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For Walton With Love From Walton

Free admission. Open daily 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 22 March - Sunday 16 April 2023
(Closed Easter Sunday and Easter Monday) 

A celebration of the work of renowned designer Tony Walton. Born in Walton-on-Thames, Tony had an extraordinary career designing sets and costumes for theatre, TV and films such as Mary Poppins and All That Jazz (for which he won an Oscar).

Under Milkwood - Runnymede Drama Group

Wednesday 5 April to Saturday 8 April 2023 - 7.30pm
It is nearly seventy years since Under Milk Wood was first performed yet it remains unique...


 

Lunchtime Concert - Will Deurden (bass), Svitlana Kosenko (piano)

Wednesday 12 April 2023 - 1pm
Programme to include music by Schubert, Boulanger, Ysaye, Lieberman and Botessini.
Will Deurden was awarded the Walter Todds Award at the 2018 BBC Young Musician of the year and is the second bassist to become a string finalist in the competition in 30 years.

Dance Happy Street Dance for ages 5 - 12 years, 5pm - 6pm

Dance Happy Academy - Street Dance of ages 5-12 years

Tutor: Jo Freeman
Day: Thursday 5.00pm - 6.00pm for ages 5-12 yrs
Cost: £100 for ten weeks
Contact: jo_haley@hotmail.com

A fun and funky dance class with a diverse and energetic vibe!  Street Dance introduces children to different techniques and movements in dance; Hip Hop, Breakdance, Pop, Modern and Jazz. 

Jazzish - with vocalist Elaine Hallam

Friday 14 April 2023 - 8pm
Jazzish Is Elaine Hallam. Elaine has been singing professionally for 45 years.  Her warm storytelling narrative brings all genres together as Jazzish - a relaxed and comfortable intimate engaging evening, with humour and energy.
 

Mock Tudor Comedy - Saturday 15 April

Saturday 15 April 2023 - 8pm
Our monthly Mock Tudor Comedy club night! An amazing headline act DANNY BUCKLER with LUKE TOULSON and BEN CLOVER (MC) plus STEFANO PAOLINI.
Strictly ages 16+

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Musicians - Anna Cashell (violin), Vanessa McNaught (viola), Ben Cashell (cello), Elizabeth Harre (bass), Simon Watterton (piano)

Sunday 16 April 2023 - 4pm
In the last of this series of three concerts, Simon WAtterton is joined by an outstanding quartet of string players.

Jewellery Making (Monday or Friday)

Tutor: Sarah Levy​
Days: Monday 10am – 12noon OR Friday 10am – 12noon
Cost
: £180 for Summer term(12 weeks)


*tools provided, but materials will be extra

Come and learn the basic traditional skills of silver jewellery making and complete your very own design. 

Singers and Songs - Find your SOLO voice and sing Workshops

Starting 17 April for ten weeks
We're singing into the summer with a new ten week singing course at Riverhouse.  Find your SOLO voice and sing! Taught By Professional West End singer and coach Kate Roberts...
 

Silver Screen Club - Oklahoma (Musical, 1955)

Tuesday 18 April 2023 - 1pm
The ground-breaking musical by Richard Rodgers and starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones and directed by Fred Zinnemann. Set in Oklahoma Territory, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry.
 

Dance Happy - Adult Ballet Class 5.30pm-6.30pm

Tuesday, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
£120 for 10 weeks

Jo Freeman will help improve your core strength, posture and confidence through ballet.

Call Jo 07511 156222 or email jo_haley@hotmail.com for more info

Alter Ego - Drama for Adults

Alter Ego, Adult Drama Classes
Tutor
: Caroline Dooley
Days: Tuesday: 8 – 9.30pm
Cost:  Dependent on how many weeks in the term 

Through drama games and acting exercises our fun workshop-style sessions will give you the freedom to explore the process of making drama without the pressure of being in a production. Come along for a creative workout!  No experience necessary, new members can join at any stage of the term following a free taster session.  TO BOOK contact Caroline via phone, email or website: 07956 421804 / enquiries@drama4adults.com / www.drama4adults.com

Creative Stitch Class 10am

Creative Stitch and Textiles
Tutor: Claire Grahame
Cost: £95 (ten weeks)

This is a relaxed and friendly course. It offers a combination of techniques such as batik, felting and machine sewing along with more traditional hand embroidery. For the textiles project this summer term, we will be looking at texture and mark making on 2” squares.

