Must do

MUST VISIT

Gran Gran Fiesta, a free festival of Latin American music, dance and events on the South Bank. Cuban band La Orquesta Aragon will play cha cha cha and boleros, and there's merengue music and dance from Grupo Autoctono de Venezuela, a tango set and the Gran Fiesta Infantil - a programme of children's events including singing, dancing, games and storytelling. Part of the Coin Street Festival. Sun 29 June, Oxo Tower Wharf, Gabriel's Wharf, Bernie Spain Gardens and Riverside Walkway, South Bank, London SE1 (0171-401 3610) 2pm-8pm, free.

MUST BOOK

for Burt Bacharach's one-off gig at the Albert Hall. The maestro responsible for "Twenty-four Hours from Tulsa", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" and "Walk on By", who has written for the Carpenters, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones, will be joined by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with support from popsters Swing Out Sister. Tue 1 July, Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 (0171-589 8212), 7.30pm.

MUST SEE

On Hong Kong, an exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery by Ryuji Miyamoto and Yau Leung to mark the handover to China. Between them, the photographers explore the country's past - Miyamoto concentrating on the lawless walled city of Kowloon, while Leung's pictures capture Hong Kong life from the Sixties to the present. From 30 June to 30 Aug at the Photographers Gallery, 5 Great Newport St, London WC2 (0171-831 1772).

MUST FLY

to the Algarve or the Canary Islands before the going gets too hot. Avro is offering return Gatwick-Faro tickets for pounds 129 and Gatwick-Arrecife flights for pounds 169. Both fares are for seven- or 14-night stays and are inclusive of tax (details 0181-715 1999 or 01293 567 916).

MUST READ:

Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq (Faber, pounds 9.99), 7 July. Selling 2,000 copies a day in Paris, with film rights already snapped up by Jean-Luc Godard, this "novel of lust and Transformation" was written by a schoolteacher from Lille. It's the hilarious, amoral story of a sexily pneumatic young woman ("The director of Perfumes Plus was holding my right breast in one hand, the job contract in the other") who finds herself slowly turning into a sow. "I was constantly hungry, I would have eaten anything at all ... peelings, overripe fruit, acorns, earthworms. The only thing I still couldn't stomach was ham." Kafka for the Nineties