Erotica is THE Adult Lifestyle Show, designed to appeal to adults, regardless of their age or sexuality it has gone from strength to strength, attracting over 80,000 visitors.

Many different companies exhibit at the event, the majority retailing their product or services, whilst some use the event for sampling and demonstration purposes to build on their databases.  Categories include fashion (club-wear, leatherwear, rubber, fetish and lingerie), magazines, videos, tattooing, piercing alongside jewellery, beauty and cosmetics exhibits. Special features include a large art gallery including and a demonstration area and new for this year a dedicated Swinger Zone.

Erotica attracts as many women as men making the event attractive to couples and singles.

http://london.londinium.com/99090

The UK’s largest and most highly acclaimed housing technology exhibition.

The exhibition, which forms the focal point of the National Housing Federation’s IT in Housing Conference, is now in it’s 10th year, and offers delegates and visitors an excellent one-stop opportunity to explore the latest innovations, products and services from 80 leading ICT suppliers to the housing sector

Entry to the exhibition is free of charge to delegates and visitors involved in the provision of affordable housing.  If you are not attending the conference as a delegate but would like to visit the exhibition please register for free now.

The exhibition features around 80 exhibits from leading suppliers and is the UK’s most highly regarded and focused event for those involved in ICT in the housing sector. The lively exhibition features a wide range of entertaining and engaging stands many with enticing giveaways, competitions and special offers.

http://london.londinium.com/99088

Whether a complete newbie or a seasoned competitor, the London Running Show is for you.  The event will feature seminars, workshops and the finest kit from top brands in running.

The London Running Show is designed to help you get the most out of running.  Learn how to train effectivley, choose the right nutrition and avoid injury.  See top coaches and athletes presenting in the two theatres and interact in the smaller “one to one” sessions.

Top running brands will be exhibiting the latest products available to the runner with loads of fantastic show offers and promotions.

The London Running Show is brought to you by M2 Events Ltd, organisers of the Triathlon Cycling and Running Show at Sandown Park – now in it’s 8th year!

Victoria Miro

Displayed in the Victoria Miro is the Walthamstow Tapestry by Grayson Perry. The Walthamstow Tapestry explores the emotional resonance of brand names in our lives and our quasi-religious relationship to consumerism. Charting man’s passage from birth to death, the tapestry is peppered with leading brands encountered along the way. Stripped of their logos and thus much of their identity, the names run alongside – often incongruous – depictions of people going about their everyday lives: walking the dog, nursing children, skateboarding, hoovering, and, of course, shopping. Perry is a great chronicler of contemporary life, in whose work sentiment and nostalgia sit subversively alongside fear and anger. In The Walthamstow Tapestry many of the world’s leading names, from luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany to high street giants such as Marks and Spencer and IKEA, come under Perry’s excoriating gaze in this cautionary and prophetic tale of modern day life. Inspired by antique batik fabrics from Malaysia as well as eastern European folk art this vast work provides a colourful, rich and complex visual journey across our contemporary landscape.

http://london.londinium.com/93850

Regent’s Park

Featuring over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world, the Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s biggest art event. The Frieze Art Fair includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a prestigious talks programme, an artist-led education schedule and much more to do!

http://london.londinium.com/93849

Paccar Gallery, British Library
Price: Free

From the first tentative ‘drawings of shadows’ produced in the mid-1830s to its universal acceptance as a leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of entrepreneurial activity throughout the 19th century.

As an influential new artistic and documentary medium, photography rapidly developed into a lucrative profession. Science, government, industry and a growing media quickly recognised its power both to reflect and to shape society, while both artists and amateurs embraced its potential for personal expression.

Organised by subject matter, the exhibition asks: ‘Who was taking the photograph and why?’ Section by section, items are presented within their cultural context to explore some of the major themes of the 19th century – from expansion to industrialisation, science, and the rapid changes taking place in society. The final section reveals how technology responded to the demands of a developing mass market for photography, which continues to the present day.

http://london.londinium.com/93848

The Wallace Collection

This collection by Damien Hirst is being shown for the first time in the UK. Consisting of 25 new paintings, it is sure to create a sensation. Hung in the traditional galleries of The Wallace Collection, visitors will be able to enjoy the visual dialogue between Hirst’s works and the Old Master paintings.

http://london.londinium.com/93846

Design Museum

David Chipperfield has earned worldwide fame with his restrained and thoughtful designs, and is one of Britain’s leading architects. David Chipperfield has designed buildings from Berlin to Henley, Japan to Spain. This display is a comprehensive overview of key moments in his developments, as well as a look at some of his major recent international projects.

http://london.londinium.com/93845

Tate Modern

This exhibition examinese how artists since the 80s have cultivated their public persona as a product, with a dazzling mix of media, commerce and glamour, creating their own ‘brands’. This exhibition begins with the iconic grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, and also showcases Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, the YBAs and Takashi Murakami.

