Archive for the ‘On se voit ce week-end?/ Meet me there this week-end!’ Category
Post-it note for the week-end (06-07 Feb 2010)
- Gasp in amazement at the Wildlife photographs @ the Natural History Museum. This takes place every year and is a real marvel.
- Learn about forgery in art @ the V&A…
- Get to know the designer stars of the future…
- Into kinetic and robotic? The Kinetica art fair is for you….
- Don’t forget Valentine’s day is coming up! Find a vintage treasure @ this jumble and pearl sale or at this glassblown objects sale… Even more finds at this love fair!
- Or arrange to tour London in a mini-Cooper!
- Fancy a walk and some fresh air? Why not discover the Jewish quarters? Or an Indian food walk?
- Enjoy a day @ Kew Gardens - as lovely in winter as in summer – and get some exotism in the conservatory presenting collections of colourful orchids and tropical flowers…
- Have teenagers dreaming of making movies? Take them to the BFI Future Film Festival!
- Have a look at the possible sculptures for the Spittafield Market and vote for your favourite…
- Try a restaurant with a difference – dinner and circus show!
You’ll find me wandering through the Russian festival, having a lovely Chelsea Chai @ Yumchaa and enjoying French electro music with Anne B’s concert (thanks to Le Petit Journal). How about you?
Oh, and if you have the time, go and check out this giant ice cube in front of the Tate next week. 3 days only!
Post-it for the week-end (Jan 29-31 2010)
First – get yourself in the mood with the V&A Renaissance ball on Friday night…
- Try one of Babylone’s Friday night concerts – the restaurant is famous for its roof gardens (if you go there by daylight, look out for the pink flamingos who live there. Yep, real ones. )
- More of a dancing queen? Go to the Abbaworld exhibition! Or @ Proud Camden for spendid pics of rock’n'roll animals, Elvis or Blondie.
Or make it an arty week-end:
- Use your imagination at Visible Invisible…
- Marvel @ ingeniosity @ 1001 inventions….
- Add a pinch of exotism…
- and a little rainbow at the Tate…
Nostalgic? try the photo exhibition @ Kenwood house instead, on lost London. Or dream of other lands with these projections of the Arctic on the Hayward Gallery external walls…
You can also participate to this strange project to recycle works of art…
Much prefer a quiet week-end with the kids? Try the free workshop sessions @ the Somerset house or take them for a bit of Dr Seuss rhyming! Even better? Go and find some dinosaurs…
You’ll find me @ the Saacthi for their new Indian exhibition (and possibly getting some cornbread mix from the nearby Partridges and there’s a Saturday morning market there too) and at Jen’s cafe for a bubble tea.
What about your best plans for the week-end?
Post-it for the week-end (Jan 23-24, 2010)
Snow, icy rain, a ray of sunshine? Just get a hazelnut hot chocolate at the nearest Starbucks and off you go!
- Play the culture card with the latest Van Gogh exhibition…
- Knit yourself a scraf while enjoying a lovely cup of tea…
- dream of a long gone Covent Garden…
- try an afternoon tea – new style…
- Hunt for art deco @ the decorative antique fair…
- Take a garden fan to the potato fair!
- Get your 70ies outfit for the projection of Mamma Mia on a giant screen @ the O2…
- Toast the famous Scottish poet Burns…
- sprinkle with some alternative art…
You’ll find me @ the Underground restaurant Friday evening for curious experiences… What are your plans?
Post-it for the week-end (Jan 17-18 2010)
Oh, feeling so lazy these days. But come on, plenty to do!
- Admire extraodinary ice sculptures @ Canary Wharf Friday and Saturday…
- Enjoy the V&A newly openedMedieval and Renaissance galleries. You think you’ll just walk through them and end up staying an hour!
- Redecorate your house thanks to the London art Fair…
- Learn about 200 years of North-American rituals and traditions @ the British Museum…
- See something new @ the Saatchi Gallery: Richard Wilson’s new structural art work, 20:50…
- Turn slow movement into art…
- Take the kids to the mime festival…
- try the new pie and mash restaurant in Covent Garden…
- Find a colourful way back home, at nightfall, through Jubilee Park…
- and sleep @ the Natural History Museum! £45 for 5 children 8-11 and 3 adults. A night visit, torch litof the galleries, a film projections, talks about insects… Ideal for adventurers!
You’ll find me instead… cocooning in front of a roaring chimney fire with a mug of cocoa in Cheshire. How about you?
Post-it for the week-end (Dec 19-20)
Fed up spending your evenings wrapping a mountain of presents in golden gift paper? Chill out!
- Mix your own soda on Thursday…
- Take your kids to the Scoop on Friday to sing Xmas…
- Or play Gay Bingo on Friday at Selfridge’s…
- Munch your way through the slow food market on Southbank or at the Real food market at Covent Garden, more gourmet.
- Have the kids create their own Xmas disguise…
- Or ride in a carriage at Kew Gardens…
- A little flight simulation, guys?
- Or would you prefer a pint and some table football?
- Have a look at the new Sherlock Holmes @ Mme Tussaud (and double the occasion with the Sherlock Holmes museum a few steps away)
- Listen to poetry and short stories in Hyde Park while eating mince pies…
- Grab a glass of mulled wine and listen to Xmas carols @ Covent Garden…
- Stop at St Pancras and see ice sculptures…
- Watch the Chinese Circus and dream…
- Add a little pop street art…
You’ll find me at the All of everything exhibition between two suitcases to be packed…
Post-it for the week-end (Dec 12-13)
Fed up with Xmas shopping? A few ideas to forget all about it…
- Well first, you need energy. Carluccio’s has a special -10% on their deli this Thursday. Best of all, you’re welcomed with mulled wine and canapes…
- T’is the season to be eating finger-licking good treats! Head for the chocolate festival on Southbank.
