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Art
Tom Hunter
Saturday 7 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood More times »
Free
Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of local businesses running along... View details »
Tom Hunter
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Tudor Cookery
Saturday 7 June (11am–3pm) @ Hampton Court Palace More times »
Vegetarians would be well-advised to steer clear of Hampton Court Palace's regular Tudor cookery sessions, in which all forms of meat are extravagantly flaunted —... View details »
Tudor Cookery
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The Smithfield Nocturne
Saturday 7 June (5–11pm) @ Smithfield Market
Bike darlings Rapha/Condor and Face Partnership bring this nighttime cycling celebration back to Smithfield Market...  its... ond instalment. The evening comprises an eclectic selection of... View details »
The Smithfield Nocturne
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[SOLD OUT] Vinoteca Summer Wine Tasting
Saturday 7 June (noon–4pm) @ Vinoteca
Sold Out!
This Clerkenwell eatery invites first-timers as well as savvy regulars to sample some tasty Iberian fare, quaff choice plonk and mull over the heady bouquet... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Vinoteca Summer Wine Tasting
Art
Open Studios
Saturday 7 June (2–6pm) @ Euroart More times »
Free
Home to 45 artists, Euroart provide studio space and facilities to those who may not otherwise be able to afford it. Their sixth annual Open... View details »
Open Studios
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3 Faces of Matmos
Saturday 7 June (8pm–1am) @ Beaconsfield More times »
Avant-electronic duo Matmos hate following convention, so it's little surprise that the UK leg of their European tour is more festival than simple gig. Taking... View details »
3 Faces of Matmos
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Open Garden Squares Weekend
Saturday 7 June @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
For one weekend a year, more than 170 gardens across the city — most of which remain locked up from the great unwashed for the... View details »
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Ligers 'n Dreams
Saturday 7 June (9pm) @ Bardens Boudoir
Barden's Boudoir gets out the spandex and crimped hair for a glitter-studded evening of raucous glam rock. Cuban heels, ripped jeans and hairsprayed Barnets are... View details »
Ligers 'n Dreams

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Amora
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Amora
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Billingsgate Market
Saturday 7 June (4am) @ Billingsgate Market More times »
Free
Fans of cod and plaice, or finer fishy delicacies, should prepare for a treat. Despite mainly serving the restaurant and retail trades, Billingsgate Market is... View details »
Billingsgate Market
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Skateboard at the Southbank Centre
Saturday 7 June (8–11am) @ Southbank Centre More times »
Free
For a rather serene moment of skateboarding, set the alarm early and cruise on down to the Southbank in the early hours of the morning.... View details »
Skateboard at the Southbank Centre
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Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
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Café on the Hill
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Café on the Hill
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Furnace
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Furnace
Art
For Your Eyes Only
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Imperial War Museum Park More times »
Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.... View details »
For Your Eyes Only
Art
Free Range 2008
Saturday 7 June @ The Old Truman Brewery More times »
Free
Following on the success of last year's Free Range exhibition, the art and design showcase — the largest of its kind in the UK and... View details »
Free Range 2008
Art
Blood on Paper
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Blood on Paper
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Kite Flying on Hampstead Heath
Saturday 7 June @ Hampstead Heath More times »
Free
Rosy up those cheeks on the Heath for a return to classic weekend pursuits. Kites plus mates usually equals fun, so strafe unwitting passers-by with... View details »
Kite Flying on Hampstead Heath
Art
Elizabethan Flagons
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Elizabethan Flagons
Art: Photography
Jazz in London
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Jazz in London
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Parkour
Saturday 7 June @ 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 »
Parkour
Art: Architecture/Design
Skin + Bones
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Somerset House More times »
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's newest space, the Embankment... View details »
Skin + Bones
Art: Architecture/Design
Richard Rogers & Architects
Saturday 7 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To appropriately honour his career,... View details »
Richard Rogers & Architects
Art
A Century of Olympic Posters
Saturday 7 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood More times »
Free
After the recent debacle with our city's own 2012 Olympic logo, you might be tempted to dismiss this little gem of a show, but it... View details »
A Century of Olympic Posters
Art: Architecture/Design
China Design Now
Saturday 7 June (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 »
China Design Now
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The Regent
Saturday 7 June (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 »
The Regent
Film
Children of Glory
Saturday 7 June @ 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 »
Children of Glory
Art
Listening Post
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Listening Post
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Pollock's Toy Museum
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Pollock's Toy Museum
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pygmalion
