All events on Thursday November 01
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- China Late: Tea and Beer
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (6:30–9pm) @ British Museum
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- With the welcome arrival of the Terracotta Army in London, the city has gone a bit China-crazy; to placate us, the British Museum has organized... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Fingathing
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (8pm) @ 229
- Weird vinyl-jazz outfit Fingathing return to the fray of London's mad gig season with some stomping wackiness at new venue 229. After a year's break... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Animal Collective
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7pm) @ Astoria
- London is blessed once again with an evening's worth of musical madness from this New York-based quartet. Wild hair, frenetic drumming, trance-like strumming and chanting... View details »
- Film
- Blame It on Fidel
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ ICA More times »
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Fidel Castro is almost as elusive a figure in this new film as he has been in real life. Centred on the childhood... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (9am–2pm) @ Wimbledon Village Stables More times »
- For city-bound equestrians missing their early-morning ride and novice ponyphiles alike, Wimbledon has more to offer than Wombles. Even if you have a penchant for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cloud Nine
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7:30pm) @ Almeida Theatre More times »
- This 1979 piece by provocative playwright Caryl Churchill still has the power to disturb. The first act, set in colonial Africa, is carefully contrasted with... View details »
- Art
- Northern Fire 2
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Oxo Tower Wharf More times »
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- Forget buying your mum that novelty mug for Christmas and head down to the.gallery@oxo for a prime selection of the best fired earth from the... View details »
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- UCL Festival of the Moving Image
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre More times »
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- The UCL Festival of the Moving Image launches with a bill full of men in tights, documentaries about gender discourse and workshops on the mechanics... View details »
- Art
- Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gaffrye Museum More times »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Matthew Williamson
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
- He counts Madonna, Sienna, Kylie and a host of other glamorous red-carpet habitués as both fans and muses, while his "boho glam" signature style has... View details »
- Art
- James Thiérrée
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7:30pm) @ Sadler's Wells More times »
- James Thiérrée comes from a long line of mercurial performers; he is the grandson of Charlie Chaplin and grew up in his parents' Le Cirque... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- roadkill
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7:45pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- Stranded in the outback with a broken-down car and only a few drops of water. It's a classic horror storyline, here transformed into physically daring... View details »
- Art
- Marisa Carnesky
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Soho Theatre More times »
- Known for bringing The Ghost Train to the Old Truman Brewery in 2004, Marisa Carnesky performs late-night trickery in this gore-fest magic show. An Olivier... View details »
- Art: Photography
- What Haunts You?
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
- Free
- Since mid-September, the Photographers' Gallery has been encouraging members of the public to submit their unearthly, weird and downright terrifying images to an online database.... View details »
- Art
- Langlands & Bell
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (11am–9pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
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- Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have been collaborators for nearly 30 years and have experimented with virtually all media, from sculpture and photography to... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Photographer Lee Miller crammed more into her life than most — she was a model, a journalist and a surrealist muse (those are her lips... View details »
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- The Golden Age of Couture
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- The unveiling of Parisian couturier Christian Dior's "New Look" silhouette in 1947 was one of the most important fashion moments of the 20th century. After... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Play, a Pie and a Pint
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (6–7pm) @ Shunt Lounge More times »
- Fringe theatre mavericks Paines Plough have travelled down from Glasgow's Òran Mór with the perfect way to while away those after-work hours. For the next... View details »
- Art
- The Evil Twins
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Various locations More times »
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- True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice you to explore a... View details »
- Art
- Urbanbodies 2
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Greenwich Picturehouse More times »
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- Presented in the window of the Greenwich Picture House, this series of exhibitions from the Occupy My Time community-art collective finds six artists exploring the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Wildstyles
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (11am–7pm) @ PYMCA Gallery More times »
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- A quarter of a century ago, Wild Style brought the B-boy phenomenon to the world with its depictions of graffiti artists, breakdancers and rappers on... View details »
- Film
- Matthew Barney
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery More times »
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- Matthew Barney's work is surreal and audacious, with a narrative that plays second fiddle to his bizarre and powerful imagery. The artist last demonstrated his... View details »
