May - October 2025 - Capture Kingston Competition
Venue: Kingston History Centre
Type: Photography competition
Public Talks on the Saxon Kings Embroideries
Dates and times: May - October
Type: Talk
Rupert Bear Mural Celebrating Alfred Bestall at Surbiton Station
Date: May Installation in Surbiton Station
Type: Art
Kingston Museum’s Community Case re-launch
Time: Thursday-Saturday - 10am - 5pm
Venue: Kingston Museum
Type: Community Showcase
Saturday May 3 - Kingston 2025 Launch Event
Time: Afternoon
Venue: Kingston town centre and Ancient Market Place
Type: Family Friendly / Performances
Tickets: N/A
Sunday 4 May 2025: Kingston international Film Festival Pre-Festival Outdoor Screening
Venue: Canbury Gardens
Type: Family Friendly / Film Screening
8 May - 19 July and 16 September 2025 - Stanley picker Gallery Programme
Venue: Kington School of Art
Type: Exhibition
Tickets: Free entry
Saturday 10 May - Get in Touch with History workshop
Venue: Guildhall
Tickets: email:adult.education@kingston.gov.uk £20 per person (*30% discount available, subject to eligibility)
Type: Workshop
Saturday 10 May 2025 - All Saints Kingston - Run for Cover gig
Time: Evening
Venue: All Saints Kingston
Type: Music
Tickets: £20 visit ticketsource.co.uk/all-saints-church-kingston
Sunday 11 May - Heritage Bus Tour around the Borough
Venue: Meet In front of Guildhall
Type: Tour
Tickets: £25 - email mayors.office@kingston.gov.uk
Thursday 15 May - Kingston College, Send in the Clowns
Venue: ACT Theatre, Kingston College, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1AQ
Type: Dance Showcase
Email: marta.parszeniew@stcg.ac.uk
Friday 16 May Opening - Kingston Glamour: Art, Innovation and the Suburbs
Venu: Kingston museum
Tickets: Free Entry
Saturday 17 - Thursday 22 May - Kingston College Higher Education Graduate Show
Time: Mon - Fri, 10am - 5pm, Sat, 10am - 1pm
Venue: Penny School Gallery, Kingston College Creative Industries Centre
Type: Graduate Showcase
Saturday 17 May - Sunday 1 June 2025 Fashion Fortnight - Kingston’s Swinging Sixties - 60 years on
Venue: Hollyfield Road, Surbiton
Type: Event/family
Saturday 17 May - Music in Kingston
Venue: All Saints Church
Type: Family Friendly / Music / Workshops
Saturday 17 May 2025 - Mini Day
Time: All day
Type: Family Friendly / Event
Sunday 18 May 2025 - A ‘Royal’ Choral Evensong
Type: Music / Service
Monday 19 May 2025 - Anglo-Saxon History Talk
Tickets: £10 per person (*30% discount available, subject to eligibility criteria).
24 May - 1 November 2025 - Chimera - An Alternative Kingston Heritage Trail
Launch event: Saturday 24 May
Time: Morning
Venue: Town House
Type: Trail
Thursday 29 May 2025 - Celebrate Chessington
Time: 12pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Churchfields Recreation Ground
Type: Family Friendly Event
Tickets: Free entry (purchase tickets for stalls, food and activities @ £1 / token)
4 june - 22 June - Kingston Adult Education festival of learning
Friday 6 June 2025 - Echoes of Kingston - Cine Schools
Venue: Rose Theatre, 24-26 High Street, Kingston KT1 1HL
Type: Music / Screening / Family Friendly
Tickets: Free to schools
Friday 6 June- Sunday 8 June 2025 - Kingston International Film Festival
64 films, 5 venues, 4 days for all ages
Venue: Rose Theatre, Odeon, Kingston University Town House
Type: Film
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 June and Saturday 14 to Sunday 15 June - Kingston Artists Open Studios
Venue: FUSEBOX 2 Bucklands Wharf
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Voices of Hope, Summer Tea Party
Time: 2pm
Venue: Kingston United Reformed Church
Sunday 15 June 2025 - DanceWest Fest Community Showcase
Time: Performance at 1.30pm and 7pm
Venue: Rose Theatre
Tickets: £10, £6 conc
16 - 19 June - Our Beautiful World - A Primary Singing Festival
Tickets: £10, £7 (concessions)
Type: Music/Family
Monday 16 June to Friday 27 June 2025 - Summer Show 2025
Time: Mon - Fri, 10am - 5pm
Main event: Wednesday 18 June 2025
Venue: Kingston College Creative Industries Centre
Type: Showcase
19 June - 19 July 2025 - Ian Wornast - A Journey Through Kingston
Time: Tuesday - Saturday, All day
Venue: Stanley Picker Gallery Project Studio
Tickets: Free entry.
