In each city, close and far, there are main attractions (museums, sights) that pop up on everyone's itinerary and some waiting to be discovered.
I found one such place, the English Folk Dance and Song Society hosted by Cecil Sharp House in Camden, North London.
Space is not all song and dance, they also stage events like Among the sweet green fields (until September 4, 2011), a selling exhibition of folk paintings by young artists with autism and learning disabilities.
The common thread:
"Inspired by the old seasonal customs of agricultural West and North Oxfordshire, this exhibition presents a carefully curated selection of contemporary paintings and Victorian artefacts rooted in "the wide grass meadows…and warm, green-muffled hills" of this magical and ancient landscape.
From the purificatory lights of Candlemas to the rich feasts and pungent herbs and berries of Christmastide, from the dew-soaked merry-making of May Day, "the greatest day in the year" for the children of Flora Thompson's Lark Rise, to the beloved autumnal Saturnalia of St. Giles' Wake Fair in Oxford: the great pageant of the turning year has been the inspiration for each artist's journey."
Event is Free!