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London / Tours
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Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
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1st August 2010 and 28th September 2010
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Buckingham Palace, Buckingham Palace Road, SW1A1AA
7 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
For two months in the summer, throughout August and September, visitors have the chance to look round Buckingham Palace and...
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London / Exhibitions
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Henry Moore
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24th February 2010 and 8th August 2010
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Tate Britain, Millbank, Westminster,
London, SW1P4RG
15 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Tate Britain stages a major exhibition dedicated to the great artist Henry Moore, bringing together over 150 works by the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Chris Ofili
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27th January 2010 and 16th May 2010
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Tate Britain, Millbank, Westminster,
London, SW1P4RG
15 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Best known for his use of elephant dung in his works, Chris Ofili is an artist who has been well...
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London / Exhibitions
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Turner Prize 2010
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5th October 2010 and 2nd January 2011
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Tate Britain, Millbank, Westminster,
London, SW1P4RG
15 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Set up in 1984, the Tate's Turner Prize has been courting controversy ever since. The most notorious prize in the...
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London / Exhibitions
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Eadweard Muybridge
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8th September 2010 and 16th January 2011
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Tate Britain, Millbank, Westminster,
London, SW1P4RG
15 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, best known for his portrayal of subjects in motion, is the focus of a...
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London / Exhibitions
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Trooping the Colour
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12th June 2010
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Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, Westminster,
London, SW1A2AX
16 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
To mark the second of the Queen's two birthdays (this is the official one, her actual birthday is on 21st...
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London / Shopping
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Pimlico Road Farmers' Market
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Every Saturday
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Pimlico Road Farmers' Market, Orange Square, Belgravia,
London, SW1W8LP
19 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
On an average Saturday you'll find a small gathering of around 25 stalls in this pedestrianised space. There's an intimate,...
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London / Theatre
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Waiting For Godot
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21st January 2010 and 3rd April 2010
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Haymarket Theatre Royal, Haymarket, SW1Y4HT
19 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Waiting for Godot returns to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for 11 weeks from 21st January following its hugely successful run...
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London / Exhibitions
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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14th June 2010 and 22nd August 2010
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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Mayfair,
London, W1J0BD
19 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Anyone can submit to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition which gives it a wonderful element of surprise. Around 12,000 pieces...
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London / Exhibitions
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Pride London
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3rd July 2010
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Trafalgar Square, Central London, Westminster,
London, WC2N5DS
19 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
For the past few years London's Pride Parade has been growing in scale and ambition. Now they've got something even...
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London / Exhibitions
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London Design Festival, The
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18th September 2010 and 26th September 2010
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Trafalgar Square, Central London, Westminster,
London, WC2N5DS
19 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The London Design Festival is an ambitious project. Hundreds of events, locations, shops, universities and design agencies are involved in...
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London / Theatre
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Misanthrope, The
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5th December 2009 and 13th March 2010
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Comedy Theatre, 6 Panton Street, Soho,
London, SW1Y4DN
20 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
In what is arguably "one of the most eagerly awaited West End openings of the year" (The Telegraph), Damian Lewis...
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London / Theatre
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39 Steps, The
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14th September 2006 and 23rd October 2010
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Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, St James's,
London, SW1Y4XA
20 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Hitchcock's 1935 movie is a masterpiece of sustained adventure, as the hero - framed for murder - becomes both pursuer...
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London / Seasonal
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New Year's Eve Fireworks
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31st December 2010
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London Eye, Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, SE17PB
20 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The annual New Year's Eve Fireworks display, launched from the foot of the London Eye and from rafts on the...
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London / Theatre
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Posh
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9th April 2010 and 22nd May 2010
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Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, Belgravia,
London, SW1W8AS
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
It was Groucho Marx who wisely said "I would not join any club that would have someone like me for...
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London / Exhibitions
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Irving Penn Portraits
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18th February 2010 and 6th June 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Irving Penn, "one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous" (The New York...
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London / Exhibitions
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BP Portrait Award
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24th June 2010 and 19th September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The £25,000 BP Portrait Award is, for many young artists, a ticket to making it in the art world. The...
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London / Exhibitions
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Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals
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13th October 2010 and 16th January 2011
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National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Westminster,
London, WC2N5DN
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Canaletto, the Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice, is the star of the National Gallery's display...
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London / Exhibitions
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Alex Katz Paints Anna Wintour
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15th May 2010 and 21st September 2010
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National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, Westminster,
London, WC2H0HE
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
She's America's most influential fashion editor, dubbed 'Nuclear Wintour' for her cool manner - said to have inspired the Meryl...
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London / Concerts
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Lightning Seeds, The
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23rd April 2010
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Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia,
London, SW1X9DQ
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Ian Broudie's Lightning Seeds perform at Cadogan Hall for the only London date on their small low-key UK Easter Tour....
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London / Comedy
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Hans Liberg
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10th April 2010 and 11th April 2010
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Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, Belgravia,
London, SW1X9DQ
21 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The most hilarious musical comedian you've never heard of, Hans Liberg brings his astonishing show to Cadogan Hall for the...
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London / Comedy
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Lewis Schaffer is Free Until Famous
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10th February 2010 and 30th June 2010
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The Source Below, 78 Brewer Street, Soho,
London, W1F9TY
22 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
The provocative US comic Lewis Schaffer continues his run of free shows at Soho's elusive Source Below bar. A seasoned...
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London / Theatre
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Little Dog Laughed, The
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9th January 2010 and 10th April 2010
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Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, Soho,
London, WC2H0HH
22 minutes walk from Westminster City Hall
Douglas Carter Beane's Tony award-nominated satire on showbusiness set in New York, The Little Dog Laughed, comes to the Garrick...
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