Events on Saturday, November 24

Laura Marling

Music

Laura Marling

Saturday 24/11 @ Tate Modern

Tender years haven't slowed Laura Marling's progress from Reading-based teenage songstress to EMI's hottest new signing. Though she recently played a... 

Push feat. Plastic Little

Music: Hip-Hop

Plastic Little

Saturday 24/11 @ Astoria 2

The Young and Lost Club girls — Nadia and Sara — can do no wrong this autumn, pressing copies for Noah... 

Go!Zilla

Party

Go!Zilla

Saturday 24/11 @ Cargo

After hosting some of the best underground parties in clubbing memory, Go!Zilla has settled down to call Cargo its permanent home.... 

!K7 Kicks London

Music: Electronic

!K7 Kicks London

Saturday 24/11 @ The Key

Berlin's !K7 Records roster reads like a Who's Who of progressive electronica, so its birthday shindigs are always worth checking out.... 

Ongoing Events

<i>All That Remains</i>

Art

All That Remains

Saturday 24/11 @ Auto Italia South East Gallery

Capturing ghostly, deserted scenes, Juliette Blightman, Richard Gilligan, Sam Griffin, Thomas Lock and Viki Thornton create documentations (photographs, 16mm film, pencil... 

<i>An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy</i>

Art

Paul Mellon's Legacy

Saturday 24/11 @ Royal Academy of Arts

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of art collector Paul Mellon on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The American philanthropist first... 

10th Festival of German Films

Film

10th Festival of German Films

Saturday 24/11 @ Curzon Soho

Germany is becoming more fashionable by the day, and London's own German Film Festival is celebrating its tenth birthday with a... 

Shezad Dawood: <I>If I Should Fall From Grace With God</I>

Art

Shezad Dawood

Saturday 24/11 @ Paradise Row

Skate at Somerset House

City Gems

Skate at Somerset House

Saturday 24/11 @ Somerset House

Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a... 

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Art

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Saturday 24/11 @ Simon Lee Gallery

Arrivals

Festival: Performing Arts

Arrivals

Saturday 24/11 @ Various locations

The tunnel beneath the city is now built, and the bullet trains are fuelled and ready to bring us just a... 

<i>The Country Wife</i>

Theatre

The Country Wife

Saturday 24/11 @ Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Country Wife tells the story of Horner, a rake and a trickster who plots the mass seduction of women in... 

<em>Wrapping Japan</em>

Special Event

Wrapping Japan

Saturday 24/11 @ 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... 

Antoine d'Agata: <i>Insomnia</i>

Art: Photography

Antoine d'Agata

Saturday 24/11 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Lorraine Clarke: <i>Nosce Te Ipsum</i>

Art

Lorraine Clarke

Saturday 24/11 @ The Old Truman Brewery

Lorraine Clarke's exhibit Nosce Te Ipsum, which translates to "know thyself", meditates on the connection between magic, medicine and religion through... 

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

Art: Photography

The Art of Lee Miller

Saturday 24/11 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

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

<i>The Dysfunckshonalz</i>

Performing Arts

The Dysfunckshonalz

Saturday 24/11 @ The Bush Theatre

<i>Paper-thin Worlds</i>

Art

Paper-thin Worlds

Saturday 24/11 @ Man&Eve

After the commercial success of artists such as Rob Ryan and Richard Sweeney, paper continues to be the medium du jour.... 

Mamma Andersson

Art

Mamma Andersson

Saturday 24/11 @ 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... 

Carla Verea: <i>Bodyguards</i>

Art: Photography

Carla Verea

Saturday 24/11 @ Association of Photographers Gallery

Thanks to her stunning images of various armed-and-dangerous Guatemalan bodyguards, Mexican photographer Carla Verea recently nabbed the British Journal of Photography's... 

The Yoga Show

Workshop/Class

The Yoga Show

Saturday 24/11 @ London Olympia

Practice your lotus position and hone your Pranayama breathing with Olympia's cornucopia of yoga-related goodies. Whether you're able to tie your... 

