Tate Britain
Price: Free

This free exhibition showcases Turner’s exploration of methods and techiniques, of colour and line. It follows Turner’s travels through Europe and his responses to different places, lighting and materials available. This ongoing exhibition will change exhibits every 6 months.

http://london.londinium.com/91509

Soho Theatre

This sell-out event is proving Russell Howard as a big star in the comedy world. The star from Mock the Week, Russell Howard is even better on stage. His new material is great, and when he gets on a roll his comedy is some of the best around!

http://london.londinium.com/73870

Imperial War Museum
Admission: Free

Marking the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush to Britain, this exhibition tells the story of Black men and women from the West Indies and their involvment in WWI and WWII.

http://london.londinium.com/90056

Imperial War Museum
Price: Free

Breakthrough is an art exhibition showcasing British art from both WWI and WWII, focusing particuarly on non-official and contemporary work. Official works shown will include some by Paul Nash, CRW Nevinson, John Piper and Eric Ravilious. Until the 28th June an additional display ‘The Neo-Romantics At War’ will also be on show, exploring the rise of British Neo-Romanticism during World War Two.

http://london.londinium.com/90055

British Museum
Cost: Free

This exhibition features coins, images and other objects illustrating Isfahan’s rich history, from its pre-Islamic foundation until the present day.

http://london.londinium.com/88710

Science Museum
Cost: Free

The exhibition has four sections focusing on 100 years of making plastics: The Birth of Plastics, Plastic Dreams, Plastics Now, and Plastic Futures.

http://london.londinium.com/88638

Science Museum
Cost: Free

This temporary exhibition showcases 20 examples where F1™ technology is impacting on our lives, from changing the way we look after patients and design our sports equipment, to maintaining the heating systems in our homes.

http://london.londinium.com/88637

Science Museum
Cost: Free

This exhibition showcases ERNIE 1 – the first random number generator machine created for premium bonds. It explores its development and popularity, its link to the first digital electronic computer – the code-breaking Colossus – and the role of random numbers in computing today.

http://london.londinium.com/88636

Science Museum
Cost: Free

This exciting new temporary exhibition explores the role played by technology in creating post-war Britain.

http://london.londinium.com/88635

The women and men of Roberto Ferri, a thirty-year-old artist from the wonderful Regione Puglia in southern Italy who has already made a name for himself even on the international art scene, with their slender bodies, perfect muscles and intriguing poses are inspired by the greatest Italian masters, from Caravaggio to Michelangelo and Guercino, all of whom Ferri studied closely.
But there is more: his paintings translate into images the dreams or (perhaps) the nightmares of each of us; all we have inside, all we feel, beyond the senses, in a way that is more or less conscious, verbalised or can be verbalised. Roberto Ferri gives life, substance and form (a rather beautiful form) to his and our phantasms. Oftentimes, he accompanies his own men and women with devices, inspired mainly by time and ancient in form though totally modern, becoming elements of our age and of his fantasies. They consist in sextants, crowns and clock gears, chains, astrolabes that render even more fascinating, but at the same time more mysterious, his compositions. Angels and demons, spiritual aspirations and the bonds of the flesh, purity and lasciviousness are some of the recurrent themes in Roberto Ferri’s oeuvre: like leitmotivs that create a game, most of the time quite subtle and very cerebral, in no way banal or predictable, based upon a technique of painting taken to the highest level.

“[Ferri] is unquestionably the student with the greatest technical skill that I’ve ever met,” says Gaetano Castelli, former President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and one of the most celebrated Italian stage designers. One may say that Ferri truly is a ‘painter with a calling’: he has never forgotten a precept of Goethe, according to whom “in art, good enough is excellent”. His is an absolute hymn to painting: reconsideration, quite meditated and introspective, of some of the greats of classicism.

http://london.londinium.com/75691

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 Bobby’s experiences of day hospitals, acute psychiatric wards, ‘crisis’ teams and a variety of treatments. They chart the ups and downs of her recovery, family life, work as an artist, breast cancer and just how funny all this harrowing stuff can be.

