All events on Tuesday February 05
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- The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race
- Tuesday 5 Feb (12:30pm) @ The Old Truman Brewery
- Free
- Put off bagels and cream cheese for a day and start flipping continental-style fried batter, as the Truman Brewery plays host to Spitalfields' annual pancake... View details »
- Art
- Shelley Cassidy
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10:30am–6pm) @ Fairfax Gallery More times »
- Free
- Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils, her work has become... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- SPC ECO
- Tuesday 5 Feb (7:30pm) @ Industry
- SPC ECO are an alt-rock band with an interesting heritage. Bass and programming duties are handled by veteran noisemaker Dean Garcia, formerly of early '90s... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- James, Son of James
- Tuesday 5 Feb (7:45pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- The latest Fabulous Beast production, James, Son of James, centers around a prodigal son who returns to rural Britain to mourn the death of his... View details »
- Art: Photography
- AOP New Members Exhibition
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Association of Photographers Gallery More times »
- Free
- For 40 years, the Association of Photographers has been looking after the best interests of snappers across the globe. New members join the exclusive club... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- The Evil Twins
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
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- Amora
- Tuesday 5 Feb (1pm–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
- Moore at Kew
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- La Cage aux Folles
- Tuesday 5 Feb (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
- Tuesday 5 Feb (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
- Tuesday 5 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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- Hibiscus
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–2:30 & 6:30–10pm) @ Hibiscus More times »
- In just a month, chef-proprietor Claude Bosi has taken London's restaurant world by storm. With the relocation of his two Michelin stars from Ludlow to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dealer's Choice
- Tuesday 5 Feb (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 »
- Art
- Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
- Tuesday 5 Feb (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
- Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Timothy Taylor Gallery More times »
- Free
- Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before his graduation from the... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Tango Inn
- Tuesday 5 Feb (6–11pm) @ Barrio North More times »
- Free
- Thanks largely to the beat-drenched sounds of Parisian crew Gotan Project, the lure of electro-tango has never been stronger — with the launch of new... View details »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Tuesday 5 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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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Tuesday 5 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: Dance
- Resolution! 2008
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art
- John Copnall
- Tuesday 5 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Mark Barrow Fine Art More times »
- Free
- In memory of John Copnall's passing in June of last year, Mark Barrow Fine Art displays a chronology of the noted painter's finest works on... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Afrika! Afrika!
- Tuesday 5 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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- Café on the Hill
- Tuesday 5 Feb (8am–10pm) @ 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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- Furnace
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace More times »
- Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
- Film
- The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Art Spaces of the Future
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Art
- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art
- An Act of Happening
- Tuesday 5 Feb (2:30–6:30pm) @ Red Gate Gallery More times »
- Free
- Red Gate Gallery's An Act of Happening examines the artistic process through student work from the Camberwell College of Art. The show focusses on the... View details »
- Art
- Clementina Raynsford
- Tuesday 5 Feb (11am–6pm) @ 54 The Gallery More times »
- Free
- Clementina Raynsford uses the drawing skills she honed at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence to capture elements of her travels around the world. From subtle... View details »
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- Write Side of the Brain
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ The Miller More times »
- Write Side of the Brain is an opportunity for an artistic binge. The event includes six readings from new talent fresh from the Royal Court's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- White Boy
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Film: Shorts
- Apoohcalypse Now
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Let There Be Love
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Art
- Rachel Howard
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Haunch of Venison More times »
- Free
- An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However, Rachel Howard's paintings manage... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Kathrin Kur
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Photofusion Photography Centre More times »
- Free
- German photographer Kathrin Kur documents the real-life backdrops used to make television and movie magic. A shot of the deserted Tomb Raider set juxtaposes trees... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Darren Almond
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ White Cube More times »
- Free
- 2005 Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond graces the stark Hoxton White Cube with his projects from Tibet and the British Isles. Following in the vein... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Metamorphosis
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Art
- Elizabethan Flagons
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art
- Pavel Büchler
- Tuesday 5 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Max Wigram Gallery More times »
- Sold Out!Free
- Czech-born Pavel Büchler has spent many years investigating the theories and concepts behind art. As Research Professor of Art & Design at Manchester Metropolitan University,... View details »
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- Carnival 2008
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ Guanabara More times »
- Drury Lane's Guanabara club brings the thrill of Brazilian carnival to London, and the celebrations get more extravagant every year. For 2008, six nights of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
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- The Vertical Hour
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Happy Now?
- Tuesday 5 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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- Gillray's Legacy: A Contemporary Perspective
- Tuesday 5 Feb (9am–5:30pm) @ The Political Cartoon Gallery More times »
- Free
- Georgian caricaturist James Gillray, considered the pre-eminent early political cartoonist, was a thorn in the side of power brokers like Napoleon, George III, Prime Minister... View details »
- Film
- Breaking the Rules
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The BIG Gameshow Winaway
- Tuesday 5 Feb @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Our Daily Bread
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art
- The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire
- Tuesday 5 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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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Tuesday 5 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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- 1001 Inventions
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Jazz in London
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Homecoming
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Weapons of Happiness
- Tuesday 5 Feb (7:30pm) @ 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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- Speed-the-Plow
- Tuesday 5 Feb (7:30pm) @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
- Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic delivers the dream team... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Tuesday 5 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 »
- Art
- Crystal Vision
- Tuesday 5 Feb (11–1am) @ 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 »
- Art
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
- Tuesday 5 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 »
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- Parkour
- Tuesday 5 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
- Tuesday 5 Feb (12:30–11pm) @ 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
- Tuesday 5 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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- Haozhan
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–11:30pm) @ 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
- Tuesday 5 Feb (7am–11pm) @ 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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- Salt Yard
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–11pm) @ Salt Yard More times »
- It's not easy to garner favourable comparisons to London tapas giants Fino and Barrafina, but the diminutive Salt Yard pulls off this Goliath-sized task. The... View details »
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- Aaya
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–midnight) @ 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
- Tuesday 5 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
- Tuesday 5 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
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–11pm) @ 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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- Quo Vadis
- Tuesday 5 Feb (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis More times »
- Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
