UKFUNLIFE.com: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

Collaboration

Dates: 5.5.2009 to 29.8.2009. Collaboration begins in 1931 in a spirit of optimism as composer Richard Strauss and writer Stephan Zweig embark on an invigorating artistic partnership.

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Alela Diane

Dates: 17.9.2009. Magical and authentic freaky folk from a very special talent.

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First Thrusday

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009.

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Conservation Uncovered

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. After you have visited the Library's two main galleries and seen the priceless items on display, visit the 'Conservation Uncovere'd exhibition to discover the methods behind book and sound conservation and understand how the life of collection items - some thousands of years old, some contemporary - can be prolonged. This small exhibition also gives visitors an insight into how books can deteriorate, and the range of solutions available to preserve them for the future. This work uses modern technologies and considerable knowledge of material science - alongside centuries old craft skills. Sound restoration techniques are also explained.

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The Art Gallery

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. This new gallery area contains works of art from Hunter's personal collection by artists such as George Stubbs, William Hodges and Jan van Rymsdyk.

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Barbara Rae RA

Dates: 1.8.2009 to 31.8.2009.

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Super Contemporary

Dates: 3.6.2009 to 4.10.2009. Explore the past, present and future of London design at the Design Museum. From 3 Jun

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Another Roadside Attraction

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009.

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Eco Home

Dates: 13.10.2009 to 17.2.2010. An exhibition which examines our current concerns around eco living in an informative, but fun way. Areas for focus will include saving energy and the fabric of the home, sustainable design, and habits and behaviours.

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Annotations of an Autopsy + Trigger The Bloodshed + Viatrophy + Impending Doom

Dates: 1.8.2009.

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Affordable Art

14 October 2009 - 25 October 2009. An exhibition of work by new and up-and-coming artists.

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Eric Fong: Ways of Seeing

Dates: 16.7.2009 to 2.8.2009.

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The Blow Monkeys

Dates: 3.9.2009. Reformed after 18 years, the Blow Monkeys are back with a new album. One of the great English pop bands of the 1980s, their biggest hit was Digging the Scene. Expect melodic glam jazz.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'Dune': An Exhibition of a Film of a Book that Never was

Dates: 16.9.2009 to 25.10.2009. Contemporary artists Steven Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon reinterpret drawings made in the early 70s by comic artists, Chris Foss, HR Giger and Moebius.

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War Horse

Dates: 31.3.2009 to 26.9.2009.

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LazyTown Live! The Pirate Adventure

Dates: 30.9.2009 to 4.10.2009. A LazyTown adventure with music, dance and song.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Domestic Life

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Domestic Life gallery looks at utensils used for washing, ironing, cooking and for serving food during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Christmas Past: 400 Years of Seasonal Traditions in English Homes

Dates: 24.11.2009 to 3.1.2010. Each year the Geffrye's eleven period rooms are decorated in authentic festive style to reflect how Christmas has been celebrated in English homes over the past 400 years. A feast for the eyes and the soul, a visit in December is a must.

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Finnish Ceramics

Dates: 9.9.2009 to 30.9.2009.

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Archive Journeys

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Caird Library showcases original documents and objects each week under six themes: Sailor Chic, the Georgian Navy, Nelson's women, the Caird Collection, Titanic and Polar Exploration.

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Dividing The Line

Dates: 2.8.2009. Dividing The Line are a six-piece screamo band from Worcestershire. If you liked them last time they came to Gloucester then you'll be amazed this time, thanks to a few line-up changes and loads of new songs. Energetic, jaw-dropping and intense, they give you a live show you won't forget! Linchpin are the most exciting young band in Britain (average age 17), mixing up rock and punk sounds.

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Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Archives and Museum houses art and historical collections in the field of mental health. The museum holds a collection of paintings and drawings. The collections contain many other items of historic and artistic significance, including the statues of 'Raving and Melancholy Madness' from the gates of the 17th century Bethlem Hospital.

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French Porcelain for English Palaces: Sevres from the Royal Collection

Dates: 23.5.2009 to 11.10.2009. French Porcelain for English Palaces: Svres from the Royal Collection. This exhibition brings together around 300 pieces created by the pre-eminent European porcelain factory of the 18th century. The finely painted and gilded works by Svres were loved by royalty, aristocrats, connoisseurs and collectors. The factory's unrivalled techniques and revolutionary methods of production appealed to their liking for the rare, exotic and extravagant. The Royal Collection contains the world's finest group of Svres, much of it acquired between 1783 and 1830 by George IV, who popularised the taste for French porcelain in Britain.

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Rio Zouk

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Brazilian zouk lambada is a rhythm developed in Rio de Janeiro, a city that some would argue is the dance capital of the world. An evolution of the lambada this dance is increasingly popular world wide including in Brazil, Holland, Spain, the UK and Australia.

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Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Dates: 10.3.2009 to 26.9.2009.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Contemporary at Play

Dates: 11.8.2009 to 6.9.2009. A follow-up exhibition to last year's highly successful schmatte couture.

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Billy Elliot: The Musical

Dates: 10.4.2009 to 24.10.2009. Musical based on the film of the same name in which a young boy triumphs over adversity and prejudice to become a ballet dancer. The score has been composed by music legend Elton John.

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Family Fun Thursdays: Hackney and Beyond

Dates: 30.7.2009. Art activities based on the different cultures have occupied Sutton House through the ages.

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Bugsy Malone

13 November 2009 - 15 November 2009. A classic musical of gang warfare in 1920s New York set against a famous score.

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Dave Hollander

Dates: 8.9.2009 to 12.9.2009. Dr Prentice, a psychiatrist, attempts to seduce his attractive prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay. As part of her interview, he convinces her to undress. His wife enters and he attempts to cover up his activity, hiding the girl behind a curtain. It transpires that Mrs Barclay is also being seduced and blackmailed by Nicholas Beckett, a hotel porter. She hastily promises him the post as secretary, which adds further confusion. Soon, Geraldine is dressed like a boy and Nicholas like a girl, a statue of Winston Churchill is missing body parts and the doctor is digging himself into an ever deeper hole with his outrageous lies. A goverment inspection, led by Dr Rance, threatens to close the clinic, and only with the Sergeant's appearance do we find out if the statue of Winston Churchill will be restored to its former glory.

