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 is 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

Script Writing Course
Saturday 4th October
2pm-4pm, £10 (Full)
Final Session of the 4-week writing course.

Writing Group Meeting
Saturday 4th October
4.30m-6pm, Free / Donations

Monthly meeting of local writers to get inspiration for their writing projects. Talks, discussions, writing prompts, and social. This month, we will be joined by Director/Writer Nick Pelas.

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.

Creative Conversations
Friday 3rd October
12pm-2pm, Free

Parents meet up at The Nose on the first Friday of the month from 12pm-2pm for people with youngish kids to meet each other to talk about things they are interested in. It’s called Creative Conversations, and it’s a bit like a show-and-tell, bring a book or an article, a film, or something that has taken your interest to talk about.

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.