Here is our weekly roundup of all the wonderful events happening in and Around Dulwich this week. Find out more details about each event via our Events Section which has timings, addresses, further information, and ticket links.
Monday 9 December
Sarah Ollerenshaw: Footsteps in Bloom (until 15 December)
10am-5pm. A solo exhibition featuring original paintings by Sarah Ollerenshaw, showcasing vibrant landscapes inspired by London’s parks and bluebell woods.
Christmas Art Workshops
6.30pm-8.30pm. Join our Artist in Residence Atalanta Xanthe for a special series of beginner-friendly seasonal art classes where you’ll learn new techniques while creating handcrafted Christmas ornaments. We’ll explore folk traditions from around the world and use them as inspiration to develop basic art skills like sketching and painting. Each session offers the opportunity to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind ornament that you can take home and hang on your tree. Attend one, two, or all three classes—each is self-contained and focuses on a different technique.
Tuesday 10 December
Christmas Art Workshops
6.30pm-8.30pm. Join our Artist in Residence Atalanta Xanthe for a special series of beginner-friendly seasonal art classes where you’ll learn new techniques while creating handcrafted Christmas ornaments. We’ll explore folk traditions from around the world and use them as inspiration to develop basic art skills like sketching and painting. Each session offers the opportunity to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind ornament that you can take home and hang on your tree. Attend one, two, or all three classes—each is self-contained and focuses on a different technique.
Christmas Wreath Workshop with The Dulwich Petal Project
7pm-9pm. Christmas Wreath Workshop at Alleyn’s School. Join our wreath workshop with Elizabeth from The Dulwich Petal Project and create a unique handmade wreath, just in time for Christmas. The perfect way to impress your friends and family with something truly beautiful!
Weekly Online Breathing Class
7pm-7.40pm. Weekly virtual online breathwork class Join me every Tuesday at 7pm for a 40-minute breathing and relaxation class.
Dulwich Folk Choir – Community Christmas Carol Concert
7pm-9pm. Join us for a festive evening of music, brought to you by the long standing Dulwich Folk Choir. Brighten up a dark winter’s evening by tuning in to some warming Christmas songs and folk carols. The choir is led by folk musician and singer Aimée Leonard, where there will be solos, duos, as well as a feature by the band Tamesas. Cosy down with a glass of mulled wine and sing along to our beloved Christmas classics. Families and children welcome!
Life Drawing & Painting
7pm-8.30pm. This is an online drawing & painting session conducted via Zoom. Long pose life painting and drawing. A single pose is held for three hours with 5-minute model breaks every 25 minutes.
Socials Runs with DPR
7.30pm-8.30pm. Fantastic local running club. Social runs every Tuesday 7.30pm at Trevor Bailey Sports Ground on the south circular.
Wednesday 11 December
Goose Green Coffee Morning
11am-12.30pm. Do drop in to Goose Green Coffee Morning, a great place to meet new people from the local community. We serve coffee, tea and cake, and you can be sure of a warm welcome.
Zoom Portraiture @ Dulwich Art Group & School
2pm-5pm. This is now a hybrid session with 15 artists allowed into the studio and also cameras for artists attending through Zoom.
Christmas Art Workshops
6.30pm-8.30pm. Join our Artist in Residence Atalanta Xanthe for a special series of beginner-friendly seasonal art classes where you’ll learn new techniques while creating handcrafted Christmas ornaments. We’ll explore folk traditions from around the world and use them as inspiration to develop basic art skills like sketching and painting. Each session offers the opportunity to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind ornament that you can take home and hang on your tree. Attend one, two, or all three classes—each is self-contained and focuses on a different technique.
Festive Yoga Workshop
7.30pm-8.45pm. Join me for a magical, candlelit Christmas Yoga Workshop in Dulwich Village, designed to bring light, peace, and renewal to your Christmas. Set in the ambient festive setting of St.Barnabas Parish Hall. Surrounded by the glow of candles (LED) and the soothing scent of frankincense, you’ll be guided through a gentle blend of meditation, yin yoga, slow flow, and deeply restorative yoga Nidra. Accompanied by soft festive piano music (not live), this session is a space to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself—filling your own cup so you can give to others with an open heart. Celebrate the spirit of the season by nurturing calm, joy, and balance within.
Thursday 12 December
BNI Adventurers
6.30am-8.30am. Part of the award-winning multi-national networking organisation, BNI, Adventurers brings together businesses local to Dulwich with the aim of passing business and keeping money in the local community.
Emergency First Aid at Work
9.30am-3.30pm. Our First Aid courses equip you with the knowledge and confidence to act quickly in emergencies, potentially saving lives when every second counts. Attending a first aid course is one of the most valuable things you can do for yourself and those around you whether that be work colleagues, friends or family. Courses are led by Alleyn’s Head of Adventure and Safety Training, Richard Alldrick.
Goose Green Lunch Club
12.30pm-2pm. The lunch club is a friendly and informal club for people over 55. We meet every Thursday during term time and enjoy a delicious main course and dessert with tea and coffee for £5.
