Events on Saturday, June 7

[SOLD OUT] Vinoteca Summer Wine Tasting

Food/Wine

[SOLD OUT] Vinoteca Summer Wine Tasting

Saturday 7/6 @ Vinoteca

This Clerkenwell eatery invites first-timers as well as savvy regulars to sample some tasty Iberian fare, quaff choice plonk and mull... 

The Smithfield Nocturne

Sports

The Smithfield Nocturne

Saturday 7/6 @ Smithfield Market

Bike darlings Rapha/Condor and Face Partnership bring this nighttime cycling celebration back to Smithfield Market for its second instalment. The evening comprises... 

Ligers 'n Dreams feat. Rollin Thunder

Party

Ligers 'n Dreams

Saturday 7/6 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Wildstyles </em>

Art: Photography

Wildstyles

Saturday 7/6 @ Bar Vinyl

PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its... 

<em>The Story of the Supremes</em>

Art

The Story of the Supremes

Saturday 7/6 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Relive the days of '60s doo-wop and soul at the Victoria & Albert Museum's latest exhibition. Hailed as one of the... 

Plant Room

City Gems

Plant Room

Saturday 7/6 @ Plant Room

Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a... 

<em>Double Perspective: Contemporary Art from Venezuela</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from Venezuela

Saturday 7/6 @ Maddox Arts Gallery

The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last... 

<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>

City Gems

Amazing Butterflies

Saturday 7/6 @ Natural History Museum

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

Music: Classical

Il trovatore

Saturday 7/6 @ Holland Park

Don your glad rags and head Holland Park way, where the annual season of outdoor opera kicks off with Giuseppe Verdi's... 

Bernd Krauss: <em>The Street</em>

Art

Bernd Krauss

Saturday 7/6 @ The Shop

The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists... 

Charlotte Hopkins Hall: <em>The Thinking Thing</em>

Art

Charlotte Hopkins Hall

Saturday 7/6 @ Ferreira Projects

British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing... 

Liliane Lijn: <em>Stardust</em>

Art

Liliane Lijn

Saturday 7/6 @ Riflemaker Gallery

Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using... 

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Saturday 7/6 @ 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>The City</em>

Theatre

The City

Saturday 7/6 @ Royal Court Theatre

If you're in the mood for social decay, morally repugnant characters and simmering violence, head to Royal Court Theatre, where Martin... 

Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horvath, Peter Sudar and Dorottya Szabo: <em>Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow</em>

Art

Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Saturday 7/6 @ FA Projects

The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,... 

China Design Now

Art

China Design Now

Saturday 7/6 @ 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... 

Fernando Casasempere: <em>The Thought-Provoking Machine</em>

City Gems

Fernando Casasempere

Saturday 7/6 @ The Economist Plaza

The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the... 

In Focus feat. <em>Running Late</em>

Art: Photography

Running Late

Saturday 7/6 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up... 

<em>Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography </em>

Art: Photography

Street & Studio

Saturday 7/6 @ Tate Modern

Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the... 

Ethan Russell: <em>Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour</em>

Art: Photography

The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour

Saturday 7/6 @ Proud Central

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'... 

<em>Flashy & Trashy</em>

Art

Flashy & Trashy

Saturday 7/6 @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre

In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as... 

<em>From Seeing to Showing </em>

Art: Photography

From Seeing to Showing

Saturday 7/6 @ Red Gate Gallery

This exhibition is the culmination of a 2007 youth-photography project, for which community-education programme Zoom In encouraged young Londoners to get... 

Ruth Orkin

Art: Photography

Ruth Orkin

Saturday 7/6 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery

Ruth Orkin wryly described her half-century love affair with the camera as "making people look at what I want them to... 

Herv&eacute; Ingrand: <em>La D</em>&eacute;<em>couverte du Cabinet de Dessins</em>

Art

Hervé Ingrand

Saturday 7/6 @ Mummery + Schnelle

Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for... 

<em>Nought to Sixty</em>

Art

Nought to Sixty

Saturday 7/6 @ ICA

The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... 

<em>Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture</em>

Art

Skin + Bones

Saturday 7/6 @ Somerset House

Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's... 

All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and Its Legacies

Film

All Power to the Imagination!

Saturday 7/6 @ Various locations

This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,... 

Art

Tom Milnes

Saturday 7/6 @ Ferreira Projects

Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age... 

Clare Barclay: <em>Shifting Ground</em>

Art

Clare Barclay

Saturday 7/6 @ Camden Arts Centre

In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive... 

City Gems

Open Garden Squares Weekend

Saturday 7/6 @ Various locations

For one weekend a year, more than 170 gardens across the city — most of which remain locked up from the... 

Adam Hinton: <em>Lovin' It</em>

Art: Photography

Adam Hinton

Saturday 7/6 @ HOST Gallery

Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism... 

<em>Street Art</em>

Art

Street Art

Saturday 7/6 @ Tate Modern

Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind... 

