Events

We publish a local list of talks, meetings and events in the area. If you have an event that you would like to publicise please get in touch.

Shortlands will be hosting its own Summer Market on Sunday 12 May. Lasting from 11am – 4pm it is being held in Valley Primary School playground, Beckenham Lane. Stalls at the Market will be selling hot food and drinks, fresh food, candles, plants, homeware, clothes...

On Sunday 30 April 2023 from 2.30pm to 5pm (and also Sunday 18 June 2023), you’ll be able to visit Myra Bright’s garden at 37 Crescent Road, Beckenham BR3 6NF. Myra is opening her garden to the public through the National Garden Scheme (website www.ngs.org.uk), to raise money for...

For the first time in many years, there is to be a special Shortlands Christmas Market. It is being held from 10am-2pm on Sunday 12 December in the playground of Valley Primary School on Beckenham Lane. It follows the success of two other Shortlands Sunday...

The Shortlands Poetry Circle is holding  a reading on 13 N0vember 7-9pm from a new anthology from its Writers’ Group, the rainbow comes and goes.  It is upstairs in the Beckenham Methodist Church so quite a big space with plenty of room for reasonable distancing. For...

Following the success of its inaugural Sunday Market in July, a second Shortlands Market is to be held from 10am-2pm on 10 October. It will take place in Valley Primary School Car Park in Beckenham Lane. The Market is being organised by and for the local...