What's On - Sutton STEAMS Ahead

What's On

Sutton STEAMs Ahead is funded by a Cultural Impact Award as part of the Mayor of London’s London Borough of Culture programme. In 2023, the London Borough of Sutton is delivering this ambitious programme with the aim of putting culture at the heart of local communities. Sutton STEAMs Ahead aims to uniquely blend the arts and sciences through S.T.E.A.M themes (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths).

The Light & Dark Festival connects and elevates Sutton's diverse community by exploring the winter festivities celebrated across the borough. The theme of this festival is light and dark, the triumph of light over darkness and the hope for renewal and warmth during the coldest and darkest time of the year.

Find out about the events happening as part of Sutton STEAMs Ahead!

Sutton Historians: London's Screen Archives

When & Where: 24 November, 12pm - 1pm | Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

Then, Now, Next Event

Performance and Filming Workshop

When & Where: 25 November, 4pm - 6:30pm | Sutton Community Dance, St. Nicholas Centre

Price: FREE

Artworks created during this workshop may form part of the Threads of Light event on 28 January

Sutton's Blueprint

When & Where: 1 December, 4pm - 6pm | Whitehall Historic House
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Pia Jaime

Meet the Artist Event: 25 November, 3pm - 4:30pm | Whitehall Historic House

Light & Dark Festival Event

Clock Strikes

When & Where: 3 December, 2pm - 5pm | Belmont Connect
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sutton Mental Health Foundation

Light & Dark Festival Event
An immersive performance and art themed around SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) to raise awareness

Diwali: From Dark to Light

When & Where: 4 December, 11am - 2pm | Granfers Community Centre
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sangam

Spaces limited. RSVP via email: suttonsteamsahead@sutton.gov.uk

Light & Dark Festival Event
Sangam's Diwali celebration mixes traditional with modern techniques to be narrated in a short story with music, singing and dancing. This is followed by a meal.

Finding The Light

When & Where: 4 December, 7pm - 9pm | Cryer Arts Theatre
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sutton Women's Centre - People Arise Now

Light & Dark Festival Event

Lighting Up Your Family Stories

When & Where: 8 December, 9:30am, 12pm | Hill House
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sandy Leong, Community Action Sutton

Light & Dark Festival Event

Lighting the Candle of Knowledge

When & Where: 20 January, 10am - 4pm | Sutton Central Library
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Mitra Mandal

Light & Dark Festival Event

Threads of Light

When & Where: 28 January, 4:30pm - 9:30pm | Sutton Central Library
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sutton Council

Light & Dark Festival Event
A captivating immersive installation by SDNA, a special Light & Dark commission

Lunar New Year Celebration

When & Where: 10 February, 10am - 4pm | Sutton Central Library
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Sutton Hongkongers

Light & Dark Festival Event
Come make your own paper lanterns, play mahjong or tangram puzzles and enjoy performances

CoderDojo

When & Where: Last Friday of the month, 4pm - 5pm | Library at the Life Centre

Price: FREE

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Past Events

The Cell

When & Where: 16 November | Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

Stories from the Shed Event

Magical Zoetropes

When & Where: 18 November, 11am - 4pm | Honeywood Museum
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Quick Draw Stories

Light & Dark Festival Event

Light of Souls

When & Where: 19 November, 1pm - 4pm | Sutton Central Library
Price: FREE
Hosted by: Creative Heritage

Light & Dark Festival Event

The Magic of Cyanotype

When & Where: 11 November, 11am - 12:30pm, 2pm - 3:30pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Artworks created during this workshop may form part of the Threads of Light event on 28 January

Astronauts to the Moon!

When & Where: 25 October | Wallington Library

Price: £4 per participating child

Coding Workshop for Children

When & Where: 23 October, 27 October | Sutton Central Library, Cheam Library

Price: £4 per participating child

Talking Heads, Living Histories

When & Where: 21 October, 6pm - 8pm | Sutton Central Library
Price: FREE
Hosted by: BTV Productions

Light & Dark Festival Event

A painting of several people against a sunset in a grassy field

ACHA: Darkness to Light Event

When & Where: 26 October, 1pm - 5pm | Library at the Phoenix Centre
Price: FREE
Hosted by: ACHA

Light & Dark Festival Event

A man and woman projected onto a building

Portraits of the South

When & Where: 9 September - 7 October | Sutton High Street

Price: FREE

Code Club

When & Where: 7 September-12 October, 5:45pm - 6:45pm | Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

Topography of Sutton

When & Where: 16 September - 23 October | Queen Mary's Park

Price: FREE

Illustration of a race between two people on bicycles, a car, a dog and a horse and carriage

Stories from...The Welsh Chapel

When & Where: 9 - 10 September, 10am - 4pm, 10am - 3pm | The Welsh Chapel, Lind Road

Price: FREE

The STEAM Summer Calendar

Find a range of events and activities happening throughout Summer 2023. The Summer Reading Club STEAM Storytimes and drop-in activities featue engaging storytelling and crafts to entertain all primary school children. Sutton Council’s Cultural Services also brings the Summer Programme of events full of crafts, adventure trails and theatre shows to enjoy. And don’t miss the Stories from the Shed series which features a range of storytelling, workshops and art installations from a range of professional creative artists and performers. View all the events on a downloadable PDF document.

