​​​WEEKLY YOGA with LORRAINE
Wednesday Mornings - through to 17 December

As part of a new series of Head, Heart & Health learning, the Great Green Barn will host one-hour-long Yoga sessions each Wednesday morning, with late autumn sessions commencing 5 November.

Lead by Lorraine Ereira, an experienced clinical Sports Therapist, classes are suitable both for beginners who will learn to set up a strong physiological foundation for practice and for those who already have a basic level of practice though want to develop further.

​​​​CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON TEA with
TOM LEHRER
​*Live Cabaret  & Aft Tea *
With Stefan Bednarczyk
Sunday 14 December 2025

Our Christmas Afternoon Teas will have a few special festive twists, AND an extra special musical treat - LIVE CABARET!

The fabulous “King Of Cabaret” (BBC R4), Stefan Bednarczyk returns to the Great Green Barn with a live cabaret performance of his show The Elements of Tom Lehrer; offering up some of the American songwriter's f​inest works – hilarious and poignant in equal measure.

​​​​WINTER WASSAIL
with Hook Eagle Morris
Sunday 25 January 2026

Hook Eagle Morris, will return for another Winter Wassail,
​blessing the trees in our young heritage orchard with cider and toast.

Watch and take part in the dancing and music of the fabulous Hook Eagle Morris, and learn traditional Morris dances and songs.  Help scare away evil spirits by making as much noise as possible by shouting, clapping, blowing whistles, banging on drums, saucepans or other inventive ways!

After the wassailing of the orchard, we'll move over the road to the Great Green Barn where hot and cold refreshments for vegans, veggies and non-vegans will be available to purchase.

​​​AFTERNOON TEAS
20 Jan, 17 Feb, 17 Mar, 21 Apr & 19 May 2026

Join us for Afternoon Tea under the beams of the Great Green Barn; tea, finger sandwiches, scone and cake... what's not to like!

Whether Afternoon Tea for two, or a group, or on your own there will always be an opportunity to make new friends.

​​​​VENUS & ADONIS
With Christopher Kent & Gamal Khamis
Sunday 22 March 2026

Acclaimed actor/pianist duo Christopher Kent and Gamal Khamis return to the Great Green Barn in their latest collaboration, and present a rare opportunity to hear a complete performance of one of Shakespeare’s most ravishing early solo works, interspersed with selections from Felix Mendelssohn’s hauntingly beautiful Songs Without Words. 

Shakespeare’s sparkling narrative poem Venus & Adonis is a witty, transformative and ultimately moving retelling of Ovid’s classic tale, in which the goddess of love’s desire to woo the most beautiful of the mortals and waylay him from hunting eventually ends in tragedy.

​​​​SPRING FORAGING DAY
With Dave Brookhouse
Sunday 28 March 2026

Foraging, the act of gathering wild food for free had been a part of human existence for millennia, though what is it all about?
 
As part of the Great Green Barn’s Head, Heart & Health learning, in the spring of 2026 Dave Brookhouse will be leading a beginner’s guide to foraging, covering plant identification, food uses, and lookalikes when out looking for wild foods.  During the session we will go for a short walk around the footprint of the Great Green Barn and For Earth’s Sake, talking about what we see, and sampling flavours of plants as we go.  We will then finish the walk with some foraged tasters.

​​​​HAVISHAM
With Heather Alexander
Saturday 25 April 2026

Havisham takes the audience on a journey of the infamous jilted monster from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations... Miss Havisham.  It imagines her life, reliving moments from her childhood in rural Kent, and on to London as a hopeful young woman newly arrived in a big city, and right through to the heartbreaking events of her fateful wedding day.

You are invited to explore who the real woman is... the human being behind Dickens’ most monstrous female creation.

​​​​LETTER STONE CARVING WORKSHOP
With Will Spankie
Friday 5 June 2026

During this one-day beginner's letter cutting practical workshop in stone, you will learn from tutor Will Spankie the art how to draw, mark out, and carve letters in a piece of Portland stone. Using hand tools we will concentrate on the practical aspects of cutting the letters, as well as how to source the stone and tools, chisel sharpening and finishing the letters we carve.

Although hand lettercutting is a skill which takes years to master Will aims to give people what they need to start that journey.
All materials you use during the day are fully sustainable, and included in the price.

​​​​GREAT EXPECTATIONS
With Gerald Dickens
Saturday 6 June 2026

Gerald Dickens, actor, director and producer specialising in the works of Charles Dickens returns once more to the Great Green Barn for a one-man masterclass production of one of his great-great grandfather's greatest novels, which is also Gerald’s personal favourite... Great Expectations.

Young orphan Pip lives on the lonely, cold coastal Kent marshes with his sharp sister and her kindly and good natured blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery... a chance meeting changes his life completely, eventually leading him to a home, job and life as part of the respectable society of London.

​​​​MIDSUMMER REVELS with
HOOK EAGLE MORRIS
Sunday 21 June 2026

Hook Eagle Morris return for the Sunday of the Summer Solstice weekend to help us enjoy blue skies, warm sun and hopefully no rain... all with much revelry!

Join us for an afternoon of family fun at Midsummer Revels - watch and take part in the dancing and music of the fabulous Hook Eagle Morris, and learn the traditional moves and dances.  We'll also have a Maypole for children and games in the orchard.  If you'd rather, just wander and relax in the gardens or view the Great Green Barn. 

​​​​RELIEF STONE CARVING WORKSHOP
With Amanda Randall
Thursday 1 October 2026

During this day-long practical workshop, you will learn from tutor Amanda Randall how to design and create a beautiful, botanical inspired relief carving in stone to take away and display in your home or garden.

This one day workshop is a great introduction to the craft of stone carving, using trees, plants and flowers as inspiration. A simple shape or motif is drawn onto a piece of limestone, which is then carved in relief with traditional chisels and a mallet.  

​​​​OLD HERBACEOUS
With Giles Shenton
Saturday 10 October 2026

Old Herbaceous is the humorous love story of a single-minded yet gentle man with a passion for plants; the legendary Head Gardener, Herbert Pinnegar.  He invites you to feel included in a private chat from a bygone, comforting age, keeping you engrossed, amused and emotionally engaged from start to finish.

An acute and sometimes hilarious observation of relationships between the classes in a simpler age, Old Herbaceous is sprinkled with witticisms and epithets. The evening blossoms into tender humour, much in the traditionally understated English style of the early 20th century.

​​​​CHRISTMAS CARD PRINTING WORKSHOP
With Will Dyke
Tuesday 3 November 2026

During this day-long practical workshop, you will learn from tutor Will Dyke the art of printing and print your own design Christmas Card; from your own inspiration through to the printed art, you will learn to design and cut your own wood or lino blocks to print your own-design Christmas Cards

Suitable for all abilities, with tuition from Will on design, lino block cutting and printing techniques, by the end of the workshop you will go home with ten of your own printed Christmas Cards, and the printing block you have created so you can print more at home.