What’s on
Upcoming events at The Exchange, Twickenham.
November 2023
Arts Richmond presents Creative Voices – Lisa Jewell
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Lisa Jewell will be talking about her latest book ‘None of this is True’ ‘A sleek, playful, mesmerising read. An honest-to-goodness triumph.’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘A pitch-black fever dream of a book - dark, twisty and more compelling than ever’ RUTH WARE LISA JEWELL was born in London in 1968. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999. It was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most lately a number of…
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation
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Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at The Exchange. Join us on 2nd and 9th November for a thrilling theatrical event, featuring a series of abridged Shakespeare plays, performed by local schools. Witness Shakespeare’s timeless stories brought to life, and support young people from your community as they take to the stage in a unifying evening of live theatre. “Every child in every school ought to have the chance to experience this magical process.” Philip Pullman, Author and CSSF Patron Coram…
Richmond Film Society Presents ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’
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Guled, a gravedigger, living with his wife and young son in the small East African country of Djibouti, hangs out with other gravediggers at the local hospital, waiting and hoping for work. His means are meagre and when his wife develops kidney failure, he must somehow find a way to pay for her life-saving surgery. The film charts the increasingly desperate efforts of him and his family to fund this urgent treatment which is cruelly beyond their means. Whilst…
Arts Richmond presents Creative Voices – Andrew Humphreys
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Andrew Humphreys talking about his book ‘Raving Upon Thames’ Richmond’s Crawdaddy Club launched the careers of both the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, with their guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. At the same time, UK festival culture was born on Richmond’s rugby fields, while upriver at Twickenham Eel Pie Island was a magical ravers’ hideaway where Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Jimmy Page hung out before taking to the stage themselves. Put simply, without Richmond and Twickenham…
Stephen K Amos: Oxymoron*
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Oxymoron* Luverly! Stephen K Amos is back with a brand new show, after treading the boards of London's West End in the smash hit musical My Fair Lady, playing the iconic role of Alfred P. Doolittle. What a mad couple of years it’s been! How did you get through it all? Stephen’s solution... find the funny. The opportunity in the crisis, the joy in the sadness, the wisdom of fools, after all comedy equals tragedy. Join him for an hour…
Sarah Gillespie
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Like Dylan on amphetamines' The Financial Times ★★★★ 'Haunting tunes and striking lyrics…yearningly pretty and bitter sweet' The Independent ★★★★★ 'Joni Mitchell with a little rap-like percussiveness thrown in, Gillespie is an original. The Guardian ★★★★ ‘Beat poet adventurer strays beyond the boundaries of singer-songwriter’ MOJO ★★★★ 'Just beautiful' Robert Wyatt 'Her songs are beautiful, poetic artefacts’ Sunday Times ★★★★ In the last 12 years Anglo-American singer songwriter Sarah Gillespie has released 4 critically acclaimed albums, 3 EP’s + a collection of poetry. Frequently compared by the press to fellow Minnesotan…
Arts Richmond presents Creative Voices – Michael Frayn
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Michael Frayn ‘Among Others: Friendships and Encounter’s. A unique memoir of a lifetime’s friendships- from one of Britain’s most beloved literary companions. Michael will be in conversation with Ian Bruce, talking about his book a patchwork memoir of a lifetime’s encounters. Truthful and loving, sometimes elegiac, ,sometimes comic, it’s a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness of others. Michael is a patron and long-time supporter of Arts Richmond, so we are delighted he has agreed to be one of the…
Horse: The Road Less Travelled
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Horse makes a welcome return to London - with The Exchange as her only London venue - as part of her ‘The Road Less Travelled’ tour. This is the title of the new album due for release late autumn. She’ll be showcasing new songs from this, her 11th album. When it comes to a Horse show there is much to celebrate. It feels like the reunion of old friends and not just another show. This year also sees the 30th…
Carnaby Army – 60s British invasion!
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Carnaby Army brings you the kind of 60's music that is best experienced LIVE! The 1960’s music scene in Britain didn’t start with a bang, it was more a crescendo. The decade heralded the arrival of bands that are now household names: the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and the Animals raised energy levels from about 1964, followed closely by the Who, Spencer Davis Group and the Small Faces. They were the vanguard of the British Invasion, but the US had…
Richmond Film Society Presents ‘Plan 75’
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Japan is ageing faster than any other country in the world, with almost 40% of its population over 60. With an exceptionally low birth rate, that figure is expected to continue to increase as the population shrinks. Whilst Japan once placed its elderly at the top of the social hierarchy, that is no longer the case, with the country’s prime minister recently stating that the ageing population poses an “urgent risk to society”. Against this backcloth, director Chie Hayakawa imagines the…