Events on Saturday, September 27
Saturday 27/9 @ The London Underwriting Centre
For those aping to participate in a charity race this season, the Great Gorilla Run is at the top of our...
Saturday 27/9 @ Various locations
New Cross, one of the more bona fide parts of trendy East-Endia, hosts music/art festival Nail the Cross, featuring live music,...
Saturday 27/9 @ BFI IMAX
Whether it's Marty McFly, a naked Arnie or a big-haired Christopher Lambert that flicks your switch, BFI delivers in this all-night...
Saturday 27/9 @ Conway Hall
The last five years have seen the Festival of Life become one of the biggest food festivals in Europe. Focusing on...
Approximately Infinite Universe
Saturday 27/9 @ ICA
Niche-finders [no.signal] and
Saturday 27/9 @ Shoreditch Town Hall
From its Dusty Limits-hosted life-drawing challenge to gay bingo with lip-syncer Jonny Woo, boutique shindig Gold '08 offers unconventional entertainment for...
Saturday 27/9 @ Fabric
Ignore that ominously downbeat name — this is another must-see artist tour from Berlin's Bpitch Control. Live favourites Modeselektor are still...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 27/9 @ Spring Projects
In his testimonial-led work, Peter Friedl creates new political and artistic discourses by re-photographing his collection of politically charged newspaper images...
Saturday 27/9 @ Plant Room
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a...
Saturday 27/9 @ Vegas Gallery
Offering insight into The Advantages of Failure, London-based artist Simon Willems presents a solo exhibition at Vegas Gallery. Motivated by a...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Saturday 27/9 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Saturday 27/9 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Saturday 27/9 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Executing a swift "Bruce Wayne by day, Batman by night" manoeuvre, Italian artist Manfredi Beninati presents La Natura Morta at the...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Saturday 27/9 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Saturday 27/9 @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
While awaiting the fifth season of Lost, satiate your appetite for fantastical drama by visiting Charles Avery's imaginary island. The Islanders,...
Saturday 27/9 @ Cubitt Gallery and Studios
Electronic-arts pioneer Jan St Werner's Noise Room explores the concept of a simulated listening environment. The various compositions on offer are...
Saturday 27/9 @ Victoria Miro Gallery
Udomsak Krisanamis's new show at the Victoria Miro Gallery evokes a distinctly East-meets-West feeling. The mottled array of pieces take in...
Saturday 27/9 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
Saturday 27/9 @ Whitecross Gallery
This bijou exhibition, featuring multi-media pieces from the likes of Craig Fisher, Nina Fowler and art activists CutUp, takes a powerful...
Saturday 27/9 @ 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...
Saturday 27/9 @ Hoxton Hall
Although he's best known for his collaboration with singer KT Tunstall (he rendered her as a comic-book character for Tunstall's album...
Saturday 27/9 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Saturday 27/9 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in...
Saturday 27/9 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Saturday 27/9 @ Stuart Shave/Modern Art
Clare Woods takes the British countryside as subject matter for her large-format enamel/oil paintings, but unlike Constable or Turner, she depicts...
Saturday 27/9 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
The Good, the Bad and the Necessary
Saturday 27/9 @ The Horse Hospital
The Horse Hospital has been spicing up London's art scene for the past 15 years, and they're celebrating with a birthday...
Saturday 27/9 @ National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast....
Saturday 27/9 @ The Old Shoreditch Station
Hannah Waldron's collection of illustrations comprises a bevy of delicate, colourful musings on space, favourite animals and imaginary worlds. The subjects...
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Saturday 27/9 @ Paradise Row
This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the...
Saturday 27/9 @ 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...
Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Saturday 27/9 @ Trolley Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance! artist Isabelle Graeff brings together the obscene and the commonplace...
Saturday 27/9 @ Arcola Theatre
Combining live music with physical drama and shadow puppetry, performance-art piece Karagiozis Exposed brings Cypriot folklore to the stage. Both a...
Saturday 27/9 @ Rokeby
Rokeby Gallery have teamed up with WITH to offer bespoke life solutions. WITH's agents — sometimes blue-faced and always sporting anonymously...
Saturday 27/9 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Saturday 27/9 @ Apollo West End Cinema
For world-cinema lovers, and especially followers of Russian works, Academia Rossica presents the second Russian Film Festival in London. Among an...
Saturday 27/9 @ Various locations
Annual cloak 'n dagger festival TCM Crime Scene — which celebrates both contemporary and classic toils of the genre — launches...
