All night opening this weekend for Conrad Shawcross Timepiece at Roundhouse

This one sounds like a corker if you’re around this weekend. Not only is it the last day of the smash hit Camden Beach (where did that month go?) but the Roundhouse also plans to host an all-night opening on Saturday 24 to celebrate the final day of Conrad Shawcross’ installation Timepiece.

A large-scale mechanical work that has transformed the venue into a “vast time-keeping device”, as part of this closing weekend of celebrations artists including Siobhan Davies and Wayne McGregor will stage special performances.

Siobhan Davies Dance will present ROTOR, a series of live works that will appear to manipulate time. And then, at dawn on Sunday 25 August, Roundhouse Choir director Osnat Schmool and members of choirs from across London invite visitors to join in and sing a Dawn Chorus at an eye-watering 6am. Yup, 6am.

Meanwhile, resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor and his dance company will orbit Shawcross’ machine with a new commission Azimuth, a series of 24 kinetic interventions, silent mediations and enigmatic shadow drawings.

And better still it’s all free – or rather, it’s “pay what you like”, surely the best way to price arts events, purses permitting.