Articles tagged ‘City Hall’
City Hall Open weekend
By Chris | November 1st, 2007 |London’s City Hall has one of its regular weekend openings this week where visitors get to look around parts of the Norman Foster designed building that are usually off limits or being used by London’s elected officials.
On the south bank of the Thames close to Tower Bridge, City Hall was opened for use by [...]
Open Shutters at More London
By Chris | October 25th, 2007 |More London, the area alongside the River Thames near City Hall holds a series of exhibitions, performances and events throughout the year and currently running until 2 November is a free photography exhibition called Open Shutters:Iraq.
Open Shutters is an in-depth photography programme that helps women share personal emotional experiences with the wider world through images [...]
Free Theatre at More London
By Chris | July 30th, 2007 |The open air amphitheatre next to London’s City Hall known as The Scoop has already had a free film and a free music festival this summer, and from 1 August-9 September every Wednesday to Sunday there’s series of free theatre performances that anyone can attend.
The two productions on at The Scoop are Helen of Troy [...]
More London Free Music Festival
By Chris | July 3rd, 2007 |There’s a month of open air free music events taking place this July in The Scoop, the sunken area on the banks of the Thames next London’s City Hall. They’ll be lunchtime and evening performances every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday throughout the month, no tickets are required, you can just turn up, find a step [...]
City Hall open day
By Chris | June 11th, 2007 |London’s City Hall has one of its regular open weekends this week, all though this time its only opening up to the public on Sunday 17 June from 10am-5pm.
City Hall on the banks of the River Thames houses the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London, and a number of times a year opens [...]
Free Films at London’s Scoop
By Chris | June 4th, 2007 |The Scoop at More London is the sunken outdoor amphitheatre on the south bank of the River Thames next to London’s City Hall building. Its used throughout the summer to stage free events and this June has a programme called Free Films at The Scoop featuring screenings of well known and classic films.
The Scoop seats [...]
Central London park re-opening
By Chris | May 16th, 2007 |Over the past year the open area on the south bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge, City Hall and Tooley Street, known as Potters Fields, has been under going a £3million redevelopment.
Designed to have new irrigated lawns, new gardens, an area known as Blossom Square full of flowering cherry trees, a sunken area [...]
St George’s Day
By Chris | April 19th, 2007 |April 23 is St George’s Day, the patron saint of England, and from 21-23 April there are a number of events in London celebrating the day. Most English people would probably be surprised to learn that St George is the saint not only of England but places as varied as Catalonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Serbia and [...]
Upcoming events in London 02.27.07
By Chris | February 27th, 2007 |The Barbican 25th Birthday Film Season As part of the Barbican Art Centre’s 25th anniversary this year they’re having short season of films chosen by audiences at the Barbican from the top 25 films in Halliwell’s Top 1000 films published by Harper Collins. The top 25 have all been shown at the Barbican at some [...]
London’s Shanghai Week
By Chris | February 13th, 2007 |Along with Chinese New Year, February is also the time the London Assembly has designated as the start for its China in London season of events. This week the Mayor and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government are launching Shanghai Week starting with a show at City Hall called Shanghai 360 Degrees, a photography exhibition which [...]
