HINDUSTAN TIMES, 02 | MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015

SWITCH OFF. UNWIND. EXPLORE

The No TV Weekend is almost here. In the run-up, we suggest ways in which you can celebrate with friends and family. Don’t miss: HT’s exciting events and prizes. Join the celebration on facebook.com/htnotvday and twitter.com/htnotvday

HINDUSTAN TIMES OFFERS YOU... All fun and games We have lots lined up for you throughout No TV Weekend. Here’s PLAY Turn off the box and take to the skies. You can fly a Boeing simulator this weekend, a look at the schedule for Friday join a gaming group, head to the city’s indoor football fields or shoot at friends with lasers TREASURE HUNT Do you know your city well enough? Here’s a fun chal- lenge to test your knowledge of Mumbai. Starts at 6 pm, at , OPEN-DECK BUS RIDE Breeze through atop an open-deck bus for a unique view of the city. Register on the same day and collect passes at the Coomaraswamy Hall gate of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj museum between 3 pm and 3.15 pm. Hop on for an hour-long ride at 4.30 pm MUMBAI CYCLOTHON Join us for fun bike rides! Do bring your own bicycle and cycling gear. Assembly time is 6 am, at Lucky Restaurant,

FOOTBALL DRILL CHALLENGE & PICTIONARY FOR KIDS A mixture of your dribbling ■ (Clockwise from left) Try some wilderness rafting at Vaitarna; indoor football at Kick-Off astroturf, Oshiwara; unusual board games at the Meeples meet; laser tag skills and mind games, your courtesy Blue Bulb; or climb into the cockpit of a Boeing simulator at Kurla’s Phoenix child’s ball-playing skills are Market City mall, for Rs1,750 for 30 minutes and Rs2,950 for an hour per couple. sure to be tested with this unique take on Pictionary. 6 pm to 7 pm, at Kick, Powai

HARRY POTTER MAGIC WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Is there science to Harry Potter’s Magic? Find out at this workshop with science experts. 10.30 am to 11.30 am, at Kitab Khana, Fort

STAND-UP COMEDY Get ready to laugh your heart out with Arzan Khambatta and Neville Bharucha. 8 pm to 8.30 pm, Library,

