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Regents Street Festival – Indian Summer
Regent Street, Sunday 2 September, 12:00-20:00, Free
This Sunday, Regent Street will be celebrating its annual festival. This year will be themed ‘An Indian Summer’, and will mark the finale of the Mayor of London’s India Now Festival. Regent Street will be transformed into India for a day of “spectacular free outdoor events showcasing India’s incredible variety, colour and creativity”. You will be able to watch traditional performances by the Aakaar Puppet Company or the spectacular processional performance of “In the Dholdrums”, featuring a giant drum, costumes, stilt-walkers and fireworks. There will be food stalls, restaurants and traditional Indian handicrafts as well as popular Indian music and dance performances.
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DMC World DJ championships
The O2, 6/7 October, 17:00, £15
DMC return to the former Millennium Dome where the greatest DJ’s from around the world compete over two days in an attempt to be crowned World DJ champion. Saturday sees the “Battle for world Supremacy” and the “World Team Championship Final”. Sunday is the “DMC World DJ Final”.
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The Great British Rubber Duck Race
Molesey Lock near Hampton Court, Sunday 2 September, 13:30, Free
This weekend, 165,000 rubber ducks will float down a 1km stretch of the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace. In doing so, it will set a new world record and raise over £500,000 for UK charities. It costs £2 to adopt a duck and if you come in first place you can win £10,000. Head down to the river and cheer on your Duck!
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I for India
ICA, 24 August - 6 September, £8
“Sandhya Suri’s absorbing debut feature is a sensitive and intimate slice of life, blending old home movies with archival footage to document her family’s life since their move from India to England in 1965. Shot over 40 years, the Super-8 footage filmed by Suri’s father in Darlington and their family back in India unravels as a deeply emotional story of separation and loss. A time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in 1960s Britain and beyond.”
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Surrey v Somerset (Floodlit)
Oval, Tuesday 11 September, 16:10, £12
This could be your last chance to see some cricket this “non-winter”. So, book a ticket to the Oval and watch Surrey take on Somerset.
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Friday Late: India Now
V&A, 31 August, 18:30-22.00
”Experience a journey through the streets of Bombay, with The Bombay Project’s fuse of music and film. Explore a specially designed contemporary installation by Design Temple, inspired by the V&A collection of Indian art and design. See some of the best Indian animation and film. Join talks and tours by artists, designers and curators.” And as always relax to the DJs and gorge yourself on food and drink.
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BBC Tickets: The News Quiz, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Broadcasting House or BBC Maida Vale Studios, Free
The BBC makes it into another Top 10 - with good reason - they are funny, fun and free. I have two suggestions for you this week, the Radio 4 institution “The News Quiz” returns for another series and the “BBC Symphony Orchestra”. You need but apply.
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Work, Rest & Play
National Gallery, 26 July - 14 October, Free
Work, Rest & Play explores these themes and how they have been depicted in art. “The exhibition brings together exhibits dating from the 16th century to the present, it traces changing ideas about work and leisure, and looks at how artists have responded to major shifts in working patters, from industrialisation to contemporary office culture.”
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Buckingham Palace
“Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London residence of Her Majesty The Queen, as well as the administrative headquarters of the Royal Household. It is one of the few working royal palaces remaining in the world today. Today the State Rooms are used extensively by The Queen and Members of the Royal Family to receive and entertain their guests on State, ceremonial and official occasions. During August and September when The Queen makes her annual visit to Scotland, the Palace’s nineteen state rooms are open to visitors.”
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Shakespeare’s and Dickens’ London – The Old City
11:00 Wednesdays and 14:00 Sundays, St Paul’s Tube, Exit 2
Despite the ravages of time, riots, bombings and especially fire, traces of Dickensian and Shakespearean London remain. The tour will pass “half-timbered Elizabethan dwellings to the magnificent early 16th-century gatehouse where Shakespeare went with his plays to the offices of the Elizabethan Master of the Revels. And from London’s grandest Tudor manor house to crooked little alleys which fed the fires of Dickens’ ‘hallucinating genius’”