This exhibition is free.

http://london.londinium.com/75579 – welcome collection

March and April Listings

14-Mar:    GOLDEN EARRING
15-Mar:    ELVIS ON TOUR – CANCELLED
16-Mar:    SUGARLAND
19-Mar:    JOSHUA RADIN
26-Mar:    LILY ALLEN
27-Mar:    LILY ALLEN
28-Mar:    LILY ALLEN
29-Mar:    ANDY & KOUROS
04-Apr:    BOOT-LED ZEPPELIN / ROLLIN’ STONED
09-Apr:    STARSAILOR
12-Apr:    TERRORVISION
16-Apr:    THE WAILERS
17-Apr:    BAT FOR LASHES
18-Apr:    N-DUBZ
19-Apr:    BAT FOR LASHES

http://london.londinium.com/69753

The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Taking place every spring in the world’s premier publishing and cultural capital it is a unique opportunity to hear from authors, enjoy the vibrant atmosphere and explore innovations shaping the publishing world of the future. The London Book Fair brings you three days of focused access to customers, content and emerging markets.

http://london.londinium.com/65043

Stitch and Craft 2009 gives you the chance to fill your shopping bags with supplies and designs to follow.  Find inspiration from the most creative artists and be dazzled by new techniques and old.  Learn about knitting, stitching and papercraft from the experts! Hundreds of exhibitors have their stands stocked with the best stitch and craft supplies; old favourites as well as new designs and products - you won’t leave empty handed!

http://london.londinium.com/74161

The Star Of Bethnal Green has now well and truly laid its foundations by setting up some of the best music and arts nights around today. Rob Star is known for pushing limits and the bar allows him to do just that… EVERY FRIDAY starting in March – FREE ENTRY @ The Star!!

MONDAY 2ND   8PM-12AM    FREE ENTRY
The Barbie Stand up show, because beautiful girls can be funny too! Come down to The Star of Bethnal Green for a great night of comedy! Feast your eyes with the beauties on stage and open your ears to the ringing of laughter! This is not a show for the prudish; this is beautiful girls being funny and giving frank and often shockingly honest insights to their career and life in London!
www.barbiestandup.com

THURSDAY 5TH  9PM-2AM   FREE B4 10pm / £5 after
BATTY BASS
The night unfolds with Hannah Holland dj-ing a mix of genre breaking Bass driven beats, with Mc Chickaboo spitting a mad flow of rhymes over Hannah’s tunes whilst Mama performs snippets of Grace Jones-esque chants, crowd surfing with a whole lot of audience participation. They make their owns tunes, throw things around and experiment with visuals, illustrations, rudeness and live randomness. They encourage you to scream, get wild and shake what your Mama gave ya!! It’s steaming with energy, creativity and addictive so that when you leave, you will always come back for more!

FRIDAY 6TH  9PM-2AM  FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT

Andy Blake (Dissident Records) and Amy (Drop the Bomb) will be playing underground disco, cosmic funk and Balearic beats and as with all dissident related events this will be a vinyl only affair. as time goes on a select band of guest djs will be joining them on this night at The Star of Bethnal Green.

SATURDAY 7TH  8PM-2AM  Free before 10pm – £3 NUS – £5 after
SB White Label V Feel Up Records,

Great Music Wears Many Masks! SB White brings together Disco Tech Acid House with that live element from
time to time. The music selectors will see an independent collective of DJs, musicians and music lovers dedicated to sourcing and selecting the most exquisite blend of Electro Disco and Tech Acid House, with a funkier edge… SB White is now very pleased to announce that this month we have teamed up
with new label Feel Up run by the man behind Yam Who? Alongside Paul Barkworth, Fabio Silvestri and Groove Armada’s Mary Moore live. Yam who? Have a new record label called Feel Up via Kudos Distribution. Expect releases from Robin Hannibal, Bennson, Colonel Red, Chaz Jankel & Erik Rico, they also delivered last years hottest remix of Grace Jone’s ‘Williams Blood’ This infamous duo have delivered serious dance floor bombs for artists; Joss Stone, John Legend, Zero 7, Incognito & Amp Fiddler . Currently writing their debut album for release later this year & will feature all star collaborations.
info@sbwhite.co.uk

WEDNESDAY 11TH   7.30pm-12am   FREE ENTRY
Charity Speed dating
Come on people…its for charity! Another Mongol Rally Adventurist, 2009 team event to raise money for our nominated charity Mercy Corps.
As some of you know The Trans-Mongolian-Pizza Express, a team of 8 will be driving in three 1-lt engine cars from London to Mongolia next summer whilst delivering pizzas! With DJs Anil Chawla, Dale Anderson both recently releasing their global underground record, Tim Davison, The Coordinators and Hanuman all doing their bit for charity why don’t you?

