Theatre & The Arts

OK this is serious now… Class and style oh and comedy. So that didn’t last long!

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

See a musical at a theatre

‘Which one’s the geezer?’ – See a ballet

‘Oh, an ashtray!’ – Create something in pottery

Origami – Make something by folding paper

Read your fist proper book (Anything involving a bloke shaped like an egg doesn’t count)!

Write a short story

Go to a live comedy show

Write/create a joke yourself

Learn a magic trick

Theatre

See a Play with less than 50 people in the audience

See a Play in a big theatre

See ‘The Mousetrap’ in London’s West End

Watch something in a theatre in London’s West End

Watch something in a theatre on New York’s Broadway

Visit The Royal Albert Hall (Kensington, London)

See the Last Night of the Proms at The Royal Albert Hall

Sit in ‘The Gods’ at The Royal Albert Hall

Watch some Shakespeare at The Globe theatre in London

Behind you! – See a Pantomime

See a stage hypnotist show

     See Paul McKenna live ( Bonus )

Be hypnotised by a stage hypnotist

See an Opera

See these opera companies

Metropolitan Opera

English National Opera

Teatro alla Scala (Milan)

Teatro Real de Madrid

Canadian Opera Company

Mariinski Theatre (Russia)

Berlin State Opera

Opera National de Paris

Opernhaus Zürich

Opera Australia

See 5 of them

See these ballet Companies

Royal Ballet – London

Bolshoi Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet

The Australian Ballet

National Ballet of Canada

American Ballet Theatre

Dutch National Ballet

Mariinski Ballet

See 5 of them

Visit the following Theatres

Sydney Opera House – Sydney, Australia

Royal Opera House – London, UK

Vienna State Opera – Vienna, Austria

Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires

Victoria Theatre, Singapore

Teatro Greco, Sicily

The Old Vic Theatre, London

Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Gran Teatro Del Liceu, Barcelona

Palais Garnier, Paris

See 5 of them

Write a Play

     Have your Play performed! ( Bonus )

Write a Musical

     Have your musical performed ( Bonus )

Write an Opera

     Have your Opera performed ( Bonus )

Perform in a…

Play

Musical

Opera

Work in a Theatre as…

Stage hand

Stage Manager

On lighting

On sound

Front of house

Theatre Manager

Own a Theatre

The Arts: Art

See the following paintings in the flesh

The Persistence of Memory (Dali) – MOMA, New York

Mona Lisa (Da Vinci) – Louvre, Paris

Sunflowers (Van Gogh) – MOMA, New York

The Last Supper (Da Vinci) – Louvre, Paris

Sistine Chapel (Michaelangelo) – Vatican, Italy

American Gothic (Wood) – Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer) Mauritshuis, Den Haag, NL

The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) – Uffizi Gallery, Florence

See 5 or more

Create something 'arty' yourself using…

Chalk

Pencil

Crayon

Pen

Oil

Watercolour

Acrylic

Ink

Use a brush

Use your hands (or other body parts)

Computer art app

Just get a tin of paint, lob it at the wall and call it ‘Art’!

“Stop looking at my junk!” – Do a live class with a naked model

Draw something on an ‘etch-a-sketch’ that actually looks like the thing it’s supposed to be!

Have something you created put on the fridge!

Have something you created placed in an actual gallery for sale

Have an entire gallery full of your collection

Sell a piece of your art for (£/$'s)…

100

500

1,000

5,000

10,000

100,000+

Buy a piece of art for (£/$'s)…

100

500

1,000

5,000

10,000

100,000+

See something called 'art' that you think really shouldn't be called that!

     If you saw it at the Saatchi Gallery, London ( Bonus )

See some art and be inspired to go home and create your own art… Then realise oh, it’s not as easy as it looks and immediately put your brushes on eBay!

See a famous statue

See a sculptor at work

Own an original Jonathan Wylder sculpture

Pottery – Create something using a Potter’s Wheel

Origami – Make something (following instructions) that you didn’t think you could make!