Tate Britain

The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain, and this year the shortlist is: Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer, Richard Wright. You can view works of the finalists at the Tate Britain, including Roger Hiorns’ piece ‘Seizure’ 2008, and Lucy Skaer’s piece ‘Black Alphabet’ 2008.

http://london.londinium.com/93844

Tate Modern
Price: Free

This is the 10th commission in the Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. This exhibition showcases Polish Artist Miroslaw Balka, with installations, sculpture and video by him. These works explore themes of personal history and common experience, and is intimate and self-reflective, demonstrating his central concerns of identifying personal memory within the context of historical memory.

http://london.londinium.com/93843

Royal Academy

This exhibition at the Royal Academy showcases Kapoor’s career, as well as showing new and previously unseen works by this seminal sculptor. One of the highlights of this exhibition is his work Svayambh, a vast corridor of imperceptibly moving red wax, which leaves a residue in it’s wake as it traverses the breadth of Burlington House.

http://london.londinium.com/93842

British Museum

Moctezuma II was the last elected ruler of the Aztecs, and this exhibition tells the story of his life and reign, including his controversial death during the Spanish conquest. To his people he was revered as semi-divine, but shortly after the Spanish landed on Mexican shores in 1519, violence ensued and Moctezuma was captured and met his death. After his death the Spanish went on to conquer his empire. This exhibition contains a variety of objects telling the story of Moctezuma’s life, ranging from sculpture, gold and mosaic items to codices and European paintings, drawn from Mexican, European, US collections and the British Museum’s own collection.

http://london.londinium.com/93841

Olympia

The BBC Good Food Show is changing… to MasterChef Live! Featuring hundreds of fantastic exhibitors, 10 of London’s top restaurants and amazing interactive features from the nation’s favourite food TV show! It will also feature ‘the Invention Test’, a ‘MasterChef Cook-Off’, ‘The Restaurant Experience’, and much more! Come and try out loads of great food! 10 of London’s top restaurants will be serving their signature dishes, including Theo Randal at the Intercontinental, Blue Elephant, Roast, and of course the MasterChef Restauraunt! Definitely one for fans of the show, fans of food, and everyone else!

http://london.londinium.com/70300

Venues: Around Shoreditch and Brick Lane, and other areas

London Digital Week is a week-long series of conferences, presentations, exhibitions, workshops, networking and parties to bring together digital-orientated industries in and around London. This is the first in a new annual festival which aims to draw in local and global industry leaders and mavericks to celebrate London’s talented innovators, thinkers and doers who have put London on the global map.

There are loads of greatly varied events occurring over the week. Londinium.com has discovered that the festival program will be featuring events covering advertising, branding, digital marketing, interaction design, planning, strategy, social media, gaming, television, film, post production, graphics, mobile, publishing, content, art, print, illustration, fashion, interior deisgn, music, education and more!

Featured events include:

• Show + Tell, The Boilerhouse, 22nd Sep – a joint collaboration between Creativepool, Blurb and Academy Class, there will be free seminars throughut the day including tips and tricks in Photoshop, Flash and InDesign
• Over the Air, Imperial College, 25th Sep – a free, grass-roots mobile developer event covering the cutting edge of current mobile development, with bean bags, a big party, an overnight sleepover, and a competition for the best app created during the event with many great prizes! It will also feature technical presentations, tutorials, workshops and break-out rooms, with topics including Open Source, Java, Symbian, Mobile Web, Mobile Ajax, Android, Mobile Linux, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and more!
• Digital Architecture London Conference, 21st Sep, The Building Centre – a conference with speakers including Patrik Schumacher, Neil Spiller, Brett Stelle, Tony Dunne, Geoff Manaugh, Usman Haque, Murray Fraser, Hanif Kara, Rachel Armstrong, Bob Sheil, Charles Walker and others
• Words Converge, Kings Place, 21st Sep – a digital poetry installation featuring poems from across the world
• SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution, Somerset House, 21st Sep – a major exhibition of the restless online world of SHOWstudio. It brings the whole process of creating fashion imagery to life, including Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Naomi Campbell, Gareth Pugh, Commes des Garcons, Kate Moss, Bjork and more!
• And many many more events!

