Events listings
Events for 01 May 2012 - 31 May 2012
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Charles Dickens and Greenwich
Date: 13 April 2012 - 15 July 2012
Every day
Location: Greenwich Heritage Centre, Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, SE18 4DX
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Cost: Free
Exhibition celebrating the life and work of Charles Dickens in the local area.
Charles Dickens was a frequent visitor to Greenwich and wrote about it in several of his books. Find out more with this exhibition on Never-to-be-forgotten Greenwich.
Further information
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday.
Please use postcode SE18 6ST for sat.nav and mapping.
Blackheath Halls art exhibition
Date: 03 May 2012 - 31 May 2012
Every day
Location: Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost: Free
Blackheath Art Society presents a spring exhibition as part of its art festival.
During Blackheath Art Society's spring art festival, works will be shown daily at Blackheath Halls.
Blackheath Halls can be contacted on 020 8318 9758.
Further details of all events are available on the Blackheath Art Society website
You can also contact the society on 020 8853 2269 for more information.
Music Tech Fest
Date: 17 May 2012 - 19 May 2012
Every day
Location: Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0EW
Cost: Free
Three-day music technology festival organised by Ravensbourne.
Ravensbourne has organised the first-ever Music Tech Fest, which aims to pull the entire music technology world under one roof – from the music industry and media, music tech startups and app creators, to developers, researchers, artists, performers, creatives and hackers.
Some big music industry brands and personalities have confirmed participation, together with creative agencies. The event will be run as a ‘festival of ideas’ rather than a conference, with synaesthesia workshops about music discovery and ‘seeing music’, mixing performances and presentations, demos, installations, as well as good old tinkering.
There will also be a 3-D Music Hack Camp and a musically-hacked light sabre party on the final night.
Find out more and register for free tickets on the Music Tech Fest website
The Big Dance in Greenwich
Date: 18 May 2012
Location: General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Cost: Free
Local schoolchildren are hoping to break a world record with the Big Dance 2012.
A world record attempt by local schoolchildren to have the most dance events taking place at the same time across the country will be held on Friday 18 May.
Residents are invited to come along and support the group as they perform in General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Yeomen of the Guard
Date: 24 May 2012
Location: Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road, Eltham SE9 5TG
Time: 7:30pm - 10:15pm
Cost: £10 Saturday matinee (2.30pm), £12 evening performances
Operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan set in the Tower of London.
The scene is the Tower of London. Falsely accused of sorcery by a kinsman who will inherit his estate should he die unmarried, the condemned Colonel Fairfax determines to thwart him. Fairfax asks his old friend Sergeant Meryll to arrange a marriage with anyone - "the meanest, and the worst favoured is good enough".
Enter Elsie Maynard and Jack Point, two strolling players sorely in need of money, and the offer of 100 crowns soon persuades them to let Elsie be blindfolded and marry a man who is to die that very day. So it is arranged....
Written by Gilbert and Sullivan, this operetta is considered one of their best.