The Forge venue in Delancy Street, in Camden is a space that was designed by the award-winning Burd Haward Architects. It’s brief was to build a venue with natural acoustics for live musical performance, The Forge […]

The Forge venue in Delancy Street, in Camden is a space that was designed by the award-winning Burd Haward Architects. It’s brief was to build a venue with natural acoustics for live musical performance, The Forge […]
Charing Cross Road Festival In the second annual event celebrating the literary and musical history of Charing Cross Road, iconic booksellers Foyles and Blackwell’s, plus a host of retailers, venues and cafés up and down the street, […]
We had a light-bulb moment when we were fixing the front suspension of the bus last weekend. Why not get all the kids in the class to share their favourite books with each other ? […]
Well do you ? We do now we know the story about the magazine adventure of science and fantasy and the very clever people behind the wannabe reality magazine that is to be Dodo. Have […]
TED – Ed : How did feathers evolve ?
At the moment on the way home from school on the bus, the pixies chat about how we are all fishes, and that we all live in water (“…because air is water anyway you know”) and that is how ‘we’ became we. So in the same vain as how ‘we’ came about here is a version of the truth from Carl Zimmer (Educator), Armella Leung (Artist) and Olivier Oswald (Sound Designer) from the TED-ed lessons worth sharing website.
For those of you that want a little fun, to think further about the subject, take the quick Q+A test on the THINK icon.
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To look at the evolution of modern bird feathers, we must start a long time ago, with the dinosaurs from whence they came. We see early incarnations of feathers on dinosaur fossils, and remnants of dinosaurs in a bird’s wish bone. Carl Zimmer explores the stages of evolution and how even the reasons for feathers have evolved over millions of years.
Stop Press, time for the red carpet, as it really doesn’t get any better than this as far as treats for the whole family are concerned. FREE KIDS TICKETS to WEST END SHOWS this summer. […]
CHAMPION CHAIRS : Sunday 16 June, 2 – 4.30pm £5 per child (ages 5 – 11), £10.75 for accompanying adults. Tickets include entry to all current exhibitions. Explore the museum’s range of innovative chairs and then […]
Sadler’s Sampled is a brand new annual event taking place over two weeks at Sadler’s Wells, presenting a taster menu of some of the world’s greatest dance at a low price. With tickets starting at just […]
We are very fond of the Dandelion Clock Shop girls Emily & Rebekah, because they are together ‘one of a kind’. They both take time out of their ‘real’ lives to produce beautifully crafted shows […]
The Serpentine Gallery is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art. It attracts up to 800,000 visitors in any one year and admission is free. In the grounds of the Gallery is a […]
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OILY CART Oily Cart is one of the great British theatre companies of the last 25 years. Yet plenty of theatregoers, even the most avid, will not have heard…
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“Even if you don’t have perfect bone structure, you can still make it with your personality.” Grace Coddington We have spotted this book on the coffee…
Flourish exhibition 21 May 2013 – 15 September 2013, 10:00 – 17:00 (Check website for further details) The show includes painting, sculpture and photography by talented artists up to the age of 25, each of […]
This ones for you girls up in the heady suburbs of Muswell Hill, after the school run. Get down and shake it, like you know you want to. xo
The weather is lovely, Regents park is amazing and our classes and courses for July are now online and ready to be booked! Click here to be taken to our bookings page We have our […]
Well, hello Friday. Just like a good bottle of wine, we’d be very happy to keep you here for a long while, as it’s a pretty special one. We’ve got temperatures heading in the […]
The Place offers a wide range of dance classes for 5 – 15 year olds each Saturday throughout term time. Our Summer Term begins on Sat 27 April 2013. For more information on each of our […]
BLOOMSBURY & AROUND : A FAMILY DAY OUT If you haven’t been yet, next time you are in the Bloomsbury/ Kings Cross area look out for the wonderful dance centre The Place, which is situated […]
Our bus gang hasn’t made it yet to the Parasol Unit in Islington yet, but we are getting a good feeling about what they are up to […]
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Gingerbread gift jars found here 100g soft light brown sugar 1 tsp ginger ¼ tsp allspice ¼ tsp cinnamon 50g chopped crystallised ginger 125g plain flour ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp…
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Here are some creative ideas for you. Why ? Well because we like you, and you deserve it, and because it doesn’t cost much to share. That’s just the kind…
We are big fans of these family (drop in) free workshops at Somerset House, as you can read here. Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower, 1939, Paris, by Erwin Blumenfeld. Photo: Blumenfeld Studio So here’s your […]
It doesn’t get much better than this does it ? Perfect for a summer Friday evening ?! I’m gonna get myself one of them sparkly star tank tops and wear it later. Lol the driving […]
SHIFT TASTER DAYS : Thursday 27, June & Thursday 4, July 2013 (5.30-8pm) SHIFT AUDITIONS : Saturday 7, September 2013 If you are between 14 and 19 years old, have a passion for contemporary dance, […]
It’s all here, join the Lost Picture Show gang, for a specially curated season of films chosen by the Dalston Square Cinemas Youth Jury (age 12-16) all from Hackney. For a quick warm up “who […]
In the mid 1990s Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam was showing a large scale crochet artwork at an art gallery when two rambunctious children approached her and asked if the sculpture, resembling a colorful hammock, could be […]
Bus down to The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden over the holidays, you not only get a whole years admission from your ticket price, but you can really play with the buses, and get […]
