Pick of the week(end) 23.01.09

What a week! what a warm feeling we all have, this week anything is possible!
Now go forth and take your newly found spirit of change,
Yes, we can- Fight the rain and the cold
Yes, we can - Afford it
Yes, we can - Justify spending all of Sunday in bed
Are you ready for this week's potpourri of picks... Yes you are!


Night Out - Chosen by Carly
Madame Zingara's Theatre of Dreams

Spiegeltent by Battersea Power Station
Golden Circle - £85
Private Booths - £75
Outer Ring - £65
Looks like a really fun and interesting evening out, although
because a four course dinner is included, it's very expensive! Not one for the students, but it's nice to 'dream'...



Exhibition - Chosen by Richard
Embedded Art, 24.01. - 22.03.09
Berlin Academy of Art, Pariser Platz, Berlin
Art in the Name of Security
Installations, Performances, Lectures, Film programme

In the interests of full disclosure, Richard will be artist in residence at this exhibition, and hopefully streaming footage live on .

Exhibition - Chosen by Alison
Henry VIII's Wives
Pump House Gallery
28 January 2009 - 15 March 2009
Henry VIII's Wives (The Wives) are a collective of artists founded in
1997, and include Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knupfer, Simon
Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer. For their first exhibition in a
London gallery they will present two time-based installations; Mr
Hysteria, 2005 and The Returning Officer, 2007. Although both projects
are very different in approach Mr Hysteria informed and inspired the
development of The Returning Officer, paving the way to an
experimental use of narrative.
You can hear the artists in conversation on 27th 5.30-6.30pm



Exhibition - Chosen by Frank
This Is War! Robert Capa at Work
Gerda Taro
On the Subject of War
Barbican Gallery
17 October 2008 - 25 January 2009
An exhibition that reflects on conflict and its visual representation.
Seven years after the West’s ‘War on Terror’ began in Afghanistan, the Barbican reflects on conflict and its visual representation, in a series of interrelated exhibitions.




Exhibition
From Kabul to Kandahar - 1833 to 1933
Royal Geographical Society
London SW7
Continues until 26 Feb 2009

Rare photographs and documentary materials revealing the unique and
largely undocumented history of Afghanistan and the British presence
there, accompanied by contemporary commentary from members of London
based Afghani groups.

Film - Chosen by João
Gus Van Sant's "MILK"
Premier's today at the Barbican.
General release
'Milk' is Gus Van Sant's biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to the public office in California (to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors).



Film Trailers by Filmtrailer.com


Film - Chosen by Marion
The Reader
General Release
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Adaptation from the novel 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink