Wharf TW1 3DY June 2013 020 8892 9446 Charity No 251359

Our gorgeous parks and gardens he borough’s exceptional 15 May at 6.00 pm, talk: Conserving 8-9 June: Garden Openings in East gardens and parks are being Arcadia at the Gallery, 6.00 pm. (020 Sheen and Barnes celebrated in a great Garden 8831 6000) T 8 June and 15 July: Arcadian Thames Festival which runs from May to 21 May: , Special Walk to White Lodge, meet at October, with a splendid variety of tour of the House and Gardens, Richmond Station, 10.45 am. events delivered by a partnership of 020 8831 6000 (ticketsource. co.uk/ 28 organisations, including whitelodgemuseum) artsrichmond, and a related exhibition 20 May and 1 June: Wildlife Gardening at Gallery Arcadian Walk at Wildlife Wetland Centre 12 8 and 15 June: Alexander Pope’s Vistas: Richmond’s Landscape noon to 1.00 pm (wwt.org.uk) Grotto, School, 10.30 Gardens, until 21 July. The borough is and 11.30 am. (020 8744 0474) 25 to 27 May, The Big Picnic, Hampton again a finalist in Britain in Bloom, and Court Palace (usual entry charges 8 June: Scenic Historic Walks at Ham Richmond Borough in Bloom is inviting apply). House and Gardens. entries for this year’s merit awards. (nationaltrust.org.uk/ham-house) (richmond.gov.uk/gardensfestival2013 25 May: Chadsworth Stage School: and richmondboroughinbloom.co.uk) Songs and Dances Garrick’s Temple to 8 June: Shakespeare, Hampton, 3.00 pm performance of Julius Caesar, Garrick’s Some of the events in late May and (garrickstemple.org.uk/events) Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton 3.00 June: pm (garrickstemple.org.uk/events) Until 21 July: Transforming Orleans 8 June: Elderflower Walk, Marble Hill House – in Focus Display, the rich Park, 1.00 pm (020 8891 5455) history of the gardens, at the Gallery. 9 June: Wildlife 7-30 June: Constellation – an Garden Open Day 1.00 to 5.00 pm. architectural installation at the Gallery (kilmoreymausoleum.co.uk) - postgraduate architecture students from Kingston University with 16 June: Church Street Gardens temporary features for the gardens. 2 June: Sustainable Gardening Walk at Festival Market, Town Centre, 10.00 am to 8.00 pm May to November: Incredibles, Wildlife Wetland Centre, Barnes, 12.00 exhibits at the Royal Botanic Gardens. to 1.00 pm (wwt.org.uk) 22 June: and 9 July Twickenham .org 2 June: Marble Hill House: Talk Riverside Walk and Orleans House Gallery 11.00 a.m. St Margaret’s July to July: The Frame Gardens Henrietta Howard and Alexander Station. Festival Project: Floral Map Diamond Pope, Orleans House Gallery, 1.00 pm, (guidedtoursoflondon.com) Jubilee Gardens, Twickenham with lunch (020 8831 6000) 22 June: Music for an Arcadian 4 May to end May: Richmond in Bloom 2 June: in Flower Landscape White Lodge, 7.30 pm children’s competition at Orleans 5 June: Walk: Historical Gardens in a (ticketsource.co.uk/ House Gallery Modern Setting, Terrace Gardens, whitelodgemuseum) 25 May until 3 November: Summer Richmond, with Portia Baker, 22 June: Herbal Tours of the Royal Botanic Gardens at landscape architect 12 noon. (08456 Workshop, 10.00 am and 1.30 pm (020 Kew (020 8332 5655). 122 660) 8744 1241) Until October: Isabella Plantation 6 June An Arcadian Evening - a walk 23 June: Environment Trust Art Picnic walks on the first and last Friday of through Arcadia on a summer’s at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, each month (0300 061 2200) evening Twickenham Riverside 5.45 pm (020 8940 0654) Hampton, 11.00 a.m. Book. (020 8891 5455) Twickenham Festival and Drama St Mary’s director and physical 2 29 June: Twickenham’s Enchanted students at St Mary’s University Garden York House Society walk, 11.00 Carnival College show their final work at the am and 2.00 pm (08456 122 660) The 2013 Twickenham Carnival, with a Tristan Bates Theatre in the West End 30 June: Family Fun Day, Diamond Caribbean theme this year, is on from 12 to 22 June. Jubilee Gardens, Twickenham, 12.00 Sunday 16 June, part