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Days
thursday,
friday,
saturday,
sunday,
monday,
tuesday,
wednesday
Categories
Exhibition
Anomalous Visuals,
Lister Exhibition,
SEE, We Assemble,
Kate & Other Women,
Aikon II,
The Battle For Abidjan
Gig
Midsummer Concert,
The Night Shift
Food
Rock Lobsta
Theatre
Lullaby,
Greenwich Festival,
The Secret Consul
Cinema
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,
Page Eight + Q&A with David Hare
Sport
Lucha Future
Festival
Folly For A Flyover,
Copeland Book Market,
Ease That Sneeze,
Meditation in the Park
Shopping
Kensal Flea
talk
Good Fashion Perspectives
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June 23 2011
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CAMP, 70-74 City Road, London EC1Y 2BJ
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when
Private view 8pm-9pm After Party 9pm-12am
how much
Free
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exhibition
Anomalous Visuals
If you consider yourself something of a nite owl, klub kid or after-hours-moocher, and you’ve been out and about in the Capital regularly over the past few years (and seeing as you’re reading this then the chances are pretty good that you have) then you should consider beating a path to this exhibition for three reasons. Firstly; it’s an authentically captured, thoughtfully curated, lushly visual document of the culture you immerse yourself in, and well worth a look. Secondly, you might be in one of the pictures yourself – fancy that! And thirdly, it’s held in a club venue itself (the darn cool CAMP) and there’ll be a rip-roaring party to attend on the evening of the private view with beats from ADJ (Anomalous Visuals), Kid Circus (Disco Dirtbox) & Kiwi. Oh, and it’s free! / Naomi Attwood
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June 23 2011
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Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Location Map
when
7.30pm
how much
£15 adv; £18 door
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gig
Midsummer Concert
How many songs have you heard, how many would you recognise, how many do you know to sing along to? There must be hundreds, and not all pop songs, but random tunes your parents and grandparents used to sing, nursery rhymes and other oddments you’ve sung drunkenly with your friends at the end of a night. An entire back catalogue stored in your mind. Last year folk singer, Jon Boden announced that all the songs he’s sung for years in pubs but never recorded or performed on stage should be recorded. In essence, he decided to upload all the music he carries with him by recording a folk song a day. 365 days later he’s celebrating with guests including The Remnant Kings. Go along, sing along and add something new to the soundtrack of your life. / Johanna Derry
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June 23 2011
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Serpentine Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA
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when
10am - 6pm
how much
Free
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exhibition
SEE, We Assemble
The art world is in deliberation and this time it’s not caused by throwaway shock tactics. Usually, debate in art is created by cunning PR strategies in order to produce reams of copy dedicated to debating the rules of morals and taste. So when Jonathan Jones created a commotion of dialogue from a review of SEE, We ASSEMBLE, which resulted in 308 comments, the art world braced itself for civil war. Whose camp were you for? Experimentation and playfulness or conceptual rigour and institutional standards? Even Mark Lecky, the artist, wadded in. So now it its final days, we’ve got one last chance to visit the exhibition and come to our own conclusions. Do smart fridges, sub-cultures and powerful imagery make for unique art? I say yes. / Caroline Christie
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June 24 2011
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Folly For A Flyover, Under the A12 Flyover, Hackney Wick, E9 5HW
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when
Fri: 7pm - 11pm, Sat/Sun: 11am - 11pm, to 31st July
how much
Canal cruises - £2, Films - £4
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festival
Folly For A Flyover
As well as wondering why abandoned roadside factories couldn’t have been transformed into giant fortresses, much of my childhood motorway musings concerned the spaces beneath them. Even as a youngster, I worried about what a waste they were: much better to fill them with grand, childish, dystopian visions, no? It’s got a roof already, why not walls? Apparently I’m not the only person to have seen the potential in this otherwise wasted wonderland offers: for two months only, Folly for a Flyover will be turning the underside of the A12 into a brilliantly artistic omnibus. Hand built from local, reclaimed materials, the ‘folly’ will host everything from cinema to canal cruises, from to performance to play. Sounds like a grand, childish, dystopian vision to me… / Vyvian Raoul