If you want to donate – http://www.justgiving.com/trans_mongolian_pizza_express

Charity website – http://mongolrally09.theadventurists.com/index.php

THURSDAY 12TH   5PM- 12AM   FREE ENTRY
RacQUEEN
Cloned from a dark ally in NYC, RacQUEEN comes from the East End of London to deliver an evening which Sleater Kinney, Patty and those Crystal Castle kids would be proud of!  Alternatives ‘Alternative’. No flaunts, no flaws, come as you are. They go all out with NO BRA on the 12th of March…so why don’t you? Featuring guest DJ’s along side residents Elma T, General Wah and C-UNiT, the music varies from commercial rock (Kings of Leon, Santagold, RHCP, Queens of The Stone Age, YYY’s etc), mixed in with old classics (The Cure, Elivs, CCR, James Brown, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith etc) and new undiscovered artists (H:U:M:A:N:S:, Sholto Crow, SCUBA, etc) with Elma T throwing in some Electro trash and ‘dirty beats’ for the sexy sluts.

FRIDAY 13TH   9PM – 2AM   FREE ENTRY
Kings of soul present – HUSTLE & GROOVE
A night bringing together the sweetest soul, fattest funk, & the cream of disco soul selectors! This is a new night at the Star of Bethnal Green but it promises to be all of the above and trust me when I say…I’m sure it will do just that, and more! RONNIE KING (LADY LUCK/ DANCE CRAZE) is your host so expect 100% Dancers as he plays alongside the dirty fairy himself BEN JAMIN (DIRTY FAIRY/ SUNDAY HAPPY DAYS). It’s FREE so come and check it out!
www.myspace.com/londonsoulcity

SATURDAY 14TH   9PM – 5AM    FREE B4 10PM /£5 AFTER
E.S.P
E.S.P the monthly exotic disco fix held at The Star of Bethnal Green is pleased to welcome back one of Europe’s best underground DJ’s: Mark Seven.
This all night special is acting as the launch party for Mark’s ‘Originals’ compilation on Claremont 56 Recordings. ‘Originals’ is series of compilations put together by un-sung heroes in the music world, the discoverers, the people behind the people, the influencers and the taste makers who don’t seek the limelight and often get overlooked. Mark Seven definitely fits this bill as he has been dealing records to many of the worlds most respected selectors for years and turning on the most seasoned disco collectors with his selections both here at E.S.P, at his own Black Lodge parties in Stockholm and various nights throughout Europe & the US.
Mark completes the line up alongside residents Nathan Gregory Wilkins and Steve Terry to bring another very special all night party to The Star as E.S.P continues to tread the path towards becoming one of London’s premier disco nights!
An article in ID Magazine on Mark is due to coincide with this launch party and CD compilation.

THURSDAY 19TH   9PM-2AM   FREE B4 10PM / £5 AFTER
Whisky Tears
Whiskey Tears is an Australian clubnight-cum-party that’s relocated to London and we’re ready to sprinkle our not-so-sparking disco stardust on London’s nightlife. Past guests include James Murphy (DFA/LCD Soundsystem), Andrew Weatherall (WARP), DJ Mehdi (Ed Banger records) and Midnight Juggernauts (Institubes) and we’ll be celebrating Whiskey Tears’ third Birthday here in the capital with Andy Blake (Dissident Records) and Jonjo (Durrr/Trailer Trash). Andy Blake is the man behind the cult London based Disco and Techno label Dissident records , which has released records from members of Optimo, Disco Bloodbath and ‘ID Magazine darlings’ Heartbreak.

FRIDAY 20TH   9PM-2AM   FREE ENTRY all night
Andy Blake (Dissident records)
Andy Blake (Dissident) and Amy (Drop the Bomb) will be playing underground disco, cosmic funk and Balearic beats and as with all dissident related events this will be a vinyl only affair. As time goes on a select band of guest djs will be joining them for this night at The Star of Bethnal Green.

