FIND YOUR LONDON FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

18 - 28 March 2016 london.gov.uk/findyourlondon EVENT MOOD TRANSPORT To help you make the most INFORMATION of the festival, we’ve come For detailed information on up with five different moods. local transport and directions So whatever your mood to each event please you’ll be sure to find a great visit: www.london.gov.uk/ day out. findyourlondon

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Come outside and explore your city this spring with the Find Your London Festival. From 18-28 March, we invite you to celebrate London’s great outdoor spaces from gardens to parks, high streets to marketplaces. This 11-day festival features over 100 events in each and every corner of London. That means it’s a fantastic opportunity to discover new places, join in fun outdoor activities and put a spring back in your step. There’ll be everything from mind up and make the most yoga in the park, cycle of the festival, we’ve come trails and treasure hunts, up with five different moods. to beekeeping, an Alice in So whether you’re looking to Wonderland Tea Party and be Active, Curious, Playful, much more besides. There Relaxed or Inspired, you’ll are also activities for every find your perfect day out age, from eight to 80 and at Find Your London. Step lots for families to enjoy too. inside these pages and see As with all the best things for yourself. in life, many of the events are free. If all this sounds a To find out more, visit: little overwhelming, help is at london.gov.uk/findyourlondon hand. So you can make your #findyourLDN

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THE CAPITAL RING Castle. This outdoor activity PHOTOGRAPHY class is for all ages. Wear EXPEDITION comfortable clothes. No The Capital Ring booking required. Free • 9am-5pm Daniel Raven-Ellison leads DISCOVER LONDON’S this unique expedition to SPRINGTIME BIRDS walk London’s 126km Capital AND FLOWERS – Ring footpath in only four GUIDED WALK days. Bring a camera and Meet at play area entrance your best walking boots. at the junction of Windsor Booking required*. and Richmond Avenues, UB10 9AT LAMLASH GARDEN Free • 11am-2pm SPRING WEEKEND - Explore Hillingdon’s ACTIVITY CLASS Gutteridge Wood and Ten Lamlash Garden, Lamlash Acre Wood nature reserves Street, , with a SE11 4TG expert. Discover ancient Free • 11am-12 noon woodlands, listen to birdsong Celebrate spring in this and try birdspotting. new community garden Booking required: in the heart of Elephant & [email protected] & 020 7261 0447.

DISCOVER CROSSBONES Crossbones Garden, Union Street, SE1 1TA FreeCANCELLED • 11am-3pm Discover the secret history

4 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Friday 18 March of Crossbones, the outcasts’ ACTIVATE AND INSPIRE burial ground. Learn about the ‘Winchester Geese’, Cricklewood Town Square, Victorian paupers and the Cricklewood Lane by B&Q, body snatchers. Free guided NW2 1ES tours. No booking required. Free Entry (activities £1) • 11am-6pm PAINT YOUR LONDON Three days of family events 127 Winchester Rd, kicks off with the World Highams Park, E4 9LJ Village Market on Friday. Free • 11am-4pm Come along for delicious For two weeks walls and street food, gorgeous gifts buildings in Waltham and stylish clothing. No Forest will come to life booking required. through street art. Try a walking or cycling tour of the area. For further info: www.paintyourlondon. co.uk. No booking required.

SEEDBOMB MAKING MASTERCLASS The Bridge Café, 81 Bridge Rd, SE1 0NQ Free • 12.30-2pm Seedbombs are a quick and easy way to bring dull

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spaces back to life with a NEW MALDEN URBAN blast of colour. All materials FOX WALK are provided for free. No Meet at New Malden Train booking required. Station, Coombe Rd, New Malden, KT3 4PX £9.63 per person • 5.30-7.30pm Fox expert Marina Pacheco leads this walk around areas used by foxes like back alleys and green spaces. Plus a special film projection of foxes. Booking required*.

COB OVEN: MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA The Hive, Kennington Park, St Agnes Place, SE11 4BE Free • 5.30-9pm Join BeeUrban and cook your own pizza in a cob oven in the great outdoors. You can also learn about everything from gardening to beekeeping. No booking required.

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Share storytime in children’s LONDON AT DAWN corner, join an interactive PHOTOGRAPHY trail to explore the garden’s WORKSHOP hidden treasures or get Meet at Middle of active with a spot of planting Westminster Bridge, SE1 and painting. No booking £20 • 5.30am-9am required. Join photographer Anthony Epes on a photo walk around the sleepy streets of Westminster. It’s a chance to create stunning images of the waking city. Booking required*.

BOWL OF CHALK - FROM TRAFALGAR SQUARE TO ST PAUL’S Meeting point provided on booking Pay what you want • 10.30am This morning walk weaves through Covent Garden and Fleet Street before finishing SPRING CELEBRATION at St Paul’s Cathedral. Forest Gate Community Learn about Blackfriars, Garden, 136 Earlham Grove, Whitefriars, lost rivers and Forest Gate, E7 9AR more. Booking required*. Free • 10am-1pm

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Discover BLOOMING MAPS woods, with a London The Rickyard, Walpole Wildlife Trust expert. You Park, Green, may spot woodland birds like W5 5BS finches and woodpeckers on £2 per child • 11am-1pm this steep hill. No dogs. No and 2-4pm booking required. Test your family’s

orienteering skills using maps of . GO WILD AND DISCOVER Find the flags and EAST HAM NATURE complete the springtime RESERVE! activity. Later, create East Ham Nature Reserve, seasonal maps of the Norman Rd, E6 6HN park. Booking required: Free • 11am-3pm [email protected] This family open day & 07711 391184. features crafts, trails, green gym activities and games. Come and explore one of Newham’s hidden gems, relax outdoors and meet local wildlife. No booking required.

