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World Egg Throwing Championship 2016

The World Egg Throwing Championships are no yolk

Are you a tosser? If so, you may want to head to Lincolnshire this weekend as the 15th World Egg Throwing Championships takes place…

Contrary Life - World Worm Charming Championship

Worm Charming teams go to ground

An unusual sporting event is about to take place in Cheshire. It involves worms and a whole heap of sporting tactics…

East London Shakespeare Festival - Twelfth Night

A rip-roaring take on Twelfth Night tours outdoors in London

This summer, the East London Shakespeare Festival (ELSF) are welcoming you to 1980s Illyria as they bring their rip-roaring take on Twelfth Night to outdoor spaces…

Festival of Thrift 2021

A gyroscopic flying machine and walkabout puppet theatre at Festival of Thrift

This weekend, celebrate sustainability and culture at the Festival of Thrift in North Yorkshire with shows, workshops and quirky performances…

Our Teacher's a Troll (Photo: Hannah Brandon, Marble and Sky Photography)

Watch Our Teacher’s a Troll in the grounds of a ruined abbey

This summer, Our Teacher’s a Troll will transform the picturesque ruins of Lesnes Abbey into an open-air theatre…

The Fellowship Square fountain (Image: London borough of Waltham Forest/Churchman Thornhill Finch)

Summer season of performance, art and food opens in Waltham Forest

This summer, Waltham Forest’s Fellowship Square will fill with light, colour and laughter this summer…

Dodge summer at Somerset House in London

Somerset House invites you to drink, dine and play on dodgems

This summer, take a ride on a dodgem with a difference as London’s Somerset House launches a new open-air experience…

Hotel Paradiso, courtesy of The Other Richard

Outdoor circus season tumbles into Norwich for the summer

NTERLUDE in the CLOSE will bring a season of outdoor events to Norwich. Get ready for comedy, cabaret and circus…

Little LTF at St Luke's

A festival of new theatre in Liverpool

This month, the iconic St Luke’s Bombed Out Church in Liverpool will host a week-long festival of new theatre work with magical stories and dark comedy…

Summer of Sound (landscape) © RBG Kew, Wakehurst

Enjoy a summer of sound at Wakehurst

This summer, the wild botanic garden of Wakehurst will be brought to life by a symphony of sounds, thanks to six large-scale and playful installations…

Hero and Leander second image credit Chelsey Cliff

Outdoor theatre gig show tours with its own bandstand

Hero & Leander — Or, I Love You, But Everything’s Under Water — is a classic Greek myth that will be retold this summer as an outdoor theatre gig show…

IF MK 2021 Requardt & Rosenberg's Future Cargo photo Camilla Greenwell

Robotic birds, sci-fi dance and a slapstick picnic at Milton Keynes festival

This July, IF: Milton Keynes International Festival 2021 will return to the city centre and its green spaces for 21 days of eclectic entertainment…

Also Festival 2021 in Warwickshire

A summer festival of new ideas and relaxation

If you’re keen to get back out to a festival this summer, after a difficult year, then ALSO 2021 may be just what you’re looking for…

David Anstiss / Earth in the Otford Solar System Model

Take an interplanetary walk in Otford

Apart from being a lovely village with a duck pond, Otford in Kent has a bit of an unusual feature. It has an intriguing model of the Solar System…

Baby Driver 2017 Edgar Wright

Watch Baby Driver at a Drive-In

This month, make going for a drive a bit more thrilling with a trip to one of the AA’s drive-in cinema events in Yorkshire and Oxfordshire…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

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Make some noise for Whitby’s Krampus Run
Whitby Krampus Run 2018 - photo by Cassandra Sutton

As Father Christmas makes his annual visit to towns across the UK this weekend, there’s another, much darker character making his way to Whitby in North Yorkshire…

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