Events Listing 2024
What’s on in 2024
The Arts Alive Festival runs from October 1 to 31
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Live Audience Events
Join us for a special collaboration with best-selling author and renowned artist Luke Adam Hawker.
11:00 am – 3:30 pm
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You are warmly invited to visit Twinkleton Art, displayed at South Street Gallery, Dorking.
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Cards inscribed with haiku and tanka suspended in the four trees outside waitrose and theatre
9:00 am – 11:30 pm
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Learn to Dance Modern Jive the LeRoc Fun way
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
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Choir Workshop with Leader Jo Peace
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Tuesday’s journal making/book binding – Thursday’s Gelli Plate printing
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
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Message In A Bottle is a pirate’s journey one-man circus, acrobatic & fire show extravaganza!
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Come sing Christmas songs and carols with Dorking Loud & Proud Community Choir
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Dorking Folk Club meets weekly to enjoy a programme of live traditional and acoustic music.
8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
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Weekly rehearsals with The Downsmen acappella harmony chorus
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Watercolour Class
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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One of four art lectures on a range of topics. Please see other listings on 11th, 18th and 25th October,
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Radical Film Festival showcases independent local & national films highlighting communities impacted by lifechanging events.
7:30 am – 10:00 pm
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An evening of open mic poetry and music
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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Eleanor Medcalf and Peter Coleman on piano and solo for William Cole Church Music Trust
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Walk Through Fire At The Grange
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Buided tour of the historic ruins of Betchworth Castle
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Explore -with great photos & poetry- how we can do ‘food for good’ in Westcott!
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
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Young people who have faced homelessness will create an Illusion & Fantasy art exhibition.
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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An opportunity for orchestral players to join us for a rehearsal of our autumn programme
7:45 pm – 9:45 pm
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Bestselling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023
8:00 pm
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A short walk and guided tour of the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden in Ockley
11:00 am – 3:30 pm
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Thinking inside the box! Ironwork created for notional spaces measuring 1m x 400mm x 400mm.
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Author Joanna Glen in conversation with Ana Sampson, discussing her latest book Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly.
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Two One Act Comedies
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Old flames meet. Is there a spark? Too much baggage? Will they take a chance?
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Be blown away by the most amazing guitar riffs of the last 50 years
8:00 pm
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Art lectures on a range of topics.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Creative writing workshop about combining prose with the minimalist poem haiku to make a haibun
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Stockfest
11:30 am – 10:00 pm
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Art installation and workshop highlighting the social history of rivers in the south east.
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Be really ready for your Carol Singing this year and bring your tinsel!
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Dorking Chamber Orchestra – Autumn Classical Concert
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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ShedArt Gallery Studios is open for Arts Alive. Over 100 pieces of art for sale.
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
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A free local film festival showing local films from southeast England.
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Three local artists come together to display a new show of 2D and 3D work.
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Come and enjoy the poetry, maybe read your own, in our popular open mic evening.
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
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Dorking Cameras Club Exhibition
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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If you love learning about art in all its many forms – look no further
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
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MÉDIATOR FÊTE LES 100 ANS DU CLUB DE FOOT DE GOUVIEUX
7:00 am – 11:30 pm
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A multimedia detective story, exploring the difference between our physical selves and thoughts.
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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London Coach Trip
5:00 pm
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Radical Film Festival showcases independent local & national films highlighting communities impacted by lifechanging events.
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Booking required
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Art lectures on a range of topics. Please see other talks on 4th, 11th and 25th October.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Rampant Roosters will be performing at Dorking Community Orchard’s Apple Pressing at Village Greens, Denbies
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
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Family Learning Festival
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Come & Sing Elijah
9:30 am – 5:30 pm
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Freestyle Dance Modern Jive the LeRoc Fun way
8:00 pm – 11:30 pm
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East Surrey Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers in to the Blue
11:00 am – 3:30 pm
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World’s favourite George Michael celebration!
8:00 pm
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From Dorking’s Italian twin town, Sinalunga, a live concert conducted by Maestro Gianni Bagnoli.
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Concert featuring current and past members of Coldharbour Village Band to celebrate our 10th Anniversary
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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A night of exploring our ‘human tricky things’ with performance poet and psychotherapist Jacky Power
CANCELLED
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Youthsayers Live Concert
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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Exhibition by local artists showcasing a fabulous range of original artwork in a stunning setting.
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Dorking Blue Plaques and Statues guided walk
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Curated by Dapper & Suave Pop-Up Autumn Market
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Hear some of the Moles’ recent writings and take part if you wish: refreshments available.
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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With this performance at Watermill Jazz, Equal Spirits launch their debut album Wise and Waiting, a collaboration between South African musi…
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
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The smartest, and often the silliest, political comic we’ve got.
7:30 pm
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When you think reggae, there is only one name that comes to mind.
8:00 pm
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IOLANTHE – A COMIC OPERETTA BY GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. FULLY STAGED WITH COSTUMES.
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Chloe Dalton will be discussing her debut book Raising Hare.
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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The autumn exhibition of the Dorking Group of Artists.
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
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The Drifters are back on tour in the UK
8:00 pm
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Art lectures on a range of topics. Please see other lectures on 4th, 11th and 18th October.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Be a Dorking Museum Curator
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Visit live broadcasting studios with an opportunity to record your voice for radio
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
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A celebration of Pumpkins, Squash ad Gourds
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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Freestyle Dance Modern Jive the LeRoc Fun way
8:00 pm – 11:30 pm
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Duo Brothers Broke bring their sell out, 5-star reviewed Edinburgh Fringe show to Green Room Theatre, Dorking – LIKELY TO SELL OUT
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Collage and Cake
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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The Grange Autumn Fair for all the family
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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Classic story of WI members who create an “alternative” calendar for charity
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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The Phoenix Writers’ Circle presents an evening showcasing their writing from the past year
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Historic Dorking Ghost Walk
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Endorsed by The Telegraph as the world’s greatest Elvis Show!
8:00 pm
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Digital/Online Events
Coeur Gospel Choir from Triel sur Seine performs a varied gospel repertoire.
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Celebrating Poetry for Children in this virtual event for schools
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