CELEBRATE SPRING AT CAMLEY STREET NATURAL PARK Camley Street Natural Park, SPRING WALK EXPLORING 12 Camley St, N1C 4PW THE WILDLIFE WONDERS Free • 11am-3pm OF CROHAM HURST, Explore this urban oasis near CROYDON King’s Cross station with Croham Hurst, Croham Rd, London Wildlife Trust. Kids South Croydon, CR2 7HJ will love pond dipping, adults Free • 11am-1pm

8 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Saturday 19 March will enjoy the natural space. trees, flowering shrubs No dogs. Booking required*. and perennials and sow wildflower seeds in the grounds. Plus afternoon tea BIG at 3pm. No booking required. DAY OUT! Ken Aston Square, 140 CYCLE CONFIDENT ‘DR High Street, Barkingside, BIKE’ MAINTENANCE IG6 2EA AND CYCLE TRAINING Free • 11am-3pm SESSIONS Celebrate Barkingside’s Design Museum, 28 Shad newest outdoor cultural Thames, SE1 2YD space, Ken Aston Square. Free • 11am-4pm Come, get creative and Cycle Confident will be make a huge modern hosting free Dr Bike art masterpiece with the sessions. Book a slot or help of Urban Canvas. No just drop in to get your bike booking required. checked over by the experts. Booking required*.

FIND YOUR OWN SHAD THAMES TRAIL Le Pont de la Tour Bar, 36D Shad Thames, SE1 2YE Free • 11am-4pm Come and explore this TREES & TREATS much-loved riverside Community Centre and destination. Pick up a free Community Food Garden, copy of the self-guided Shad Cranbrook Estate, Mace Thames Trail and discover Street, E2 0QT the area’s highlights and Free • 11am-4pm secrets. No booking required. Visit this stunning garden and help plant small

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PAINT YOUR LONDON taster sessions plus crafts, 127 Winchester Rd, jewellery making and seed Highams Park, E4 9LJ planting. There’s also a Free • 11am-4pm bouncy castle and soft play See previous listing on page area. No booking required. 5. No booking required. ROMAN ROAD YARD DISCOVER MARKET - LAUNCH PARTY CROSSBONES Roman Rd car park, Crossbones Garden, Ford Rd, E3 5LX Union Street, SE1 1TA Free • 11am-5pm Free • 11am-4.30pm Come for hot food, street See previous listing on page music and market stalls 4. No booking required. selling handcrafted goods. You can also take a guided OVEN DAY AT THE HIVE walk to learn more about the The Hive, Kennington Park, area. No booking required. St Agnes Place, SE11 4BE Free • 11am-5pm ACTIVATE AND INSPIRE Come and join BeeUrban and CRICKLEWOOD experience how to create Cricklewood Town Square, wildlife habitats, roll candles, Cricklewood Lane by B&Q, bake bread in the cob oven NW2 1ES and sample delicious honey Free Entry (activities £1) • straight from the beehive. 11am-6pm No booking required. See previous listing on page 5. No booking required. FIND YOURSELF IN MITCHAM FESTIVAL PEDAL-POWERED MINI- Mitcham Fair Green, CINEMA WITH ELECTRIC Mitcham Town Centre, PEDALS Mitcham, CR3 3AA Design Museum, 28 Shad Free • 11am-5pm Thames, SE1 2YD A family day out with Tai Chi Free • 12 noon-4pm

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Use pedal power to run a KENLEY RAF AIRFIELD cinema and watch fun films HERITAGE FESTIVAL like BMX Bike Club Kenley Airfield, Victor and Inside the Brompton Beamish Avenue, Kenley, Factory. Booking required*. CR3 5FX Free • 12 noon-4pm Visit this Battle of Britain fighter airfield and see inside the Portcullis Club building which dates back to WW1. Plus guided

PLAYFUL HACKNEY: airfield tours and more. DISCOVERING HIDDEN No booking required. PLAY SPACES Homerton Grove Adventure Playground, Wardle Street, E9 6BX Free • 12 noon-4pm See previous listing on page 6. No booking required. BIDDESTONE ROAD OPEN DAY AND SEED OPEN SPACE - LAUNCH SOWING IN POTS PARTY Mitcham Community Orchard Biddestone Road Open Space, and Gardens, Field Gate Biddestone Rd, N7 9UE Lane, Mitcham, CR4 3AL Free • 12 noon-4pm Free • 12 noon-4pm Celebrate the reopening Discover Mitcham’s best kept of Biddestone Road Open secret, an award-winning Space with fun family community orchard. Sow fruit activities including arts and and vegetable seeds in pots crafts, face painting, tree to take home and nurture, planting, play sessions and become a volunteer. No and live music. No booking booking required. required.

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BICYCLE MAINTENANCE LITTLE YOGI WORKSHOP Subterranea, Meet at the gates closest Aberfeldy House, John to the bus station - Crystal Ruskin Street, SE5 0XH Palace Park, SE19 1UD Free • 10.30am-3.30pm Free • 1-2.30pm From 10.30 to 12.30pm Children aged 4-12 can women’s cycle maintenance come and explore yoga and and CANCELLEDfrom 12.30pm an open mindfulness through physical cycle maintenance drop-in poses, breathing exercises, session. The mechanic will partner yoga, fun activities give you useful tips to help and games. Connect, play keep your bike ship-shape. and relax. Booking required: No booking required. [email protected]

FREE ADVENTURE PLAY FOR FAMILIES Crumbles Castle, Bingfield Street, N1 0BJ Free • 12.30pm-4pm This unique site is usually closed to adults but today everyone can come and make dens, climb, jump and swing. Plus

bonfire, chillout zone, tree GET LOST - CREATIVE decorating and cooking WALK LED BY ANNA B. outdoors. No booking SEXTON required. Meet at Mile End underground station, Mile End Rd, E3 4DH Free • 1-3.30pm Artist Anna B. Sexton leads this family friendly walk.

