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Bridge is played in a friendly and informal atmosphere at the National Liberal Club or Riverstone or a member's home in Kensington using English ACOL and US 5 card major bidding systems. Please register for your free ticket by clicking on the link below.
Please contact event organiser Katy Cooke for any queries at bridge@kcwc.org.uk
The Foodies team is pleased to welcome Helen from Cook'd London, to KCWC for the very first time.
About Helen:
Helen Nathan (nee Sugarman) initially trained in hotel management with the Savoy Group, including working in the kitchens at Claridges and as a florist at the Savoy.
She's had a 15 year wine trade career, ending up on the board of The Wines of Chile UK and Marketing Director at Bibendum Wines.
Helen has also created and launched a range of wine sorbets called Vin Glace, that sold in major UK supermarkets and BA world wide, first class, she has written 3 best selling children’s baking books (the Flossie Crums series) that appeared on 3 million bags of McDougall’s Flour.
Her most recent book ‘Eat to Heal’ was written with her sister in law, a nutrigenomics practitioner - specialising in examining how food reacts with your DNA.
Now she runs COOK'D LONDON. Kitchen table classes, food adventures, outside catering and intimate corporate tailor made events.
Our Foodies event:
Learn how to prepare simple make ahead canapés for Christmas entertaining. Enjoy a selection of traditional and experimental cocktails and mocktail's with hands-on participation.
Christmas entertaining should be fun not stressful, with careful advance planning, learn the art of throwing the perfect party.
Cost is £55.00 per ticket and includes cocktail sampling, canapé-making and eating + all recipes to take home.
Please book a ticket below to indicate your interest and the ALs will contact you with payment instructions.
For any queries, contact the Event Organisers at foodies@kcwc.org.uk
Join me for a fun Christmas fashion evening at Stephanie Shop with champagne and canapés and an exclusive 25% off for KCWC members!
Come, sip and chat while you shop for yourself or for loved ones.
For any queries, contact Event Organiser Barbara Welch at fashion@kcwc.org.uk
KCWC Mahjong Mornings welcome you to join us for 2 hours (10.30-12.30) every Monday at The Phoenix Pub & Restaurant, a short walk from Sloane Square.
Prompt arrival at 10:30am is critical, as is registration (by purchasing a ticket below), by noon the Sunday prior each week to ensure we have enough mahjong sets and players.
While new players will be given instructional materials, regular players will need to purchase a Mahjong Book (c.£30) to bring to each meeting.
Please join us for a Christmas lunch after mahjong (at your own cost). Just let us know if you plan to attend lunch by emailing Nicola so we can send you the menu ahead of time and plan numbers.
For any queries please contact event organiser Nicola Harayda at mahjong@kcwc.org.uk
You can make a difference by joining us for just 2 hours on the first Tuesday of every month.
KCWC supports the Wandsworth Foodbank by helping to sort, label and organise the food donations. You'll find that the 2 hours just flies by!
The Wandsworth Foodbank Warehouse is located at 9 Ferrier Street, Wandsworth, SW18 1SW, conveniently located 2 minutes walk from Wandsworth Town Station and easily accessed by many bus routes.
Make a difference by signing up and help KCWC and Wandsworth Foodbank to support those less fortunate!
If tickets are sold-out for this event, you are welcome to join the waitlist - please note that we typically only get to the first one or two members on the waitlist, so please don't be disappointed if you are not contacted.
Please email event organiser Christie Bachmann for any queries at charityvolunteers@kcwc.org.uk
*Note: If you're interested in regular volunteering, Wandsworth Foodbank are also looking for kind and compassionate people who can commit to volunteering once a week for a minimum of six months.
Please join us for a session of unrehearsed reading/acting out of short contemporary one act plays.
We will be meeting informally at a member's house. This meet-up is purely for our own enjoyment so we can read together/act together/laugh together/ get to know each other. No prior acting experience is required, it is not about putting on a perfect play, but about spontaneous fun. If you don't want to act, you can simply read or even just listen. There is no pressure.
All reading material will be provided but if you have something you would like to read/act out in a group, please bring a few copies of it.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you register as "anonymous" you must please inform the event organisers of your name and contact details, so you can be included in all further communication.
For queries, please contact event organisers Judith Neuling or Ina Messer at popup@kcwc.org.uk
Curated by violinist Roman Mints, this year’s Another Music Festival celebrates the legacy of composers who lived and created in exile — some forced, some chosen — and how separation from their homeland reshaped their art.
From historical giants such as Chopin, Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Enescu to neglected voices like Ukrainian composer Theodore Akimenko, the festival traces a journey through music shaped by migration.
Across three evenings of chamber music, international artists perform works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Enescu and others, alongside new works and UK premieres by contemporary composers who continue the conversation between displacement and creativity.
Each programme offers a different perspective on exile — from nostalgia and memory to renewal and transformation.