http://london.londinium.com/93839

Natural History Museum
Price: Free

On 15th September, the landmark Darwin Centre opens to the public. The new Darwin Centre is a state-of-the-art science and collections facility and the building is the most significant expansion at the National History Museum since it moved to South Kensington in 1881. Museum visitors can explore world-class science in action in a dramatic new public space. See world-leading scientists at work, incredible specimens, exciting displays and much more!

http://london.londinium.com/93123

Olympia Two
Fri – Sat: 10am – 6pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm

The Language Show is the UK’s biggest event for language learners, teachers, linguists and everyone with a passion for languages. At the Language Show you can pick up a new language with free taster classes in 17 different languages, improve your language skills with intensive learning classes for beginners and intermediates, find a job at the Language Careers Fair, hear from top speakers with over 80 free entertaining and fun seminars, shop ’til you drop with 180 exhibitors including language courses, resources, books, CDs, online tools, associations and cultural institutes, and have fun with wine and food tastings, foreign films, world music and dance!

http://london.londinium.com/65332

Olympia National Hall
Fri: 11am – 6pm
Sat: 10am – 6pm
Sun: 10am – 6pm

The fifth annual Yoga Show has all things Yoga and Pilates under one roof. This year’s show has many attractions, including free yoga and pilates classes, pilates reformer and 1-to-1 equipment sessions, children’s yoga, demonstrations and lectures. And with over 200 exhibitos you can be sure to find anything you need for your  yoga and pilates practice, as well as many inspirational products for a healthy lifestyle.

http://london.londinium.com/77496

Earls Court Two
Trade Show

SEE 2009 is where the Symbian community comes together to share, to create, to network, to learn and to have lots of fun! Feel free to come and join in!

SEE 2009 is an informal ‘unconference’ in which everyone participates, but there’ll also be keynote talks from leading minds and industry experts on the Main Stage. There will also be three separate discussions offering in-depth workshops: Application Development, Device Creation & Contributing to Symbian and Marketing & Business Models. There will also be an ideas exchange on each day, where community members get to talk, promote their ideas and drive development together through conversation. Key visionaries present will include Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia and co-founder of wikia, and Geoffrey Moore, author and managing partner of TCG Advisors.

Symbian is all about the future. The future is mobile and the future of mobile is Symbian

http://london.londinium.com/93114

Brompton Hall, Earls Court
Sat: 10am – 6pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm

CAM expo (Complementary, Natural & Integrated Healthcare Show) is dedicated to meeting the needs of the entire complementary healthcare industry – camexpo 2009 is the single most important event of the year for the whole CAM community. Whatever your interest, specialty or approach, if you are a CAM exhibitor or retailer, a practitioner, therapist or student, no other UK show boasts such an all-encompassing array of CAM products and services or provides as many networking and training opportunities!

http://london.londinium.com/93113

Olympia Grand Hall
Wed: 11am – 8:30pm
Thu: 11am – 9:30pm
Fri: 11am – 10pm
Sat: 10am – 8pm
Sun: 10am – 6pm

The Metro Ski and Snowboard Show is the biggest consumer winter sport show in the world! Olympia Grand Hall will play host to many great interactive features including ice rink, husky dogs, world resort village, 40ft kicker, bargain holidays, shopping, fashion show, free give-aways, live music and comedy plus much more. Join them this year, bringing the ultimate winter experience to the heart of London.

Features are free after entry, kids under 11 get in for free! Looks like a great day out!

http://london.londinium.com/70438

Earls Court One
Fri – Sun: 9:30am – 5:30pm

The Baby Show returns to Earls Court this year, enabling parents to give their baby the best start with unbeatable shopping, fantastic entertainment and the chance to access great information and advice. The Baby Show really is an essential part of having a baby. You’ll have the chance to try before you buy, meet the experts behind the brands, and benefit from some great show discounts – with many cheaper than internet prices.

The Baby Show is a great day out for the whole family – mums, dads, grandparents, friends, babies and toddlers!

http://london.londinium.com/93112

Olympia National Hall
Trade Show