TIL 20 Oct

WEMBLEY STADIUM TOURS
The Wembley Stadium Tour takes
visitors deep into the heart of the
stadium and into areas usually reserved
for the biggest and best names in sport
and music such as Beckham, Messi,
Ronaldo, Tom Brady, Anthony Joshua,
Ed Sheeran and Beyonce.
The award-winning, 75 minute,
guided tour includes access to the
Dressing Rooms, Press Room, Players
Tunnel, Pitchside and the iconic Royal
Box to have a photograph taken with a
replica of the world-famous FA Cup.
With multiple accessible train routes,
ample parking, a café, plentiful restroom
facilities and the London Designer Outlet
shopping centre next door, the Wembley
Tour caters for all visitor needs. It is
open 12 months a year and 7 days a
week with the exception of certain event
dates in the calendar. Tours depart at
10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00 and
15:00 with pre-booking advised.
Easily accessible via any of these
stations; Wembley Park via Metropolitan
and Jubilee Lines, Wembley Stadium
Station via Chiltern Line and Wembley
Central Station via Bakerloo Line,
London Overground and National Rail.
All tours are conducted in English.
Printed translation guides are available
in 9 languages. Book online at visiting
www.wembleystadium.com/tours or
calling 0800 169 9933.
AMAZING ANIMALS FLUFFYTORIUM
COMES TO THE UK
The Amazing Animals Fluffytorium, a
place celebrating the fluffiest, furriest
and most fantastic animals in the world,
is coming to London this half term on
27 & 28 October.
The fur filled experience has been
created to celebrate the release of the
brand new title from Guinness World
Records – Amazing Animals – a book
totally dedicated to the fastest, tallest,
strongest, strangest and most talented
animals in the world.
Animal lovers will have the chance to
pet some of the world’s longest haired
cats and dogs, in a room covered from
floor to ceiling in long, soft and
colourful fur.
Purrfect for children (aged six and
over) and parents alike, the cats and
dogs have been hand selected to offer
the most chilled out experience.
Amazing Animals Fluffytorium is on
view at 2 Soho Square, Soho, W1D 3PX.
Colonel Meow.
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV
AT TATE MODERN
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary
of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Tate
Modern will stage the first major
museum exhibition in the UK of artists
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (b. 1933 and b.
1945). Curated in close dialogue with
the artists and organised in collaboration
with the State Hermitage Museum,
St Petersburg and the State Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow, the exhibition will
explore this pioneering couple's place in
the international story of conceptual art
and will offer the chance to view rarely
seen works together for the first time in
the UK. Opens 18 October.
PINOCCHIO COMES TO THE
NATIONAL THEATRE
On a quest to be truly alive,
Pinocchio leaves Geppetto’s workshop
with Jiminy Cricket in tow. Their
electrifying adventure takes them from
alpine forests to Pleasure Island to the
bottom of the ocean. The spectacular
new production opening at the National
Theatre in December brings together the
director of Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child and the writer of Matilda the
Musical. For the first time on stage,
featuring unforgettable music and songs
from the Walt Disney film including I’ve
Got No Strings, Give a Little Whistle and
When You Wish upon a Star in dazzling
new arrangements, Pinocchio comes to
life as never before.
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