of the wider tristanbatestheatre.co.uk to 7.00 pm (twickenhamalive.com) Twickenham Festival from 6 June to 7 The Comical World of Flanders and July. Riverside parade, music and artsrichmond is making some special Swann from Transport of Delight is at dance, games and workshops, a contributions to the Festival, including the , fantastic free summer celebration for the Arcadia Revisited project, Teddington, for one day only on the whole family. Orleans House encouraging local artists to capture Saturday 15 June at 3.00 pm. Gallery, 1.00 to 5.00 pm. For full and submit for exhibition 0333 1212 300 festival programme, see: contemporary interpretations of visitrichmond.co.uk Arcadia for an exhibition at Orleans Visual arts House Gallery in October. The Rose Theatre at Kingston has a Fountain Gallery near Hampton Court whole raft of events at the end of May in Bridge Road, East Molesey: Tessa Drama and in June, including the Big Chris Pearson and Maureen Farr from 28 Barber Band on Wednesday 22 May, : Chekhov’s The May to 9 June with ‘original Georgie Fame on Friday 24 May, the Seagull runs from 29 May to 1 June, monoprints and mixed media Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on then Terence Rattigan’s Less than Kind paintings in glorious colour’. Then Sunday 26 May, and BalletBoyz on from 3 to 8 June, Jenny Seagrove in Andrew Blyth from 11 to 23 June with Saturday 22 June – see the Rose’s Patrick Hamilton’s The Governess from watercolour landscapes and website, rosetheatrekingston.org 10 to 15 June, Dennis Potter’s Blue townscapes ‘with a strong sense of 08444 821 556. Remembered Hills from 18 to 22 June place and atmosphere’, and a and Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Richmond Shakespeare Society is retrospective of David Wentworth Murder from 24 to 29 June. performing a double bill of Leonardo’s from 25 June to 7 July. atgtickets.com/richmond Last Supper and Laughter (part II) by 020 8941 5865 Peter Barnes, ‘comedies with a wicked The Orange Tree Theatre: Seven Year At the Bowman Gallery in Worple sting in the tail’ at the Mary Wallace Twitch written and directed by David Way, near The Alberts in Richmond, Theatre on Twickenham Riverside Lewis is from 22 May to 22 June, and a artists Terence Arpino and Sandra from 2 to 8 June, and there’ll be a RSS Family Shakespeare performance of Sullivan are showing spectacular Youth Theatre Group production of Julius Caesar (abridged production) on underwater photography and striking Robin Hood by David Barrett from 27 Saturday 22 June at 11.00 am – also pictures in charcoal, pastel and acrylic to 30 June. The outdoor production of performed at Garrick’s Temple to from 7 to 15 June. The Merry Wives of Windsor in York Shakespeare at Hampton on Saturday bowmangallery.co.uk House Gardens in Twickenham is from 8 June at 3.00 pm and touring primary 21 to 27 July. artists@redlees summer open studio schools. There’s a coffee concert with richmondshakespearesociety.org.uk is from 7 to 9 June, and the studios are the Allegri Quartet on Sunday 9 June open for ARThouse from 28 to 30 at 11.00 am, and the garden party at Advance notice too of Twickenham June. Handcrafted ceramics, glass, fine Trumpeters’ House on the same day at Operatic Society’s The Pirates of art, sculpture, jewellery, photography 2.00 pm Penzance at the Normansfield Theatre, and video installations. Redlees Park, 020 8940 3633 Teddington, from 16 to 20 July. Worton Road, Isleworth. orangetreetheatre.co.uk twickenhamoperatics.com redlees.org

