EAST Festival in London

East London Festival Events

• Cycle East London: Take a bike and go for a ride and take in a range of live music music and theatrical performances inorder to make the most of EAST 2010. The Cycle East London, an innovative part of the cultural events in EAST festival 2010,provides you a chance to take a guided tour at your own pace of all events offered in EAST 2010. There are certain special performances to be offered like the performances by the London Gypsy Orchestra at the Bethnal Green Men's Club along with the music of award winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch ar Rich Mix.
  If you've developed a taste for the unusual venues and talented performance artists that East London has to offer on the Cycle East London bicycle tours, then you might want to check out the other special events in the EAST 2010 festival. From walking tours to photo exhibitions and free sporting events, there's bound to be something to suit all tastes.
• East Commonwealth Games London: If you are willing to see relay races and shot putting than this is not the right place for you to visit. Instead wishing to play the most unusual games popular in countries all over the world like bicycle polo(demonstrated in 1908 London Olympic Games) and Asian games like Carrom, as well as the team sport Kabbadi than visit Spitalfields Market on Bishop Square as a part of the EAST festival. The special event at Spitalfields Market celebrates Commonwealth Day and looks forward to Commonwealth Games Delhi in October.
  The day before the East Commonwealth Games London event begins, there's the opening ceremony at Spitalfields Market to get everyone in the mood for watching and taking part in the series of exotic and quirky games. Keep an eye out for the big red bus on Bishops Square, and keep entertained over lunchtime with bagpipers, dhol drummers and dancers.
• Where Three Dreams Cross Exibition:A landmark exibtion to see how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been shaped by their histories on camera.
  The Where Three Dreams Cross Exibition shows 150 years of photos from the captioned countries. The captured images would showcase the time when photographic studios were nearly established in 1850s, to present day images of the social, political and everyday life of its citizens.
  Arranged in five different themes, visitors to the Where Three Dreams Cross exhibition invites you to explore the history of these photos in five different ways. Portrait illustrates the development of the self over the past 150 years, while the Family section looks at close familiar relationships with early hand painted photos and current portraits. Key political moments are examined in Body Politic, Performance looks at the golden age of Bollywood, and the Street concentrates on how the three countries have coped with social development and life on the street.
  Professional photographers made an attempt to capture the spirit of differnet countries apart from this the Where Three Dreams Cross Exibitions would contain many to the unseen private collection of photographs which have never been seen in public before.