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Bloomsbury Designs: The Omega Workshops (1913 - 1919)

Dates: 18.6.2009 to 20.9.2009. Founded by Roger Fry in 1913, The Omega Workshops produced ceramics, furniture, textiles and rugs. Among the protagonists of this collaborative were other members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. This exhibition will focus on a moment of creative experimentation between artists who worked together under the umbrella of the Omega Workshops.

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V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries Opening

Dates: 18.3.2009 to 18.9.2009. The V&A's extensive Theatre Collections move to a new home. More than 250 objects on display. Free entry. Opens 18 Mar

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Atta Kwami & Pamela Clarkson Kwami

Dates: 1.9.2009 to 30.9.2009. A group exhibition by artists Atta Kwami and Pamela Clarkson Kwami.

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Astronomy Galleries - Astronomy Questions

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. This exhibit will show how the universe was formed, offer interactive exhibits and on-screen experts will answer the big questions. The exhibits will offer participants the chance to try being an astronomer, guide a space mission or touch a meteorite that is over 4.5 billion years old.

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Bellowhead

21 October 2009. Eleven piece-band with their own carnival take on folk music mashed up with music hall burlesque, big band jazz and funk.

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City and River 1820 -1840

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. This gallery covers the period 1800 1840. This relatively short period of time was a watershed for the docks, and London as a whole. It was characterised by powerful economic, technological and social change. The wide variety of displays in the gallery bares testament to this. The West India docks were established to accommodate trade from the West Indies. This was built on the back of thousands of slaves forcefully, and horrifically, transferred from Africa to the Caribbean. The slave trade was abolished in Britain in 1807. It was abolished in all British colonies in 1834.

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Hot August Fringe

Dates: 27.7.2009 to 28.8.2009. A month long riot of unforgettable entertainment featuring theatre, stand up comedy, music, magic, performance art and improv cabaret.

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Greenwich Heritage Centre - Permanent Collection

31 December 2009. The exhibition shows extensive and growing collection of documents and books, photographs and maps, and prints and drawings.The Heritage Centre can be the ideal place to explore your family history. Not only does the centre have a wealth of information available in the form of books, records and collections, but the staff also have the knowledge and experience to guide you with your own family history research.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

New Medieval Gallery at the British Museum

Dates: 25.3.2009 to 25.9.2009. London's British Museum is set to unveil a stunning new Medieval Gallery, displaying treasures from 1050-1500AD. Opens 25 Mar

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One Night at Her Majestys

Dates: 9.8.2009 to 16.8.2009.

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Geoff Rigden And Norman Toynton

Dates: 3.9.2009 to 13.9.2009.

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Carus Thompson

Dates: 9.9.2009.

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Sleeping Beauty

Dates: 4.12.2009 to 17.1.2010. The Churchill's magical pantomime is a high-energy show packed with sing-along songs, wonderful dance, colourful costumes and characters, sparkling sets, and of course, non-stop jokes and join-in fun! The tale of the beautiful princess Aurora, who is cursed by an evil fairy and can only be awakened by her true love's kiss, will capture imaginations young and old and guarantees all the seasonal joy of a traditional pantomime. It's not Christmas without a trip to the theatre and Sleeping Beauty at The Churchill promises yet another truly spectacular show to delight your whole family.

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Contemporary Gallery Artists

Dates: 29.7.2009 to 4.9.2009.

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Calendar Girls

Dates: 4.4.2009 to 19.9.2009. A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference - no more photos of Wharfedale Bridges or Norman churches for them. Overcoming their initial reserve, the friends drop their dressing gowns, modesty spared only by artfully placed cakes, knitting and flower arrangements.

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London's Burning: The Great Fire of London 1666

Dates: 1.1.2007 to 31.12.2009. Explore the Great Fire, the most famous disaster in London's history, and find out how it shaped the city we know today. Hear the real stories of how Londoners lived through this tragedy. What was it like to live through the terror of having your home and livelihood destroyed? How did people cope? And why did a fire which claimed less than a dozen lives end up changing London's cityscape forever? Be transported back to September 1666, with interactive displays and a wide range of objects, including archaeological finds and 17th century fire-fighting equipment and see the Great Fire through the eyes of those who survived it.

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International Ballroom Dancing Champions

15 October 2009. The 56th annual International Ballroom Dancing Championships returns to the Royal Albert Hall, bringing together some of the world's foremost amateur and professional dancers.

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After The Fire: Rebuilding the City

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Curator Vicky Roberton will demonstrate through the museums collections the processes involved in rebuilding London after the destruction caused by the Great Fire of 1666. Sir Christopher Wren and John Nash, the two dominant architects of the day, greatly influenced the redevelopment of the new city.

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The Bremer Car

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Bremer car, built by Frederick Bremer in 1892, and one of the claimants to being the oldest British-built petrol driven car.

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Books & Documents

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. A wide-ranging collection of books and documents, both handwritten and printed, dating from the inception of the Bank in 1694 to the present. Subjects are many and varied and include personalities, premises and suggestions to make banknotes "inimitable".

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Foundling Museum

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling, its campaigning founder the philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

The Royal Ballet: New Watkins + Rushes - Fragments of A Lost Story + Infra

Dates: 19.2.2010 to 4.3.2010. Making his debut on the main stage, Jonathan Watkins is collaborating with award winning composer Graham Fitkin, who has written a new commissioned score. Kim Brandstrup's ballet Rushes - Fragments of A Lost Story returns for the first time. Winner of the 2008 south bank show award, Infra is dedicated to Dame Monica Mason in celebration of her 50th season with The Royal Ballet. Infra juxtaposes McGregor's choreography with the art of Julian Opie and Max Richter's score. Conductor: New Watkins: Barry Wordsworth; Rushes: Daniel Capps. Choreography: New Watkins : Jonathan Watkins; Rushes: Kim Brandstrup; Infra: Wayne McGregor.

