All events on Friday December 21
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- Clash Culture Christmas Party
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (7pm) @ Offside Bar
- Co-organised by Philosophy Football and online literary upstarts 3am Magazine, this shindig doesn't just celebrate the holiday season — it also marks the fifth anniversary... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Iraq in Fragments (2005)
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ ICA
- With Iraq in Fragments, James Longley rescues audiences from Green Zone reportage. The film instead captures contemporary Iraq through the direct narratives of three Iraqi... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Into Great Silence
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ ICA More times »
- Giveaway
- It took more than a decade before this intensely private order of Carthusian monks agreed to open its doors to Philip Gröning's camera. The resulting... View details »
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- Winter Solstice Celebration
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (7–9:30pm) @ Unity Unitarian Church
- Grow your beard and place laurel leaves around your head to celebrate the Winter Solstice in the sleepy hamlet of Islington. The evening of candle-lit... View details »
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- Man Make Music versus Bruk
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10pm–5am) @ Corsica Studios
- London's self-proclaimed "good-timers" Man Make Music join forces with Bristol's Bruk crew for a pre-Christmas knees-up. Held at Corsica Studios and stretching across two rooms,... View details »
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- Gerry Cottle's Christmas Circus
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Crystal Palace Park More times »
- Gerry Cottle is a classic showman. He ran away to join the circus at the age of 15, and worked his way up the ranks... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gaffrye Museum More times »
- Free
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Matthew Williamson
- Friday 21 Dec 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
- Thomas Zipp
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
- Free
- The title of German installation artist Thomas Zipp's Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair directly references Black Sabbath's psychedelic masterwork... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Stewart Lee
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Soho Theatre More times »
- In his new show 41st Best Stand-Up Ever, Stewart Lee assesses his own value. Lee was voted No. 41 in Channel 4's best standups programme... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Friday 21 Dec 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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- Dazzle
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–10pm) @ National Theatre, Olivier Foyer More times »
- Free
- With Christmas snowballing toward us, soon the race will be on to find the perfect gift — and nothing says "you're awesome" better than a... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- The Golden Age of Couture
- Friday 21 Dec 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 »
- Art
- The Evil Twins
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- 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
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Greenwich Picturehouse More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ikrismas Kherol
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Young Vic More times »
- Giveaway
- This time of year sees an inevitable surplus of revivals of Charles Dickens' famous ghost story.... this particularly dark version of the cautionary tale... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Country Wife
- Friday 21 Dec 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Doubt: A Parable
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ The Tricycle Theatre More times »
- It's 1964, Kennedy has been shot and the Vietnam war is about to start. At work in the Bronx, Sister Aloysius is facing more immediate... View details »
- Art
- Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (11am–8pm) @ 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
- Piers Secunda
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
- Free
- Focusing on the essential third item when brush hits canvas, Piers Secunda — as the title of his exhibition suggests — likes paint. Yet this... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Seeing Is Believing
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
- Free
- Halloween may have come and gone, but that hasn't stopped the Photographers' Gallery from collecting some of the spookiest imagery this side of Hogwarts. Though... View details »
- Art
- Moore at Kew
- Friday 21 Dec 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
- Paul Mellon's Legacy
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–10pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God in Ruins
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Soho Theatre More times »
- Anthony Neilson's eagerly anticipated God in Ruins promises to live up to his absurd, beautiful and utterly uncomfortable previous work, The Wonderful World of Dissocia.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Statement of Regret
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ National Theatre More times »
- 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 has seen his productions... View details »
- Art
- Laura Ford
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10:30am–6pm) @ Houldsworth Gallery More times »
- Free
- Art
- Damian Roach
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Ibid Projects More times »
- Free
- Young sculptor Damien Roach activates the ordinary in his insouciant works: he arranges books in a stack chromatically by the color of their spines, or... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Luisa Lambri
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Thomas Dane Gallery More times »
- Free
- Art
- Shezad Dawood
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Paradise Row More times »
- Free
- Art
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Simon Lee Gallery More times »
- Free
- Art
- Wangechi Mutu
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Victoria Miro Gallery More times »
- Free
- The spindly figures in Nairobi-born Wangechi Mutu's drawings — abstract ink and paint doodles combined with collaged fragments — resemble amoebic specimens. A closer look,... View details »
- Performing Arts
- The Dysfunckshonalz
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ The Bush Theatre More times »
- Art
- Paisley: Exploding the Teardrop
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (1–5pm) @ PM Gallery & House More times »
- Free
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Marta Marcé
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Soho Square More times »
- Free
- Marta Marcé's latest solo exhibition, Diadem Paintings, draws inspiration from games. The Catalan-born, London-based artist presents a selection of large-scale canvases resulting from a creative... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Chris Steele-Perkins
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
- Free
- Much like a personal Orient Express in photographic form, celebrated Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins marries Nippon with Northumberland in a cacophony of styles. Drawing from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- La Cage aux Folles
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (8pm) @ Menier Chocolate Factory More times »
- The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of the French-play-turned-film-turned-Hollywood-remake (The Birdcage,... View details »
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- Skate at Somerset House
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–10:15pm) @ Somerset House More times »
- Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a cup of mulled wine,... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Wellcome Collection More times »
