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12.30-1.15pm: Organ Recital for Victoria & Albert Bicentenary
Following AN Wilson’s Thursday night talk on Prince Albert, James Johnstone of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance opens St Michael & All Angels’ 2019-20 season of monthly lunchtime organ music.
Supported by Ballet4Life.com
St Michael & All Angels Church. Admission free, retiring collection
COOKBOOK FESTIVAL
12.30-2.30pm: Danish Summer Lunch
Join the lunch revolution! Hahnemanns KØKKEN has helped elevate Copenhagen’s gastronomic profile and provides stellar sustenance to over 3,000 Danes every day. Trine Hahnemann’s legendary lunches focus on organic sustainability but mainly deliver on modern Nordic flavour.
TGT Cookbook Marquee, Turnham Green Terrace, £35
CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL
Really Big Pants: SUDDENLY…!
The wonderful Really Big Pants Theatre Company are back for the fourth time. This year they will be taking their storytelling show and accompanying book to a local school as part of an outreach programme, and tickets are not on general sale. If you would like them to perform one of their brilliant shows at your school, please contact them via their website.
All tickets pre-booked – St Peter’s CofE Primary School, W6.
CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL
5-6pm: Poetry Competition Prize Giving
Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe, organiser of Coffee-House Poetryat the Troubadour,and former chair of the Poetry Society, will present the prizes for the Chiswick Book Festival’s 9th Young People’s Poetry Competition.
Supported by ChiswickW4.com.
London Buddhist Vihara on The Avenue, free but please book tickets.
6-7pm: Max Hastings: The Dambusters Story
In his new book Chastise, Chiswick favourite Max Hastings provides a dramatic retake on one of the most extraordinary stories of WWII, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams by the RAF’s 617 Squadron. With moving portraits of the young airmen; the brilliant Barnes Wallis, inventor of the ‘bouncing bomb’; Air Marshall ‘Bomber’ Harris; and the tragic Guy Gibson.
Supported by University of West London.
St Michael & All Angels Church, £10
6:15-7:15pm: On The Pavements Grey: WB Yeats in Utopian Bedford Park
From the Irish Embassy in Washington DC, where they launched the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project in May, to the “pavements grey” of London, Chiswick’s resident Irish poets, Cahal Dallat and Anne-Marie Fyfe tell the story of WB Yeats, the Nobel Prize winner whose writing began in Bedford Park, the diverse artists’ colony which fostered his literary genius.
London Buddhist Vihara on The Avenue , £10
COOKBOOK FESTIVAL
7-8:30pm: Prajna Indian Summer Feast & Book Launch with Mira Manek
Ayurveda, the traditional Hindu practice of medicine, has long been intrinsic to daily life in India. Mira Manek brings these life-enhancing, energy-boosting principles and practices up to date and pours them into her delicious and nourishing recipes for a well-balanced life. Expect a sumptuous Indian banquet.
Mira will be hosting Ayurvedic Indian Supper Club in the TGT Marquee. Tickets are £35 and include a non-alcoholic drink. BYO wine.
8-9pm: Richard Briers: More Than Just A Good Life
To the nation, he was everyone’s favourite neighbour in The Good Life. To Chiswick, Richard Briers was OUR favourite neighbour, a local resident for over 50 years. His biographer James Hogg is joined by Richard’s daughter Lucy Briers and Ever Decreasing Circles co-star and friend Peter Egan, as they chat to Festival Director, Torin Douglas.
Supported by Hubbard Pegman & Whitney.
Bar open from 7pm
ArtsEd Theatre, 14 Bath Road, £10