SingFest – St Mark’s Church, Wimbledon Wimbledon Community Chorus will be joining with other Merton Choirs for this years’ annual Singfest. Wimbledon Community Chorus, led by Musical Director Soo Bishop, Creative Director of Merton Music Foundation and accompanied by brilliant local pianist and cellist Giles Kennedy, will perform in the second of 4 short concerts across the day, given by Read more…

A day of festive family fun to fill you with the spirit of the season. Enjoy live performances while sipping on a hot tipple or two, shop for the perfect present at our Christmas market and watch an amazing ice sculpture show throughout the day. The Broadway will be closed for children’s rides, magical marquees filled with crafts and activities, Read more…

Come along to our Family Day (part of the Metronome Morden Coffee Festival), and join in with the following activities: Cup Design Competition Babyciono Stencilling A chance to see inside the Crown Lane Recording Studio. Families of all ages are welcome, between 10:00am and 3:00pm. Adults can enjoy the free samples, interactive displays, an art gallery as well as our Read more…

2021 Activity Update In 2021 we held two Covid-safe LIVE in-person summer festivals on Wimbledon Common – Sunrise in June and Sunset in September Watch the Sunrise Highlights HERE Author events for schools were included at the Festival – and are available to view HERE. Writing projects and community work are still running throughout the year . The Robert Graves Read more…

Get into the festive spirit at the Wimbledon Winter Weekender, 27-28th November, 12-5pm. A FREE event for the community with performers, a brass band, roller skating Christmas characters, a Christmas Market with hot food and ice carving in Wimbledon Town Centre. Don’t miss an appearance from Father Christmas himself, plus a spectacular fireworks display on Sunday at 5pm, courtesy of Read more…

Get into the festive spirit at the Wimbledon Winter Weekender, 27-28th November, 12-5pm. A FREE event for the community with performers, a brass band, roller skating Christmas characters, a Christmas Market with hot food and ice carving in Wimbledon Town Centre. Don’t miss an appearance from Father Christmas himself, plus a spectacular fireworks display on Sunday at 5pm, courtesy of Read more…

Wimbledon BookFest returns for “Sunset Festival” from 15 – 19 September – its second in-person festival of 2021 featuring over 40 live events. Wimbledon BookFest is back with its second live in-person festival of the summer. Sunset Festival is a five-day event comprising more than 40 talks, workshops and activities for public and schools audiences. It follows the huge success of Sunrise Read more…

In a return to live in-person events, Wimbledon BookFest launches “Sunrise” – the first of two 5-day festivals on Wimbledon Common this summer! Wimbledon BookFest is London’s leading community-based literary festival. Now it becomes one of the first to return to live in-person events with two 5-day festivals on Wimbledon Common: “Sunrise” (9 – 13 Jun 2021) and “Sunset” (15 – 19 Sep 2021) Read more…

Wimbledon International Music Festival Friday 13 November – Sunday 22 November 2020 A series of intimate performances by some of the UK’s finest artists, bringing you closer than ever as they explore their personal relationship with their chosen works. Tickets on sale from Midnight on Friday 2 October A message from the Festival Director I am delighted to announce an Read more…

Merton Arts Festival is joining forces with Lady Wimbledon to present an online exhibition, a showcase of art in Merton. This November you can see the art that Merton artists have created from the ease and comfort of your own home. Be Inspired, Get Inspired by Merton Arts being online. You can see a masterpiece get mesmerised by it and even Read more…

The 9th Annual Abundance Fruit Day is back on Saturday, 19 September, 11am to 2.30pm at St Mark’s Church Hall, SW19 7ND.  Entry is via Compton Road. Visit their website and follow them on Twitter to find out more about the work of this wonderful local charity and their much loved annual fruit day as we get closer to the Read more…

Wimbledon BookFest Returns! With the new guidance on open air events and performance Wimbledon BookFest have a unique opportunity to do something special this summer. The ‘Last Days of Summer’ Weekend Festival will take place in an outside space on Wimbledon Common in a covered marquee – sides open for air flow to maximise air flow. Events will have reduced Read more…

Junior Photography Festival If you’re 12 years of age or under and interested in photography the team at LAC would love you to take part in their Junior Photography Festival. ENTRY CONDITIONS: ​One photograph per entrant emailed as a Jpeg file to the LAC (see below) before 12 noon on Monday April 27th; note that this has been extended to Read more…

Step into the future at Mitcham Fair Green! For one day, Mitcham’s General Giles Social Club will become an exciting VR entertainment space where you can watch a great selection of 360-degree films.  Watch ‘Gloomy Eyes’, a VR animation of a zombie love story starring Colin Farrell, or explore the depths of a 16,500-year-old cave in Santander with the interactive documentary ‘Memoria: Stories Read more…

Annual Christmas Tree Festival (6 – 8 December 2019) Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will take place from Friday, 6th December to Sunday, 8th December at Trinity United Reformed Church in Wimbledon. There will also be a Craft and Gift fair on Saturday, 7th December. How to Get Involved In its 5th year, this popular festival is celebrating all things ‘Anniversaries’ so if you have a date Read more…

The Booker Shortlisted author will be discussing her new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World – an intensely powerful novel about a young woman reflecting onlife after death. Elif is the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul, Three Daughers of Eve and The Forty Rules of Love. Elif Shafak is a twice TED Global speaker and Read more…