Sixth Sense


SIXTH SENSE - an exhibition by Fabrications
Open daily 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 30 April 2023
Free admission. No need to book.


The six members of the group Fabrications are delighted to present their next
exhibition demonstrating their own personal development and language through
textiles, mixed media and mosaic.
Their theme Sixth Sense touches on our innate ability to perceive something which is
not necessarily logical but may prove to be true in the course of time.

Creative Stitch and Textiles - 12:30pm

Creative Stitch and Textiles
Tutor: Claire Grahame
Cost: £95 (ten weeks)
 
This is a relaxed and friendly course. It offers a combination of techniques such as batik, felting and machine sewing along with more traditional hand embroidery. For the textiles project this summer term, we will be looking at texture and mark making on 2” squares
 

Royston Pike Lectures: Jenny Mallin, From England to Madras, a grandmother’s legacy: the 170 year old recipe book

Wednesday 19 April 2023 - 7.30pm
Jenny Mallin, From England to Madras, A grandmother’s legacy: the 170 year old recipe book
RESERVE SPACE NOW AND PAY ON THE DOOR - £3 CASH

Drawing and Painting for Beginners 6.15pm

Thursday 6.15pm - 7.45pm
Tutor: Claire Grahame 
Cost (10 week course): £95*

Our creative drawing course is open to all levels of experience and will encourage you to release your creative energy. 

*basic materials only provided

Drawing and Painting for Improvers 8pm

Thursdays 8.00pm - 9.30pm  
Tutor: 
​Melanie Paice
Cost (10 week course): £95*

Our art course is open to those with some experience and will encourage you to release your creative energy. 

*basic materials only provided
 

Charlie Baker - 24 Hour Pasty People

Friday 21 April 2023 - 8pm
Wasson? Award-winning comedian, tap dancer and Talksport radio host Charlie Baker brings an hour of 'genuinely funny ★★★★' (The Herald) stand-up drenched in manure, cider and clotted cream.

She Walks the Bloody Tower - Riverhouse Fundraiser in honour of Shakespeare’s birthday!

Saturday 22 April 2023 -­ 7.30pm
CAROLE BOYD and MADELINE SMITH join MARTIN JENKINS, DAVID ROWAN, and CATHERINE CAYMAN for a sparkling, intriguing, witty and humorous evening of prose, poetry and music.

Jazz & Beer - Enrico Tomasso's Riverboat Shufflers

Sunday 23 April 12.15pm
Enrico and his Riverboat Shufflers breathing new life into the golden era of jazz!
 

Dragonfly Sky Singer-Songwriter Showcase Evening - April

Thursday 27 April 2023 - 8pm
Epsom duo Dragonfly Sky bring their acclaimed singer-songwriter night to the Riverhouse Barn with new featured artists each month - Artists announced!

Woodcarvers - in the Toshiba Studio

10am - 12.30pm

Join our friendly, informal group of woodcarvers 

£8 per session - tools available but feel free to bring your own. 

Martin & Eliza Carthy - Walton Folk

Thursday 4 May 8pm. Please Note -  This is the rescheduled gig from 11th December
The good Doctor Martin Carthy, and his twice Mercury nominated daughter Eliza Carthy, join forces to perform an eclectic range of songs and tunes from their vast family repertoire, drawing from the traditional canon as well as selections from a more contemporary songbook.

The Noise Next Door - Hometown Heroes

Friday 5 May 2023 - 8pm
The Noise Next Door will be your side-splitting saviours in this once in a lifetime comedy event that will see them take YOUR suggestions of the best, worst and downright weirdest things about Walton and transform them into a cavalcade of hilarious songs, scenes and characters.