SATURDAY 21ST    9PM-2AM   FREE B4 9PM / £5 AFTER / £3 WITH FLYER
UNSKINNY BOP
Hosted by Ruth and Tamsin – Unskinny Bop is a Pop Punk and disco for gays, girls, freaks and geeks…that has got to be you!
Unskinny Bop 5th Birthday Special, Celebrating the momentous occasion of their fifth year with a Bop, Classics play list cakes & balloons!
This is a monthly gay disco at The Star of Bethnal Green. It happens every third Saturday of the month with Unskinny Bop DJs plus special guests playing
pop, indie, rock’n'roll, girl groups, R’n'B, disco, punk and the rest! This night always fills up quick so get there early to avoid queues and disappointment!
http://www.unskinnybop.co.uk

MONDAY 23RD   FREE ENTRY   5pm- 12am

Barbie Stand up show –

Theas Birthday special – because beautiful girls can be funny too!  Come down to The Star of Bethnal Green for a great night of comedy; feast your eyes with the beauties on stage and stage and open your ears to the ringing of laughter! This is not a show for the prudish; this is beautiful girls being funny and giving frank and often shockingly honest insights to their career and life in London!

THURSDAY 26TH   £4 Entry    7.30pm-Midnight
HIP HOP KAREOKE EAST LONDON
Free entry and a drink to anyone performing on the night! Dash to the side any notions of a cheesy Hip-Hop night with some bait X-Factor wannabe – what we have is not pop instrumentals with cheesy lyrics on corny Disney style screen – Those guys at HHK East LDN are treating you to up and coming Skinnyman’s, Dizzee Rascal impersonators’ dream, not to mention the potential Estelles’s and new Lady Sov’s, plus all those looking to carve their own spot – with lyrics for all to join in!! Backing up every performance will be an enthusiastic crowd and a DJ to conquer any last minute nerves!! This will be a night of performances to die for, a vibe with a bubbling crowd and plenty of comic moments and straight-up giggles thrown in! HHK East LDN is going to be pure jokes with all the closet (male /female) MC’s and Don’s & Diva’s making sure that each and every Round at The Star of Bethnal Green is definitely 100% unadulterated comedy in motion.. If you want to participate on the night busting out your karaoke skills all you have to do is email:

hiphopkaraokelondon@googlemail.com

FRIDAY 27TH    9PM-2AM    FREE ENTRY
Chico and Grant (Playtime)
THE NIGHT OF 1000 CHICOS (And one BIG DADDY, his slightly shorter sidekick.) Back in the old day of clubbing, men were men – and they wore dresses. And the place where they wore the most dresses was Vague, a mad gay club in the north, now so legendary that even its doorman, CHICO, gets his own night in soft southern London! Ever heard the story of how goggle-eyed straight boys were forced to snog each other to earn entry? Vague was that place. Actually, that was only half of it. But they are older now, and straight men on pills are just too easy a target. So come and see the next level in audience participation in action at The Star of Bethnal Green!
The musical policy will be from Miss Diana Ross to Sebo K. Ideological techno, wonky funk, all that disco from the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, and singalongs to “Don’t go breaking my heart”! It’s FREE for men in tennis whites, ladies in nicely cut suits, and anyone, man or woman, who looks like Jake Gylenhall!

SATURDAY 28TH    7PM-2AM   FREE B4 10PM / £5 AFTER
SAY YES
Nadia Ksabia and Rory Phillips bring you a banging night of awkward dance, electronic oddities, forgotten post punk and disco classics
SAY YES takes place every two months at The Star Of Bethnal Green with residents Rory Phillips (Trash/Durrr/Our Disco) and Nadia Ksaiba (Go Bang/Our Disco) playing percussive party jams, robotic house, disco boogie, arpeggiated italo, krautrock, post-punk and high NRG. Previous guests have included Padded Cell (DC Recordings), Mock ‘n’ Toof (DFA), Zombie Zombie (Versatile) and Andy Blake (Dissident).
www.myspace.com/sayyesparty

http://london.londinium.com/73907 – Star Of Bethnal Green

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget!