Saturday 7 June @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
George Bernard Shaw's rags-to-riches tale was made famous by George Cukor's 1964 film musical My Fair Lady, which starred Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins —... View details »
Pygmalion
Art
Liliane Lijn
Saturday 7 June (noon–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
Free
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using light, sound and movement... View details »
Liliane Lijn
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Ryan Gander
Saturday 7 June (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
Free
Some may spend their gap year soul-searching (that is, aimlessly wandering the globe or lolling about in a drunken stupor). But when Ryan Gander took... View details »
Ryan Gander
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Clare Barclay
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre More times »
Free
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive creations that teeter on... View details »
Clare Barclay
Art: Architecture/Design
The Story of the Supremes
Saturday 7 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
Relive the days of '60s doo-wop and soul at the Victoria & Albert Museum's latest exhibition. Hailed as one of the most successful performing groups... View details »
The Story of the Supremes
Art: Photography
Street & Studio
Saturday 7 June (10am–10pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
Giveaway
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the dichotomy between images produced... View details »
Street & Studio
Art: Photography
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ Proud Galleries More times »
Free
It's good to see Proud Galleries opening their new Camden home in a suitably rock 'n roll way. Taking an up-close and personal look at... View details »
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
Art
Hans Josephsohn
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Hauser & Wirth More times »
Free
It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that his new works are... View details »
Hans Josephsohn
Art: Photography
Running Late
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
Free
Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up or portraits of bad... View details »
Running Late
Performing Arts: Theatre
The City
Saturday 7 June @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
If you're in the mood for social decay, morally repugnant characters and simmering violence, head to Royal Court Theatre, where Martin Crimp's The City takes... View details »
The City
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Haozhan
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Haozhan
Art
Rob Ryan
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ Tatty Devine More times »
Free
Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for Vogue, a Christmas window... View details »
Rob Ryan
Art
Street Art
Saturday 7 June (10am–10pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
Free
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind — fortunately, the Tate... View details »
Street Art
Art: Photography
Adam Hinton
Saturday 7 June (11am–4pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
Free
Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism and pits it against... View details »
Adam Hinton
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Dex Club
Saturday 7 June (11–4am) @ 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 »
Dex Club
Art
Nought to Sixty
Saturday 7 June (noon–7pm) @ ICA More times »
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months, the artworks roll over... View details »
Nought to Sixty
Performing Arts: Theatre
King Lear
Saturday 7 June @ Shakespeare's Globe More times »
Shakespeare's most tragic of tragedies was in the limelight last year with the RSC's production starring Sir Ian McKellen. For the Globe's version, highly regarded... View details »
King Lear
Film
All Power to the Imagination!
Saturday 7 June @ Various locations More times »
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events, including a monthlong film... View details »
All Power to the Imagination!
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Bikram Yoga
Saturday 7 June (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 7 June (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 »
Fox & Anchor
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Amazing Butterflies
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Amazing Butterflies
Art: Photography
Paul Schütze
Saturday 7 June (10am–1pm) @ Alan Cristea Gallery More times »
Free
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees Schütze at his best;... View details »
Paul Schütze
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Chalk Garden
Saturday 7 June (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ Donmar Warehouse More times »
Enid Bagnold's dark comedy The Chalk Garden kicks off tonight at Donmar Warehouse's not-for-profit theatre. Bagnold, best known for penning Elizabeth Taylor vehicle National Velvet,... View details »
The Chalk Garden
Art
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Saturday 7 June (11am–7pm) @ Maddox Arts Gallery More times »
Free
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last century's obsession with modernism.... View details »
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Art
Flashy & Trashy
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre More times »
Free
In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as aesthetically pleasing as this... View details »
Flashy & Trashy
Art
Michael Samuels
Saturday 7 June (11am–4pm) @ Rokeby More times »
Free
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking an experimental approach to... View details »
Michael Samuels
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Salt Yard
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Salt Yard
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China Landscape
Saturday 7 June (10am–5:30pm) @ British Museum More times »
Free
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the horticultural preferences of the... View details »
China Landscape
Art
Antti Laitinen
