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What
Summer Nights Film Festival in Derbyshire
When
May to September 2012
Wonga
Tickets for Summer Nights Film Festival 2012 cost £12.
Earlybird tickets bought up to six weeks before each screening cost £10.50
Where
Country houses and National Trust properties in Derbyshire
The Fanfare | Summer Nights Film Festival in Derbyshire
The Summer Nights Film Festival in Derbyshire will screen classic and modern movies at country houses and National Trust properties in Derbyshire this summer.
What
Film4 Summer Screen
When
16 to 25 August 2012
Wonga
Tickets cost £14.50 (single bill) or £18 (double bill) plus booking fee
Where
Somerset House, London
The Fanfare | Film4 Summer Screen Somerset House London
Central London’s open-air cinema returns this August with a line-up of classic, cult and contemporary cinema. Film4 Summer Screen takes place in the courtyard at Somerset House, a historic building between the Strand and the River Thames.
What
Larmer Tree Festival
When
11 to 15 July 2012
Wonga
Adult ticket prices range from £36 to £190 and include camping fees for tents, caravans and campervans. Youth and child concessions are available; children under five years are free and do not need a ticket.
Where
Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, Salisbury SP5 5PY
The Fanfare | Larmer Tree Festival in Dorset
The Larmer Tree Festival – voted the UK’s best family festival – celebrates its 22nd anniversary this summer.
What
Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style
When
6 July to 5 September 2012, 11am–8pm daily (10pm Thurs)
Wonga
Admission £12 adults, £10 concessions, £8 under-16s.
Where
Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
The Fanfare | Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style
A new exhibition – Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style - opens in July 2012 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films.
What
Eddie Izzard in Italian Job
When
7 July to 1 October 2012
Wonga
Free
Where
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 1DP
The Fanfare: Eddie Izzard in Italian Job
Artist Richard Wilson is to balance a full-sized replica coach from the roof of Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion in a recreation of the final scene of the movie The Italian Job.
What
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film review
When
Released in the UK in February 2012
Wonga
Ticket prices vary from cinema to cinema
Where
At cinemas UK wide
The Fanfare: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film review
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (directed by John Madden and starring Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, and Tom Wilkinson) is part comedy, part drama, and part eulogy to the welfare state.
What
The Olivier Awards
When
Sunday 15 April 2012
Wonga
Watch the Olivier Awards live for free in Covent Garden piazza
Where
Royal Opera House and Covent Garden piazza, London
The Fanfare
The most prestigious event in the UK’s theatrical calendar, the Olivier Awards, will take place at the Royal Opera House, London on Sunday 15 April 2012.
What
A look at 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
When
Events throughout 2012
Wonga
See the links provided for costs
Where
Throughout the UK
The Fanfare - 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
As London prepares to pull out all of the stops as hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, here are 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012.
What
QUAD Derby Summer Nights Film Festival
When
May to September 2012
Wonga
Ticket prices to be announced in March 2012
Where
Locations in Derby
The Fanfare
Lights, camera, action as the QUAD Derby Summer Nights Film Festival is announced
What
The Battle Proms Concert Series
When
- Burghley House, Lincolnshire – Saturday 7 July 2012
- Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire – Saturday 14 July 2012
- Hatfield House, Hertfordshire – Saturday 21 July 2012
- Highclere Castle, Berkshire – Saturday 4 August 2012
- Althorp Park, Northamptonshire – Saturday 11 August 2012
- Ragley Hall, Warwickshire – Saturday 18 August 2012
Gates open 4.30pm, events finish 10-10.30pm approx
Wonga
£33 per adult, £16 per child. Early bird and group discounts available.
Where
See above
The Fanfare
This July and August, thousands of people are expected to pack up the picnic hampers and the champers and come together for the hugely popular Battle Proms picnic and firework concerts.
What
Opera North is presenting its first production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
When
2 to 19 May 2012
Wonga
Tickets £17.50–£65
Where
Grand Theatre, 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NZ
The Fanfare - Opera North sings Carousel
Opera North is presenting its first production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel in May 2012.
