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Join us for the next event in our series of masterclasses and recitals as part of the Hans Keller Forum at Burgh House. Get into the festive spirit as we share our Christmas at Burgh House programme. And don’t miss our regular programme of Curator’s lunchtime talks, that this month focus on Milein Cosman and Hampstead modernism. Read on to find out more. |
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| The Hans Keller Forum at Burgh House
Masterclass: Wednesday 2; Recital: Thursday 3 December |
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Join us this festive season to enjoy wreath making, Christmas craft activities and our annual carol concert, complete with mulled wine and mince pies. Reserve your spot to avoid disappointment as tickets are already selling fast! |
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Wreath Making
Sunday 29 November, 10am (sold out) & Monday 30 November, 6pm, £75
Christmas Crafting Thursday 10 December, 2-4pm (drop-in / drop-out session, but tickets required), pay what you can
Lamplit Hampstead: A Guided Walk Friday 11 December, 4-6pm, £15
Christmas Carol Concert Monday 14 December, 7pm, £15 / £12 for Burgh House members and under-25s |
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| Diwali Candle Painting
Sunday 8 November, 2pm |
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This Sunday 8 November, celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, with a mindful candle-painting workshop led by local artist Isher Dhiman. During this relaxed 90-minute session, you’ll decorate a pair of pillar candles, drawing inspiration from colour, pattern and the warmth of the season. Take home your creations to brighten your space or give as a thoughtful gift.
Tickets: Suggested donation £10 |
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Sunday Sounds: Junior Academy
Sunday 15 November, 1pm |
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Join the Junior Academy, a department of the Royal Academy of Music, for another moving recital featuring promising young artists. This programme includes chamber and solo items for strings, clarinet and piano by Clara Schumann, Mel Bonis, Claude Debussy and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Tickets: £10 / £8 for Burgh House members and under 25s
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Curator’s Talk: Milein Cosman
Wednesday 18 November, 1.30pm |
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To coincide with the launch of our latest exhibition, Hampstead in Print: Milein Cosman and Her Circle, join curator Amy Miller exploring the artist’s life, work and connections to Hampstead. Discover the people and places that inspired Cosman and see Hampstead through her eyes.
Tickets: £5 / Free for Burgh House Members and under 25s |
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Curator’s Talk: Modernist Hampstead
Wednesday 25 November, 1.30pm |
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Assistant Curator Helen Woollison explores the architecture, art and design of modernist Hampstead and its unexpected role as a key centre of the modernist movement.
Tickets: £5 / Free for Burgh House Members and under 25s
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| Festive Wreath Making Workshop
Sunday 29 and Monday 30 November |
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Get into the festive spirit with local florist Amy Aniceto as she guides you through creating your very own Christmas wreath at Burgh House. Please note that the first session on Sunday 29 November has now sold out - follow the link above to book your ticket for the second session on 30 November.
Tickets: £75
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Vermeer Chamber Concerts: Fantazia
Thursday 5 November, 7pm |
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Described as “the finest viol consort on the planet” (Stephen Pettitt, London Evening Standard), Fretwork this year celebrates forty years as an ensemble. They make their eagerly anticipated Vermeer Chamber Concerts debut with a programme spanning five centuries, from Taverner to Pärt - a meditative and sonorous journey that will transport you into another world.
Tickets: £30/£40 (£15 for under 30s) |
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Trip’n’n Winter: Schubert’s Winterreise for Voice and Guitar
Friday 13 November, 7pm |
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Tom Yang and Olivier Pelmoine present a performance of Schubert's Winterreise. Let yourself be transported to a world of enchanting melodies and soul-stirring lyrics as these musicians bring this timeless piece to life.
Tickets: £20 / £10 concessions |
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Piano Recital
Wednesday 18 November, 7.30pm |
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Baroque piano recital performed by up-and-coming composer/pianist Precious Akindele, who will be performing an entirely original baroque dance suite.
Tickets: £15.15 |
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Noonans: Valuation Day
Wednesday 18 November, 11am-4pm |
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Mayfair auctioneers Noonans offer free valuations on your jewellery and watches, with the opportunity to sell in their forthcoming auctions. |
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Brain Tumour Book: Art, Resilience & Hope with Artist Leah Jensen
Thursday 19 November, 6pm |
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A panel discussion organised by the Women in Art Prize, featuring the artist Leah Jensen, the curators Juliana Cavaliero, Debra Finn (founders of Cavaliero Finn) and Sumi Perera (doctor, scientist & artists - SuPerPress Editions) about Leah’s Brain Tumour Book and other artefacts she developed before, during and after the diagnosis of a brain tumour during lockdown.
Tickets: £12 |
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| Opera Prelude: Italy! The Home of Great Opera
Sunday 22 November, 5pm |
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A celebration of the passion, romance and drama of Italian opera, featuring Scottish baritone Ross Cumming and rising Welsh soprano Erin Rossington. Together, these two young artists bring some of opera's most beloved arias and duets vividly to life in an evening of unforgettable music.
Tickets: £35 |
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The Art of the Sonata
Sunday 22 November, 1pm |
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From Bach to Franck: three sonatas reveal how music, emotion and the art of the violin sonata evolved across the century. Performed by Anna Zilberbord and Arthur Kokerai.
Tickets: £10 |
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| Mini Mozart
Ongoing, Friday Mornings |
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Mini Mozart is delighted to be bringing their sessions to Burgh House on Friday mornings. Each 45-minute class features live music from a pianist alongside a different orchestral instrument each week, with stories, songs, shakers and plenty of opportunities for little ones, and their grown-ups, to join in.
Tickets: from £25 |
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Yoga with Em: Thursdays Yoga Gently
Ongoing |
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PEGGY JAY GALLERY
The Peggy Jay Gallery is our community gallery, hosting a rolling programme of exhibitions curated by people and organisations who have chosen to hire our space. If you are interested in putting on a show at Burgh House please visit our website for further details.
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Urban Portraits: Fragments of London
28 October - 15 November |
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A collection of recent paintings capturing London as it changes, fades, and drifts into memory by Mark Woods. |
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Three Acts
18 - 22 November |
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Helen Atkinson Wood: Paints Suffolk scenes in watercolour and mixed media. Studied Fine Art, Oxford University. Actor. Hilary Bird Mayo: Sculptural ceramics inspired by the Suffolk Coast. Crafts Council alumni, COLLECT 2026, Somerset House. Anneka Rice: Mixed media artist. Studied: Chelsea College of Art | Maggi Hambling’s Masterclass. |
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| Wild Rave
25 - 29 November |
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This is a body of mixed media works that depicts the turbulent friction between love and hate by artist Deborah Essés. Wild Rave shifts the artistic lens away from deeply private individual romance or personal malice to explore an emotional uprising in the human tide, where love and aggressive elbowing blur together. |
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Curator’s Object of the Month
Fire Dance, Bette Greenhalf |
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Bette Greenhalf moved to Hampstead in the 1970s, often sketching and painting the area which she explains ‘always compelled me to capture its beauty with a brush stroke or pencil mark, you can never bore of its charm.’ She also created many expressionistic artworks including Fire Dance. This, along with a number of other works were recently acquired by Burgh House having been kindly donated by the artist. |
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JW3’s fourth season of Classical music concerts is now on sale, running from September 2026 to March 2027. |
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Hear the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Martinů brought to life in beautifully curated concerts. Book via www.jw3.org.uk/classical |
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