Events - all proceeds go towards keeping the Gardens open for all to enjoy
Mother’s Day High Tea
Sun 30th Mar
Treat Mum to a traditional High Tea Served in the historic rooms of the Main House
Follow the link above to see the menu.
Please contact
catering@stephenshouseandgardens.com if you have any dietary requirements. Vegetarian and Vegan options are available
£29 per person, Children Under 10 years £16.50
Booking Essential
Sold out, sorry!
Hop to it - Easter Trail
Sun 6th Apr
13.00 - 15.00
Hop-on down to the Gardens for our egg-citing Easter Trail.
Follow the clues and claim your prize
You can start your trail anytime from 13.00 to 14.30
£5.00 per map/prize. Booking essential
The Private World of Spike Milligan
Sun, 13 Apr, 11th May, 15th Jun.
Spike's daughters Jane and Sile take you on a highly personal journey into Spike's life, work and mind through his unseen archive.
With personal stories and recollections this is an intimate small group experience.
Suitable for adults only - multiple slots throughout day
Tickets £15.00
St George’s Day Dinner
Wed 23rd Apr
19.00
Join us for an English themed evening including Roast Beef and Yorkshires
(Vegetarian options available)
Tickets £28 Members £25, 3 courses all inclusive
Over 18's only. Booking essential
Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements catering@stephenshouseandgardens.com
VE Day in the Gardens
Sun 4th May
Gardens Open until 20.00
Did you know that thousands of people came to the Gardens to celebrate Victory in 1945?
Come along Sunday 4th May - and help us recreate this photo at 18.00 (Gardens open until 20.00)
The Finchley Society will have their wartime treasures on display from 13.00 & Café and Beer Tent will be open and there will be music from 40's close harmony Trio Fox Wiggle and Sass.
Our specially commissioned film with wartime memories will be screened in the main house throughout the day and you can even learn to dance around the May Pole
1940’s dress welcome
Do you recognise anyone in the photo? Get in touch and let us know
Watch this space for more news - about the day
Sunday Lunch in the House
Sun 11th May
Lunch served in the house from 12:00 to 14:30.
Booking for lunch is essential please email info@stephenshouseandgardens.com giving number of guests and time required and a contact phone number
or call 020 8346 7812, option 1,
Walking & Lino Printing Workshop
Sun 11th May
13.00 - 16.00
A seasonal walking and lino printing workshop, with visual artist Rebekah Dean
During this workshop you will be walking and gathering found objects from the landscape including the Bothy Gardens and will use these to create personalised lino-cut prints, to reflect the warmth and colours of the season.
All materials will be provided
Tickets £25 Adults only
Stephens House & Gardens - Guided Tour
Thu 29th May
19.00
Just prior to our visit from the Antiques Road Show, we are holding a summer evening guided tour of the main house and its gardens including the Bothy Garden. Find out more about the estate and its owner Henry "inky Stephens" and enjoy a glass of wine on the terrace.
Tickets £15.00 including a glass of wine
Members £13.00
The Antiques Road Show
Sun 1st Jun
The BBC Antiques Roadshow is coming to Stephens House & Gardens this summer! Applications are now open for free tickets & you can put forward items to their team for consideration. Head to http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiquesroadshow for more information.
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Sun 22nd Jun
15.00
Out Door Theatre in The Bothy Gardens
Shakespeare’s classic comedy of love and intrigue, magic and mayhem, is brought to life by family favourites Quantum Theatre in their wonderfully funny and exuberant production.
Set on that most dangerous of nights when fairies are abroad and nothing is as it seems four young, unsuspecting, lovers become entangled in their magical affray and soon no mortals are safe in those bewitched and bewitching woods outside Athens….
“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…”
Tickets £18.00, under 16 yrs £14.00
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Sun 6th Jul
15.00
Outdoor Theatre in the Bothy Gardens
Follow Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.
Here the world is laid out in the form of a giant chess board and before long Alice finds herself entering the game as a white pawn.
Quantum Theatre charts the fabulous, wonderful and rather perplexing world created by the great Lewis Carroll : truly a show for all the family.
Tickets £16, Under 16yrs £12.00
The Big Bad Wolf
Sun 20th Jul
11.30 & 14.30
A brand new rock and roll musical for the whole family following the scheming life of Fairy tale Land’s most feared baddy - The Big Bad wolf.
Come on a musical journey of plotting and scheming with literature’s most notorious villain.
Living in exile in the Deep Dark Wood, he parties and plays rock music every night with his cronies, far away from the goody-goody townspeople of Fairytaleville.
But whatever happened to Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs?
Is the Wolf as bad as he seems?
Running time: Approx. 90 mins including interval
Age recommendation: 4 years +
Vanity Fair
Thu 24th Jul
19.30
Theatre on the Main Lawn
Welcome to VANITY FAIR - a giddy carousel of social climbers, buffoons and preening dandies.
In a world of gossip and speculation, all is to play for and the stakes are perilously high - for romantic Amelia Sedley, consumed with her obsessive love and Becky Sharp, an irrepressible schemer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Moving Parts Theatre Company take a fresh, inventive approach to the classics. With a dazzling score of original music, this new adaptation of Thackeray’s tale of greed, ambition, love and betrayal transports audiences from Regency salons and ballrooms to the battlefield of Waterloo!
Tickets Adult £20, Under 16 yrs £16 - Get 10% off by booking before 31st March by using code van26
Please read the FAQs following link above
Sense and Sensibility
Sat 26th Jul
15.00
Celebrate Jane Austin's 250th Birthday - with this outdoor production in the Bothy Gardens
Elinor Dashwood has a lot of good Sense. Her sister Marianne Dashwood has an excess of Sensibility. Together they make a snappy title for Jane Austen’s classic novel of scandals, scoundrels and severely sprained ankles.
This funny, fast-paced and faithful adaptation from the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company features live music, audience interaction, romance and heartbreak.
Tickets £18.00, under 16 yrs £14.00