What
Hollywood Costume Exhibition at the V&A
When
Hollywood Costume runs from 20 October 2012 to 27 January 2013
Admission £14 adults, £11 seniors, £9 students, £23 family ticket
Where
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL Tel: +44 20 7942 2000
The Fanfare
The V&A’s major autumn exhibition is Hollywood Costume, bringing together more than 100 iconic costumes designed for famous and unforgettable characters from Hollywood movies of the last 100 years.
What
Harry Potter and the Crock of Chronicle film review
When
February 2012
Where
At cinemas UK wide
The Review
Well, who knew it?
A ninth Harry Potter film: Harry Potter and the Crock of Chronicle …
What
New edition of 1000 Places To See Before You Die
When
Released February 2012
Where
Bookshops in the UK and online
The Fanfare
The international travel bestseller 1000 Places To See Before You Die is being re-released nearly a decade after it first hit the bookshelves and includes over 200 entries for Britain.
What
New season at Burghley House
When
March-October 2012
Where
Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire
The Fanfare
One of England’s greatest Elizabethan houses – Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire – will be offering visitors a unique take on Britain’s Olympic year including perhaps the most scenic place to watch the London 2012 Games – and the picturesque venue for a blockbuster summer feast of movie outdoor screenings.
What
The Descendants film review
When
January 2012
Where
At cinemas UK wide
The Review
Just released in the UK, The Descendants – directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney – is a film in which the title and the plot have only a passing interest in each other (…)
Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy star as the passionate young lovers Stephen and Isabelle, brought together by love and torn apart by the First World War, in BBC One’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ modern classic, Birdsong.
Just released in the UK, The Iron Lady – directed by Phyllida LLoyd and starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Olivia Coleman as Margaret, Denis and Carol Thatcher respectively – is the film of the moment and yet, remarkably, one of the most non-film films to hit the cinema.
Director Guy Ritchie has trundled out Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr John Watson in a new feature film – Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows – that brings Holmes cheek-to-cheek with his fraternally naked brother Mycroft (played by Stephen Fry) and face-to-face with his sociopathic nemesis Professor James Moriarty (played by Jared Harris).
Dame Gracie Fields (1898-1979), one of Britain’s most successful and best loved performers, is honoured with a blue plaque at 72a Upper Street, Islington, where she lived during the years 1926 to 1929.
One of Britain’s most unusual cinemas, Kinema in the Woods, celebrates its 90th birthday in 2012.
The UK celebrates London 2012 with a 12-week nationwide London 2012 Festival of the world’s best music, theatre, dance, visual art, literature, film and fashion
‘A Darkness More Than Night’ explores contemporary art through ‘noir’, a genre most readily associated with stylish Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and ‘50s, yet whose precursors date back through nineteenth century literature to Greek tragedy.
An exhibition of 50 iconic James Bond vehicles – the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world – opens in January at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
The BBC and National Trust have come up with a new programme to be broadcast later this year. Presented by Penelope Keith, the programme makers spent absolutely seconds thinking up a name: To The Manor Reborn.
As well as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Britain plays host to a number of landmark events in 2012; including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire is to hold two new exhibitions – one of paintings and drawings by illustrator Quentin Blake,and the other a celebration of fireworks.
Here is our take on the top 12 free things to do in London. If you’ve got any other ideas, leave your suggestions on the comment form at the bottom of this page.
No plans for the August Bank Holiday? Here are a few ideas to get you out and about across South East England.
Murder mystery returns to the English Riviera next month with the spectacular annual celebration of the world’s greatest crime fiction writer, Agatha Christie.
You will never again get the chance to attend the opening-night screening of the final Harry Potter film – Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 – but I did. Here in this Pensieve, you can take a look at the memory of that night.
A school of photography is to open in September in Lacock in Wiltshire, the village in south-west England where photography in England began.
QUAD in Derby will present screenings of Operas from Glyndebourne in July and August.
Senna – a Working Title production directed by Asif Kapadia – is a documentary film cobbled together through a mix of archive footage and interviews, dealing with the life and death of Brazilian F1 mega-star Ayrton Senna.
JK Rowling today, Thursday 23rd June, answered mounting speculation about the nature of her new project and announced Pottermore, a unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online experience around the reading of her hugely successful Harry Potter books, and is partnered by Sony.
The announcement today was heralded by the revealing of the [...]