Saturday 27/9 @ The Photographers' Gallery
Originally a hunting ground, and briefly a haven for the wealthy, London's Soho is the heart of the gay district, a...
The Smallest Cinema in the World
Saturday 27/9 @ Regent's Park
For Portavilion, a project that puts mobile public art in London's open spaces, Swedish artist Annika Eriksson teamed up with architects...
Saturday 27/9 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Saturday 27/9 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Saturday 27/9 @ Design Museum
Selected for their all-out experimentation, the Design Museum's resident designers have been asked to respond to the theme of collections and...
Saturday 27/9 @ Bloomsbury Theatre
A former affiliate of the Cambridge Footlighters, Mark Watson brings his unique brand of stream-of-consciousness humour to the Bloomsbury Theatre this...
Saturday 27/9 @ Limoncello Gallery
Integrating design with fine art, Gemma Holt's Work on Paper features a functional form of paper (Holt's own "G5") upon which...
Saturday 27/9 @ 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...
Saturday 27/9 @ Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Though it is now enjoying something of a revival, thanks largely to software such as Photoshop, photomontage was at the height...
Saturday 27/9 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Saturday 27/9 @ Transition Gallery
RCA- educated Mimei Thompson presents her debut solo effort, Mime1, at Transition Gallery. In it, she explores the ever-changing manifestations of...
Saturday 27/9 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Saturday 27/9 @ River Terrace, Southbank Centre
Berlin-based Jeppe Hein's water fountain is the perfect place to cool down on a sizzling summer day. The grid-like array of...
Saturday 27/9 @ Forster Gallery
Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an...
Saturday 27/9 @ Mummery + Schnelle
Presenting an aesthetically minimalist series of artworks, Michael Müller's solo exhibition Caoutchouc launches today at Mummery + Schnelle. Utilising a stark...
Saturday 27/9 @ Haunch of Venison
Anthony Goicolea's previous, Cindy Sherman-esque photography has included portraits of himself as a young boy and dreamlike tableaux with gruesome twists....
Saturday 27/9 @ Getty Images Gallery
Contemporary London owes its reputation to its diverse, cosmopolitan residents. London Through a Lens, a collection of photographs from Getty Image's...
Saturday 27/9 @ Beaux Arts
Taking a none-too-subtle approach to his work, David Spiller draws from the immediate nature of pop art to create a series...
Saturday 27/9 @ Soho Theatre
Over a packed three days, performers, directors and playwrights gather at Soho Theatre to investigate political activism through their chosen art...
Saturday 27/9 @ Bethnal Green WorkingMen's Club
With three years of successful craft-and-music nights under their macramé belts, the team behind East London’s inaugural Hungamunga two-dayer pledge the...
Saturday 27/9 @ Eleven
Martha Parsey's Solid Gold at the Eleven gallery is a set of oil-on-canvas portraits that explore the decadence of the well-to-do....
Saturday 27/9 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Try as you might, it's next to impossible to recall a time when contemporary sportswear and fashion weren't merrily playing house....
Saturday 27/9 @ The Old Vic
The Old Vic has been transformed into a theatre in the round for the first major London revival of Alan Ayckbourn's...
Saturday 27/9 @ Bearspace
The "literature" of Jackie Collins hasn't been the inspiration for many artworks, but London video artist Sarah Baker draws on her...
Saturday 27/9 @ Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of...
Saturday 27/9 @ Mother
Even with concerted efforts to get people to reduce consumption — every shop worth its salt offers a stylish canvas alternative...
Saturday 27/9 @ Artprojx Space
Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu...
Saturday 27/9 @ Zest Gallery
This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for...
Saturday 27/9 @ Artangel Harper Road Site
British artist Roger Hiorns leaves his trademark chemical trace in new project Seizure, commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation....
Environmental Photographer of the Year
Saturday 27/9 @ The Art Pavilion
Happy in Her Own World, the winning picture of this photography contest, powerfully reiterates the ethos of the competition. A young...
Saturday 27/9 @ Grosvenor Gallery
To coincide with the first UK solo exhibition of his work at Grosvenor Gallery, Ravinder Reddy has created a large-scale public...
Saturday 27/9 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 27/9 @ National Theatre
For those navigating the insistently endless summer days on a budget, the National Theatre's Watch This Space returns to the scenic...
Saturday 27/9 @ All over London. Event base in central London.
Transforming the capital into a playground for the fearless, Rat Race Urban Adventure takes on London today. Following stints in Brighton,...
