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Saturday 30th August and Sunday 31st August: London’s Truman Brewery in Brick Lane will host the Tiger Beer Singapore Chilli Crab Festival for the third consecutive year on a bigger scale. The festival will transform London’s East End into a Singaporean oasis. The festival celebrates the crowning joy of Singapore, the Chilli Crab, which is Singapore’s unofficial national dish. Drenched in a fresh tomato and chilli-based sauce, Chilli Crab is best enjoyed using fingers. There will be plenty of Chilli Crab on offer at the festival along with an array of other traditional Singaporean dishes which will get taste buds tingling including Chicken satay, Char Kway Teow (a delicious rice noodle dish) and Hainanese Chicken Rice.
Bayswater based Singaporean restaurant Kiasu will prepare all of the food at the festival.
There will also be a live entertainment throughout the weekend, including dragon dancing, martial arts displays and skillful musicians from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Other activities will include a henna-tattoo artist, massage therapist and calligrapher together with a tea-stretching spectacular, where Chinese tea is poured dramatically from great heights to enhance the flavour.

12th July and the 10th September 2008: Elizabeth Taylor's Jewellery Goes On Display
Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery from the 1963 film Cleopatra is on show at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco as part of a major new exhibition dedicated to the female pharaohs, wives, mothers and daughters who influenced three thousand years of Egyptian history.

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Items including a royal headdress in the form of a vulture, scarab engraved bracelets and double chains embossed with medallions form part of the "The Queens of Egypt" the largest Egyptian exhibition ever to be staged in Europe.
Christiane Ziegler, curator of the Reines d'Egypte, said: "In the western imagination, the Queens of Egypt are incarnated in Cleopatra and the enduring images created by Hollywood. The jewellery and accessories worn by Elizabeth Taylor for the film were an integral part in creating these images".
The Hollywood epic was infamous for near bankrupting 20th Century Fox after filming had to be shut down in London and moved to Rome when Taylor became ill and was unable to work in British weather conditions. Taylor was also reported to have become the first $1 million-dollar actress when she was signed up to play the lead opposite Richard Burton.
More than 250 superb antiquities and works of art are on display at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco between 12th July and the 10th September 2008. Other beauty items and accessories on display include a silver hand mirror with a wooden handle sheathed in gold and shaped as the emblem for the goddess Hathor, a gold diadem set with carnelian gemstones and opaque turquoise glass and a gold collar necklace belonging to Queen Tiy set with stone and pale gold electrum.
The exhibition focuses on the image of the queens and how their aesthetic ideals varied from one era to another just as modern day tastes and fashions shift. Reliefs and free-standing sculptures, illuminated in light, help evoke the true power of their beauty. With few exceptions the queens are shown in the first flushes of youth with the luxury and refinements of their individual lifestyles reflected in their clothing, jewellery and toiletries.
Exhibits have been loaned to the Principality by the world's leading museums including the British Museum, Cairo's Egyptian Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Paris' Musée du Louvre and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

Details
The exhibition runs from 12th July until 10th September 2008.
Open everyday from 10am to 8pm. Late-night opening on Thursdays and Saturdays until 10pm.
Entry costs: Adults: 10 euros
Concessions: Groups (over 10 people) 8 euros; Students (under 25 with a student card) 6 euros; Children under 12 go free.
Tickets can be purchased by email to the Grimaldi Forum Monaco Ticket Office, Tel: +377 99 99 3000 or simply from the Executive Traveller Concierge.

Buda Castle and Hungarian Open Air Museum to host 17th Budapest International Wine Festival
Wine lovers have the chance to sample some of the best that Hungary offers at the 17th Budapest International Wine Festival from 10-14 September in the historic Buda Castle and the Hungarian Open Air Museum at Szentendre. Around 170 Hungarian wineries will exhibit as well as a few other wine producing countries and it’s a great opportunity to learn about the wines, as well as enjoy traditional food and festivities.
With about 1,000 wines to sample, a grape wine auction, grape harvest procession, together with cultural programmes such as classical and jay concerts you cannot afford to miss this festival. Saturday there is a Vintage Parade, with around 800 representatives from the various wine regions dressed in folk costumes and ending with a lovely show on the festival stage.
Visitors can also take the ‘wine boat’ down the Danube – or the ‘wine bus’ - and visit the Vintage Throng, the sister festival at Szentendre, an arty and bustling town 19km north of Budapest, to enjoy more tastings, cellar visits and the choosing of the vintage queen. Artists flocked to this quaint town the 1920s because of the special light and it makes for a great day trip from the capital.
The Vintage Throng takes place at the Hungarian Open Air Museum (www.skanzen.hu) a regional collection of museums that showcase traditional Hungarian village life through the centuries. In Szentendre the museum consists of nine stone buildings that show the wealth of their previous owners who were wine merchants and craftsmen. Almost all the buildings have cellars underneath and the longest is 40 metres and runs under the main square.
Entrance fee: About £8 per person for a day ticket that allows multi entries on the same day, plus entrance to the Vintage Throng. Price includes a tasting glass, glass bearing bag and two tasting tickets plus entrance to a few of the museums that are close to Buda Castle. Transport via the ‘wine boat’ or ‘wine bus’ is not included in the ticket price.
For more information visit the wine festival

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The Spanish Tourist Office, Regent Street Association and the Crown Estate came together to create “A Taste of Spain” (www.tastespain.info) on Regent Street (regentstreetonline.com). The two-week long festival kicked off on Sunday 25th May with a Guinness World Record-Breaking attempt for the largest Sevillanas dance. Regent Street, home to some of the world’s leading fashion names, with a unique mix of classic and contemporary style was closed to vehicular traffic between noon and 4pm and the Spanish who will always find something to celebrate no matter what time of the year, were out in their regalia and numbers.

 

However, it was not simply an all Spanish affair; Scotsman Bill Honeyman was among the many Sevillanas dancers tapping their feet and performing the famous dance on Regent Street last week. Bill says that his Scottish school was the first to offer Spanish as second language and ever since his first visit to Spain in 1953, he has always loved the country. The Taste of Spain festival is due to end on Sunday 8th June.

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The Sevillanas dance looks like a flamenco but, while it is similar, Sevillanas is its own dance. The interesting thing is that despite the name the dance did not originate in Seville. It is the descendant of an old Castilian folk dance, the seguidilla.

Traditionally, Sevillanas is danced by a man and a woman (though it can be danced by two women) and is performed in sets of four couples. The interpretations of the dance vary and most believe its four parts portray four phases of a relationship as follows:
• the initial meeting of a man and a woman
• falling in love
• an argument
• reconciliation
You do not have to dance the Sevillanas with a lover.

The event was very well organised with accompanying singing, guitar music and hand-clapping, castanets, flute, small drums and tambourines.

Spanish Representatives Receiving the World Record

For the world record, dancers had to divide the four parts into “coplas” or verses, and each copla s made up of six movements. Between each part there is an “estribillo” or silent transmission and they had to stay dancing for 15 minutes. The movements include “paseillios”, a slow entrance with both arms about the head; “pasadas” in which the partners dance next to each other; “careos”, where the couple face-to-face; and “remate” the final flourish of hard steps, ending at the same time as the music to create an emphatic climax. All elements are danced in ¾ time, with one strong beat then two weak ones in each bar.

The rest of the day in pictures

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