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Spring Awakening

Dates: 21.3.2009 to 31.10.2009. The European premiere of Spring Awakening, a musical based on a scandalous play. Until 14 Mar

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Anne Hardy

Dates: 1.10.2009 to 30.11.2009.

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Brass Players

Dates: 28.7.2009. Session run by Martin Lawrence, horn player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This workshop also includes a visit to the museum's Gerald Coke library to see original manuscripts. Please bring your wind instrument. Suitable for orchestral students, grade 6 and above, maximum 15 participants.

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Eric Fong: Ways of Seeing

Dates: 16.7.2009 to 2.8.2009.

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Gilbert O'Sullivan

26 October 2009. Gilbert O' Sullivan performs music from his new album, 'A Scruff At Heart'. Expect loud piano, live vocals and extraordinary songs.

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Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture

Dates: 3.6.2009 to 13.9.2009.

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Contemporary

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Contemporary Space at the Victoria and Albert Museum offers a range of exhibitions, events and displays.

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Dance the Quadrille

Dates: 29.5.2009 to 30.7.2009. Enjoy a performance of the quadrille, a traditional Caribbean dance which is the result of the fusion of African and European folk dance. Then learn the steps and have a go yourself.

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Strictly Come Dancing Live 2010

Dates: 2.2.2010 to 3.2.2010.

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Espana On Fire

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. As ever, audiences are encouraged to get involved, with a jam and dance session after the main performance.

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Christmas Exhibition

Dates: 9.12.2009 to 23.12.2009.

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Art London fair

Dates: 7.10.2009 to 11.10.2009.

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Bows and Arrows

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Medieval bowmen demonstrate their skills along the remains of the City wall.

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Christmas Show

Dates: 2.12.2009 to 24.12.2009.

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Another Roadside Attraction

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009.

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Cliff Richard and The Shadows

Dates: 25.9.2009 to 28.9.2009. Rock'n'roll at The O2 with Cliff and The Shadows. 25, 26 and 28 Sep

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La Llamada

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009.

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Fast Forward: 20 Ways F1 is Changing Our World

Dates: 11.3.2009 to 5.4.2010. Explore the wonders of Formula 1 technology, but not just on the racetrack. Find out how researchers from different industries and disciplines have embraced the Formula 1 spirit for innovation and transferred it into our everyday lives. 20 innovative by-products of Formula 1TM will show how sophisticated composite materials and rigorous pit-stop strategies devised by British teams are currently applied to improve safety and efficiency in our hospitals, homes and working places. Formula 1 has a long and proud heritage of British racing triumph, but motorsport's more than the Grand Prix winners - there is a wealth of winning technology too. British teams, engineers and mechanics have shown themselves to be at the forefront of Formula 1, a world where human skill, innovation and cutting-edge technology are pushed to the extreme. The exhibition will feature unique items such as the Ovei Wellbeing Capsule, Baby Pod II and Solar B Solar Probe.

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Billy Liar

Dates: 6.11.2009 to 14.11.2009. There'll be queues out of the door for this one. Get in early and keep queueing for November's classic comedy Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. This hugely funny tale of Billy Fisher and his overactive imagination will be remembered by all and is definitely worth a revisit this year. Directed by Paul Campion who, of course, brought us the comedy Neville's Island in 2008 it is bound to be a great pre-cursor (it'll certainly get your laughter muscles in trim).

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Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes

Dates: 28.10.2009 to 8.11.2009. Tinker Bell hosts a collection of enchanting and beloved Disney stories, featuring the tales of seven favourite princesses: Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Snow White, Aurora and Mulan.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Dates: 25.9.2009 to 10.10.2009. Shakespeare's celebration of the claims of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright's comic arsenal from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. It's also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody. The King of Navarre and his courtiers have forsworn every kind of pleasure. But a visit from the Princess of France and her lovely entourage soon has this all-male academe tearing up its own rulebook.

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The Kirov - Romeo and Juliet

Dates: 3.8.2009 to 11.8.2009. The Mariinsky Ballet opens the season with the eagerly awaited return of Romeo and Juliet, one of the most cherished ballets in its repertory. Set to Prokofiev's magnificent score, the ballet portrays the bittersweet love of the star-crossed lovers from their first fateful meeting to their untimely and tragic deaths. Danced by renowned Mariinsky ballerinas Alina Somova, Evgenia Obraztsova and Olesya Novikova, partnered by Andrian Fadeev, Vladimir Shklyarov and Igor Kolb, the most famous love story of all time is presented in its original version by Leonid Lavrovsky, embodying all the drama and passion of Shakespeare's text.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Bloomberg Commission

Dates: 5.4.2009 to 18.4.2010. London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga is widely acclaimed for her sculptural installations of artefacts and photographs, derived from art history, politics and anthropology. The artist focuses on a key moment in the history of the Whitechapel Gallery: the presentation of Picassos Guernica in 1939. Organised in collaboration with the Stepney Trade Union Council in east London to raise awareness of the Spanish Civil War, the suggested price of entry was a pair of boots, left underneath the work, to be sent to the Republicans in Spain. Forming the centrepiece of Macugas installation is a life-size tapestry of Guernica.

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The Art of Healing the Mind

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. This exhibition follows a sequence through conventional art by mental health service users, to more abstract images and unconventional use of colour, to art which describes the isolation of the mentally distressed, to powerful images of what mental illness is really about.

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The Bremer Car

Dickie Orpen

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Artist Dickie Orpen (1914- 2008) created over 2,500 drawings of reconstructive surgical procedures during the second world war.

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Estelle Thompson

Dates: 9.10.2009 to 7.11.2009. The gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring work by artist Estelle Thompson.

