LEWISHAM
The Robot Zoo
Date: From Feb 27
Time: 10.30-5.30pm
Cost: Adults (£7.70) Children (£4.40)
Location: Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ
About: Enter the fascinating world of the Robot Zoo, a family-friendly exhibition featuring larger-than-life animals and interactives and discover the mechanisms that give animals their amazing abilities.
Open to the public
HACKNEY
Pancake Day Challenge
Date: February 28
Time: 8am-8pm
Cost: FREE (£20 donated to local charities if you fail)
Location: 29 E Bay Ln, London E15 2GW
About: Legendary diner Breakfast Club are challenging Londoners to eat their way through a stack of 12 pancakes in 12 minutes or less. If you win, your meal is on the house. If you lose, you’ll pay the full price (£20) with all profits donated to local charities. There’s no need to book, just rock up to any Breakfast Club cafe at any time on Feb 28 and try your hand at the challenge. All entrants get a free keyring.
Link: For more information, click here https://www.thebreakfastclubcafes.com/pancake-day-challenge/
Nightspot Cinema: Jackie Brown meets James Brown
Date: February 24
Time: 19:00-2:30am
Cost: £10
Location: Micks Garage, Queens Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
About: Jackie Brown meets James Brown for one very special night only at Nightspot Cinema’s The Soundcrash funk and soul weekender launch party. Artists / Speakers: Brassroots DJ’s, Dom Servini, Russ Ryan and Ash Tres.
Link: For more information and tickets, click here https://www.facebook.com/events/1593840434258024/
Hatcha and friends: Rusko, Hatcha,Kromestar, Chef vs Quest
Date: February 24
Time: 10pm-4am
Cost: £10
Location: The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ
About: Dubstep innovator Hatcha brings his revered Hatcha & Friends party to The Nest in Dalston at the end of February. No DJ has ever had so much influence over the course of the genre. He brings a slew of guests, tracing the history of the scene.
Link: For more information and tickets, click here https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?903084
TOWER HAMLETS
Cut Festival 2017 – The Art of Barbering
Date: February 24-March 5
Time: Various (check website)
Cost: £6
Location: 28 Commercial Street, London
About: An unprecedented multidisciplinary art festival across East London barbershops, Toynbee Studios, Archive Gallery and online broadcasts. Barbers will be giving haircuts to the homeless for free. Through newly commissioned work, and a curated programme, the festival will bring together established and emerging artists, barbers and activists who creatively use the history, politics and craft of barbering to explore themes of gender, community and social healing in their respective practices.
Link: For more information, click here http://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/?guide=Events&cat=10&cid=62788
Ice Rink Canary Wharf
Date: February 24-25
Time: Various (check website)
Cost: Various (check website)
Location: Canada Square Park, Canary Wharf, E14 5AB
About: The first of its kind in London, LUMINOCITY has over 8km of LED lights beneath the ice lighting up as you skate over it with over 16 million different colours! Ice Rink Canary Wharf is complete with a vibrant bar offering drinks, snacks and a large heated outdoor viewing area.
Link: For more information, click here http://canarywharf.com/arts-events/events/ice-rink-canary-wharf-2016/?instance_id
CROYDON
Croydon Roller Derby vs. Harbour Girls Hamburg
Date: February 25
Time: 1pm-6pm
Cost: £8
Location: The Dolphin Leisure Centre, Croydon, RH16 1LY
About: Join us on Saturday February 25 for an exciting day of top-notch roller derby, which will see Croydon Roller Derby face off against Harbor Girls Hamburg. First on the track will be Croydon’s Vice Squad who will be going head-to-head with Hamburg’s B Team. Next up Croydon’s Riot Squad will strap on their skates and take to the track against Harbor Girls A.
Link: For more information and tickets, click here: http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/events/Croydon/1210441.Event.Croydon_Roller_Derby_vs__Harbor_Girls_Hamburg/?s=98cf72aa56ca884bb238b9a0bdff5590&i=3)
Acoustic Sessions at Stanley Halls: Jim Moray
Date: February 24
Time: 7pm-10.30pm
Cost: £14
Location: Stanley Halls, South Norwood, SE25 6AB
About: Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in traditional folk music today. After four ground-breaking albums, and numerous awards, he now finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians.
Link: For more information and tickets, click here: http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/events/South_Norwood/1213612.Event.Accoustic_Sessions_at_Stanley_Halls__Jim_Moray/?s=98cf72aa56ca884bb238b9a0bdff5590&i=4 )