For any queries, contact Event Organiser Maria Puleio at music1@kcwc.org.uk
Music Programme on January 18
Paul Hindemith — Sonata in D major, Op. 11 No. 2 (1918) Roman Mints (violin), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Tania León — Homenatge (2011) Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Frédéric Chopin — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 (1846) Kristina Blaumane (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Sergei Rachmaninov — Preludes – Op. 23 No. 2 (1901) – Op. 3 No. 2 (1892) Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Stefania Turkewich — Sonata for Violin and Piano (1935, UK Premiere) Iryna Marchuk (violin), Maxym Artemenko (piano)
Alexey Kurbatov — Piano Quartet (World Premiere) Vadym Kholodenko (piano), Roman Mints (violin), Mikhail Rudoy (viola), Kristina Blaumane (cello)
For the first time ever, a novel by John Le Carré is brought to life in a thrilling stage adaptation.
"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
This is a story of betrayal not only between nations but between the human soul.
NOTE: There will be a Pre-Theatre Dinner option available at your own tab. Information will be provided closer to the event, and I would kindly ask you to indicate your interest at your earliest convenience.
*Please do NOT click "anonymous" when purchasing your ticket as it causes problems for the activity leader in managing and communicating about the event.
For any queries contact event organiser Viola Hindley at theatre@kcwc.org.uk
The Wallace Collection houses, among its many treasures, exquisite objects and pieces of furniture of royal provenance that belonged to Marie-Antoinette or her entourage. This tour will be an opportunity to discover not only the taste, imagination and style of the young "Dauphine" and later Queen of France, but it will also enable us to understand her story and fate: her arrival at Versailles as a young teenager, her desire to escape the stifling formality of court etiquette, her circle of friends, her enemies, her insatiable desire for light entertainment and luxury objects, her taste for the picturesque and the new sensitivity, her lack of judgement.
This tour, led by Muriel Carré, will enable you to understand Marie-Antoinette's enduring legacy as a style icon, and will be the indispensable introduction to the V&A's exhibition on until March 2026.
Note: We will meet at 10:15am at the entrance of The Wallace Collection.
For any queries contact event organiser Geneviève Sentier at londonwalks@kcwc.org.uk
Come and join us at one of the very best Winter Gardens in England at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge. This stunning Winter Garden celebrates the bright colours, scents and textures of the plants shown to advantage by the low winter sun. Anglesey Abbey is also renowned for its unique and huge display of 500 different varieties of snowdrops which should be in full bloom at this time.
We will also visit the house, which evolved from a 12th century priory to a 20th century country house. It is full of treasures, some of which you can explore on the BBC programme "Hidden treasures of the National Trust".
Afterwards a taxi will convey us to Ely where we will have lunch at a highly praised Japanese restaurant (your own tab).
Following this, we will visit Ely Cathedral, one of the most beautiful cathedrals of England, first built in 1083. This also houses the foremost stained glass museum in England.
We can then explore the historic centre of Ely with its monastic buildings and also visit the former home of Oliver Cromwell, leader of the English Civil War and Lord Protector after the beheading of King Charles I.
Included in the cost of the ticket: admin fees and taxi from Anglesey Abbey to Ely.
Additional costs (your own tab, on the day):
- Train ticket (approx. £40.00)
- Taxi from Cambridge to Anglesey Abbey (approx. £20.00 per shared taxi)
- Entrance to Anglesey Abbey (£18.00 or free to National Trust members)
- Entrance to Ely Cathedral (£14.00)
- Entrance to Oliver Cromwell House (£8.00)
If you register as "anonymous" when booking your ticket, please contact the event organizer with your name and contact details so you can be included in all further communications.
This event is co-lead with the KCWC British History group.
For queries, please contact the event organiser Judith Neuling at gloriousgardens@kcwc.org.uk
With Valentine's Day approaching, we are inviting you to a specially curated tour of The National Gallery led by Muriel Carré, where we will be focusing on a selection of ravishingly beautiful paintings on the theme of love, seduction, courtship, marriage, voyeurism, fidelity, adultery, gods and mortals, beds and alcoves . . . Cupid's arrow will leave no painting untouched.
Botticelli, Van Eyck, Titian, Veronese, Watteau, Gainsborough, Reni, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Rubens and many more old masters have all conspired to paint love for our eyes only!
Note: We will meet at 2:00pm at The National Gallery - specific entrance will be given nearer to the event.
This event cost is £30.00; contact event organizer to pay.
A bold new creation by pianist-narrator Pavel Timofeyevsky and his colleagues.
Not lectures. Not concerts.
These narrated performances are an art form in themselves - where piano, voice, and story ignite to bring forgotten histories, hidden passions, and musical revolutions to life.
Pavel fuses music and narrative into living theatre, where history breathes, scandals burn, and forgotten voices sing again. These aren't "talks with music."