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Billy Elliot: The Musical

Corot to Monet

Dates: 8.7.2009 to 20.9.2009. An exhibition which charts the development of open-air landscape painting up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

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Arcadia

Dates: 27.5.2009 to 12.9.2009. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's 'richest, most ravishing comedy' (NY Times), is a dazzling, witty masterpiece of misunderstanding and quest for knowledge, resonating across centuries. David Leveaux, one of the country's leading directors, whose other recent West End and Broadway work with Tom Stoppard includes The Real Thing and Jumpers, will direct the first major revival of this brilliant play since its premiere at the National Theatre in 1993. April 1809, a stately home in Derbyshire. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard, are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth. Arcadia features an outstanding company of actors, including Neil Pearson, Dan Stevens, Nancy Carroll, Jessie Cave and Ed Stoppard.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Pink Plays Live in London at The O2 Arena

Dates: 1.5.2009 to 8.12.2009. Fearless rock chick P!nk heads to The O2 in London with her Funhouse tour. 1, 2, 4, 8 May

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Remember Me

Dates: 23.9.2009 to 26.9.2009. A fusion play of the stories that go untold. The stories of every day suffering of the people behind the face of war.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Books & Documents

Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts

Dates: 10.10.2009 to 17.1.2010. The word 'maharaja' (literally 'great king') conjures up images of fantasy and spectacle. The heyday of the maharajas began in earnest after the collapse of the Mughal empire in the early 18th century. The exhibition will open with this period of chaos and adventure and will close at the end of British rule in 1947, when Indian princes acceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan. The show will explore the extraordinary culture of princely India, showcasing rich and varied objects that reflect different aspects of royal life.

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Faces of Scotland

Dates: 15.9.2009 to 19.12.2009. A one-off opportunity to see all the major works from The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in London following its closure for renovation. The origins of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery can be traced back to the late eighteenth century and to the enthusiasm of one man, the mildly eccentric David, 11th Earl of Buchan. It opened its doors to the public in 1889 and features portraits in the fields of science and medicine, philosophy and literature.

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The British Museum - Collection

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Its collection spans two million years of human history. Including various cultures from around the world, such as Roman, Greek, Aztec and Medieval. The collection has many artefacts such as coins, statues, manuscripts and prints.

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One Night at Her Majestys

Dates: 9.8.2009 to 16.8.2009.

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Air Traffic Control Exhibition

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. An exhibition about air traffic control with interactive displays.

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New Medieval Gallery at the British Museum

China: Symbols in Silk

Dates: 24.5.2008 to 6.9.2009. This stunning exhibition will feature historic textiles including beautiful silk objects, from embroidered robes to exquisite shoes, as well as altar pieces and a figure of the seated Buddha Sakyamuni.

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Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952-62

Dates: 15.10.2009 to 17.1.2010. This will be the first exhibition to bring together the seminal group of paintings of London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931). These extraordinary paintings are among the most important contributions to post-war painting in Britain. Fascinated by the post-war rebuilding of London, Auerbach combed the city's numerous building sites with his sketchbook in hand. He visited the major sites, including St Paul's, Oxford Street, Leicester Square and the Shell Building on the South Bank. Drawing on public and private collections nationally and internationally, the exhibition charts the early development of Auerbach's remarkable approach to painting, for which he is celebrated as one of Britain's greatest living artists.

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The Bantam IV Tug

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. The Bantam class of tug was produced in the late 1940's and the 1950's and 1960's by E.C. Jones and Sons of Brentford. In 1994 London Canal Museum was given number 4 of the class which is preserved as a floating exhibit, normally moored outside the museum, but sometimes taken to canal events during the summer season. The Bantam tugs are unusual in that they are designed to push, not to tow. This is a more energy efficient way of moving an unpowered barge. The tugs were used most frequently for canal maintenance and in gravel pits and other non tidal waterway situations.

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Hanzel und Gretyl

Dates: 31.7.2009.

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Christine Woodside RSW RGI

28 October 2009 - 13 November 2009. Christine's lighthearted yet technically complicated works of art never fail to bring a smile to one's face. Her affectionate interiors of her Fife home and the surrounding countryside to the Lomond Hills are suffused with rich, vibrant colours and luxuriant surface texture.

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Cultures of Islington

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009.

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

The 25th Goldsmiths' Fair

Dates: 28.9.2009 to 11.10.2009.

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A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine

Dates: 29.8.2009 to 9.10.2009. Trevor Griffiths fills this moving story of the life and loves of the author of 'The Rights of Man' with songs, music and the huge carnival spirit of a world turned upside down. It is the late-18th century and on both sides of the Atlantic the world seems filled with exciting new possibilities for humanity: old yokes can at last be cast off, ancient hierarchies dissolved. Chief among those lighting the fire is the English radical Thomas Paine, a man of great compassion, brutal honesty and a political writer of genius. Whether answering the call of an America chafing under the tyranny of the British crown, riding the storm of revolutionary France, or challenging a conservative backlash in Britain, Paine is at the heart of things, ardent in his search for love, passionate in his pursuit of liberty.

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Daisy Pulls it Off

Dates: 4.8.2009 to 8.8.2009. Daisy Pulls It Off, first performed in 1983, is an affectionate pastiche of the classic girls' school story, crammed full of slang like 'topping', 'jolly' and 'scrummy'. The play captures the innocence and uncomplicated essence of Angela Brazil's schoolgirl novels from the 1920s which dealt with the highs and lows in the lives of middle-class schoolgirls: their charms, misfortunes and personal failures. Set in a prestigious all girls boarding school in a bygone era, the play follows our plucky heroine, Daisy Meredith, an elementary school girl and first scholarship student to attend Grangewood School. The privileged students are determined to make Daisy look bad in the eyes of the administration, which has its own problems. Can Daisy shake off the stigma of her poor school background and overcome the snobbish prejudice from her well-to-do schoolgirl rivals? Can she save the school from financial ruin before it's too late? Who is that mysterious whistling gardener? And more importantly will there be enough jam for tea.

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Barbara Rae RA

Dates: 1.8.2009 to 31.8.2009.

