This year’s Greenwich Film Festival, which runs from Thursday 15th – Monday 18th July at a variety of locations, will take you through time to explore the past, present and future with films ranging from nostalgic period drama to science fiction.

Shows within the World Heritage Site will take place at Greenwich Picturehouse and the Peter Harrison Planetarium at the Royal Observatory, while other venues include the Vue Cinema at The O2.

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The Big Dance is a pan-London celebration of dance and dancing with nine days (3rd – 11th July) of events at five key hubs throughout the city taking in more unusual venues such as shops, parks, galleries and museums.

The Greenwich Dance Agency will be co-ordinating the South East hub opening up the world of dance to local communities, encouraging people of all ages to participate, watch and experience dance.

Their programme will include impromptu and surprise events in and around The O2 on Greenwich Peninsula (5th – 9th July) involving, artists, dance students, young people and the general public.

The Greenwich and Docklands International Festival has planned a four year thematic programme leading up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games called ‘Out for the Elements’. Festivals until 2012 will ‘tell the story’ of the area in a poetic and visually spectacular way, each year will focus on one of the four elements, water, earth, fire and air.

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If you love cricket then you’re gonna need to get some tickets to this summer’s Npower series.

England play two Test Series this summer 2010 against Bangladesh at Lord’s and Old Trafford in May/June.

Further action in London towards July / August with the Pakistan Npower series.

Test’s due to be played at Trent Bridge, Edgbaston, The Brit Insurance Oval and Lord’s.

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On Tuesday 23 June 2010 Christie’s of London are holding an Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale.

The sale will include one of the last great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Executed in 1917-18, Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk III) is the third and final painting in a series of three portraits commissioned by the Munk family of their daughter Ria. One of the last and most modern of Klimt’s full-length female portraits, the painting offers a glimpse into the working methods of one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century and is expected to realise £14 million to £18 million.

Giovanna Bertazzoni, Director and Head of Impressionist and Modern art at Christie’s, London:

“It is an exceptionally rare occasion to be able to offer at auction a late portrait by Gustav Klimt, let alone a portrait of such importance; this is only the second or third comparable example to be offered at auction in over 20 years. Gustav Klimt is an artist with an international following and we look forward to offering this exceptional work to collectors from around the world in London in June.”

Soon after Klimt’s death in 1918, the painting passed into the possession of Aranka Munk. The painting was then housed in her lakeside villa in Bad Aussee until 1941 when the villa and its contents were seized by the National Socialists and the portrait passed into the hands of the collector and dealer William Gurlitt. In 1953 Frauenbildnis was among a number of important paintings that Gurlitt donated to the Neue Galerie der Stadt in Linz which came to be known as the Lentos Museum. The painting subsequently remained in the Lentos Museum, Linz until June 2009 when it was voluntarily restituted to the heirs of Aranka Munk whose heirs have entrusted Christie’s to sell the painting on their behalf.

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