Featured Events in Bedford in February 2025 (April Updated)

Explore Ampthill v Bedford Blues sporting information for 15th February, as well as links for Rugby Union tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. Ampthill Rugby Union Football Club, commonly known as Ampthill, is a professional rugby team based in the town of Ampthill, England. Founded in 1881, the team currently competes in the English Rugby Union Championship, the second tier of English rugby. The team has made notable progress in recent years, earning promotion to the Championship in 2018 and consistently competing for a top spot. Their home ground, Dillingham Park, has a capacity of over 3,000 and is known for its passionate atmosphere on match days. The team has produced several talented players including current England international, Joe Cokanasiga. With a strong team and dedicated fan base, Ampthill continues to establish themselves as a formidable force in the world of rugby. The Bedford Blues Rugby Union team has been a prominent contender in England's Championship and Cup competitions since their establishment in 1886. With a record-breaking eight Championship titles under their belt, the team has solidified their status as a force to be reckoned with in the rugby world. The Dillingham Park1 are known for their impressive home stadium, Goldington Road, which has a capacity of over 6,000 seats and provides a lively atmosphere for fans. The team has also produced numerous talented players over the years, including several international and Premiership players. With a history of success and a strong roster, the Bedford Blues are a team that never fails to entertain and impress on the field. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Fitness party - Queen’s Rhythm Night Come join us for an epic fitness party at Bedford Place Mall at Pulse Performance! Get ready to dance, sweat, and groove to the Queen’s Rhythm Night. This in-person event will have you moving to the beat and feeling the burn. This high-energy, women-only fitness party features: PoundFit – Rock out with drumsticks in a heart-pumping workout. Deep Core Work – Strengthen your core and unleash your power. Dance Fitness – Groove to the beats with fun, energetic moves! Also: DJ spinning tracks to keep you moving. Special Performance by Sky Entertainment – Prepare to be inspired and amazed! Healthy Snacks, Water & Beverages provided to fuel your fun. When: February 22ed 2025 Event start at 6:00 PM; Doors open at 5:30 PM Where: Pulse Performance - Powerhouse Athletics; 1658 Bedford Hwy Suite 0075 Bring your besties and let’s celebrate the power of movement together! Tickets are limited, so don’t wait—secure your spot now! 🎉 See you there! Information Source: Sky Professional Events and Entertainment | eventbrite

Martial Arts Instructors, Program Directors, School Owners and Operators are invited to join Hanshi Dave Kovar and the Kovar Systems team for a full day Conference in Texas designed to help accelerate your martial arts school business. You and your team have a chance to learn... • Cutting-Edge Business Systems, Processes, and Procedures • New Student Recruiting Tips and Techniques • Student Retention Tactics • Current Social Media Trends and Effective Tricks • TNT Training and Certification Updates And so much more! --- Satori Business Select/Ascend Members receive FREE ticket options for this event, please see corresponding Facebook Groups or recent email invite to receive the codes to view your free ticket options. Not a member yet? Make an appointment to ask how you can join today. Tickets are non-refundable. Information Source: Kovar Systems | eventbrite

Welcome to New Earth Poetry! We are proud to invite you to join us at The Bedford, Balham for another night of creative expression and inspiration. Our events are a celebration of words, emotions, and the power of poetry. Come and share your own work or simply listen and immerse yourself in the beauty of spoken word. Let your thoughts flow freely and connect with like-minded individuals in the round in the beautiful Edwardian/Baroque environs of The Bedford. Whether you are a seasoned poet or just starting out, everyone is welcome to participate. Let's come together and create something magical through the art of poetry. Doors at 6.30pm for performer registration and also to come and join us to sample some of the delicious food served up by the Bedford, including vegan and vegetarian options. Poetry to start at 7.30pm. 2 minutes walk from Balham Tube/Overground. See you there! Information Source: New Earth Poetry | eventbrite

