All events on Tuesday April 15
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- Blood on Paper
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range from large-scale installations to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Smoosh
- Tuesday 15 Apr (7pm) @ The Borderline
- A&R men sure pick 'em young these days: Seattle-based sister act Smoosh consist of one 16-year-old (singer/keyboardist Asya) and one 14-year-old (drummer Chloe). They've been... View details »
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- Taste of Fear (1961)
- Tuesday 15 Apr (6:40pm) @ BFI Southbank
- Jimmy Sangster looks back on his career as a screenwriter and director during the golden age of British horror. Most famous for scripting The Curse... View details »
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- Footprints in the Sand
- Tuesday 15 Apr (7:45pm) @ Oval House More times »
- The Oval House's double bill, directed by Helena Bell, comprises two plays that explore the new beginnings of immigrants. Oladipo Agboluaje's For One Night Only... View details »
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- Dex Club
- Tuesday 15 Apr (noon–midnight) @ Dex Club More times »
- Dex Club in Brixton is London's newest private members' club, featuring eight DJ-friendly hotel rooms, quality British dining, a spectacular '20s-style main space and a... View details »
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- Amora
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Hibiscus
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Café on the Hill
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 15 Apr (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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- Alexander Rodchenko
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Elizabethan Flagons
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- 1001 Inventions
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 »
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- The Camden Town Group
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Speed-the-Plow
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- The ALI Folio
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 »
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- Parkour
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ 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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- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- China Design Now
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 »
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- The Regent
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ 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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- Judah Passow
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–6pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
- Free
- In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A personal journey through both... View details »
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- Into The Hoods
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ 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 »
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- Listening Post
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 »
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- Jerwood Contemporary Painters
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Jerwood Space More times »
- Free
- For its second annual exhibition, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation asked three well-respected artists and academics to choose 20 promising recent art-school graduates. Each of the... View details »
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- Amin Taha Architects
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Riceboy Sleeps
- Tuesday 15 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Agency Gallery More times »
- Free
- Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy Sleeps, a joint effort... View details »
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- Live Art on Camera
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Contains Violence
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith More times »
- The Lyric Hammersmith present Contains Violence, a site-specific theatrical performance that plays out beyond the stage and into office windows along West London's skyline. At... View details »
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- Snowbound
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 »
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- Dorm
- Tuesday 15 Apr (9am–5pm) @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery More times »
- Free
- Taking into consideration that a significant portion of life is realized within the confines of one's bedroom, Dorm is a photographic study exploring both the... View details »
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- Nour el Huda Awad
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–6pm) @ The Cochrane Theatre More times »
- Free
- 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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- Set in Stone
- Tuesday 15 Apr (1–5pm) @ PM Gallery & House More times »
- Free
- Buildings (both real and invented) are the theme for this exhibition at the PM Gallery in West London. Artists Emily Allchurch, Stephen Carter, Michael Durning,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Joel Armsden's Open Mic Night
- Tuesday 15 Apr (7:30pm) @ Monkey Chews More times »
- Free
- Joel Armsden and intrepid A&R outfit eAR Music have organized a Camden open mic that doesn't involve Johnny Borrell, offering impromptu performances from their artists... View details »
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- The Pink Bedroom
- Tuesday 15 Apr (8pm) @ Courtyard Theatre More times »
- Tonight is the UK premiere of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known play The Pink Bedroom, on the bill with three other rare, one-act Williams plays. In The... View details »
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- Testing the Echo
- Tuesday 15 Apr (8pm) @ The Tricycle Theatre More times »
- Out of Joint presents David Edgar's sharp, politically brave play, Testing the Echo. The story unfolds at an English-language school, where teacher Emma is challenged... View details »
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- Seven Deadly Sins
- Tuesday 15 Apr (8pm) @ New Players Theatre More times »
- The New Players Theatre, one of the capital's most atmospheric performance spaces, plays host to the devilishly dark Tiger Lillies. Presenting their latest spectacle —... View details »
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- Lee Ufan
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Lisson Gallery More times »
- Free
- Korean painter, sculptor and philosopher Lee Ufan first came into prominence in the late '60s as one of the key players of the avant-garde Mono-ha... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- War & Peace
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ Hampstead Theatre More times »
- Get lost in the drama of the Bezukhovs and Bolkonskys with Shared Experience's stage adaptation of Tolstoy's magnum opus. Adapted by playwright Helen Edmundson, the... View details »
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- An Enemy of the People
- Tuesday 15 Apr (8pm) @ Arcola Theatre More times »
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People skillfully transfers the play's explorations of greed and small-town politics to the modern-day context... View details »
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- Mark Pawson
- Tuesday 15 Apr (noon–6pm) @ Horse Hospital More times »
- Free
- Self-taught, Cheshire-born artist Mark Pawson is a favourite source of affordable art. The serial collector produces badges, prints and signs that are easily accessible to... View details »
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- Reader in Residence
- Tuesday 15 Apr @ Andaz Hotel More times »
- Free
- The Savoy Hotel may have had an artist or writer in residence for too many years to count, but Liverpool Street's Andaz is the only... View details »
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- Bearing Witness
- Tuesday 15 Apr (11am–5pm) @ Idea Generation Gallery More times »
- Free
- The brand-new Idea Generation Gallery launches with a hard-hitting exhibition of photojournalism from Iraq's front lines. It's been five years since the invasion, and 125... View details »
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- Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Mall Galleries More times »
- Free
- Featuring over 40 paintings and photos by 24 diverse talents, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to encounter modern Iranian art face to face. Highlights... View details »
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- Mat Collishaw
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Spring Projects More times »
- Free
- For Deliverance, multimedia artist Mat Collishaw creates and deconstructs disaster scenes through a method of high-contrast, split-second projection. Collishaw applies coats of phosphorescent paint to... View details »
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- Hurry Up Please: IT'S TIME
- Tuesday 15 Apr (6–11pm) @ The Big Chill House More times »
- Free
- Digital artists Alex Haw and VJ Mauritius Seeger pair up to explore the befuddling notion of time. Haw and Seeger's projection visually represents the entity... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Briefing
- Tuesday 15 Apr (8pm) @ Camden People's Theatre More times »
- Original music and muscular, physical performance characterise this take on Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize-winning novel Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Artistic director Avye Leventis... View details »
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- Bikram Yoga
- Tuesday 15 Apr (6:45am–9pm) @ Bikram Yoga City More times »
- Until the advent of Bikram, yoga was associated mostly with unlawful bending and the ubiquitous "om". Now, the modern twist on the ancient technique has,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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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- Amazing Butterflies
- Tuesday 15 Apr (10am–3:15pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
- Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send most people into paroxysms... View details »
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- Salt Yard
- Tuesday 15 Apr (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 15 Apr (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 15 Apr @ 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 15 Apr @ 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 15 Apr (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 15 Apr (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 »
