Greenpeace ship open days The Arctic Sunrise is the ship that Greenpeace have been using for the last 12 years in their campaigns around the world, including protecting the whales in the Antarctic from the blubber hungry Japanese and recording climate change in Greenland. Now they’ve brought the ship to London to campaign against the British government’s decision to replace our submarine launched nuclear missiles. Personally I think Greenpeace are completely wrong on this and Britain should keep its nuclear weapons, but if you want to hear their side of the story the Arctic Sunrise will be moored at Thames Quay on the Isle of Dogs, not far from Canary Wharf, and will be open to the public to have a look around from 11am-4pm on 10-11 March. Its free to go aboard.
Lewisham Irish Festival 2007 Taking place both sides of St Patrick’s Day this festival starts tomorrow evening with a concert by traditional Irish group Le Chéile at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, it starts at 8pm and tickets are £9. The rest of the festival is made up of music, concerts, comedy, plays and workshops and takes place either at the Lewisham Irish Centre or the Broadway Theatre. The Irish Festival runs from 10-31 March.
10K Ground Clash This event at the Hackney Empire features 32 fighters in a winner takes all competition between exponents of karate, judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Greco Roman wrestling and more to see who can make the opponent submit. £10,000 to the winner, the show starts at 7.15pm on 11 March, tickets are £18 (£75 ringside).
Six Nations Rugby-England v France England are coming off a mighty shalacking by Ireland two weeks ago and have made a lot of team changes, France are top of the Six Nations table and look in form. England need a win to get some pride and confidence back, whether they can is another story. Kicks off at 3pm on 11 March at Twickenham.
New Religion An show at Wallspace, a gallery inside All Hallows Church, London Wall in the City of London. Wallspace was set up to look at the relationship between art and spirituality and New Religion is an exhibition of the work of British artist Damien Hirst. Its on until 4 April, 12-6pm Mon-Fri (8pm Thurs), 10am-4pm Sat, admission is free.
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