Innovation and imagination in Manchester – Upcoming Manchester International...
Imaginative new work, original creations, and unique special events are all featured in the third Manchester International Festival (MIF) this summer.The festival takes place every other year in the...
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Royal Wedding: Visit Britain Releases Short Film about Royal Britain – Awesome!
To mark the marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton on April 29 2011 in London, VisitBritain has commissioned a short film ‘Royal Britain’.The film showcases royal locations in Britain...
View ArticleIntroducing Glasgow’s New Transport Museum
A new museum on the banks of the River Clyde will open in Glasgow on 21 June.The Riverside Museum will be Scotland’s new Museum of Transport and Travel. There will be 3,000 objects on display showing...
View ArticleBritain’s biggest flower show – Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower Show at...
The UK’s largest gardening show takes place this July in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. Visitors can shop for thousands of plants as well as admire the many different gardens created specially...
View ArticleSacred relics from the Middle Ages at the British Museum
The next major exhibition at the British Museum in London brings together some of the finest surviving religious treasures of the medieval age. “Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in...
View ArticleA truly international festival – The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
This year’s Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod will be held on 4–10 July. Every day throughout the week, international singers, musicians and dancers compete in more than 20 competitions. At...
View ArticleEccentric shoes by a grand dame of fashion – Vivienne Westwood Shoes
The Bowes Museum in County Durham is to host an exhibition celebrating the ingenuity and creativity of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. More than 200 of her shoe designs will be on display...
View ArticleBattle Proms: Concerts with cavalry and cannons
There are many outdoor concerts in Britain through the summer, but the Battle Proms are the only ones that include nearly 200 cannons fired to music.The artillery features Beethoven’s Battle Symphony...
View ArticleA new hotel for a Midlands theme park at Drayton Manor
Drayton Manor theme park in Staffordshire will be opening its own 150-room hotel in August.The hotel is being built to meet the demand of an increasing numbers of visitors to the theme park, and will...
View ArticleThe art of animation at the Barbican Art Gallery
The Barbican Art Gallery in London is to hold the largest ever exhibition of animated imagery produced in the last 150 years. Watch Me Move will bring together animation pioneers, independent...
View ArticleMovie star Ralph Fiennes to return to the London stage
Ralph Fiennes will appear on the stage of the Theatre Royal Haymarket in August, playing Prospero in Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest. The production, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, will run from 27...
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Every night is Bath night this summer in the Georgian City of Bath
The newly renovated Roman Baths in Bath will be open until 10pm every night in July and August, with the Great Bath, the centrepiece of the Roman attraction, lit by flame torches in the evenings.The...
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Fabergé at the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace
This year’s exhibition at the annual summer opening of Buckingham Palace will bring together more than 100 masterpieces by the Russian jeweller Carl Fabergé.Royal Fabergé will show how six successive...
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Designs to make Britain modern at the London Design Museum
The Design Museum in London is to hold the first retrospective of Kenneth Grange’s work, celebrating his role in helping to ‘make Britain modern’.Grange is Britain’s leading product designer,...
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An ancient festival of seafood – The Oyster Festival in Whitstable
The seaside town of Whitstable in south-east England is holding its annual Oyster Festival on 23–29 July this year.The festival traditionally opens with the Landing of the Oysters ceremony, when...
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Going really wild in South Wales
The eccentric Really Wild Festival will be celebrating rural traditions, wild food and countryside fun in Britain’s smallest city at the end of July.The festival, in the ancient cathedral city of St...
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