All events on Wednesday March 12
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- The Living Unknown Soldier
- Wednesday 12 Mar (3 & 8pm) @ Arcola Theatre More times »
- The Arcola Theatre's production of the tragicomic The Living Unknown Soldier creates an interesting link between the past and the future. While the play itself... View details »
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- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- Wednesday 12 Mar (6:45pm–midnight) @ Various locations More times »
- For a stark reminder of your privileged place in the world, stop by this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Now in its 12th... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Ojos de Brujos
- Wednesday 12 Mar (7pm–1am) @ Cargo
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- Although the government's attempt to replace obstreperous drunks with "café culture" hasn't quite worked out as planned, Cargo's efforts to improve our musical acumen with... View details »
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- Snowbound
- Wednesday 12 Mar (7:45pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
- Snowbound finds two orphaned brothers having their roles reversed: when older brother and businessman Tom loses his wife, the younger Alex must step in and... View details »
- Art
- Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
- Wednesday 12 Mar (noon–10:30pm) @ The Wapping Project More times »
- Free
- For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the history of her hometown,... View details »
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- Amora
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Moore at Kew
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Dealer's Choice
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Billingsgate Market
- Wednesday 12 Mar (4am) @ Billingsgate Market More times »
- Free
- Fans of cod and plaice, or finer fishy delicacies, should prepare for a treat. Despite mainly serving the restaurant and retail trades, Billingsgate Market is... View details »
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- Skateboard at the Southbank Centre
- Wednesday 12 Mar (8–11am) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- For a rather serene moment of skateboarding, set the alarm early and cruise on down to the Southbank in the early hours of the morning.... View details »
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- Jean Prouvé
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Flamenco Festival 2008
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Sadler's Wells More times »
- For a frankly exhausting display of barnstorming footwork and hot-blooded passion, head to Sadler's Wells for the fifth annual Flamenco Festival. As part of a... View details »
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- Andrew McAttee
- Wednesday 12 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Forster Gallery More times »
- Free
- Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but hints of his street-art... View details »
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- Café on the Hill
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Cornelia Parker
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- Alexander Rodchenko
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
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- 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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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 »
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- Derek Jarman
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman, who died of an... View details »
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- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–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 »
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- Kite Flying on Hampstead Heath
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Hampstead Heath More times »
- Free
- Rosy up those cheeks on the Heath for a return to classic weekend pursuits. Kites plus mates usually equals fun, so strafe unwitting passers-by with... View details »
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- Larry Clark
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Simon Lee Gallery More times »
- Free
- Shock-and-awe cult director Larry Clark brings his quasi-fetishistic portraiture of decrepit urban youth to the grim streets of Mayfair. Los Angeles 2003 - 2006 follows... View details »
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- Elizabethan Flagons
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Christian Möller
- Wednesday 12 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Vegas Gallery More times »
- Free
- Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at Vegas Gallery. The series... View details »
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- Alfredo Jaar
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Happy Now?
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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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- Yayoi Kusama
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Victoria Miro Gallery More times »
- Free
- The Victoria Miro presents the second of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's two-part tour de force. Spanning two buildings, Kusama's unique universe features her trademark use... View details »
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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ National Theatre More times »
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- 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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- Jazz in London
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- London Word Festival
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Various locations More times »
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- London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to cabaret. The London Word... View details »
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- The Camden Town Group
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- The Homecoming
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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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- Speed-the-Plow
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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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- Yoga Club
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Cafe 1001 More times »
- For those incapable of leaving the confines of Spitalfields and Brick Lane, sneak into 1001 to hone your breathing technique — or just writhe around... View details »
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- Joss McKinley
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–7pm) @ Golden Lane Estate More times »
- Free
- Joss McKinley's solo exhibition The Moonlight Rooms promises spine-chilling doom and gloom. The ethereal mixed-media presentation focuses on a series of photographs taken in the... View details »
- Art
- Crystal Vision
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
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- Carnaby Kiss Exhibition
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
- Art
- Annie Ralli
- Wednesday 12 Mar (9:30am–6:30pm) @ The Colomb Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- After a few ales, recalling a night out can sometimes be tricky. Lucky, then, that we have the visual evidence of former BBC scenic-artist-turned-painter Annie... View details »
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- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- China in London
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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 »
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- Connect '08
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells More times »
- Spot the next Darcey Bussell at Sadler's Wells' annual festival, which showcases the talents within the theatre's education programme. This is no amateur production —... View details »
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- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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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- Simon Keenleyside
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Rokeby More times »
- Free
- For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his Essex home. Although many... View details »
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- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
- It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively — exhibited together. The... View details »
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- Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
- Wednesday 12 Mar (9am–11pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators" aren't from around here,... View details »
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- Max Jacquard's Untold Stories
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ ZeST Gallery More times »
- Free
- ZeST Contemporary presents Max Jacquard's Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of the glass artist's most recent works. Pillow Piece, the collection's haunting main event, is... View details »
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- The Harder They Come
- Wednesday 12 Mar (7:45pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy Cliff — it's also... View details »
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- Ten Years Innit!
