2020-10-27 LondonFreetime.com - London's largest event promoter

Timeline Photos Us and our housemates trying the *one* game we haven't played yet...⁠
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Maybe we should just risk it and start a game of monopoly? Anyone else a competitive board game player?
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My husband and I are so competitive that we’ve had to ban board games to save our marriage. But we ...

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Timeline Photos Olive Morris was a community activist in South London, who championed the rights of Black women. This included co-founding the Brixton Black Women’s Group in 1974, which was one of Britain's first networks for Black women, and co-founding the Organisation ... 6 Likes

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Timeline Photos Theatre company Clean Break's first show Efemera was devised by 20 women in HMP Askham Grange, and performed to audiences at York Arts Centre in 1979. This was the first time serving prisoners were allowed to perform to a public ...

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Timeline Photos Can anyone spot which area in London this photo was taken?⁠
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We'll be exploring the history of Edwardian London in our one-day workshop on Sat 21 Nov. You'll learn about everything from suffragettes to entrepreneurs to anarchists, looking at ... 2 Comments

Green Park, Piccadilly?I've seen a similar painting... Is it Alexandra Park?

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Timeline Photos With our lunchtime concerts back, we've been thinking a lot about the power of performance. What was the first song you heard that made you really love music? Or perhaps it was a concert you saw that then got you ... 2 Comments

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale. First song i can remember being played at family event that stuck ...It's a song that's hard to forget.

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Timeline Photos We've been exploring the East End as part of our recent online history course, and it's made us fall in love with this area of London all over again.⁠
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What's your favourite part of the East End? Is it ... 1 Comments

Green Dragon Yard - home, I believe, to an illegal spieler in the 60s.

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Lunchtime Concert: Bird Radio Bishopsgate Institute welcomes you to our free lunchtime concert series, live from our Great Hall.
Sit back and enjoy the performance from flautist Bird Radio, who is presenting a part-improvised piece that draws inspiration from the life of East End ... 1 Comments

Molto Bello!

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Bishopsgate Institute It’s not long until Bird Radio will be joining us for today's lunchtime concert...
You can watch his part-improvised/ part-composed piece of solo flute by tuning into our Live below:
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Mental health and wellbeing will be an increasing priority in the years to come. With the limitations imposed by COVID-19, www.creativity4wellbeing.com can give people some great ideas to get started with their own creative/art ideas. The biggest hurdle for many ...

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Timeline Photos We're excited to be offering our Researchers' Service five days a week from November.
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We'll be open 10:00 – 16:00, Monday – Friday. We're still operating by appointment-only and you can book your place by emailing our Library team ... 14 Likes

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Timeline Photos The fascist political party the National Front were founded in 1967, and reached the height of its support in the mid-1970s, when it became the UK's fourth-largest party in terms of vote share.⁠
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There had been a fascist revival ... 7 Likes

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Bishopsgate Institute welcomes you to our free lunchtime concert series, live from our Great Hall.
Sit back and enjoy the performance from flautist Bird Radio, who is presenting a part-improvised piece that draws inspiration from the life of East End ... 1 Likes

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Timeline Photos For this week's free lunchtime concert flautist Bird Radio will present a part-improvised piece that draws inspiration⁠ from the life of East End criminal Arthur Harding. ⁠
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The diaries of this character of the London underworld, from the first ... 2 Likes

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Photos from Bishopsgate Institute's post Join us online for our free archive launches.
Learn the history of the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association, who represent the community of women who swim there. Hear about recent challenges the community has faced, and ... 8 Likes

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It's time to get your dancing shoes on as LGBTQ+ social dance club The Pink Jukebox are BACK⁠.
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Join them on Zoom at 14:00 this Sunday 25 Oct for an online social gathering with classes, music, dancing, competitions, and ... 8 Likes

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‘It’s about breaking boundaries’: Nicola Adams on dancing with a woman on Strictly A woman dancing with a woman? Get over it middle England, this is the 21st century! Looking forward to the time when men can dance with men, women with women, and men with women again in person!
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This content isn't available right now Lovely dancers of London - and beyond - although the dancehalls aren't yet back in business, my dance band in particular just happen to be. In our first gig since late January/early February we are very happy to essentially be ...

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London Throwdown Hey team
Your favourite competition event is back and it is all ONLINE - London Throwdown 2020 (11th-13th September) is here!
Why not compete with your teammates in a 60s Showcase? Or if you practiced solo over lockdown why not ... 1 Likes

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An opportunity to listen and learn about an important issue we are all navigating as a community.
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Wish you had a local venue, I’m in Felixstowe Suffolk, would love to do this. The on line classes are during my working hours, and sadly my husband is not in the least bit interested in dancing, but I would ...

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CVFC - Collective Voices for Change We are supporting the Collective Voices for Change (CVFC) which is an international public organisation committed to building a new and equitable social fabric in the Jazz dance community. Join the FB page and have a read with the first ... 1 Likes

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Lindy Hop is a Black American Dance As we self reflect and ensure we are honouring the dance and those that created it, this is a fabulous resource with which to start. https://youtu.be/My20UBtCvdY
Most of the time, when people think about Swing Dancing, they think about white ... 1 Comments

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Down for the Count Such fun and in a good cause....
On Friday 12th June we were hoping to celebrate our 15th birthday at The 100 Club. Clearly we're not able to do that, so here's the next best thing - a birthday video ...

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Mama Lu Parkets - Count Basie Centennial 2004 Good morning everyone. Many of you will have learnt Mama Stew by now. Let's honour Mama Lou Parkes " Mama Lu" and these dancers. What a joy. Join us in watching this again and again. Wow...
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So good to see this again! Still one of the most exhilarating performances I've ever seen.

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Online Workshop: How to Be Anti-Racist for White People Hello Everyone,
We've been quiet on social media recently as we wanted to give room for other voices so we can listen and learn. In the background the dialogue has been epic and positive and as a group we promise ... 10 Likes