North Bedford and Milton Keynes Poetry Stanza
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 16 Jan 2025
- Until:
- 19 Jun 2025
North Bedford and Milton Keynes Poetry Stanza is a monthly group that meets to discuss their poetry, to learn together, develop their skills and approaches. It’s open to all adults. …
Empower You – Performance Skills Workshop
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 24 Jan 2025
Empower You – Performance Skills Workshops Unlock your full potential with the Empower You Performance Skills Workshops, brought to you by Standing in the Wings. These dynamic sessions are designed …
Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 26 Jan 2025
Spies, murder, love, and other trademarks of Alfred Hitchcock come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast of the master of suspense's earlier films. With The Lodger, …
Victorian Gothic
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 29 Jan 2025
We present an anthology stage show based on a classic trio of nineteenth century chillers – The Body-Snatcher, The Monkey's Paw and Lot No 249. Dramatic story-telling in the theatre-style …
Death Cafe
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 30 Jan 2025
- Until:
- 26 Jun 2025
Death Café Bedford Join us for our monthly Death Café every last Thursday of the month at The Place Theatre in room 3 upstairs. A Death Café is an informal …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Animals
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 31 Jan 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Spanish Fitness Class
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 31-Jan-25
Spanish workshop delivered by Bedford Language Centre We all know practice makes perfect and practising languages is a must. Do you feel you could do with more experience speaking so you can …
From Scratch
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 01 Feb 2025
From Scratch is Bedford’s very own short-play Scratch Night, aiming to provide a platform for new and upcoming artists to share their work. Playwrights, Directors & Actors will have the …
Wellbeing Fair
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 02 Feb 2025
Elevate Your Mind, Body, and Spirit—Join Us at our Wellbeing Fair! Discover a day dedicated to your health and happiness, wellness companies, expert information and a vibrant community. Explore holistic …
Read Poets Society – Pipe Dreams
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 02 Feb 2025
Join us at The Eagle Bookshop for our first Read Poets Society of 2025 – our theme for the evening is “Pipe Dreams”.
Kin
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 06 Feb 2025
- Until:
- 07 Feb 2025
Two estranged sisters meet after twenty years. In a remote cottage over a single night they bury the hatchet. As their dying father lies in the room next door they’re …
Platform – BRAVE Youth Theatre
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 13 Feb 2025
- Until:
- 15 Feb 2025
It's 2023. Charlie, Alex and Olivia are growing up in the post Covid world and things are starting to get weird. Charlie is battling with conspiracy theories, Olivia can’t get …
Blithe Spirit
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 18 Feb 2025
- Until:
- 22 Feb 2025
In the quaint English countryside, Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, is seeking inspiration for his next book. To gather material, he invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to conduct a …
Coffee with Jam
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 23 Feb 2025
- Until:
- 6 Apr 2025 -
Coffee with Jam is back for 2025! Join us for our next Coffee with Jam event – chill out and listen to some music with a cuppa and cake! No …
Sunday Sound Bath
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 23 Feb 2025
- Until:
- 22 Jun 2025
Seeking relaxation and mindfulness in Bedford? My name is Yanni and I would like to invite you to join us for a relaxing Sound Bath at The Place Theatre from …
Forgotten in the land of Egypt
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 27 Feb 2025
In 1631, The Fens, the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich, were drained. In 2050, The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Transport
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 28 Feb 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Shout out to the 60’s
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 01 Mar 2025
Get Ready to Step Inside the fabulous music of the 1960s where we celebrate some of the best icons of the decade. This Show is a toe-tapping, twisting, head shakin’ …
Read Poets Society – Inspired by Art and Architecture
- Genre:
- Opens:
- 02 Mar 2025
Our March Poetry theme is “Inspired by Art and Architecture” Join us at the Eagle Bookshop and grab yourself a bargain while you are there.