21 June 1pm-5pm - Dorich House Garden Party
Venue: Dorich House Museum, 67 Kingston Vale, London, SW15 3RN
Type: Garden Party
Bridging Kingston - New Music Commission for Schools
Date: Saturday 28 June 2025
Time: Performance times, 1:30pm and 7pm *matinee time chaged*
Venue: Rose Theatre, 24-26 High Street, Kingston, KT1 1H
Type: Family friendly
Tickets: £12, £7 (Concessions)
Saturday 28 June to Sunday 6 July - FUSE International Festival
Venues: Rose Theatre, FUSEBOX & Arthur Cotterell Theatre
Type: Theatre / Dance / Comedy / Music
Tickets: at www.fuseinternational.org
July - September Kingston 2025 Reading Challenge
Webesite: https://libraries.kingston.gov.uk/home
Type: Family
6, 13 and 20 July, 3, 10, 17 and 31 August, and 6, 7 September 2025 - Kingston Carnival - Drumming Workshop Programme
Venue: Kingston Market House
Email: info@communitydrumming.co.uk
Tickets: £60/adults or £100/family
Sunday July 20 - Dragon Boat Festival
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July Athel's Town: Saxon Encampment and Reenactment
Time: Day 1 - 10am - 8pm Day 2 - 10am - 5pm
18 August - 14 September 2025 - The Athelstan 1100 Pilgrim Walk
Type: Walk / Family
Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 August - Royal Borough of Kingston Street Art
Venue: Kingston Town Centre
September - London Design Festival comes to Kingston
Type: Festival / Art
Wednesday 3 to Thursday 4 September - The Athelstan 1100 Pilgrim’s Cycle Ride
email: hello@athelstan1100.co.uk
Register: Email your name, contact details and cycling club affiliation by May 16 to register your interest
Type: Cycle
Thursday 4 September 2025 - Han Do-hyun | Icheon Ceramics
Time: Thursday - Saturday, All day
Venue: Dorich House Museum
Thursday 4 September - Seven Saxon Kings Embroidery Grand Unveiling and the Athelstan Anniversary Address by celebrated historian Tom Holland
Venue: All Saint Kingston
Tickets: Free (limited tickets)
Thurday 4 September - Festival Service for the 1100th Anniversary of the Coronation of King Athelston
Time: 6:30 pm
Venu: All Saints Kingston
Type: Service
Saturday 6 Septermber - Kingston River Cultures Festival
Venu: Canbury Gardens
Saturday 6 September - Athelstan Garden opening
Time: 12 noon
Venu: Queens Promenade Gardens
Sunday 7 September - Kingston Carnival
Type: Event/Family
Sunday 7 September - Festival Choral Eucharist with the Bishop of Southwark
Time: 9:30am
Saturday 13 September - East Southeast Asian Culture Festival
Time: 11am - 5pm
Venu: Ancient Market Place, Kingston KT1 1JT
Type: Family / Music
Saturday 4 October - Korean Arts Festival
Time: 7pm
Venue: Town House, Kingston University
Type: Festival
Tickets: £20 adult, £10 under 15
Wednesday 29 October - Sunday 2 November - Horrible Histories - Gorgeous Georgians & Vile Victorians
Venue: Rose Theatre 24-26 High Street, Kingston, KT1 1HL
Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 November - Solta o Jogo 3
Venue: Town House Courtyard, Kingston University
Tickets: Free
