Events on Sunday, April 6

Anita's Vintage Fashion Fairs

Festival: Fair

Anita's Vintage Fashion Fairs

Sunday 6/4 @ 20th Century Theatre

Anita's Vintage Fashion Fair inhabits the charmingly old-school 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill. The team behind the bi-monthly event are... 

Festival: Parade

The Olympic Torch at the Southbank

Sunday 6/4 @ Southbank Centre

Whatever your views are on the current situation in Tibet, the Olympic torch is on its way to China, where its... 

Great East End Treasure Hunt

City Gems

Great East End Treasure Hunt

Sunday 6/4 @ Cable Street Mural

There are few more enjoyable ways to explore a city than a good, old-fashioned treasure hunt. This JCC-organised hunt delves into... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The ALI Folio</em>

Art: Photography

The ALI Folio

Sunday 6/4 @ Proud Central

Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of... 

2008 London Burlesque Festival

Performing Arts

2008 London Burlesque Festival

Sunday 6/4 @ Various locations

Flames, fans, hoops and tassles are all on display at the 2008 London Burlesque Festival. Now in its second year, the... 

Alexander Rodchenko: <em>Revolution in Photography</em>

Art: Photography

Alexander Rodchenko

Sunday 6/4 @ 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,... 

<em>Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008</em>

Art: Photography

Vanity Fair Portraits

Sunday 6/4 @ National Portrait Gallery

Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for... 

Barry Reigate: <em>Happiness</em>

Art

Barry Reigate

Sunday 6/4 @ Paradise Row

Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal... 

<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>

City Gems

Amazing Butterflies

Sunday 6/4 @ Natural History Museum

Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send... 

Mark Pawson: <em>What are you working on at the moment? What are you collecting at the moment?</em>

Art

Mark Pawson

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Random</em>

Theatre

Random

Sunday 6/4 @ Royal Court Theatre

Debbie Tucker Green writes with striking urgency. Her trademark is rhythmic and forceful language, and not everyone appreciates her confrontational style... 

Tobias Till: <em>As the Crow Flies</em>

Art

Tobias Till

Sunday 6/4 @ gallery12

Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal... 

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Sunday 6/4 @ 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.... 

<em>Deutsche B</em>&ouml;<em>rse Photography Prize</em>

Art: Photography

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

China Design Now

Art

China Design Now

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation</em>

Art

Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation

Sunday 6/4 @ The Wapping Project

For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the... 

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Film

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Sunday 6/4 @ BFI Southbank

Established in 1986 and currently maintaining a proud position as the third largest film fest in the UK, the annual London... 

<em>1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in our World</em>

Special Event

1001 Inventions

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Contains Violence</em>

Theatre

Contains Violence

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Wrapping Japan</em>

Special Event

Wrapping Japan

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>The Camden Town Group</em>

Art

The Camden Town Group

Sunday 6/4 @ Tate Britain

Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the... 

<em>Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art</em>

Art

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Sunday 6/4 @ Barbican

In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"... 

Marc Horowitz: <em>The Centre for Improved Living</em>

Art

Marc Horowitz

Sunday 6/4 @ 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.... 

Zo&euml; Mendelson and Joel Tomlin: <em>Oh Vienna</em>

Art

Oh Vienna

Sunday 6/4 @ Transition Gallery

Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams provided the overriding critical context for much of the 20th century's cultural output. Though the discipline... 

<em>Into The Hoods</em>

Theatre

Into The Hoods

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>The Street</em>

Art

The Street

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

Derek Jarman

Film

Derek Jarman

Sunday 6/4 @ Serpentine Gallery

Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,... 

Tennessee Williams: <em>The Pink Bedroom</em>

Theatre

The Pink Bedroom

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia</em>

Art

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Sunday 6/4 @ Tate Modern

It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively... 

<em>Dorm</em>

Art: Photography

Dorm

Sunday 6/4 @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery

Taking into consideration that a significant portion of life is realized within the confines of one's bedroom, Dorm is a photographic... 

<em>Laughing in a Foreign Language</em>

Art

Laughing in a Foreign Language

Sunday 6/4 @ Hayward Gallery

Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps... 

<em>Peacocks &amp; Pinstripes</em>

Art: Photography

Peacocks & Pinstripes

Sunday 6/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum

Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine... 

<em>Lost Highway</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Lost Highway

Sunday 6/4 @ 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,... 

Whitechapel Laboratory: Daniel Pflumm

Art

Daniel Pflumm

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

Alfredo Jaar: <em>Politics of the Image</em>

Art

Alfredo Jaar

Sunday 6/4 @ 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... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Sunday 6/4 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

<em>No Letters</em>

Art

No Letters

Sunday 6/4 @ Nettie Horn

No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current... 

China in London

Festival: Performing Arts

China in London

Sunday 6/4 @ Various locations

It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...