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Augmented Chinatown 2.0 - Lidia Crisafulli

Augmented reality, immersive dining and circus at CAN Festival

A festival featuring augmented reality, immersive dining, ballet, waacking, comedy and clowning is heading to London this month…

Mushrooms exhibition at Somerset House

The art and future of fungi explored in mushroom exhibition

Over the next few months, Somerset House in London will be inviting visitors to explore the fascinating world of mushrooms…

Pip & Nut Peanut Butter

An alternative guide to Valentine’s Day

Contrary Life is back again with An Alternative Guide to Valentine’s Day, and we’ve dug out some great quirky events taking place in the UK this year…

Tarot (Credit Sofi Lee-Henson)

Tarot and circus meet in unusual show at VAULT

Live Tarot reading meets contemporary circus as The Feathers of Daedalus come to VAULT Festival with a reworking of their Edinburgh Fringe hit, Tarot…

BODY WORLDS London - The Ponderer - Credit Jeff Moore

Attend the Detox Grotto at London’s BODY WORLDS

This month, visit a Detox Grotto in London and learn all about the liver with games, music and plant-based drinks to help you along…

Hull Adelphi Lamacq Life Bus Bar (Photographer credit Ian Rook)

Celebrate your local live music venue

Returning for the seventh consecutive year, Independent Venue Week is a seven day celebration of independent music venues around the UK…

Battle of Nantwich - Holly Holy Day - Sealed Knot

Bloody battles and loud bangs in Cheshire

For more than 40 years, the troops of The Sealed Knot have gathered in the historic town of Nantwich, Cheshire, to re-enact a bloody battle that took place in 1643…

Otter © Jackie Morris

Connect with nature at Lost Words Festival

A festival dedicated to a book that has become a global movement, celebrating language and nature, will open at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre…

Tria Fata 1 © Tomas Vimmr

A festival of mime in London

This month, London’s festival of contemporary visual theatre will return with a line-up of original, breath-taking, wacky and unusual productions…

Haxey Hood 2018 - Lincolnshire

A quirky 700 year old Twelfth Night tradition in Lincolnshire

Twelfth Night is celebrated around the country with lots of fun events taking place, but a village in Lincolnshire will be holding an event which is altogether different…

Bolney Apple Howling 2017 - Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men

Go Apple Howling in Sussex

Young and old will gather in Sussex this weekend, to make a hullabaloo as a special traditional ceremony, known as Apple Howling, takes place…

The Lost Thing, Royal Opera House, London

An enchanting tale of a Lost Thing

The discovery of something mysterious and out of place is the starting point for a new family show, The Lost Thing, at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre…

Winter Watch Parade - Chester City Centre

Join devils and dragons at the Winter Watch Parade

Join a host of characters including the Lord of Misrule, devils, dragons, Romans, and a group of giant skeletons for the Winter Watch Parade…

A Christmas Carol tour 2019

Step into Dickens’ study for A Christmas Carol

This festive season, audiences can experience A Christmas Carol as Dickens himself performed it more than 150 years ago. ..

Escape to Planet Trash, Pleasance Theatre

Camp adventures in Escape from Planet Trash

Drag queens are going to space in a camp sci-fi b-movie adventure at the Pleasance in London…

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Curiosity of the Week

Normanton Church, a waterside wonder
Normanton Church by Karen Cann

Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…

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Drama from a toilet cubicle
Overflow, Bush Theatre steaming show

This month, UK audiences can enjoy a streamed performance of Overflow, a heart-wrenching show played out in a club toilet…

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