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The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life

Dates: 30.10.2009 to 14.2.2010. This exhibition will explore the tradition of the 'Conversation Piece', group portraits of high-society sitters in strikingly informal situations. With its roots in 17th-century Dutch painting, the genre is best known through the work of the English artists, William Hogarth and George Stubbs in the 18th century and Sir Edwin Landseer in the 19th century. The greatest exponent of the Conversation Piece was Johan Zoffany; the exhibition will include a remarkable series of works produced by the artist for his royal patron George III. The Conversation Piece depicts sitters going about their daily lives and thus provides a fascinating insight into the fashions, interiors and manners of the age.

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Aladdin

Dates: 26.11.2009 to 3.1.2010. A tale of exotic lands, Chinese laundries, genies, emperors and evil sorcerers, magic lamps, caves and flying carpets. Booking is now open to follow the antics of loveable rogue Aladdin and his long suffering mother, the delightfully saucy Widow Twanky. Swoon as he falls for the beautiful Princess, daughter of the Emperor and love to hate his wicked Uncle Abbanazar. There's a magical freeze on last year's prices and the return of the family ticket by popular demand. With whizzy special effects, puppetry and a genie-ous cast. Like the carpets, tickets are already flying out fast.

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Phedre

Dates: 4.6.2009 to 2.8.2009. Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phedre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns alive and well, Phedre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape.

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Design Against Fur 2009

Dates: 31.8.2009 to 25.9.2009. Respect for Animals presents a series of anti-fur campaign posters shortlisted for the Design Against Fur 2009 design competition.

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A Tribute to Bartolomeu dos Santos

Dates: 3.6.2009 to 22.12.2009. This exhibition shows a selection of the prints of Bartolomeu dos Santos (1931-2008) to commemorate his long association with the Slade and UCL as a student in the 1950s and as a teacher and Professor of Printmaking from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996. It will include early nudes, still-lifes and cityscapes made as a Slade student in the 1950s, and a series of spectacular imaginary architectural constructions from the 1970s inspired by the work of Piranesi and Jorge Luis Borges. More light-hearted works include menus and invitations to Slade parties from the 1990s.

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Chelsea Space Gallery

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. A public exhibition space where invited art and design professionals are encouraged to work on experimental curatorial projects that may not otherwise be realised.

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The Kirov - Romeo and Juliet

Amanda Daubeney

Dates: 18.11.2009 to 4.12.2009.

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bryan Charnley (1949 -1991)

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Brian Charnley was an enthusiastic painter, studied art at secondary school, and started to study at an art college. He started to suffer from schizophrenia at age 23 and was hospitalised two years later. He was put on drugs and electro-convulsive therapy. He wrote "On release I found myself in a fairly desperate state emotionally to which, eventually, I responded by taking up painting and soon went full-time. I gradually began to work more from my imagination and address myself to an interior life.

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Oliver!

Dates: 12.12.2008 to 26.9.2009. A new production of Oliver! starring Rowan Atkinson comes to London's West End. Previews from 12 Dec

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Bellowhead

Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems

Dates: 16.9.2009 to 14.11.2009.

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Costume

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Costume gallery contains examples of clothing from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

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Have Heart

Dates: 23.7.2009. After releasing a demo and an EP, Have Heart caught the attention of Bridge Nine records and they recorded their debut LP, The Things We Carry, in 2006. Since then, they have been causing a fury with an intelligent, dynamic debut and their passionate live shows around the globe.

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Cornershop

Dates: 29.7.2009.

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Affordable Art

14 October 2009 - 25 October 2009. An exhibition of work by new and up-and-coming artists.

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Futurism

Dates: 12.6.2009 to 20.9.2009. An exhibition representing a significant revision of the accepted understanding of this major Italian movement and returning it to the central position that it occupied in the avant garde of the years immediately preceding the First World War.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

The Colourist Tradition

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. The successors to the Colourists were the artists now known as the Edinburgh school, although they regarded themselves as individuals rather than a group.

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Erik Mongrain

Dates: 4.11.2009. Erik Mongrain was born in Montreal on April 12, 1980. Erik is a musician who is constantly researching and exploring the world of music. For almost two years now, Erik has resumed standard guitar posture and has been writing at tremendous speed songs in which the harmonies and melodies are profoundly inspired.

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Noddy

Dates: 20.8.2009 to 22.8.2009. Noddy and his friends have been entertaining children for generations and it's easy to see why. Noddy is a show full of charming characters who love to help each other learn through play. See Noddy and his Toytown friends playing, laughing and learning about the world around them in this anniversary show.

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American Associates 2008

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Mark the 25th anniversary of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust.

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Kevin O'Neill: The Graphic Novels

Dates: 14.7.2009 to 8.8.2009. Introducing a new theme to our exhibitions we are delighted to present the first -ever exhibition in the UK of Kevin O'Neill. World-famous for his extensive output of graphic novel artwork.

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Dental Care at Home

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Most people in the past have not had the knowledge they have today of the importance of good oral hygiene at home. Toothbrushes as we know them did not appear until a little over 200 years ago and even after that they were too expensive for most of the population.

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Dress and Fashion

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Clothing and textiles are featured in themed displays in the Museums galleries. The dress collection at the Museum of London is internationally recognised for its diversity. The fashion and clothing are collected as a social record according it the same historical significance as other artefacts of material culture. The museum was the first in Britain to publish a catalogue of its costume collection in 1933.

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Children's Party Bookings

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009.

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Charles Sims (1873 -1928)

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Charles Sims reputation as a painter was established with his first one-man show at the Leicester Galleries in 1906. He became best known for lyrical open-air scenes. In 1918 he was sent to France as an official artist. He became gradually more reserved and aloof, and appeared to be a very lonely and pathetic figure. He was Keeper of the Academy Schools from 1920 to 1926, and earned much of his living by portrait painting during this period. In the last two years of his life he worked on a series which he called Spirituals or Spiritual Ideas. He killed himself shortly before six of these paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1928.

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Carousel

Dates: 22.11.2008 to 25.7.2009. Lesley Garrett returns to the West End in Carousel, the timeless fable of love, passion and redemption. From 22 Nov

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The Chapel

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009.

