Past Events

  1. Games Night

    Board Games Night
    Saturday 17th February
    From 6pm - 8pm

    BYO board game or bottle. We have Backgammon. Chess, Draughts, Essex Monopoly, Dominoes, Jenga, Battle Sheep. Can’t Stop, Six Second Scribbles. All ages welcome.

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  2. Afternoon Acousitc

    Afternoon Acoustic : James Eastwood.
    Tuesday 20th February, 2pm, Free

    Clacton based singer / songwriter James Eastwood will be playing a set in the bookshop during half term on Tuesday 20th February. Relaxed afternoon listening session. 

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  3. Afternoon art, tea and chat

    Tuesday 16th January 2024
    2pm - 4pm.

    Come and join us for an afternoon of art, tea, cake and conversation with artist Glenda Wakeman for the closing week of her exhibition "Promenade' at The Nose, 28 Newgate Street, Walton on the Naze.
    Free, all welcome.
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  4. Exhibition

    Walton Pier Bowl
    By Steven Walker and John Mills

    Memorabilia on display collected during the making of the Walton Pier Bowl book by Steven Walker. The book is a record of the bowling centre on Walton Pier full of memories, photographs, anecdotes, humour and personal stories of friendships forged over bowling. This will be a trip down memory lane for many Walton residents and regular visitors over past decades.

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  5. Great Uncle Lazar’s Tea Trolley Dance

    Great Uncle Lazar’s Tea Trolley Dance 
    Saturday 30 December, Drinks from 7pm, Film screenings 7.30pm and 8pm.

    The Constantinople Chapter

    The premiere of a short film by Sally Child, with original music by Lazar Sverdloff, (Shane Waltener’s Great Uncle), Catherine Shrubshall and Richard Kett.

    Tea Trolley Dancing and Palm Court Music at its best...Walton’s delectable tea trolley dancers improvise playfully, elegantly and athletically in the beautiful Albion Ballroom (Eleanor, Anna, Cydnei, Sally, Richard, Shane, Catherine & Ewan). The music was written between 1908 and 2023 – celebrating Lazar’s time in Turkey, during a long journey from Ukraine to Australia.

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  6. The Hungry Human: The Sauce Speaks

    Saturday 18 November, 1pm
    A creative writing workshop led by Rebecca May Johnson, involving cooking, writing and reflecting.

    Join Rebecca May Johnson as she leads a participatory cooking, eating and writing workshop as part of the Hungry Human Essex Festival. Rebecca will cook a pasta and tomato sauce recipe from her book 'Small Fires, An Epic In The Kitchen'. After enjoying the tastes and scents of garlic, tomato and basil, participants will take part in a writing task. In this exercise, the tomato sauce becomes the prompt for thinking, feeling, remembering and writing.mThis event is organised by the Hungry Human Festival and can be booked through Eventbrite. Illustration by @sinjin_li

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