Free Days Out - post them here!

[superhero]

70s Flashmob dance Sept 2nd 19:00 - sorry not exactly a free "day" out, more like a few minutes but might be fun:


http://www.flashmob.co.uk/index.php/sit ... _flashmob/

[hdaniel82]

This has now changed to tonight 1st September at 19:00!

[prettyxcool]

or you could join the Morris Dancers on the Southbank this weekend or watch the film, The Way of the Morris, 4pm - free when booked in person, or p*y a transaction fee when booked online or by phone.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/d ... rris-54730


One hundred of the finest morris dancers from across England assemble over two days for one of the largest gatherings of morris dancers in London.

Featuring Hammersmith Morris Men, Mortimer's Morris (Nottingham), Pecsaetan Morris (Sunday only), Boggart's Breakfast, Eynsham Morris (Saturday only), Stone Monkey Sword Dancers, Moss Brothers and Gog Magog Molly.

Saturday and Sunday, 12 noon - 5pm

Saturday 4 September 2010 - Sunday 5 September 2010

[andrews]

Heritage Open Days 2010 will run from 9-12 September

Heritage Open Days celebrates England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission. Every year on four days in September, buildings of every age, style and function throw open their doors, ranging from castles to factories, town halls to tithe barns, parish churches to Buddhist temples. It is a once-a-year chance to discover hidden architectural treasures and enjoy a wide range of tours, events and activities which bring to life local history and culture.

Free of charge and literally on people’s doorstep, Heritage Open Days is an event for everyone, whatever their background, age and ability.

Additionally:
All National Trust properties will be open on 11th September and welcoming visitors for free as part of Heritage Open Days.

See http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more information.

[Ms Thrifty]

For 3 days over the weekend there were newspaper coupons for a free child entry to Legoland Windsor or Legoland Discovery Centre, Manchester. One accompanying adult has to p*y in full, so I'm assuming it's not that good an offer as there are usually deals online but before I put the papers in the recycling box, is anyone interested?

For Windsor the age limit is 11 and the coupon is valid to 7 November and for Manchester it's 15, to 31 December.

[andrews]

Free Tickets to the Mind Body Soul exhibitions, Cambridge and London

Cambridge: 11th and 12th of September 2010

London : 2nd and 3rd of October 2010

Closing dates to claim your free tickets :

Closing date for Cambridge - Thursday 9th September 2010
Closing date for London - Wednesday 29th September 2010

Apply for your tickets here: http://freeticket.mbsevents.co.uk/pages/comp.php?

[tilly]

Regent Street Festival: Preview 2010

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For those of you who mark it onto the calendar every year, the annual Regent Street Festival will take place on Sunday 26 September 2010.

Always a themed event, this year will be no different, with the 'mile of style' set to embrace the West End fashion themed month of September - Fashion, Food and Festivals!

This year's fashion theme will see stunning catwalk shows and fashionable spectacles on Regent Street, with in-store styling, makeovers, music and competitions popping up in stores throughout the day.



Pedestrianised as usual, live music will take centre stage on the street, showcasing as yet-to-be-announced live bands providing a soundtrack of style.

[andrews]

If you are are in Birmingham between 10-12th September we would recommend that you go to the city centre to enjoy Artsfest – this is a fantastic community event in the heart of the city of Birmingham!


Artsfest is the UK's biggest free arts festival, as this unique event fills Birmingham city centre with around 3000 artists at 600 events across 30 venues. From ballet to bhangra, dub poetry to indie rock, comedy to classical music and everything in between, there is sure to be something for everyone to enjoy.

http://www.artsfest.org.uk/programme/

[prettyxcool]

Sorry, just found out about this - still one day to go!

Royal Opera House
Book here for free daytime tickets
https://www.roh.org.uk/booknow/reserve.aspx?perfid=1508

Deloitte Ignite 2010
Music, Art, Dance, Theatre, Film, Forest

A three day festival of Contemporary Arts 3-5 September
12noon – 6pm for free daytime events on 4, 5 September

The award winning Deloitte Ignite returns for its third year. This year the curator for the Royal Opera House’s contemporary arts festival will be internationally renowned pianist, composer and auteur Joanna MacGregor.

For the 2010 festival Joanna has taken her inspiration from forests: forests as a place of quiet, reflective beauty, mystery and discovery, as places of fairytale narrative, as well as metaphorical spaces. She has invited artists to create forests all over the Royal Opera House in different materials: recycled and reclaimed wood, organic materials, old costumes and mannequins, shimmering projections and reflecting pools. There are films, music and dance performances, soundscapes and installations. In amongst the forests are hints of the forthcoming Season, as well as echoes of Covent Garden’s old flower market. Each space is designed so that you can enter at any moment and stay for as long or as little time as you would like with performances recurring throughout the weekend.

By day, there will be contemporary, forest-inspired installations to explore: an epic Floating Forest in the Paul Hamlyn Hall, of organic materials and projections, from a quartet of award-winning artists and filmmakers; opera designer Dick Bird’s mysteriously playful Reclaimed Forest in the Linbury Studio with the child friendly Fall Forest from Mark Simmonds in the Linbury Foyer; and theatre powerhouse trio Richard Williams, David Collis and Janey Gardiner's surreal, fantastical Faded Forest of discarded opera costumes and mannequins in the Crush Bar. Kathy Hinde’s poetic, inter-disciplinary installations Piano Migrations, One Thousand Birds and Dancing Cranes colonize a darkened Pit Lobby and other spaces, while the spooky Ghosts and Mirrors in the subterranean Supper Rooms enact echoes of operas. And, as a more permanent artwork, the brilliantly gifted Anglo-French artist Alice Anderson creates a special, fairytale installation of hair in The Link.

In the Clore Studio Upstairs, the distinguished writer and cultural historian Marina Warner will host Into the Woods, a series of films, animations and performances exploring the light and darkness of fairytales, with live music from WARP artist Mira Calix and the remarkable Eastern European duo Alexander Balanescu and Evelina Petrova. There will be a Forest of Metronomes with one of György Ligeti’s most famous pieces, Poème Symphonique. Filling the air around the Royal Opera House are live and digital forest soundscapes from sound artists Matthew Fairclough and Scanner, and spectacular performances, in and amongst the forests, from Balinese Gamelan orchestra Lila Cita with Lila Bhawa dancers, percussion outfit ensemblebash, and operatic ambushes from Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists.

There will be specially-staged contemporary dance from Phoenix Dance Theatre, and new dance works from The Royal Ballet and Royal Opera House Associate Artists.

[superhero]

Fashion's Night Out next Wednesday 8th September:

http://fashions-night-out.vogue.co.uk/