From London Cocktail Week to amazing astronomy, mask-making to magic lanterns, via festivals, balls and live literature, there’s plenty of sexy and spooky stuff to get up to this October: ...
From the latest comics to undiscovered classics, new musicals and plays to retro boat parties, there’s plenty to do this month. You might think the festival season is over, but ...
From opera for beggars to dance for Latin-lovers, via festivals, comedy, Prohibition, classic film, free theatre and live literature.
JULY
Until 23rd July: The Beggars’ Opera, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, £17-44. ...
Titus Awakes will be launched in July.
Titus Awakes exhibition launch: 9 July, 4-8pm @ Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors, 11 Mare Street, London E8 8RP. More information here.
To celebrate the centenary ...
All May and June: The Rebel Dining Society’s ‘The Green Hour’ Dinner, £40
The Rebel Dining Society returns with the second instalment of The Green Hour, an exciting collaboration ...
Get transported back in time this month, from The Blitz, to the Prohibition, to the golden era of the romantic poets, and Victorian magic lantern worlds of story-telling, in this ...
The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH, 18th May
Bill Drummond, co-founder of late 1980s avant-garde ‘pop group’, the KLF, and its 1990s media ...
Great Thinkers: AC Grayling vs Rowan Williams
The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
11th May, 6pm
Professional boffin AC Grayling takes on religious honcho, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
AC Grayling used to ...
Mark Akrill: Waiting for Hate Mail
Ambassadors Theatre, West Street. London, WC2H 9ND
11th May 2011, 8pm
Boom.
Who is Mark Akrill? Someone famous … Famous enough to get hate mail. This mail ...
Information as material
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street
28th April, 7pm
Making Nothing Happen
Writer collective information as material (iam) begin their residency at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 28th of ...
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, and a young Londoner’s fancy turns to thoughts of what to do in the long April evenings. Well, Easter is packed with great ...
Lionel Shriver’s selected novel, Revolutionary Road.
Vintage Classics Day
Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, 7th May 2011, 10am-5pm
Vintage Classics is introducing the Orange Inheritance collection this week. This collection of classic novels, ...
The space race had an enormous impact on society, culture and popular imagination.
Eyes on the stars – Space as inspiration
Piers Sellers in conversation with Rona Munro and John Zarnecki.
Starts: 7.00pm ...
Head to the ICA on the 19th March to discuss the state and importance of radical publishing.
On Saturday 19 March, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will play host ...
Everyone else has book clubs—Shoreditch House have a Literary Salon. The Salon lures the world’s best writers to London to read to you from their latest greatest works. Previous guests have ...
The Live Canon ensemble are staging a celebration of English love poetry on the 13th of February at The Theatre in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The show ...
Event Listings, February 2011
From Egyptian mummies to the daddy of folk, via French farce and classical music, there’s so much more to February than hearts and flowers. Wander lonely as ...
The globetrotting force of nature that is the Literary Death Match returns to London on the 16th of February. Explaining the concept behind the night to friends can be difficult, ...
If you Google ‘anti slam’ you get a bunch of information about a pretentious-sounding poetry movement which took place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan a ...
Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales
Roald Dahl wrote a hell of a lot of stories in his 74 years. Although far better known as an author for children, he produced almost 20 ...
