All events on Saturday April 05
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- Mark Pawson
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Music: Electronic
- Slimelight present Whitehouse
- Saturday 5 Apr (8pm–7am) @ Electrowerkz
- Whitehouse are the godfathers of power electronics, spearheading the bloody industrial revolution for the past three decades. With just a laptop and microphone, they generate... View details »
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- Short Story Festival
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–9pm) @ Foyles Bookshop
- Free
- Tales of the Decongested has been championing the diminutive short-story format for four years, hosting regular reading events at Foyles. For April, the organisers celebrate... View details »
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- Battle of the Year
- Saturday 5 Apr (5–10pm) @ Carling Academy Islington
- If you've ever attempted a flare or a headspin, you know breakdancing is no joke. And, while parkour and capoeira have stolen some of its... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Broken Records
- Saturday 5 Apr (4–8pm) @ Notting Hill Arts Club
- Free
- Edinburgh's Broken Records — a seven-piece playing what seems like 50 different instruments between them — are causing quite a stir among indie rockers right... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Wang feat. Radioactive Man
- Saturday 5 Apr (10pm–6am) @ Corsica Studios
- Giveaway
- The Wang ethos harkens back to the warehouse days of glory, and tonight's party falls in line, with the Corsica Studios overrun by legions of... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Burlington Project Launch Party
- Saturday 5 Apr (10pm–6am) @ 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. Setting up rave-style in... View details »
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- Amazing Butterflies
- Saturday 5 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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- Amora
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–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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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 Apr (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
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–10pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- Saturday 5 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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- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Saturday 5 Apr @ 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
- Saturday 5 Apr (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
- Saturday 5 Apr (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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art
- Alfredo Jaar
- Saturday 5 Apr (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 »
- Film
- London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Saturday 5 Apr @ BFI Southbank More times »
- Established in 1986 and currently maintaining a proud position as the third largest film fest in the UK, the annual London Lesbian & Gay Film... View details »
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- 1001 Inventions
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Jazz in London
- Saturday 5 Apr (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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- The Camden Town Group
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Saturday 5 Apr (2:30 & 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
- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Saturday 5 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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- China in London
- Saturday 5 Apr @ 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
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art: Photography
- John Swannell
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–5:30pm) @ Chris Beetles Gallery More times »
- Free
- Over his 35-year career, photographer John Swannell has shot lakes and mountains across the globe, dramatic nudes and models showcasing the latest catwalk collections, but... View details »
- Art
- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–10pm) @ 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art
- Max Jacquard's Untold Stories
- Saturday 5 Apr (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Harder They Come
- Saturday 5 Apr (2:45 & 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
- The Street
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Street Project Base More times »
- Free
- They may navigate us through our lives, but have you ever considered London's streets as the context for artistic interrogation? Over the next 12 months,... View details »
- Art
- Borders and Identities
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–4pm) @ 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
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Judah Passow
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–4pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Into The Hoods
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art
- Tobias Till
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–5pm) @ gallery12 More times »
- Free
- Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal Academy art graduate's first... View details »
- Art
- Listening Post
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art
- Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–6pm) @ Standpoint Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Random
- Saturday 5 Apr @ 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 »
- Art
- Monologue/Dialogue Part II
- Saturday 5 Apr (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
- Saturday 5 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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- Daniel Pflumm
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- Berlin is home and muse to some of Europe's most intriguing visual artists, including Geneva-born Daniel Pflumm. A keen musician and techno fan, Pflumm has... View details »
- Art
- It's a Wallpaper World
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–4pm) @ Well Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 the ongoing friction between... View details »
- Art
- Barry Reigate
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–6pm) @ Paradise Row More times »
- Free
- Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal Green's Paradise Row, Reigate... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Lost Highway
- Saturday 5 Apr @ Young Vic More times »
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- David Lynch's surreal film Lost Highway isn't the most obvious subject for operatic interpretation. But with typical bravura, the Young Vic, in collaboration with the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Live Art on Camera
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–4pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Contains Violence
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Snowbound
- Saturday 5 Apr (3 & 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
- Marc Horowitz
- Saturday 5 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London. Famed for his National... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- 2008 London Burlesque Festival
- Saturday 5 Apr @ Various locations More times »
- Flames, fans, hoops and tassles are all on display at the 2008 London Burlesque Festival. Now in its second year, the festival sets grand showcases... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Set in Stone
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–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 »
- Art
- Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
- Saturday 5 Apr (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 »
- Performing Arts
- Instructions for Modern Living
- Saturday 5 Apr (7:45pm) @ The Pit More times »
- Instructions for Modern Living aims to expose what goes on in the city when most people are safely snuggled under their duvets. Set in the... View details »
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- The Pink Bedroom
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Art
- No Letters
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
- Free
- No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current affairs, gossip, news or... View details »
- Art
- Lee Ufan
- Saturday 5 Apr (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Oh Vienna
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–6pm) @ Transition Gallery More times »
- Free
- Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams provided the overriding critical context for much of the 20th century's cultural output. Though the discipline Freud helped to invent... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Saturday 5 Apr (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Nederlands Dans Theater
- Saturday 5 Apr (7:30pm) @ Sadler's Wells More times »
- NDT 1, the premier troupe of the innovative Nederlands Dans Theater, presents work by resident choreographer Jirí Kylián as well as a ballet by Paul... View details »
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- An Enemy of the People
- Saturday 5 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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- Haozhan
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–midnight) @ 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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- Bikram Yoga
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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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- Salt Yard
- Saturday 5 Apr (5–11pm) @ 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
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The NewsRevue
- Saturday 5 Apr (9:30pm) @ Canal Café Theatre More times »
- The NewsRevue has followed the same format since 1979 — low-tech, topical comedy performed by two men and two women. Written by a team of... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Saturday 5 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
- Saturday 5 Apr (noon–11:30pm) @ 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
- Saturday 5 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 »