- Art
- Francesca Lowe & Alasdair Gray
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
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The ramshackle plaster on the stairways and corridors of Riflemaker provides the scenario for this artistic coupling. Francesca Lowe's surreal, didactic pastiches of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Women and Movements
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–10:30pm) @ Riverside Studios More times »
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- Riverside Studios' newest exhibition, Women and Movements features 20 black-and-white photographs taken from the roughly 4,000 that appear on Claudia Ferreira and Claudia Bonan's website,... View details »
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- Dance Umbrella 2007
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- London's annual contemporary-dance festival... ludes work from British choreographer Charles Linehan, renaissance man Michael Clark, daring Australian performers Splintergroup and dance-comedy troupe New Art Club.View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7pm) @ The Comedy Pub More times »
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- The surprise hit of this year's Edinburgh Festival, I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes was written by comedienne Anna Victoria and stems... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Country Wife
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7:30pm) @ Theatre Royal Haymarket More times »
- The Country Wife tells the story of Horner, a rake and a trickster who plots the mass seduction of women in London society. By feigning... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Emily Allchurch
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Frost & Reed More times »
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- Emily Allchurch's artworks are multilayered in both construction and concept. Using her own photography, Allchurch reconstructs historical masterpieces by piecing together hundreds of disparate fragments... View details »
- Art
- Stuart Semple
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–7pm) @ The Old Truman Brewery More times »
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- When the Frieze Art Fair swings into full motion, there are always whispers of new blood on the London art scene. Among those set to... View details »
- Art
- Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- This Barbican exhibition presents history's equivalent of the top shelf (or the sock drawer), allowing visitors to peruse some of the most coveted, carefully hidden... View details »
- Art
- Moore at Kew
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (9:30am–6:30pm) @ Royal Botanic Gardens More times »
- Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view each work from various... View details »
- Art
- Unfinished Symphony
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ The Fine Art Society More times »
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- We've all had great ideas that we've never been able to follow up on; whether due to lack of time, money or energy, the ones... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Water
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (7:30pm) @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith More times »
- Radiohead's performance designer, Andi Watson, teams up with David Farr and the Filter collective to produce a thought-provoking multimedia production. Four stories collide against a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jenufa
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (8pm) @ Arcola Theatre More times »
- This dark play outraged audiences when it opened in the 1890s — before later being popularised as an opera — and is only now making... View details »
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- The 51st BFI London Film Festival
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- Two of the many highlights of this year's London Film Festival: John Sayles' '50s period piece Honeydripper, which features Danny Glover as a juke-joint owner... View details »
- Art
- Paul Mellon's Legacy
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Royal Academy of Arts More times »
- This exhibition celebrates the legacy of art collector Paul Mellon on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The American philanthropist first developed a passion for... View details »
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- Comica
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ ICA More times »
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Thanks to Comica, the ICA has helped support the comic industry's effort to break out of geekdom and into the mainstream. The eclectic... View details »
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- London Games Festival 2007
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- From Snakes and Ladders to the Nintendo Wii, the concept of the game is a vast one — and only appears to get bigger with... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Photographing Girls
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery More times »
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- As much a study of photography itself as an exhibition of her own style, Suzanne Mooney's Photographing Girls explores the area behind the viewfinder —... View details »
- Art
- Mamma Andersson
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre More times »
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- Although Swedish painter Mamma Andersson burst onto the international scene just four years ago at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Stockholm's Moderna Museet has already organised... View details »
- Art
- Lisa Yuskavage
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Greengrassi More times »
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- Throw out what you learned at the Barbican about the line between pornography and art — Lisa Yuskavage is out to challenge assumptions with her... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Thursday 1 Nov 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
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- Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an art of wrapping everything,... View details »
