Script to Stage
Play writing workshops x 4.
With director Nick Pelas

This is a 4 week course runs on Saturday 6th /13th/20th September and Saturday 4th October. From 2pm-4pm, £10 per week / Total £40
Starting on Saturday  6th September 2025.

On this course Nick will guide you through

• Brainstorming ideas
• Looking at script formats
• Developing dialogue
• Completing a play
• Casting
• Getting the play to stage

Designing Hope
By Sarah Housley
Friday 26th September
6pm-7.30pm
£5 or pay what you can
Book here https://thenose.org/products/author-talk-designing-hope

When did we stop dreaming of a better future?

What happened to the sci-fi golden age of the 1950s, when futurism flourished as a discipline and drove innovation?

As a society, either we struggle to imagine something good for the times to come or we fail to picture any future at all. Our world is in polycrisis; we face climate breakdown, societal fracturing, governmental collapse, war, and rising inequality.

The exciting outcomes we dreamed of, from the space race to the wonder material plastic, have brought contingent problems of their own. We haven’t yet developed mainstream and accessible new narratives to replace these failures, and if you ask someone to imagine ‘the future’, they’ll probably still picture flying cars.

Designing Hope resets expectations. Through the lens of four emerging futures, Sarah Housley shows us visions of hope that inspire action and critical thinking about how we’ll live in the decades to come. 

Open Folk Music Session
Thursday 25th September
1pm-3pm, Free

Ray and Amanda Smith & friends are hosting a monthly open folk session for acoustic musicians and singers on the 4th Thursday of the month from 1pm - 3pm. Come and join in or sit and listen.

Lino Cut Printing workshops
Wednesday 17th September, 2pm-4pm
Thursday 18th September, 5pm-7pm
£10 per session

Come and join us for some fun Lino cut print session with artist Ian Noble. The theme for these sessions is sea creatures and you can use afternoon to design, cut and print using the equipment and press provided. This workshop is suitable for beginners or for people who have done linocut before and want to use this time to print a new set of cards or Prints.

Walton Memory Map

The Walton Memory Map is a new illustrated map of Walton-on-the-Naze. It is designed to show the shops and businesses trading in 2025. It is a memory map as it records the names and trades of past Walton shops and attractions. It mainly includes places in living memory and has been compiled from people’s memories, so not every shop has been recorded. We hope the map will be a conversation starter and a way of remembering the unique, independent businesses that have made up the town before. The shop listings have been compiled by Alan Hillier and young and old Waltonians and visitors. The illustrations are by local artist Greg Lashmar using photographs from Putmans archive. It has been produced by The Nose Bookshop and funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The map will be available from The Nose bookshop and from shops and venues around the town centre and the Naze. The map drawings and research will be display at The Nose throughout April. Thank you to all those who shared their memories.

Reading: What the Wild Sea Can Be
by Helen Scales
Wednesday 10th September
6.45 for soup, 7pm- 8pm Book Club

For our September Book Club we are reading ‘What the Wild Sea Can Be” by marine biologist and writer Helen Scales. Offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Helen Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the ocean.