Barnes Community Players present Just Glass is celebrating ten years of Stephen Dodgson The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan studio glass with Movement and Light and The Real Inspector Hound by Tom at the Stables Gallery, Orleans House, We are saddened to report the death Stoppard in a double bill at Kitson hall, from Thursday 6 June to Sunday 28 at the age of 89 of the distinguished Kitson Road, Barnes from 4 to 8 June July. Tuesday to Saturday and Sundays composer, Stephen Dodgson, a long- at 7.30 pm, plus Saturday matinee at and Bank Holidays. time patron of artsrichmond. Stephen 2.30 pm. There’s a lecture by Jera May, Head of was described in The Times obituary as barnescommunityplayers.com Art at the Richmond Adult Community a ‘prolific composer who created a Teddington Theatre Club has Pravda: College on Saturday 6 July from 2.30 distinctive style after drawing A Fleet Street Comedy by Howard pm in the Coach House; Back to the inspiration from various traditions’. He Brenton and David Hare from 19 to 25 Real – The Return of the Crafts in the composed some 250 works, many with May at the Playhouse, Digital Age (07939 554 332) specific performers such as Julian then Love and Understanding by Joe 020 8748 7704 Bream in mind. He was Immediate Penhall from 16 to 22 June and Tons of The Loverslights Gallery on Past President of Barnes Music Money by Will Evans and Arthur Twickenham Green has glass fusing Society. Valentine, adapted by Alan Ayckbourn and jewellery workshops – see from 30 June to 6 July.` loverslightsgallery.co.uk for details, ttc-boxoffice.org.uk dates and times. Music 3 Rich June programme of musical events hree concerts in June mark the birth of Teddington Summer Music, designed to bring classical music of the highest standard to the Teddington Area. The first is on Saturday 1 June in Teddington Baptist Church with the Dvorak T Ensemble, the second, Summer Nights in Paris and Vienna, is on Saturday 8 June at the Normansfield Theatre, and the third, on Sunday 9 June, at the Landmark Arts Centre, is Cavalcade, an evening of popular light music performed by the Richmond Symphonic Concert Band conducted by Tom Higgins, one of the founders of the festival. All three start at 7.30 pm. Tickets are available from the venues: Teddington Baptist Church ([email protected]), the Normansfield (0333 121 2300), and the Landmark (020 8977 7558). The Festival is Mozart and Schumann’s Symphony Friday 28 June at 7.45 pm. Carl Jackson from 13 to 24 June: No. 3. conducts an orchestra of period richmondorchestra.org.uk instruments and the Chapel Royal 13 June: Jools Holland and the Rhythm Choir. and Blues Orchestra On the following Saturday, 29 June, chapelroyal.org Kew Sinfonia’s Summer Concert is at 14 June: Lisa Stansfield St Anne’s, , with Holst, The in Petersham has 15 June: Fanfare and Fireworks with Beethoven and Schumann’s Symphony Jonathan Sells (baritone) accompanied the Royal Philharmonic Concert No. 2, at 8.00 pm. by Simon Lane on Sunday 2 June, at Orchestra kewsinfonia.org.uk 7.30 pm. 07967 481 625 thedysartarms.co.uk 16 June; Russell Watson and the Hounslow Symphony Orchestra plays National Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky’s Ode, Elgar’s Cello There’s a programme of chamber Concerto, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. concerti for a variety of period 19 June: Imelda May 2, on Saturday 6 July at St Mary’s, instruments from the 18th century 20 June: Bjorn Again Osterley, at 7.30 pm. from the Zadok Baroque Orchestra at hounslow-symphony.org.uk All Saints Church, , on 21 June: Frankie Valli and The Four Saturday 1 June at 7.30 pm. Seasons Barnes Choir is celebrating its 60th 07935 732 689 anniversary with its Summer Concert 22 and 23 June: Cliff Richard (sold out) on Saturday 22 June at All Saints, East St Richard’s Church, Ham, has a 24 June: Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart Sheen Avenue, SW14, with Purcell’s programme of songs and piano solos Dido and Aeneas, Howells’s King on Saturday 29 June at 7.30 pm: hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com David, and Kerry Andrews’s Rhymes Sophia Ackermans and Anthony Adkins The Landmark Arts Centre at and Charms for fly-away things at 7.30 in an evening of Chopin, Schumann, Teddington has Craig Ogden, classical pm. Faure, Mendelssohn and more. guitarist, on Friday 7 June at 7.30 pm, barneschoir.org.uk 