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Bows and Arrows

Buena Vista Social Club

13 October 2009.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Blake 1809

Dates: 20.4.2009 to 4.10.2009. Tate Britain re-stages William Blakes exhibition in London, 200 years after it was originally held. 20 Apr-4 Oct

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Summer Collection

Dates: 15.7.2009 to 24.7.2009. Summer Collection is a biennial season of contemporary dance in the Clore Studio Upstairs.This year the spotlight is on work developed through the Royal Opera House choreographic development programmes, including ROH2's Dancelines laboratory - small-scale Royal Ballet work, developed under the guidance of Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor - and a welcome return for new work created for Ballet Black's recent season. The programmes will also feature recent work from Royal Opera House choreographic Associates Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Laila Diallo and Sarah Dowling, three of the most distinctive and vibrant emerging choreographic talents in the UK.Their pieces will form the centrepiece of two varied programmes of duets that demonstrate the rich and diverse range of choreography being developed at the Royal Opera House.

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The Monster Under the Bed

Dates: 9.6.2009 to 21.7.2009. Ben swaps places with the underbed monster and his life is turned inside-out. The Monster Under the Bed is a comic new play about friendship and facing up to fears.

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The Admirable Crichton

Dates: 10.7.2009 to 18.7.2009.

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19th Century Furniture - Auction

Dates: 24.9.2009. The 19th Century Furniture Department covers European furniture, mostly dating from 1840 to 1920.

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Bobby Bakers Diary Drawings

Dates: 19.3.2009 to 2.8.2009. Bobby Baker is one of the most widely acclaimed and popular performance artists working today. She began her diary drawings in 1997 when she became a patient at a day centre. Originally private, they gradually became a way for her to communicate complex thoughts and emotions that are difficult to articulate to her family, friends and professionals. The drawings cover Bobbys experiences of day hospitals, acute psychiatric wards, crisis teams and a variety of treatments.

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A Lament For Medea

Dates: 30.6.2009 to 25.7.2009. A flooded house is the playground, prison and sanctuary of Medea and her maid. Lost in time, locked in obsessions and stalking lost memories, this is a place to which they are bound and where lives start and finish.

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Empirical

Dates: 16.9.2009. Dedicated to maintaining the roots of traditional modern jazz influenced by Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Fats Navarro.

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Dreamboys

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Dreamboys is an exclusive evening for women who appreciate the perfect male physique: performed by bronzed, muscular guys who are in sensational shape and whose mission is to serve and entertain their female audience by acting out their secret fantasies. Their well-toned, hunky good looks, perfect manners and superb choreographed routines guarantee a rapturous response. Dreamboys is the ultimate Girl's Night Out a secret society for adult ladies who like to dress to kill; like their cocktails exotic, and their men sexy.

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Free Family Sundays at the National Gallery

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Every Sunday is Family Sunday at the National Gallery with art workshops and storytelling sessions

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Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems

Dates: 16.9.2009 to 14.11.2009.

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Corot to Monet

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Basil Beattie

Dates: 9.9.2009 to 3.10.2009.

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Hawkwind

Dates: 28.8.2009 to 29.8.2009. Formed in 1969, Hawkwind play progressive heavy metal mixed with psychedelic space-rock.

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Ajax

Dates: 26.5.2009 to 25.7.2009.

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The Royal Ballet: Cinderella

Dates: 10.4.2010 to 5.6.2010. The timeless fairytale follows the down-trodden Cinderella from her domestic imprisonment to freedom through the intervention of her Fairy Godmother. As with all fairytales, the road to happiness does not come without a set of rules to complicate matters. Conductor: Pavel Sorokin.

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V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries Opening

The Anniversary of the Telescope

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. Telescopes on display and an interactive telescope exhibit which tells the story of the telescope.

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Galton Permanent Collection

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. In a sense, Sir Francis Galton was a traditional Victorian gentlemen scientist who dabbled in a whole range of fields; yet Galton made an extraordinary impact on almost every area to which he turned his attention. Modern understandings in statistics, genetics, heredity and criminology were shaped by Galton's work. Many further instruments and documents from Galton's work in the above areas, as well as meteorology, geography, and communications

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Alice in Wonderland

Dates: 14.7.2009 to 18.7.2009. Join Group 64 and their friends from Putney Theatre Company on their psychedelic musical journey down the rabbit hole! Meet some of Lewis Carroll's well-loved characters as they sing and dance their way through this topsy-turvy Wonderland where nothing is quite as it seems. A Summer treat to remember.

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The Boston International Fine Art Show

12 November 2009 - 15 November 2009.

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Noddy

The Crucible

Dates: 7.10.2009 to 10.10.2009.

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Andrew Blyth

10 November 2009 - 22 November 2009.

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Art and Design Degree Shows: 9th Annual Free Range

Dates: 29.3.2009 to 20.7.2009. This is Europe's largest graduate art and design show. Over the eight week period, thousands of students from the UK’s top art and design colleges will exhibit their work, giving you the perfect opportunity to talent scout for the next Tracey Emin or Rankin. Free Range was set up to showcase the works of budding designers and artists to both public and potential employers alike, giving students the best opportunity to promote their work.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A Christmas Carol

Dates: 8.12.2009 to 3.1.2010. Musical stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous novella performed by a local charity group.

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Designer Style: Home Decorating in the 1950s

Dates: 11.11.2008 to 6.9.2009. In the years after the Second World War, Britain experienced a new sense of optimism about the future. Following the Festival of Britain, there was an emphasis on good design for all aspects of home furnishing. Manufacturers increasingly employed artists to design textiles and wallpapers, and used their names as a selling point. Consumers welcomed the new brighter colours and fresh approach to pattern, seeing it as a newly optimistic approach to home decorating. This exhibition draws on MoDAs own collections to show a wide range of wallpapers and textiles, many of which were designed by well-known artists and designers of the period, including Lucienne Day, Graham Sutherland, Cawthra Mulock and Jacqueline Groag. These designers exploited the potential of new screen printing techniques to create wallpapers and textiles which were more fluid, abstract and painterly than had been possible before.