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Barrett Marsden Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ten Years Innit! celebrates a decade of artistic applicability. The exhibition pulls together new work from each of Barrett Marsden's resident artists, as well as... View details »
- Film
- Bird's Eye View Film Festival
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ BFI Southbank More times »
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- Celebrate the great women of film at the Bird's Eye View opening-night gala. An introduction from the illustrious Maureen Lipman kicks things off, and a... View details »
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- Dallas Seitz
- Wednesday 12 Mar (noon–5:30pm) @ Carter Presents More times »
- Free
- Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the artist examines colonialism and... View details »
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- Borders and Identities
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–5pm) @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich More times »
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- Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly juxtaposes footage of scantily... View details »
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- Made by Slaves for Free People
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
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- Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced to withdraw their exhibition... View details »
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- The Regent
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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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- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Seventeen Gallery More times »
- Free
- Werner Herzog once bet Errol Morris that he would eat his own shoe if his then-unknown protégé ever completed his first major film project. Against... View details »
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- Listening Post
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
- Free
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
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- Draw
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–7pm) @ StolenSpace Gallery More times »
- Free
- Draw offers up some fine examples of images from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything from haphazard spray... View details »
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- Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
- Wednesday 12 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Standpoint Gallery More times »
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- Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray offer deceptive stylisations of fruit and hot-dog stands (respectively) in their joint sculptural installation, exploring the hidden meanings in familiar... View details »
- Film
- The London Australian Film Festival
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Barbican Centre More times »
- For an injection of true-blue Aussie films (Crocodile Dundee doesn't count, silly), the Barbican once again hosts the London Australian Film Festival. Now in its... View details »
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- Random
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
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- Debbie Tucker Green writes with striking urgency. Her trademark is rhythmic and forceful language, and not everyone appreciates her confrontational style and dark subject matter... View details »
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- Mules
- Wednesday 12 Mar (7:45pm) @ Young Vic More times »
- Sold Out!
- Jerwood Directors Award winner Amy Hodge helms this production of Winsome Pinnock's 1996 play, which follows a group of young women who use their bodies... View details »
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- Rick Shapiro
- Wednesday 12 Mar (9:30pm) @ Soho Theatre More times »
- Rick Shapiro, who makes his UK debut tonight, built his reputation in New York as an underground comedian with an unstable streak. After working his... View details »
- Art
- Monologue/Dialogue Part II
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Bischoff/Weiss More times »
- Free
- Monologue/Dialogue II's artists use sculpture, painting and installation to convey their own vision of Bangkok. Nathaniel Rackowe's urban, fluorescent installations are juxtaposed with Panya Vijinthanasarn's... View details »
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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–5pm) @ Pollock's Toy Museum More times »
- Evoke dusty memories of bygone days with a visit to Pollock's Toy Museum, nestled in the heart of Fitzrovia. Comprised of two conjoined 18th- and... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Amin Taha Architects
- Wednesday 12 Mar (9am–5:30pm) @ Dreamspace Gallery More times »
- Free
- Exterior-design up-and-comers Amin Taha Architects showcase their innovative work at dreamspace gallery. Their debut solo exhibition features recently completed projects, maquettes and as-yet-unseen competition entries.... View details »
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- PURE_photography
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
- Free
- The penultimate slice of the PURE series focuses on photography, comprising five snappers' takes on the meaning of "journey". Two standouts are Jane Stockdale and... View details »
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- ARTfutures
- Wednesday 12 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Bloomberg SPACE More times »
- Free
- Always a key event in the art season, ARTfutures returns to the Bloomberg SPACE. This year's show is curated by Jeni Walwin and artist Nicky... View details »
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- John Keane
- Wednesday 12 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Flowers Central More times »
- Free
- Part of the Children in Conflict collection, John Keane's Angola exhibition documents the fraught state of a post-conflict society six years into peacetime. Keane was... View details »
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- Cupboard Love 2
- Wednesday 12 Mar (7am–7pm) @ Greenwich foot tunnel More times »
- Free
- For Occupy My Time's new monthly series, the art collective places artworks in the cupboards within the Greenwich foot-tunnel lifts. The pieces respond to the... View details »
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- Elephant
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ New Wimbledon Theatre More times »
- The Dodgy Clutch theatre company joins Johannesburg's Market Theatre for Elephant, a groundbreaking show that mixes dance, music, puppetry and drama. Drawing on African folklore,... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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
- Wednesday 12 Mar @ 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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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
- Wednesday 12 Mar (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 »
