Future Now Weekend | Love Architecture | Hebden Bridge arts festival
*Future Now Weekend, London*
Visions of the future come in all shapes and sizes. If you like your sci-fi more hopeful than apocalyptic, then Yoko Ono's take on our fates should be up your street. As part of the Southbank's Meltdown festival she is launching her new instructional poetry and art book, Acorn, with a series of events and talks. The follow-up to her famous "instructions" pieces offers a 100-part collection of friendly commands to enable a more optimistic look at what's on our horizons. There'll be the chance to see Yoko herself in conversation, plus group enactments of her instructions and visions of the future from the likes of gamers, mathematicians and death experts.
*Royal Festival Hall, SE1, Sat & Sun*
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*Love Architecture, Nationwide*
This celebration of our built environment shows off the fun side of the Royal Institute Of British Architects, with talks, walks and even the odd pub crawl. All of this is in the name of the appreciation of architecture, though, with chances to quiz the professionals across the regions. Aberystwyth goes big on architectural films, while there are tours of the Rocks Railway and Slipper Baths in Bristol. Margate acts as a major hub for events, with a tour of a brutalist block, a talk by Wayne Hemingway and a modernist sandcastle-making comp.
*Various venues, to 30 Jun *
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*Hebden Bridge arts festival*
More than a whiff of nostalgia surrounds this year's festival, from Public Service Broadcasting's Pathé-flavoured krautrock to the Victorian diversions of Uncle Tacko's flea circus and moustachioed magicians Morgan & West. In famously alternative Hebden, however, the balance between right-on and Keep Calm and Carry On is maintained by suffragette musical Wrong 'Un. Elsewhere, Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn offers her own witty perspective on pop stardom during the Iron Lady's reign.
*Various venues, Sat to 30 Jun*
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*Out & about*
*Live At The Lido**, Ilkley, Sat*
The pool itself is out of bounds at this music event, which hosts local bands and local booze.
Ilkley Lido
*Midsummer Watch Parades**, Chester, Sat & Sun*
This 500-year-old celebration of midsummer, features giants, unicorns and dragons.
Chester town centre
*Bike Week**, Nationwide, Sat & Sun*
Two-wheelers of the UK unite at events across the UK, from fun rides to bike clinics.
Various venues
*Carbooty Summer Solstice Clearout**, Salford, Sun*
Brazenly hip selection of wares on offer, from limited zines to affordable art and prints.
Islington Mill
*London Philharmonic Presents The Earth And The Planets**, Manchester, Wed*
The London unit play classics such as Holst's The Planets to a backdrop of Duncan Copp's award-winning films.
Bridgewater Hall Reported by guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago.
*Future Now Weekend, London*
Visions of the future come in all shapes and sizes. If you like your sci-fi more hopeful than apocalyptic, then Yoko Ono's take on our fates should be up your street. As part of the Southbank's Meltdown festival she is launching her new instructional poetry and art book, Acorn, with a series of events and talks. The follow-up to her famous "instructions" pieces offers a 100-part collection of friendly commands to enable a more optimistic look at what's on our horizons. There'll be the chance to see Yoko herself in conversation, plus group enactments of her instructions and visions of the future from the likes of gamers, mathematicians and death experts.
*Royal Festival Hall, SE1, Sat & Sun*
CC
*Love Architecture, Nationwide*
This celebration of our built environment shows off the fun side of the Royal Institute Of British Architects, with talks, walks and even the odd pub crawl. All of this is in the name of the appreciation of architecture, though, with chances to quiz the professionals across the regions. Aberystwyth goes big on architectural films, while there are tours of the Rocks Railway and Slipper Baths in Bristol. Margate acts as a major hub for events, with a tour of a brutalist block, a talk by Wayne Hemingway and a modernist sandcastle-making comp.
*Various venues, to 30 Jun *
IA
*Hebden Bridge arts festival*
More than a whiff of nostalgia surrounds this year's festival, from Public Service Broadcasting's Pathé-flavoured krautrock to the Victorian diversions of Uncle Tacko's flea circus and moustachioed magicians Morgan & West. In famously alternative Hebden, however, the balance between right-on and Keep Calm and Carry On is maintained by suffragette musical Wrong 'Un. Elsewhere, Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn offers her own witty perspective on pop stardom during the Iron Lady's reign.
*Various venues, Sat to 30 Jun*
AB
*Out & about*
*Live At The Lido**, Ilkley, Sat*
The pool itself is out of bounds at this music event, which hosts local bands and local booze.
Ilkley Lido
*Midsummer Watch Parades**, Chester, Sat & Sun*
This 500-year-old celebration of midsummer, features giants, unicorns and dragons.
Chester town centre
*Bike Week**, Nationwide, Sat & Sun*
Two-wheelers of the UK unite at events across the UK, from fun rides to bike clinics.
Various venues
*Carbooty Summer Solstice Clearout**, Salford, Sun*
Brazenly hip selection of wares on offer, from limited zines to affordable art and prints.
Islington Mill
*London Philharmonic Presents The Earth And The Planets**, Manchester, Wed*
The London unit play classics such as Holst's The Planets to a backdrop of Duncan Copp's award-winning films.
Bridgewater Hall Reported by guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago.