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BarnesBarnes is a unique urban village with good transport links into and out of London, a fascinating mix of unusual gifts, clothes and food shops interspersed with award winning cafés and restaurants, river walks and pubs, and a village duck pond.
The WWT London Wetland Centre is a real wildlife heaven, with 100 acres of natural riverside marshland habitat home to over 180 species of birds. Barnes Common is 120 acres of nature reserve with Beverly Brook passing through it. The Barnes Trail is a 2.3-mile circular walk taking in the riverside, commercial streets and conservation area with QR coded information.
The Thames Path National Trail is a peaceful nature reserve and walk along the tow path between Barnes and Hammersmith.
Highlights: Farmers Market every Saturday: Barnes Children’s Literature Festival in June: London’s largest kids books party: July's Village Fair: September's Food Fair: Charity Fashion Show in October.
Local Website: www.barnesvillage.com
East Sheen & Mortlake East Sheen, also known as Sheen, and Mortlake together form a leafy, family-friendly suburb. The area affords easy access to Richmond Park and the River Thames, Mortlake being the closest train station to the park. Sheen’s thriving high street has a diverse range of popular and award winning independent and mainstream boutiques, shops, local pubs, restaurants, cafés and delis.
Mortlake is a largely residential historic part of the borough, particularly known for its pubs and the finishing line of the Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race. It is also the burial place of the Victorian explorer Richard Burton.
Highlights: Grade II-listed air-raid shelter at St Leonard’s Court, The Triangle War Memorial and an Old Milestone Dating from 1751.
Local Website: www.eastsheenvillage.co.uk
Experience all that Barnes, Mortlake & Sheen has to offer,whether it be through our traditional cuisine along the River Thames or a visit to the many shops we have throughout Upper Richmond Road.
Top attractions to visit this month
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Come along and see what our writers have been cooking up this time! Across the past 10 weeks, our writers have been tasked to write a ten minute play. Working with each other, and then with actors & directors, they've developed their scripts into…
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Priscilla Morris draws on her part-Yugoslav heritage for this novel, short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction amongst several other prizes. Set in 1992, at the time of the outbreak of the Balkan wars, and in particular the devastating siege of…
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Presenting a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures. Inhabiting their own stylistic realm, the trio encompasses folk song, chamber music, improvisation and…
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Supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Professor Matravers will be discussing the philosophy of T.E. Hulme, a philosopher and poet who has been called "The First Conservative of the 20th Century", and was described by T.S. Eliot as…
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When the lights are turned off, your hearing is heightened and the music sounds better than ever. Experience music as you never heard it before in the Screening Room at Olympic Studios with their iconic Flare surround sound system. Recordings of…
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Join Tom for 4 weeks and see your comedy skills grow! This course will use improvisation and clown to help performers unlock play, embrace joy and cultivate connection
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Following last year's successful Easter Art Exhibition, we are pleased to once again pack up our theatre for the Easter weekend and build our display space giving our local community the opportunity to view and purchase affordable and original art…
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Discover our fun-filled play clinic, where children can learn how to handle, measure, weigh and x-ray toy geese – just like our WWT vets do with real birds.
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Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer John Hegley has captivated and audiences in theatres and clubs, a lot of Edinburgh Festivals and many appearances on radio and television. This show demonstrates the breadth of his appeal, with…
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A short stroll from Vine Road Pavilion out onto Barnes Common and back. Recognise the sights, sounds and smells of nature around us!
During this walk participants will learn about the history and ecology of Barnes Common and the work that we do to…
Barnes
Barnes Festival Soloists
Mary Bevan, soprano
Programme:
Binge The Watermill
Johnny Pearson All Creatures Great and Small
Debbie Wiseman Myrtle (from The Glorious Garden) (Faber music)
Nigel Hess Hetty Wainthrop Investigates Theme
Jim…
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Join deaf presenter John Wilson on this BSL tour. Discover some of the most eye-catching ducks and geese from around the globe - plus a couple of otters – as well as exploring the extensive reserve habitat whose lakes, pools and gardens are home to…
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We are delighted to have the brilliant young musicians from the Menuhin School return to the festival. The celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin founded his school to develop his students’ talents to the highest degree within a nurturing and…
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Aurora Orchestra makes its debut at the Barnes Music Festival with a chamber concert featuring its Principal Players, who bring together four nostalgic and reflective masterpieces.
Programme:
Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Winds FP…
A weekly story time for under 6s. Free and booking is not required.
Mortlake
This interactive map takes you on a guided walk across some of Mortlake's key heritage areas.
Vine Road Rec, Barnes
Nature Journaling is using words, pictures and numbers to record your observations, questions, connections and explanations in a notebook. It is a fun and powerful practice which helps us slow down, pay attention, notice more and get curious about…
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As Solomon grapples with his own sexuality within a society bound by conservative norms, he finds solace in unexpected friendships with individuals such as Henry Holiday, Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The play…
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All You Need Is Love – the story of popular music
Director Tony Palmer created this 17-hour documentary series broadcast worldwide in the 1970s covering many different genres of popular music. He brings to the Barnes Music Festival two of the most…
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After our sell out 2025 ‘Late Night Jazz’ we return this year with the award winning Emile Hinton and his trio.
Expect a vibrant blend of original compositions alongside classic jazz standards from the Great American and Latin songbooks. Fusing…
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