All events on Sunday February 17
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- Arena at Curzon
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon) @ Curzon Soho More times »
- German film director Werner Herzog once called it "an oasis in the sea of insanity that is television". The BBC documentary series Arena, which has... View details »
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- Shane Meadows Triple-Bill
- Sunday 17 Feb (2pm) @ Roxy Bar & Screen
- Giveaway
- Shane Meadows' latest work, This Is England, is a terrifying, semi-autobiographical portrayal of skinhead culture in '80s Britain. The film picked up Best Film at... View details »
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- The Cuban on Sundays
- Sunday 17 Feb (6pm–midnight) @ The Cuban More times »
- Free
- For a vigorous dose of Latin American sunshine in the final throes of winter, the Cuban on Sundays offers a regular salsa bash with DJ... View details »
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- The Sunday Showcase
- Sunday 17 Feb (3–10pm) @ Jamm
- To raise money for their tuition at Wimbledon College of Art, students are organizing an afternoon of music, films and culinary pleasures. Jamm, key player... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Sunday 17 Feb (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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- Moore at Kew
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Sunday 17 Feb (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: Theatre
- La Cage aux Folles
- Sunday 17 Feb (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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- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 »
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- Amora
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 »
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- Café on the Hill
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 »
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- Parkour
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 17 Feb (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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- Haozhan
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 17 Feb (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 17 Feb (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 17 Feb @ 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 »
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- London Fencing Club
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 17 Feb (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 »
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- Brick Lane Bike Polo
- Sunday 17 Feb (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Resolution! 2008
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The NewsRevue
- Sunday 17 Feb (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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- Elizabethan Flagons
- Sunday 17 Feb (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
- Happy Now?
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 »
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- Afrika! Afrika!
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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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- The Vertical Hour
- Sunday 17 Feb @ 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 »
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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Sunday 17 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
- Free
- Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history". Coward may... View details »
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- Jazz in London
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Free
- Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
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- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps into the notoriously stiff-backed... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Apoohcalypse Now
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Free
- Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's new film offers a... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Our Daily Bread
- Sunday 17 Feb @ ICA More times »
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the numerous processes that reduce... View details »
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- The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire
- Sunday 17 Feb (10:30am–5pm) @ Old Operating Theatre More times »
- Artist Daniel Baker creates scenarios from a play about a disease, The Simbysial Case, taking inspiration from the paper theatres popular during Victorian times. The... View details »
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- Before Magic Dies - Not Before Magic
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–4pm) @ Gone Tomorrow Gallery More times »
- Free
- Anthropology and ethnography have inspired many artworks of the last century, from the modernist paintings of Picasso and Matisse to films like Dances With Wolves... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Weapons of Happiness
- Sunday 17 Feb (3pm) @ Finborough Theatre More times »
- Howard Brenton's Weapons of Happiness was the first play to be performed at the Lyttleton in the politically turbulent '70s, causing a storm and winning... View details »
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- The Homecoming
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Almeida Theatre More times »
- The Homecoming, a '60s classic by Harold Pinter, tells the story of an ex-pat and his wife who return to working-class north London from a... View details »
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- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Young Vic More times »
- Stemming from Thomas Babe's gritty narrative of social unrest, A Prayer for My Daughter takes place in the turmoil of post-Vietnam America. Pitting authority against... View details »
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- Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Kensington Palace State Apartments More times »
- Although he may not be as much of a household name, Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe remains one of England's most exciting and unappreciated dramatists. First... View details »
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- Crystal Vision
- Sunday 17 Feb (11–12:30am) @ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes More times »
- Free
- Mystic south London septet Crystal Vision have adorned a trendsetting former clothing emporium with their fantastical and wonderful creations. Although classed as a collective, the... View details »
