Available Events

Wednesday 29 June – Sunday 10 July
Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre is hosting a unique exhibition of twenty-one botanical watercolour illustrations painted by Lady Emma, 4th Countess of Tankerville, (1752-1836); a re-discovered intellectual who made a significant contribution to early modern science in the late eighteenth-century, and resided in Walton-on-Thames for much of her life. There is a free talk about Emma's life and work on Staurday 9 July at 10.30am. A Trailblazing Woman of Science

Book your place: ourartclub4fun@gmail.com
'Our ArtClub' looks to develop and build on the basic understanding that the arts are all around us.
They will work with a variety of techniques, experimenting with different formats, whilst building a personal portfolio of work for each child and capturing an invaluable record of their creativity!
 

Tuesday, 5.00pm - 6.00pm
£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

Book your place: ourartclub4fun@gmail.com
'Our ArtClub' looks to develop and build on the basic understanding that the arts are all around us.
They will work with a variety of techniques, experimenting with different formats, whilst building a personal portfolio of work for each child and capturing an invaluable record of their creativity!

Alter Ego, Adult Drama Classes
Tutor: Caroline Dooley
Days: Monday: 8 – 9.30pm, 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 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.
In this term's textiles classes we will be looking at a particular watercolour artist’s work and transfer some of the techniques into painting fabric.
 

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.
In this term's textiles classes we will be looking at a particular watercolour artist’s work and transfer some of the techniques into painting fabric.
 

£65 for 6 sessions
Weekly on Wednesdays, starting Wednesday 12 January
Our ArtClub (years 1-5) - 4.15pm - 5.15pm
Book your place: ourartclub4fun@gmail.com

Book your place: ourartclub4fun@gmail.com
'Our ArtClub' looks to develop and build on the basic understanding that the arts are all around us.
They will work with a variety of techniques, experimenting with different formats, whilst building a personal portfolio of work for each child and capturing an invaluable record of their creativity!

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

Tutor: Jo Freeman
Day: Thursday 5.30pm for ages *** and 6.30pm for ages ***
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. 

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

Thursdays: 3 March, 5 May, 9 June, 7 July
Time: 7.30pm
Facilitators: Val Woolford and Rosie Boden
Cost: £5
Contact: vmwoolford@gmail.com
Open to all! Join our friendly group, read our chosen book of the month and meet to discuss it.

 

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
 

Friday 8 July 2022 - 8pm
Maisie Adam - headliner; fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam joins us for a night of witty observations, high-octane energy and some right good jokes.

Tom Ward - Live at the Apollo
David Whitney MC

Saturday 9 July
10.30 - 11.30am
Lady Emma, 4th Countess of Tankerville (1752-1836)
A Talk by June Watson, B.A. MRes. 

As part of our exhibition on the Walton based botanist, Lady Emma, 4th Countess of Tankerville, the historian June Watson has agreed to share her considerable knowledge of Lady Emma's life and work. This will take place in the Robert Phillips Gallery, upstairs at Riverhouse Barn. This talk is free but we recommend booking ahead

Wednesday 13 - Sunday 17 July 2022
10am - 4pm. Admission free.
“ArtWork Out is an annual exhibition of work produced by GCSE and A-Level students studying Fine Art, Textiles and Photography at Three Rivers Academy. The purpose of the exhibition is to celebrate the amazing achievements of our students and display the wide range of personal work that they create. The global pandemic over the last two years has meant that a public facing exhibition has not been possible so we are very pleased to be back at the Riverhouse Barn with another exciting collection of work from our wonderful students! “

Sunday 17 July 2022 - 7.30pm
Get a sneak preview of two of the comedy shows that are about to make a splash at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, with Carl Donnelly (BBC's Mock The Week, Russell Howard’s Good News) and Steve Bugeja (Sky One's The Russell Howard Hour, ITV2's Love Island: Aftersun).. 


 

Saturday 23 July 2022 - 7.30pm
Programme
Haydn           String Quartet in D major, Opus 17, No. 6
Korngold       String Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Opus 26
Beethoven    String Quartet in C major Opus 59 No. 3

Wednesday 27 July to Saturday 30 July 2022 - 7.45pm
Runnymede Drama Group presents 'Uncle Vanya' by Anton Chekhov - an exciting new adaptation by award-winning writer Conor McPherson.

Patricia Farrar A Celebration
An exhibition of work by the late Patricia Farrar BA
10am - 4pm Thursday 28 July - Sunday 31 July
'We are at a time when the world needs hope and joy and more love and I believe that art has the capacity to provide a   glimpse of these qualities. The key is ‘listening’. Listening involves a stillness and a connection with what’s happening around us.'        Patricia Farrar

Friday 29 July 2022 - 2pm and 6pm - at Walton on Thames Cricket Club
Join us for our outdoor, family-friendly production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream this summer.  Touring cricket grounds, six actor-musicians present Shakespeare’s favourite comedy in just 60 minutes. Get ready for confusion, chaos and water fights! For ages 5 to 105!  Bring a picnic blanket, enjoy the hospitality of your local club and let us entertain you! 

