Free Festivals & Events in October LONDON AREA ONLY

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Where:
Russell Square
London
WC1B


From 22 – 24 October 2010 Bloomsbury will come alive with an exciting programme of contemporary dance, music, arts, guided walks, theatre, workshops, debates, talks, secret sessions and much, much more.
And the majority of the events are FREE

All events can be attended on a first-come first served basis over the weekend, or you can also reserve tickets for some events online through our booking system.

The Festival bar will be open serving mulled wine and cider from 6pm; the lantern procession will begin at 6.30pm.

More information and full festival programme on the below link:

http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/index/page/id/3

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Let there be fishSunday 10 October


This Sunday, if you’re looking for something a bit different, why not head down to St Mary-at-Hill Church for its annual Fish Harvest Festival service? Situated close to Monument, this event celebrates the old ties with Billingsgate Fish Market, so expect a vibrant service and a colourful display of fish. Starts at 11am. Free.

Nearest Tube: Monument

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The Brakes Food & Fitness Festival

Sunday October 4th

Time: 8am-4pm

Race Day will be so much more than just a long run through central London! There will be many activities to keep your family and friends busy whilst they wait to cheer you home. For those wanting to cheer you on, we recommend they look at where the water points are for areas where cheering would also work well.
Our headline sponsors, Brakes, are pleased to invite spectators and runners to the Brakes Food & Fitness Festival in Hyde Park on race day. There will be a whole host of household names exhibiting their latest and tastiest foods, plus Farmers Market stalls with some of the country's best home-grown produce for you to sample and purchase. Last years stalls included Cadbury, Muller, Tetley, a hog roast and many others.
In addition, we will be planning a fun-packed programme of activities with our event partners and charities on the day - from a wide range of fun and sporting activities for everyone to try, to big screen entertainment and live music, plus lots of competitions and giveaways. Many of these will take place after the race has started, using the large open space in front of the stage which is used for the mass warm up.
Festival Area

There will be numerous spots of activity within the Festival Area, including the warm-up area and the Brakes Food & Fitness Festival. Familiarise yourself with the below map so you can ensure you have time to experience it all!

"Have a Go" activities included:

• Climbing wall
• Football skills
• Fencing sessions
• Tennis skills
• Parkour sessions
• Fitness sessions

More Information
http://www.royalparkshalf.com/runners/spectators/

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Green Sundays

Arcola Green Sundays are free bi-monthly events that provide an informal and friendly meeting place for people to explore environmental issues through film, music, theatre, poetry and discussion – a chance to celebrate, question and propose different ways of viewing the world and exploring new visions of the future. Join us at our next Green Sunday to relax, learn something new, eat sustainable food, meet interesting people and enjoy live music and films.

October 10th: “10:10:10″

For the next Green Sunday we have a very exciting day planned and it’s all ready, awaiting your arrival! So, what are you waiting for? Mark those calendars—Green Sunday 10th October, 2010.
This day will be celebrated around the world and you can take part in the festivities at the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden (www.dalstongarden.com) and Arcola’s new home on Ashwin Street (www.futurearcola.com). There will be activities, food, music, poetry, and film. There’s something for all ages! Bring your ideas and enthusiasm, and let’s all collaborate to cut those carbon emissions.









Programme


Afternoon Workshops 1:30 – 4:30pm @ Dalston Eastern CurveGarden

Delicious food provided by Mighty Veg Delight including Veggie Strips, Spicy Curry and ginger beer.
Give or Take with Forest Recycling Project www.frponline.org.uk

Bring what you don’t want and take what you do. What can you give? Baby equipment, books, toys, children’s bikes, kitchenware, paint (reusable), plants, garden tools and equipment and even small electrical goods and furniture (side tables, shelves, cots etc). What can you take? Anything you need. And you don’t have to give to take.
Please do not give clothes, hazardous or toxic items or second hand child car seats.
Bike MOT – with Donut Kids.

Get your bike checked for roadworthiness, and advice on any repairs required
Crafty draughty with Transition Highbury

Make your own door snake / sausage dog / friendly household monster draught excluder using recycled materials.

RefurbN16 – Energy efficiency in the home

Most homes in Hackney are beautiful but draughty, cold and expensive to heat – but it doesn’t have to be that way! Come and find out how easy it is to draught proof your home and sign up for one of our draught busting workshops where you will be able to purchase the materials and learn how to do it yourself. http://refurbn16.com
Hackney Harvest

This new project is working to raise awareness about the huge supplies of delicious fresh fruit that is growing all around us in Hackney. Stoke Newington Transition Town are starting to map the fruit trees of Hackney and then harvest unwanted fruit, distributing it around the community and making sure it doesn’t go to waste.
They are harvesting on the 9th and will be bringing a juicer to the 10:10:10 event to turn the apples into fresh apple juice. If you have a tree with too many apples, bring them a long and we’ll juice them for you! http://hackneyharvest.com
Carbon Conversations