Capture Your Furry Friend on Canvas! Join us for a delightful session where you’ll paint a customized portrait of your beloved pet. Here’s how it works: Submit Your Photo: Email us a clear digital image of your pet to coastalpigments@gmail.com. Ideally, choose a headshot featuring just one pet per painting, as you will paint a simple colored background. Photos must be submitted no later than Thursdays January 30th. If you miss the deadline no refund will be given.Purchase Your Ticket: Secure your spot by purchasing your ticket first. Afterward, submit your photo along with the confirmation of your ticket purchase.Painting Session: Our talented instructor will guide you through a step-by-step process to paint the eyes, nose, and fur of your pet. You’ll also choose your own background color. In just 3 to 3.5 hours, you’ll create a portrait ready to hang and cherish!Event Details Venue: Propeller Bedford Taproom What to Expect: Enjoy fantastic beverages, including non-alcoholic options. Relax with a pre-drink before diving into a 3-hour painting session. Feel free to come alone for some quality me-time or with friends. Group Bookings: For groups of 5 or more, please book together or email coastalpigments@gmail.com with a list of names in your party. Who Can Attend: This event is open to everyone aged 19 and over. Parents and children are also welcome to attend. The recommended age for children is 14 and older, but it is at the parent’s discretion whether their child can sit and paint for 3 hours. Children must have a parent seated with them, though the parent is not required to paint. Due to limited seating, please email coastalpigments@gmail.com to let us know if you will be attending with your child and whether you will be painting or not. All skill levels are welcome, from beginners to experienced painters! What to Bring: Just your enthusiasm! All necessary painting supplies will be provided. The canvas size is 16x20, and while aprons are provided, we recommend wearing something you don’t mind getting a bit messy. Will also print out your photos for you. Your welcome to bring the orginal photo. Follow Us for Updates: InstagramEventbriteFacebookDon't miss out on this exciting opportunity to relax, socialize, and get creative. Buy your tickets now and get ready for a memorable afternoon of painting and fun! Information Source: Coastal Pigments - Painting Parties & Events | eventbrite

Set sail for a night of completely improvised zombified zaniness and nautical nonsense with Zombies! Improv! Pirates! 🏴‍☠️🧟‍♂️ When? On the first Tuesday of every month, from 19:30 to 21:30, the zombie apocalypse and blood thirsty pirates descend upon us—not with doom and gloom, but with gags and giggles! What’s in store? Navigate through the comedic seas with Pirates Prov, where you’ll encounter swashbuckling humour and treasure troves of invention. Then, brace yourself for a zombie horde of hilarity with Improv the Dead, and an improvised zombie apocalypse where the only thing infectious is the laughter. Special Attractions! Revel in the talents of this month's guest act. You can also join our audience jam—a chance for you to shine brighter than a pirate’s gold or a zombie’s glowing eyes. The best part? Admission is free! Chart a course to:The Bedford 77 Bedford Hill, London, SW12 9HD Join us for an evening where the spirits of comedy possess both the undead and the piratical. It’s an improv adventure where everyone’s welcome, dead or alive! 🎭⚔️ Information Source: Playface | eventbrite

Melas's grandfather, Frank Murphy, served in the 8th Air Force's Bloody 100th Bomb Group and was held as a POW at Stalag Luft III. His memoir, republished by Melas in 2023, became a New York Times bestseller. Clark-Junkins has just published her grandfather Sidney Olson's TIME- LIFE dispatches from Europe 1945, which capture Churchill in London, Hemingway and Capa in Paris, the fall of Cologne and Nuremberg, and Dachau's liberation. $15 tickets are available at www.bedfordplayhouse.org. Books will be available for sale and signing. Information Source: Following the Front | eventbrite

The Cellar Bar Comedy Club is back! Our winter offering features some of the best comedians from across the country from club legends to TV superstars. We bring the very best comedy talent to Bedford for the cool, cool price of just £10! As always we have 4 quality acts. Our headliner for this month is Tadiwa Mahlunge. Billed as “one of the country's top new comedy acts” by The York Press, he has performed at, among others, the Latitude, Greenman, and Greenwich Comedy Festivals - alongside the biggest names in comedy - and has provided tour support for Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Jessica Fostekew, and TV warm up for Desiree Birch’s Amazon Prime special. As seen on BBC 1, BBC 2, Dave, Comedy Central, UTV, Comic Relief and heard on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Northampton and BBC Sounds - Tadiwa Mahlunge has established himself as one of comedy’s hottest prospects. As such, he featured on the 2022 Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ️️️️ ‘He’s got the skills, but his drive is what makes him stand out. Though their styles are different, the circuit might just have created another Jimmy Carr...’- Steve Bennett, Chortle ️️️️ ‘Young and gifted, in comedy terms, he’s already looking like the complete, fully rounded package’ - The Scotsman ️️️️ ‘An impressively accomplished and infectiously funny debut hour, Tadiwa Mahlunge is a name you’ll want to watch out for’ - The Skinny ️️️️ ‘Considering this is his debut hour at the Fringe, he’s remarkably confident, with a set as smooth as his shiny silk shirt’- Fest Mag Hosted, as always, by Mr Sparkly Boots himself, Simon Hall. Information Source: The Cellar Bar | eventbrite