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Whatever the weather, bring your stamina, sketch GET ACTIVE! book and camera. Let your Hackney Downs Park, curiosity be your guide. Downs Park Rd, E5 8NP Booking required*. Free • 1.30-3.30pm Come for an active afternoon

of family fun. Join a guided BAREFOOT BOWLS walk, help clean up the – FIELDS park or do some planting in STYLE the children’s garden. No , Highbury booking required. Crescent, N5

Free • 1-5pm LAMLASH GARDEN Barefoot Bowls is a quick SPRING WEEKEND - and easy version of lawn FAMILY TREASURE HUNT bowls. There’ll be pop- Lamlash Garden, Lamlash up bars, exotic street Street, Elephant and Castle, foodCANCELLED sellers, live DJs and SE11 4TG much more too. Booking Free • 2-4pm required*. Celebrate srping in this community garden at Elephant & Castle. Join an epic family treasure hunt, find clues, and compete to win big prizes. No booking required.

THE CYCLING CHOIR (WORKSHOPS) Art in the Park, Chumleigh Gardens, , SE5 0RJ Free • 2-5pm

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If you like cycling and GET GROWING singing join the ‘Cycling @GROWELEPHANT Choir’. These workshops Grow Elephant Community prepare you for an afternoon Garden, New Kent Rd, musical promenade SE17 1SL throughout Burgess Free • 3-5pm Park the following day. Whether you’ve got a Booking required: studio@ garden, balcony, or even just artinthepark.co.uk a windowsill come and learn or 0207 2774297. how to grow your own herbs and salads at this workshop. Booking required: paul@ mobilegardeners.org

PIZZA TRAY BRICOLAGE - CREATE ART: EAT PIZZA Meet at Canada Water tube station, SE16 7AR Free • 4pm BOWL OF CHALK - FROM A slice of life is ST PAUL’S TO THE guaranteed on this MONUMENT exciting bricolage family- Meeting point provided friendly walkshop. You’ll on booking discover a charming park Pay what you want • 2.30pm in London, gather clues, This afternoon stroll starts at and create an artwork. St Paul’s Cathedral. Come Booking required*. and hear about Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, Shakespeare’s stomping ground, Sir Francis Drake, London’s bridges and more. Booking required*.

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KINGSTON URBAN THE FOX WALK HURTLE Meet at Kingston Station The Gardens’ Community main exit: Wood Street, Garden, Doncaster Kingston, KT1 1UJ Gardens, N4 1HX £9.63 per person • £5 Adults £3 Under- 5.30-7.30pm 15s. Includes t-shirt, See previous listing on page medal, donut and drink • 6. Booking required*. 9.15am-2pm Run, walk, skate, scooter SUNDAY or cycle the Harringay Hurtle in Fairland Park. 20 MARCH This family friendly hurtle has two routes, an easy LONDON AT DAWN 5km or longer 10km. PHOTOGRAPHY Booking required*. WORKSHOP Meet at Tower Millennium Pier, EC3N 4DT £20 • 5.30am-9am See previous listing on page 7. Booking required*.

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WALK AND SWIM Meet at Surbiton train station WOODLAND ACTIVITY DAY ticket office, KT6 4PE Streatham Common Free • 10am-1pm Woodlands & The Rookery, This one-hour stroll will SW16 3BZ go along the Thames to £5 workshop; £1 Easter Kingston, head through Egg Hunt • 10am-4pm and end at Enjoy activities like tree , a lido heated climbing, fire craft and to 28 degrees. Booking shelter sessions, wild food required*. foraging and cooking, and art in the park. Plus an Easter PLANTING FOR BEES egg hunt. Booking required*. AND BUTTERFLIES Nature Reserve, Lavender Rd, , SE16 5DZ (park entrance via Salter Rd) Free • 10am-2pm Help create a new woodland wildflower bank at the reserve. You’ll be putting in a range of native plants and doing your bit for widlife. OUTDOOR FAMILIES: Booking required: DISCOVERING THE WILD [email protected] SIDE OF EAST LONDON Outdoor People shop - Netil Market, 13 - 23 Westgate St, Hackney, E8 3RL Free • 10.30am Explore the green spaces between Netil Market and Wick Woodlands on this new urban adventure. Led

16 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Sunday 20 March by children with a little help TREE OR FALSE? from the guide. Booking TELLING FIBS OR required*. BUSTING MYTHS

ABOUT TREES BLOOMING MAPS Meet beneath the big The Rickyard, Walpole Park guns, Mary Geraldine Ealing Green, W5 5BS Harmsworth Gardens, £2.00 per child • 11am-1pm , and 2-4pm SE1 6HZ See previous listing on Free • 11am page 8. Booking required: Everyone’s heard an [email protected] & old wives’ tale about 07711 391184. a certain tree species.

On this walkshop, you’ll BOWL OF CHALK - WALK investigate the myths AROUND EAST LONDON and create some stories Meeting point provided of your own. Booking on booking required*. Pay what you want • 11am Take a Sunday morning meander through some of east London’s most popular sites like Columbia Road flower market, Brick Lane market and Old Spitalfields market. Booking required*.

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CRICKLEWOOD SPRING LAMLASH GARDEN – TRADITIONAL BONNET SPRING WEEKEND - PARADE, EGG HUNT AND GARDENING SESSION EGGSTRA FUN ACTIVITIES Lamlash Garden, Lamlash Brent Terrace, Brent Terrace Street, Elephant and Castle, Green, NW2 1BX SE11 4TG Free • 11am-1pm Free • 11am-1pm Come and celebrate Celebrate spring in this Cricklewood’s heritage. new community garden at Learn about the old Midland Elephant & Castle. Join the Brent railway, Clitterhouse big planting session and Farm buildings and help get the garden ready for Millennium Green. Enjoy fun spring. No booking required. Easter activities and much more. No booking required. FROG DAY Greenwich Peninsula GREEN AND BLUE WALK Ecology Park, John AROUND ROTHERHITHE Harrison Way, SE10 0QZ Meet at Rotherhithe Station, Free • 11am-3pm Brunel Rd, SE16 4LF There’ll be pond dipping, Free • 11am-1pm close encounters with Come and discover frogspawn, frogs and newts, Rotherhithe’s stunning froggy arts and crafts, prize green and blue open trails and wildlife gardening spaces. Taking in Thames workshops at this froggy embankment, Russia Dock celebration. No booking Woodland, King Stairs required. Gardens, and Edward III Manor House. Booking required*.