RUNNING AND LIVING Run for 5 and 10 km, make new friends, explore your neigh- bourhood and your city. Assembly time is 6.15 am, at Jogger’s Park gate, Bandra Anubhuti Matta ■ [email protected] The Guide COCKTAIL-MAKING WORKSHOP Take a trip this No TV Weekend, without Dreamfields, MUMBAI breakfast; additional charges of Learn to shake it like you leaving the city. Kandivli CAMP AMID FIREFLIES ATTEND A GAMES MELA Rs 300 per person for lunch mean it, with Woodside Inn’s There’s a Boeing 737 flight simulator MAP Watch millions of jugnus light Try your hand at a range of bartenders. 4 pm to 5 pm, in Mumbai that will let you ‘fly’ almost Dreamfields, up the sky, feast on fresh curated games, including ‘verbal CALL: 99305-82878 at Woodside Inn, . anywhere you want to go, putting images Malad mangoes, swim in a nearby kabbadi’ and a special version of EMAIL: [email protected] Entry based on availability on the windshield that’ll make you won- YOUR Kick, river, and dine on ghar ka table-tennis of space. Kick-Off, Powai khana cooked by local villagers der if the city is really just outside. Oshiwara WHEN: May 29 and 30, 11 am to “My wife and I flew over the Caribbean DAYS on firewood, at the 5 pm; WHERE: Bhau Daji Lad CHECK OUT THE OJO DE DIOS MANDALA islands and it was as real as it could get,” Grassroutes camps in museum, Byculla CITY’S INDOOR WEAVING COURSE FOR KIDS Would you Dreamfields, Purushwadi, Vanjushet, says 36-year-old management trainee Punit FOOTBALL VENUES Join Amisha Shroff for this like to go Sishwat and Kadki in COST: Museum entry fee of Rs creative craft activity. Each Mehra. “I hope that saves me from burning kayaking Dreamfields, Ahmednagar district. 10 per head (open to all ages) Kick-Off, Oshiwara vibrant pattern is a colourful a hole in my pocket,” he adds laughing. Ghatkopar in Vasind Astro Park WHEN: Overnight camps WHEN: Daily, 7 am to 11 pm new creation. The simulator is a replica of a cock- 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm, at or play available from May 29 to 31 PLAY VIRTUAL GAMES COST: Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 pit, complete with an array of dials Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj footie in AT SMAAASH per hour and controls. Astro Park COST: Rs 3,300 per person, museum Powai? Lower Parel including accommodation and Shoot at enemy aircraft, design CALL: 98207-67123, 98190-97603 Take your all meals your own roller-coaster track or BOOK SWAP FOR KIDS pick this Smaaash, CALL: 88794-77437 navigate a secret transport route Astro Park, at Worli Refresh your child’s library at Lower Parel Bhau Daji Lad to avoid Mumbai’s traffic prob- this event by Xchange-It. Just No TV museum, Byculla EMAIL: [email protected] lems — virtually, of course — in and Lower Parel bring a book you’ve read and Weekend the new games at Smaaash in WHEN: Daily, 7 am to midnight take home one you haven’t. 3 JOIN THE MEEPLES Lower Parel. COST: Rs 3,500 per hour pm to 6 pm, at Chhatrapati BOARD GAMERS WHEN: Daily, 11 am to 12.30 am CALL: 88782-29996 Shivaji Maharaj museum Enact the entire Lord of the CALL: 4914-3143; COST: Prices Kick, Powai Rings battle between the start at Rs 100 per round ZUMBA FOR KIDS WHEN: Daily, 7 am to 1 am Fellowship and the Shadow or WITH SUCHETA PAL various battles in World War II COST: Rs 1,800 to Rs 2,250 Let your child explore kid- friendly routines based on with this club of gaming enthu- GO KAYAKING AT VASIND per hour CALL: 98193-35701 zumba choreography, coupled siasts. Entry open to those 12 Kayak up the Bhatsai river, some with games and activities. 5 and above only. fishing, camp on the banks and Dreamfields, at Kandivli, pm to 6 pm, at Chhatrapati WHEN: May 29 and 30 end the day with a scrumptious Shivaji Maharaj museum barbecue meal at this weekend Malad, Andheri, Ghatkopar, WHERE: Bhau Daji Lad trip organised by Big Red Tent. Vashi and Kalyan museum, Byculla KK NIGHT WHEN: May 30 – 31 WHEN: Daily, 7 am to 1 am Actual pilot views with intricate topo- CALL: 98196-11004, Celebrate Bollywood music graphical detail and a trained instructor 99875-95564 WHERE: Vasind COST: Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,250 with KK. 7 pm to 9.30 pm, as your co-pilot are part of the package. COST: Rs 4,000 per person, per hour at Richardson & Cruddas “We were briefed on how the aircraft COST: Museum entry fee of in Byculla Rs 10 per head including transport, dinner and CALL: 76668-84422 flies and what the different dials and controls mean. You get the whole experi- TOUR OF THE GPO ence — from preparing the flight plan Mumbai’s General Post Office to taxiing on the runway,” says Mehra. Dominion, Viticulture or Mage Knight On the other hand, you could stay along forests while navigating narrow is one of the biggest in the If you’re scared of heights, on the with members of gaming enthusiasts’ home and let the fun come to you. river and bouncing off rocky outcrops. world. This is your chance to other hand, you could stay grounded group Meeples Board Gamers (MBG). Events and experiences company Blue Big Red Tent also offers weekend kay- tour the heritage building. 8.45 and celebrate the weekend on the many They have a collection of about 300 Bulb can turn your terrace, garden or aking adventures, at Vasind. Here, you am to 11.30 am; starting new indoor football turfs launched in the games one doesn’t generally find in . parking lot into a lasertag ‘battlefield’ row your way up the Bhatsai river, just point GPO main gate, Fort city over the past year, scattered across So you can play at being a scientist trying for you and your friends. off the Mumbai-Nashik highway, pitch Andheri, Malad, Kandivli, Worli, Lower to save the world from a pandemic, or On the other hand, a two-and-a-half-hour a tent on the banks, go fishing and end MARATHI PLAY Parel and parts of . build an estate in rural France. drive away is Kelva, where you can lie back the day with a barbecue feast. BAAKI EKAAKI A compilation of four short Enclosed by a rope mesh and a roof “My wife and I have become big fans in a hammock and watch the waves hit For the less outdoorsy, there’s stories that offer a lighter take that offers respite from the sun, these ever since we discovered MBG four months the shore, or go horse-riding, cycling, and Purushwadi, where you can just sit on loneliness. 6 pm to 7.30 spaces are open till midnight. “We often ago, through a friend who had attended a kite-flying. You can also go on excursions back and watch a million fireflies light pm, David Sassoon Library, play a game of football after work. It’s gaming event,” says businessman Chintan to the nearby Shirgaon and Kelva forts. up the night sky. “My husband and I go Kala Ghoda a great stress-buster,” says geologist Buddhadeb, 30. “We love gaming, and now If you’re looking for an adrenalin there every May,” says Ruchi Khemka, Clarence Mendoza, 28. we no longer have to ask relatives to ship rush, opt for wilderness rafting in the a senior manager at a telecom company. To register for these events, go to Or, if you’d rather stay indoors, you games to us from the US. We’ve also made Vaitarna river, also conducted by Blue “It’s the perfect break from the chaos notvday.hindustantimes.com could play board games such as Pandemic, many new friends over games.” Bulb. This two-hour tour will take you and pollution of the city.”