A list of exciting events coming up in Twickenham, if you would like to add your own event simply click the black Nub It button in our what's on section!

High Tide Festival

Sunday, July 17 - Twickenham

Dozens of acts across 18 stages and venues promise the biggest local music event of the summer on the riverside.

High Tide 2022 is the third of the annual music gatherings and promises to be much bigger and better than anything seen before.

This year features with top quality musical entertainment across a huge range of musical genres from reggae and rap to jazz. There is also a spoken word event featuring slam poetry..

There will be fresh brew of the highly popular and tasty High Tide Ale and there will be an expanded range of street food and speciality drinks stalls.

Plus there are all the fabulous cafes, restaurants and other businesses of Church Street and the wider Twickenham area to enjoy too.

As part of the High Tide festival join the Orleans House Galleries team for an afternoon of music, joy, play and movement.

This special edition of Let's Get Creative is free to attend and aimed at 4-11 year olds and their families.

https://www.eelpierecords.com/high-tide-2022.html

The Exchange, Twickenham

Friday, July 15 - Virginia Woolf: Killing the Angel

Acclaimed one-woman play with music that weaves the life and writing of Virginia Woolf with songs by British women composers who were Woolf's contemporaries.

Revealing Virginia's troubled childhood, her views on literature, the Bloomsbury group and the challenges women artists face. This fascinating evening is performed by gifted actor-singer Lucy Stevens and pianist Elizabeth Marcus.

A 30-minute post-show discussion will discuss the campaign to erect a statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond this summer.

https://exchangetwickenham.co.uk/event/virginia-woolf-killing-the-angel/

Turner's House in Twickenham

July 9 – Oct 31 - Between the Sheets: Turner's Nudes

There have been rave reviews in the national press for this exhibition concentrating on a rarely seen side of Britain's greatest artist.

Loved as the master of landscapes and seascapes such as The Fighting Temeraire, Hannibal Crossing the Alps and Norham Castle, few know that Turner's sketchbooks also contain depictions of the female form.

Yet Turner was a compulsive recorder of his lif and travels, and produced drawings and watercolours of models, sexual encounters, literary fantasies, and his lovers such as Sophia Booth.

This small-scale exhibition is one of the first to look at Turner's engagement with the naked female form, specifically within intimate and erotic contexts and provides invaluable insight into the man, and his attitude to and relationship with women.

This exhibition is possible thanks to a generous loan from Tate.

https://twickenham.nub.news/whats-on/culture/exhibition-between-the-sheets-turners-nudes-40190

Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond 

Until July 23 – The False Servant by Pierre Marivaux, translated by Martin Crimp

When a man thinks he can cynically take a rich woman's money and then run off with an even more lucrative potential fiancée, he had best not tell the fiancée by mistake.

Le Chevalier, a woman disguised as the son of an aristocrat, embarks on a plan that will expose the dark heart of this male power-play.

This version by Martin Crimp – an addictively adult comedy - was acclaimed at its 2004 National Theatre premiere for its 'thrills, chills and belly laughs'.

Crimp's prolific international career began at the Orange Tree Theatre, including our recent hit revival of Dealing with Clair.

It is directed by Paul Miller and follows his acclaimed production of Marivaux's The Lottery of Love.

Until July 22 - A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

In a galaxy far far away, a duke has won a queen in a war, a father disowns his daughter because she's in love with the wrong man and a fairy king has his ego bruised and wants revenge on his wife.

OT Community's new project Play On takes the success of Primary Shakespeare and Shakespeare Up Close and deepens the engagement with the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is accompanied by workshops, which will introduce the play to students.

https://orangetreetheatre.co.uk/

OSO Arts Centre, Barnes

July 14-16 – Infants

Class 3 are on the brink of disaster: tactile Drew is a safeguarding hazard, Chloe's obsession with Ryan threatens her friendship with queen bee Kaylee, and a noxious misunderstanding threatens the career of teacher Mr Finch.

Director Ian McFarlane (The Revellers Society, Forever Oz) brings to life a new musical that promises tantrums and disasters, naughty words and naughty characters.

An exhilarating score by James Lark (Tony Blair the Musical, The Snow Spider) veers from toe-tapping tunes to gratuitous anfractuosity (that's a grown-up word for sophisticated).

The show promises comedy, tragedy, and all hell breaking loose. Step into a world where the adults in charge are the biggest children of all.

July 22-24 Barnes Pond Summer Festival

The Festival, which is a collaboration with the Barnes Community Association, begins with The Secret Garden a family-friendly, dance adaptation of the best-selling novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Performed by an accomplished cast of dancers and musicians, the iconic story is brought to life like never before, in this high-quality, one-hour ballet. 

https://osoarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173622888

Ted Lasso Tours - The Quadrant, Richmond

Tour runs Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm; Thursday at 6.30pm

Explore the pretty, quintessentially English town of Richmond, visitng all of the Richmond Lasso Locations that are possible to vist, including Ted's Local Pub, front door & thinking bench!

The Puppet Theatre Barge, Richmond riverside

July 16 – August 14 – The are and Tortoise

The story of the most famous race on earth is beautifully brought to life using marionettes .

The Hare and the Tortoise is a production for all the family, featuring this classic story, plus many other tales from the famed storyteller Aesop. Expect Lions and mice, spiders and cats, there are storms to be weathered and always a few morals to take away!

https://www.puppetbarge.com/

Play Nation - Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham

Until July 17

Featuring the work of 18 young artists from the Access to HE course at Richmond Upon Thames College, this final project show will explore how cultural spaces can be made exciting for children and families.

Through fine art, graphics, sculpture, architecture and more, this show will present the artistic research and ideas of the students through brand new pieces of work. Playful, imaginative and interactive, this will be an exciting opportunity to see the debut of a fresh cohort of West London artists before they begin to pursue their artistic careers.