Saturday 7 June (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
Free
Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video, photography and installation work.... View details »
Antti Laitinen
Art
Quintessential
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Grenade Gallery More times »
Free
The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and set up an indoor... View details »
Quintessential
Art: Photography
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Saturday 7 June (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
Free
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 US tour,... View details »
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
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Aaya
Saturday 7 June (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 »
Music: Classical
Il trovatore
Saturday 7 June (7:30pm) @ Holland Park More times »
Don your glad rags and head Holland Park way, where the annual season of outdoor opera kicks off with Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore. The four-act... View details »
Art
Past-Forward
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ Project Space 176 More times »
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially commissioned pieces: one by... View details »
Past-Forward
Art
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
Free
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing comes from a phrase... View details »
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Art
Angaza Afrika
Saturday 7 June (12:30–5:30pm) @ October Gallery More times »
Free
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase of some of the... View details »
Angaza Afrika
Art
Dicky Graham
Saturday 7 June (noon–5pm) @ f-art More times »
Free
For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects like brushes, funnels and... View details »
Dicky Graham
Art
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ White Cube Mason's Yard More times »
Free
BritArt's most infamous double act (not counting the duo's former bosses Gilbert & George) returns with a much-anticipated show. Exact details of the exhibition have... View details »
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pitmen Painters
Saturday 7 June @ National Theatre More times »
Free
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up painting, drawing and sculpting,... View details »
The Pitmen Painters
Art
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Saturday 7 June (noon–5pm) @ FA Projects More times »
Free
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism, its breakdown and the... View details »
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Art: Photography
Wildstyles
Saturday 7 June (11:30am–11pm) @ Bar Vinyl More times »
Free
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its effortlessly cool shows are... View details »
Wildstyles
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Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
Saturday 7 June @ 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
Sprint Festival
Saturday 7 June @ Camden People's Theatre More times »
Giveaway
The jewel-like Camden People's Theatre, loomed over by the Euston Tower block, is the spiritual home of London's experimental-theatre and performance-art scenes. Starting today, the... View details »
Sprint Festival
Art
Bernd Krauss
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ The Shop More times »
Free
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists and curators have been... View details »
Bernd Krauss
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Fernando Casasempere
Saturday 7 June @ The Economist Plaza More times »
Free
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the next three months, London-based... View details »
Fernando Casasempere
Art
Hervé Ingrand
Saturday 7 June (10am–6pm) @ Mummery + Schnelle More times »
Free
Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for the next few months,... View details »
Hervé Ingrand
Art: Photography
Wolfgang Tillmans
Saturday 7 June (11am–6pm) @ Maureen Paley More times »
Free
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's profile skyrocketed and his... View details »
Wolfgang Tillmans
Performing Arts: Comedy
The NewsRevue
Saturday 7 June (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 »
The NewsRevue
Film
David Lean
Saturday 7 June @ NFT1 More times »
Giveaway
Although best remembered for his star-studded, Oscar-winning epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), director David Lean's early work... View details »
David Lean
Art: Photography
Ruth Orkin
Saturday 7 June (10:30am–5pm) @ Michael Hoppen Gallery More times »
Free
Ruth Orkin wryly described her half-century love affair with the camera as "making people look at what I want them to look at". The daughter... View details »
Ruth Orkin
Art
Angelique Houtkamp
Saturday 7 June (noon–6pm) @ Nelly Duff More times »
Free
Dutch painter/tattoo artist Angelique Houtkamp's designs are more Amy Winehouse than David Beckham, drawing from retro motifs like swallows, hearts, roses, snakes and skulls. In... View details »
Angelique Houtkamp
Art: Photography
From Seeing to Showing
Saturday 7 June (2:30–6:30pm) @ Red Gate Gallery More times »
Free
This exhibition is the culmination of a 2007 youth-photography project, for which community-education programme Zoom In encouraged young Londoners to get involved with photography through... View details »
From Seeing to Showing
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London Fencing Club
Saturday 7 June @ 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 »
London Fencing Club
Art
Tom Milnes
Saturday 7 June (noon–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
Free
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age music, and relaxation tapes... View details »
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Cha Cha Moon
Saturday 7 June (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 7 June (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 »
Quo Vadis
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Plant Room
Saturday 7 June @ Plant Room More times »
Free
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a neglected corner of N1's... View details »
Plant Room