An Evening of Spoken Word

City Place Coffee 5 Clock House Parade, Wanstead

Back for its third year, the Fringe’s Evening of Spoken Word has become a ‘must do’ on the schedule. City Place Coffee, at the heart of the High Street, transforms into a cabaret-style venue, including a bar, for an intimate evening of poetry, spoken word and music from eight diverse artists. This event is a … Continue reading "An Evening of Spoken Word"

$8
Event Series Wanstead Fringe Music

Concert: Simone Spagnolo’s Low Strings Drama

Wanstead United Reformed Church Nightingale Lane, Wanstead

Join award-winning composer - and Wanstead resident - Simone Spagnolo for a unique blend of chamber music and mystery drama soundtracks. This concert will present Low Strings Drama, a musical drama for viola and violoncello in eleven variations that alternates tense and turbid moments to frantic passages and dreamy melodies. Recently release on all music platforms, this … Continue reading "Concert: Simone Spagnolo’s Low Strings Drama"

$10

Autumn Gold – FREE concert

St Gabriel’s, Aldersbrook 12 Aldersbrook Rd, Wanstead

A FREE lunchtime time recital of fine music from brass musicians of The Brook Ensemble. Performing as a quintet with a programme of music that includes original compositions and arrangements.  Let the rich sounds of this brass group take you on a fabulously interesting journey for the start of Autumn in the fine acoustic of … Continue reading "Autumn Gold – FREE concert"

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

St Mary the Virgin church Overton Drive, London, E11, United Kingdom

A performance of Dickens' short story, by the Woodhouse Players

Event Series St Mary’s Music Festival

St Mary’s Music Festival: Sax Collective

St Mary the Virgin church Overton Drive, London, E11, United Kingdom

Local saxophonist, Melanie Henry and the Opus Sax quartet, present a programme of trios, quartets and quintets written, or transcribed, for the saxophone. With influences of Baroque, Medieval, folk and jazz and featuring composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Percy Grainger, Mick Foster, George Gershwin, Gordon Goodwin and Althea Talbot Howard, expect an evening of entertaining listening … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival: Sax Collective"

$10.00 – $15.00

St Mary’s Music Festival: Celebrating St Mary’s organ and organists

St Mary the Virgin church Overton Drive, London, E11, United Kingdom

Celebrating St Mary’s organ and the organists of the Parish, past and present   The afternoon will begin with a talk about the Parish of Wanstead organists of the past – some famous, some with “interesting” lives, one buried in the church yard at St Mary’s, two who are relatives of current choir members This … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival: Celebrating St Mary’s organ and organists"

St Mary’s Music Festival : All Rest

St Mary the Virgin church Overton Drive, London, E11, United Kingdom

Specially commissioned for 2024 St Mary’s Music Festival, All Rest will offer an itinerant, site-specific performance portraying a fictional dreamscape about the people dwelling in St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead. Six characters and a chorus of ghosts will take the audience on a journey through the grounds, the graveyard and St Mary’s Church, offering a … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival : All Rest"

$10 – $15

Unknown Connections Magic Show

Wanstead Works 34-40 High Street, Wanstead

Have you ever been lost in a moment of time? Bewildered and confounded by the complexity of the connections we make within our daily lives. New Memories being formed whilst others fade into the distance as we grow, evolve and change. Ben has found himself contemplating this many times throughout his life and has channelled … Continue reading "Unknown Connections Magic Show"

£20

Unknown Connections Magic Show

Wanstead Works 34-40 High Street, Wanstead

Have you ever been lost in a moment of time? Bewildered and confounded by the complexity of the connections we make within our daily lives. New Memories being formed whilst others fade into the distance as we grow, evolve and change. Ben has found himself contemplating this many times throughout his life and has channelled … Continue reading "Unknown Connections Magic Show"

£20