Led by Nanda Sharma

Welcome to Bollybhangra Dance Fitness Party sessions! Nanda teaches her original choreographies to top hits from Bollywood, Bhangra, Belly dance and also other international music and dance rhythms.

The joyful music and movements encourage us to open our hearts and minds to possibilities, improve wellbeing and body-confidence and encourage us to embrace our individuality.

Enjoy the benefits of dance on flexibility and balance, health and fitness, and mood, memory, in a fun and friendly environment, at your own pace- no pressure. Beginners welcome.

Every class feels like a party and your place awaits! Dress up or dress down, some colour, sequins and a jingly bellydance scarf will add to your experience!

Bring water, a towel, wear dance sneakers or trainers.

Autumn

Drop In Sessions
Tues 1 Oct
Tues 22 Oct
Drop in sessions £7

Course
Tues 5 Nov - 3 Dec (5 weeks)
£10 per session | £40 per 5 weeks

Drop In Session
Tues 17 Dec
Drop in sessions £7

3pm - 4pm

•  12 Nov from £10
•  19 Nov from £10
• 3 more dates...

Join The Dustbowl Sinners, a Roots/Americana band from the South East of England. 

Their gigs range from upbeat foot stomping hollerin’ numbers, to slower soulful and gospel-style songs. 

Instrumentation includes double bass, banjo, slide dobro, mandolin, acoustic guitar, harmonica, washboard and accordion. 

The songs they perform (including many originals) come from a huge melting pot of influences including country, gospel, blues, ballads, ragtime and jug band music.  While their repertoire is heavily loaded with older music of these types, particularly from the 1920’s and 30’s, their musical exploration continues right up to present day.

Come and enjoy the journey with them!

Studio
£16 | £14 supporters

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•   7 Dec from £16

Eshaan Akbar is back doing jokes on tour! His previous tour was described by The Times as 'pretty sick' (not an actual quote) so this one is likely to be mad good.

Eshaan has supported some of the biggest acts in the UK, including Micky Flanagan, Jason Manford and Kae Kurd.

He's been seen on Netflix's Sex Education, BBC's Mock The Week, QI and Live At The Apollo, Comedy Central Live and many more. Forthcoming TV includes Channel 4's The Last Leg and BBC's Pilgrimage. He's also been heard on award-winning podcasts Have A Word, Ninetwentynine and Spitting Image, as well as LBC, Times Radio, and BBC Radio 4.

‘An artfully pointed, refreshingly funny hour that suggests a big talent in the making' ★★★★ The Times

'A fine comic entertainer, an intelligent maker of points and a wealth of fascinating facts' ★★★★ The Scotsman

'Genius stand-up comedy' Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

'A story that’s likely to go far' Chortle

Courtyard Theatre
£18.50

Eshaan's website

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•   8 Feb from £1850

Shabaz Ali takes to the stage in his debut live comedy tour.

Jam packed with his roaring, on point and hugely requested observations of the mindboggling lengths that are taken to present a 'perfect' life online.

From designer ice cubes to Stanley cups and their wild and somewhat varied uses, nothing escapes his withering comedic commentary. A hilarious and interactive show where no one is off limits (including the audience!). It will make you fall in love with your own extraordinary, ordinary life.

Shabaz Ali is a global sensation who has fast become a pop culture phenomenon. He is a comedian and author of hit book I’m Rich, You're Poor. Shabaz has built a loyal community of millions of followers, who regularly demand his quick-witted take on the latest online craze.

'Hilarious and thought provoking' Davina McCall

'Brilliantly witty, always hilarious' Dr Ranj

'Smart, witty and refreshing' Katie Piper OBE

Studio
£18

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•  15 Mar from £18

Hosted by Jeff Lloyd.

Another sleeper hit last year makes an early return.

10 tracks chosen by 10 people in the audience but you won't know who chose what until the end of the evening. The winner will be the track that gets the audience singing along the most! Can anything better last year's winner, 'Daydream Believer?'

Studio
£12

Other Vinyl Frontier events this season include:
Sat 14 Dec: Your Favourite vs My Favourite

The Vinyl Frontier's website

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•   9 Nov from £12

Led by Seann Wilkinson

A non-audition community choir open to all. Working on everything from Madonna to Les Mis, from gospel to pop - this is an opportunity to meet people, learn some harmonies and sing your hearts out. No experience required. Enthusiasm absolutely necessary!

Autumn
Tues 10 Sept - 17 Dec, exc 29 Oct (14 weeks)
7.30pm – 9pm
£11 per session | £140 per 14 week term

•  12 Nov from £11
•  19 Nov from £11
• 3 more dates...

Led by Jim Maving

Always wanted to learn guitar but never got around to it? Want to trade your air guitar skills for real guitar skills? It is never too late to learn. Learn guitar right from the very beginning. This is a foundation course for those with little to no experience of playing guitar. You will learn how to hold a guitar and to make the right noises out of it. The aim of these lessons is to get you playing your first song within 4 weeks of lessons, as no-one takes up guitar to strum random chords, it’s all about the songs.

If you are returning to guitar having not played for some time and can barely remember chords this is a great way of getting back into the swing of things.

If you've never played guitar you need to book on the Absolute Beginners course!

These classes are split by skills level;

Beginners A - Recently completed the Absolute Beginners course but still some way to go. Yet to tackle bar chords and complicated rhythms.

Beginners B - Well on the way and able to do bar chords

Beginners C - Almost Intermediate but not quite yet.

Autumn
Tues 10 Sept – 8 Oct (5 weeks)
Tues 15 Oct – 19 Nov, exc 22 Oct (5 weeks)
Tues 3 Dec – 17 Dec (3 weeks)

7.45pm - 8.45pm

£50 per 5 week course | £30 per 3 week course

Suitable for 18+ years.

•  12 Nov
•  19 Nov
• 3 more dates...

From their earliest days as a noisy, politicised ceilidh band in the late Seventies, Oysterband have never stopped evolving or providing soundtrack to the changing times.

The Oyster Ceilidh Band (as they were known then), were a band on a simple mission to get dancefloors bouncing. But with a chemistry between its members and music that made a profound connection with its audiences, greater things soon beckoned as the times became more complicated.

Emerging in the early 80s from their ceilidh band days they infused both the traditional and their own songs with a passion and energy that was electrifyingly fresh for the time.

Oysterband have been a constant and uplifting presence in music throughout the decades and have ratcheted-up dozens of studio releases throughout their career.

Their collaboration with June Tabor in 1990 produced the cult favourite album Freedom & Rain, and it was renewed 21 years later for ‘Ragged Kingdom’, one of the best-selling folk-rock albums of the new millennium.

Winners of several BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including Best Band twice, Oysterband’s song-writing has never stood still, and hits such as The Oxford Girl, When I’m Up I Can’t Get Down (Best Song at the Canadian East Coast Music Awards, performed by Great Big Sea), Everywhere I Go and Put Out The Lights are now renowned staples of the folk canon.

The creative heart of Oysterband is still here after 45 years: John Jones (vocals, melodeon), Alan Prosser (guitars) and Ian Telfer (violin), with Al Scott, their longtime producer, on bass, Adrian Oxaal (cello and guitar) and newest member Sean Randle on drums.

They’ve travelled the world but they still play with the fire of that dance band back in Kent.

Courtyard Theatre
£27

Oysterband's website

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•  12 Nov LIMITED