All events on Sunday January 20
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- Nick Waplington
- Sunday 20 Jan (2pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Free
- Nick Waplington is that rare breed of artist who can bring a conceptual slant to his work while keeping it both arresting and relevant. As... View details »
- Film
- Breaking the Rules
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Renoir Cinema More times »
- In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922), a staple of German... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Bloggers Delight
- Sunday 20 Jan (3–11pm) @ The Lock Tavern
- Free
- For those tired of Sunday walks up Primrose Hill, stop early and chip into the Lock Tavern for ale, pies, roasts and musical finery. Brødinski,... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Home and Garden: 1960 to the Present
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–5pm) @ Gaffrye Museum More times »
- Free
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Matthew Williamson
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- The Evil Twins
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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 »
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- Amora
- Sunday 20 Jan (11am–midnight) @ Amora More times »
- Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
- Art
- Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
- Sunday 20 Jan (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: Photography
- Seeing Is Believing
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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 »
- Art
- Shezad Dawood
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–6pm) @ Paradise Row More times »
- Free
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- La Cage aux Folles
- Sunday 20 Jan (3:30pm) @ 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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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 »
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- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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 »
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- Patrick Keiller
- Sunday 20 Jan (11am–8pm) @ BFI Southbank More times »
- Free
- Art
- Laura Ford
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Stephen Willats
- Sunday 20 Jan @ 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 »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- Sunday 20 Jan (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
- London Art Fair
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Business Design Centre More times »
- Giveaway
- Islington's Business Design Centre jump-starts the new year with a feast of modern and contemporary art at the 20th anniversary of the London Art Fair.... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Sunday 20 Jan (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: Dance
- Resolution! 2008
- Sunday 20 Jan @ The Place More times »
- Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a triple bill of new... View details »
- Art
- The Clearing
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
- Free
- The Clearing explores notions of internal and external space, with images ranging from the serene to the strangely disturbing. Joe Biel draws unnervingly detailed drawings,... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Afrika! Afrika!
- Sunday 20 Jan @ O2 Arena More times »
- If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London debut of Afrika! Afrika!.... View details »
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- Lithuanian Festival
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Southwark Playhouse More times »
- Since January budgets don't allow for long-distance flights, Southwark Playhouse brings this festival of Lithuanian culture to the capital. Showcasing the Eastern European country's finest... View details »
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- Café on the Hill
- Sunday 20 Jan (8am–4pm) @ Cafe on the Hill More times »
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like a less pretentious Hampstead,... View details »
- Film
- The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Barbican Centre More times »
- Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were spent breaking the boundaries... View details »
- Film
- Half Moon
- Sunday 20 Jan @ ICA More times »
- The Iran/Iraq frontier serves as the backdrop for the third feature from award-winning Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi: Half Moon explores both the tumultuous past and... View details »
- Performing Arts
- London International Mime Festival
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Stripey jumpers, hackneyed gestures and those ubiquitous white gloves normally spring to mind with the word "mime". But London's annual International Mime Festival aims to... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Art Spaces of the Future
- Sunday 20 Jan @ National Theatre More times »
- Free
- Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects to imagine dynamic new... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- White Boy
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Soho Theatre More times »
- This production by award-winning playwright Tanika Gupta brings to life the tensions that breed within a modern inner-city state school by deftly exploring the subject... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Let There Be Love
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Tricycle Theatre More times »
- Kwame Kwei-Armah is a rare creature. A hospital-drama actor turned playwright, he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also a finalist on Celebrity... View details »
- Film
- Spain (Un)censored
- Sunday 20 Jan @ BFI Southbank More times »
- The austerity of Franco's Spain is revisited in this collection of films produced and smuggled out of the country during the dark years of El... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Metamorphosis
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith More times »
- This stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a businessman who turns into an insect returns to Hammersmith ahead of a world tour. A collaboration... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Sadler's Wells More times »
- In a truly collaborative trilogy, choreographer Burrows and composer Fargion, onstage together, explore the relationship between movement and music. Their three duets, Both Sitting Duet,... View details »
- Art
- Elizabethan Flagons
- Sunday 20 Jan (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
- Sunday 20 Jan @ The Bush Theatre More times »
- For this production, still less than a year into Josie Rourke's tenure as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, she turns to US playwright, screenwriter... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Vertical Hour
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
- Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American ex-war reporter who has... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Happy Now?
- Sunday 20 Jan @ National Theatre More times »
- Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock, this raw yet comic... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Brendan at the Chelsea
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Riverside Studios More times »
- Before he became famous, hard-drinking literary icon Brendan Behan once scraped a living together by writing pornography. He was also a member of the IRA... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The BIG Gameshow Winaway
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Hackney Empire More times »
- London's weirdest and most entertaining variety show, the 291 Show, returns to the Hackney Empire for a special winter mini-season. The "best-of" collection, BIG Gameshow... View details »
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- Parkour
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Westminster Academy More times »
- Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
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- The Regent
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–10:30pm) @ The Regent More times »
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub 'n boozer. Since its... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Sunday 20 Jan (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 »
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- Brick Lane Bike Polo
- Sunday 20 Jan (1–7pm) @ Brick Lane Polo More times »
- Free
- Thanks to the invention of bike polo, carefully groomed horses are no longer a prerequisite for a quick chukka. There may be fewer fair-bonneted young... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–10:30pm) @ Haozhan More times »
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey to find decent food,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–6pm) @ Fox & Anchor More times »
- Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the street — has just... View details »
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- Aaya
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–11pm) @ Aaya More times »
- Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz, the restaurant wants to... View details »
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- Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Brunello More times »
- If carrying equipment and provisions on public transport seems like too much perspiration for a weekend's picnic, then the Brunello restaurant's new selection of hampers... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The NewsRevue
- Sunday 20 Jan (9pm) @ Canal Café Theatre More times »
- The NewsRevue has followed the same format since 1979 — low-tech, topical comedy performed by two men and two women. Written by a team of... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Sunday 20 Jan @ Finsbury Leisure Centre More times »
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that," now you can prove... View details »
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- Cha Cha Moon
- Sunday 20 Jan (noon–10pm) @ Cha Cha Moon More times »
- Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba Eathai) at this Malay-Chinese... View details »