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Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes 1900-1939

Dates: 18.9.2010 to 16.1.2011. This exhibition showcases the glamour and magic of Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, exploring its origin and legacy 100 years after its first performance. A larger than life personality, Diaghilev's artists included such luminaries as George Balanchine, Coco Chanel, Robert Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Vaslav Nijinsky and Pablo Picasso. The V&A's significant holdings of costumes, designs, images, programmes and related material illustrate the creative process of dance and the Ballet's impact on design, music and artistic sensibility.

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Astronomy Galleries - Astronomy Inspires

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The Astronomy Inspires gallery showcases an orrery from the 19th century which demonstrates the motion of the planets. Alongside it is a projection wall showing how the universe was formed.

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Gary Numan

Dates: 25.7.2009. Essex born electronica pioneer is still touring playing pop favourites like 'Are Friends Electric?'

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Carnaval del Pueblo

Dates: 2.8.2009. Europe's largest celebration of Latin American culture with music, dancers and colourful costumes on display.

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Billy Liar

Beryl Hole

13 October 2009 - 25 October 2009.

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Fame - The Musical

Dates: 20.7.2009 to 25.7.2009. A musical encapsulating the range of emotions and personal struggles of star-struck students, as they battle to become actors, dancers and musicians at one of America's most prestigious academies, the high school for performing arts. Weaving a similar story to the Oscar-winning film and TV show of the 1980s, 'Fame - The Musical' is an emotional journey from audition and entrance to performing arts, through to graduation. The strong themes of love, friendship and ambition are explored throughout the characters' journey in their quest for success.

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Noddy in Toyland

24 October 2009 - 25 October 2009. See Noddy and his Toy Town friends playing, laughing and learning about the world around them in this brand new live tour.

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Cliff Richard and The Shadows

A-Ha

Dates: 4.11.2009. Charming eighties pop band from Norway who are most famous for their classic hit 'Take On Me'.

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Arms and Armour

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. A collection of Oriental arms, armour and related works of art, chosen specifically for their fine craftsmanship, Eastern opulence and exotic beauty.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Drawing Attention: Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso & More

Dates: 21.10.2009 to 27.1.2010. Over the last couple of decades, the Art Gallery of Ontario has put together arguably the greatest collection of master drawings in Canada. This glorious group of 100 of the best works ranges from Renaissance Italy to 18th century France, from English watercolours to masterpieces by Picasso and Matisse, from German Expressionism to Canada's own Group of Seven and David Milne. It includes Guercino, Boucher, Gainsborough, Ingres, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Turner, Leger, De Kooning, and Canada's remarkable Emily Carr.

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Oneact 2009

Dates: 9.11.2009 to 14.11.2009. Have you ever written a short play that deserves to be performed? Or have you always wanted to? If so, the cornerHOUSE annual one act plays festival needs you. We are looking for people who would like to create a play for the oneACTS 2009, our week-long showcase of original writing which this year will take place from November.

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City and River 1820 -1840

Sister Act

Dates: 7.5.2009 to 13.2.2010. When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder she is put in protective custody in the one place cops are sure she won't be found- a convent! Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and an up tight Mother Superior. Using her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community, but in doing so blows her cover. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg herself.

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Docklands at War 1939 - 1945

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Through sensitive and informative displays featuring film, artefacts, interactive touch screens, models and life-size reconstructions the visitor is given a full understanding of how the Second World War affected the Docklands area and communities, One of the Museums most treasured possessions is a flag that flew from the bow of one of the first landing crafts to reach France during the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944. It was found among the effects of George Sluman, who was coxswain of the craft, and donated to the Museum by his widow Joyce. George worked as a waterman before the war in the Port of London. Men with his expertise on the water were enlisted to support the massive allied assault upon fortress Europe on D-Day. Other exhibits explore the Port's role in the Dunkirk rescue and secret projects such as construction of the Maunsell Forts; Pipe Line Under The Ocean and the huge breakwaters for the Mulberry Harbours.

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Engelbert Humperdinck

Dates: 13.9.2009. Romance serves as the core of Engelbert Humperdinck's music and lasting success. He knows how to pick songs with eternal themes of love and longing, and lovers always want to hear them sung.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Archaeological Finds

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. A chance to have a look at objects found on excavations across London.

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Barnet Museum Collection

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. Barnet Museum contains archives, objects, prints, photographs, paintings and maps reflecting the development of Chipping Barnet and the surrounding area, as well as a collection of period costumes and accessories, domestic items and lace.

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Elise

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Anorexia is possibly the most hurtful of all mental conditions. More often than not found in teenage girls, they can be driven to the verge of self-destruction and their families can suffer from deep and lasting feelings of guilt and helplessness. Elise suffered from it for ten years, and was our patient in the Eating Disorders Unit. Despite this she took an art degree and made anorexia the subject of her degree show, called Welcome to my World in 1993. It was to be another four years before she was finally cured.

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Gong

27 November 2009. The story of Gong begins (again), full moon Easter 1966. Daevid Allen had a vision which was to change his, and many other people's lives. He gained the impression that he was an experiment being supervised by intelligences far beyond his normal level of awareness that he was later to call the octave doctors seeing himself on stage in front of a large rock festival audience and experiencing an intense connection with them that had the quality of intense Love, at the same time being surrounded by an enormous cone of etheric light... simultaneously drawing astral shadows from deep below us and dissolving them in the downpouring radiance focused at its peak.

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Exploring Interiors: Decoration of the Home 1900-1960

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Exploring Interiors asks what our living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens were like in the first half of the twentieth century, and why. The displays show fabrics and wallpapers, from expensive designs in the most up-to-date styles to cheaper, popular patterns for the mass market. They offer a taste of the sort of choices that were available at the time. Catalogues give a glimpse of the fixtures and fittings, the furniture and furnishings that could be bought in the shops. Advertisements and magazines highlight the newest household equipment and reveal changing attitudes to the home and domestic life. But, at the same time, Exploring Interiors uses the evocative evidence of photographs and personal commentary to find out what people's homes were really like. And, more often than not, they were very different from the impression given by advertisements, catalogues and magazines.

