Available Events

Friday 6 September 2024- 7:30 pm 
Maiastra welcomes multi-award winner and Maiastra Course Director Akiko Ono, who will be joined by three talented young musicians. Together they will perform three quartets by Ravel, Britten and Mozart. 

Thursday 12 September 2024 - 7.30pm
Shauna Isaac will discuss several famous cases of Western art looted by Nazis during World War II, and how the stolen artworks were recovered.

Saturday 14 September 2024 - 1:30-2:30pm
Elmbridge’s Early History: From Caesar to 1066 A Walton Heritage Festival 2024 Event  [Free Talk] 
Join Tim Hazell, Founder of Generic History Video channel, to explore the early history of our local area, beginning with the arrival of Caesar and the Romans and ending with the Norman Conquest. Revisiting the people who lived here, and how they laid the foundations for the Elmbridge we know today.


 

Tuesday 24 September - 11.30am
The story of Musicals along the Great White Way, and how one tale of Broadway guys and their dolls became the first truly American work of art.
 

Tuesday 24 September 2024 - 1.30pm
Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, Willy Wonka manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time.

Wednesday 25 September to Sunday 20 October 2024

The Elmbridge Moving Art exhibition is coming back to the Robert Phillips Gallery at the Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre from Wednesday 25 September to Sunday 20 October 2024  to showcase the work of local artists.
This year Elmbridge Moving Art is guest curated by Ele King.
 

Friday 4 October 2024 - 8pm
Macbeth is brought to life by this talented and enthralling story-telling company, igniting the imagination with poetry, sound-scapes, shadows and movement. Faithful to the text and famous Shakespeare characters. Suitable for those studying the play at GCSE as well as lovers of the Bard. NOT TO BE MISSED.

Saturday 5 October 2024 - 7:30 pm
Captain John Tye was one of only 134 pilots to ever fly Concorde for British Airways in the whole 27 years the supersonic airliner was in service. John will tell us about his story - from an Orphan to a pilot.  He will also share his experience landing Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, one of the most challenging airport to many pilots, as exclusive content to Riverhouse.

Sunday 6 October 2024 - 1pm
Renowned pianist, Derek Paravicini, alongside Professor of Music, Adam Ockelford and guest performers thirteen-year-old blind pianist, Chapman Shum, and Amber Trust ‘Golden Fundraiser’ and Violinist Poppy McGhee present a concert of music in aid of the Amber Trust.

Wednesday 9 October 2024 - 7.30pm
Step back in time with photographers Daryl and Judy Ford to explore Romania's last remaining peasant communities. For five years, Daryl and Judy have travelled thousands of kilometres by car and foot, searching for people still following a traditional lifestyle. 
 

Saturday 19th October 7:30pm
Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. In 1926, her crashed car was discovered in Surrey and the famous author was missing, presumed dead by many, for eleven days. However, she was eventually found at a luxury hotel in Harrogate. Liz Grand presents her one-woman show ‘Where Is Mrs Christie?’ Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker secret involved? In true thriller style, all will be revealed.

Wednesday 23 October 2024 - 7.30pm
Our Patron, Martin Jenkins, talks informally about the role played by the director when working on a play with particular reference to Shakespeare's King Lear (please bring a copy along). During a career stretching over 60 years, Martin progressed from assistant director at the RSC to Founding Artistic of The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and finally Chief Producer Drama (Radio) with the BBC.

Saturday 26 October 2024- 7:30pm
A musical tale of love and Tudor tragedy. Bob Whitley (guitar, tenor guitar and mandola) and Lee MacKenzie (baroque cello) take us back to the 16th Century and the story of the triumph and tragedy of Anne Boleyn.
 

Tuesday 29 October 2024 - 11.30am
For so long the supporting artiste to Broadway, this is the story of how the West End eventually became the star of the Musical.

Tuesday 29 October 2024 - 1.30pm
When residents begin to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the town's women investigate, they suspect that something is amiss, and that Rose may not be the culprit after all.

Thursday 7 November 2024 - 7.30pm
Whilst held hostage in South America, Tom Hart Dyke kept a diary and sketches for a ‘World Garden’, containing the plants he’d collected from across the globe, planted out in their respective countries of origin. Tom’s jungle antics – building gardens in the mountains, much to the annoyance of his captors - cemented his reputation as a ‘plant nut’.

Friday 15 November 2024 - 7.30pm
A romantic, funny and very touching portrait of life during the second World War, featuring readings of the letters between Oscar-nominated actress Celia Johnson, and her explorer and writer husband Peter Fleming.

Tuesday 19 November 2024 - 11.30am
The story of how the gimmick of ‘sound’ created the most popular genre in the history of the Silver Screen.