Professor Kayoss will be entertaining children in a Mongolian Yurt on Sunday. The Tolworth-based professor (aka Des Kay) will be performing to crowds as part of Kingston Arts Festival’s Green Zone event. Other activities in the tent on the field in Wheatfield Way next to Kingston Museum include yoga with Joanna Blundell, readings from local
READ MOREImprove your writing skills with playwright Susannah Finzi. Suzannah is leading a four-part workshop for budding and established playwrights at the cornerHOUSE in Surbiton on four consecutive Mondays from 7-9.30pm starting next week on October 11. “This is not a ‘how to write’ course,” said Susannah who writes for stage and screen. “My view is
READ MOREMagnificently illustrated and exhaustively researched, Mark Laity’s book celebrating 150 years of the Thames Sailing Club in Portsmouth Road (opposite the junction with Grove Road) is a triumph. Princess Anne was guest of honour at the launch (above), her late father Prince Philip having penned a foreword shortly before his death. He had been the
READ MORECongratulations to Tolworth’s Zoe Mendelson, 20, who has scooped the Best Editing accolade in the Kingston Film Festival’s 2021 awards event in the beer garden at the Spring Grove. Zoe’s skills creating her film Radar Man, about the life of her granddad Dennis who died from Covid-19 last year, impressed the judges. To see Radar
READ MORETomorrow (Thursday) is the last day to register to enter a scarecrow as part of this weekend’s festival on Tolworth’s Sunray Estate. SECra’s (Sunray & Egmont Community Residents’ Association) Scarecrow Festival will take place on Saturday (25th) and Sunday (26th). Email your details to [email protected] or fill in the form at www.secra.org.uk Then let your
READ MOREREAD ALL ABOUT IT! Tim Harrison, editor of The Good Life, will be talking about Surbiton’s community newspaper at the cornerHOUSE arts centre this Thursday (23rd) at 7.45pm ahead of its 10th anniversary year. Tim will also be delving into the extraordinary history of Tolworth’s Toby Jug pub, and signing copies of his new book
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