Name: Lambeth Open 2025
Start: 2025-10-04T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-05T23:59:59+01:00

June 2025
Willow Weaving Workshop: Make Your Own Hanging Basket

29 June 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London, United Kingdom

Come along and enjoy a day of creativity, learning the traditional craft of willow weaving! In this 5 hour workshop you will master weaving techniques and make your very own hanging basket which you can take home at the end of the day. Willow weaving is a traditional method for making all kinds of beautiful baskets and containers using natural materials. There are many varieties of willow and many different coloured stems or ‘rods’. The different coloured rods add an extra layer of decoration to your willow weaving allowing you to weave different coloured patterns into your baskets. In this workshop you will learn the traditional method of willow basket weaving but with a twist. The basket will have a pointy base to transform it into a beautiful hanging basket. Hanging baskets can make an attractive addition to any garden, entranceway, front door or courtyard space, and can be planted up with edible or ornamental plants including our trailing bush tomatoes, Tumbling tom yellow and Tumbling tom red which will be on sale at our shop. All material and tools provided. BOOK HERE

£50 – £65
Portrait modelling in clay – a one day ceramic workshop with Ben Swift at the Bell House Pottery, Dulwich

29 June 2025 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

bell house pottery 27 College Road, London, Southwark, United Kingdom

A full day weekend workshop with skilled ceramic sculptor, Ben Swift. During the one day workshop you will, with guidance and demonstrations from your tutor: Model a small self/portrait head in Terracotta. Learn about proportions of the head. Build up a basic head form on a simple armature support. Use modelling tools to construct the features. Create surface details: hair, skin etc. Finish and prepare the piece for the kiln.! Teacher is Ben Swift Ben is a ceramic artist and ceramics teacher based in Dulwich. His work explores both figurative, geometric and organic subjects with emphasis on process: construction, throwing, casting and fabrication, thus creating rhythms, textures and forms. These are expressed through the treatment of a variety of media. Most often he employs ceramics but he also combines constructed metals and found objects. Recent work has begun to compose disparate elements as assemblages. Cost is £150; concessions £75 As with all Bell House Pottery courses we offer two concession tickets at half price, which can be booked directly at the box office. If you would not be able to attend at the full price due to financial considerations, then this concession option is available. Book here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellhousepotterystudio/1126771

£75 – £150
July 2025
Botanical Books at BPCG | Merlin Hanbury-Tenison: Our Oaken Bones

10 July 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London, United Kingdom

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison (conservationist, veteran and founder of The Thousand Year Trust, Britain’s rainforest charity) joins us at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses to discuss his new book 'Our Oaken Bones', an honest and intimate true story about the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return. Tickets are Pay What You Can from £5! FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK HERE

£5 – £12
August 2025
Art in the Park at Brixton Windmill

10 August 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Brixton Windmill 100 Blenheim Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Art in the Park, Sunday 10 August, 1pm to 5pm Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA Free art and craft workshops for children, adults and families in Windmill Gardens Park. This year's workshops include jewellery weaving, T-shirt painting and paper marbling. Brixton Windmill is also open for guided tours and our cafe and shop will be open too. All workshops are drop in - no need to book. https://www.brixtonwindmill.org/events/art-in-the-park/
September 2025
Monday Swim Sessions

1 September 2025 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Alleyns School Townley Rd, Dulwich, United Kingdom

Improve your swimming technique and meet other swimmers at our Monday swim sessions at Alleyns School pool, Townley Road, Dulwich SE22 8SU. All evenings are led by two qualified instructors teaching a range of skills from inter-mediate to masters. Adults 18+ welcome. The 8:30pm to 9:30pm sessions run every Monday (except Bank Holidays, the month of Autumn, and the Christmas period). We have the whole 25m pool with six lanes and a maximum of 32 swimmers. For more information visit www.brockwellswimmers.com.
Annual Talk at Brixton Windmill

10 September 2025 @ 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm

Brixton Windmill 100 Blenheim Gardens, London, United Kingdom

The 12 Windmills of Lambeth,Then and Now Join us to discover more about Lambeth's windmills. The talk is free but please register to reserve a place. Doors open at 6.45pm with refreshments and windmill shop available. https://www.brixtonwindmill.org/events/annualtalk/
BROCKFEST Sunday 14th September 12 – 9 pm. Free.

