We are delighted to introduce the All@Alleyn’s series of free-to-attend lectures and workshops for 2019, delivered by subject specialists, and to invite friends and neighbours from the local community to take part. There will be something for everyone, so please do come and participate – simply book your free place via this website.

All@Alleyn’s forms part of Alleyn’s School’s programme to mark the 400^th anniversary of Edward Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift, alongside formal commemorative events and the launch of an ambitious bursary fundraising campaign.

Learn more about Alleyn’s 400 here.

Friday 5 April, 8pm
 
Plosive’s flagship stand-up night, bringing the best in alternative comedy to south east London.

SHAPPI KHORSANDI – star of ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘I’m a Celeb’ and ‘QI’ – headlines April’s show.

Plus big-collared comedy loon and former ‘TV Burp’ host HARRY HILL, ‘Mock the Week’ and ‘Live at the Apollo’ star DANE BAPTISTE and ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’s JAYDE ADAMS. 

Tickets: £17

Age restriction: 18+

For more information and booking you will be redirected tot the Plosive Comedy website

Wednesday 1 May, 7.30pm

Join Village Books and Alleyn’s School Enterprises for an evening with Leah Hazard an NHS Midwife who will be talking about her new book Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

Leah Hazard’s life on the NHS frontline, working within a maternity system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. From the bloody to the beautiful, from moments of vulnerability to remarkable displays of human strength, from camaraderie to raw desperation, from heart-wrenching grief to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born baby, Leah has seen it all.

Hard Pushed is for fans of Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness, and tells the story of life at the frontline of the maternity ward.

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Thursday 16 May, 7.30pm

ALLEYN'S LOWER SCHOOL

Who was the real Wallis Simpson?

On the 11^th December 1936 Edward VIII’s abdication plunged the British monarchy and its government into crisis.  Determined to marry Wallis Simpson, the King didn’t pause to consider for a moment that she, not him, would be blamed for his history altering decision.

In Untitled, Anna Pasternak looks deep into the life and legacy of one of the most misjudged women in British royal history, seeking to understand an unusual and complex woman, and the untenable situation she became embroiled in.

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Tuesday 17 September, 5pm

Edith Wharton, the short story and the magazines, with Dr Sarah Whitehead (English)

Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald famously called it 'going whoring', but Edith Wharton made selling her stories to the magazines a lucrative means of further exercising her developed taste for irony. Find out how she beat the editors and advertisers at their own game and became the bestselling American writer of her age.

Tickets are free but must be booked online.

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Thursday 28 November, 7pm

Why Does 'The Lord of the Rings' Matter? An Evaluation of Tolkien's Key Text by Revd Anthony Buckley (former Chaplain of Alleyn's, currently City Rector of Oxford)

It was originally panned by critics but increasingly loved by readers. Why has The Lord of the Rings achieved such enduring popularity?

Tickets are free but must be booked online. 

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Wednesday 27 March, 6pm

Pasta-Making Workshop with the Food and Nutrition Department

Do you know your bucatini from your spaghetti and your farfalle from your fusilli? Spend a few hours with our Food and Nutrition teachers learning to make fresh pasta and learning about some of the more than 400 different pasta shapes. We'll also show you how to best use them in dishes that change to match the season.

SOLD OUT

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Wednesday 24 April, 5pm

Shakespeare: a potted history of the 'Upstart Crow' by Mrs Claire Heindl

What do we know about the most famous of English playwrights and his place at the heart of the dynamic (and sometimes dangerous) world of Elizabethan theatre? From explosive performances, plague and posthumous publication to a still-thriving life-after-death, revisit the story of Ned Alleyn’s best known contemporary.

Tickets are free but must be booked online.

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Saturday 4 May, 8pm
 
Plosive’s flagship stand-up night, bringing the best in alternative comedy to south east London.

LOLLY ADEFOPE – star of ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’, ‘Taskmaster’, ‘QI’ and movies ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ and ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ – headlines May’s show.

Plus a full supporting bill of exciting acts to be announced. 

Tickets: £17

Age restriction: 18+

For more information and booking you will be redriected to the Plosive Comedy website

Monday 17 June, 7pm

Camille Pissarro at work in Dulwich by Miss Alex Smith

What drew one of the most enigmatic Impressionist painters to our corner of South London? Explore how the atmosphere and landmarks (past and present) of Dulwich and its surroundings were captured by this French master and see some familiar sights in a new light.

Tickets are free but must be booked online.

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Tuesday 18 June, 7.30pm

A rare opportunity to catch the superb young international prizewinning pianist Florian Mitrea in a dazzling programme that will include Liszt’s mighty Sonata in B minor alongside Viennese classics by Haydn and Beethoven, and a dash of some less well-known but exciting Romanian pieces.

Programme to include:
Haydn: Sonata in Eb Hob XVI/52 
Beethoven: Sonata No.21 in C major 'Waldstein'
Liszt: Sonata in B minor

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Tuesday 16 July, 1.30pm

A Beginner’s Guide to Family History with Miss Nicola Waddington (School Archivist)

This session focuses on the main sources for researching family history and demonstrates how to access sources via Ancestry. It takes the participants on a chronological journey, starting with the present, and works backwards looking at which archive sources can be used for which periods of history. 

Tickets are free but must be booked online.

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Tuesday 8 October, 7pm

Holistic Development through Sport by Mr Dan Bearfoot-Fallon and Mr Gavin English

Director of Sport, Gavin English, and Dan Bearfoot-Fallon, our Sports First Aid Officer and functional movement specialist, talk about developing character through sport and ways to offer physiological support to young people, and help them to prevent and recover from injury.

Tickets are free but must be booked online. 

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