SURFACE:TENSION

Open daily 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10 – Sunday 21 May 2023


Exhibition of Textile and Mixed Media Art
Meet the Artists Viewing on Saturday 13 May from 11am -3 pm. No invite necessary.
The 8 members in DIVERSITY are practised at taking a theme and realising their own interpretation, with each individual member’s body of work remaining unique in commentary, style and methodology. Nevertheless, as a group of 16 years standing, they are extremely comfortable developing work and exhibiting as a collective.
The work in SURFACE:TENSION aims to be both thought provoking and stimulating.

Lunchtime Concert - Ariel Lanyi (piano)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 - 1pm
Sonata in A op.2 no.2 - Beethoven
Symphonic Etudes Op 13 - Schumann

Chris Garrick and The Budapest Café Orchestra

Friday 12 May 2023 - 8pm
Led by jazz violin superstar Christian Garrick, the Budapest Café Orchestra play folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, mournful Klezmer melodies, raucous Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czada.
 

Silver Screen Club - Belfast (Drama, 2021)

Tuesday 16 May 2023 - 1pm
Kenneth Branagh’s BAFTA winning coming-of-age drama starring Judi DenchJamie Dornan  and Jude Hill, following a young boy's childhood in Belfast at the beginning of The Troubles in 1969.

Red Hot Strings - Electric/Classic Violin Duo

Thursday 18th May - Doors Open 7pm, starts at 7:30pm

RED HOT STRINGS are an electric/classic violin duo who have performed all over the world with artists including: Kanye West, Adele, Madonna, Annie Lennox, Simply Red and IL Divo to name but a few. They are performing tracks from their new album “Century”. 
Expect everything from powerful acoustic numbers with live piano to huge Dance Anthems. 
Book early - one night ONLY.
+ Support act

£16.50

Jazz & Beer - The Louisiana Rhythm Kings

Sunday 3 July 2022 - 12.15pm
The Louisiana Rhythm Kings perform the jazz of the 1920s and 30s, capturing the exciting sounds of New Orleans, Chicago and New York...

Expectations

Dana Bley
Open daily 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 24 May - Sunday 11 June

Free admission
My interest in photographing wrapped bouquets germinated in the late eighties of last century in a different environment and different place, when I still worked completely on film and in the darkroom.
This fascination, with the dynamics and semiotics of ephemeral, packaged and commercialised beauty, revived here, in England, six years ago, when bouquets marked birthdays and other significant moments. Their gay, doomed symbolism called to me so I displayed them and captured the feelings of unpacking a celebration very, very slowly...

Dragonfly Sky Singer-Songwriter Showcase Evening - May

Thursday 25 May 2023 - 8pm
Epsom duo Dragonfly Sky bring their acclaimed singer-songwriter night to the Riverhouse Barn with new featured artists each month - Artists announced!

Mock Tudor Comedy - Friday 26 May

Friday 26 May 2023 - 8pm
Our monthly Mock Tudor Comedy club night with pocket dynamo KATIE PRITCHARDMIKE COX and JAKE LAMBERT.
Strictly ages 16+

Cecil Beaton's Diaries

Saturday 27 May 2023 - 7.30pm
Direct from Brits Off Broadway 2023
For the first time, the diaries of Sir Cecil Beaton come to the stage. Beaton’s photographs showed his versatility; his diaries exposed the cost...

Ben and Dom: Singing Workshop and Performance

Sunday 28 May 2023 - 2pm to 6pm
Join singers & choir leaders Ben & Dom for an afternoon of fun & uplifting harmony singing followed by a short informal performance from the duo. This event is open to all singers, no previous singing experience required.

A Room of One's Own - Dyad Productions

Saturday 10 June 2023 - 8pm
Dyad Productions are back with another celebrated Virginia Woolf piece - A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN - Woolf’s 1928 exploration of the impact of poverty and sexual inequality on intellectual freedom and creativity.

The Ian Engelmann Singers - “Songs for a Summer’s Day”

Sunday 11 June 2023 - 4pm
The Ian Engelmann Singers, a small mixed choir from the Walton and Weybridge area, under their Musical Director John Tudhope, present a delightfully informal Summer Afternoon Concert of unaccompanied part-songs from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, with interspersed readings and poems both serious and lighthearted.

