Events on Friday, October 19

The 51st BFI London Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

The 51st BFI London Film Festival

Friday 19/10 @ Various locations

Two of the many highlights of this year's London Film Festival: John Sayles' '50s period piece Honeydripper, which features Danny Glover... 

<i>Water</i>

Theatre

Water

Friday 19/10 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

Radiohead's performance designer, Andi Watson, teams up with David Farr and the Filter collective to produce a thought-provoking multimedia production. Four... 

<i>Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present</i>

Art

Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present

Friday 19/10 @ Gaffrye Museum

Emily Allchurch: <i>Urban Chiaroscuro: Works after Piranesi</i>

Art: Photography

Emily Allchurch

Friday 19/10 @ Frost & Reed

Emily Allchurch's artworks are multilayered in both construction and concept. Using her own photography, Allchurch reconstructs historical masterpieces by piecing together... 

<i>What Haunts You?</i>

Art: Photography

What Haunts You?

Friday 19/10 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Since mid-September, the Photographers' Gallery has been encouraging members of the public to submit their unearthly, weird and downright terrifying images... 

<i>Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now</i>

Art

Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now

Friday 19/10 @ Barbican

This Barbican exhibition presents history's equivalent of the top shelf (or the sock drawer), allowing visitors to peruse some of the... 

<i>The Art of Lee Miller</i>

Art: Photography

The Art of Lee Miller

Friday 19/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Photographer Lee Miller crammed more into her life than most — she was a model, a journalist and a surrealist muse... 

Mamma Andersson

Art

Mamma Andersson

Friday 19/10 @ Camden Arts Centre

Although Swedish painter Mamma Andersson burst onto the international scene just four years ago at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Stockholm's Moderna... 

Dance Umbrella 2007

Special Event

Dance Umbrella 2007

Friday 19/10 @ Various locations

London's annual contemporary-dance festival includes work from British choreographer Charles Linehan, renaissance man Michael Clark, daring Australian performers Splintergroup and dance-comedy troupe... 

<i>Jenufa</i>

Theatre

Jenufa

Friday 19/10 @ Arcola Theatre

This dark play outraged audiences when it opened in the 1890s — before later being popularised as an opera — and... 

<em>Wrapping Japan</em>

Special Event

Wrapping Japan

Friday 19/10 @ The Horniman Museum

Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an... 

<i>Women and Movements</i>

Art: Photography

Women and Movements

Friday 19/10 @ Riverside Studios

Riverside Studios' newest exhibition, Women and Movements features 20 black-and-white photographs taken from the roughly 4,000 that appear on Claudia Ferreira... 

Suzanne Mooney: <i>Photographing Girls</i>

Art: Photography

Photographing Girls

Friday 19/10 @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery

As much a study of photography itself as an exhibition of her own style, Suzanne Mooney's Photographing Girls explores the area... 

<i>I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes</i>

Comedy

I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes

Friday 19/10 @ The Comedy Pub

The surprise hit of this year's Edinburgh Festival, I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes was written by comedienne... 

Matthew Williamson: <i>Ten Years in Fashion</i>

Art

Matthew Williamson

Friday 19/10 @ Design Museum

He counts Madonna, Sienna, Kylie and a host of other glamorous red-carpet habitués as both fans and muses, while his "boho... 

<i>Unfinished Symphony</i>

Art

Unfinished Symphony

Friday 19/10 @ The Fine Art Society

We've all had great ideas that we've never been able to follow up on; whether due to lack of time, money... 

<i>Urbanbodies 2</i>

Art

Urbanbodies 2

Friday 19/10 @ Greenwich Picturehouse

Presented in the window of the Greenwich Picture House, this series of exhibitions from the Occupy My Time community-art collective finds... 

Lisa Yuskavage

Art

Lisa Yuskavage

Friday 19/10 @ Greengrassi

Throw out what you learned at the Barbican about the line between pornography and art — Lisa Yuskavage is out to... 

<i>The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957</i>

Fashion/Style

The Golden Age of Couture

Friday 19/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

The unveiling of Parisian couturier Christian Dior's "New Look" silhouette in 1947 was one of the most important fashion moments of... 

<i>Moore at Kew</i>

Art

Moore at Kew

Friday 19/10 @ Royal Botanic Gardens

Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view...