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MELTDOWN EVENTS FOR FREE
· OBSERVER MELTDOWN DISCUSSION with RICHARD THOMPSON and JOE
BOYD
· BANDSTAND BUSKING FREESTAGES feat. JOHNNY FLYNN, KATE
TEMPEST, BROADCAST 2000 and more
· FREE PERFORMANCES BY FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS AND SAM
CARTER
· FIRST UK incarnation of SHIFTING SANDS feat. members of
Bellowhead
· FREE FILM SCREENINGS of DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH and WERNER
HERZOG’s GRIZZLY MAN
For Richard Thompson’s Meltdown (11-21 June 2010), The Clore
Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall will be transformed into an indoor
park environment with a specially created bandstand at its heart.
Celebrating the tradition of free outdoor concerts and informal
congregation, the bandstand ushers this spirit into one of London’s
most popular indoor public spaces. It will feature a full programme
of announced and surprise gigs on both Fridays and weekends during
the festival, some programmed in partnership with Bandstand Busking.
In what promises to be a fitting opening event for this year’s
Meltdown, Friday Tonic on Friday 11 June features members of Bellowhead
as well as UK folk's rising star Sam Carter, Middle East music specialist
Giles Lewin and musicians from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and
UAE who will take to the Bandstand stage at 6pm. Creating new material
inspired by their respective traditions, they perform in what will
be the first UK incarnation of Shifting Sands – a new British
Council initiative in Partnership with Southbank Centre, that explores
the musical roots of both the UK and the Middle East. (Separate
press release for Shifting Sands available)
Following on from the Shifting Sands performance the previous evening,
audiences are invited to the Shifting Sands Insight Day on Saturday
12 June where they can meet and discover more about the artists
involved in the project. Starting with a talk and demonstrations
at 11am, all advanced musicians (aged 16 and over) with an interest
in traditional music of all cultures are then invited to join one
of four workshops (12.30-3pm), culminating in a scratch performance
at 3.30pm.
Bandstand Busking is a London-based project, breathing life into
the city’s unused bandstands by showcasing music from some
of the best up and coming acts around. All performances are available
to view on the Bandstand Busking website. At Meltdown, the first
Bandstand Busking Freestage runs from 1pm-7pm on Sunday 13 June,
with musicians including independent American folk artist Sam Amidon,
anti-folk movement artist Laura Hocking, Irish guitarist and singer
Oh Ruin aka Eoin O’Ruainigh, the Trans Siberian March Band,
London's very own all dancing corseted female morris troupe Belles
Of London City and author (Child of Tibet) and singer Soname.
Tuesday 15 June sees a special event – The Observer Meltdown
Discussion with Meltdown Director Richard Thompson and legendary
producer Joe Boyd in conversation in the Purcell Room at 6.30pm.
BBC Folk Awards 2010 winner of the Horizon Award for best newcomer,
Sam Carter performs with his trio as part of Southbank Centre’s
weekly Friday Lunch free music series at 1pm on Friday 18 June.
Carter is a startlingly perceptive and self-assured young singer-songwriter
and guitarist whose debut album Keepsakes was released in August
2009.
Fisherman’s Friends - the singing fishermen from Cornwall,
famously signed up by EMI for £1m, and who are to be the subject
of a Pinewood Studios film, can be sampled in two performances on
Saturday 19 June at 1pm and 6.30pm. Down the harbourfront of the
tiny fishing village of Port Isaac, at around eight in the evening
during the summer months, tourists and locals gather to hear this
ten-man group mesh their voices in an incredibly rousing and joyful
set of shanties and Cornish folk songs. These men have known each
other since childhood and learnt their powerful brand of Cornish
harmony singing at the local Methodist chapel. Their new album,
recorded in a 15th-century church in nearby St Kew and released
in April 2010, features a rich haul of 12 songs from their Port
Isaac repertoire.
The second night of The Bandstand Busking Freestage on Sunday 20
June also runs from 1pm-7pm and artists include Sheffield folk-rock
duo Slow Club, acoustic indie folk band Broadcast 2000, actor, poet
and songwriter Johnny Flynn, British folk guitarist and singer-songwriter
John Smith, London spoken word artist Kate Tempest, Appalachian
Storm, a band who specialise in Appalachian and Celtic traditional
and contemporary dance tunes and the Crystal Palace Brass Band.
