Culture - events
- St George's Day - the Mayor supports events
to celebrate St George’s Day in Trafalgar Square and at Shakespeare’s
Globe, the Cenotaph and Covent Garden
- Big Dance - a week long celebration
of dance with a huge variety of dance activities and initiatives
- first held in 2006 and coming back again in July 2008
- Open Rehearsal - sample London’s
finest music, theatre, dance and opera, free of charge, through access
to rehearsals and behind the scenes activity
- London Freewheel - Organised by the
Mayor of London, the first London Freewheel will took place on
Sunday 23 September 2007
- Abolition of slavery bicentenary year
2007 - a number of events and activities were held to commemorate
the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery
- Tour of Britain - the opening
prologue time trial of the 2007 Tour of Britain took place at Crystal
Palace on 9 September
- Tour de France 2007 - the Tour
de France, started in London in 2007, for the first time in the 100 year
history of the race
- Simcha on the Square - an event at Trafalgar
Square to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's invitation to
Jews to return to Britain
- Carnaval Del Pueblo - Europe's
largest celebration of Latin American culture, held in Burgess Park
in August
- City Showcase - gives emerging
musicians and fashion hopefuls a platform to perform and
show their designs at a variety of venues across
the capital
- Festival of Youth Arts - the Mayor
supports this week-long festival showcasing the creative work of young
people
- London Athletics Grand
Prix - biggest meeting in the UK athletics calendar, the Norwich
Union London Grand Prix
- London Youth Games - children
from across London competed in over 25 different sports
- GLA Calendar of events - find out
what's on in London and at City Hall
Festivals
- Chinese New Year - London's
celebration of Chinese New Year
- St Patrick's Day -
London's annual parade and festival involving community groups, marching
bands, schools, sports groups and others
- Vaisakhi - the holiest day of the calendar for over 20 million Sikhs worldwide
- Africa Day - A free festival of
African arts, heritage, culture, music, crafts, tourism, dance, and
cuisine.
- Rise festival - Rise
(previously respect) is London's top free music and dance event, celebrating
the capital's diversity and promoting anti-racism in a day-long festival
- Trafalgar Square Festival:
three weeks of spectacular outdoor performances and events in August
- London Mela - a free
festival offering a colourful celebration of Asian culture and creativity
- Capital Age Festival - organised
by the London Older People’s Strategies Group, this is a free festival of arts and culture
for older people, their families and friends
- Thames Festival - annual major free
public event that brings Londoners together in celebration of our city's
greatest natural asset, the Thames
- Black History Month - a month-long
celebration of the contribution made by black men and women to our
heritage, held every October
- Diwali on the Square - Diwali Festival has
religious significance for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and is celebrated by many communities
throughout the capital
- Eid on the Square - a celebration
in Trafalgar Square of Eid ul-fitr which marks the end of Ramadan,
the month of fasting observed by millions of Muslims across the world,
including London
- Hanukkah (or Chanukah) - Jewish festival
of lights, celebrated by Jewish communities over the world and marked by
the lighting of the Menorah (candelabrum) as a symbol of religious freedom
- including an annual ceremony at City Hall
- Russian Winter Festival -
a celebration of Russia’s ‘Old New Year’, aiming
to underpin relations between Britain and Russia, and increase people's
awareness of this vast and diverse country, its history and culture
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