Mother of All Parties: 3 Faces of Matmos

Festival: Performing Arts

3 Faces of Matmos

Saturday 7/6 @ Beaconsfield

Avant-electronic duo Matmos hate following convention, so it's little surprise that the UK leg of their European tour is more festival... 

<em>Past-Forward</em>

Art

Past-Forward

Saturday 7/6 @ 176

French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially... 

Grenade Art Collective: <em>Quintessential</em>

Art

Quintessential

Saturday 7/6 @ Grenade Gallery

The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and... 

<em>Angaza Afrika: African Art Now </em>

Art

Angaza Afrika

Saturday 7/6 @ October Gallery

If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase... 

<em>Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book</em>

Art

Blood on Paper

Saturday 7/6 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range... 

<em>Pygmalion</em>

Theatre

Pygmalion

Saturday 7/6 @ The Old Vic

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... 

Dicky Graham:<em> ouR Mutts</em>

Art

Dicky Graham

Saturday 7/6 @ f-art

For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects... 

<em>A Century of Olympic Posters</em>

Art

A Century of Olympic Posters

Saturday 7/6 @ Museum of Childhood

After the recent debacle with our city's own 2012 Olympic logo, you might be tempted to dismiss this little gem of... 

Sprint Festival of Performance Art

Performing Arts

Sprint Festival

Saturday 7/6 @ Camden People's Theatre

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... 

<em>Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent </em>

Art: Photography

Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent

Saturday 7/6 @ Proud Galleries

It's good to see Proud Galleries opening their new Camden home in a suitably rock 'n roll way. Taking an up-close... 

Tom Hunter: <em>Are You Being Served?</em>

Art

Tom Hunter

Saturday 7/6 @ Museum of Childhood

Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of... 

Michael Samuels: <em>Childstar</em>

Art

Michael Samuels

Saturday 7/6 @ Rokeby

Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking... 

Paul Sch&uuml;tze: <em>Twilight Science</em>

Art: Photography

Paul Schütze

Saturday 7/6 @ Alan Cristea Gallery

Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees... 

<em>The Chalk Garden</em>

Theatre

The Chalk Garden

Saturday 7/6 @ Donmar Warehouse

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... 

Wolfgang Tillmans

Art: Photography

Wolfgang Tillmans

Saturday 7/6 @ Maureen Paley

Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's... 

Jake & Dinos Chapman: <em>If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be</em>

Art

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Saturday 7/6 @ White Cube Mason's Yard

BritArt's most infamous double act (not counting the duo's former bosses Gilbert & George) returns with a much-anticipated show. Exact details... 

Ryan Gander: <em>Heralded as the New Black</em>

Art

Ryan Gander

Saturday 7/6 @ South London Gallery

Some may spend their gap year soul-searching (that is, aimlessly wandering the globe or lolling about in a drunken stupor). But... 

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

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Saturday 7/6 @ 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... 

<em>King Lear </em>

Theatre

King Lear

Saturday 7/6 @ Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's most tragic of tragedies was in the limelight last year with the RSC's production starring Sir Ian McKellen. For the... 

Angelique Houtkamp: <em>Folies les Femmes</em>

Art

Angelique Houtkamp

Saturday 7/6 @ Nelly Duff

Dutch painter/tattoo artist Angelique Houtkamp's designs are more Amy Winehouse than David Beckham, drawing from retro motifs like swallows, hearts, roses,... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Saturday 7/6 @ The Science Museum

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

David Lean

Film

David Lean

Saturday 7/6 @ National Film Theatre

Although best remembered for his star-studded, Oscar-winning epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), director... 

Rob Ryan

Art

Rob Ryan

Saturday 7/6 @ Tatty Devine

Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for... 

Hans Josephsohn

Art

Hans Josephsohn

Saturday 7/6 @ Hauser & Wirth

It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that... 

Tudor Cookery

Food/Wine

Tudor Cookery

Saturday 7/6 @ Hampton Court Palace

Vegetarians would be well-advised to steer clear of Hampton Court Palace's regular Tudor cookery sessions, in which all forms of meat... 

Kew at the British Museum presents <em>China Landscape</em>

City Gems

China Landscape

Saturday 7/6 @ British Museum

Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the... 

Euroart Studios: 6th Open Studios

Art

Open Studios

Saturday 7/6 @ Euroart

Home to 45 artists, Euroart provide studio space and facilities to those who may not otherwise be able to afford it.... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Saturday 7/6 @ Imperial War Museum Park

Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at... 

Free Range 2008

Art

Free Range 2008

Saturday 7/6 @ The Old Truman Brewery

Following on the success of last year's Free Range exhibition, the art and design showcase — the largest of its kind... 

Antti Laitinen: <em>It's My Island</em>

Art

Antti Laitinen

Saturday 7/6 @ Nettie Horn

Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video,... 

<em>Richard Rogers & Architects:</em><em> </em><em>From the House to the City</em> <em> </em>

Art

Richard Rogers & Architects

Saturday 7/6 @ Design Museum

Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To... 

Ashington Group: <em>The Pitmen Painters</em>

Theatre

The Pitmen Painters

Saturday 7/6 @ National Theatre

In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...