Events on Saturday, December 6

The Great Christmas Pudding Race

Special Event

The Great Christmas Pudding Race

Saturday 6/12 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza

Christmas pudding is married to an obstacle-strewn dash through Covent Garden for this annual charity race in the endearing English tradition... 

Metro Area w/ M.A.N.D.Y. and Tobias

Music: DJ

Metro Area

Saturday 6/12 @ Fabric

New York's Metro Area — aka Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani — head the bill in Fabric's Room Three tonight. The... 

<em>Bust</em> Magazine's Christmas Craftacular

Festival: Fair

Christmas Craftacular

Saturday 6/12 @ St Aloysius Social Club

US indie-girl glossy Bust brings DIY holiday cheer to our shores with the London instalment of their NY-LA-LDN Craftacular. The long-time... 

Discobox feat. Bill Brewster

Party

Discobox

Saturday 6/12 @ Sebright Arms

Bill "DJ History" Brewster rummages through the crates for a feel-good set of classic hands-in-the-air disco at this great little party... 

Ongoing Events

You Me Bum Bum Train

City Gems

You Me Bum Bum Train

Saturday 6/12 @ Cordy House

You Me Bum Bum Train must surely take a top gong for originality: participants are strapped into a wheelchair and then... 

<em>The One Ton Show</em>

Art

The One Ton Show

Saturday 6/12 @ Shoreditch Town Hall

For this quirky exhibition, 100 artists, illustrators and photographers were asked to create work based on song lyrics about London. Chas... 

<em>Hamlet </em>

Theatre

Hamlet

Saturday 6/12 @ The Novello Theatre

It goes without saying that David Tennant is marvellous as the student prince — melancholy, hyperactive and witty in equal measure... 

<em>Signs</em>

Art

Signs

Saturday 6/12 @ Tatty Devine

Lo-tech cut 'n paste artist Mark Pawson breaks away from his usual fayre of postcards, badges and rubber stamps decorated with... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Saturday 6/12 @ Imperial War Museum Park

Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at... 

Jules de Goede and Gallery Artists

Art

Jules de Goede

Saturday 6/12 @ Broadbent Gallery

In this new group show at Broadbent Gallery, works from contemporary abstract artists provide a more-than-credible milieu to ten recently uncovered... 

<em>Wouldn't It Be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design</em>

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Saturday 6/12 @ Embankment Galleries

The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... 

<em>Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers</em>

Special Event

Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers

Saturday 6/12 @ The Women's Library

Between the Covers dips into the print archives of the Women's Library to explore how magazines have built relationships with readers... 

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

City Gems

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

Saturday 6/12 @ Natural History Museum

The freezing of the Natural History Museum's atmospheric East Lawn for skating has become a festive sight to rival the West... 

David O'Doherty

Comedy

David O'Doherty

Saturday 6/12 @ Soho Theatre

Stand-up comedian David O'Doherty won the if.comedy (formerly known as the Perrier) award at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. His quirky, endearing... 

<em>The Olympic Stadium Project - Le Corbusier and Baghdad</em>

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Saturday 6/12 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

This collection showcases the blueprints and models for the Baghdad Olympic Stadium, one of Le Corbusier's final projects. The designs illustrate... 

T. S. Eliot Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

T. S. Eliot Festival

Saturday 6/12 @ Donmar Warehouse

Covent Garden's Donmar Warehouse has gathered an impressive array of actors and directors in honour of poet T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot's... 

<em>Felix's Machines</em>

Art

Felix's Machines

Saturday 6/12 @ Gasworks

Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to... 

John K&oslash;rner: <em>War Problems</em>

Art

John Kørner

Saturday 6/12 @ Victoria Miro Gallery

War Problems, John Kørner's ambitious new exhibition at Victoria Miro, takes over the entire gallery with 16 large-scale canvases. The artist... 

<em>Stylees Project</em>

Art: Photography

Stylees Project

Saturday 6/12 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Othello De'Souza-Hartley offers those blessed with sartorial style (and those that are not) the chance to become part of his Stylees... 

<em>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Saturday 6/12 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Try as you might, it's next to impossible to recall a time when contemporary sportswear and fashion weren't merrily playing house.... 

<em>Cut & Paste: Photomontage 1920-1950</em>

Art

Cut & Paste

Saturday 6/12 @ Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Though it is now enjoying something of a revival, thanks largely to software such as Photoshop, photomontage was at the height... 

<em>Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from the Courtauld</em>

Art

Turner Watercolours

Saturday 6/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours... 

Alan Aldridge: <em>The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes</em>

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Saturday 6/12 @ Design Museum

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... 

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

City Gems

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

Saturday 6/12 @ Selected Hugo Boss shops

A facial de-stress at Hugo Boss is the ideal tonic for men for whom the mere mention of Christmas shopping induces... 

