Events on Sunday, June 8

Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Bikram Yoga
@ Bikram Yoga City
Until the advent of Bikram, yoga was associated mostly with unlawful bending and the ubiquitous "om". Now, the modern twist on... View details » View details »
Café on the Hill
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Café on the Hill
@ Cafe on the Hill
With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like... View details » View details »
<em>Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Skin + Bones
@ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's... View details » View details »
Tom Hunter: <em>Are You Being Served?</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Tom Hunter
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
For Your Eyes Only
@ 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... View details » View details »
China Design Now
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
China Design Now
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>
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Amazing Butterflies
@ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send... View details » View details »
Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Jazz in London
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>The Story of the Supremes</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
The Story of the Supremes
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>A Century of Olympic Posters</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
A Century of Olympic Posters
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Street Art</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Street Art
@ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind... View details » View details »
Free
Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Elizabethan Flagons
@ 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.... View details » View details »
Free
Clare Barclay: <em>Shifting Ground</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Clare Barclay
@ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive... View details » View details »
Free
Grenade Art Collective: <em>Quintessential</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Quintessential
@ Grenade Gallery
The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Richard Rogers & Architects:</em><em> </em><em>From the House to the City</em> <em> </em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Richard Rogers & Architects
@ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To... View details » View details »
<em>Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography </em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Street & Studio
@ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the... View details » View details »
<em>Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Blood on Paper
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Listening Post</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Listening Post
@ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... View details » View details »
Free
Kew at the British Museum presents <em>China Landscape</em>
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China Landscape
@ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the... View details » View details »
Free
Dicky Graham:<em> ouR Mutts</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Dicky Graham
@ f-art
For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects... View details » View details »
Free
Bernd Krauss: <em>The Street</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Bernd Krauss
@ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists... View details » View details »
Free
Frock Me!
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Frock Me!
@ Chelsea Town Hall
From '20s flapper to '70s funk, Chelsea's Town Hall houses wardrobes from throughout the eras at Frock Me!, the brainchild of... View details » View details »
<em>Past-Forward</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Past-Forward
@ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially... View details » View details »
Rob Ryan
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Rob Ryan
@ Tatty Devine
Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for... View details » View details »
Free
Tudor Cookery
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tudor Cookery
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent </em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Wolfgang Tillmans
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Wolfgang Tillmans
@ Maureen Paley
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's... View details » View details »
Free
Ethan Russell: <em>Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
@ Proud Central
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Wildstyles </em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Wildstyles
@ Bar Vinyl
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its... View details » View details »
Free
London Fetish Fair
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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London Fetish Fair
@ Shillibeers
If Oxford Street's array of big-name chain stores, tourist tat and exorbitantly priced boutiques have lost their appeal, head Islington-way today... View details » View details »
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Aaya
@ Aaya
Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz,... View details » View details »
Haozhan
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Haozhan
@ Haozhan
Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey... View details » View details »
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Cha Cha Moon
@ Cha Cha Moon
Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba... View details » View details »
Ryan Gander: <em>Heralded as the New Black</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Ryan Gander
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Antti Laitinen: <em>It's My Island</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Antti Laitinen
@ Nettie Horn
Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video,... View details » View details »
Free
In Focus feat. <em>Running Late</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Photography
Running Late
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Tom Milnes
@ Ferreira Projects
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age... View details » View details »
Free
The Regent
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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The Regent
@ The Regent
If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub... View details » View details »
Fox & Anchor
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Fox & Anchor
@ Fox & Anchor
Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the... View details » View details »
Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art: Fair
Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair
@ The Old Truman Brewery
Gavin Turk, Bob and Roberta Smith, Peter Blake — all sublime, but utterly unaffordable artists. But at the annual Vauxhall Art... View details » View details »
Stokefest 2008
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Stokefest
@ Clissold Park
Community spirit is alive and well in Hackney, with Clissold Park ready to take a beating today as eager Stokefest attendees... View details » View details »
Free
Roasts and Records
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Music: DJ
Roasts and Records
@ The Defectors Weld
If you're feeling somewhat broken in the head after Saturday night, then this Sunday activity is sure to bring you relief... View details » View details »
<em>Nought to Sixty</em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Nought to Sixty
@ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... View details » View details »
Brick Lane Bike Polo
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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Brick Lane Bike Polo
@ Corner of Shacklewell Street and Brick Lane
Thanks to the invention of bike polo, carefully groomed horses are no longer a prerequisite for a quick chukka. There may... View details » View details »
Free
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
In the Mix
@ Rich Mix
Stars of critically acclaimed jazz-education group Tomorrow's Warriors host weekly jam sessions at east London's Rich Mix. On the first Sunday... View details » View details »
Free
Euroart Studios: 6th Open Studios
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Art
Open Studios
@ Euroart
Home to 45 artists, Euroart provide studio space and facilities to those who may not otherwise be able to afford it.... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Sex and the City: The Movie </em>
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
Film
Sex and the City: The Movie
@ The Electric Cinema
Faithful followers of the Emmy Award-winning series, rejoice — the long-anticipated feature-length Sex and the City film has finally arrived, and... View details » View details »
Mother of All Parties: 3 Faces of Matmos
Month_06 Sunday Day_08
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3 Faces of Matmos
@ Beaconsfield
Avant-electronic duo Matmos hate following convention, so it's little surprise that the UK leg of their European tour is more festival... View details » View details »
Ashington Group: <em>The Pitmen Painters</em>
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pitmen Painters
@ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up... View details » View details »
Free
David Lean
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Film
David Lean
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>King Lear </em>
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
King Lear
@ 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... View details » View details »
Fernando Casasempere: <em>The Thought-Provoking Machine</em>
Month_06 Monday Day_09
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Fernando Casasempere
@ The Economist Plaza
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Pygmalion</em>
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pygmalion
@ 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... View details » View details »
Plant Room
Month_06 Monday Day_09
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Plant Room
@ Plant Room
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a... View details » View details »
Free
Sprint Festival of Performance Art
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Performing Arts
Sprint Festival
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free Range 2008
Month_06 Monday Day_09
Art
Free Range 2008
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
London Fencing Club
Month_06 Monday Day_09
More Flavor: Sports
London Fencing Club
@ Finsbury Leisure Centre
If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"... View details » View details »