From Script to Screenplay Writing Workshops 
With director Nick Pelas

This is a 4 week course
Saturday 1st / 8th / 15th / 22nd November
£10 per week / £40 for 4 sessions

Starts Saturday 1st November 2025
From 2pm-4pm

On this course Nick will guide you through:

* Screenplay
* Casting
* Non-Linear Narrative
* Book Launching
* Pitching

World Mental Health Day
Friday 10th October

10am -11am,
Women in Harmony 
Joyful choir singing world music led by Lisa Strong, £5 to join, free to listen, all welcome.

12pm-2pm,
Slow Stitch Club
Bi-Monthly hand sewing group led by Suzi. (Currently full)

World Mental Health Day
Steven Walker has organised the afternoon event. It is free to attend; you can join for some or all of the sessions. World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy against social stigma.

3pm Tendring District Council introduction.
3.20 Mind North and Mid Essex
3.40 CVST Tendring`
4pm Refreshments and Social
5pm Samantha Earnshaw
5.30pm Walton Youth Club
6pm Ricky Frost, Poet, reading from his new book ‘What If We Were Water'.
6.30pm 'Tune in to Wellbeing' with meditative music & movement by her&her musicians (Cydnei B & Catherine Shrubshall) & movement specialist Georgie Ferraro.

Image from the book cover of 'What If We Were Water' by Ricky Frost. Available for £10

Open Folk
Thursday 23rd October
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.

Reclaiming the Flag: William Blake and Radical England.
Saturday 18th October
7.30pm, Free / Donations

An evening of poetry and live music with local musicians and writers in the creative and revolutionary spirit of Blake’s visions of Albion.

Tabla Recital
Tuesday 21st October
7pm for 7.30pm start
Free/ Donations welcome to support the floods in Punjab.

Short tabla recital to celebrate Bandi Chhor Divas/Diwali with musician Andrew Poonian from the 'Chakardar' collective.

Reclaiming the heart, the soul and the flag: William Blake and radical England.
Saturday 18th October
7.30pm, Free / Donations

An evening of poetry and live music with local musicians and writers in the creative and revolutionary spirit of Blake’s visions of Albion.

William Blake was essentially an antinomian and a part of an Nexus of radical Christian sects in late 17th and early 18th Century London. This Nexus grew out of the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and other groups resisting Cromwell’s betrayal of the people during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. He knew Thomas Paine (American and French Revolutions), Mary Wollstencraft and others surrounding Joseph Johnson a radical publisher, who was eventually imprisoned for sedition.

The basic theme of antinomianism is that once you accept Christ in your heart the set of laws perpetrated by Moses (Mosaic laws) were no longer relevant to your actions. All that applied were the laws your heart, acting with love told you. This seemed to drive Blake’s preoccupation with racism, gender and class/status inequalities, economic fairness, and his loathing of the Church and State Establishments of the time. and justice social status hierarchy. There was also the placing of creativity and imagination above reason, and science

We aim to entertain with poetry, music and images which capture the continuing relevance of Blake to the present day.

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: Clay, A Human History, by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Wednesday 15th October
6.45pm for soup, Book Club 7pm-8pm, Free.

This book is a love letter to clay, the material that is at the beginning, middle, and end of all of our lives; that contains within it the eternal, the elemental, and the everyday. People have been taking handfuls of earth and forming them into their own image since human history began. Human forms are found everywhere there was a ceramic tradition, and there is a ceramic tradition everywhere there was human activity. The clay these figures are made from was formed in deep geological time. It is the material that God, cast as the potter, uses to form Adam in Genesis. Tomb paintings in Egypt show the god Khnum at a potter's wheel, throwing a human. Humans first recorded our own history on clay tablets; the shape of the characters was influenced by the clay itself. The first love poem was inscribed in a clay tablet, from a Sumerian bride to her king more than 4000 years ago.