Gravity's Guide: Weekly Wanders #17
Things to do in London this week - 22nd August until 28th August 2022
King's Cross Film Awards
📅 When: 23-25 August
📍 Where: The Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8BZ
🎟️ Free entrance, find more information here
Kings Cross FIlm Awards is a three day international film festival in central London showcasing the best new features and short films around the globe.
Nutella Happy Portion Parlour
📅 When: 25-27 August
📍 Where: 59 Greek Street, London W1D 3DZ
🎟️ Free entrance, find more information here
Visit this pop-up experience where there will be a variety of delicious dishes on offer showcasing the creative ways you can enjoy a portion of Nutella (one heaped teaspoon, 15g) at breakfast.
Notting Hill Carnival 2022
📅 When: 27-29 August
📍 Where: Notting Hill area
🎟️ Free entrance, find more information here
Notting Hill Carnival is a huge street festival celebrating the Caribbean community. It's Europe's biggest street festival and the world's second largest carnival (Rio takes first place), bringing banging beats, lashings of street food, razzle-dazzle costumes and utterly fabulous parade processions.
Summer on the Square
📅 When: Until 29 August
📍 Where: Trafalgar Square
🎟️ Free entrance, find more information here
The National Gallery, in partnership with Westminster City Council, hosts Summer on the Square – a programme of free, daily creative sessions and activities to inspire you to create your own masterpieces. Immerse yourself in their studio activities and be ready to sketch, make, move, explore and be inspired by the National Gallery Collection. When you want to take a break or sit in the sunshine, Kerb have artisan food stalls serving tasty snacks, from falafel and chips to coffee and gelato.
Activity of the week
Growing Underground Urban Farm Tour
📅 When: Every other Thursday
📍 Where: Growing Underground, 1a Carpenter's Place, London SW4 7TD
🎟️ Tickets £40.00, book here
Growing Underground operates 33 meters underneath the streets of Clapham, in a former WWII air raid shelter. Forget what you think a farm looks like and follow the pink glow – explore the famous ‘pink’ futuristic farm, discover the fascinating history of the tunnels, how the farm came to be and its future role in a sustainable world and take home the freshest micro herb salad in town, picked straight off the farm.
