Still time to catch the last day of the Maydance, a fusion of Latin American, ballroom and highland dance, but things don’t really get underway before Sunday’s May Day celebrations in George Square, with music and street entertainments.To 31 May May Day celebrations: 11.30am. Firstly, with the two-day “Living Picture Show” in which actors guide you through the best and worst of film history – the chariot race from Ben Hur, the wedding scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral. Top designers including Amanda Wakeley, Red or Dead and Ben de Lisi provide the fashion displays. Beauty and hairdressing tips will be on offer, along with self- improving seminars and workshops ranging from the particular (“Fat to Flat”) to the general (“I Want More” – the hassle-free way to get what you want in life).
The Chinese art of Feng Shui will be tapped to give you enough energy to get home.10am-6pm, Earl’s Court 2, London SW5 (info: 0990 143014) to 6 May, pounds 9QUEER UP NORTHThe Cornerhouse in Manchester is celebrating cinema’s centenary in high style. Inside the hallowed halls, Nineties woman can get first-hand information about all areas of existence: from fashion to finance, careers and home interiors, to beauty, travel and entertainment Oh yes, and sex. On Monday, revellers move to Bury, where busking New York women go latino. 6-9pm, Albert Sq, Manchester; Sun: 12.30-5.30pm, Market Pl, Merseyway, Stockport; Mon: Market St, Bury, most events freeCOSMOPOLITAN SHOWNot content with changing the face of women’s magazines, Cosmopolitan has decided to go public with its first ever consumer extravaganza. Tonight, a mascleta of Spanish firecrackers heralds a trapeze act, music, and a Colombian fantastical dress show.
On Sunday, the action switches to Stockport for the main event: a parade followed by a flavoursome afternoon of 25 acts – watch out for the French jet-propelled peanuts and the Natural Theatre of Bath. Today
STREETS AHEAD
If Randy Crawford was your role model and street life was the only life you knew, then your idea of existence would probably be side-stepping miserable shoppers on exhaust-fume-filled afternoons. As it happens, in Manchester, they take a more enlightened view, blessing us with the “Streets Ahead Festival”, two all-singing, all-dancing weekends devoted to the pleasurable possibilities of the pavement. Can you capture the essence of a garden opened to the public courtesy of the NGS, showing off the layout, planting and design features? Take your camera with you on a visit and submit between 8 and 10 transparencies demonstrating the glories of a garden – and you could win a Pentax MZ-5 worth pounds 700 Details in the latest “Yellow Book”..