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- 1001 Inventions
- Sunday 17 Feb (11am–5pm) @ Croydon Clocktower More times »
- Free
- Croydon isn't exactly top-of-mind when it comes to visiting museums, but this free exhibition at the town's exhibition gallery aims to challenge that. With a... View details »
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- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–5:50pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
- Free
- After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent by storm. At a... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Roasts and Records
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–11pm) @ The Defectors Weld More times »
- If you're feeling somewhat broken in the head after Saturday night, then this Sunday activity is sure to bring you relief while requiring minimal effort.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- F**king Men
- Sunday 17 Feb (7:30pm) @ Finborough Theatre More times »
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- China in London
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Various locations More times »
- It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with the XXIX Olympiad in... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Giveaway
- In Revolution in Photography, the Hayward celebrates Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko's trail-blazing versatility. Featuring more than 120 original prints and photomontages, the exhibition traces Rodchenko's... View details »
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- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- Sunday 17 Feb (11am–5pm) @ Fashion and Textile Museum More times »
- Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine fashion. The collection looks... View details »
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- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
- Free
- The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced until March, the Photographers'... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Cool School
- Sunday 17 Feb (3pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
- Giveaway
- During the late '50s and early '60s, Ferus was LA's hottest gallery. Owned by "gonzo museum director" Walter Hopps and dealer Irving Blum, Ferus became... View details »
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- A Life More Ordinary
- Sunday 17 Feb @ ICA More times »
- Giveaway
- For a break from the pant-soiling horror that represents Japan's more famous cinematic output, the ICA presents a season of films that faithfully represent contemporary... View details »
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- The Island
- Sunday 17 Feb (11am–6pm) @ TAG Fine Arts More times »
- Free
- You could say that Stephen Walter — famous for his Similands maps of Britain — is a cartographer. And yet, these maps are nothing like... View details »
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- Cimarron!
- Sunday 17 Feb @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- This festival recognizes and celebrates the African cultural legacy in Latin America through lectures, music, art, dance and film. Highlights include Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Colombian evenings... View details »
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- Cornelia Parker
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at St Paul's Cathedral,... View details »
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- The Camden Town Group
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
- Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the borough during the early... View details »
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- Planar (of, or relating to a plane)
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon) @ ICA More times »
- Planar — a collaboration between fashion designer Simon Thorogood and artist/designer Chris Ratcliffe — pioneers new ways to look at clothing. After doing research on... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Carnaby Kiss Exhibition
- Sunday 17 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Carnaby Gallery More times »
- Free
- If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint Martins graduate Gregg Stone... View details »
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- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Sunday 17 Feb (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for its instantly classic cover... View details »
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- Heart-Shaped Cinema Season
- Sunday 17 Feb @ ICA More times »
- Ditch the cynicism and celebrate V-Day with a little old-fashioned romance. The ICA features four films over the coming days, pooh-poohing the holiday's skeptics with... View details »
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- Chris von Steiner
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Strychnin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Proverbial myth and sinister mayhem collide at Strychnin Gallery, courtesy of French visual artist Chris von Steiner. Comprising a selection of digital paintings, The Snow... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
- Sunday 17 Feb @ ICA More times »
- Giveaway
- Photographer Annie Leibovitz's best-known images — a nude John Lennon clutching at Yoko Ono, a radiantly pregnant Demi Moore — have become visual icons in... View details »
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- Hypersurface
- Sunday 17 Feb (1–5pm) @ Rod Barton Invites More times »
- Free
- Renegade curator and gallery director Roderick Barton presents a triumvirate of emerging artists for this group show, which investigates the relationship between real and virtual... View details »
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- Relics of the Bottom Drawer
- Sunday 17 Feb (2:30–6:30pm) @ Red Gate Gallery More times »
- Free
- Dusty and long-forgotten undergarments adorn the Red Gate Gallery's walls over the coming week. Sarah Mellor — artist and sometime cultural preservationist — presents a... View details »
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- FaCshion 2008
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–5pm) @ The Music Room More times »
- It's handbags and glad rags aplenty this weekend at FaCshion 2008. Hordes of designers – from established trendsetters to emerging students to bespoke boutique labels... View details »
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- Alfredo Jaar
- Sunday 17 Feb (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London Gallery. Politics of the... View details »
