They do narrow boat trips, and there are some great kid-friendly attractions (including a toy ice cream stall). MUSEUM OF THE WEEK: Been to the Canal Museum before? It's really central - located in King's Cross - and tells the fascinating story of how the canals linked up London to the rest of the country (and world). Until January 2024ĭAY TRIP OF THE WEEK: In need of some sea air? Take yourself to Folkestone, an artistic hub of a town on the Kent coast, where a former train station has been repurposed, where Antony Gormley artworks can be found, and where the food scene makes it well worth arriving hungry. Come face to face with a gigantic, 37m-long skeleton of a Patagotitan mayorum, the largest dinosaur known to have roamed the Earth. TITANOSAUR: A reminder, now that the initial fuss has died down, that Natural History Museum's Titanosaur exhibition is still very much open. Gold, silver and glasswares are among the exhibits on show. Using the Greek capture of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian wars as a starting point, it explores luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550-30 BC. PERSIA TO GREECE: The British Museum has just opened a new exhibition, Luxury and power: Persia to Greece. Borrow a streaming service password from family– however you define it!–and enjoy.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: The stage adaptation of Harper Lee's Puliltzer-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird is only on at the Gielgud Theatre for a couple more weeks, starring Matthew Modine as lawyer Atticus Finch. Representation matters, and these films provide a variety of archetypes, stories and styles for you to lose and/or find yourself in. Pride– real pride– requires self-knowledge, and it's hard to know who you are when you can't see who you can be. While gay characters tended until much too recently to be one-dimensional, white, marginal, and doomed, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the layered and hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight. Queer cinema has evolved too, from the shoestring brilliance of The Watermelon Woman to the big-budget glitter-fest that is Rocketman. But queer characters have come a long way in a relatively short time, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of 1970's The Boys In The Band to the headstrong misfits of this summer's Fire Island. LGBTQ-centered films are still pretty rare– particularly from major studios, as the buzz around Bros reveals. But it's also an opportunity to learn your queer history, and a self-curated LGBTQ film festival is a great way to do that. It's a great time to march, and to party, and to be marketed to. It's Pride Month, as a whole lot of rainbow corporate logos have already told you.

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