3 . It is safe to say that on this week’s round-up of G．L Events This Weekend, we celebrate a legend and a major percentage of the events are organized for the annual Celebration Festival. Your weekend round-up starts here!!!

Electronic Soundscapes

Electronic Soundscapes returns this year with double music! If you enjoyed the 2015 concert at Printing Press, don’t miss the performances taking place during next week’s Celebration at the Freedom Park program. Enjoy the best of European and Nigerian electronic music on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15.

Time: 7: 00 PM　Fee: N 500

Just Listen

16/16 is excited to host a listening session of songs from South African artist Lindiwe Maxolo’s upcoming album on Friday, October 14th. Lindiwe Maxolo is an emerging powerful singer in the South African Jazz music industry. She has worked with South African legends such as Sibongile Khumalo, Concord Nkabinde.

Tickets can be bought in advance. Tickets are limited so get them early.

Time: 7: 00 PM　Fee: N 7000

Jeun Soke (Supper Club)

Meaning “to eat up” in Yoruba, Jeun Soke is Lagos’ premier supper club. We host a dinner with drinks pairings. Jeun Soke features a taste of the Asian menu—7 courses of shared plates along with 3 cocktails. NGN 20，000 gets you food and drinks. The menu without drinks costs NGN 15, 000. You are welcome to bring your own bottle of wine but that will cost a corkage (开瓶费) fee of NGN 3, 000.

Time: 6: 30 PM　Fee: N 20, 000 or N 15, 000

For reservations: 09098800995 or 08188325714.

Echoes (Closing Ceremony)

Echoes is an exhibition that includes, but is not limited to, over a hundred masks of Fela and the queen mother in diverse colors and moods and a study and display of his fashion sense and wardrobe, all of which were inspired by his struggle for freedom, human dignity, courage, to name but a few. The closing ceremony promises to be a grand affair with an artist’s talk and dance performance. The cocktail (鸡尾酒) will follow as the guests get to enjoy the rest of the exhibition before closing.

Time: 1:00 PM－7: 00 PM　Fee: Open to All

4 . I was in the second year of my PhD program when a colleague asked what I would do if I had a 25th hour every day. Without much________, I said I would use it to help others. Like many graduate students, I was________with teaching, coursework,________, and some attempts at a personal life.________, I asked myself, “Do I really need a(n)________hour to help other people — or do I need to make better use of the 24 hours I have?”

A short time later, I started to________for an organization that provides________for senior citizens and people with disabilities. To my________, adding this activity to my busy life was just what I needed to________the chaos I was feeling as a first-generation international graduate student.

I was a bit________before my first ride, as I had not________much with people outside school. But my nervousness quickly calmed when I________my passenger: an old woman on her way to church. She was________to see a young international driver and was full of questions about my________. She shared with me how thankful she was to attend________and get some fresh air. She gave me her blessings.________like these and the smiles on my riders’ faces________me to continue driving.

I started to volunteer about 3 hours every weekend — time I otherwise would have wasted________or looking through social media. Sharing stories with my riders was much more________. My previously overwhelming schedule began to feel________.

China’s space programme started later than those of Russia and the US, but it has made great     1     in a short time. China became the third country in the world to     2     send humans into space in 2003, when Yang Liwei successfully     3     Earth in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed     4     second manned orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk,     5     by the vehicle Jade Rabbit being sent to the moon to study its surface. After that, China     6     the Tiangong 2 space lab into space and Tianzhou1 to dock     7     it. This     8     one step further in China’s plan to     9     a space station in the future. More recently, China has sent Chang’e 4 to explore the surface of the far side of the moon to make     10     and observations.

It is possibly the National's biggest hit, having played in 11 countries to more than seven million people. Now, Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris' s production returns to the venue 11 years after its first show. A Christmas treat.

National Theatre, November 8 to January 5

The small Norfolk town of Fakenham receives around 110, 000 visitors annually for this seasonal institution, which has been running for 42 years. Even the royal family have come to the show.

Thursford Collection, November 6 to December 23

The trend for gender-change roles continues with Stephen Sondheim' s 1970 musical, in which the hero Bobby- -turning 35 and at an emotional crossroads- becomes the female Bobbie. It works. In the updated Company, the plot remains the same and there's funny acting from Rosalie Craig in the lead .Marianne Elliott directs with her habitual imagination.

Gielgud Theatre, November 7 to March 30

There have been a couple of versions of the Scottish Play this year. The Globe hopes for a better opening for its winter season. The rest of the season includes Marlowe' s Doctor Faustus with Pauline Melynn as Mephistopheles, and Richard II with a cast of women of colour.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, November 7 to February 2

To present Polonius in Hamlet, the production of this“problem”play is comical-historical in new RSC(英国皇家莎士比亚剧团) staging. There is even the first deaf actor in a mainstream RSC role,Charlotte Arrowsmith, signing her lines as Cassandra.

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, November 8 to November 17

8 . It’s 5:00 in the morning when the alarm rings in my ears. I roll out of bed and walk blindly through the dark into the bathroom. I turn on the light and put on my glasses. The house is still as I walk downstairs while my husband and three kids sleep peacefully. Usually I go for a long run, but today I choose my favorite exercise DVD. Insanity. Sweat pours down my face and into my eyes. My heart races as I face my body to finish each movement. As I near the end of the exercise, I feel extremely tired, but a smile is on my face. It’s not a smile because the DVD is over, but a smile of success from pushing my body to its extreme limit.

Some people enjoy shopping, smoking , food, work, or even chocolate. But I need exercise to get through each day. Some shake heads when they see me run through the town. Others get hurt when I refuse to try just one bite of their grandmother’s chocolate cake. They raise their eyebrows, surprised by my “no thank you,” or by my choice to have a salad. Over the years , I have learned it’s okay to just say “no.” I shouldn’t feel sorry for refusing food that I don’t want to eat.

So what drives me to roll out of bed at 5:00 a.m.? What gives me the reason to just say no to ice cream? Commitment. A commitment to change my life with a way that reduces daily anxiety, increases self-confidence and energy, extends life and above all improves my body shape. This is the point where a smile appears on my face as I look at myself in the mirror or try on my favorite pair of jeans that now fit just right. It’s through commitment and sweat that I can make a difference within myself inside and out.