Chris Steele-Perkins: <i>Haswell Plough to Harajuku</i>

Art: Photography

Chris Steele-Perkins

Saturday 24/11 @ HOST Gallery

Much like a personal Orient Express in photographic form, celebrated Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins marries Nippon with Northumberland in a cacophony... 

<i>Urbanbodies 2</i>

Art

Urbanbodies 2

Saturday 24/11 @ Greenwich Picturehouse

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

A Play, a Pie and a Pint

Theatre

A Play, a Pie and a Pint

Saturday 24/11 @ Shunt Lounge

Fringe theatre mavericks Paines Plough have travelled down from Glasgow's Òran Mór with the perfect way to while away those after-work... 

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

Art

Matthew Williamson

Saturday 24/11 @ Design Museum

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

<em>Seeing Is Believing</em>

Art: Photography

Seeing Is Believing

Saturday 24/11 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Halloween may have come and gone, but that hasn't stopped the Photographers' Gallery from collecting some of the spookiest imagery this... 

Francesca Lowe & Alasdair Gray: <i>Terminus</i>

Art

Francesca Lowe & Alasdair Gray

Saturday 24/11 @ Riflemaker Gallery


The ramshackle plaster on the stairways and corridors of Riflemaker provides the scenario for this artistic coupling. Francesca Lowe's... 

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

Fashion/Style

The Golden Age of Couture

Saturday 24/11 @ 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>The Darjeeling Limited</i>

Film

The Darjeeling Limited

Saturday 24/11 @ Various locations

Directed and co-written by offbeat genius Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited tells the story of three brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody,... 

Damian Roach: <I>Transmissions</I>

Art

Damian Roach

Saturday 24/11 @ Ibid Projects

Young sculptor Damien Roach activates the ordinary in his insouciant works: he arranges books in a stack chromatically by the color... 

Cathie Pilkington: White Elephant

Art

Cathie Pilkington: White Elephant

Saturday 24/11 @ Marlborough Fine Art

In the past, Cathie Pilkington's work has been presented on an ambitious scale, but with this new exhibition, the sculptor has... 

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

Art

Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now

Saturday 24/11 @ Barbican

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

Stewart Lee

Comedy

Stewart Lee

Saturday 24/11 @ Soho Theatre

In his new show 41st Best Stand-Up Ever, Stewart Lee assesses his own value. Lee was voted No. 41 in Channel... 

<i>Stories That Want to Be Told</i>

Comedy

Stories That Want to Be Told

Saturday 24/11 @ The Space

If your experience of improvisation only runs to repeats of Whose Line Is It Anyway? then you need to experience the... 

Laura Ford: <I>Disagreeable People</I>

Art

Laura Ford

Saturday 24/11 @ Houldsworth Gallery

<i>Doubt: A Parable</i>

Theatre

Doubt: A Parable

Saturday 24/11 @ The Tricycle Theatre

It's 1964, Kennedy has been shot and the Vietnam war is about to start. At work in the Bronx, Sister Aloysius... 

<i>Cloud Nine</i>

Theatre

Cloud Nine

Saturday 24/11 @ Almeida Theatre

This 1979 piece by provocative playwright Caryl Churchill still has the power to disturb. The first act, set in colonial Africa,... 

Chris Welsby: <i>Systems of Nature</i>

Art

Chris Welsby

Saturday 24/11 @ Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Expat British artist Chris Welsby returns from Canada to present two recent works, At Sea (2003) and Lost Lake #2 (2005).... 

Statement of Regret

Theatre

Statement of Regret

Saturday 24/11 @ National Theatre

Lush-voiced Don Warrington stars in Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the National. Having made the move from acting to writing, Kwei-Armah... 

Piers Secunda

Art

Piers Secunda

Saturday 24/11 @ Nettie Horn

Focusing on the essential third item when brush hits canvas, Piers Secunda — as the title of his exhibition suggests —... 

