Articles tagged ‘Bankside’

Twelfth Night celebration at Bankside

By Chris | January 2nd, 2008 | Add a Comment »

This Sunday, 6 January, the annual Bankside Twelfth Night festival takes place along the banks of the River Thames close to the Globe Theatre and Tate Modern starting at 12.45pm.
Twelfth Night is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the festival shows how the church adapted existing pagan midwinter festivals to have a Christian [...]

 

October Plenty

By Chris | October 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

The annual autumn harverst celebration called October Plenty takes place this weekend, 27 October, starting at 12pm alongside the River Thames at Bankside, next to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
October Plenty is a mixture of old harvest customs, theatre, a procession and a market, and its free to attend. It all begins when a huge effigy of [...]

 

Tate Modern - London’s best modern art

By Chris | October 18th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Tate Modern has become one of the big draws for visitors to London. It opened in May 2000 in the converted Bankside power station and the size of the building and the space inside, allowing really large exhibits, must be one of the draws.