Events on Saturday, April 5
Saturday 5/4 @ Foyles Bookshop
Tales of the Decongested has been championing the diminutive short-story format for four years, hosting regular reading events at Foyles. For...
Saturday 5/4 @ Electrowerkz
Whitehouse are the godfathers of power electronics, spearheading the bloody industrial revolution for the past three decades. With just a laptop...
Saturday 5/4 @ Notting Hill Arts Club
Edinburgh's Broken Records — a seven-piece playing what seems like 50 different instruments between them — are causing quite a stir...
Burlington Project Launch Party
Saturday 5/4 @ Cable Street Studios
New electronic-music community Burlington Project have chosen wisely for their launch party, enlisting Ibiza party crew Vitalik to pull the strings....
Saturday 5/4 @ O2 Academy Islington
If you've ever attempted a flare or a headspin, you know breakdancing is no joke. And, while parkour and capoeira have...
Saturday 5/4 @ Corsica Studios
The Wang ethos harkens back to the warehouse days of glory, and tonight's party falls in line, with the Corsica Studios...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/4 @ Hayward Gallery
In Revolution in Photography, the Hayward celebrates Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko's trail-blazing versatility. Featuring more than 120 original prints and photomontages,...
2008 London Burlesque Festival
Saturday 5/4 @ Various locations
Flames, fans, hoops and tassles are all on display at the 2008 London Burlesque Festival. Now in its second year, the...
Saturday 5/4 @ Paradise Row
Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal...
Saturday 5/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Saturday 5/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich
Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Saturday 5/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Saturday 5/4 @ Arcola Theatre
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...
Saturday 5/4 @ PM Gallery & House
Buildings (both real and invented) are the theme for this exhibition at the PM Gallery in West London. Artists Emily Allchurch,...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Old Vic
Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic...
Saturday 5/4 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad....
Saturday 5/4 @ Nettie Horn
No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current...
Saturday 5/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Saturday 5/4 @ Croydon Clocktower
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...
Saturday 5/4 @ Space Studios
Live Art on Camera presents a series of photographs of performance art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition...
Saturday 5/4 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Saturday 5/4 @ BFI Southbank
Established in 1986 and currently maintaining a proud position as the third largest film fest in the UK, the annual London...
Saturday 5/4 @ Sadler's Wells
NDT 1, the premier troupe of the innovative Nederlands Dans Theater, presents work by resident choreographer Jirí Kylián as well as...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Horniman Museum
Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an...
Saturday 5/4 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
The Lyric Hammersmith present Contains Violence, a site-specific theatrical performance that plays out beyond the stage and into office windows along...
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
Saturday 5/4 @ Standpoint Gallery
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray offer deceptive stylisations of fruit and hot-dog stands (respectively) in their joint sculptural installation, exploring the...
Saturday 5/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Horse Hospital
Self-taught, Cheshire-born artist Mark Pawson is a favourite source of affordable art. The serial collector produces badges, prints and signs that...
Saturday 5/4 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
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...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Street Project Base
They may navigate us through our lives, but have you ever considered London's streets as the context for artistic interrogation? Over...
Saturday 5/4 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Tricycle Theatre
Out of Joint presents David Edgar's sharp, politically brave play, Testing the Echo. The story unfolds at an English-language school, where...
Saturday 5/4 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Berlin is home and muse to some of Europe's most intriguing visual artists, including Geneva-born Daniel Pflumm. A keen musician and...
Saturday 5/4 @ The Novello Theatre
ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two...
Saturday 5/4 @ Barbican
As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy...
Saturday 5/4 @ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...
Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
Saturday 5/4 @ The Wapping Project
For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the...
Saturday 5/4 @ Chris Beetles Gallery
Over his 35-year career, photographer John Swannell has shot lakes and mountains across the globe, dramatic nudes and models showcasing the...
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Saturday 5/4 @ The Photographers' Gallery
The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced...
Saturday 5/4 @ Well Gallery
Vancouver-born, Munich-educated and London-based artist Daphne Plessner presents It's a Wallpaper World. Featuring a series of canvas paintings, the exhibition depicts...
Saturday 5/4 @ HOST Gallery
In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Saturday 5/4 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Instructions for Modern Living
Saturday 5/4 @ The Pit
Instructions for Modern Living aims to expose what goes on in the city when most people are safely snuggled under their...
Saturday 5/4 @ Young Vic
David Lynch's surreal film Lost Highway isn't the most obvious subject for operatic interpretation. But with typical bravura, the Young Vic,...
Saturday 5/4 @ South London Gallery
Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London...
Saturday 5/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in...
Saturday 5/4 @ Zest Gallery
ZeST Contemporary presents Max Jacquard's Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of the glass artist's most recent works. Pillow Piece, the collection's...
Saturday 5/4 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Saturday 5/4 @ Southbank Centre
Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London....
Saturday 5/4 @ Courtyard Theatre
Tonight is the UK premiere of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known play The Pink Bedroom, on the bill with three other rare, one-act...
Saturday 5/4 @ Bischoff/Weiss
Monologue/Dialogue II's artists use sculpture, painting and installation to convey their own vision of Bangkok. Nathaniel Rackowe's urban, fluorescent installations are...
Saturday 5/4 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...