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June 24 2011
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where
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
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when
10.30pm
how much
£42
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theatre
Lullaby
I think most of us are in agreement that sleep is pretty much one of the best things ever. None of those other really great things – food, sex, music, stuff – seem that great if sleep is sorely lacking. I know a ten and a half hour-long theatre show seems like a long time, but given that the audience is encouraged to sleep through a good seven hours of the performance (and then treated to breakfast), I think it sounds just swell. Duckie’s bed-time production for the Barbican features soothing songs and stories all primed to give you the best night’s sleep of your life. Did I mention there’s free breakfast. Don’t forget your pyjamas! / Crystal Bennes
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June 24 2011
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Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9LW
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when
‘All that is solid melts into air’ is showing Fri 9pm, Sat 3.45pm & 6pm, Sun 2.30pm & 6pm
how much
Free
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theatre
Greenwich Festival
The Greenwich Festival foregrounds street theatre and performance -- most importantly – free theatre. Big this year is its Greenwich Fair, back for the first time since 1857, when it was banned for being too unruly. It claims to have been the ‘largest and most uproarious gathering of outdoor entertainment in Britain’ in its heyday, so if you’re gutted you’re not at Glastonbury, head to Greenwich. Performance highlights of the main festival programme include the premier of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, a play that recalls philosopher Marshall Berman and Marx before him and throws them up into the sky against a backdrop of present-day London urban regeneration. / Delaina Haslam
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June 26 2011
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Union Street Urban Orchard, 100 Union Sreet, SE1 0NL
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when
2pm-4pm; garden open Tues-Sun 11am-6pm
how much
£15 for workshop; entry to garden free
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festival
Ease That Sneeze
I sit in an open-plan office near several Richter-scale-registering sneezers. When one erupts, instant messages fly across the floor along the lines of: ‘That wasn’t a sneeze, that was a cry for help.’ The Urban Physic Garden urges us to eschew Western medicine and turn to the wonder of plants to ‘ease that sneeze’ at their workshop today. You can even learn how to prevent it altogether using ‘herbs and foods for immunity’. Or just stop by the garden: a marvel nestled amongst office space on the site that became a community orchard last summer. It’s due to be built upon in October, so catch it while you can. Book a consultation, play ping-pong in a skip or dine at the ‘Rambulance’: the Rambling Restaurant in a decommissioned ambulance. / Delaina Haslam
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June 25 2011
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Secret Limehouse location
when
Tues - Sat 7.30, Sat & Sun Matinee 3pm to 16 July
how much
From £12.50
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theatre
The Secret Consul
Menacing architecture, the smell of economic decline, a slate grey sky, a shadowy figure emerging from an alleyway: am I in a film noir come to life? Then I hear the dulcet tones of a soprano and the plot thickens. Actually, I am in a a site-specific 'guerilla opera’. An adaptation of Gian-Carlo Menotti's 1950 musical drama addressing issues of immigration. Rising star divas from the Ukraine, Lithuania and Japan, plus a live band and a chorus of London ‘illegals’, create a nightmare world of sexy secretaries, secret policemen and rooftop chases. The Secret Consul is the third in a series of site-specific performances from London theatre company, The Wedding Collective. Here we suspend disbelief to find ourselves in a totalitarian regime in an unnamed European country. hearing the story of Magda’s desperate attempts to obtain a visa to leave the country and hook up with her dashing dissident husband. / Maeve Hosea
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June 27 2011
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BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road
South Bank
Waterloo
London SE1 8XT
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when
Mon 8.45pm Thu 6.30pm
how much
£9.50
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cinema
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
