Hyde Park Square Area Guide

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS English Folk Song Suite PERCY GRAINGER Molly on the Shore GUSTAV HOLST First Suite in Eb PHILIP SPARKE The Year of the Dragon PERCY GRAINGER Shepherd's Hey ROBERT REYNOLDS O Magnum Mysterium PERCY GRAINGER Irish Tune from County Derry ARTURO MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2 Conductor - Stone Tung Join the wind, brass, and percussion players of Albion Orchestra at St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, for a concert showcasing some real classics of the Wind Orchestra repertoire. Featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Grainger, Holst, and Márquez, you are bound to hear a tune you can nod your head to. Why not come along, and finally put a name to that tune you have had stuck in your head! Refreshments available throughout, including wine and soft drinks. Concession tickets available for: over 60s, under 18s, and individuals with access needs.

More than 25 of the UK’s leading architectural practices have accepted an unusual challenge: to design a treehouse for a bonsai tree. Working at a scale where a single branch becomes a structural challenge and every millimetre counts, the results go on public display for the first time this summer in a new outdoor pop-up exhibition from the Museum of Architecture (MoA). The exhibition is organised in partnership with Paolo Cocco and presented in partnership with Connaught Village, one of London’s best kept secrets, where independent boutiques, cafés and galleries line charming leafy streets, moments from Hyde Park and Marble Arch. The exhibition forms part of the neighbourhood’s Village in Green programme, a summer-long celebration of nature, creativity and community. The exhibition includes a programme of creative workshop for all ages, including: Treehouse Making Workshop (ages 8+): Work with a real bonsai tree and specialist materials to design and build a miniature treehouse structure. £110 for a group of up to four people. Treehouse Garden (ages 3+): Create a planted hanging basket using natural materials, plants, and flowers, and craft a miniature tree or structure for your own bonsai-inspired garden. £65 for a group of up to four people. Bonsai Masterclass with Peter Warren (ages 16+): A rare opportunity to learn directly from one of the UK’s leading bonsai practitioners. Participants discover the history and art of bonsai, the professional secrets of care and maintenance, and leave with a high-quality bonsai tree to take home. £180 for a group of up to four people. Two dates only: Saturday 12 July and Thursday 17 July, both at 12.30pm. Nature’s Architects holiday camps (ages 5–12): Running every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during the school holidays, children explore architecture through nature, with weekly themes including birds, mushrooms, coral reefs, bears, bees, and cacti inspiring hands-on discovery of how the natural world solves the same problems as architects: structure, pattern, balance, and space.

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Sarah Davachi, 2 organ performances at St James's Church, Sussex Gardens This is a ticket for night 1, a two-show pass at a discounted rate available too. Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and alternate tuning systems to underscore gradual variations in texture, harmonic complexity, intonation, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of both acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and longform structures, early music concepts of intervallic relation and affect, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that reconfigures perceptions of the familiar and the distant. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. All ages

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Sarah Davachi, 2 organ performances at St James's Church, Sussex Gardens This is a ticket for night 2, a two-show pass at a discounted rate available too. Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and alternate tuning systems to underscore gradual variations in texture, harmonic complexity, intonation, and psychoacoustic phenomena. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of both acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and longform structures, early music concepts of intervallic relation and affect, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that reconfigures perceptions of the familiar and the distant. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. All ages