Making your Mark

10am - 4pm
Wednesday 14 - Sunday 25 June 2023

Making your Mark
The well established group of textile and mixed media artists, Wey Valley Workshop, are delighted to be showcasing some more inspirational art at their annual exhibition, 
There will be stewards on hand each day to answer any questions as well as an opportunity to view and purchase this amazing art. We look forward to welcoming you.

Lunchtime Concert - Hannah Condliffe (oboe), Dominic Doutney (piano)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 - 1pm
A programme of piano solos and oboe sonatas by two award winning young artists.

Green Elmbridge Sustainability Fair

Saturday 17 June 2023 - 10:30am onwards
Free Entry

Green Elmbridge - together with Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre - will be hosting the Green Elmbridge Sustainability Fair this summer, held here at the Riverhouse!

Silver Screen Club - The Shootist (Western, 1976)

Tuesday 20 June 2023 - 1pm
John Wayne, in his final film, stars alongside Hollywood legends James Stewart and Lauren Bacall in the story of JB Books, a terminally ill gunslinger who wishes to die peacefully. However, his enemies seeking to kill him before nature takes its course.

Mock Tudor Comedy - Friday 23 June

Friday 23 June 2023 - 8pm
Our monthly Mock Tudor Comedy club night!  With wonderful headliner JOHN ROBERTSON, plus MATT GREEN and JOE BOR as your MC.
Strictly ages 16+

Creative Textile Exhibition


Free admission. No need to book.
Open 10am - 4pm
Wed 28 June - Sun 9 July
Creative Textile Exhibition

An exhibition showcasing the wonderful work of Riverhouse's very own Creative Stitch classes.

Dragonfly Sky Singer-Songwriter Showcase Evening - June

Thursday 29 June 2023 - 8pm
Epsom duo Dragonfly Sky bring their acclaimed singer-songwriter night to the Riverhouse Barn with new featured artists each month - Artists to be announced!

Ember Big Band

Saturday 1 July 2023 - 2.30pm, outdoors
A live big band experience with over 20 musicians and three talented singers paying tribute to some of the greats, including Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie!

Sense and Sensibility - Hotbuckle Productions

Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July 2023 - 7.30pm
Unfairly compelled to leave their family home and left almost destitute, the Dashwood sisters and their mother must make a new beginning.  With dazzling wit, humour and sharp characterisations, Austen’s captivating story is brought to vivid life by Hotbuckle, in this new version by Adrian Preater.

Lunchtime Concert - Sophie Kauer (cello), Alison Rhind (piano)

Wednesday 12 July 2023 - 1pm
Cello Sonata - Cesar Franck
Cello Sonata - Prokofiev

Maiastra Summer Concert

Saturday 15 July 2023 - 7.30pm
Programme to include: Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in Bb major, Op. 130 and Beethoven Op. 133 "Große Fuge”.

Silver Screen Club - West Side Story (Musical, 2021)

Tuesday 18 July 2023 - 1pm
West Side Story (Musical, 2021) Steven Spielberg’s remake of the legendary musical, updating the story of Romeo and Juliet. Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks - two rival gangs vying for control of the streets.

Mock Tudor Comedy - Friday 21 July

Friday 21 July 2023 - 8pm
Our monthly Mock Tudor Comedy club night!  With the amazing TONY LAW and the ever popular Irishman ANDREW RYAN returning as MC following his sold-out tour show last year and the rather excellent musical comedian JON LONG plus KELSEY de ALMEIDA.
Strictly ages 16+

Runnymede Drama Group presents: 'The Father'

Wednesday 26 July to Saturday 29 July 2023 - 7.30pm
'The Father' by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Nancy Lund. 

Ninebarrow - Walton Folk (Sept 2023)

Sunday 17 September 2023 - 12.15pm (doors 12pm)
Ninebarrow returns to Riverhouse, a multi-award-winning folk duo who are impressing audiences with their innovative take on the folk tradition. Described by Mike Harding as “sounding damn fine”

(Un) Balanced

Wednesday 27 September - Sunday 15 October 
Open 10am - 4pm every day. Free admission.

In their own inimitable style, Phoenix artists explore the meanings of "balance" both physical and metaphysical, through textile-based art. A wide variety of mediums and techniques makes for a varied and exciting exhibition.