Manja Scott & Jeff Clarke: Creative Contrasts

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

This exhibition celebrates a long friendship between two artists who have contrasting styles but warmly appreciate each other’s visual language. Manja Scott was born in Zagreb, Croatia, but lived more than a third of her adult life in Africa – Ethiopia, Zambia, Kenya. She came to live in the UK in 1982. With the exception of […]

The Easy Rollers

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Delighting audiences with their enormous repertoire of own songwriting and arrangements, The Easy Rollers are a septet who embody the famed spirit and consummate virtuosity of today’s booming British jazz scene and bring it straight back to the music’s roots: 1920s and ’30s Harlem, Kansas City and New Orleans. Released in 2025, their critically acclaimed album ‘… […]

Matt Forde: Defying Calamity

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

In his biggest live tour to date leading political comedian Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, HIGNFY, British Scandal) finds positivity in life despite all the evidence to the contrary in politics and his own health. “The most topically incisive impersonator on the block… It’s laugh-a-minute stuff, underpinned by the kind of wisdom and natural […]

Event Series The Family Folk Show

The Family Folk Show

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Organic, Authentic & Fun Folk Concerts for Big & Little Music Connoisseurs Award-winning folk duo Megson blend their infectious mix of heavenly vocals and lush harmonies into a gentle, entertaining concert specially for younger children, featuring children’s folk songs old and new from their WHEN I WAS A LAD & LITTLE BIRD albums. “The most original duo on the […]

Event Series The Family Folk Show

The Family Folk Show

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Organic, Authentic & Fun Folk Concerts for Big & Little Music Connoisseurs Award-winning folk duo Megson blend their infectious mix of heavenly vocals and lush harmonies into a gentle, entertaining concert specially for younger children, featuring children’s folk songs old and new from their WHEN I WAS A LAD & LITTLE BIRD albums. “The most original duo on the […]

Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden’s Waitsian parlour ballads and Napoleonic power-pop, are performed alongside the band’s sixteen-year back-catalogue of traditional and original songs and tunes. Bringing together some of the biggest names in English folk music, it’s no surprise that they deliver a deep understanding of traditional music with musical audacity and theatrical brio. Featuring the […]

Anyone for Tennis?

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

A Wimbledon line judge for 20 years, comedian Pauline Eyre is ready to spill the Pimms on tennis gossip from the fragrant royal box to the musty locker room, and why line judges are OUT! Expect smashing stories, ace anecdotes and a 40-love letter to the game. And there’s nobody to say ‘quiet please’. She cannot be […]

Ella Al-Shamahi: Becoming Human

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

This is the story of Homo sapiens… us Host of BBC landmark show Human, Ella Al-Shamahi, palaeoanthropologist, TV presenter, explorer and stand-up presents a talk on our remarkable origin story. Once upon a time we shared this planet with many species of human – it has been said that our world was a bit like Lord of […]

Manja Scott & Jeff Clarke: Creative Contrasts

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

This exhibition celebrates a long friendship between two artists who have contrasting styles but warmly appreciate each other’s visual language. Manja Scott was born in Zagreb, Croatia, but lived more than a third of her adult life in Africa – Ethiopia, Zambia, Kenya. She came to live in the UK in 1982. With the exception of […]

Family Dance Party in Kidlington

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Dancin’ Oxford, Body Politic and The North Wall are joining forces to bring you a special Family Dance Party in Kidlington to celebrate the summer season! Join us for a ‘hip-hopping, toe-tapping’ daytime disco for all of the family. Featuring bubbles and balloons, movement activities and dance games, sensory play and face painting! With DJs playing party […]

Family Dance Party in Kidlington

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Dancin’ Oxford, Body Politic and The North Wall are joining forces to bring you a special Family Dance Party in Kidlington to celebrate the summer season! Join us for a ‘hip-hopping, toe-tapping’ daytime disco for all of the family. Featuring bubbles and balloons, movement activities and dance games, sensory play and face painting! With DJs playing party […]

Impatient Productions Daliso Chaponda: Topical Storm

North Wall Arts Centre S Parade, Summertown, Oxford

Daliso Chaponda has been writing jokes about the news for over a decade – on Have I Got News For You, Radio 4′ News Quiz, Australia’s Good News Week and many more besides. (In fact he’s seen the news from both sides, having been in the tabloids himself.) But recently the news has been so absurd, chaotic and overwhelming […]