Find all the events in 'The STEAM Summer Calendar' on Eventbrite

Summer Reading Club

We’re encouraging children (4-11 years old) to read six books over summer. Parents can sign up their children and pick up a Summer Reading Club passport with suggested children's books to read over the summer holidays, and be in with a chance to win fantastic prizes!

Find out more about 'Summer Reading Club'

a yellow alarm clock, coloured leaves and a stopwatch

A Scientist, A Clock Collector and a Venus Flytrap

When & Where: 29 August, 31 August | Wallington Library, Circle Library

Price: FREE

A pair of hands playing with a colourful toy that contains plastic finger holes

SEND Quiet Days

When & Where: 25 July, 23 August, 30 August | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

A Summer of Sheds at Whitehall

When & Where: 22 July - 2 September, 10am - 5pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £2 per participating child

Summer Holidays at Honeywood

When & Where: 22 July - 2 September, 10am - 5pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £2 per participating child

Painting of a water fountain surrounded by shrubbery

Landscape Artist of the Year

When & Where:
13 August, 11am - 2pm | Manor Park
26 August, 11am - 2pm | Beddington Park

Eco-Fair

When & Where: 28 August, 10:30am - 8pm | Carshalton Park

Folk in the Park

When & Where: 19 August, 11am - 7pm | Manor Park

A female adult reading to a group of small children and a small group preparing to partake in arts and crafts with several pens and paper laid out on a table

STEAM Storytime

When & Where: Various Dates | Various Locations

Price: £2 per participating child

A majority blue picture with different shading to give the impression of flowers and leaves

Make A Cyanotype Picture

When & Where: 27 July, 4 August, 17 August, 24 August, 31 August | Whitehall Historic House, Honeywood Museum

Price: £3 per participating child

A hand pressing a block of wood that has been dipped in dye onto a cream-coloured cloth. The cloth has several leaf patterns already printed onto it.

Woodblock Fabric Printing

When & Where: 28 July, 3 August, 10 August, 18 August, 25 August, 31 August | Honeywood Museum, Whitehall Historic House

Price: £3 per participating child

The Wandle Wardrobe: Getting Dressed with STEAM

When & Where: 2 August, 30 August, 11am - 11:30am, 1pm - 1:30pm, 3pm - 3:30pm | Honeywood Museum, Little Holland House

Price: FREE

Illustration of trees, grass and flowers

Hey Tree! What Can You See?

When & Where: 3 August, 24 August, 11am, 2pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: FREE

a painting resembling two towering structures standing within crashing waves that also resemble mountains

Mapping Sutton's Future

When & Where: 22 August, 11am - 12:30pm, 1:30pm - 3pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: FREE

A small model figurine holding shears approaching the stem of a real yellow daffodil

Miniac

When & Where: 18-19 August | Little Holland House

Price: FREE

Historic image of two gentleman lounging near a fighter jet

Pilots and Soldiers of the Caribbean

When & Where: 18 August, 11am - 1pm, 1pm - 3pm | Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

A young girls pair of hands holding a small book visibly coloured in by the child

Make Your Own Pop Up Book

When & Where: 27 July, 23 August | Circle Library, Library @ The Phoenix Centre

Price: FREE

A wooden spoon holding lavender herbs, next to two lit lavender candles, two small jars of oil and a small number of sprigs of lavender

Carshalton Lavender Distillation Days

When & Where: 5 August, 12 August, 19 August, 9am - 5pm | Carshalton Lavendar Fields

Price: FREE

Three white clay cubes and cuboids modeled into the shape of owls

Sculpting Little Holland House

When & Where: 8 August, 16 August, 11am - 12.30pm, 2pm - 3.30pm | Little Holland House

Price: FREE

Wonderful Wandle Wildlife: Mini Beasts Printmaking

When & Where: 4 August, 18 August, 11am - 1pm, 2pm - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies

When & Where: 21 August, 22 August, 10:30am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 3pm | Sutton Ecology Centre

Price: £6.50 per child + booking fee

Flower Fairies

When & Where: 31 July, 1 August, 10am - 11:30am, 12pm - 1:30pm, 2:30pm - 4pm | Sutton Ecology Centre

Price: £6.50 per child + booking fee

Pond Day

When & Where: 24 July, 25 July, 10:30am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 3pm | Sutton Ecology Centre

Price: £6.50 per child + booking fee

A painting made a several curved paint strokes in green, blue, yellow, red and orange

Art and Wellbeing

When & Where: 15 August, 11am - 2pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Two women wearing safety helmets with one of them holding a toolbox wrapped in aluminium foil

The Shed of Impossible Dreams

When & Where: 11 August, 10am - 12pm, 1pm - 4pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: FREE

