What’s On In London This Weekend? 3-5 September

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What are you up to this weekend? Here’s a round up of our recommendations and a smattering of suggestions to help you make the most of your 48 hours leisure time.

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By Ronald Hackson. Be part of the Southbank Centre’s 5000 Morris Dancers weekend.

All weekend:

  • Offset Festival brings 2 days of music, art and fun to Hainault Forest with Caribou, These New Puritans, Mystery Jets and more. Saturday and Sunday, tickets £29-65.

  • Ignite at the Royal Opera House is 3 days of contemporary arts curated this year by Joanna McGregor. Daytime events are free, evening events include a lying down in a forest concert, Jah Wobble and Talvin Singh and the Tashi Lhunpo Monks of Tibet (£12 each).

  • Brand new musical dance show Shoes opens at Sadlers Wells and runs until 11th September.

  • It’s the penultimate weekend of the Proms. Queue up for those £5 tickets.

    • Friday:

  • Him out of Gavin and Stacey continues his excursion into DJing with a brand new night Poot at Islington’s Old Queen’s Head, 8pm-2am, £4.

    • Saturday:

  • Get a face full of photographic fun Shooting Portraits in and around the National Portrait Gallery with Shoot Experience (10.30am-5pm, £15).

  • The largest gathering of Morris Dancers assemble on Queens Walk outside the Southbank Centre for an afternoon of dancing. Noon till 5pm, free (and Sunday).

  • Play Musical Bingo in the National Theatre’s Green Room bar between 10pm-1am.

    • Sunday:

    • Chelsea Autolegends celebrates Le Mans 24 in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, 10am-4pm, £12/15.

  • Try beer with your Sunday lunch at the Jolly Butchers, Stoke Newington

  • Relax to the classical strains of the Bloomsbury String Quartet in the garden of Myddleton House, Bulls Cross, Enfield EN2 9HG between 6-8pm. Take a rug, a bottle of wine and a picnic. (£7.50, book on 08456 770 600).

    • Other good stuff:

    Don’t forget to comb our specialist selections: all things literary in the Book Grocer, show openings and closings in Arts Ahead, gigs galore in Music Choice and things for when you’re skint in London on the Cheap.

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    • Lindsey

      Dave Hill’s newsletter advised us it’s the Liberty Festival this Sunday in Trafalgar Square.

      Also on Sunday, it’s Klezmer in the Park at Regents Park bandstand.

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      Walthamstow Art Trail starts this weekend: http://www.e17arttrail.co.uk/

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      Car free cycling around the west end in the London Skyride. Suitable for all the family and some celebs to be spotted!

      Graham
      http://www.bikers-delight.com

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      This Sunday, 5th September at 7pm, Ludus Ludius presents ‘Bonsoir! Catch Impro’.

      You take two teams of bitter, brutal bands of jocks, a flashy referee, a huge bowl of cornflake-esque light and sound (ie, like speaking in your cereal bowl and the kitchen light hitting your eye balls), an unforgiving clock, and half a boxing ring …
      And you get: Catch Impro.

      Various duals will take place where the teams play improvisational scenes with severe violations causing our referee to blow his whistle. Our ref will set catergories and/or themes. For example, An romantic movie trailer in 30 seconds or an opera in 8 minutes or just simply, ‘Bats out of the freezer!’.

      Catch it if you can!

      Its:

      Sunday 5th September 2010, 7pm
      The Bell,
      50 Middlesex Street,
      London E1 7EX
      nr Aldgate tube
      £5 or £8 for a pair

      http://www.ludusludius.co.uk

      Thanks.

    • http://www.charlesdickenslondon.com charles dickens london

      Do get along to see the Polish brig, Frederic Chopin; it is berthed at St Katharine’s Pier, next to Tower Bridge and the Tower. Each night at 9.15 pm they have dancing and acrobatics in the rigging- most charming and splendid.- saw it last night and will be there again this evening. They are organising concerts and events all week, climaxing with an attempt to dance the polonaise into a world record. Website is http://www.chopinthecourse.com/en-gb. Take a minute to waltz there, it’s all free!
      Incidentally, Charles Dickens met our Frederic when he visited London in 1948- sadly, Chopin was, by then, very ill, and died not long after.

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