lockdown

Watch and participate in online international youth arts festival 0
- Arts, News
- 30th June 2020
You can’t come to Kingston’s annual International Youth Arts Festival this summer, so it’s coming to you instead. The festival – which will give young people from around the world an opportunity to share new work created during lockdown as well as debate the future of the arts with industry professionals – is going online
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The Museum of Today archives lockdown with your contributions 0
- Arts, History, News
- 25th June 2020
Take a photo of something from your home or wherever you have been during lockdown that has particular significance for you, record a minute-long video explaining why, and submit it to The Museum of Today. Your contribution will be part of an archive telling the story of a historic few months during which we have
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Online festival for green fingers with £300 worth of prizes 0
- Arts, Environment, Gardening, News
- 16th June 2020
Garden festivals and flower shows may have been cancelled left right and centre, but Tolworth is blazing a trail with its very own online show. The Tolworth Garden Festival, organised by The Community Brain, celebrates all that is best (and oddest!) in growing – with a chance to win £300 worth of prizes! “Over the
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Lockdown song goes viral 0
- Arts, News
- 7th June 2020
Singing teacher Bec Gresson’s video of her family’s spoof lockdown song has gone viral with 62,000 views on Facebook. Bec, of Grand Avenue, Berrylands, and her children Frank, 12, Kit, 10, and Mabel, 7, sang alternative words which had a lockdown theme to the tune of My Favourite Things sung by Julie Andrews in The
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Umpire needed for cricket club 0
- News, Sport
- 6th June 2020
Can you tell a leg bye from a bye and a no ball from a dead ball? If so, Long Ditton Cricket Club would like to hear from you. The club in Stokes Field off Betts Way, Long Ditton, is looking for a new umpire to officiate its matches. “We are looking for a new
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Evie, 15, is finalist in national songwriting contest 0
- Arts, News
- 30th May 2020
Tolworth Girls’ School pupil Evie Burnett has reached the finals of a national songwriting contest. Evie, 15, who writes under the name of Lilith Bee [Lilith is her middle name, and Bee as her nickname is Evie B] is down to the top ten out of 700 entrants. The top three in the Song Academy’s
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