- Free
- Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces, the central gallery is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinderella
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
- Panto has undergone a cultural revolution in recent years, putting decades of stigma behind it. Yes, you can still catch Australian ex-soap stars and faces... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Pavilion Commissions
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Photofusion Photography Centre More times »
- Free
- Spot the next Lee Miller or Martin Parr at Pavilion Commissions. This annual exhibition highlights work from four of the country's best emerging photographers by... View details »
- Film
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- Directed and co-written by offbeat genius Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited tells the story of three brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, and a bandaged-up Owen... View details »
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- Patrick Keiller
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (11am–8pm) @ BFI Southbank More times »
- Free
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- Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Trafalgar Square More times »
- Free
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Trafalgar Square's magnificent Christmas tree has become one of the capital's most vivid Yuletide symbols. An annual gift from
- Performing Arts
- The 7 Fingers
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (7pm) @ Roundhouse More times »
- Loft is everything a circus should be: weird, intimate and gloriously human. Climb to your seat through a loft apartment's refrigerator door and watch as... View details »
- Art
- James Cauty
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (11am–6pm) @ The Aquarium L-13 More times »
- Free
- James Cauty is best known for being one half of the KLF, co-founding the Orb and setting one million quid on fire. Since the US... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dealer's Choice
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (7:30pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
- Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when it was voted Evening... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pleasance Christmas Festival
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ The Pleasance Theatre More times »
- The seasonal line-up at Islington's Pleasance is as diverse as that of a chocolate selection box. Tradition comes in the form of children's classic The... View details »
- Art
- Laura Ford
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ The Economist Plaza More times »
- Free
- Fans of Beatrix Potter look away now – Laura Ford's incarnations of the author's beloved characters are enough to give fully grown adults nightmares. In... View details »
- Art
- Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre More times »
- Free
- Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is preoccupied with the past... View details »
- Art
- Yujung Chang, Ian Larson, John Lawrence
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Room More times »
- Free
- This group show brings together three art-school graduates with three incredibly different styles. Yujung Chang's works demand a closer look, since they're not what they... View details »
- Art
- Oh Deborah!
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Contemporary Art Projects More times »
- Free
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- Art
- Stephen Willats
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Rayners Lane Underground Station More times »
- Free
- London's Art on the Underground initiative has exposed some fascinating artwork to the commuting public since its conception in 2000. The latest is... View details »
- Art
- David Shrigley
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Stephen Friedman Gallery More times »
- Free
- From a sign for a missing pigeon to a plastic model of The Contents of the Gap Between the Refridgerator and the Cooker, David Shrigley's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- The Xmas Factor
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Bistrotheque More times »
- Christmas is all about good cheer, mistletoe and wholesome, family entertainment. That is not quite what Bistroteque have in mind with their legendary Drag Panto,... View details »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
- French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing to think it's taken... View details »
- Art
- Stephen Nelson
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Space Station Sixty-Five More times »
- Free
- You can say a lot about Stephen Nelson's artwork, but one descriptive you can't pin on it is "minimalist." Nelson's sculptures are sprawling, creeping constructions,... View details »
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- Festival Remix
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (7–2am) @ River Terrace, Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- For a hefty dose of seasonal festivity — of the eye-blindingly neon variety — head along to the Southbank Centre, where David Batchelor's ever-popular Festival... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Nick Waplington
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- In Nick Waplington's solo show at Whitechapel Gallery, the artist experiments with a new medium and creative approach. As one of Britain's leading contemporary photographers,... View details »
- Art
- Ric Machin
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Coningsby Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ric Machin's exhibition Charming, an assorted series of family portraits and celebrity oil paintings, opens today at the Coningsby Gallery. Although it's been three years... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Friday 21 Dec 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Cenerentola
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Royal Opera House More times »
- The original rags-to-riches tale is always popular at this time of year. Stephen Fry's interpretation at the Old Vic is mere pantomime, but Rossini's operatic... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Nutcracker
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ London Coliseum More times »
- Tchaikovsky's perennial Christmas favourite can be seen in two innovative incarnations this year: Matthew Bourne's kitschy, kaleidoscopic version at Sadler's Wells, and the English National... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dick Whittington and His Cat
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ Hackney Empire More times »
- The Empire's take on traditional pantomime always manages to surprise and delight adults, children and reviewers alike. This year's swashbuckling, Pirates of the Caribbean-esque version... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Slow Food Market
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (11am–8pm) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- Take time out over the long weekend to smell the, erm, cheese at Southbank Centre's Slow Food Market. This approach to gastronomy is something of... View details »
- Film
- A Comedy of Power (2006)
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 @ ICA More times »
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Claude Chabrol's seventh cinematic outing with the fearsome and multifaceted Isabelle Huppert delves beneath the sleazy leaves of
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Ex-Owned
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Ex-Owned More times »
- Free
- Communications company Exposure join the pop-up-store craze with their own guerrilla boutique selling goodies to benefit the Great Ormond Street children's hospital. Staff, big-name brands... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Friday 21 Dec 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
- Free
- 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 »