Britain’s fascinating history is all around us. Up and down the country there are amazing places to visit and incredible ways to uncover the stories of our shared past. Now historian Dan Snow and BBC presenter Sian Williams are to bring the Nation’s Treasures live on BBC One this summer.
Broadcast from Britain’s most striking [...]
This year, as part of the City of London Festival, Barbican Film presents the New Zealand Film Festival – Friday 1 to Sunday 3 July – a showcase of the latest films from New Zealand, along with the best recent releases and shorts.
On Friday 1 July, Academy Award-nominated [...]
The Ladykillers strike again as a new play based on the 1955 Ealing comedy film opens in the West End this November.
The Ladykillers is the comic story of the eccentric Mrs Wilberforce who lives alone with her parrots. Her life is turned upside down when Professor Marcus and his four friends plan [...]
James Wong, plant expert and presenter of the BBC Two series Grow Your Own Drugs, will be giving a talk at the Eden Project about exotic allotments on July 2.
James will be demonstrating that growing rare, unusual and luxury foods is far more straightforward than one might assume.
From Himalayan goji berries and cocktail-sized [...]
A highlight of London’s live music calendar, the Summer Series open–air gigs return to the courtyard from 7 – 17 July, with artists ranging from iconic to breakthrough.
Somerset House will also host London’s best-loved outdoor cinema, as Film4 Summer Screen returns 27 July – 7 August, showing a mixture of contemporary, classic and cult [...]
National Trust to immortalise Miranda Hart as a talking bench
The National Trust has unveiled eight benches voiced by celebrities including comedian Miranda Hart, the ubiquitous Stephen Fry, and radio and TV presenter Claudia Winkleman. These first ever talking benches are inspired by each of the celebrities and capture areas of natural beauty with their [...]
If you’re in London in October you have the chance to experience Fawlty Towers as you’ve never seen it before.
Well, not quite Fawlty Towers itself, but the Faulty Towers Dining Experience is coming to the restaurant ship Hispaniola on the Victoria Embankment in October this year.
Diners become part of an interactive theatre [...]
Outdoor Screenings at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 introduces its very first outdoor screenings event, taking place on Devonshire Green in the heart of Sheffield, on the afternoon and evening of Saturday 11 June. After a screening of Werner Herzog’s 2007 exploration of the Antarctic, Encounters at the End of the World, legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles [...]
MA Inclusive Arts Practice students from the University of Brighton exhibit their response to their practice-based research projects.
They connect people and communities through the arts; from young people living in the Ukraine to local artists with learning disabilities, using performance, photography, illustration, drawing, textiles, sound and film.
Students aim to change society’s preconceptions, perspectives [...]
Carlos Saura’s 1975 film masterpiece Cría Cuervos (Raise Ravens) starring the young and beguiling Ana Torrent is to be screened by the BFI (British Film Institute).
‘I believe we live immersed in a society that has been built upon an accumulation of errors … We are the products of a repressive education that has left [...]
Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes swaps quidditch for football as the FA Cup pays a visit to Ironbridge in Shropshire – one of the official 2012 London Games Cultural Olympiad exhibition sites.
It may be known as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, but the Ironbridge Gorge Museums are also [...]
Now in its 18th year, the Sheffield Doc/Fest (Sheffield Documentary Festival) will be held 8-12 June 2011.
The Sheffield Doc/Fest is the UK’s première documentary film event. It is the place to see world and UK premières of the best creative documentaries from the cinema, television and online arenas, and to hear from and meet [...]
NEW EXHIBITIONS, FREE FAMILY EVENTS, LEGO & 3D IMAX FILMS
Looking for a day out with the kids this May half-term, where can you entertain adults and children alike with exhibitions, events and films, all under one roof? At the Science Museum you can do all this and more! Catch a 3D movie, jump on [...]
Celebrity mentors, including world renowned chef Heston Blumenthal, thespian Richard E Grant, and artist Tracey Emin are searching for the best in British talent, to deliver a series of career defining opportunities as part of British Airways’ commitment to the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, as official airline partner.
Heston, Richard and Tracey [...]
The National Portrait Gallery is to hold an exhibition in July of vintage photographs of Hollywood film stars. Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits will be the first museum exhibition of vintage prints from the John Kobal Foundation. Nearly 70 pictures will cover 40 years of Hollywood history between 1920 and 1960.
Visitors will be [...]
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