Events on Sunday, June 8
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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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