Over 32 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good show!

Writer Catherine Johnson’s sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings 3 men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone’s having the time of their lives!

http://london.londinium.com/19541 – Mamma Mia

11th  – 15th March 09         Country Living Spring Fair

The dark winter days will soon be over, so what better way to welcome the new season than with a visit to the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair? You’ll find plenty of ideas for giving your home and garden a fresh new look and it’s a unique opportunity to meet the talented craftspeople behind the products.

http://london.londinium.com/73765 – Country Fair

18th March 09                    Women Unlimited

The Create Your Future event that will allow you to interact with insightful and accomplished women entrepreneurs. You?ll have the chance to discuss your dreams, your vision, your idea and learn how to make them come alive. Our 4 successful speakers will be pleased to show you the way no matter what stage you and your business is at.

http://london.londinium.com/73776 – Create Your Own Future

19th March 09                      In Control The Big Event

In Control started work in 2003 to change the social care system in England. The old system did not put people in control of their own support or life.
The Big Event brings together the most exciting and best practice in Self-Directed Support under one roof.

http://london.londinium.com/73777 – In Control

23rd – 25th March 09         Get Energy

Get Energy is the world’s only global meeting place where providers of education and training can build lasting relationships with energy companies. Together, without barriers.

http://london.londinium.com/73778 – Get Energy

Hundreds of restaurants, cafes and bistros join last minuet.com for London Restaurant Week. Makeing fine dining affordable to all with special deals including 2 course lunches for just £15 and three-course meals for as little £25 at some of londons finest eateries.

http://london.londinium.com/4691

Discover Dream Explore

CRUISE is THE show for anyone dreaming of a holiday afloat, offering the opportunity to check out the hottest destinations, best ships and itineraries. From the big cruise lines, specialist small ship cruises, luxury yachts and Tall Ships that circumnavigate the globe. To river cruises around Europe, China and Russia or even down the Amazon. For the more adventurous, find out about exploring remote places such as the Galapagos Islands and the Polar Regions.

http://www.londinium.com/london/69873.html

A special screening of Steel Magnolias on Sunday at 12pm on the 22nd March 09 at the Everyman Cinema. With a strong female cast of classic actresses, including Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine, Sally Field and Julia Roberts, this is the ideal treat for some mother/daughter bonding.

http://www.londinium.com/london/37689.html

http://calendar.londinium.com/mothers_day

Invite your mum to a delicious bite to eat at the Mothers Day afternoon tea at Harrods. Perfect either before or after a shopping spree at the world famous department store, the classic afternoon tea at the Georgian Restaurant on the fourth floor at Harrods includes a glass each of Perrier Jouet Champagne for every mum.

http://london.londinium.com/2186

http://calendar.londinium.com/mothers_day

This exhibition explores a fascinating but relatively unknown type of portraiture that flourished in Georgian and Regency Britain between the 1730s and 1830s.
It features intimate portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Downman, Richard Cosway, David Wilkie and many others, all drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, many never exhibited before.

Free

http://www.londinium.com/london/68773.html

A display of a recently acquired artwork by Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh, which offers a contemporary perspective on Iranian history, religion and culture.

Free

http://www.londinium.com/london/68772.html

This display brings together examples of jades and bronzes from the Shanghai Museum collections. Jades and bronzes are the most important objects from ancient China. They were used from very early times for sacred rituals and burials and were associated with spirits and ancestors; they were also of great political significance.

Free

http://www.londinium.com/london/68771.html

This major exhibition explores seventeenth-century Iran through the reign and legacy of one of its most influential rulers, Shah ʿAbbas I (reigned AD 1587–1629).

http://www.londinium.com/london/68727.html

This exhibition will be the most significant overview of American artist Roni Horn’s work to date. Horn trained as a sculptor but this exhibition will show the full range of her practice as a photographer, draughtsman, installation artist and writer.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68665.html

Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism will explore the work of Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova between 1917 and 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde’s most influential and important artists.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68664.html

This visually sumptuous exhibition brings together some of the finest and most magnificent paintings that Van Dyck produced during his years in Britain. It also reveals his continuing visual legacy through portraits by artists from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Singer Sargent.

http://www.londinium.com/london/68604.html