Temperatures keep rising and you are getting out of ideas of what to do with yourself this Summer? Luckily, we live in London (probably the best city in the world if you ask me) where fun never ends! We have found 5 awesome things you could be doing this August in order to forget forget the pains of the heatwave and embrace this hot Summer

1. ‘Scoop: A Wonderful Ice Cream World'

The British Museum of Food’s founders Bompas & Parr present this exhibition dedicated to all things ice cream. See memorabilia from the world’s largest collection of ice cream paraphernalia, try scoops made with intriguing flavours of bygone era like candied fruit, an all-day-breakfast flavour and an eighteenth-century daffodil recipe, taste a glow-in-the-dark concoction in a futuristic luminescent cave and stand in a cloud of vanilla-flavoured fog
and breathe it in.

2.Movies on the River

Watch a movie on the top deck of a boat after a cruise along the River Thames

Can you imagine watching a movie under the stars on the top deck of aboat, after a cruise along the Thames?

Time Out will make that dream a reality in the summer of 2018 with the return of Movies on the River – London’s first ever cinema on the Thames.

For five nights a week from mid-June to early September, our movie boatwill offer a food and drink-fuelled sunset cruise from the Tower of London.

Once the sun disappears, we’ll dock up in the shadow of some of London's most awe-inspiring sights and play a movie on our open-air top deck.

Time Out Live presents Movies on the River with City Cruises runs five nights a week (Tue-Sat) from mid-June to early September, starting on Wednesday June 13. Theboatboards at Tower Pier at 8pm.The boat returns to Tower Pier once the movie finishes. 

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3.River Stage

The NT's bringing the fun this summer with weekends of free outdoor performance

Fill yer boots with free live music, dance and theatre at the National Theatre’s free outdoor mini-festival weekends. River Stage takes over a dedicated spot on Southbank outside the theatre, offering crowds the chance to discover new performers, join in workshops, or just slump back in a deckchair and soak up the sun.

2018 River Stages features five weekends of events curated by East London drag hub The Glory (13-15th July), regional theatre powerhouse HOME Manchester (20-22nd July), classical music innovators Nonclassical (3rd-5th August) and the National Theatre itself (10-12th August). 

4.Richard Prince: Early Joke Paintings review

Richard Prince isn’t a subtle artist. Smart as a whip, sure, and often infuriatingly complex, but where other artists may ease you into their ideas and aesthetics, Prince comes diving in off the top ropes, body slamming you and jabbing you in the ribs over and over again.

These early works here are just big jokes on canvas. Neat typography, some comic-style drawings, but nothing too fancy. Some are funny, but most aren’t. Even when the jokes are funny, they’re so dark that they just feel seedy and grim. ‘My father was never home, he was always drinking booze. He saw a sign saying DRINK CANADA DRY so he went up there.’ Funny, but also really not funny.

But maybe the biggest joke is on art itself. Hung here in a swanky gallery, for sale, they become the subjects of an awful lot of toe-curling, humour-less art wank. You can literally hear gallerists smugly and seriously describing Prince’s aesthetic choices, desperately trying to explain why a joke about a grocer with a cucumber up his arse is high art. Maybe the joke’s on us. And if it is, then it’s absolutely hilarious.

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5. Beautiful Allotment

The Bourne & Hollingsworth team is branching out by unfurling a pop-up in the Geffrye Museum gardens. The allotment-themed spot will feature cocktails made from ingredients grown on the green site, barbecue areas for alfresco dining, and bookable potting sheds, greenhouses and long flower tables if you’re hanging with a gang

For the full article as seen on Time Out click here