A painting of field-hands tending to a lavender field

Sutton Historians: Reinvigorating the Lavender Heritage

When & Where: 10 August, 7:30pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Several pieces of coloured paper and felt tips as a child's hands assemble their craft picture

Mapping Our Future Sutton

When & Where: 28 July, 11 August | Wallington Library, Library @ The Phoenix Centre

Price: FREE

A smiling woman wearing a safety helmet and high vis jacket holding a magnifying glass and a piece of flint rock

A Potted History of Sutton

When & Where: 28 July, 1 August, 11am, 2pm, 3pm | Whitehall Historic House, Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

A smiling young blonde woman stood next to a river

Writing the Wandle

When & Where: 29 July, 2pm - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

A young woman dressed in farming apparel with a clay model bumblebee perched on her raised wrist

The Queen's Bee

When & Where: 25 July, 26 July, 9 August | Whitehall Historic House, Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

A person in a blonde curly wig and umbrella over their head stood in front of a blackboard containing various mathematical equations

A Mathemagical Adventure

When & Where: 25 July, 10:30am, 2pm | Worcester Park Library, Sutton Life Centre

Price: £5 per participating child

Three computer generated representations of human cells

The Cell

When & Where: 24 July, 11am - 1pm | Sutton Central Library

Price: FREE

Travel into Space

When & Where: 22 July, 11am, 2pm | Sutton Central Library, Circle Library

Price: FREE

A smiling young blonde woman stood on a bridge overlooking a small waterfall

Tributary - A Spoken Word Performance

When & Where: 15 July | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Sutton in Photographs

When & Where: 16 June, 7 July, 10 July, 12 July | Sutton Central Library, Library at the Phoenix Centre, Honeywood Museum, Whitehall Historic House

Price: FREE

St Helier Music and Community Festival

When & Where: 8 July, 12pm - 5pm | David Weir Leisure Centre

A small child holding a colourful craftwork fish

LEO Academy Trust's Summer Art Exhibition

When & Where: 5 - 13 July | Sutton Central Library Gallery

Carshalton Artist Open Studios

When & Where: 24 June, 25 June, 1 July, 2 July | Honeywood Museum, Carshalton

Wallington Music Festival

When & Where: 17 June, 11am - 7pm | Wallington Library

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A Historical and Botanical Stroll

When & Where: 17 June, 2pm - 4pm | Oaks Park Cafe

Price: FREE

The Calico People

When & Where: 14 June, 7:30pm - 8:30pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Guided Walks at Carshalton Lavender Fields

When & Where: 27 May, 3 June, 13:30pm - 3:30pm | Oaks Way

Price: FREE

Language of Flowers Week

When & Where: 27 May - 3 June, 10am - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: £2 per participating child

Inspired by Nature Trail and Crafts

When & Where: 27 May - 3 June, 10am - 4pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £2 per participating child

Make A Pomander

When & Where: 1 June & 2 June, 11am - 12pm & 2pm - 3pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: £3 per participating person

Woodblock Printing

When & Where: 1 June, 11am - 12pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £3 per participating person

Quiet Days at Honeywood Museum

When & Where: 31 May, 10am - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Lavender and Herb Lino Printing

When & Where: 30 May, 31 May, 10am - 4pm | Cheam Library, Circle Library

Price: FREE

Remarkable Elizabethan Gardens

When & Where: 10 May, 7:30pm - 8:30pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

black and white photo of four men operating a distillation machine

Distillation and Herb Growing

When & Where: 28 April, 2pm - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Easter Holidays at Honeywood: Inspired by Nature

When & Where: 1 - 15 April (closed 7 April) | Honeywood Museum

Price: £2 per participating child

Brown woodblocks with a blue floral print

Woodblock Printing on Fabric

When & Where: 3-14 April, 11am - 12pm & 2pm - 3pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: £3 per participating child

SEND Quiet Day: Inspired by Nature

When & Where: 5 April, 11 April, 10am - 4pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: FREE

Painting of Lavender and Flowers fields begin tended to by farmers

Lavender and Flowers Come To Whitehall Historic House

When & Where: 1 - 15 April, 10am - 12pm (closed 7 April). | Whitehall Historic House, SM3 8QD

Price: £2 per participating child

Lavender and Herb Lino Printing

When & Where: 13-14 April | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £3 per person

Lavender and Herb Lino Printing

When & Where: Thu 16 and Fri 17 Feb 2023, 11am - 1pm, 2pm - 3:30pm | Honeywood Museum

Price: £3 per person

Stamp-printed image of an ornate jug coloured majority green and white

Tudor Technologies Lino Printing

When & Where: 16 Feb 2023, 11am - 12:30pm and 2pm - 3:30pm | Whitehall Historic House

Price: £5 per participating child.

Lavender Herbs on a wooden spoon next to two small brown bottles and two lit purple candles

Millie's Lavender and Herbs Trail

When & Where: 11 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 | Honeywood Museum

Price: £2 per participating child.

A painting of a ship on the sea similar to a pirate ship

Tudor Technologies Trail and Craft

When & Where: 9 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 | Whitehall Historic House, SM3 8QD

Price: £2 per participating child.

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