Events on Saturday, January 12
Saturday 12/1 @ Bethnal Green WorkingMen's Club
Bethnal Green WorkingMen's Cub usually serves as the cool kids' hangout, with its worn-in '70s decor and strange resemblance to Phoenix...
Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival
Saturday 12/1 @ Roxy Bar & Screen
Eight years ago, filmmaker Darryl Gold invited friends over to his Toronto apartment and asked them to bring a spoof sex...
Saturday 12/1 @ The End
With the clubbing industry clutching its beach towel and trunks for most of the month, there are precious few nights in...
Saturday 12/1 @ Buffalo Bar
Zombina and the Skeletones perform in bandaged, bloodied attire, playfully evoking the Misfits' horror punk and goth-glam icons such as KISS....
Ongoing Events
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
Saturday 12/1 @ Barbican
This Barbican exhibition presents history's equivalent of the top shelf (or the sock drawer), allowing visitors to peruse some of the...
Saturday 12/1 @ River Terrace, Southbank Centre
For a hefty dose of seasonal festivity — of the eye-blindingly neon variety — head along to the Southbank Centre, where...
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
Saturday 12/1 @ Sadler's Wells
In a truly collaborative trilogy, choreographer Burrows and composer Fargion, onstage together, explore the relationship between movement and music. Their three...
Saturday 12/1 @ Stephen Friedman Gallery
From a sign for a missing pigeon to a plastic model of The Contents of the Gap Between the Refridgerator and...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Design Museum
He counts Madonna, Sienna, Kylie and a host of other glamorous red-carpet habitués as both fans and muses, while his "boho...
Saturday 12/1 @ Bistrotheque
Christmas is all about good cheer, mistletoe and wholesome, family entertainment. That is not quite what Bistroteque have in mind with...
Saturday 12/1 @ Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Country Wife tells the story of Horner, a rake and a trickster who plots the mass seduction of women in...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Southwark Playhouse
Since January budgets don't allow for long-distance flights, Southwark Playhouse brings this festival of Lithuanian culture to the capital. Showcasing the...
Saturday 12/1 @ Contemporary Art Projects
Saturday 12/1 @ Haunch of Venison
An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However,...
Saturday 12/1 @ National Theatre
Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects...
Saturday 12/1 @ Greenwich Picturehouse
Presented in the window of the Greenwich Picture House, this series of exhibitions from the Occupy My Time community-art collective finds...
Saturday 12/1 @ The Old Vic
Panto has undergone a cultural revolution in recent years, putting decades of stigma behind it. Yes, you can still catch Australian...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Hackney Empire
The Empire's take on traditional pantomime always manages to surprise and delight adults, children and reviewers alike. This year's swashbuckling, Pirates...
Saturday 12/1 @ Trafalgar Studios
Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when...
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
Saturday 12/1 @ Camden Arts Centre
Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is...
Saturday 12/1 @ Nettie Horn
The Clearing explores notions of internal and external space, with images ranging from the serene to the strangely disturbing. Joe Biel...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
This stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a businessman who turns into an insect returns to Hammersmith ahead of a...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Rayners Lane Underground Station
London's Art on the Underground initiative has exposed some fascinating artwork to the commuting public since its conception in...
The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
Saturday 12/1 @ Arcola Theatre
When Nadira and Craig Murray met in 2004, he was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and she was a belly dancer...
Saturday 12/1 @ Somerset House
Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a...
Saturday 12/1 @ Gate Theatre
I Am Falling is a searing and complex exploration of age. The dance/theatre collaboration tells the story of Tom (Ben Duke),...
Saturday 12/1 @ The Fine Art Society
Tim Simmons takes mundane landscapes — a field, a snowdrift, a backyard — and turns them into ethereal, haunting locales. He...
Saturday 12/1 @ Various locations
The London Short Film Festival has evolved from its days as a Halloween-themed series into a sophisticated showcase of succinct cinema....
Saturday 12/1 @ Various locations
True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice...
Saturday 12/1 @ Walthamstow Town Square
First recorded in the Domesday Book as early as 1086 (as Wilcumestou) and then set as a rural village until the...
Saturday 12/1 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Royal Opera House
The original rags-to-riches tale is always popular at this time of year. Stephen Fry's interpretation at the Old Vic is mere...
Saturday 12/1 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Saturday 12/1 @ The Economist Plaza
Fans of Beatrix Potter look away now – Laura Ford's incarnations of the author's beloved characters are enough to give fully...
The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
Saturday 12/1 @ Barbican
Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were...
Saturday 12/1 @ Space Station Sixty-Five
You can say a lot about Stephen Nelson's artwork, but one descriptive you can't pin on it is "minimalist." Nelson's sculptures...
Saturday 12/1 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad....
Saturday 12/1 @ To Be Confirmed
If you were the kind of kid who dismantled your Christmas toys to see how they worked, dig out your soldering...
Saturday 12/1 @ HOST Gallery
Much like a personal Orient Express in photographic form, celebrated Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins marries Nippon with Northumberland in a cacophony...
Saturday 12/1 @ Young Vic
This time of year sees an inevitable surplus of revivals of Charles Dickens' famous ghost story. In this particularly dark version...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Various locations
Directed and co-written by offbeat genius Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited tells the story of three brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody,...
Saturday 12/1 @ Victoria Miro Gallery
The spindly figures in Nairobi-born Wangechi Mutu's drawings — abstract ink and paint doodles combined with collaged fragments — resemble amoebic...
Saturday 12/1 @ The Place
Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a...
Saturday 12/1 @ 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...
Saturday 12/1 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
London International Mime Festival
Saturday 12/1 @ Various locations
Stripey jumpers, hackneyed gestures and those ubiquitous white gloves normally spring to mind with the word "mime". But London's annual International...
