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.Welcome to your weekly What's on in Kingston.  

Every Thursday we round up all the eye-catching events occurring in your area over the weekend.

Happy Kingston Collage

Friday 25 July, Tudor Drive Library.

Tudor Drive Library is located in 192 Tudor Drive Kingston upon Thames KT2 5QH (Image supplied)

Through the Happy Kingston Collage*- a series of Art and Wellbeing Workshops - we'll use collage to reconnect with the everyday things that bring us joy.

The session will open with a quick check-in and introduction , followed by hands-on collaging. No prior experience is necessary, and all materials will be provided. Just bring your enthusiasm and an open mind!

Everyone is welcome to attend all five sessions - as each one will explore a different idea for having more joy, building on the previous session's activity. These ideas are inspired by long-term thinking principles, and all tools and ideas offered at the workshops are for participants to take home and keep reusing anything which they find helpful.

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DISCO SOUL at Teddington

Friday 25 July, Teddington Constitutional Club, 7.30pm - midnight.

Teddington Constitutional Club is located in 5 Stanley Road, TW11 8TP (Image supplied)

Your favourite 70's disco and soul music, a handful of 60's Motown, plus maybe a splash of Northern soul - all played on old-school vinyl.

A great bunch of party people of all ages strutting their stuff, or for the worn out sitting and enjoying the great music.

Dressing up not essential but positively encouraged! No attitudes. Reasonably priced drinks. Good public transport links. Easy parking. Groups welcome.

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Fairfield Litter Pick

Saturday 26 July, Fairfield Recreation Ground, 2pm - 3pm.

Fairfield Litter Pick is for people of all ages (Image supplied)

Make a local difference this Love Parks Week (25 July - 3 August) by litter-picking in good company.

Join litter heroes of all ages from 2-3pm on Saturday 26 July as they help clean up Fairfield Recreation Ground and Children's Playground and show this green space how much Kingston residents appreciate it. If you have your own litter-pickers and gloves do bring them along, otherwise there will be some available to borrow, as well as sweet treats for litter heroes.

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Athels Town

Saturday 26 July - Sunday 27 July, Canbury Gardens, 10am - 8pm.

The event will take place in Canbury Gardens, Lower Ham Road, Kingston, KT2 5AU (Credit: Tilly O'Brien)

The sights, sounds and smells of early mediaeval life are returning to Kingston's Canbury Gardens for one weekend (26-27 July). 

Modern day Londoners are invited to step back in time to 925, the year King Athelstan, the first king of a united England, was crowned in the heart of Kingston. The free, two-day event will immerse visitors in history with an Anglo Saxon encampment set to pop up as the riverside park becomes Athel's Town.  

Reenactments will show families what life was like in a Saxon village over 1000 years ago. There will be battle demonstrations, music, storytelling, traditional crafts, falconry displays, a working forge and more.

On Saturday, a parade of warriors, nobility and townsfolk will march across the River Thames on Kingston bridge, just footsteps away from the original crossing point, traced back to Roman times. 

On Sunday, an innovative Augmented Reality experience will thrill visitors with the digital unveiling of a statue of King Athelstan by world renowned sculptor Andrew Sinclair. The event will be experienced in virtual reality developed by Kingston University.

There will also be community stalls, street food, Athelstan Beer from the Kingston Park Brewery bar and music performances fusing the traditional and the contemporary, giving a festival vibe to the occasion. 

Athel's town is set to be an exciting living history experience here in Kingston, promising fun for all the family.

It is one of a diverse programme of events for Kingston 2025, a six-month cultural festival marking the 1100 anniversary of the crowning of King Athelstan and celebrating the past, present and future of the royal borough and its communities.  

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