Available Events

Opening Saturday 5 - Sunday 20 December
10 am – 4 pm every day
FREE ENTRY 
Curvilinear brings together hand-built ceramics by Sally Dorrity and contemporary photography by Tracy Florance.

Sunday 6 December - 7pm
Live and Streamed - Rosie Trentham (with Simon Trentham) and Maisie Johnson perform live from Riverhouse as part of the Light Up Elmbridge Festival

Tuesday 8 December to Sunday 20 December 5pm and 7.30pm
Join Scoot Theatre this festive season for Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story, as you’ve never seen it before!  Three actor-musicians bound through this sixty-minute, light-hearted, family-friendly adaptation filled with music, song and dance to get you firmly in the Christmas ‘spirit’. (ages 7+)
Please note that tickets will be fully refundable in the event that the performance cannot go ahead due to government directives.

Wednesday 9 December 12.30pm lunch, 1pm concert
Keziah and Eleanor are founding members of 4 Girls 4 Harps who have visited Riverhouse on many joyful occassions. In this Covid reduced Christmas Concert their programme will include music by Vivaldi, Handel and Maudlin and lots of sparky Christmas arrangements.
 

Thursday 10 December 6:30pm Screening of Short Film and Discussion
I Can’t Find Myself (12mins, 50 secs, Colour)
A short film capturing experiences of dementias.

Direction & Choreography: Beatrice Allegranti 
Original Soundscore: Jill Halstead

Sunday 13 December 7pm (Outdoors but under cover of a Marquee)
Have a star-spangled, musically magical Christmas with Ruby, Kitty and Mackey as they Sing That Swing... 
 

Friday 18 December to Monday 21 December from 4.30pm
​A magical outdoor interactive theatre experience At Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre
Step through the wardrobe into Narnia....

Saturday 19 December, 3,30pm and 9pm 
Sunday 20 December at 3.30pm and 9pm
‘Scoot’ into Christmas with our Christmas Crackers Concert! Join West End performers Aaron Sidwell and Tricia Adele-Turner and the fabulous ladies of the Molesing Choir for fifty minutes of classic Christmas tunes!

Saturday 19 December 6.30pm and 8pm
Monkey Theatre perform extracts from Talking with Angels by Neil Duffield. Joan of Arc has a calling - to save her beloved France from the English - and nothing is going to stop her! 

 

LOVING EARTH PROGRESS EXHIBITION 
Wednesday 6 January – Sunday 7 February
This community textile project celebrates people, places, creatures and other things that we love but which  are threatened by  growing environmental breakdown. It offers a way in to help people engage with the issues without being overwhelmed.

Thursday 6.15pm - 7.45pm or 8.00pm - 9.30pm  
8pm CLASS MAY BE A ZOOM CLASS
£90*

Tutors:
Claire Grahame at 6.15pm
Melanie Paice or Claire Grahame at 8pm

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

Friday 8 January, 7.30- 9pm (via zoom)
A Panel discussion exploring the value and relevance of different approaches to addressing environemental topics raised in the Loving Earth Exhibition.

Wed 12.30pm - 2.30pm
£90 (10 weeks)
Tutor: Claire Grahame 
This class is designed to develop a 'fine arts' approach to the design of textiles. 
ZOOM CLASSES UNLESS CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE

Wednesday 13 January  1pm (lunch served at 12 noon)
 

Thursday 6.15pm - 7.45pm
£90*

Tutors:
Claire Grahame at 6.15pm

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

*basic materials only provided

Thursday 14 January 7.30pm, Saturday 6 February 10am
Getting started with your panel
Workshop via zoom with LEP facilitators Sue Tyldesley and Caroline Stow

8 November 'Waldstein' (live-streamed only)

Simon begins his sonata cycle with four works from different periods of the composer's life. The first sonata already finds Beethoven in revolutionary mood, before the wonderful A Flat Major sonata op.26, favourite of Frederic Chopin. Next is the late E Minor sonata and a glimpse into the intimate, private world of late Beethoven, before the concert closes with the mighty, life-affirming 'Waldstein.' 

Saturday 23 January, 7.30pm
Graham Harvey Quartet - Graham Harvey (piano); Dave O'Higgins (Sax); Jeremy Brown (Bass); Josh Morrison (drums)

Saturday 30th January 8pm
With a lifetime reputation of performing in this exact way and an undying love of the ‘pure song’, Keith James gives you a concert of Cohen’s amazing material...

Wednesday 10 February - 1pm (12noon for lunch)
Jayson Gillham (piano)

Sunday 14 Feb, 1pm (Valentines Special)
Airlie Scott (vocals); Shirley Smart (cello); Ruiz Palma (guitar); Peter Michaels (guitar)
Established London-based jazz musicians present a hot jazz sandwich of french chanson, gypsy jazz tunes, Latin and early vintage swing. 
 

Friday 26 March 2020 - 7.30pm 
“James takes all of her musical loves – jazz, blues, soul, folk and wraps them up into songs that achieve an astonishing array of moods and emotions” - Jazzwise