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CYCLE CONFIDENT ‘DR ALICE IN WONDERLAND BIKE’ MAINTENANCE MAD HATTER’S TEA AND CYCLE TRAINING PARTY SESSIONS Valentines Mansion & Design Museum, 28 Shad Gardens, Emerson Rd, Thames, SE1 2YD , , IG1 4XA Free • 11am-4pm Free • 12 noon-2.30pm See previous listing on Help Alice find the White page 9. Booking required*. Rabbit, play croquet with the Queen of Hearts and enjoy tea, riddles and lots of giggles at the tea party. Booking required*.

PAINT YOUR LONDON 127 Winchester Rd, Highams Park, E4 9LJ Free • 11am-4pm See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

DISCOVER CROSSBONES Crossbones Garden, Union Street, SE1 1TA Free • 11am-4.30pm See previous listing on page 4. No booking required.

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JUNIOR EXPLORERS COMMUNITY New River Walk, Douglas BEEKEEPING Rd, , N1 2PU The Hive, Kennington (meet St Paul’s Rd entrance) Park, St Agnes Place, Free • 11am-12.30pm SE11 4BE Explore New River Walk Free • 11am-5pm with the Park Rangers. Pond Workshops at the hive dipping, bug hunting, make a every two hours. Learn den, storytelling and visit the about beekeeping, take ‘magic tree’. Bring a picnic part in a hive inspection too. Booking required*. and try delicious London

honey. No booking WILD PLAY DAY required. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, Mile End, E3 4PX Free • 11.30am-3.30pm Pick up a map from the Soanes Centre. Then follow the trail for scavenger hunts, wild art, assault courses, pond dipping and much, much, more! Suitable for any age (all children must be accompanied by an adult). ACTIVATE AND INSPIRE No booking required. CRICKLEWOOD Cricklewood Town Square, Cricklewood Lane by B&Q, NW2 1ES Free Entry (activities £1) • 11am-6pm See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT SEARCH AND STICK* As you walk from A to B SEARCH PARTY Don’t forget to look and C! Various locations Can you find what’s Free • 12 noon-7pm in this book? A treasure hunt in search Yes you can but you of… a secret party! 4 must look… routes, 4,000 free tickets Packed with facts, and 1 secret party – if puzzles, stickers and you can find it. There will illustrations by London- be afternoon tea, swing based artists, the Find dancing, music and an Your London Sticker array of surprises. You Book is designed to have just four hours help you discover the to find your way there. incredible diversity of Four trails of clues and London’s public spaces. capers will lead and Go to www.london.gov.uk/ mislead participants findyourlondon to find through hidden gardens, out how to get your secret squares and side sticker book. streets. Tricky? Maybe: but a good party is worth searching for. Booking RIVERSIDE FAMILY required*. FUN DAY Fulham Wharf Jetty, Townmead Rd, SW6 2SY Free • 12 noon-4pm Discover wildlife and explore the riverside at Fulham Wharf’s new ecology centre. Fun activities include bug Commissioned by the and nature treasure hunts, Mayor of London arts, crafts and heritage walk. No booking required.

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HISTORICAL TOURS FAMILY FROG DAY Fulham Palace, Bishops Centre for Wildlife Gardening, Avenue, SW6 6EA 28 Marsden Rd, SE15 4EE £6 or £5 with this festival Free • 1-4pm brochure. Associates and Fun for kids with pond accompanied children dipping, making frog masks free • 12.30pm and stories by the pond. Discover Fulham Palace’s Grown-ups can learn how secrets on this historical to make gardens wildlife tour. Start outdoors with the friendly. No dogs. No history of the building and booking required. gardens before heading inside to the Great Hall. Tour COMMUNITY OPEN DAY AT starts at museum shop. No MOATED MANOR LOCAL booking required. NATURE RESERVE Moated Manor Local Nature

Reserve, Old Kingston Rd, THE CYCLING CHOIR Tolworth, KT4 7QH Art in the Park, Free • 1.30-4pm Chumleigh Gardens, This former medieval manor Burgess Park, SE5 0RJ is now a wildlife haven. Join Free • 1-3pm conservation workshops like If you like cycling and scything, planting and singing check out the creation. Plus live music, ‘Cycling Choir’ for a BBQ and family fun. No promenade of specially booking required. chosen songs performed

by a flock of local cyclists. FAMILY FROG DAY No booking required. Island, via Ellerman Avenue, , TW2 6AB Free • 1.30-4pm Celebrate spring with lots of frog-themed activities like

22 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Sunday 20 March pond dipping and froggy CRICKLEWOOD SPRING arts and crafts. You can also – TRADITIONAL BONNET explore the historic Shot PARADE, EGG HUNT AND Tower. No dogs. No booking EGGSTRA FUN ACTIVITIES required. Clitterhouse Farm, Claremont Rd, NW2 1AB Free • 2-3.30pm See previous listing on page 18. No booking required.

MUSIC OF LONDON AND LONDONERS CONCERT Bandstand, OUTDOOR FAMILIES: Lower Rd, SE16 2UA DISCOVERING THE WILD Free • 3-5pm SIDE OF EAST LONDON Hear this south London wind Wick Woodland, E9 5JD orchestra play everything Free • 2pm from classical to marches, Come and join this urban popular music to modern adventure around the green scores. For this occasion the spaces between Wick music will focus on London. Woodlands and Netil Market. No booking required Led by children with a little help from the guide. Booking PROJECT WILD THING – required*. FREE SCREENING Homerton Adventure Play- ground, Wardle Street, E9 6BX Free • 6.30pm Watch this very funny, thought provoking and award winning film, then discuss around the campfire in the heart of the East End! Booking required*.