020 8940 0995 then on Sunday 9 June the Richmond Teddington Choral Society’s Summer Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra is holding Symphonic Concert Band in Concert is on Saturday 29 June at 7.30 its Summer Concert on Sunday 30 June Cavalcade: A Celebration of British pm at Waldegrave School for Girls: at 6.30 pm at the 450 Hall, Hampton Light Music, part of Teddington British Folk Music, including John School, including Bruch, Holst, Summer Music. On Thursday 13 June Rutter’s The Spring of Thyme. Vaughan Williams and Dvorak. at 7.30 pm there’s more guitar music teddingtonchoral.co.uk stoneleighyouthorchestra.org.uk with Gordon Giltrap and Woody Mann, Saturday 15 June the Thames Thames Philharmonic Choir is singing Twickenham Jazz Club now meets at Philharmonia with two talented Faure’s Requiem, Britten’s Rejoice in the Bloomsbury pub in Staines Road, Korean musicians, violinist Haim Choi the Lamb and Prelude and Fugue on a Twickenham, with fortnightly and composer TaeHwan Row and their Theme of Vittoria, and Howells’s Thursday night sessions. On 6 June, conductor Byung-Yun Yu with Requiem at St Paul’s, Augustus Road, the Freddie Gavita and Nat Facey Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and SW19 on Saturday 8 June at 7.30 pm. Quintet, on 20 June Gilad Atzmon with Symphony No 4 and TaeHwan’s Far thamesphilchoir.org.uk the Frank Harrison Trio. Usually 8.30 East Calm Suite. On Saturday 29 June pm but watch website for earlier starts Cantanti Camerati present a concert at 7.30 pm the Twickenham Choral with Big Bands. of choral music, Britten and his Society (twickenhamchoral. org.uk) in twickenhamjazzclub.co.uk Contemporaries, at St Mary with St a concert of Italian and English Alban, Teddington, on Saturday 25 Twickfolk, the Twickenham Folk Club, Renaissance music, including Bach. May at 7.30 pm, in aid of Cancer which meets on Sundays at 7.45 pm at 020 8977 7558 Research UK. the Cabbage Patch, London Road, landmarkartscentre.org Tickets from 020 8898 8020 or at door. Twickenham, has Dana and Susan Richmond Orchestra is playing at St Robinson on 9 June, Blair Dunlop on The Choral Foundation of the Chapel John the Divine, Richmond, on 23 June, and Bob Fox on 30 June. Royal at Hampton Court Palace offers Saturday 22 June at 7.30 pm: Rossini, .co.uk Baroque for a Summer’s Evening on

The Musical Museum in Brentford Present Day on living with learning 4 Music (continued) celebrates its 50th anniversary with an disabilities, at 6.30 pm The Eel Pie Club meets at the Cabbage open day on Saturday 29 June and 0333 121 2300 Patch, London Road, Twickenham, on there’s a Waltzing to the Wurlitzer Email lesley.alabaf@downs-syndrome. alternate Thursday evenings, 8.30 for event on Saturday 1 June at 2.30 pm org.uk musicalmuseum.co.uk 9.15 pm. 6 June, The Downliners Sect Loki Music is at Garrick’s Temple to th 020 8560 8108 in their 50 anniversary (and part of Shakespeare in Hampton on the Twickenham Festival); 20 June, The Normansfield Theatre in Wednesday 29 May with 17th century The Blue Bishops; and 27 June Pretty Teddington at the Langdon Down viol music and Thomas Traherne th Things (Acoustic), their 50 Centre, has Summer Nights in Vienna poems, and then on Wednesday 26 anniversary tour and Paris on Saturday 8 June at 7.30 as June with guitar recital and readings. eelpieclub.com part of Teddington Summer Music, 7.30 pm. 08444 771 000 then Transport of Delight: Flanders lokimusic.co.uk Way Out West, a collective of jazz and Swann, on Saturday 15 June at 020 8941 4917 3.00 pm, and the Marble Hill Singers musicians which meets at the Orange Kingston Choral Society: Saturday 29 with Animal Crackers on Saturday 22 Tree pub in Richmond on Wednesday June at 7.30 pm, St Andrew’s, Maple June at 7.30 pm. On Monday 24 June, nights, has Nette Robinson on 5 June, Road, Surbiton, A Garland for Summer Deborah Cohen talks about her new Vasilis X on 12 June, Dave Jones on 19 kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk June, and Chris Batchelor on 26 June, book Family Secrets: Living with 8.00 pm. wowjazz.org Shame from the Victorians to the