Free Meltdown film screenings include Grizzly Man on Monday 14 June
in the Purcell Room at 7.45pm. With a soundtrack composed and performed
by Richard Thompson, Werner Herzog's celebrated film charts the
life and death of Timothy Treadwell, who would spend months each
year living in Alaska amongst wild bears. Using footage recorded
by Treadwell and interviews with friends and bear experts, Herzog
captures an extraordinary story of man and nature. Dreams with Sharp
Teeth, the acclaimed documentary about the controversial American
science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, will be shown on Friday 18
June in the Purcell Room at 9pm. With a soundtrack written and performed
by Richard Thompson, this acclaimed documentary features contributions
from some of Harlan Ellison’s fans, including Robin Williams
and Neil Gaiman.
An innovative sound installation will be installed across the windows
of the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall during the Meltdown Festival,
linked to an interactive lounge in which the public can find out
more about the music that influenced Fairport Convention. Festival
goers will also be encouraged to contribute to Global Poetry System,
Southbank Centre’s online call for poetry and verse from around
the world.
Meltdown free events – listings
Free Events – discussion
The Observer Meltdown Discussion with Richard Thompson and Joe Boyd
Tuesday 15 June, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6.30pm
Free Events – film screenings
Film Screening: Grizzly Man
Monday 14 June 2010, Purcell Room, 7.45pm, Admission Free (ticketed)
Film Screening: Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Friday 18 June 2010, Purcell Room, 9pm, Admission Free (ticketed)
Free bandstand events
Shifting Sands
Featuring musicians from Bellowhead, Sam Carter, Giles Lewin and
musicians from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and UAE
Friday Tonic
Friday 11 June 2010, The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall,
6pm, Admission free
Shifting Sands is a British Council initiative.
Shifting Sands Insight Day
Saturday 12 June 2010,The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall,
11.00 talk, 12.30-3.00 workshops, 3.30 performance, Admission free
Live post-show World Cup football &+ DJ
Saturday 12 June, The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
till late
The Bandstand Busking Freestage
Featuring Sam Amidon, Laura Hocking, Oh Ruin and more
Sunday 13 June 2010,The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1
- 7pm, Admission free
Sam Carter
Friday Lunch
Friday 18 June 2010,The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm,
Admission free
Friday Tonic: Artist to be announced
Friday18 June 2010, The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm,
Admission free
The Fisherman’s Friends
Saturday 19 June 2010, The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall,
1 & 6.30pm,
Admission free
The Bandstand Busking Freestage
Featuring Broadcast 200, Slow Club, Belles Of London, Johnny Flynn
and more
Sunday 20 June 2010,The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1
- 7pm, Admission free
Free events – Global Poetry System
Global Poetry System (GPS) is a user generated world map of poetry
– the poetry that is all around us, from gravestones to graffiti,
from pop songs to remembered classics, in the landscape and in our
memories. In this special project for Meltdown, audiences are invited
to join Richard Thompson in sharing a recording of their own traditional
verse or poetry on the GPS map. It could be anything from a playground
chant to a folk song, a proverb or nursery rhyme, a historical ballad
or the first record they ever bought. In sharing it with the map,
people contribute to a rich collection of global folk verse that
starts this summer. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gps
Free events – installation
Whispering Windows is an interactive sound installation taking over
the windows of the Royal Festival Hall on Festival Terrace. It features
music from Richard Thompson’s Meltdown artists as well as
an exclusive playlist of tracks that inspired Fairport Convention
and recordings of unique folk verse from around the world. Passers
by can trigger the music via motion sensors and vote online to decide
some of the tracks that play. The installation is linked to an interactive
lounge in which the public can find out more about the music that
influenced Fairport Convention, and contribute to Global Poetry
System’s online call for folk verse from around the world.
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FREEDOM OF THE FRINGE - every Thursday in Kentish Town
and it's free
Stand-Up Comedy Every Thursday in Kentish Town
Freedom of the Fringe is a weekly showcase of new comedy talent,
in the comfortable cellar bar of The Torriano in Kentish Town. Every
Thursday, established and rising comedians perform sets of up to
ten minutes each, for the highly competitive price of absolutely
free.
We promote and encourage creativity and daring performance, ensuring
a liberated and friendly atmosphere in which comedians feel confident
to experiment and push their own boundaries. Performers are hand-picked
from the circuit and include stand-ups from all over the world,
character acts, double acts, musical comedy, improvisational groups
and even burlesque.
We also film the evenings, and full sets and highlights videos
are available on our youtube channel:
Find
us on Facebook: and Twitter (FreedomOTFringe)
And in Kentish Town every Thursday night.
FREEDOM OF THE FRINGE
Every Thursday from 8.30pm until 10.30pm (approx.)
