Thursday 4th July
In America this means Independence Day and in honour of this, a food truck festival called Truck Stop is rolling into Wood Wharf in E14. We’ll be seeing old ambulances, milk floats and trucks with a mobile roadside diner, taco shack and a bbq smoke pit. There will also be live blue grass bands, honky tonk and an exhibition of vintage American cars.
Wood Wharf near Canary Wharf, 4th and 5th July 5-11pm and tickets are £10.
The English Disco Lovers (EDL) are a pro-disco, anti-racism group. They aim to spoof the slogans and emblems of The English Defence League, showing them for what they really are - racist, outdated and not the type you'd invite to your disco! They want to get more Twitter followers, Facebook likes, and when you Google search EDL, the goal is to find this instead of the English Defence League. We like it! Thursday 4th July, tickets £3 at the Shoreditch Butchery http://www.edl.me/upcoming_events.html
Friday 5th July
A play by Annie Baker called Circle Mirror Transformation. It’s a Royal Court production but being put on at the Rose Lipman Building in Haggerston. It’s about five lost people come together at a community centre to try and find some meaning in their lives. It’s a pretty incredible cast including Toby Jones and Imelda Staunton. Tickets £20 and the play is running until 3rd August. http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/circlemirror
Saturday 6th
Theres a festival on in London Fields called the E5 and Burnt Enz Food and Music Festival. It's actually starting on the 4th and runs until Sunday. A vast DJ line up plus food. It's free but you need to get a wristband from E5 Bakehouse. https://www.facebook.com/events/133295403533569/
It’s going to be a bit of a scorcher this weekend so if the heat gets to you, there will be a record attempt of the tallest water sprinkler in Victoria Park from noon and it’s also happening same time on Sunday too. It’s a promotion by Juicy Water and it’s free. http://lovingdalston.co.uk/2013/07/make-a-bigger-splash-in-vicky-park-to-set-a-record/
Sunday 7th July
There’s an exhibition called Sounding The Body Electric - Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984. In the aftermath of Stalinism, composers and artists in Eastern Europe were given new opportunities to experiment. New recording studios equipped with magnetic tape recorders and, later, synthesisers were established, first inWarsaw in 1957 and then throughout Eastern Europe. It's at the Calvert 22 Gallery in Shoreditch, it’s free and runs until 25th August. http://calvert22.org/ There will also be a talk about it at Cafe Oto Thursday 11th and tickets for that are £4.
Monday 8th July
A mobile orchard is coming to The Gherkin. This is where iconic areas around the capital will be transformed with an orchard like installation where you can sit in amongst the tree’s roots and pick some of the hundreds of real apples hanging from it. Running until 13th July at The Gherkin then it moves on. this is all part of the City of London Festival and they have a lot of stuff going on over the summer so check detail. All free http://www.colf.org/whats-on/703-mobile-orchard
Tuesday 9th July
Cartoons and Caricatures exhibition. See the Bank of England’s own collection of prints and drawings which includes the work of consummate artists such as James Gillray, John Tenniel and, more recently, Steve Bell. Running until 19th November, it’s free Mon-Fri 10am-5pm but you need to book over the phone by calling 020 7601 5545. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/Pages/event-detail.aspx?eventid=1114
Wednesday 10th July
Free comedy at the Water Poet just near Liverpool Street. Starts at 8pm every Wednesday and is a mixture of professional and open mic acts. If they’re not funny, The Water Poet is a great pub with a lovely beer garden. And it’s free anyway http://www.thewaterpoet.co.uk/events/time-outs-best-pub-garden/