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HARINGEY WALKING It’s a chance to spend time FOR HEALTH enjoying nature and a great Lordship Rec entrance, way to meet people. No Downhills Park Rd, booking required. N17 6NY Free • 9.20am Come and get active and see beautiful new parts of Haringey. A trained walk leader will guide you. Wear comfy shoes or trainers. No dogs. No booking required.

HARINGEY WALKING DROP IN ON NATURE FOR HEALTH Children’s Stonecroft Children’s Centre, Playground, Greenwich Park, 100 Priory Rd, N8 7RH SE10 8QY Free • 10.15am Free • 11am-2.30pm See previous listing above. Explore Greenwich Park and No booking required. discover what lives there by

pond dipping and meadow WHITEHALL GREEN GYM sweeping. Catch butterflies, Meet at: Whitehall crickets and spiders and Recreation Ground, learn how to identify them. Southlands Rd entrance, No booking required. Southlands Rd, Bromley, BR1 9QY Free • 10.45am-2pm After a good warm up, enjoy a proper physical workout.

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PEVENSEY ROAD learn why city greening GREEN GYM is important for wildlife Meet at Pevensey Road and us. Booking required: Local Nature Reserve main [email protected] entrance (on junction of or 020 7928 3998. Pevensey Rd and Rd, TW13 5HB) EC1 MEN’S SHED Free • 11am-2pm GARDENING GROUP Help maintain footpaths, King Square Gardens, woodlands, meadows and Lever Street, EC1V 3QU an orchard. It’ll be a good Free • 1-3pm physical workout, a chance Help spring clean the food to enjoy nature and a way growing area in King Square to meet people. Booking Gardens. Bring back herbs required: [email protected] and plants to grow at home. Plus tea and cake after. PAINT YOUR LONDON Booking required: email 127 Winchester Rd, [email protected] or Highams Park, E4 9LJ andrew.hillier@islington. Free • 11am-4pm gov.uk See previous listing on page 5. No booking required. STALKING THE HARDY ASH UP THE FLEET RIVER GREEN IN THE GREY Meet at Blackfriars - GREEN station, EC4V 4DD INFRASTRUCTURE WALK £15 Adults / £10 NUS • 6pm Bankside Community Space, Join photographer Peter 18 Great Guildford Street, Coles for a photography SE1 0FD walkshop up the Fleet, one Free • 12.30pm of London’s famous lost Discover the green in rivers. The walk ends in Bankside’s grey. Join Old St Pancras churchyard. two local ecologists for Booking required*. a lunchtime walk and

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HARINGEY WALKING HARINGEY WALKING FOR HEALTH FOR HEALTH Meet at Belmont Recreation Meet at Whymark Avenue, Ground (by Boundary Rd outside The Sandlings gate), N22 6AB Fitness Area, N22 6DJ Free • 9.15am Free • 10am See previous listing on page See previous listing on page 24. No booking required. 24. No booking required.

SPRING FAMILY DROP IN ON NATURE ACTIVITY DAY Bushy Park Pheasantry Triangle, Bollo Café, Hampton Court Rd, Lane, Gunnersbury, W4 5LW Hampton, TW12 2EJ Free • 10am-3pm Free • 11am-2.30pm Explore nature trails and Explore Bushy Park and discover a woodland discover what lives there by paradise. Listen for birds, river dipping and meadow spot signs of field voles and sweeping. Catch butterflies, enjoy family activities like crickets and spiders and mini-beast hunts and crafts. learn how to identify them. No booking required. No booking required.

PAINT YOUR LONDON 127 Winchester Rd, Highams Park, E4 9LJ Free • 11-4pm See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

26 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Tuesday 22 March

NETIL MARKET 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL WEDNESDAY Free • 11am-6pm 23 MARCH Come and visit Netil Market, HARINGEY WALKING a peaceful haven where FOR HEALTH you can relax outdoors, Meet at Café in Markfield with hammocks and space Park, N15 4RB for children to play. There’ll Free • 10am be pop up events and See previous listing on page creative demos, as well as 24. No booking required. Outdoor People (the UK’s only outdoors retailer where HARINGEY WALKING all profits go to help get FOR HEALTH children outside) are giving Meet at Café in Wolves a 10% discount for Find Your Lane Horticultural & Garden London festival shoppers. No Centre, Wolves Lane, booking required. N22 5JD

Free • 10am SHAKESPEARE’S See previous listing on page BANKSIDE WALK 24. No booking required. Meet at Tabard Street Piazza by St George the Martyr DISCOVER Church, SE1 1JA WALTHAMSTOW Free • 7pm (meet WETLANDS at 6.45pm) Meet at Forrest Rd entrance, Discover London’s oldest opposite Ferry Boat Pub, pleasure quarter with guide Ferry Lane, N17 9NG John Constable. Visit sites Free • 10am-12 noon of the great Southwark Join a London Wildlife Trust playhouses and learn about expert on this family spring modern film locations from walk around Walthamstow Doug Poll. No booking Wetlands. On this wildlife required.