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Visual arts (continued) Educational arts Qualification for VC, KCB, CMG, CB, confidant of Queen children and young people: Orleans Victoria and Governor to her son The public is invited to the House Gallery has been awarded a Prince Arthur. International Feminist Gallery at 2 £70,000 grant from Arts Council twickenham-museum.org.uk The Vineyard, Richmond Hill, for to work with other museums Creating a Space for Women’s Art in The ’s exhibition across West London and provide an Historic Richmond upon Thames on 8 Living and Dying in Richmond in the educational arts qualification for and 9 June. 19th Century continues until 2 children and young people. Email: [email protected] November. The exhibition is based on There’s an exhibition of the work of evidence gathered by a group from Environment Trust for Richmond‘s art artist and musician Rory McEwen, the Richmond Society on the lives of picnic on Sunday 23 June is at Garrick’s focusing on his paintings of plants, in people in the abandoned Old Burial Temple to Shakespeare from 11.00 to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Ground in the . 4.00 pm. Booking essential. Botanical Art at the Royal Botanical www.environmenttrust.co.uk The Museum is showing Jane Eyre in Gardens, Kew, from 11 May to 22 020 8891 5455 conjunction with the exhibition on September. Wednesday 26 June at 6.00 pm. The Richmond and Twickenham kew.org Photographic Society’s main weekly On Friday 7 June at 2.00 pm there‘s a The end of year exhibition of the meetings are on Thursdays at 8.00 pm Richmond Gardeners’ Question Time at Foundation Art & Design course at the at the Kew Community Centre, The the Museum with Maria Casey. Then Richmond Adult Community College, Avenue, Kew. On 6 June, Gavin Hoey on Saturday 15 June, historian Alan Clifden Centre, is from 26 to 29 June, with Quick Shots to Great Shots, 13 Field talks about and and that for the Art & Design course is June Andy Beel FRPS with The Untitled Madhouse – another side of London from 3 to 6 July. racc.ac.uk Monochrome, 20 June John Bradshaw Life at 2.00 pm, and on Wednesday 19 FRPS ‘Enslaved’; ‘Meridian’, and on 28 ARThouse Open Studios June at 6.00 pm Debbie Challis talks June Print Analysis with Trevor Gellard about Ave Atque Vale: The Influence FRPS. For group meetings, go to ARThouse 2013 is over two weekends, of Antiquity on Victorian Cemeteries, rtps.org.uk 21 to 23 June and 28 to 30 June. and there’s a poetry reading day with richmond.gov.uk/arthouseopenstudios Fiona Pearson on the themes of the The Orleans House’s exhibition, 020 8831 6000 exhibition on Wednesday 21 June at Arcadian Vistas: Richmond’s 11.00 am – bring your own poems. Landscape Gardens, continues until 21 museumofrichmond.com July. At the Stables Gallery, Meet the Museums and art centres 020 8332 1141. Artists continues until 2 June, and then ’s Ninth Annual from 6 June to 28 July the Just Glass Lecture is on Tuesday 4 June at 7.30 The Landmark Arts Centre at exhibition of light and movement in for 8.00 pm in St Mary’s Church Hall, Teddington: Friday 14 and Saturday 15 glass, while at the Riverside Gallery in Church Street, Twickenham. Martin June West Meets East – Korean Art Richmond’s Old Town Hall there’s an Downer will be talking about the Exhibition. On Sunday 16 June in the exhibition focussed on ARThouse Open amazing life of Sir Howard Elphinstone afternoon at Udney Hall gardens, Studios from 1 June until 27 July. there’s La Tempesta, a magical Join artsrichmond Historic houses Cercle Français de Richmond 5 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on Thursday 13 June at 7.30 pm, Barbara If you haven’t renewed Emerson on Louis Philippe, Vestry your subscription for the riverside at Hampton has an exceptional programme of summer