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There will be a free Jazz Picnic at Lloyd Park on Saturday 8th August.

You can enjoy the music and the sunshine with your family on the field, while listening to music. A great outdoor event.

Lloyd and Aveling Park has a page on Flickr, where you can see how young and old family members use the spaces in the park.

Lloyd and Aveling Park is getting a massive £3.5million from the Heritage and BIG Lottery funds and an additional £1million from the Council will be spent on restoring the park, with new facilities and more staff.

See you there? For more information call 020 8496 3000.

The Vestry House Museum in Waltham Forest have a Shades of Green exhibition – running from the 7th to the 29th August.

This display is going to be a ‘…feast of forests, with a great display of the idyllic gardens and summer in Waltham Forest’.

From the 3rd to the 12th September the museum has the return of the ever popular E17 Art Trail. The theme for the displays and activities this year is ‘Welcome to Walthamstow’.

The E17 Art Trail have a great web site where you can see images from last years events and venues, as well as details of how the displays and participants are organised.

Get ‘arty’ this summer with all the family and the Vestry House Museum.

This summer many families and children may be traveling abroad to visit family and friends.

The NHS have produced a new website packed with information about traveling healthily, telephone advice lines and up to date health information on destination countries.

NaTHNaC is the National travel Health Network and Centre, its pages designed to keep parents, carers and children informed on travel health issues.

Planning a trip with the children? Bookmark the NaTHNaC pages, or follow their health bulletins on Twitter.

Children’s Art Day events for 2010 run across the week 12th to 18th July 2010.

On the engage in the visual arts web pages you can find out what is going in in your favourite part of the city.

From a family day on Saturday at the Whitechapel Gallery from 12 – 4pm, to a taster session in Chinese art at the Chinese Comunity Centre in Gerrard Street – there is a range of free activities available.

Children’s Art Day is the UK-wide programme encouraging children, young people, families and teachers to engage with the visual arts. Events will take place across the UK between 12-18 July 2010.

Read more about the arts activities this week here.

With the summer holiday fast approaching you can find lots of activities for the break in the Waltham Forest Summer Daze 2010 publication.

Packed with ideas for activities, the different centres offering sport and a borough wide view of things to do for children and young people across all ages.

We’ve put a link on the latest issue of SpeakEasy, which is always available online too.

Check out you Summer Daze activities on this Waltham Forest web page here.

Free software to download is available here – to help you view and print pdf files.

The Wadham Players are staging a performance of The Story of Cinderella on Saturday 10th July 2010.

An adaption of the classic fairytale by Charles Way – the event takes place for family members of all ages, starting at 3.00pm.

The event will be staged at the Waterworks Nature Reserve and Golf Centre in Lammas Road, off the Lea Bridge Road.

For ticket prices and more information visit the event pages of the Lea Valley Park website here.

You can read about the origins of Cinderella on these Wikipedia pages.

There is more event and activity information always on the Waltham Forest Council web site – see more here.

Leytonstone School are running a range of activities for years 5 and 6 between 6th – 9th April.

From 10.00am to 1.00pm, then from 1.00pm to 3.00pm.

Activities include such things as basketball, table tennis and breakdancing.

All sessions are free and on a first come, first served basis. You can collect your registration form from the Leytonstone School office.

Keep busy and fit over the holiday.