Articles tagged ‘Hyde Park’
Diaspora London Music Village 2008
By Roger | June 13th, 2008 |
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The dates for the 24th annual Diaspora London Music Village Festival have been announced, and the official lineup for this popular event will be released on June 23, so we’ll update you in this space.
The 2008 dates for this free festival in Hyde Park are Saturday July 12 and Sunday July 13, running from [...]
Speaker’s Corner
By Chris | April 27th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
In modern London with its vast growing web of cctv cameras on almost every major street and expanding police powers, anyone spontaneously gathering a crowd to lecture them about what whatever’s exercising your mind that day will pretty soon be brought to a halt by law enforcement, offered the chance to donate some DNA and [...]
Red Bull Flugtag London
By Chris | February 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Flugtag (Flying Day), is an event organized by Red Bull that has taken place in over 70 cities around the world and the second Red Bull Flugtag London day is happening on Saturday 7th June 2008 in Hyde Park.
Flugtag involves competitors constructing man powered flying machines and launching them and their pilot or pilots [...]
Hard Rock Calling
By Chris | January 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the big gigs of the summer in central London has announced its line up. The Hard Rock Calling event taking place in Hyde Park on the weekend of the 28-29 June will feature Eric Clapton headlining the Saturday show supported by Sheryl Crow and John Mayer, while on the Sunday The Police top [...]
London’s outdoor ice rinks
By Chris | November 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Outdoor ice rinks have become increasingly popular in London over the last few years, opening for a month or two either side of Christmas. Many of London’s top tourist attractions have taken the opportunity to install rinks, taking advantage of some of the city’s most spectacular settings to provide a unique place to skate. Over [...]
London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
By Chris | October 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone with an interest in cars, especially really old ones from the dawn of the motorcar age, should get themselves into central London this weekend, 3-4 November, for the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
First held in 1927, the London to Brighton commemorates the Emancipation Run of 1896 which celebrated the Light Locomotives Act [...]
Horseman’s Sunday
By Chris | September 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
St John’s Church Hyde Park carries on a 40 year tradition this Sunday 23 September when they hold their annual Horseman’s Sunday. It takes place on the penultimate Sunday in September and the vicar of St John’s will mount up and lead a procession of over 100 horses and riders to the church for a [...]
Trunks meet Trunks in Hyde Park
By Chris | September 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London’s Hyde Park has a group of unusual vistors at the moment, a herd of Indian elephants. Unfortunately these aren’t the real thing but 13 life size models made of willow that have been placed in the park to draw attention to the loss of the Indian elephants natural habitat.
Trunks meet Trunks is organized by [...]
Proms in the Park
By Chris | September 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Each summer the Royal Albert Hall in London holds a two month long season of classical music concerts called the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, the finale of which, The Last Night of the Proms, attracts a flag waving, balloon throwing, boisterous crowd.
The Last Night is always televised live by the BBC and for the [...]
Free events in London’s parks
By Chris | July 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Central London’s Royal Parks continue to have an on going varied programme of free events this summer. Here are some of the things you can see for nothing over the next couple of weeks.
28-29 July - Music Village
Musicians, dancers and storytellers from around the world come together this summer for the 2007 Music Village, Europe’s [...]