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safari, you’ll discover spring HARINGEY WALKING flowers, birds and trees. FOR HEALTH Booking required*. Meet at café in Queenswood Surgery, Medical GREEN GYM AT Centre, 151 Park Rd, N8 8JD CASSIOBURY PARK Free • 11am Meet at community project See previous listing on page site in Cassiobury Park, 24. No booking required. Watford, WD18 7HY Free • 10am-1pm DISCOVER OAK Help maintain footpaths, HILL WOOD woodlands, meadows and an Meet at Mansfield Park orchard. It’s a great chance entrance to , to get a physical workout, Barnet, EN4 8JP spend time in nature and Free • 11am-3pm meet new people. Booking Join the London Wildlife required*. Trust to explore , play bug-bingo with our team and discover the creatures that live there. Bring your wellies. Booking required: klgogol@ wildlondon.org.uk & 020 7261 0447. GYM Meet at Kneller Gardens café, Twickenham, TW2 6PH Free • 10.45am-2pm You could be sowing seeds, pruning trees, making bug boxes or creating dead . Get a physical workout, enjoy nature and meet new people. Booking required: [email protected]

28 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Wednesday 23 March

IMPROVING STAVE REVEALING THE LOW HILL HABITATS LINE: BANKSIDE Stave Hill Ecology Meet at Cycle Hire docking Park, Timber Pond Rd, station behind Southwark Rotherhithe, SE16 6AX Tube, SE1 8JZ Free • 11am-4pm Free • 12.30pm Clear reeds to improve a Join us for a guided walk of pond for kingfishers, newts Bankside’s emerging Low and minnows. Then help Line. It connects London build bat boxes. It’s a great Bridge with Waterloo chance to learn about the via a new traffic-free park. No booking required. route along the viaduct. Booking required: vb@ betterbankside.co.uk

HARINGEY WALKING FOR HEALTH Meet at Hotspur Stadium, Bill Nicholson Way, N17 0AP Free • 2pm PAINT YOUR LONDON See previous listing on page 127 Winchester Rd, 24. No booking required. Highams Park, E4 9LJ Free • 11am-4pm HARINGEY WALKING See previous listing on page FOR HEALTH 5. No booking required. Meet at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Bill Nicholson Way, NETIL MARKET N17 0AP 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL Free • 6.15pm Free • 11am-6pm See previous listing on page See previous listing on page 24. No booking required. 27. No booking required.

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HARINGEY WALKING DROP IN ON NATURE FOR HEALTH Ready Money Drinking Meet at Somerset Gardens Fountain, The Broad Walk, GP Surgery, 4 Creighton Rd, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NR N17 8NW Free • 11am-2.30pm Free • 9.30am Catch butterflies, crickets See previous listing on page and spiders and learn how to 24. No booking required. identify them. Become a tree detective, go bird-watching HARINGEY WALKING and bring out the nature FOR HEALTH explorer in you. No booking Meet at Russell Park, required. Salvation Army, Lymington Avenue, N22 6JA PAINT YOUR LONDON Free • 11am 127 Winchester Rd, See previous listing on page Highams Park, E4 9LJ 24. No booking required. Free • 11am-4pm See previous listing on page FAMILY SPRING WALK IN 5. No booking required. WOOD Meet at Crescent Wood Rd NETIL MARKET entrance, SE26 6LS 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL Free • 11am-1pm Free • 11am-6pm Bring the family along for See previous listing on page a spring wildlife walk. A 27. No booking required. London Wildlife Trust expert will show you spring flowers, birds and trees along the way. Booking required: dgreenwood@wildlondon. org.uk

30 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Thursday 24 March

HARINGEY WALKING FOR HEALTH FRIDAY Meet at Westbury Medical 25 MARCH Centre, Westbury Avenue, N22 6RX EASTER GIANT Free • 11.15am DUCK HUNT See previous listing on page WWT London Wetland 24. No booking required. Centre, Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT • HARINGEY WALKING £1 with paid admission FOR HEALTH 9.30am-4.30pm Meet at reception in Follow a GIANT Easter duck Community trail to discover where the Centre, Adams Rd, N17 6HE ducklings are hiding. Join Free • 4pm an arts and crafts session to See previous listing on page make your own Easter gifts. 24. No booking required. No booking required.

DICKENS IN THE BOROUGH Meet at Tabard Street Piazza by St George the Martyr Church, SE1 1JA Free • 7pm (meet at 6.45pm) John Constable will guide you through Charles Dickens’ childhood. See places that later inspired scenes in his novels. Doug Poll will highlight modern film locations. No booking required.

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EASTER COLOURING FAMILY FILMS ON THE COMPETITION WOOLWICH BIG SCREEN: Design Museum, 28 Shad PADDINGTON Thames, SE1 2YD General Gordon Square, Free • 10am-5.45pm Woolwich, SE18 6HD Design Museum celebrates Free • 11am Easter with a series of family Come and enjoy the unique friendly events. Bring the experience of outdoor kids along for the all-day cinema in General Gordon Easter colouring competition. Square. Paddington will start They’ll really enjoy it! No at 11am. Wrap up warm and booking required. bring a blanket. No booking required. HARINGEY WALKING FOR HEALTH PAINT YOUR LONDON Meet at Stonebridge Lock 127 Winchester Rd, Café, , Highams Park, E4 9LJ Watermead Way, N17 0XD Free • 11am-4pm Free • 10.30am See previous listing on page See previous listing on page 5. No booking required. 24. No booking required. NETIL MARKET HARINGEY WALKING 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL FOR HEALTH Free • 11am-6pm Meet at reception of See previous listing on page Tottenham Green Leisure 27. No booking required. Centre, 1 Philip Lane, N15 4JA SATURDAY Free • 11am See previous listing on page 26 MARCH 24. No booking required. EASTER GIANT

DUCK HUNT WWT London Wetland Centre, Queen Elizabeth’s

32 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Saturday 26 March

Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT FAMILY FILMS ON THE £1 with paid admission • WOOLWICH BIG SCREEN: 9.30am-4.30pm WILLY WONKA AND THE See previous listing on page CHOCOLATE FACTORY 33. No booking required. General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6HD EASTER COLOURING Free • 11am COMPETITION Come and enjoy the unique Design Museum, 28 Shad experience of outdoor Thames, SE1 2YD cinema. Willy Wonka and the Free • 10am-5.45pm Chocolate Factory starts at See previous listing on page 11am. Wrap up warm and 31. No booking required. bring a blanket. No booking required. HARINGEY WALKING FOR HEALTH Meet at St Paul’s School, EASTER FUN DAY Park Lane, N17 0HH Beckenham Place Park, Free • 11am Beckenham Hill, BR3 5BP See previous listing on page Free • 11am-3pm 24. No booking required. Great outdoor activities include orienteering, an BOWL OF CHALK - FROM Easter egg hunt, den TRAFALGAR SQUARE TO building, woodland quiz and ST PAUL’S a landscape and wildlife Meeting point provided photography workshop. on booking Booking required - Pay what you want • photography workshop only: 10.30am alison.taylor@lewisham. See previous listing on page gov.uk & 0208 314 8758. 7. Booking required*.