Sunday 31 July 2022 - 7.30pm 
Way Out West presents: Chris Biscoe's 'Two Of A Mind'

Monday 1 to Friday 5 August 2022, with performance for family and friends on Friday evening
10 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday, with the performance from 6.30 pm - 9.00 pm Friday
'Let's Make A Show' is back again with their popular holiday drama workshop for children aged 7 to 13 years. Encouraging children to use their imagination and lots of their own ideas, they build a show in just one week with songs, sketches and dance, and a fantastic performance on the final evening.

Saturday 6 August 2022 - 8pm concert (doors open 7.30pm)
In the last couple of years, Willow May Murray has come to refine her own musical style and returns to Riverhouse - where she performed a streamed concert during lockdown to great acclaim.

Sunday 7 August 2022 - 2pm
​​​​​​Catch That Beast! is a magical, deliciously silly outdoor show about a society with one mission: to capture mythical beasts. Full of offbeat humour, original live music, inventive puppetry and audience participation, it is suitable for audiences aged 5+

Sunday 11 September 2022 - 12.15pm
Road Not Taken are a Bristol-based four piece starting to make waves on the UK folk scene. Having honed their craft over a number of years of performing live, they released their debut album Fragment in 2019. 

Wednesday 14 September 2022 - 7.30pm
Dr. Helen Fry, WWII Espionage
RESERVE SPACE NOW AND PAY ON THE DOOR - £3 CASH

Sunday 25 September 2022 - 1pm to 3pm
The Hot Jazz Vagabonds  present:  Paris in a Jazz Age - a musical journey through the vibrant Parisian jazz scene of the 20’s, 30’s & 40’s.

Wednesday 28 September - Sunday 2 October 2022
10am - 4pm
Admission Free
Edwin Cripps, a self-styled 'artist of the absurd' and native of Feltham in Midlesex, has had almost 50 years experience at producing his own brand of pictorial lunacy chronicling the many peculiarities of the human condition. Predominant is his depiction of mankind's determination in inflicting self punishment, via the process of absurdity with no punches pulled. Edwin's aim is to examine our situation as a species, always with humour, but at the same time looking at our true place in nature.
To quote the late, great Frank Zappa, 'Absurdity is the only Reality'.
Edwin's long term friend and co-artist Anne Whitelock (Dixon) has a very different vision and is exhibitng alonside Edwin as a guest. According to Edwin, the excellence of her work is to be regarded as a welcome contrast.
 

Friday 30 September 2022 - 8pm 
SHOWMAN Live Presents...
A DAZZLING new MAGIC SHOW - presented by the magician most famous for jamming the BBC switchboards after he correctly predicted the lottery. This astonishing, enigmatic, five star rated magic show will leave you aching from laughter and dizzy in disbelief.

Sunday 2 October 2022 - 12.15pm
A collaboration of writing and song from 3 of Scotland's foremost performers; Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson, and Lauren MacColl. 

Wednesday 5 to Sunday 30 October 2022 (submissions deadline Friday 1 July 2022)
10am - 4pm
FREE ENTRY
An arts exhibition, showcasing the work of visual artists who live or work in our borough. Last seen in 2019, it is back again after a few years away, at the Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, with assistance from the RC Sherriff Trust and Elmbridge Borough Council. If you are interested in being considered Fill in this form to submit your work and return to gallery@riverhousebarn.co.uk

Wednesday 12 October 2022 - 7.30pm
Dr. Gerry Brierly, Bee Keeping and the history of Wax
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Friday 14 October 2022 - 8pm
Keith James is a long standing, well-respected and inventive concert performer who specialises in playing intimate, carefully researched biographic style concerts of those he has studied and revered as writers over the years. He weaves the story of Cat Stevens’ life from his early pop career, life threatening illness and spiritual journey around a performance of his beautifully-crafted and memorable songs.

Friday 21 October 2022 - 8pm
A castle looms dark and foreboding over a small mountain village. Inside, Dr Chekhov, the brilliant and reclusive scientist, works in secret.
A wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy horror featuring three fearless actors, playing over 20 roles in 75 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.

NEW DATE - Sunday 30 October 2022 - 7.30pm
As part of our Spooky Season here at Riverhouse, we are delighted to present the new date for Victorian Ghost Stories!
From the Creative Team of Lantern Light’s highly acclaimed ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Miss Sherlock Holmes’ comes a spine-chilling new show - a double bill of classic Victorian Ghost Stories, adapted for stage by veteran writer Sophie Flack and with a new musical score by composer and sound designer Dan Skelt.

Saturday 5 November 2022 - 7.30pm
It’s their third visit, they can’t keep away! Look forward to Gigspanner performing once again at Riverhouse!

Saturday 12 November 2022 - 8pm
Look forward to 2 hours of laughs from comedian Andrew Ryan and support! Irishman Andrew Ryan has learned after a two year hiatus that life is actually a bit better when you give up worrying about things you can’t control. 

Wednesday 16 November 2022 - 7.30pm
David Edwards, Antarctica
RESERVE SPACE NOW AND PAY ON THE DOOR - £3 CASH

Wednesday 15 February 2023 - 7.30pm
Julian Pooley, SHC,  History of Mental Illness in Surrey
RESERVE SPACE NOW AND PAY ON THE DOOR - £3 CASH

​​​​​​Wednesday 15 March 2023 - 7.30pm
Melanie Gibson-Barton, Brugues
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