<i>Point A > B</i>

Art

Point A > B

Saturday 24/11 @ Jerwood Space

US-based art collective the OpenEnded Group takes on the spectacular French street art of parkour in its latest exhibition. The sport... 

<i>Golden Fluffer</i>

Art

Golden Fluffer

Saturday 24/11 @ Transition Gallery

Golden Fluffer takes a cue form John Keats' observation that "beauty is truth, truth beauty". Through the work of seven contemporary... 

<I>Pavilion Commissions 2007</I>

Art: Photography

Pavilion Commissions

Saturday 24/11 @ Photofusion Photography Centre

Spot the next Lee Miller or Martin Parr at Pavilion Commissions. This annual exhibition highlights work from four of the country's... 

<i>Paisley: Exploding the Teardrop</i>

Art

Paisley: Exploding the Teardrop

Saturday 24/11 @ PM Gallery & House

The Evil Twins: <i>A Haunted House in the Enchanted Forest</i>

Art

The Evil Twins

Saturday 24/11 @ Various locations

True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice... 

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

Comedy

I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes

Saturday 24/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present

Saturday 24/11 @ Gaffrye Museum

<i>Jesus Camp</i>

Film: Documentary

Jesus Camp

Saturday 24/11 @ ICA

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady once again cast their collective eye on the unusual world that is the backwaters of the... 

Thomas Zipp: <i>Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair</i>

Art

Thomas Zipp

Saturday 24/11 @ South London Gallery

The title of German installation artist Thomas Zipp's Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair directly references... 

Dazzle

Special Event

Dazzle

Saturday 24/11 @ National Theatre, Olivier Foyer

With Christmas snowballing toward us, soon the race will be on to find the perfect gift — and nothing says "you're... 

London Jazz Festival

Music

London Jazz Festival

Saturday 24/11 @ Various locations

Take a lint brush to your zoot suit and polish up your spats, because the London Jazz Festival might actually revive... 

<I>London Heights</I>

Special Event

London Heights

Saturday 24/11 @ Rainbird Fine Art

With moodily lit streets and glowing windows rendered in rich oils, Sophie Ahmad paints her London loves: good, old-fashioned... 

Wangechi Mutu: <I>Yo.n.I</I>

Art

Wangechi Mutu

Saturday 24/11 @ Victoria Miro Gallery

The spindly figures in Nairobi-born Wangechi Mutu's drawings — abstract ink and paint doodles combined with collaged fragments — resemble amoebic... 

<i>Langlands & Bell</i>

Art

Langlands & Bell

Saturday 24/11 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery

Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have been collaborators for nearly 30 years and have experimented with virtually all media, from... 

<i>Moore at Kew</i>

Art

Moore at Kew

Saturday 24/11 @ 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... 

Will Adamsdale: <i>Human Computer</i>

Comedy

Will Adamsdale

Saturday 24/11 @ Battersea Arts Centre

At once brilliant and idiotic, Perrier Award-winning Will Adamsdale continues his Edinburgh success with this foray into the world... 

Patrick Keiller: <I>The City of the Future</I>

Special Event

Patrick Keiller

Saturday 24/11 @ BFI Southbank

<i>Ikrismas Kherol</i>

Theatre

Ikrismas Kherol

Saturday 24/11 @ Young Vic

This time of year sees an inevitable surplus of revivals of Charles Dickens' famous ghost story.  In this particularly dark version... 

<i>The Bicycle Men</i>

Theatre

The Bicycle Men

Saturday 24/11 @ King's Head Theatre

You may not recognise Dan Castellaneta as he makes his UK stage debut, but we promise you'll know his... 

<i>ING Discerning Eye</i>

Art

ING Discerning Eye

Saturday 24/11 @ Mall Galleries

The Mall Gallery mash-up taps six art-world tastemakers — two artists, two collectors and two critics — to curate the walls... 

<i>Casanova</i>

Theatre

Casanova

Saturday 24/11 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

Casanova was the original ladies' man, sleeping his way around Europe. But with Hayley Carmichael cast in the role, the...