What's on in <strong>May</strong> FRI SAT SAT SUN Weekly Networx computer class, 2-4pm, Vicky Park Community Centre, 5 Gore Road Drop-in spin class, 11am, £7 nonmembers, YMCA East London, creche available 5 Everything East, 7.30- 9.30pm, FREE, Luna Lounge, Leytonstone, feat acts showcased on the Shoredtich radio show 5 (6, 26 and 27) Well Street Kitchen, 6.30-10.30pm, open for dinner for first time 12 (-14) Prosecco Springs, from £35, London's first ever Prosecco festival, Oval Space, proseccosprings.com Balance Festival, 10am, from £24, wellbeing, & fitness, Old Truman Brewery, balancefestival.com 19 The Big Sing, 4.15pm, FREE, drop-in, all ages, Museum of Childhood All things gin, 6-10.30pm, £5, Geffrye Museum, designmynight.com 6 Spring fair, 11am-3pm, Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy Bird Barmy Army, 10am-12.30pm, FREE, for 13+ yrs, Vicky Park, meet V&A building Supper party, from 4.30pm, £31, Eat Right Lounge host, Bethnal Green, grubclub.com Hackney in Harmony, 6.30pm, FREE, charity concert, St John of Jerusalem, Lauriston Road Haggis Horns, Mirth Marvel and Maud, Walthamstow, mirthmarvel andmaud. com Spring market, 11am- 5pm, FREE, Oval Space, E2 9DT The Tweed Run, 10am, 12-mile bike ride requiring participants to don their finest tweed attire, tweedrun. com 6, 13, 20, 27 Good life yoga, 10- 11am, £12, Proud Archivist 13 World Fair Trade Day, 10am-4pm, and Hot & cold drinks, cake, biscuits and cream scones to share. Vicky Park Community Centre, Gore Rd, E9. Be Wild Forest Saturday Club, 10am-1pm, £12, 5-11yrs, Epping Forest, suntrapcentre. weebly.com 20 Musical Rumpus: Fogonogo, 10.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm, £8 kids, £2 adult, for 0-3 yrs, Museum of Childhood Whittling & plaster cast footprints, 10am- 12.30pm, FREE, for 3-12yrs, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, fothcp.org Make your own lotions and potions, 1-4.30pm, £16, Geffrye Museum 27 (-2) Dalston Flower Show for Children. Yes, the kids get their very own flower show, and this year they can join in the Dalston Kids' Festival at the very fabulous Dalston Curve Garden 27 Botanical and nature drawing, 2-4pm, £15, The Create Place, 29 Old Ford Road, stmargaretshouse. org.uk Crouch End Walks tour Shoreditch Town Hall, 11am, £6.50 Weekly Wynwood Running Club, 9am, meet at the Art District, 2a Chingford Road, tweet @wynwoodartd Live jazz, 4.30-7.30pm, FREE, Nag's Head 7 A Hackney Autobiography launch, 5-7pm, Sutton House, Homerton High Street, info@on-therecord.org.uk Currents by <strong>May</strong>umana, from £10, last chance to see UK premiere, Hackney Empire East London Vintage kilo sale, 11am-4pm, £3, 5 Old Ford Road 14 The Boishakhi Mela, 12-7pm, FREE, Weaver's Fields, towerhamlets.gov. uk/mela/whatsOn.htm The Embers Collective, 7-9.30pm, £13, an evening of Norse mythology, Sutton House, Homerton 21 East London Bubble Rush, 12-5pm, £10, East London Bubble with St Joseph's Hospice, 5k course in the Olympic Park. Sign up on Eventbrite Hackney flea market, 11am-6pm, FREE, at Abney Hall, Stoke Newington 22 LOVEEAST
Culture corner What's on at the Museum of Childhood Fogonogo, an interactive opera for babies and toddlers, is on 20 <strong>May</strong>. It costs £8 per child, £2 per accompanying adult and £5 per extra adult. Book at spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk. In <strong>May</strong> half term there will be workshops and free family activities inspired by the Rachel Whiteread’s celebrated artwork Place (Village). From 29 <strong>May</strong> to 2 June choose from print workshops, design your own colourful townscape and using block printing. £5 per child, age seven-plus. Or in the Little Lantern Houses workshop, children aged four and above can create illuminated paper houses for £7 per child. Meanwhile, adults can learn about the rich history of the East London’s Boundary Estate, and its residents, in an evening event on 25 <strong>May</strong>. Paper houses by Frances Barry Visitors can explore the exhibition Searching for Ghosts and listen to a fascinating talk from Sarah Wise. It costs £7 including a glass of wine/beer. V&A Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9PA vam.ac.uk/moc/whatson Scott Whitehead Trees www.flowarchitecture.co.uk Tree removal • Crown lifting, reduction, thinning • Hedge trimming • Fully insured “... they have definitely outperformed our expectations and we believe that with their help we have built a truly unique house.” T. W. 020 8530 4159 / 07795 903216 scott@scottwhiteheadtrees.co.uk www.scottwhiteheadtrees.co.uk Book your initial consultation info@flowarchitecture.co.uk LOVEEAST MAY <strong>2017</strong> 23