- Don’t forget the new exhibitions: question your identity @ the Wellcome Collection or test artistic technology @ the V&A.
- More of the street art fan? Head for the Flying Eyeball.
- of course there is the pop-up of the week-end: Elton John’s clothes and stage outfits on sale, profits going to his AIDS foundation. Not whithin your budget? Try Barnardo’s vintage shop on Carnaby street to pack a bargain!
- Rediscover England with fascinating landscape pictures @ the National Theatre…
- Take the kids to a panto: there will be a toy Aladdin one @ Covent Garden on Sunday…
-… or pet an ice polar bear on Trafalgar Square….
- … or your toddlers to a Baby disco party on Saturday! Shake it, baby!
- Why not an interactive Treasur Hunt?
- a last festive note: the Tate Britain is setting up its artistic Xmas tree this Friday.
Did I forget anything? Leave me a note!
You’ll find me @ the Earth exhibition (then trying to choose from one of the gorgeous cakes at the Sketch Pop Up) and at the strange and amazing House of fairy tales
Post-it note for the week-end (Dec 05-06)
Did you make a good supply of Vitamine C? Good. The week-end should be quite busy…
- Try the late opening Thursday @ the Museum of London: live music, carol singing, creative workshops, and lovely original stalls to fill those stockings…
- Have a look at the Xmas tree on Trafalgar square
- Travel through time on Friday night – Dennis Sever house is all decorated for Xmas and can be visited weeknights candlelit- very atmospheric!
- The traditional Pudding Race takes place this Saturday @ Covent Garden. Teams will race for the benefit of Cancer Research, trying to avoir many obstacles ont their way. The take the kids to the cookie workshop! There will be Xmas carols in the afternoon.
- Enjoy Regent and Oxford traffic free on Saturday - plenty of shopping offers and partying in the streets!
- Admire the newly opened Renaissance and Medieval Galleries @ the V&A
- Add a glamour touch and have a look at Audrey Hepburn’s wonderful dresses before they’re auctioned…
- Have your breath taken away by Jean-Francois Rauzier’s gorgeous hyperphotos…
- Head for the RAC’s new show, Earth, on climatic changes. Then stop at the Sketch’s pop-up bar – a crazy setting which also promises oysters, pancakes and champagne…
- Skate in an extraordinary historical setting – Hampton Court
- Say cheers @ this beer festival… or more elegantly @ the Smirnoff pop up bar, deco inspired by the gentlemen’s clubs.
I’ll be tasting delicious food @ the taste of Xmas. How about you?
Post it for the week-end (Nov 28-29)
Another rainy week-end ahead… Smile! Just take your umbrella on an adventure…
Here’s to put you in the mood:
- The Portobello Winter festival starts this wednesdau and will have thematic nights every Wednesday till Xmas
- Don’t forget to get prepared for those Xmas parties and meals: celebrate Thanksgiving!
Feeling better? Here’s for the week-end:
- Head for the new pop-ups before they blow away with the fashion wind… Nes-cafe @ Liberty and the famous Parisian Colette on Brick Lane
- Need your weekly dose of street art? Hoorray! Mutate opens its doors again @ Portobello.
- Even Damien Hirst is back @ the White Cube Gallery. It’s still time to see his No love lost @ the Wallace collection
- Spendid news pictures @ The Royal Festival Hall…
- Alternatively hum Only you @ Proud Chelsea… Great pics of a young Elvis.
- Kids will find happiness in Covent Garden – there will be a real reindeer to pat Saturday afternoon. Parents will probably prefer the amazing jewel exhibition that flashes magic lights under UVs…
You’ll find me @ the Secret Cinema… and having an underground afternoon tea. What’s YOUR program?
Post-it for the week-end (Nov 20-22)
A hot chocolate, a new scarf and gloves, and here you go. Plenty to see this week-end to get into the Xmas spirit. Not that you can really escape it!
- Start on Southbank – either with the Slowfood market (jazz themed this time) or the Cologne Xmas market…
- Oxford street launches its market this week as well…
- Want more? Head to Hyde Park for a walk and a big wheel ride with the Winterwonderland…
- Stop @ Covent Garden for the Lacoste experience or simply for the kids to enjoy candlelit stories…
- Head to Victoria station or Westfield to see the Cirque du soleil (and hopefully win free tickets!)…
- See another dimension in Trafalgar square with the ghost forest…
- Take the kids to the London children film festival…
- Want to make them gasp in wonder? Have a walk with them in the Enchanted forest @ Syon Park. Thousands of lights in the trees. £5 per adult, £2 per kids – quite cheap for the thrill…
- Skate at the Somerset House. Have alook at the program: Breakfast @ tiffany’s matinees and DJ evenings!
Post-it for the week-end (Nov 07-08)
My friends, it is time to switch to the winter mode:
- Have a look at the first Xmas lights on regent and Oxford St, lit since Tuesday…
- Friday evening, enjoy a late night @ the Transport Museum: electro music and cocktails!
- Travel to Hungary via Covent Garden…
- Put on gloves and scarves and skate @ the Natural History Museum…
- Start your Xmas shopping @ the Spirit of Xmas fair - always treasures to be found… I loved it 2 years ago. This time, I’ll go to the Country Living Xmas fair which starts next week.
- Stay in a festive mood – take the kids to Harrod’s Xmas parade. 11 designers have also decorated their Xmas tree…
- Stressed out? Have a musical yoga session in Shoreditch…
- Make it a real partyy with fireworks in Richmond!
I’ll be skipping London this week-end - getting my cheeks all pink in Cheshire, whether from a revigorating weather, a chimney fire or a glass of wine… How about you: inside cocooning or outside mad party?