Quiz Night – March 2025
- Genre:
- Great Night Out
- Opens:
- 07 Mar 2025
Our first Quiz of 2025! Do you have what it takes to win our Quiz? Gather your team and book your table. Max 6 per team. Bar open all evening. …
The Big Bumper Book Sale – March 2025
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 08 Mar 2025
Our Big Bumper Book Sale is back – Join us on the 8th March from 10am -1pm and browse a huge selection of fiction, non-fiction, play scripts and more whilst …
Jokes & Laffs – March 2025
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Opens:
- 08 Mar 2025
Jokes and Laffs is back for 2025! With another stellar line-up this is an evening you won’t want to miss. President Obonjo will be leading proceedings with the following acts …
Hangmen
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 11 Mar 2025
- Until:
- 15 Mar 2025
Harry Wade is a hangman who likes to keep his counsel. Until the momentous day when hanging is finally abolished in the UK and Harry is asked to give an …
The Ballad of the Underwater Daughter
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 27 Mar 2025
Somewhere out there, in the murky no-man’s-land between reality and “are you pulling my leg?” there's a mechanical island inhabited entirely by dads. Bodged together out of mangled metal and …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Springtime
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 28 Mar 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Father JC’s Holy Show
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 28 Mar 2025
Father JC has come out…of the pandemic wanting to bring people together in song and celebration. JC’s 1st mass is going to be life-changing, majestic, iconic, epic, glamorous and just …
I Can – With Gillie and Friends
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 05 Apr 2025
Join in with all the fun and enjoy a toe-tapping sing-along, I Can, You Can, We Can and find out what they Can Do next! Sarah-Leigh Wills much-loved I Can …
Read Poets – Quaffing and drinking will undo you
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 06 Apr 2025
Join us in April for the latest Read Poetry Society. Our theme is “Quaffing and Drinking will undo you! Come along and join us in the cosy surroundings of Eagle …
Alas! Poor Yorick
- Genre:
- Opens:
- 12 Apr 2025
If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus's “Alas! Poor Yorick”. Mixing the mundane with the …
The Lost Lionesses
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 15 Apr 2025
- Until:
- 19 Apr 2025
The knees are shaking, the ground is quaking, the heat is BAKING… Game on! Based on true events; “The Lost Lionesses” tells the story of a Bedfordshire based team of …
Whole
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 23 Apr 2025
“My sister smells of wood smoke, warm earth, oranges, and dust… we buried you in a wood, underneath an oak tree. There are bluebells there in April.“ Whole is a …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Nature
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 25 Apr 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Cultural Roots Weekender – A Celebration of the Carribbean Community in Bedford – Past and Future
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 25 Apr 2025
C.R.I.S.S, LOWD and The Higgins Bedford present a celebration of the Caribbean Community in Bedford. Join us for a day of celebration including exhibts, interviews, discussions, live music, poetry, drama, …
Cultural Roots Weekender – A Reggae Sound System Story
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 26 Apr 2025
Join us for Day 2 of The Cultural Roots Weekender. Saturday is all about the Reggae Sound System Story. A whole day jam packed with debates interviews, Q&A, live music, …
Stage Write – April 2025
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 27 Apr 2025
StageWrite is a hothouse for the development of new writing for theatre, designed to help plays grow from page to performance. It supports writers in the process of getting their …
ONCE
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 01 May 2025
- Until:
- 02 May 2025
ACT Company presents ‘Once’ The story of a guy who gave up on love and music and the girl who inspired him to dream again. From the very first note, 'Once' …
Read Poets Society – Fear and Courage
- Genre:
- Opens:
- 04 May 2025
Our May offering is Fear and Courage – join us in the wonderful Eagle Bookshop while we explore this theme through poetry and prose. See you there!
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Abridged)
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 14 May 2025
One newbie and two self-professed Janeites, through almost all means imaginable, tackle the entire canon of Jane Austen’s works – in just 80 minutes. Come along for a fun, funny, …
Shakespeare In Love
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 20 May 2025
- Until:
- 24 May 2025
Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, hilarious, romantic stage play reimagines William Shakespeare's creative process – and explores his inspiration – as he writes Romeo and Juliet. Young …
An Evening with The Lincoln Noel Trio
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 25 May 2025
Get ready for an unforgettable night of songs, stories, and smiles as The Lincoln Noel Trio teams up with the fabulous Standing In The Wings Songbirds for a musical journey …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Weather
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 30 May 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Read Poets Society – Rewilding
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 01 Jun 2025
As summer approaches, join us at the Eagle Bookshop as we explore this month's theme – Rewilding.
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Summertime
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 27 Jun 2025
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …