Archive for April, 2008
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
London’s Imperial War Museum has a major exhibition starting this week celebrating 100 years since the birth of author Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond 007. For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, on from 17 April 2008–1 March 2009, looks at Fleming’s life and how his earlier experiences led to the creation of the world’s most well known secret agent.
Ian Fleming was the son of a Conservative MP who was killed fighting in World War One. The young Ian went to Eton, Britain’s top public(private) school, and then on to Sandhurst the UK’s equivalent of West Point. He worked as a journalist for Reuters
Date: April 16th, 2008 |
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The American Scene at the British Museum
The British Museum opens a new exhibition today called The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock which runs until 7 September 2008. It features around 150 prints from 74 different artists painted between 1900-1960 which reflect the changes in American society and culture during that period.
Themes covered include the changing urban landscape, the Jazz Age, the Depression and America in World War Two. The museum is using its extensive collection of prints to bring the exhibition together and John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock are some of the artists whose work is featured.
Date: April 11th, 2008 |
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Expo New Zealand
If you’ve found yourself getting a bit tired of the charms of London or maybe just the prices and felt like starting over somewhere completely new you might be interested in the Opportunities New Zealand Expo taking place this weekend, 5-6 April 2008, at Olympia in West London.
The expo is aimed at people who might be thinking of emigrating Down Under and provides information on the type of skilled people New Zealand is looking to encourage to move. Immigration New Zealand will have a stand at the expo to explain and answer any questions on visas as well as hosting a series of migration seminars throughout the weekend.
Date: April 4th, 2008 |
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London travel tips for first time visitors
Spring is here and travellers and tourists will soon be arriving in London in ever bigger numbers. For the first time visitor there’s a myriad of places to go and things to see once they get here especially if the trip is only short, maybe over an extended weekend. Here’s a quick look at some of the things people coming to London for the first time might want to know about or fit into their schedule.
Flights and Hotels
You’ve booked the airfare to London but what about the hotel room. The accomodation available in London is extensive and varied, not the cheapest, if fact expensive at the higher end but there are deals if you do a bit of searching.
Date: April 1st, 2008 |
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East End Film Festival
The eighth East End Film Festival starts this week, running from 17-24 April at a number of cinemas and other venues around the East End of London including the Cineworld West India Quay, the Genesis Mile End Cinema, the Rich Mix cinema in Shoreditch, the Stratford Picture House and the Rio Cinema.
The festival started out as a way to showcase the talents of local filmmakers and has gone on to include independent films from around the world as well as locally produced and developed ones.
Date: April 14th, 2008 |
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London Marathon
This Sunday 13 April sees the 28th annual running of the London Marathon. Around 46,000 runners will attempt to complete the 26 miles and 385 yards from Blackheath near Greenwich to the finish on The Mall a few hundred yards in front of Buckingham Palace, and in the process draw hundreds of thousands of spectators onto the streets of central London in what is one of the biggest events in the capital all year.
The runners assemble at Greenwich Park and there are three different starting points, Blue for the Elite Men, Elite Women and the Elite Mens and Womens Wheelchair races, Green for celebrity runners and Red for the Mass Start.
Date: April 10th, 2008 |
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April Film Premieres in London
2 April - Shine a Light Director Martin Scorsese is a longtime Rolling Stones fan having used their songs in many of his movies over the last four decades, Gimme Shelter was used in Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Departed. Shine A Light is a concert documentary filmed in late 2006 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City with the Stones performing with guests including Jack White from The White Stripes and Christina Aguilera. The London premiere is at the Odeon Leicester Square and the band and Martin Scorsese should be in attendence.
8 April - Leatherheads A romantic sports comedy set around a 1920s American football team starring and directed by George Clooney and co-starring Renee Zellweger,
Date: April 2nd, 2008 |
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