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Forthcoming Events
The Lion King
Saturday 14th December. 10 a.m. The Mayor (and REA President), Nancy Baldwin invites you to a private screening of “The Lion King.”
All proceeds will go to the Mayor’s charities.
Tickets £5. To book please tel: 0208 891 7123 or write to
mayors.office@richmond.gov.uk.
Christmas in Konstanz
Saturday 14th December. 5-8 p.m. If you cannot make it to Konstanz this Christmas why not join Clare Head in Teddington for Carols at Clare’s. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Richmond Brass Band.
Friday 10th January. 7.30 p.m. York House Society invites you to
“A Twelfth Night Dinner”
In the Salon of York House in the company of the mayor, councillor Nancy Baldwin.
Tickets £35. RSVP: suziemchappell@gmail.com by 30th November.
Guests at the 2019 dinner
19th-21st February. REA president & mayor of Richmond, councillor Nancy Baldwin, will be leading a delegation of REA members to Konstanz for the annual Fasnacht (carnival) festival. If you would like to join the delegation please write to
richmondineurope@hotmail.com
For further information please contact Bernd Steinlechner on 0208 241 2217
Former REA chairman, Bernd Steinlechner, with Oberbürgermeister, Uli Burchardt, during Fasnacht in 2017
13th-14th June. Real Tennis. The Field of Cloth of Gold Tournament.
This tournament will take place between Le Cercle du Jeu de Paume de Fontainebleau & the Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court at the Château de Fontainebleau to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the famous meeting between Henry VIII & François I in 1520 & as an appetising hors d’oeuvre for…..
The 60th Anniversary of the twinning of Richmond, Fontainebleau & Konstanz, which will be celebrated in Richmond from 26th-28th June 2020
The official poster for the Reaffirmation designed by Selim Bener, aged 11.
This will be a community event involving sports clubs, cultural associations & educational establishments. We are expecting hundreds of guests from our twin towns of Fontainebleau & Konstanz, plus their twin towns of Sintra, Tabor & Lodi. Guests from Richmond, Virginia will also be invited.
The Fahnenschwinger from Konstanz will be parading through Richmond
For further details please click on the 2020 Reaffirmation link at the top of this page.
If you would like your club, association or society to participate in the celebrations please write to
richmondineurope@hotmail.com
For a downloadable version of the official poster for the event which is copyright free please click on the following link.
Watermans in Brentford screens films in both French & German.
Richmond Film Society meets at the Exchange opposite Twickenham Station. Films are shown on alternate Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Tickets £5 (students £4)
The Exchange Cinema, 75, London Road, Twickenham
All films not in English are shown with subtitles.
Forthcoming Films
7th January. The White Crow.
REA members will be meeting prior to the screening in The Cabbage Patch pub at 7 p.m. If you would like to join us please contact Carol Wain on 0208 892 5244