House, Richmond. April 2013 to March richmondfrenchcircle.org.uk 2014, please do so music, drama and art in the Temple now. We need your and gardens, with most events on Richmond in Europe Association support! To renew, individual Saturday afternoons at 3.00 pm: Wednesday 22 May at 7.00 pm at members are requested to send £18 to Saturday 25 May: Chadsworth Stage Vestry House, Paradise Road, the office, and societies their School: songs and dances Richmond, Rodney Mantle, who appropriate rate. Saturday 1 June: St Mary’s Drama recently returned from nine years Group Garrick as Playwright working in China, on China: variety If you are not a member but would like Saturday 8 June: Orange Tree and conformity. 020 8948 6300 to sign up, please send the following Theatre’s Julius Caesar. details to the office. Saturday 15 June: Actors’ Richmond Environment Trust: Sunday 2 June at 10.00 am, Herb Walk with Jo Dunbar Name: Centre The Ark and Other Tales Saturday 22 June: Lady Eleanor Holles of Botanica Medica; Saturday 8 June, Address: School musicians Elderflower Walk and Cordial Making Saturday 29 June: Lucie Benson Dance with Andrea Hosfield; Sunday 9 June, 1.00 to 5.00 pm, Kilmorey Mausoleum Telephone: Academy: Music and Dance garrickstemple.org.uk/events Open Day. E-mail: environmenttrust.co.uk Loki Musick is at the Temple in the evenings at 7.30 pm on the fourth York House Society Friday 7 June at made payable to artsrichmond Wednesday of each month, next 8.00 pm at York House, Twickenham, summer reception in the Terrace concerts 29 May and 26 June. See Music. Room. yorkhousesociety.org.uk please reclaim tax on my Richmond and District Decorative and subscription. Strawberry Hill House Strawberry Summer Ball on Friday 28 June in the Fine Arts Society, Tuesday 4 June at outdoor show with the dazzling magnificent gallery. 8.00 pm at Duke Street Church, performers of Scarabeus Aerial strawberryhillhouse.org.uk Richmond, Christopher Rogers on Theatre and puppetry with Little Angel William Kent, Artistic Genius of Theatre. On Saturday 22 and Sunday Hampton Court Palace Festival: 13 to Palladian England. 23 June there’s the Midsummer Art 24 June. See Music. richmonddfas.com hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com Fair, from Friday 28 June to Richmond Association for the Wednesday 10 July the art exhibition Talks and events National Trust: Thursday 13 June at Time Lapse. See Music for Landmark 10.30 am and 2.30 pm, visit to musical events in June. Barnes Literary Society: Wednesday Southside House, Wimbledon landmarkartscentre.org 12 June, summer party, Old Sorting Common (020 8979 3089). Saturday 020 8977 7558 Office Arts Centre, Barnes Green. 15 June, coach visit to Petworth House barnesliterarysociety.org.uk and park (020 8979 9654) Old Sorting House Arts Centre, Barnes Green: 1 and 2 June, art exhibition of Wednesday 29 May at 2.30 pm: U3A Richmond Society Thursday 30 May, works by Mary Algar and friends. at Clarendon Hall, York House, Picnic, Pond Dipping and Nature in osoarts.org.uk Eyewitness Stories from Israel and , for families and Palestine by Kate Cargin, currently a children up to 13. Sunday 23 June: ShowCoach volunteer with human rights observers summer party at Trumpeters House, on the West Bank; Wednesday 26 Richmond, at 4.00 pm 18 June: Blenheim Palace June, lecture on the Wallace Collection Heritage Walks on 12 and 26 June. 18 July: Lowry Exhibition at Tate by Jill Bace, freelance writer and Guide [email protected] Britain Lecturer at the Collection. 