Horniman Museum and Gardens - What's on in July

Family Day Rave with Big Fish Little Fish Sunday 28 July, 2 – 6pm Dance outside with your family to the greatest rave music surrounded by flowers, bubbles and balloons in the Horniman Gardens. On the decks will be DJs Alex Paterson (The Orb), Aphrodite and Baker and Beale with the best in acid house, techno, drum ‘n’ bass and more. There will also be activities galore with Captain Cookie Crafts, storytelling, facepainting, a photobooth, food and bars. Tickets: Adult £15, Child £12.50, pre-walking infant free. Find out more and book online  South London Music Sessions Thursdays 4 July – 8 August from 5.30pm Enjoy live music and DJs at weekly gigs on the Bandstand. Throughout July, Peckham-based radio station Balamii will present some of South London’s best young live talents including Emma-Jean Thackray, Lucy Lu and George Riley. Light snacks and drinks will be available from the Horniman Café’s Dutch Barn bar. Free Find out more Summer Holidays 24 July – 30 August Enjoy a great day out at the Horniman this summer with activities for all the family. Explore our Gardens with mini-beast hunts, pond-dipping and bat walks, discover our collections by touching real museum objects, and create your own art and crafts. Every Wednesday you can take part in activities include storytelling, wildlife exploration and rock painting. And don't forget to visit our Brick Wonders exhibition and challenge your friends and family to a round of Plonk crazy golf! Find out more A Future Framework for the Horniman For the past six months we have been developing a vision for the future of the Museum and Gardens. Our entire estate has been reviewed and opportunities identified to improve the visitor experience for new and existing audiences, create new indoor and outdoor experiences and positively engage with the natural world. A framework plan for the next ten years has now been developed and we would love to hear your ideas at this initial stage. Until 22 July you can visit the display inside the Museum and leave your comments, or find out more on our website. My Model City 6 July – 1 September 2019 Explore how cities could better serve their communities through this new installation created by young people at Peckham Platform and the Horniman Youth Panel. View animations of future city life as envisaged by today’s young people, and share your own thoughts on urban design. In collaboration with muf architecture/art. Free Find out more Kids Sleepover Saturday 17 August – Sunday 18 August 7pm – 10am See the Horniman like never before with an unforgettable night at the Museum! Roll out your sleeping bag near the Walrus and enjoy a night of fun activities and exciting exploration. Tickets: Adult £50, Child £50. Limited spaces. Find out more and book online Survey: Your opinions about Horniman Online We are developing a new website and we'd love to know how you use our current site and social media channels. If you have a few minutes to complete our survey about the Horniman Online, your feedback would be greatly appreciated. The survey is open until 28 July. Complete the survey

V&A Museum of Childhood - What's On

V&A Museum of Childhood

Until Spring 2020 Earlier this year we announced our ambitious transformation plans. Now it's time for you to release your inner designer and help us create the world’s most joyful museum! We have turned our exhibition space into an Open Studio. Pop by to try things out, give feedback, play, design and make. FIND OUT MORE

Happy birthday to us! Back in 1872 we opened our doors as the Bethnal Green Museum. We exhibited food and animal products, but lots has changed since then... Explore our journey ► Festival of Play 20 – 21 July Take part in hands-on, outdoor and digital games, learn what children used to play 50 years ago and contribute to an ever-growing archive of fun. Free, drop-in Find out more ► Need a break? Pop in any day of the week for lunch, brunch, tea or cake! We serve delicious food and drinks including kids lunch boxes and fruit pouches. Read more ► I Scream, You Scream… Serve up everyone's favourite summer treat with a super-sustainable ice cream set made from biodegradable bamboo fibre. Shop now ► You’re a Wizard, Harry! Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published 22 years ago. Read about the great influence astory about magic and friendship  had on creativity and design. Read more ► V&A SOUTH KENSINGTON The Great Exhibition Road Festival  28 – 30 June Celebrate art and science with workshops, talks and performances in the spirit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s vision for the Great Exhibition. Read more ►

Summer Art Camp 31 July – 1 August This summer play and create with hands-on activities that will spark your imagination. BOOK NOW

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The Cinema Museum - Kennington Talkies, Argentinian Film Season, Kennington Vintage

Pillow Talk (1959) July 3rd La Historia Oficial (1985) July 5th Star of Midnight (1935) July 7th Kennington Talkies presents; Pillow Talk (1959), Wednesday July 3rd @ 7:30pm Kennington Talkies concludes the season of Doris Day films with Pillow Talk (1959), a screwball comedy directed by Michael Gordon, and co-starring Rock Hudson. Doris Day plays Jan Morrow, a single woman and independent interior decorator. Due to the demand for phone lines in the area, she is forced to share a party line with Brad Allen, womaniser and all round pig, who lives in an apartment nearby. The two spar on the phone, but it is only some time later that Brad learns who Jan is, and masquerades as a handsome Texan rancher – except to toy with Jan, this smooth talking Southerner is… just a touch too fruity to be true. Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Buy Now Argentinian Film Season presents; La Historia Oficial (1985), Friday July 5th @ 7:30pm Luis Puenzo’s La historia oficial (The Official Story) (1985), the second in this monthly season of Argentinian films especially selected for the Cinema Museum by Adam Feinstein – who is writing a book on the country’s cinema – won Latin America’s first-ever Oscar for foreign-language film, and it is easy to see why. The central theme of this potent and poignant movie is Argentinian society’s guilt over its complicity, during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, with the military’s so-called ‘dirty war’ against subversion. As many as 30,000 people were kidnapped and subsequently disappeared by the Army. The main action of La historia official centres on the gradual discovery by Alicia, a history teacher magnificently interpreted by Norma Aleandro, that the daughter her high-ranking businessman husband, Roberto (in an equally superb performance by Hector Alterio) had given her is actually the child abducted from her parents (two subversives killed during their imprisonment by the military regime. Find out more here. Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concession) and may be purchased from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours.  If you would prefer to pay on the door, the price will be £10 (£7 concession). Kennington Vintage presents; Star of Midnight (1935), Saturday July 7th @ 2:30pm In the stylish tradition of The Thin Man series we recently screened, Kennington Vintage presents Star of Midnight (1935), directed by Stephen Roberts and again starring William Powell, along with Ginger Rogers. William Powell plays a dapper lawyer aided by classy, sassy marriage-minded Ginger Rogers. Suspected of a murder, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises and mis-directions without disarranging his dinner jacket! Advance tickets are £6 - click below to purchase from Billetto, or call 020 7840 2200 to purchase direct from the Museum during office hours. Buy Now