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ROTHERHITHE WALK BIG STICK DAY Meet at Rotherhithe Station, Stave Hill Ecology Brunel Rd, SE16 4LF Park, Timber Pond Rd, Free • 12 noon (meet Rotherhithe, SE16 6AX at 11.45am) Free • 11am-4pm John Constable guides you Family activities include to St Mary’s Church, The den building, making a Brunel Engine House and woodland wizard wand the Dr Salter and family and creating a woodland statue. Doug Poll highlights sculpture. Discover ten modern film locations. No things to make/do with booking required. sticks, branches and logs.

No booking required. SPRING EXPLORATION DAY AT Woodberry Wetlands. Entrance by bridge next to 1 Newnton Close, N4 2RH Free • 12 noon-2pm Come and see this fantastic newCANCELLED nature reserve, home PAINT YOUR LONDON to lots of wildlife and historic 127 Winchester Rd, reservoir buildings. A chance Highams Park, E4 9LJ to breathe fresh air and Free • 11am-4pm relax. Booking required*. See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

NETIL MARKET 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL Free • 11am-6pm See previous listing on page 27. No booking required.

34 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Saturday 26 March

HAINAULT FOREST CITY IS MY FAMILY WOODLAND PLAYGROUND EASTER EGG HUNT . Country Meet outside Pontoon Park, Common Car Park, Dock DLR, E16 2HP Manor Rd, IG7 4QY Free • 4pm (meet at £2 per child (free to 3.45pm) accompanying parents Boost your fitness and and family) • 12 noon-3pm strengthen your core. Bring the family to this Learn how you can classic Easter egg hunt. use city furniture – Follow the monster trail, lampposts, doorways, find the clues and solve the posts and walls – in your puzzle to win your chocolate workouts. Suitable for all. prize. Booking required*. Booking required: hello@ cityismyplayground.com

BOWL OF CHALK - FROM ST PAUL’S TO THE MONUMENT Meeting point provided on booking Free • 2.30pm See previous listing on page 14. Booking required*.

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EASTER GIANT BOWL OF CHALK - WALK DUCK HUNT AROUND EAST LONDON WWT London Wetland Meeting point provided Centre, Queen Elizabeth’s on booking Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT Pay what you want • 10am £1 with paid admission • See previous listing on page 9.30am-4.30pm 17. Booking required*. See previous listing on page 31. No booking required. EASTER COLOURING COMPETITION WALK AND SWIM Design Museum, 28 Shad Meet at Stratford station Thames, SE1 2YD ticket office, E15 1AZ Free • 10am-5.45pm Free • 10am-1pm See previous listing on page Starting from Stratford 32. No booking required. station, walk through the beautiful Queen Elizabeth EASTER EGG HUNT Olympic Park. Finally, enjoy Design Museum, 28 Shad a dip in the London Aquatics Thames, SE1 2YD Centre, a 50-metre indoor Free with paid museum pool. Booking required*. entry • 10am-5.45pm Take the Easter Egg Hunt through the Cycle Revolution exhibition with an Easter surprise at the end. Booking required*.

36 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Sunday 27 March

FAMILY FILMS ON NETIL MARKET THE WOOLWICH BIG 13-23 Westgate, E8 3RL SCREEN: HOP Free • 11am-6pm General Gordon Square, See previous listing on page Woolwich, SE18 6HD 27. No booking required. Free • 11am Enjoy the unique experience of outdoor cinema in General Gordon Square. Hop starts 11am. Wrap up warm, bring a blanket and pack an Easter picnic. No booking required.

CITY IS MY PLAYGROUND Meet outside Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 3HB Free • 12 noon (meet at 11.45am) and 2pm (meet at 1.45pm) See previous listing on page

35. Booking required: hello@ PAINT YOUR LONDON cityismyplayground.com 127 Winchester Rd, Highams Park, E4 9LJ Free • 11am-4pm See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

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EASTER TRAIL HISTORICAL TOURS Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue, SW6 6EA Avenue, SW6 6EA £2 per child • 1-3.30pm £6 or £5 with this festival This Easter the museum and brochure. Associates and garden will be full of clues. accompanied children Find them to win a chocolate free • 2pm egg. Children must be See previous listing on page accompanied by an adult. 21. Tour starts from the No booking required. museum shop. No booking required. CREATE AND MAKE WORKSHOP Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD Free with paid museum entry • 1-4pm Screenprint your own design with print specialist Dan Mather. Sketch, collage and print your own poster designs. No booking required.

38 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon Monday 28 March MONDAY 28 MARCH

EASTER GIANT FAMILY FILMS ON THE DUCK HUNT WOOLWICH BIG SCREEN: WWT London Wetland THE RISE OF THE Centre, Queen Elizabeth’s GUARDIANS Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT General Gordon Square, £1 with paid admission • Woolwich, SE18 6HD 9.30am-4.30pm Free • 11am See previous listing on page Enjoy the unique experience 31. No booking required. of outdoor cinema in General Gordon Square. Inside Out EASTER COLOURING starts 11am. Wrap up warm, COMPETITION bring a blanket and pack a Design Museum, 28 Shad picnic. No booking required Thames, SE1 2YD Free • 10am-5.45pm PAINT YOUR LONDON See previous listing on page 127 Winchester Rd, 32. No booking required. Highams Park, E4 9LJ Free • 11am-4pm See previous listing on page 5. No booking required.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S ELEPHANT AND WALK Meet at corner of Walworth Rd and Larcom Street, SE17 1RW Free • 12 noon (meet at 11.45am) John Constable leads this walk around the back-streets

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where Charlie Chaplin was EASTER TRAIL born and raised in poverty. Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Plus discover modern film Avenue, SW6 6EA locations with Doug Poll. £2 per child • 1-3.30pm No booking required. See previous listing on page 38. No booking required.