-‘Food Footprints Game’ with Alison Thorpe. Learn about the greenhouse gases in the food we buy. (2 – 3pm)
-‘The Great Carbon Show’ Theatre workshop with Fiona Hoppe suitable for adults and children aged 6+. (3 – 4:30pm)
http://www.carbonliteracyforum.org/
Get Growing

-Find out what you could be planting at this time of year, share your stories about what you have been growing this year and see some of the successes. With Tales From Somerford Grove, growing food all around the estate.
http://www.getgrowing.org.uk/

Early Evening 4:45 – 8:45 @ The Arcola Ashwin Street

4:45 – 6:15pm No Impact Man, dir. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, 2009, USA, 93 mins; Cert 15
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year. No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own. http://www.noimpactdoc.com/
6.30 – 7.30pm Live Music session hosted by Shane Solanki, Last Mango in Paris.
-Camilo Menjura
-Sam Lindo
-Rebecca Tantony
-Hattie and Elly
8:00 – 8:20pm Pete the Temp verses Climate Change!
Award winning performance poet, Pete the Temp employs comedy, satire, performance poetry and audience participation in an effort to capture hearts and minds on this most crucial of issues. http://www.myspace.com/petethetemp

8:25 – 8.45pm Live Music with Last Mango in Paris

http://lastmangoinparis.net/

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NFL Fan Rally
30 OCTOBER 2010 1PM



Trafalgar Square hosts London's first ever NFL Fan Rally on Saturday 30 October, ahead of the meeting between the San Franciso 49ers and the Denver Broncos at Wembley on 31 October.
This free rally starts at 1pm and includes:

• Performances by the San Francisco 49ers' cheerleaders, the Gold Rush.
• Live music and DJs.
• Interviews with NFL legends, including former 49ers stars Jerry Rice and Roger Craig.
• Appearances by 49ers head coach Mike Singletary and the team owners.
• Interactive games where you can try your hand at American football.
• NFL action on big screens.
• Competitions to win great NFL prizes.

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Books For Free Shop In Kensington Opened On October 9th/10th

CHARITY PLANS TO GIVE AWAY A TONNE OF BOOKS IN TWO DAYS

An environmental charity will aim to give away a tonne of books to Londoners over the weekend, to celebrate a global day of action on climate change.

Healthy Planet's scheme to save second-hand books that are destined for landfill by redistributing them for free, began back in June.

Since then 10 tonnes of books have passed through its Books For Free outlets, based in unoccupied shops across the country.

To celebrate 10:10:10, a day of positive action on climate change on Sunday, the charity will try to give away a tonne of books at its Kensington outlet at 208-212 Kensington High Street in just one weekend.
Londoners can continue to collect books after October 9th/10th
as the charity will be located in Kensington giving away FREE
books until further notice.

The shop will be open every day ( except wednesdays) so Londoners can pick up FREE books every day
You can also drop off any unwanted books (if you have any)
Books do not not need to be donated in order for
you to take any
It's completely FREE.It's not a swop shop
You can take up to five FREE books per visit,
learn more about 10:10:10 and Healthy Planet's work.

To encourage people to keep the books out of the bin, each book is stamped with the message: "Pass me on when you've finished reading me".

Jackie Stansfield from Healthy Planet said: "We've been really taken aback by the reponse to our Books For Free project. People ask us how we can afford to give the books away for free but it works really well.

"The landlord gives us permission to use the property, and then receives a rate reduction for letting us use it, and we ask them donate a portion of that to the charity. Most landlords are glad to support our cause and have somebody use their property rather than it stay empty.

"The Kensington shop is very popular with local people and workers and it has a real community feel. We have lots of families coming in to take the children's books and then they often return them after they finished so it's almost become a library!

"I think after the recession people are thinking twice about what they spend so being able to pick up some free books is great.

"We never push people to give us a donation - because the aim is purely to save the books from landfill - but lots of people who have come in have asked if they can leave a donation because they think it's such a good cause.

"We don't usually open on Sunday so we're really hoping people will come along and take the books and help us redistribute a whole tonne."

Shaylesh Patel, Healthy Planet founder, said: "In London alone we produce 20 million tonnes of waste each year and these books would have been part of the waste destined for landfill.

"At Healthy Planet we encourage people to reuse as much as they can. Unwanted books can be donated at our Books for Free stalls for others to enjoy."

The books are donated to the charity from a variety of sources such as book shops and members of the public.

Healthy Planet is an environmental charity set up to inspire, encourage and support people around the world to make a positive and measurable difference. For more information visit https://www.healthyplanet.org.

The 10:10:10 event aims to encourage people around the world to take simple steps to reducing their carbon emissions. To learn more go to https://www.1010global.org.