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Bernard Canavan

20 October 2009 - 12 November 2009. An exhibition of works by Bernard Canavan.

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Arcadia

Clive Barker

Dates: 17.6.2009 to 17.7.2009.

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Elkie Brooks

21 November 2009. Elkie's vocal and performing talents, embracing pop, rock, ballads, blues and jazz, have made her history of the British pop charts. Expect to hear 'Pearl's A Singer', 'Fool If You Think It's Over', 'Don't Cry Out Loud', and 'Lilac Wine'.

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Feeble Minds

Dates: 10.7.2009 to 17.7.2009. Directed by Arti Prashar, Feeble Minds is a journey through the wisdom and madness of risk taking, inspired by Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. Follow a host of outcasts as they walk into the wilderness to ask fundamental questions about our world. How can we hold on to our moral values or must we give in to sin.

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New Medieval Gallery at the British Museum

International Magic and Variety Show

28 November 2009 - 29 November 2009. International illusionists, speciality acts, comedians and award wining magicians join together to create a spectacle of talents. Every year for the last 37 years this evening show has grown in stature as an ideal evening of entertainment for all ages.

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Balla Drama

Dates: 26.6.2009 to 25.7.2009.

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Empirical

Absurd Person Singular

Dates: 2.11.2009 to 7.11.2009. It's party time at the Hopcroft's and the only present they want is to succeed in climbing the social ladder. Havoc ensues at the drinks party they hold to impress their high-powered friends - but that's nothing compared to what happens over the next two years, when the friends return their hospitality.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

British Art on Paper - Auction

Dates: 3.6.2009 to 15.12.2009.

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Henry's Women

Dates: 10.4.2009 to 3.8.2009. A temporary exhibition about Henry VIII's wives and his dynastic quest. We will be bringing together - for the first time little-known 16th-century portraits of each of the wives, Henry VIII, and Henry's other women, his favourite sister Mary, and daughters Mary and Elizabeth. Other items on display range from a lock of Kateryn Parr's hair, to the music book written for Anne Boleyn by one of her alleged lovers. The exhibition will be hosted in King Henry VIII's Council Chamber which will be open for the first time to the public.

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Spring Awakening

Gary Numan

Love's Labour's Lost

From Henry VII to Henry VIII

Dates: 31.1.2009 to 29.8.2009. 500 years ago, on 21 April 1509, King Henry VII died in his palace at Richmond. He was succeeded by his second and only surviving son, who became King Henry VIII. In local terms, both kings spent much time in Richmond, though it was Henry VII who built a splendid palace here and gave Richmond its name. This exhibition looks at both kings' links with Richmond and what the local area was like in 1509.

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18th Century

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. This room is dedicated to 18th Century European painting. Canalettos 'Old Walton Bridge' and 'The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day' and Tiepolo's sketches for the ceilings of villas represent the Venetian School. Hogarth's conversation piece 'A Fishing Party' and Gainsborough's portrait of 'An Unknown Couple in a Landscape' represent the English fashion for being portrayed against the backdrop of land or estate, while the French Watteau's 'Le Plaisir du Bal' likewise portrays the upper classes conversing and at play.

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Booker T

Dates: 30.7.2009.

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Carrie's War

Dates: 18.6.2009 to 12.9.2009. See Prunella Scales and Sarah Edwardson star in a stage adaptation of Nina Bawden's best-seller, Carrie's War. 18 Jun-12 Sep

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Tower Festival

Dates: 10.9.2009 to 20.9.2009. Enjoy arts, culture and music at this festival in the spectacular setting of the Tower of London. 10-20 Sep

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Freud's Collection of Antiquities

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. A display of antiquities collected by Freud, who by 1939 had amassed over 2000 objects.

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Anne Hardy

Dates: 1.10.2009 to 30.11.2009.

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Maureen Farr

Dates: 21.7.2009 to 2.8.2009.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Troilus and Cressida

Dates: 12.7.2009 to 20.9.2009. Shakespeare fills his ancient tale with savage comedy, great passion, vivid characters and all the heat and sweat of a long and painful campaign. He seems never more modern than in dealing with the subject of a tragic love pursued in the midst of a pointless war. Seven years have passed since the Greeks first began their siege of Troy, and on the Trojan side of the walls the beautiful Cressida, aided and abetted by her intriguing uncle Pandarus, has embarked upon a passionate love affair with Prince Troilus. When Cressida is forced to join her treacherous father in the Greek camp, can their love survive a difficult separation or will it join the other casualties of war?

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Affordable Art

14 October 2009 - 25 October 2009. An exhibition of work by new and up-and-coming artists.

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At Home in London: 1600-1800

Dates: 1.1.2008 to 31.12.2009. The At Home project includes four brand new period rooms; dated 1630, 1695, 1745 and 1790; a series of new interpretive galleries; two new audio guides and a specially devised education and events programme.

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Crystal Palace Museum - Artefacts

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Welcome to the Crystal Palace Museum Artifact page. Here you find a selection of photographs of some of the artifacts saved after the Crystal Palace Fire.

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Geraldine Dahlke

Dates: 4.8.2009 to 16.8.2009.

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Herbie Hancock + Lang Lang

Dates: 11.7.2009.

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We Will Rock You

Dates: 28.8.2008 to 3.10.2009. We Will Rock You combines the songs of the rock group Queen with a original script by Ben Elton

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Fiesta Havana Social Club

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. Live music every Friday night followed by our resident dj playing a selection of Salsa and all other Latin genre, while dancing to some of London's best Latin bands.

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The Gruffalo

Dates: 6.8.2009 to 8.8.2009. Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep dark wood in this musical adaptation of the picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Mouse can scare hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined? Songs and scary fun for children aged three and up and their adults.

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Drop-in Portraits

Dates: 3.7.2009 to 19.7.2009. An exhibition featuring paintings by Sipke Visser and Sayed Hasan.

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