At The Torriano
71-73 Torriano Avenue
Kentish Town
London
NW5 2SG
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We are currently filming our 3rd Series and looking for people
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If you and your family are being consumed by your own clutter please
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Or send us some photos to trashtocash@reeftv.com and we’ll
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We’re filming now so contact us ASAP! |
Tallis
Festival 2009 Concert
Sun 8 Feb 2009 19:30
Union Chapel, Islington
The culminating public concert of the Tallis Festival 2009
Hear over 160 singers perform the culminating concert of the Tallis
Festival 2009 in the magnificent Victorian Gothic setting of the
Union Chapel, Islington. The choir will sing Thomas Tallis’
monumental motet Spem in alium for eight choirs from around the
gallery of the Chapel – providing the audience with a unique
surround-sound experience. The concert will also include Henry Purcell’s
Hear My Prayer, O Lord to mark the 350th anniversary of his birth,
alongside modern Swedish composer and Ligeti pupil Sven-David Sandström's
remarkable elaboration of the same work; and celebrated American
composer Eric Whitacre's famous setting of When David Heard.
The main work of the evening will be Frank Martin’s beautiful
Mass for Double Choir.
Ticket prices: Standard : Free Admission
Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium
Frank Martin Mass for Double Choir
Henry Purcell Hear My Prayer, O Lord
Sven-David Sandström (after Purcell) Hear My Prayer, O Lord
Eric Whitacre When David Heard
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| HEART OF COMEDY - New
fortnightly stand up comedy night in Camden - starts 18th May
2010 |
Free
bottle of wine when you book your table online at The International
-Book a table at The International's pan Asian restaurant, Katana, using
the on-line booking form, and get a FREE bottle of house red or white
wine.
Tesco
Home deliverys in London? - yes Tesco deliver across London so you
need never go to a grocery store again. Easy service to sign up to and
gets easier each time you use it. Simply register with your existing tesco
card and you'll get all your favourites listed!
How to tell if you're a londoner...
1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which
one.
2. You have never been to The Tower of London or Madame Tussauds
but love Brighton
3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from
Shepherds Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before
a long weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.
4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
5. You step over people who collapse on the Tube.
6. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own
language makes you multilingual.
7. You've considered stabbing someone.
8. Your door has more than three locks.
9. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
10. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.
11. You consider Essex the "countryside".
12. You think Hyde Park is "nature".
13. You're paying £1,200 a month for a studio the size of
a walk-in wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain".
14. Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives
you a severe attack of agoraphobia.
15. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in
the UK pay in rent.
16. You pay £3 without blinking for a beer that cost the
bar 28p.
17. You actually take fashion seriously.
18. You have 27 different take-away menus next to your telephone.
19. The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.
20. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing
on you.
22. £50 worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.
23. You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever"
stories.
24. You don't hear sirens anymore.
25. You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air/water
quality and what it's doing to your insides.
26. You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.
27. Your cleaner is Portugese, your grocer is Somali, your butcher
is Halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your
laundry guy is Philippino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite
diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese,
your last cabbie was African, your newsagent is Indian and your
local English chippie owner is Turkish.
28. You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get married.
29. You roll your eyes and say 'tsk' at the news that someone has
thrown themselves under a tube train.
30. Your day is ruined if you don't get a copy of Metro on the
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Hornimans
Adventure Playground
Creating New Ideas Through Play!
Hornimans Adventure Playground is an open access play facility for children
aged between 5-16 year olds.
We are open Monday - Friday 3.30—6.45 pm, Saturdays 11-4.45pm and
on Sundays - Kids Active group.
School holidays Monday - Friday 11am - 5.45pm
Summer holidays we have two late nights until 9pm each week for children
over 8 years old.
All children who live or attend school in the borough of Kensington and
Chelsea must be registered (please ask staff for form) they can come and
go when ever we are open. Children who do not live in K&C or attend
school here are still welcome to use the playground as long as they have
an adult over 18 yrs to supervise them.
Parents and carers are welcome to stay with their children or leave them
at the playground to enjoy some of the many activities we provide term
time and on school holidays.
Free to attend everyday!
Free travel on buses and trams for under 16s
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced free bus and tram travel
for under-16 year olds in London. Story
on BBC about this
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Monday 27th June. St.Mary’s Church Lewisham High
Street (next to Lewisham Hospital)
7.30pm
A free concert given by the Norwegian Choir from the Island of Onoy/Luroy
- Director Chris Eva
Church music, gospel, pop music, folk music, classical
Norwegian music and music from northern Norway |
| Free
walks round London! - lots of interesting walks round London.
Find the walk you want and print it out and have a lovely day out.
The walks tell you start, finish, duration and distance meaning you
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