Plotters: Wanstead Book Festival presents Lizzie Dearden

Wanstead Library Churchill Room Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead

Since 2017, the UK has seen 15 terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities we see on our BBC news alerts are the tip of an iceberg – at least twice as many plots have been foiled. Some were thwarted by nerve-wracking undercover operations; others were narrowly averted by heroic citizens, or ruined by the absurd … Continue reading "Plotters: Wanstead Book Festival presents Lizzie Dearden"

£10

Wanstead Backgammon Society

The Duke 79 Nightingale Lane, Wanstead

Meeting of the Wanstead Backgammon Society. Free to all. Please contact pete.daly@ntlworld.com for more information

Free

Pottery Classes

Wanstead Pottery 61 Nightingale Lane, Wanstead

Throwing On The Wheel – 3 Hours – Adults (and kids 11+) Wanstead Pottery is a calm and inviting space for you to explore the marvellous medium of clay. The Throwing classes feature a maximum of three students. You will be taught how to prepare your clay, how to centre it on the wheel, how … Continue reading "Pottery Classes"

£45

Miss Julie

The Wanstead Curtain Wanstead Curtain (Wanstead Methodist Church hall) Hermon Hill London E11 2AR

Midsummer’s Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn’t set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules! When Miss Julie finds herself alone on her … Continue reading "Miss Julie"

£12.00 – £16.00

Golden Sun & Silver Moon

The Bull 129 High Street, Wanstead

The strange tale of the creation of the celestial firmament. A surrealistic fairy tale that combines a vulgar performance and a chamber-style play, in which twin brothers try to get out of a fish bubble, girls look at a giant flying head, a prince in an airplane saves a village from a touchy tiger, and … Continue reading "Golden Sun & Silver Moon"

£12.00 – £15.00

Power-full: How to futureproof your home (and your life)

Wanstead Methodist Church Hermon Hill, Wanstead

An evening looking how to make your house as environmentally friendly as possible, featuring: Dan Edelstyn (who last spoke at the Fringe in 2022) who will return to give an update on the journey the Power Station team have taken to get 16 solar panels crowdfunded and installed on their street in Walthamstow plus solar … Continue reading "Power-full: How to futureproof your home (and your life)"

£5.00

Miss Julie

The Wanstead Curtain Wanstead Curtain (Wanstead Methodist Church hall) Hermon Hill London E11 2AR

Midsummer’s Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn’t set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules! When Miss Julie finds herself alone on her father’s estate, she throws caution to the wind and gate-crashes the servants’ party. Venturing into the servants’ kitchen she finds Katrin, the estate’s cook, and … Continue reading "Miss Julie"

£12.00 – £16.00

How to make Madeleines and Q&A with Pastry Chef

La Bakerie 119a High Street, Wanstead

A demonstration at La Bakerie on how to make their top-selling Madeleines and how to replicate them at home. The pastry chef will also give you a bakery tour and offer hints and tips, as well as answering questions on all things about pastry making. You will go home with a La Bakerie goody bag.

£25.00

Short Plays, Big Stories

The Bull 129 High Street, Wanstead

Short Plays, Big Stories brings an exciting evening of original new writing to the Wanstead Fringe. From the provocative to the nostalgic to the experimental, this collection of fresh theatrical … Continue reading "Short Plays, Big Stories"

£8.00 – £10.00

Voicing Grief

Compassionate Funerals 3-5 Devon House, Hermon Hill, Wanstead, Wanstead

Voicing Grief is an event bringing people together through poetry to normalise conversations around death and grief. Every day language often fails us in times of mourning, and poetry has … Continue reading "Voicing Grief"

£10.00