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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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Trapped beneath the Atacama Desert, Chile, for 69 days, the youngest of the 33 miners faces a lifetime learning how to live again. Man 33 is a new musical inspired by true events – a story of survival, silence, and what happens when the world stops…
Barnes
Performers:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Programme:
Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor for piano Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
Robert Schumann Fantasie in C Op.17
Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in…
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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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The Alehouse Sessions – curated and devised by Bjarte Eike – is an ever changing and evolving insight into the music of the English 17th Century tavern. It gives audiences a window into this tumultuous period through Purcell overtures, English sea…
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The great Henry Fielding (1707-1755), novelist, satirist, playwright, and founder of the Bow Street Runners, lived in Barnes – in a house that still stands by Barnes Pond – and worshipped at St Mary’s, the church where this special musical of…
Barnes
Performers:
Owen Elsley, tenor
Paul Greally, piano
Programme:
Finzi Oh fair to see (op. 13b)
Chris Williams Florilegium
Paul Greally Three Elizabethan Songs
Warlock Rest sweet nymphs & Jillian of Berry
Owen Elsley (Director of Music at St…
Barnes
The Centre opened in September 2002 and provides a venue for theatre and live performances, art exhibitions, dance classes, music, drama for all ages and abilities, writers' groups, Yoga & Pilates classes, education opportunities and more.
Barnes
Join the wizards of the locked room mysteries and see if you can work out how they dunnit!
A weekly story time for under 6s. Free and booking is not required.
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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…
Barnes
If we were deprived of all our senses, how would we experience reality? This unique immersive installation creates a narrative audio piece inside your own body. Participants lie in a custom 'sound bed' built to exploit sensory phenomena through…
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Benjamin Britten’s much-loved Noye’s Fludde opens this year’s Barnes Music Festival in joyful, technicolour style. Written in 1957 and premiered in 1958, the piece was conceived for professional musicians performing alongside children, schools and…
Barnes
Yasmine comes to the OSO with her joyously stylish One Woman Show, performing songs from some of the most inspirational songwriting-singer-pianists of our time, including Carole King, Billy Joel, Roberta Flack, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, Donald…
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Step into ‘The Magic Library’ at Barnes Festival! Join Patrick King and Children’s Musical Adventures for a family-friendly concert filled with enchanting melodies, interactive storytelling, and a world of musical magic. Perfect for children and…
Barnes
Performers:
Ben Markovic, piano
Daisy Livesey, soprano
Director of Music at St Mary’s Barnes, Benjamin Markovic is joined by soprano Daisy Livesey for a richly coloured programme spanning late-Romantic to early modernist song. They begin with…
Barnes
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…
Barnes
Oat Cakes and Jam is an anarchic, darkly comic piece inspired by Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves from The Bloody Chamber. Developed over eleven weeks at the OSO, it will blend movement, text, music, and visual design to explore transformation,…
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Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.
Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends who ordinarily…
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Vaseem Khan turns his eyes from his vibrant Mumbai to explore with Frank Gardner the wild world of Frank’s ex-commando Luke Carlton. Frank is the BBC’s Security Correspondent but there is nothing secure about Carlton’s high risk world. It’s live and…
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Programme:
Do-Re-Mi Rodgers & Hammerstein arr Naohiro Iwai
The Cries of London Martin Ellerby (Featuring Jonathan Williams)
Wind in the Reeds Philip Sparke (Soloist: Loveday Shewell)
John Williams Swings arr Jay Bocook
One Life Beautiful Julie…
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