The Covent Garden Piazza
and market are packed all year round, with regular
festivals, concerts and other activities. Alongside
Covent Garden events, we also list the major exhibitions,
festivals, and displays throughout London.
Ongoing
Events 2010 - Covent Garden
The Covent Garden Real
Food Market returns to the Piazza every Saturday. From 3rd April, Covent Garden will become the ultimate
West End destination for fresh produce on Saturdays. Easter
Weekend will see the Covent Garden Real Food Market make
its long awaited return to the East Piazza.
Following popular demand, the iconic London food market,
previously held every Thursday, will now continue every
Saturday from 3rd April 2010 until Christmas - now the
only market in the West End where foodies can pick up
top quality fresh produce on the weekend.
Visitors
to the Piazza will be able to buy the best ingredients
and fresh produce to cook at home, as well as sumptuous
treats from choice traders such as The Great British
Sausage, Polish Deli, Sporeboys and Woodwards Farm,
plus food blogger favourites including world-renowned
Eat Like A Girl.
The Covent Garden Real Food
Market Times:
Every Saturday: 10.30am –
6pm**
The critically acclaimed Food Bloggers stall will also
be making a comeback to the market. World leading food
experts will be hosting stalls from April until the
end of the year, that will be serving up some of their
favourites and sharing top tips and food insights right
on the Piazza. Last year’s food blogger highlights
included Eat Like A Girl, Hollow Legs, A Slice of Cherry
Pie, The Ginger Gourmand, More Tea Vicar?, From a North
London Kitchen and Gastro Geek.
London City Experience
Discover what really connects modern London to
its Royal past on this memorable tour of the city. Your
walk leader will start your day off with a brief introduction
to the City of Westminster and some of the great landmarks
it holds such as Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, and
the beautiful Westminster Abbey, resting place to some
of Englands most notable historical figures. Its only
a short walk to Waterloo bridge where your guide will
explain its significance to the city and the adjacent
government buildings before we take in one of the most
beautiful walks in London: the South Bank. See the only
thatched roof in London in this recreation of Shakespeares
Globe Theatre, learn about the writers life, his business
ambitions, family, and whether he wrote everything that
is credited to him, still hotly contended amongst scholars
to this day in what is known as the Great Authorship Debate.
Find out more about the London Eye and why British Airways
first constructed it, and hear all about the Tate Modern.
Finally, your guide will walk you across the Millennium
Bridge to the where youll come face to face with Sir Christopher
Wrens architectural marvel: St. Pauls Cathedral.
Admission:
From £39.50 Date: From 1st
March 2010 Place: Various
places
Big Bus London Sightseeing
Tour
London is one of the world's greatest cities. Over
the course of two thousand years it has generated a story
which now enraptures millions of visitors every year.
From the Romans to the Vikings, the Normans to the Tudors,
all have left their mark. Artists as diverse as Shakespeare,
Dickens, Turner, Mozart, Henry James and the Beatles have
all found inspiration here
Admission: £25.00 Date: Frequent
Service
Sweet Charity Tamzin Outhwaite (Boeing Boeing, Hotel Babylon,
Eastenders), who plays the title role of Charity Hope
Valentine, will lead the cast in the West End transfer
of the Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity.
Admission: From £22.50 Date: From 23rd
April 2010 Place: Theatre
Royal Haymarket
Fra Angelico to Leonardo:
Italian Renaissance drawings
This major exhibition features 100 exquisite drawings
by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo,
Michelangelo and Verrocchio among others.
Drawn from the holdings of the British Museum and the
Uffizi in Florence, the two foremost collections in
the field, the display charts the increasing importance
of drawing during this period, featuring works by Leonardo
da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini,
Botticelli, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo,
Verrocchio and Titian.
In 15th-century Italy there was a fundamental shift
in style and artistic thinking in the use of preparatory
drawings. What began as a means of preserving artistic
ideas became the ideal way to perfect more naturalistic
forms and perspective – a new approach by painters,
sculptors and architects
Admission: £11.00 Date: British
Museum
August
2010
Events in Covent Garden
Kids Entertainment
‘The Kids Are Alright’ – two
weeks of top entertainment and special offers for children
of all ages, set in the historic surroundings of Covent
Garden’s Piazza.
There’s a giant sandpit, ball pit, face painters,
balloon modellers, plus juggling and plate-spinning
workshops from Covent Garden’s very own street
performers. Meanwhile, budding chefs can get messily
creative with icing and silver balls as they get stuck
into cupcake decorating classes and chocolate making
tutorials on food market days (Thursday 13th and Thursday
20th August).
Admission: Free Date: From 10th-23rd
August 2010 Place: Covent
Garden Piazza
