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Editor’s letter Marylebone Journal Web: marylebonejournal.com GOLDEN AGE Twitter: @MaryleboneJrnl MARK RIDDAWAY Instagram: marylebonejrnl Facebook: Marylebone Journal Editor There can be few things more enjoyable than Mark Riddaway [email protected] gathering with friends of your own age to watch Deputy editors Viel Richardson an old film on the big screen, particularly in a [email protected] Clare Finney setting as beautiful as the Regent Street Cinema. 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FESTIVAL de Walden Estate, and incorporating a weekend Sunday 16th June of fun and activities, the Marylebone Sunday event will be raising money Street Party and awareness for the Sunday’s colourful Greenhouse Sports charity. community event runs from 11am to 5:30pm offering Saturday 15th June the familiar medley of street Marylebone Summer food, live music, fairground Film Night stalls and dancing in the Set in the atmospheric streets. The high street surroundings of and its surrounding streets Paddington Street will be pedestrianised to mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 4 24/05/2019 08:19 05. Up front accommodate a vast array of activities. The main EVENT EXHIBITION EXHIBITION music stage and festival bar 19th JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE are located in Paddington PORTMAN ANISH KAPOOR CHRIS SIMPSON: Street Gardens and will SQUARE CARNETS DE remain open until 8pm. 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