The Roots

Music

The Roots

Saturday 6/12 @ HMV Forum

The legendary Roots crew bring their recalcitrant brand of underground hip-hop to the Forum tonight in support of latest studio album... 

<em>The Art of the Poster: A Century of Design</em>

Art

The Art of the Poster

Saturday 6/12 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza

The eye-catching, amusing and sometimes wry art displayed on the Tube is the subject of a major retrospective at the London... 

<em>The Animal Gaze</em>

Art

The Animal Gaze

Saturday 6/12 @ Various

This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits... 

<em>Turning the Season</em>

City Gems

Turning the Season

Saturday 6/12 @ The Wapping Project

Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping... 

Eamonn McCabe: <em>Writers' Rooms</em>

Art: Photography

Writers' Rooms

Saturday 6/12 @ Madison Contemporary Art

Eamonn McCabe's new exhibition is a fascinating journey into the environments in which the country's leading writers produce their masterpieces. These... 

<em>A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding</em>

Special Event

A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding

Saturday 6/12 @ Whitecross Gallery

In this provocative exhibition at the Whitecross Street Gallery, multimedia works by father-and-son artists John and Jock Mooney go head to... 

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Saturday 6/12 @ Tate Modern

Latvian-born abstract expressionist Mark Rothko gets a much-overdue retrospective (he hasn't had an exhibition in the UK for more than 20... 

<em>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Saturday 6/12 @ National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast.... 

<em>Beauty Untold: Portraits from the Street</em>

Art: Photography

Beauty Untold

Saturday 6/12 @ Topshop

For this one-off exhibition at the Topshop flagship store on Oxford Street, British-Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari shot portraits of people she... 

<em>Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008</em>

Art: Photography

Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

Saturday 6/12 @ National Portrait Gallery

This year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery includes a shot of Rupert Murdoch competing against a... 

Matthew Bourne's <em>Edward Scissorhands</em>

Dance

Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands

Saturday 6/12 @ Sadler's Wells

Demonstrating that Walthamstow has delivered more than early-'90s boy-banders to the world, choreographer and E17 native Matthew Bourne — whose past... 

GSK Contemporary

Art

GSK Contemporary

Saturday 6/12 @ Royal Academy of Arts

GSK Contemporary brightens-up the Royal Academy over the winter with installations, screenings and seminars examining two themes: Molten States and Collision... 

<em>Sterling Stuff II</em>

Art

Sterling Stuff II

Saturday 6/12 @ Pangolin London

Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for... 

Art: Photography

Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury

Saturday 6/12 @ Proud Central

When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Saturday 6/12 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

Art

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations

Saturday 6/12 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery

Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Saturday 6/12 @ Tate Britain

Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... 

<em>Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms</em>

Art

Andy Warhol

Saturday 6/12 @ Hayward Gallery

Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... 

<em>Cupboard Love 3</em>

City Gems

Cupboard Love 3

Saturday 6/12 @ Greenwich foot tunnel

Occupy My Time's Cupboard Love 3 disproves the conventional art wisdom that white cubes are the ideal environment for exhibiting art.... 

Wig Out!

Performing Arts

Wig Out!

Saturday 6/12 @ Royal Court Theatre

Wig Out! transforms the Royal Court into a heady cabaret club night of catwalk face-offs, toe-tapping tunes and coiffure rivalry. The... 

<em>Wildlife Photographer of the Year</em>

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Saturday 6/12 @ Natural History Museum

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Saturday 6/12 @ The Old Vic

The Old Vic has been transformed into a theatre in the round for the first major London revival of Alan Ayckbourn's... 

<em>Dispersion</em>

Art

Dispersion

Saturday 6/12 @ ICA

In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new... 

<em>Homeless in the Capital</em>

Art

Homeless in the Capital

Saturday 6/12 @ Museum of London

Given that there are an estimated 150,000 homeless individuals in the city, the Museum of London's exhibition offers a poignant slice of reality... 

Dayanita Singh: <em>Dream Villa</em>

Art: Photography

Dream Villa

Saturday 6/12 @ Frith Street Gallery

Dayanita Singh, whose solo show Dream Villa is at Frith Street Gallery until mid-December, only recently chose black-and-white photography as her... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Saturday 6/12 @ Tate Britain

As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... 

<em>Material Presence</em>

Art

Material Presence

Saturday 6/12 @ 176

176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark... 

<em>Edwardian Outdoor Games: Photographs by Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles</em>

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Saturday 6/12 @ Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood

A revolutionary photojournalist of the Edwardian age, Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles showed a particular interest in capturing leisure pursuits on camera. He accumulated... 

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Saturday 6/12 @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... 

Jan Kjetil Bj&oslash;rheim: <em>The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light</em>

Art

The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light

Saturday 6/12 @ Space Station Sixty-Five

The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light by Norwegian artist Jan Kjetil Bjørheim is the latest in a...