Mapping Memory and History: A Dialogue between Billy Gérard Frank'sPalimpsestand Indigo: Entanglements Please join the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine for our annual DiMatteo Lecture--an evening lecture, film screening, and discussion with acclaimed artist and filmmaker Billy Gérard Frank. Frank will discuss his Indigo: Entanglements series of paintings and screen his 2022 Venice Biennale short film, Palimpsest: Tales Spun from the Sea and Memory (the film's New England premiere). Thursday, February 6th, 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm Reception: 5:30-6pm Lecture, Film Screening, and Q and A: 6pm-7:30pm Hannaford Hall (Abromson Center), University of Southern Maine (Portland) Frank's Indigo: Entanglementsseries is a new and ongoing body of works (multimedia painting incorporating silkscreen, vintage African fabric, newsprint, acrylic, etc.) interrogating the unmitigated drama and tragedy of New World Slavery and Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Osher Map Library has recently acquired Indigo: Entanglements, No. 6, for their permanent collection, a complex multimedia painting that engages with Maine's role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, via maps, documents, and other archival imagery. Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories narrates overlaying tales; fragments of a life and man: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, born in the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the Fante village of Agimaque. Cugoano was one the most radical and central African British opponents to have actively engaged in the fight against slavery in the eighteenth century, England. His book Thoughts and Sentiments On The Evil Of Slavery, published in England after he gained his freedom, is one of the most direct criticisms of slavery by a writer of African descent. You can watch the trailer here. Billy Gérard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. His research-driven practices mine personal issues related to race, exile, memory, global politics, and post-colonial and queer decoloniality. Frank challenges conventional narratives and creates counter-histories through his work, which has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum (2020) and the Butler Institute of American Art. His art is also part of several private collections and institutions, such as the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts and Design, Farnsworth Art Museum, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, among others. Frank represented Grenada at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and was also part of the collective representing the island at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia (2019), and (2024) Smithsonian Design Triennial. He is a 2024 Creative Capital Awardee and has received numerous grants, including the Ford Foundation Grant for his 2022 La Biennale project. The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is delighted to welcome Billy Gérard Frank as our inaugural Peggy L. Osher Visiting Artist Fellow in the spring of 2025. Information Source: Osher Map Library and Smith Center | eventbrite

Kevin Davison LIVE at Stage 1 in Mill Cove Brew Pub BEDFORD on Friday, February 7th, 2025! Kevin Davison has made a substantial impact on the Canadian country music landscape, and critics have praised his work both domestically and internationally. He is one of Canada's most admired and revered country musicians thanks to his commitment to his craft and enjoyment of writing music that deeply affects listeners emotionally. Tickets on sale now at eventrbite.ca Information Source: Stage 1 in Mill Cove | eventbrite

Experience an unforgettable evening at the Bedford United Church Spaghetti Men's Dinner, Auction, and Concert taking place on February 8, 2025, at the Bedford United Church in Bedford. Indulge in a delicious spaghetti dinner, bid on exciting auction items, and enjoy live music performances in support of a great cause. Join us for a night of community, entertainment, and philanthropy at 1200 Bedford Highway, Bedford, NS B4A 1C3.