They are musical stories come alive - dazzling, intimate, unforgettable.
"Her Music, Their Name" (Second in a 5-part Series titled "How Women Changed the Music World)
They wrote. Men took the credit. Now the piano shouts their truth and the voice sings their stolen songs --
Fanny Mendelssohn, Alma Mahler, Florence Price. Forgotten no more.
*Please note that since this is an event sponsored by Notable: there is a 2-step process for signing up for the event and then paying for the ticket:
1) Use the normal KCWC process for signing up for a "free" ticket on this website.
Once you have registered in that way . . .
2) email the KCWC event coordinator at opera1@kcwc.org.uk and Alya will send you the link and discount code needed to purchase your actual ticket for £30
Note: if you are interested in bringing a guest, you are free to purchase their ticket at the regular Notable price once on their ticketing website.
For any queries, please contact the event coordinator, Alya Samokhvalova at opera1@kcwc.org.uk
What connects the work of French artists, Berthe Morisot and Suzanne Valadon?
Berthe Morisot (1841-95) was born into an upper-middle-class family, received formal training as an artist, and became a pioneering figure in the Impressionist movement. Despite the limitations imposed on women of her social status, she created bold, innovative works that challenged artistic and societal conventions, capturing everyday life from a distinctly female perspective.
Suzanne Valadon's (1865-1938) working-class mother raised her alone, requiring Suzanne to work from a young age. After holding various jobs, including posing as an artist's model, Suzanne began creating art herself. Unbound by social norms, she socialised in bohemian circles and developed a bold, idiosyncratic style which defied conventions.
In this session, Jo Rhymer will consider the overlaps as well as the differences between these two significant artists, both of whom made major contributions to the development of French Modern Art.
Please note: the lecture is from 10:00am - 12:15pm with a break for coffee/tea. Come at 9:30am and have a chat!
NOTE: Please do NOT unclick "include name in list of event registrants" when purchasing your ticket as you may miss important communications about this event.
For any queries, please contact event organiser Susan Alloun at arthistory1@kcwc.org.uk
June 1912 -- George Fabian-Lawrence, or Stony Jack as he is better known, picks through a heavy ball of clay brought to him by two workmen from a City of London worksite. A glint of gold attracts his attention before a pearl earring tumbles into his hand followed by a Burmese ruby then Colombian emeralds, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan and Iranian turquoise. The greatest single cache of Elizabethan treasure - The Cheapside Hoard - has fallen into Stony Jack's covetous lap.
Join us to learn from author Victoria Shepherd about the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade at the height of the Empire. Hear how mudlarkers, charlatans and chancers unearthed treasures and ghosts in her riveting and twisting tale of adventure and intrigue.
For any queries contact Mary Narvell at antiques1@kcwc.org.uk
Micaelina Wautier - a 17th century trailblazer rediscovered.
Active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century, she challenged the limits imposed on female artists at the time by working on an unusually varied range of subjects: from flowers and portraits to grand history paintings -which was a format usually reserved for her male counterparts.
In her most famous painting, The Triumph of Bacchus, she painted herself as a pagan bacchante in monumental scale, looking squarely at the viewer and confidently asserting her position as the maker.
Although Wautier was hugely successful in her time, her breathtaking paintings and her place in art history were almost lost in the 18th century.
This exhibition is on at the Royal Academy from 27 March - 21 June 2026.
Our lecturer will be Chantal Bortherton-Radciffe.
Please come at 9:30am for a coffee/tea. The lecture begins at 10:00am and we aim to finish at 12:15pm. There will be a break around 11:00am.
Any question please contact Susan Shriver at arthistory@kcwc.org.uk
In 1937, artists Sir Cedric Morris and his partner, Arthur Lett-Haines, set up the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at their home Benton End in Hadleigh, Suffolk. There, alongside other celebrated art students and friends, including a very young Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Vita Sackville-West, they explored an “outside the system” approach to creativity taking inspiration from Benton End’s beautiful gardens. Cedric, also a horticulturalist, was a breeder of bearded irises naming over 90 with the Benton prefix. The gardens equally inspired many innovative designers such as Beth Chatto, the most famous of her generation.
Whether you love interiors, gardening or painting, this talk presented by Beatrice Prosser-Snelling from The Garden Museum of London, will interest you. As the project director for the restoration of the garden and house which just received National Lottery Funding, she is the ideal guide until we will have the chance later in the year to visit Benton End with BADA Friends.
Let's embark on a sensory walk through the streets of the Square Mile, London's financial district. Forget about bonds and shares, and follow our guide, Emma, along a fragrant route that winds its way among the skyscrapers and the little alleyways of the city.
Each garden of the city is a little haven of peace tucked between glass and steel towers and historic buildings.
We invite you to walk those pocket parks together, rain or shine!
Note: We will be meeting at 2:00pm in the city - the exact meeting place to be specified later.
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