Articles tagged ‘what’s on’
Turbo Tennis at the O2
By Chris | September 11th, 2007 |
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Taking a leaf out of cricket’s book and their crash-bang Twenty20 form of the game, this Saturday 15 September the O2 Arena in Greenwich stages the Betfair Turbo Tennis tournament, a souped up version of the game you see at Wimbledon.
This one day event with a $100,000 first prize involves 30 minute matches with strict [...]
London Spanish Film Festival
By Chris | September 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The London Spanish Film Festival 2007 is on at the Cine Lumiere in South Kensington from the 14-27 September featuring the best in modern Spanish cinema. The festival includes documentaries and shorts as well as feature films and one of the highlights is a screening of Alatriste, the most expensive Spanish-language film ever made, which [...]
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 [...]
Gamelan comes to London’s South Bank
By Chris | September 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Gamelan is the music of the islands of Indonesia including Java, Bali and Lombok. Its an ensemble form of music featuring instruments such as metallophones, drums and gongs. This weekend the Southbank Centre in London is getting into all things gamelan with three days of activities staring today with a Gamelan Symposium in the Purcell [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming events in London - 12.04.06
By Chris | December 4th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree Lighting An annual ceremony where the tree donated by the people of Norway to London for Britain’s support in World War 2 is lit. It takes place on Thursday 7 December at 6pm and is free to attend. There’s a band and a choir singing Christmas carols and the lights are [...]
Up coming events in London - 11.06.06
By Chris | November 6th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Christmas Lights in Regent Street Along with the Oxford Street lights the one’s on Regent Street have the traditional big opening.