Stephen Fearing House Concert “A master of the finely-turned phrase and the perfectly-pitched line.” Maverick Magazine Join us for an intimate evening with the legendary singer-songwriter, Stephen Fearing, at Patchwork House Concerts! This is a Sunday but the morrow is Family Day (i.e. a provincial holiday for most). Limited seats available, so grab your tickets now! Stephen Fearing has been named one of the finest songwriters in Canada and has built a national – and international – audience for his music, doing it old school through countless performances at intimate venues and on the concert stages of festivals and theatres across Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe. In 1996 he co-founded Blackie and the Rodeo Kings with Colin Linden and Tom Wilson. Originally intended to be a one-off collaboration to record a tribute album of songs written by Canadian folk music legend Willie P. Bennett, the trio quickly recognized they had created something worthy of further exploration and both critics and audiences agreed. More than 22 years later, with nine albums and a JUNO award to their credit, the band has become one of the most respected names in North American roots-rock. Their musical collaborators include Emmy Lou Harris, Nick Lowe, City and Colour, Keb’ Mo’, Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Sam Phillips, Pam Tillis, Vince Gill, Cassandra Wilson, Serena Ryder, Holy Cole, and Mary Margaret O’Hara. In 1998, Stephen Fearing met Andy White backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival and a fast friendship was formed. As the duo Fearing & White they have released two critically-acclaimed albums and toured throughout Canada and the UK. More recently, Fearing has been collaborating with the Danish backing band and folk music pioneers, The Sentimentals. In 2023, they releasef their joint album Vejpoesi recorded in Frederikshavn, Denmark and Hamilton. MC Hansen, also with The Sentimentals, will be joining Stephen at Patchwork. Fearing has released ten albums as a solo artist, featuring a who's who of musical guests (Bruce Cockburn, Margo Timmons, Rose Cousins, Richard Thompson, Shawn Colvin, and Sarah McLachlan). When not working behind the microphone, he spends time producing records including Suzie Vinnick’s JUNO Award-nominated album Happy Here. Like the guests on his albums, the many awards and nominations that have come his way over the years speak to the respect he has earned among his peers, presenters, and critics. His abiding love for his craft and ability to delight audiences are further reflected in multiple JUNO and Canadian Folk Music Awards nominations and awards and an ever-expanding touring circuit throughout North America, the UK, and Europe. For his album Every Soul’s a Sailor he was awarded the 2017 Worldwide Album of the Year by Blues & Roots Radio and named 2017 Contemporary Singer of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. “Getting on stage is the fun part, especially when the adrenaline kicks in,” Fearing says, with a broad smile. “People want to escape and be taken on a journey. I build my shows so they do just that.” Visit his youtube channel for a taste of what is in store. Tickets for this ride are $30 + fees. Like all of our house concerts, 100 % of the door will go directly to the artists. We provide the stage, chairs and hopefully a room filled with eager listeners. Snacks and soft drinks will be offered; otherwise it is BYOB. Bringing music-loving-friends and visiting family members is strongly encouraged. Monique & George Information Source: Patchwork House Concerts | eventbrite

Mini Movers is a group allowing your mobile toddler to explore body awareness and physical development in our new room at Peter Pan. There is lots of new equipment for your child to try, allowing them to find out what their body can do. Younger siblings welcome. To enable us to continue to provide services we do require parents to register with Bedford Borough Children Centres. This enables us to demonstrate to the local authority the number of families we are reaching. If you have yet to register please use this link to prior to the course - Children Centre Registration Information Source: Bedford Borough Family Hubs and Children's Centres | eventbrite

Join us in the ballroom at the Bedford in Balham to celebrate this debut collection by Fiona Bennett. Poems from the collection will be read by poets from Fiona's cohort at the Poetry School. The Poetry Exchange will be livestreaming the event for those that cannot attend in person. Fiona Bennett was the founder and director of The Poetry Exchange. Her poetry has been featured in a wide range of journals in the UK, the USA and on BBC radio. With a background in theatre, Fiona delivered artful interventions in organisational, community and education settings across the world, including Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal National Theatre, Setagaya Theatre Tokyo and British Council Mumbai. She was a co-director of The Map Consortium. Fiona sadly died in 2024 after a short illness, but not before she could complete this, her debut collection. Fiona Bennett's poems are often about gesture, particularly small gestures between people, barely registered, but vital in how we communicate with each other. Although she could write about difficulty and hardship with a clear and focused eye, her poems on the whole celebrate being in the world - recording the joy of seeing something extraordinary and beautiful, the power of touch and speech and dance. In that sense, her poems are extensions of her way of being, her gentle presence, her humanity; although her absence is keenly felt, it is a consolation to know that her voice will continue to radiate through this stunning collection. Tamar Yoseloff Fiona Bennett wrote a poetry of incandescence. The blaze of the poems is so fierce it obliterates the past tense, shines on a realm of moments brilliantly caught, the trembling light of first glimpses, last touches, those times where human relations turn and the price of love is infinitely paid. This book is her memorial, but not a stone - a flame, light made from heat, the tense of what is now, the tense of what is always. Glyn Maxwell Information Source: Live Canon | eventbrite