Museums (Galleries)

Visit the following Galleries

The Natural History Museum – London

The Victoria & Albert Museum – London

The British Museum – London

The Metropolitan – New York

Smithsonian – Washington DC

The Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam

The Vatican Museums – Vatican

The Prado – Madrid

MOMA – New York

The State Hermitage Museum – St Petersburg

The Uffizi Galleries – Florence

Le Louvre – Paris

The Egyptian Museum – Cairo

Acropolis Museum – Athens

Visit more than 5 of them

See something older than Jesus! (That’s 2,000 years you heathen)

Buy something from a Museum shop!

Literature

Read books

5

10

20

30

50

100+

Read books in one month

2

3

4

5

6

8 – That's 2 a week!!

Read these genres of books

Novel

Thriller/Mystery

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Factual History

Fictional Historical

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Horror

Fantasy

Poetry

Read something from ALL genres

Read something from the following authors:

Agatha Christie

Charles Dickens

William Shakespeare

Steven King

Earnest Hemmingway

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Jane Austen

Alistair MacLean

Clive Barker

Read more than 5 of them

Write a book

     Have a book published ( Bonus )

Write a poem

     Have a poem published ( Bonus )

Write a complete book of poetry

Join a book club

     Start your own book club ( Bonus )

Have a collection of books

10

25

40

75

100

Own a veritable library of books!

Own a book older than (Years)

20

30

40

50

75

100+

Pay more than (£/$'s) for a book

50

100

250

500

1,000

2,000+

Own a book for more than 10 years that you just can’t get round to reading!

Slap someone who was just about to tell you the ending to a book you’re reading!

“I know you’re going to love this…” – Buy a book then receive the same book as a gift from someone else!

Comedy

Go to one of these legendary comedy places:

The Comedy Store – London

The Comedy Store – Los Angeles

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre – New York

Comedy Nest – Montreal

The Stand – Edinburgh

Comedy Cellar – Dublin

The Comic’s Lounge – Melbourne

Cape Town Comedy Club – Cape Town

Go to 5 or more of them

Heckle a comedian

Write a joke that someone else uses in their act

Make someone laugh with a joke of your own (NOT our grandma, she’ll laugh at anything you say!)

Write a ‘stand up’ routine

Perform a ‘stand up’ routine

Go to a comedy club and ‘piss yourself’ laughing

Go to a comedy club and don’t laugh once… It happens!

See one of these comics on TV or on the internet

Ricky Gervais

Dave Chappell

Chris Rock

Steve Martin

Tim Vine

George Carlin

Gary Delaney

Sarah Millican

Victoria Wood

Joan Rivers

Louis CK

Richard Pryor

Bill Hicks

Robin Williams

Bill Burr

Bob Newhart

Andy Kaufman

Patrice O’Neal

Sean Locke

Monty Python

See them ALL

See one of these comics LIVE… In the flesh!

Ricky Gervais

Dave Chappell

Chris Rock

Steve Martin

Tim Vine

George Carlin

Gary Delaney

Sarah Millican

Victoria Wood

Joan Rivers

Louis CK

Richard Pryor

Bill Hicks

Robin Williams

Bill Burr

Bob Newhart

Andy Kaufman

Patrice O’Neal

Sean Locke

Monty Python

See 5 or more of them

Go to one of these comedy festivals

Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Montreal ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

New York Comedy Festival

Smithwick’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival

Go to ALL of them!

Magic

Have a magician come to your birthday party

Have a ‘close up’ magician come to your table at a restaurant

See a magician at a theatre

See a magician in Las Vegas!

Figure out how a magic trick is done while watching live (or on TV)

Be good enough to do a trick in front of someone and them go “WOW!” (Again… NOT YOUR NAN!)

“Was this your card?… No!” – Do a magic trick and totally mess it up