Your Bank Holiday Weekend, Sorted!
This Bank Holiday weekend marks the return of the annual Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest carnival in Europe! This fantastic two day party showcases some of the best traditional Caribbean food and bands, along with the food, music and dance of the many other nationalities that participate to make this one of the biggest events in London every year! Make sure you make time to join in the fun, especially on Monday for the Grand Finale which sees all the incredible floats unleashed in a sea of sequins, colour, and feathers!
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Westminster, Victoria, St James' and Belgravia:
The Sensation Sounds Family Festival is a one day extravaganza, taking place this Saturday, to help families make the most of the National Gallery's current exhibition 'Soundscapes'. It is a fun-filled day packed with sound related workshops: take a trip on a musical magic carpet, enjoy the sounds and songs from Stonemason's Yard, make noisy paintings, and bring the gallery's paintings to life through music!
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Head to the Garrick Theatre in Covent Garden this weekend for a fun-filled dose of history at the 'Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain - Part 3' show! Party with the Puritans, see the great fire of London, vomit with the vile Victorians, and give the Duke of Wellington the boot. This show promises to be an educational laugh-a-minute for kids and grown-ups too!
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London Bridge, South Bank, Borough and Bermondsey:
To celebrate 10 year since the arrival of the Unicorn Theatre on Tooley Street, they are hosting two days of free activities over this bank holiday weekend. There will be family-friendly workshops, crafting, games, arts, dance, storytelling, and much more!
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As part of the Blackfriars Stories Programme 'Gone in 20 Minutes' is taking place this Friday along the riverside between Oxo Tower Wharf and Tate Modern. This promises to be an afternoon of unusual performances that have been brought together by Southwark Council and the Arts Council who have trawled the country for the latest in cutting edge street theatre! There will be over 12 different performances featuring singing, hip-hop dance, astronauts, a circus and more!
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Lambeth, Vauxhall, Elephant & Castle, and Kennington:
Head to the Tea House Theatre this Friday for this month's SE11 Sessions featuring Oriana Curls as the headline act. Oriana Curls is a French jazz, pop & cabaret singer-songwriter whose songs speak of love and relationships. Oriana has worked with many top writers, producers, and musicians as well as performing at many famous venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and the Eiffel Tower!
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This weekend is your last chance to see the 'Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style' at the Imperial War Museum. This stunning exhibition explores the impact of wartime austerity on the way people dressed. Rationing affected every aspect of life, and clothing was one of the areas where the make do and mend attitude really flourished. The results were a move towards a much more casual style of dressing than before, using ingenious renovation and recycling techniques! Through the accessories, photographs, films, artworks, clothing and interviews of that time, this exhibition allows you to gain insight into the lives of men and women during wartime Britain. It also showed off some of the marketing ingenuity of the wartime retailers with items such as gas-mask handbags and luminous blackout buttons.
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