Happiness Workshop – What Does Happiness Mean to You?

Old Diorama Arts Centre 201 Drummond St,, London

Have you got 1 hour to think about how happy you are and what could make you more happy? We are delighted to invite you to a free happiness workshop on Thursday 12 July 9:30am-10:30am at Old Diorama Arts Centre in Euston (nearest station: Warren Street).

Free, Booking Required

Community Champions: Environment

The Skip Garden Tapper Walk, London, United Kingdom

The Community Champions project is a series of events designed to bring Knowledge Quarter (KQ) partners together with local charities and community groups, in order to encourage KQ partners to develop collaborative projects around the themes of youth, employability, environment, wellbeing and nexus. This particular event will cover the built environment, accommodation, internal and external play spaces, parks and nature.

Free, Booking Required

Echoes of Holloway Prison at the Islington Museum

Islington Museum 245 St John Street, London, England

Holloway Prison has been an important landmark in Islington for over 150 years. Thousands of women passed through its doors until it closed in 2016. This exhibition explores their stories.

Free

Women and Children Firsts – Guided Walk

Russel Square Station Bloomsbury, London

 In Victorian Britain, a women's place was considered to be in the home and children were treated as "expendable". On this walk through some of Bloomsbury's Squares, we hear about the first hospital specifically for children; a hospital founded thanks to the efforts of two sisters seeking care for their grandmother who had suffered a stroke and meet some the women pioneers of medicine and science.

Free, Booking Required

Tête à Tête – The Opera Festival 2018

Varies

Each year Tête à Tête now takes over Riverside Studios for three weeks in August with a mix of musicians, singers, performers and dancers who are given free rein to present their work, some of which is still in progress. The categories include dance, mime and media technologies

Varies

How to Draw Anything Workshop – Scriberia and The Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert St, London, Camden

Remember how you used to draw with confidence and joy as a child? What happened? Why did you stop? This workshop will help you rediscover that natural instinct for expressing yourself through drawing, and along the way you will see how drawing can give clarity to your thoughts, trigger memories, invigorate passions and solve problems.

£8.50 – £10

Company Wayne McGregor – Autobiography

Sadler's Wells Rosebery Avenue London, London

In this striking exploration of memory, choreographer and director Wayne McGregor’s trademark sleek, athletic style combines with live accompaniment from electronic music innovator Jlin. Knowledge Quarter Special Offer: Get £26 tickets for £15!

£15

The Foundling Museum presents Lily Cole: Balls

The Founding Museum 40 Brunswick Square, London, United Kingdom

The Foundling Museum presents Balls, a new film by Foundling Fellow Lily Cole exploring connections between the Foundling Hospital story and Emily Brontë’s much-loved novel Wuthering Heights. 

£8.25 – £11

Carmen La Cuban – Exclusive Offer

Sadler's Wells Rosebery Avenue London, London

EXCLUSIVE OFFER: £58 seats for £20* The seductive new musical, Carmen La Cubana, explodes onto the Sadler’s Wells stage this summer in a cocktail of Cuban flavour.

£20

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