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The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei

When: October 12th

Where: Tate Modern,Turbine Hall

Entry :Free







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The Tate's Turbine Hall has been filled with sunflower seeds. 100 million of them, weighing about 150 tonnes, carpet the Hall's eastern flank.
A few centimetres deep, they crunch charmingly when walked across.
The blurb for Chinese artist's Ai Weiwei's installation, the 11th in the Unilever Series since the gallery opened in 2000, runs the risk of censure from the Campaign for Plain English. "What you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means", the sombre curatorial message reads. Yet there is truth to this gnomic statement.

The seeds are not real, they're fashioned from ceramic (we're waiting for the inevitable legal case when somebody loses a molar after nibbling on one). And each one is unique, individually hand carved by an army of artisans working in the city of Jingdezhen. They've spent two years working on them just so they can be crushed under the sweaty feet of Londoners.

For Weiwei, whose relationship with the Chinese authorities is difficult, and occasionally violent -- despite working on the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics, he subsequently became disillusioned with the government, and has been savagely beaten by the state police force -- the seeds represent the famine under Mao, and also the propaganda used during that era where Mao's face would be the sun, and sunflower seeds would represent the people, turning toward him for sustenance.

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All events and exhibitions are free and take place at Shoe Lane Library unless otherwise stated.
How Londoners Reacted to Danger: From Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Blitz

Tuesday 12 October 2010
12.30 - 1.15pm
Talk
London as the capital city has often been the target for enemies, both at home and abroad. This talk examines some of these dangers and how Londoners have responded. Dr Jonathan Oates is the Ealing Borough Archivist and has written and lectured on many aspects of London history. His book Attack on London: Disaster, rebellion, riot, terror and war was published last year.

2010 Dead again - the London Ghost Festival

Monday 25 October - Friday 29 October 2010
12.30 - 1.15pm daily
Talk

In association with The 3rd London Ghost Festival, Shoe Lane will again be offering a range of talks on ghostly themes by a variety of authors and specialists in the field. There will be a talk every lunchtime at 12.30 pm during the festival and lead up to Halloween - please contact the library or London Paranormal for further details.
Exorcisms of Grounded Entities by Ralph Keeton

Monday 25 October 2010

Are Nasty Ghosts for real? True stories of malevolent entities and how an exorcist deals with them when they are let loose. Ralph Keeton is known as Britain's Best Exorcist and regularly appears on TV.
The Psychology of Ghosts and Hauntings by Professor Chris French

Tuesday 26 October 2010
A review of the latest research and theories on how environmental factors - electromagnetic fields and infrasound - may be related to paranormal experiences. Find out about "Haunt", the project to create an artificially haunted room. Professor Chris French is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Poltergeists: Evil Among Us? By Chris Jensen Romer

Wednesday 27 October 2010
What is a poltergeist: a disturbed spirit, unconscious psychic energy or something far more sinister? In this talk we will hear the latest thinking on these strange cases and survey the poltergeists of London. Chris "CJ" Jensen Romer is a member of the Society of Psychical Research and maintains Polterwotsit, an internet blog dedicated to coverage of poltergeist cases.
Execution City: the Rituals of Death and Ghosts by Alan Brooke

Thursday 28 October 2010

London has a long history of criminal activity and an equally long history of brutal public punishments. Did the agonies of their ordeal create trapped souls and residual apparitions? This talk will look at London's sites of execution, the rituals of death and scare you with the ghosts of condemned felons and their murdered victims. Alan Brooke has written and lectured extensively on the history of London, and is the author of "London: the executioner's city" and "Tyburn; London's fatal tree" amongst many others.
Spirit Visitation: Ghosts, Angels or Family? By Johnnie Fiori

Friday 29 October 2010
Spirit visitation can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone and can be misinterpreted as a ghost sighting. Countless people have made claims that they have witnessed a deceased family member visit them from the grave. In this captivating talk we will be discussing what we see and how each of us interprets what we see. Johnnie Fiori is a sensitive, actress and singer with a successful career in both theatrical and spiritual fields

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/Shoe+Lane+Library+events.htm

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30 Oct 2010

Brent Diwali

Saturday 13:00-21:00 Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir Temple, Ealing Road. Performances by dance groups and an exhibition of rangoli artworks. This will be the first opportunity for the public to get a close up view of the new temple made from richly carved stone shipped from India.
13:00-18:00 Indian dance groups on the Temple steps.
13:00-19:00 Rangoli competition.
18:30 Lighting the Diwali lights along Ealing Road.
19:00-20:00 Illuminated parade, Ealing Road to Barham Park.
20:30 Stunning fireworks and laser show at Barham Park.
Attendance Expected 60,000 - one of the largest outside of India. Free entrance

http://www.brent.gov.uk/arts.nsf/pages/lbb-17

this is literally 5 minutes from my front door! Gonna be a nightmare for this area

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this is literally 5 minutes from my front door! Gonna be a nightmare for this area

maybe you should just join them, nearest I get to a party at the front of mine is on Monday morning when my neighbours all go for their pension.