0020 8948 0643 17 August: Barnum at u3a-richmond.org.uk Chichester Festival Richmond Heritage Guides invite you Theatre Historical Association, R&T branch: to join their walks on Thursdays 6, 13, 18 September: Thursday 30 May at 8.00 pm at Vestry 20 and 27 June at 2.00 pm and Sunday Churchill War Rooms House, Richmond, Professor Carl 23 June at 3.00 pm. 10 October: Barking in Essex at Bridge of King’s College, London, on Sir richmondwalks.co.uk Donald Bradman - Myth and Reality Wyndham’s Theatre Friends of Bushy and Home Parks pcsd.co.uk/rha 27 November (tbc): Chorus Line at the Saturday 15 June, walk Wartime -- Palladium Probus Club, Twickenham: lunch on Yanks in the Park with Jane Cliff. Meet December: Christmas Concert Tuesday 11 June at 12.30 pm, Rob at 11.00 am at Teddington Gate. See yellow fliers in mailing Gray on FORCE (Friends of the River 020 8287 2748 and fbhp.org.uk Crane) and the Crane Valley. Fulwell Golf Club. 020 8892 5797 designing plants with nature. 6 National Archives, Kew: Tuesday 020 8734 3347 11 June at 2.00 pm. Contemporary historian Dominic Sandbrook on Tuesday 11 June, at 7.00 pm: July events Teddington Library, Martin Wyatt, Margaret Thatcher. For Monthly Mailing, deliver flyers to Deputy Director of the Handel House 020 8876 3444 artsrichmond office on , on the life of Handel and his by Monday 10 June. Libraries contribution to music. 020 8734 3304 For Newsletter, email Saturday 1 June at 2.30 pm: copy with clear subject Twickenham Library, Dr Christopher Forward this newsletter to line stating French, former director of Kingston your members organisation by Friday University’s Centre for Local History 31 May. Studies, will show how school log Societies are welcome to For website, email copy as soon as books can be a really useful tool for forward by email digital copies possible. local history research, with examples of this Newsletter to their own from the history of Teddington’s first Include: Organisation, brief description school, St Mary’s and St Peter’s Church memberships. This helps of event, day and date, venue, starting of England Primary School. societies to reach larger time, box office phone and/or website, 020 8734 3340. potential audiences, and contact point for queries. Tuesday 4 June at 7.00 pm: Hampton artsrichmond to tell more Library, Laura de Beden, landscape people about upcoming events. architect and garden designer, on

Festival of New Writing From sixteen submissions, six new 20 minute plays were selected to be performed at the Orange Tree Theatre at the artsrichmond Festival of New Writing for Theatre on Sunday 24 March.

Ninety-Nine Per Cent by Patrick Adams, performed by Teddington Theatre Club The Den, by Katie Abbot, performed by Twickenham Theatre Workshop Pulling the Wool, by Susan Cooke, performed by Out of Focus Theatre Company Casual Encounters, by Andy Moseley, performed by the Old Hamptonians Amateur Drama Society Young Love, by Jenny Thornton, performed by Focus Performance Centre, Whitton Enigma, by Ian K. Nethersell. performed by Hounslow Light Opera Company

The Judges, Richard Bean, the award-winning playwright, After much deliberation, Patrick Adams, author of Ninety- Maxina Cornwell, actor and director, Kate Edwards, theatre Nine per Cent, was awarded the Roy Purdue Trophy with production manager, and Peter Slater, who has been Andy Moseley coming second with Casual Encounters. Involved in amateur theatre for over 40 years, had the The event was organised by Edie Purdue, an artsrichmond difficult task of choosing the play whose writing showed the Vice President, in memory of her husband Roy, with help most potential. from the Purdue Family. Roy Purdue (1929-1998) was an The subject matter of the plays was varied, as indeed was exceptional man. With Edie, he dedicated his life to the the age range of the groups who performed them. It was support of young people as a Church Youth Club Leader; good to see budding young actors having the opportunity to Scout Leader; and leader at Heatham House Youth Theatre perform in the prestigious space at the Orange Tree Theatre for 17 years. Special thanks are due to Sam Walters and his and all the authors appreciated the opportunity to see their team at the Orange Tree Theatre for their support for this words put into dramatic action. event and to Joan Russell Williams for her sponsorship.

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