When actress Pepa is left by her married lover Ivan her life begins to unravel as she finds herself confronting increasingly bizarre people and situations. Women on the Verge is Pedro Almodóvar’s homage to the great melodramas of the 1950s. Carmen Maura eats up the screen as the jilted Pepa, and watch out for a very youthful Antonio Banderas. The sets are all wildly colourful and camp, and while the film may start slow, as more characters and plots converge we are treated to some fantastic Latin histrionics. What sets Almodóvar apart is his ability to invest such an over-the-top and superficially whimsical film with such integrity and intelligence. It’s difficult to choose a favourite character or scene, but I do have a penchant for the eccentric cab driver, and gazpacho will never be the same after a certain scene. / Eugene
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June 28 2011
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where
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road
South Bank
Waterloo
London SE1 8XT
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when
6.30pm
how much
From £6.75
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cinema
Page Eight + Q&A with David Hare
Sir David Hare’s fist directorial outing in 21 years, Page 8, has inevitably created a high standard for itself. Luckily, it’s reached above and beyond the measuring post. Known for his satirical examinations of post World War II British society, Hare isn’t afraid of rigorously scrutinising and unravelling complex characters and narratives. Using his innovative approach to storytelling, Hare works with the socio-political undercurrent of political activism to tell the story of Tony Blair and the head of MI5. Make sure you grab the chance to watch this cinematic masterpiece on the big screen (like it should be) and hear from Hare himself discuss the film and the true events that inspired it, before it’s shown on the BBC next week. / Caroline Christie
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June 28 2011
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where
Little Black Gallery, 13A Park Walk, London SW10 0AJ
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when
Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm, Sat: 11am-5pm, to 30 July
how much
Free
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exhibition
Kate & Other Women
The Little Black Gallery has a reputation to maintain - sexy, controversial, never afraid to stir things up a little with its erotically-charged shows. The clothes are off again for its new exhibition by Hollywood director Mike Figgis: Kate & Other Women – a never-seen-before collection of photos of Kate Moss. The Leaving Las Vegas film-maker took the pictures for the supermodel’s 2007 Agent Provocateur campaign and delivers an elegant, dreamy style, with a touch of grit. If a semi-nude La Moss isn’t enough, there’s also a Figgis shot of Bond girl Eva Green. The award-winning director himself will be signing copies of his book ‘The 4 Dreams of Miss X’- which accompanied the underwear campaign - at the gallery from 12pm - 1pm on June 25. / Laura Mannering
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June 29 2011
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where
Tenderpixel, 10 Cecil Court WC2N 4HE
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when
Wed-Sat, 1pm-7pm, until 9/7/11
how much
Free
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exhibition
Aikon II
This is my portrait being drawn by a robot. His name’s Paul and he’s in residence at Tenderpixel. He’s the creation of Patrick Tresset, artist and computing researcher at Goldsmiths College. Patrick created a robotic arm -- Paul -- and modelled its sketching techniques on his own. Take a seat before Paul and he’ll take a look at you and start to draw, getting the features down and then adding shading. Paul is joined by Peter, who is more abstract, Peter only creates ‘when he’s in the mood’. The robots used to tweet and do Facebook, but they’re past these things now. ‘It’d just be a gimmick,’ explains Patrick. ‘It’s not artistic. ’ Hurry to Cecil Court to have your portrait done for the exhibition, or for your own mantelpiece or facebook profile. / Delaina Haslam
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June 29 2011
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where
Jack Bell Gallery , 13 Mason’s Yard, SWIY 6BU
Location Map
when
7pm-9pm, until 01/09/11
how much
Free
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exhibition
The Battle For Abidjan
It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the detritus of daily life in London. Today my biggest bugbear was the traffic on the A316. When I read the blurb about this event, it made me remember how easy I have it, and how uncreative I really am. Aboudia is an Ivorian artist who made his name holed up in a basement studio during the civil war in The Ivory Coast last year. It was here that he started his latest body of work, reflecting life outside the basement; death, murder, violence. I plan to head down to the Jack Bell Gallery in Vauxhall to check out Aboudia’s incredible dark style. It’s a chance to see real documented interpretation of life that I can only imagine./ Jake Jones
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