Here is a pick of some of the best areas that London has to offer, and let’s face it, when has a child been taken to a park and not been a happy bunny ? […]
Music video by Kool & The Gang performing Celebration. (C) 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Here are some creative ideas for you. Why ? Well because we like you, and you deserve it, and because it doesn’t cost much to share. That’s just the kind of karma we like at our […]
Every Saturday at the Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm NW5, drop into a Families Create activity in the café. Get creative using the current exhibitions as inspiration. Led by artist Effie Coe, they explore different creative […]
After extensive analysis of wormholes and weather conditions, a panel of time travel experts has predicted with certainty that a portal will open at The Loxfords at noon on Saturday 25th May { BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND } Budding time travellers […]
This Father’s Day weekend bring along your competitive spirit and take part in our mini-build activities. From tanks to trebuchets, use your engineering skills to create magnificent machinery in miniature to compete for first place! […]
Here is a book, for those moments when The Gruffalo needs a rest, and you need entertaining. It is a unique and brilliant book by illustrator Andrew Kolb. As you can imagine, the book and […]
Following the outstanding success of this year’s pilot project Junior Open House Festival Open-City establishes its flagship festival programme in 2013 called Archikids Festival. Archikids is a three day festival on 17-19 May 2013 located in the […]
Here goes, it’s nearly 1/2 term, and for those that aren’t tied to the school calendar, you’ve only got a few more days left of quiet playgrounds, museums, buses, boats, ikea, so take it easy […]
I must be 1/2 Asian, because my idea of heaven in a ‘pearly gated home delivery’ way, is to eat Asian food 6 days out of 7 … of course, it’s just marmite on toast […]
18 May 2013, 6.00pm – 9.00pm Tours: 6.15pm, 7.00pm and 8.15pm (duration 30 minutes) Celebrating ‘Museums at Night’, the Museum will be opening its doors after hours. Families can tour the Museum after dark and embark on a […]
As part of Southbank Centres London Literature Festival 13 this year you can take whoever you want along to the Clore Ballroom on the 25th May at 3pm where everyone is invited to sing-Along with the delightful Cerys […]
This is worth travelling across fields, and mountains to get to … and strangely enough, that is exactly what I did as a child, when I used to travel in my Mum’s teeny tiny red […]
Free Drop-In Workshop: FREIZE FRAME : 12.00-15.00 Meet at Seamen’s Hall Info Desk at Somerset House We went along to the last family workshop here, and had a fantastic time, as ever we were the […]
Can i tell you a story? OK, I’ll be quick. I have a god daughter called Grace (we will come back to her later, as you need to sit down to hear about ‘The Wonderful […]
Crib Notes: Daniel F. Hermann on Gert & Uwe Tobias Wednesday 1 May, 10am – 11.30am : Booking essential. £3, including refreshments. Join Curator Daniel F. Hermann for a tour of the exhibition with your baby in tow. […]
ZSL Special Children’s Day welcomes children with special needs and their families and friends to ZSL London Zoo on Saturday & Sunday 18 & 19 May. Special Children’s Day is a unique annual event at […]
You don’t really need us Bus Stop team to help you through this one, so here are a few photos to inspire you, and off you go … of course, once you have finished, you […]
The Bus Stop team are feeling the buzz about this new-born Hackney based kids festival LAND OF KIDS, which takes place from 12-7pm on May Bank Holiday. The Festival has been created by the wild […]
We are back into the after school activity bus tour right now, so here is a quick round up of some creative delights happening in town this fine and dandy last ever weekend in April […]
Akram Khan, Michael Keegan-Dolan & Simeon Qsyea talk about A String of Rites: A season of work inspired by Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring Do you know much about the National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) ….? […]
Sergei Vasiliev Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Print No.19 : 2010 : Giclée print : 165 x 112 cm DISCOVER RUSSIA : FAMILY WORKSHOPS If you book onto any of the workshops with Roz Logan you will really enjoy your […]
Dance Fever Everybody loves to dance, and it’s not just a modern craze. Long before discos and DJs, orchestras unleashed fantastic dance music. With help from the kings of rhythm, Beethoven and Piazzolla, we will […]
We only just found out about this comic festival at one of our favourite urban art-loving spaces in London, Granary Square, Kings Cross happening this Sat 20th April. For all you ‘real’ comic fans there […]
20 April 2013 Workshops start at 2.00pm and 3.30pm Drop in to the one-hour Saturday workshops and learn about the life of a soldier. Workshops run every Saturday afternoon starting from 20 April 2013 […]
The Creative Bus Sto… Jon Burgerman’s Game, Sketch and Match Friday 19 April 11.00-17.00 (Sign up on the hour) Can you puzzle your way out of a doodle-hole? Can you maze yourself into a scribble-nest? Sharpen […]
Guess what, this one is also nearly sold out too, but there are a few remaining … I’m not sure who and where and how the tickets sell so quickly, but maybe this time it’s […]
For all of you (like us) who feel fluttery and buttery at the thought of an event dedicated to graphic art, design and illustration, you will be happy to hear that the dates have been […]
We are getting mighty excited about the Pick Me Up Fair at Somerset House which starts on 18th April (until 28th). Third up on our features list is a workshop from The Gruffalo creator and […]
We are getting mighty excited about the Pick Me Up Fair at Somerset House which starts on 18th April (until 28th). Over the next days, we will be scratching a little under the surface of […]
We are getting mighty excited about the Pick Me Up Fair at Somerset House which starts on 18th April (until 28th). Over the next days, we will be scratching a little under the surface of […]
SOUNDS FISHY : Family Day – For age 5 plus : Wigmore Hall Date: 15 June 2013 – 10:30am to 3.30pm : Ticket Prices: Adults £12 Children £8 (not part of subscription scheme) Join singer and animateur Kate Mapp for a Schubert-inspired […]