What's On
Details of events at The Blue Walnut Cafe Bar & Cinema are shown below. We update this page regularly but please also follow us on Facebook for the latest news and events. Alternatively please email us or telephone direct on either 01803 392522 or 07805877184 to find out whats happening and how to book tickets.
Cinema
Thursday 21st March 2019 - The Mickelodean Film Club Presents - Gods Own Country (2017)
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Director: Francis Lee
Writer: Francis Lee
Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones.
Run Time: 1hr 44min
Film starts prompt at 8:00pm. Guests are welcome subject to seat availability, £6 contribution required for non members. Please email or call direct on either 01803 392522 or 07805877184 to reserve your space!!
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Director: Francis Lee
Writer: Francis Lee
Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones.
Run Time: 1hr 44min
Film starts prompt at 8:00pm. Guests are welcome subject to seat availability, £6 contribution required for non members. Please email or call direct on either 01803 392522 or 07805877184 to reserve your space!!
Tuesday 02nd April 2019 - Le Franglais Film Club Presents - L'arnacoeur (2010)
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Writers: Laurent Zeitoun (scenario), Jeremy Doner, Yoann Gromb
Stars: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier Laurent Zeitoun
Run Time: 1hr 45min
Film starts prompt at 7:30pm. Doors open from 6:30pm. Guests are welcome subject to seat availability. £5.00 per person. Please email Helen at Le Club Franglais or call direct on 07790 465361 to reserve your space!
Poetry and Comedy
Thursday 14th March 2019 - Big Poetry with Robert Garnham and Guests.
This monthly gathering of poets and performers has been going for ten years and keeps going from strength to strength! Join us on March 14th for another night of whimsy and wordplay, rhyming and whatnot, hosted as ever by Samantha Boarer and Robert Garnham, and featuring some of the finest hand picked local poets. This month we will have a headline set from the amazing Liv Torc!
Liv Torc has been a South West based spoken word poet for over 12 years; a Radio 4 Slam Winner; a former Bard of Exeter and current co-host of The Hip Yak Poetry Shack. She runs the mental health and poetry night, The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy in Yeovil and produces the hugely successful Hip Yak Poetry Stage at WOMAD festival. She is also the brains and brawn behind the Hip Yak Poetry School, an ACE funded project aimed at supporting South West poets to achieve sustainable careers.
Over her career in spoken word Liv has appeared all over the UK and a bit in Europe, performing at the Roundhouse in London, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Glastonbury Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. She has delivered workshops and long running poetry projects in schools, colleges, libraries, art centres, doctor’s surgeries and theatres, culminated in performances at, among others, the House of Commons and the 2012 Paralympics. Her first published book Show Me Life was released by Burning Eye in 2015
If you would like to book seats for this event, please contact either The Blue Walnut Café or Robert Garnham direct on robertdgarnham@gmail.com
Tickets £6, doors open 7:30pm, show starts at 8:00pm!
This monthly gathering of poets and performers has been going for ten years and keeps going from strength to strength! Join us on March 14th for another night of whimsy and wordplay, rhyming and whatnot, hosted as ever by Samantha Boarer and Robert Garnham, and featuring some of the finest hand picked local poets. This month we will have a headline set from the amazing Liv Torc!
Liv Torc has been a South West based spoken word poet for over 12 years; a Radio 4 Slam Winner; a former Bard of Exeter and current co-host of The Hip Yak Poetry Shack. She runs the mental health and poetry night, The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy in Yeovil and produces the hugely successful Hip Yak Poetry Stage at WOMAD festival. She is also the brains and brawn behind the Hip Yak Poetry School, an ACE funded project aimed at supporting South West poets to achieve sustainable careers.
Over her career in spoken word Liv has appeared all over the UK and a bit in Europe, performing at the Roundhouse in London, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Glastonbury Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. She has delivered workshops and long running poetry projects in schools, colleges, libraries, art centres, doctor’s surgeries and theatres, culminated in performances at, among others, the House of Commons and the 2012 Paralympics. Her first published book Show Me Life was released by Burning Eye in 2015
If you would like to book seats for this event, please contact either The Blue Walnut Café or Robert Garnham direct on robertdgarnham@gmail.com
Tickets £6, doors open 7:30pm, show starts at 8:00pm!
Live Music
Saturday 16th March 2019 - Hoarse.
We have the mighty mighty Hoarse playing live at The Blue Walnut on Saturday 16th of March. Lead by the legend that is Glen 'Bob' Melhuish, Hoarse are a 3 piece original band mixing folky charm with foot stomping hooks.
Our doors are open from 7pm with the music starting from 730pm. Entry is free however as a small venue space is limited. Table bookings are NOT available for this event so please arrive early to secure a space.
We have the mighty mighty Hoarse playing live at The Blue Walnut on Saturday 16th of March. Lead by the legend that is Glen 'Bob' Melhuish, Hoarse are a 3 piece original band mixing folky charm with foot stomping hooks.
Our doors are open from 7pm with the music starting from 730pm. Entry is free however as a small venue space is limited. Table bookings are NOT available for this event so please arrive early to secure a space.
Wednesday 20th March 2019 - The Blue Walnut Open Mic & Jam Sessions.
The Blue Walnut Open Mic & Jam Sessions are held on the third Wednesday of every month. Please bring your own instruments and voices and join the jam. All standards welcome with beginners encouraged.
7:30pm until late. Free entry for all. Fully licensed bar. Bar snacks, tapas and cheeseboards available. See you there!!
Book Club
Vinyl Nights
Saturday 23rd March 2019 - The Electric Gramophone Appreciation Society Rides Again...
Back after last months shenanigans The Electric Gramophone Appreciation Society rides again at its new home at The Blue Walnut Cafe, a fully licensed cafe bar with a 23 seat micro cinema attached. Your musical compere for the evening is resident vinyl selecta Mr Chalk, delivering suitably sleazy down tempo beats and rhythms for your easy listening pleasure.
The cinema will also be open throughout the evening showing a looped selection of unrelated accompanying clips in the background. Please note that this is an open door cinema evening so people will be passing through the cinema on the way to the bathrooms and garden...
Doors open 7.30pm until late. Fully licensed bar. FREE ENTRY!
Back after last months shenanigans The Electric Gramophone Appreciation Society rides again at its new home at The Blue Walnut Cafe, a fully licensed cafe bar with a 23 seat micro cinema attached. Your musical compere for the evening is resident vinyl selecta Mr Chalk, delivering suitably sleazy down tempo beats and rhythms for your easy listening pleasure.
The cinema will also be open throughout the evening showing a looped selection of unrelated accompanying clips in the background. Please note that this is an open door cinema evening so people will be passing through the cinema on the way to the bathrooms and garden...
Doors open 7.30pm until late. Fully licensed bar. FREE ENTRY!
Wednesday 3rd April 2019 - Monthly Bring Your Own Vinyl (BYOV) Night
This is an open deck vinyl night for vinyl enthusiasts and audiophiles. Each "Selecta" gets either a 15 minute slot or 3 records, which ever is shorter. Selecta names and set times to be added to the list held at the bar on the night. Anything goes musically except records deemed too offensive or simply to painful on the ears to listen to in full. The bar staffs judgement is final!!!
Doors and Bar open from 7;00pm until late. Bar Snacks, Tapas and Cheeseboards available though the evening.
