What’s in the diary? February 2008
Words: Sophy Grimshaw, Anisha Patel 1 Cool as ice Brighten up your winter at Millennium Park Chicago’s new Museum of Modern Ice. Throughout February, Canadian artist Gordon Halloran’s boldly coloured, abstract ice paintings and installations are on display. You can skate around one embedded in the Park’s ice rink; www.museumofmodernice.com 10 Love ride Get loved up ahead of Valentine’s Day with the Brussels [...]
Words: Sophy Grimshaw, Anisha Patel
1 Cool as ice
Brighten up your winter at Millennium Park Chicago’s new Museum of
Modern Ice. Throughout February, Canadian artist Gordon Halloran’s boldly
coloured, abstract ice paintings and installations are on display. You can skate
around one embedded in the Park’s ice rink; www.museumofmodernice.com
10 Love ride
Get loved up ahead of Valentine’s
Day with the Brussels For Lovers
bicycle tour. In this annual event,
people take a leisurely evening
cycle through the city’s romantic,
narrow streets, with a break in a
cosy café. Single people are
welcome, and those without
wheels can hire a bike for the
night; www.provelo.org
11 You’re having a laugh
Tonight in Jersey you can catch one
of Britain’s most-lauded comedians,
Iranian-born Omid Djalili, as he brings
his new material to the Jersey Opera
House (www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk).
For more tour dates and belly laughs,
visit www.omidnoagenda.com
12 Sound of the city
Feel the heat at the annual Al Bustan Festival of Music
and Performing Arts in Beirut until 16 March. This year
is the 15th anniversary of the event. The theme
Beyond Borders encompasses jazz, opera, classical
and sacred music; www.albustanfestival.com
15 Dream scenes
See what made Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais the
most successful British painter of the second half of
the 19th century. Highlights of the eponymous
exhibition at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum include
the haunting Ophelia (1852, pictured), inspired by
Shakespeare’s Hamlet; www.vangoghmuseum.nl
21 Game, set, match
Can’t wait for Wimbledon? Björn Borg and John McEnroe are among its former
winners who are headlining the four-day Tennis Legends 2008 tournament at
Belfast’s Odyssey Arena. Other famous faces joining them on court are Pat Cash
and last year’s Tennis Legends champion Anders Järryd; www.odysseyarena.org
22 Salsa in the snow
It’s hot… and it’s cool – get your
dancing shoes on for the
weekend-long Salsa
Festival Switzerland,
which is heating up
Kongresshaus in Zurich. Expect
high-energy performances from
some of the world’s best
professional salsa dancers, and
public dance workshops, too;
www.salsafestival.ch
29 I do!
Ladies, this is your moment:
traditionally, on Leap Day women
can propose marriage to men. Time
to start researching those legendary
Las Vegas wedding chapels?
pencil in:
AMSTERDAM
UNTIL 5 MARCH The Amsterdam Photography
Museum celebrates photographer Arthur
Fellig (also known as Weegee); www.foam.nl
ESBJERG
UNTIL 24 FEBRUARY Visit Denmark’s
biggest outdoor ice rink while it is still open;
www.visitesbjerg.dk
GLASGOW
UNTIL 3 FEBRUARY Celtic Connections
festival of folk, popular and world music;
www.celticconnections.com
VENICE
UNTIL 5 FEBRUARY The final days of the
Venice Carnival;
www.carnivalofvenice.com
BRUSSELS
1-9 FEBRUARY Anima 2008, the animation
film festival;
www.folioscope.awn.com
CAIRO
1-4 FEBRUARY International Nile Children’s
Song Festival;
www.cicc.egnet.net
BRUSSELS
3-5 FEBRUARY Binche Carnival, featuring
traditional costumed characters, about one
hour from Brussels;
www.carnavaldebinche.be
MOSCOW
14-17 FEBRUARY The Moscow International
Diving Festival;
www.goldendolphin.ru
LONDON
15 FEBRUARY Strictly Come Dancing:
The Live Tour! at the O2 Arena;
www.strictlycomedancinglive.co.uk
COPENHAGEN
23 FEBRUARY-2 MARCH The Copenhagen
International Boat Show at the Bella Centre;
www.baadeibella.dk
DUBLIN
23 FEBRUARY Ireland face Scotland in Croke
Park for a 6 Nations rugby international;
www.rbs6nations.com
MANCHESTER
26 FEBRUARY Alicia Keys at the Manchester
Evening News Arena;
www.men-arena.com