CITY IS MY PLAYGROUND Meet at the front of Timber

Lodge Café,Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 1DY CRICKLEWOOD SPRING Free • 12 noon (meet at – TRADITIONAL BONNET 11.45am) and 2pm (meet at PARADE, EGG HUNT AND 1.45pm) EGGSTRA FUN ACTIVITIES See previous listing on page Millennium Green, 35. Booking required: hello@ Claremont Rd, NW2 1BP cityismyplayground.com Free • 1-4pm See previous listing on page 18. No booking required.

40 *Book & find out more at www.london.gov.uk/findyourlondon THANK YOU

Find Your London is presented by the Mayor of London in partnership with: active Newham • Anna B. Sexton • Art in the Park Bankside Open Spaces Trust • Barefoot Bowls • BeeUrban Better Bankside • Bowl of Chalk • Brent Terrace Residents Association • Cities at Dawn • City is My Playground Cranbrook Community Food Garden • Design Museum Eat Work Art • ecoACTIVE Education • Forest Gate Community Gardens • FSC London • Fulham Palace National Park City Initiative • Hackney Play Association • Hammersmith and Fulham Urban Studies Centre • Islington Play • Kenley Airfield Friends Group • Kingston Biodiversity Network • Lamlash Garden LB of Ealing • LB of Greenwich • LB of Haringey • LB of Islington • LB of Lewisham • LB of Merton • LB of Southwark London Wildlife Trust • Mitcham Community Orchard and Gardens • Mobile Gardeners CIC • Museum of Walking Outdoor People • Project Yogi • Roman Road Trust SCCoop • Sing London • STAMP (Shad Thames Area Management Partnership) • St Luke’s Community Centre The Conservation Volunteers • The Friends of Southwark Park • The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park The Harringay Community Group • The Woodland Trust Udenson Caldbeck Associates Limited • Urban Beings Limited • Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure • Wood Street Walls • WWT London Wetland Centre

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Activate and Inspire Cricklewood / page 5 / credit: Thomas Ball • Barefoot Bowls Highbury Fields Style / page 13 / credit: racooneventphotography • Blooming Maps / page 8 / credit: Charlotte Berridge.com • Bowl of Chalk / page 17 / credit: Bowl of Chalk Charlie Chaplin’s walk / page 40 / credit: Katy Nicholls • City is my Playground / page 35 / credit: City is my playground • Community Beekeeping / page 20 / credit: Bee Urban • Create and Make / page 38 / credit: Dan Mather • Discover Crossbones / page 4 / credit: BOST Discover Oak Hill Wood / page 28 / credit: London Wildlife Trust Drop in on nature / page 24 / credit: Greywolf©The Royal Parks Easter Trail / page 40 / credit: Matthew Bruce • Family Films on the Woolwich Big Screen / page 37 / credit: Royal Borough of Greenwich Family Frog Day at / page 23 / credit: London Wildlife Trust • Hainault Forest Family Woodland Easter Egg Hunt / page 35 / credit: Tony Chadwick, The Woodland Trust • Historical Tours / page 38 / credit: Fulham Palace Trust • Kenley RAF Heritage Festival / page 11 / credit: Kenley Airfield Friends Group • London at Dawn Photography workshop / page 7 and 15 / credit: Anthony Epes Netil Market / page 30 and 37 / credit: EatWorkArt • Paint your London / page 5 / credit: Penny Dampier • Pedal-powered mini-cinema / page 11 / credit: Electric Pedals • Playful Hackney Discovering Hidden Play Spaces of Hackney / page 3 / credit: Hackney Play Association Seedbomb Making Masterclass / page 6 / credit: Bankside Urban Forest • Spring Celebration, Exploring the Garden / page 7 / credit: Lloyd Jeans Forest Gate Community Garden • Spring Exploration Day at Woodberry Wetlands / page 34 / credit: London Wildlife Trust Spring Family Activity Day at / page 26 / credit: London Wildlife Trust • Streatham Common Woodland Activity Day / page 16 / credit: Sccoop • Urban Fox Walk / page 6 / credit: Jonn Leffmann • Walk and Swim / page 36 / credit: Urban Beings • Wild Play Day / page 20 / credit: The Friends of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park 42 WHAT’S NEXT?

If you enjoyed the Find Your London Festival here are some other great free events coming up later this year! MONTH EVENT LOCATION April 2016 Sat 9 April Vaisakhi Festival City Hall & More London Sat 23 April Feast of St George Trafalgar Square May 2016 Wed 18 May Royal Opera House Trafalgar Square BP Big Screens Sun 22 May London Symphony Trafalgar Square Orchestra June 2016 Thurs 9 June Royal Opera House Trafalgar Square BP Big Screens Sat 18 & West End Live Trafalgar Square Sun 19 June Sat 25 June Pride in London Trafalgar Square July 2016 Sat 2 July Big Dance Trafalgar Square Sat 9 July Eid Festival Trafalgar Square Thurs 14 July Royal Opera House Trafalgar Square BP Big Screens August 2016 Sun 28 & Notting Hill Carnival Notting Hill Mon 29 Aug September 2016 Sat 3 Sept Liberty + National Queen Elizabeth Paralympic Day Olympic Park October 2016 Sat 15 Oct Africa on the Square Trafalgar Square Sun 16 Oct Diwali Festival Trafalgar Square london.gov.uk/findyourlondon

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