EDWI – The Magical Christmas Party with David Harry, The Delusionist!
7.30pm-9.30pm. For our December event, we look forward to our Christmas Party, we are rolling out the magic with David Harry, The Delusionist! He will bring that magical stardust to our Christmas party to round up 2024. Please note that our event is on a Thursday this year.
Pantomime – a Very British Feast
8pm-9pm. Over 2500 years in the making, the great British pantomime is a very potent brew indeed. Mix the earliest Greek and Roman drama with commedia dell’arte and medieval morality plays, stir in a sprig of 17th century masque, a dash of 18th century harlequinade and a hefty shot of Victorian music hall and hey presto, you have the modern pantomime. Lecturer: Giles Ramsay
Friday 13 December
Bookbinding: Japanese Stab binding workshop
10am-4pm. Would you like to have go at bookbinding? This taster session is designed to introduce you to a Japanese Stab Binding. This session is designed to introduce you to basic binding and box making skills that you can build on at future workshops and work on at home. At this workshop you will take home three different stab bound soft back books (4-hole, Noble and Tortoise shell stitches) and a slip case.
Bach to Baby Christmas Family Concert
10.30am-11.30am. Grab your family, harness up your fastest reindeer and meet us at a Bach to Baby concert for the perfect prelude to the holiday season! Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.
The Nutcracker – A Fun Family Show
6.30pm-7.30pm. The enchanting story of The Nutcracker is brought to magical life by Spontaneous Productions in the beautiful setting of St Bartholomew’s Church, Westwood Hill Sydenham, SE26
Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club
7.30pm-9pm. Try out underwater hockey at Forest Hill pools every Friday evening. We’re a mixed-ability club who play for fun and exercise. Complete beginners welcome.
Saturday 14 December
Dulwich Park parkrun
9am-10am. Free, weekly timed 5k run, jog or walk in Dulwich Park. Every Saturday at 9am promptly starting from Queen Mary’s Gate. Register once and bring your printed barcode.
Peckham Rye Park parkrun
9am-10am. Peckham Rye parkrun is a 3-lap anti-clockwise course, entirely on tarmac is mainly flat and therefore a potential PB course. The start & finish are located close to the Colyton Road park entrance.
Once Upon a Kingswood Christmas
10am-5pm. Once upon A Kingswood Christmas is an interactive promenade show tailored for all the family to enjoy. Set against the backdrop of a Grade II Listed Victorian Mansion in South London, this 50 minute immersive experience makes every guest the hero of their own bespoke festive fairytale.
Help Bella find the Fairytale Alliance, rescue Father Christmas from the clutches of the Snow Queen and save the Christmas Season whilst being guided through the fantasy lands and meeting the characters along the journey.
The Nutcracker – A Fun Family Show
2pm & 3.30pm. The enchanting story of The Nutcracker is brought to magical life by Spontaneous Productions in the beautiful setting of St Bartholomew’s Church, Westwood Hill Sydenham, SE26
Sunday 15 December
Brockwell Park Junior parkrun
9am-9.30am. A free 2km fun run for 4–14-year-olds every Sunday in Brockwell Park. Just register on parkrun.com to get a barcode and meet behind the lido at 8:55 for a briefing.
Peckham Rye Junior parkrun
9am-9.30am. A free, weekly, timed run for 4–14-year-olds, to get fit, stay healthy, and have fun! We run 2km every Sunday at 9am, through rain and shine.
The Weekly Horniman Market
10am-3pm. Located on the Bandstand Terrace, stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, artisan bread and cheese, organic meat and delicious street food.
So Last Century’s Vintage Market at the Brewery
11am-5pm. Winter Vintage Market at the Brewery is So Last Century’s last event of 2024, taking place at Gipsy Hill Brewing Company’s Taproom
20+ vintage traders will be filing the Brewery’s event space, and spilling out into the yard. You can expect to find mid 20th century furniture, art, lighting, homeware and ceramics, decorative objets, prints, records, vintage clothes, jewellery and lots more, all displayed with a seasonal flavour!
Christmas Wreath Workshop with The Dulwich Petal Project
1pm-3pm. Join our wreath workshop with Elizabeth from The Dulwich Petal Project and create a unique handmade wreath, just in time for Christmas. The perfect way to impress your friends and family with something truly beautiful!
Our Wreath Workshop is a lovely chance to spend an afternoon or evening being creative. Come and create a gorgeous wreath to adorn your front door throughout the festive season. Elizabeth will guide you step by step, using a selection of seasonal foliage, dried fruits, festive decorations and beautiful velvet ribbon.
The Nutcracker – A Fun Family Show
2pm & 3.30pm. The enchanting story of The Nutcracker is brought to magical life by Spontaneous Productions in the beautiful setting of St Bartholomew’s Church, Westwood Hill Sydenham, SE26.
Carol Service at St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich
6pm-7pm. Join us at St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich for a traditional service with the singing of carols, readings as well as anthems by the St John’s choir, and brass band. Refreshments will be served afterwards. This service will last approximately an hour.
Have fun this week and keep checking here for more events in and Around Dulwich.