14 September 2025

Brockwell Hall SE24 Brockwell Park, London, United Kingdom

produced by Junior Open Mic (JOM), featuring 31 remarkable youth acts, a bespoke sound system (tested and approved by sound engineer Tim Pennells (Morcheeba, Arlo Parks, Floating Points), Emmy award-winning sound engineering, a young entrepreneur’s market, licensed bar and food stalls. All happening in the new Brockwell Hall SE24

Free
BROCKFEST 14th September 2025 • 12-9pm

14 September 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm

BROCKFEST is an end of the summer free musical festival at Brockwell Hall in Brockwell Park SE24, produced by Junior Open Mic (JOM), featuring 31 remarkable youth acts, a bespoke sound system (tested and approved by sound engineer Tim Pennells (Morcheeba, Arlo Parks, Floating Points), Emmy award-winning sound engineering, a young entrepreneur’s market, licensed bar and food stalls. All happening in the new Brockwell Hall SE24 Herne Hill Forum is pleased to be a community partner for this event along with Herne Hill Music Festival, JOM and Lambeth Council. Some really great acts will be on show for BROCKFEST; some have played Herne Hill Music Festival in the recent past as JOM has been a final Sunday Fest fixture until this year. These include Kotoa, Sam Wilkinson, Where's Rei, Undici, Shut Up Sally and many, many more - see the poster for full details. Fingers crossed for some splendid sunshine! Sun 14 Sep 12:00pm - 9:00pm. FREE ENTRY !! #Brockfest #BrockwellHall #BrockwellPark #JuniorOpenMic #HerneHillForum #HerneHillMusicFestival #LambethCouncil

Free
BROCKFEST – Herne Hill Music Festival “Pre-Fest” event Sun. 14th Sept noon-9pm

14 September 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Brockwell Hall SE24 Brockwell Park, London, United Kingdom

Herne Hill Music Festival gets fully started 10th-19th October but kicks off even earlier this year with a "pre-fest" event this Sunday - that's today! HHMF is pleased to be a community partner for BROCKFEST on Sunday 14th September - in association with Herne Hill Forum, Lambeth Council and producers Junior Open Mic. A free, one-off, family-friendly 9 hour music festival in newly refurbished Brockwell Hall, featuring 31 youth acts aged 7-21! Rock, pop, rap, reggae, indie, jazz fusion, death metal. Best-in-class bespoke sound system tested by sound engineer Tim Pennells (Arlo Parks, Morcheeba) plus Emmy award-winning sound engineer Dalton Napier (Coldplay, Rolling Stones). Licensed bar, food, young entrepreneurs market. Come visit HHMF at our table! #freeentry

Free
Harvest Festival at Brixton Windmill

28 September 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Brixton Windmill 100 Blenheim Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Celebrate the wheat harvest at Brixton Windmill! Free family friendly event with live music, food, beer, workshops and milling demonstrations. Brixton Tatterjacks will be dancing at 3.30pm! https://www.brixtonwindmill.org/events/harvest-festival-2025/
October 2025
Psalms & Stretches

1 October 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

St Saviour's Church, Herne Hill road, London, SE24 0AY St Saviour's Church, London, London, United Kingdom

Every Wednesday, in term time, we are running a weekly exercise class called ‘Psalms & Stretches’ which is run by its founder, Ruth Carpenter. Ruth is a qualified Pilates and fitness instructor with nearly 15 years of experience teaching a variety of different group exercise classes. ‘Psalms and Stretches’ is a gentle exercise class combining movement with meditation on the Bible, from the Psalms. Watch our video to find out more: https://youtu.be/wsi6OAVtm9A?si=Lmg4aPG5or26V7f2 When? 7pm, Wednesdays Where? St Saviour’s Church Cost? £10 suggested donation, but give whatever you can afford Also, please bring your own mat, if possible. If you plan to attend, please let us know in advance, if possible, by completing this registration form and Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire : https://forms.gle/xBJyEQvy3ZfJeHk49

£10
Lambeth Open 2025

4 October 2025 - 5 October 2025

Explore your creative neighbourhood. On the first weekend of October artists and crafts people across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Doors will be open from 10am to 6pm, 4th and 5th October and admission will be free.Dots will be added to our map as artists and makers sign up to this year's event. Lambeth Open showcases the fantastic range of creative talent tucked away in our borough and is a great way to discover the various art spaces too often hidden in your neighbourhoods. Visitors will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and exhibition spaces for a unique personal insight into the individual technical processes. Private Views may be held at a number of exhibition spaces, see venues for details. FEATURED ARTIST PRISCILLA WATKINS' oil paintings are meditations on a theme of light and water and how the experience of swimming removes us for a moment from normal life providing solace, peace and a chance for recovery. It’s worth a visit just to see these beautiful works but she also has a new collection of framed paperpool collages, more playful in tone with figures inspired by her beloved...

Free

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