All events on Monday March 17
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- A Spoonful of Poison
- Monday 17 Mar (8pm–midnight) @ Rhythm Factory
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- The Rhythm Factory hosts a weekly open-mic night called A Spoonful of Poison, and for those who dare, it's an unforgettable experience. Billed as "the... View details »
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- Big Scary Monsters
- Monday 17 Mar (7pm–midnight) @ The Social
- Although its creepy title is a bit foreboding for a St Patrick's Day celebration, the Social's Big Scary Monsters is the place to be this... View details »
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- St Patrick's Day at the Auld Shillelagh
- Monday 17 Mar (noon) @ The Auld Shillelagh
- Free
- Publicans Tom and Angus are well versed in the art of the St. Patrick's Day celebration. The Auld Shillelagh is always a fine place to... View details »
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- Amora
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Moore at Kew
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dealer's Choice
- Monday 17 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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- Jean Prouvé
- Monday 17 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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- Café on the Hill
- Monday 17 Mar (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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- Furnace
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- Monday 17 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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- Electric Blue
- Monday 17 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Oxo Tower Wharf More times »
- Free
- The intertwining floors of South Bank's atmospheric Bargehouse overflow with multi-sensory experiences for Electric Blue. The mixed-media artworks range from kinetic and sound installations —... View details »
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- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Monday 17 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 »
- Film
- Derek Jarman
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Elizabethan Flagons
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Christian Möller
- Monday 17 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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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Monday 17 Mar @ 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Jazz in London
- Monday 17 Mar (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
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- 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 »
- Art
- The Camden Town Group
- Monday 17 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Homecoming
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Joss McKinley
- Monday 17 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
- Annie Ralli
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- The ALI Folio
- Monday 17 Mar (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
- Free
- Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of mystique still surrounds the... View details »
- Art
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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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- The Harder They Come
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Borders and Identities
- Monday 17 Mar (10am–5pm) @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- China Design Now
- Monday 17 Mar (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Celebrating China's return to the graphic-art world stage, China Design Now embarks on a three-part journey along the country's coastline. The cities examined — Shenzhen,... View details »
- Art
- Made by Slaves for Free People
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Film
- Children of Glory
- Monday 17 Mar @ Various locations More times »
- With the Russian FSB flexing its muscles once again under Putin, Krisztina Goda's gripping Cold War-era drama bristles with prescience as it recounts the story... View details »
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- Into The Hoods
- Monday 17 Mar @ The Novello Theatre More times »
- ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two lost children in a... View details »
- Art
- Listening Post
- Monday 17 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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- Random
- Monday 17 Mar @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Rick Shapiro
- Monday 17 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 »
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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art: Photography
- PURE_photography
- Monday 17 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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- Live Art on Camera
- Monday 17 Mar (10am–5pm) @ Space Studios More times »
- Free
- Live Art on Camera presents a series of photographs of performance art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition peers into key moments... View details »
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- Snowbound
- Monday 17 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
- John Keane
- Monday 17 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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- Nour el Huda Awad
- Monday 17 Mar (10am–6pm) @ The Cochrane Theatre More times »
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- Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features a sequence of kiln-formed... View details »
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- Tin Fish
- Monday 17 Mar (2:30–6:30pm) @ Red Gate Gallery More times »
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- Artist collective Tin Fish presents its debut exhibition, Fragile Existence, at the Red Gate Gallery. Artists include Carina Hall, Marie Hart, Danielle Ward and Becky... View details »
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- Cupboard Love 2
- Monday 17 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 »
- Art
- Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
- Monday 17 Mar (noon–10:30pm) @ The Wapping Project More times »
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- 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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- Wrapping Japan
- Monday 17 Mar (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
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- 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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
- Monday 17 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 »
