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Thursday 12 February 2009

Pick of the week 13.02.2009



Oh Gloomy day today, you either hate it or love it. As 13 is my lucky number I have nothing to fear! and if you survive today you can enjoy plenty of love tomorrow...

Night Out - Chosen by Joanne
THE TWILIGHT CLUB- ST. VALENTINE'S DELIGHT Date: Sat 14th, 7.30pm
Cooing love-birds, strutting peacocks, broken-hearted poets, and courtly lovers- come celebrate the feast of love as The Twilight Club teams up with Dorthy's Shoes to create a night of heady romance, cheeky games, interactive performance, melodious muisc, flirtatious dance and high mischief .



Exhibition - Chosen by Frank
JOHN DOE - NEW PAINTINGS BY YUKO NASU
Exhibition continues until 21 February
Arts Gallery, 65 Davies Street, W1K 5DA.
Open Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 4pm. Nearest Tube Bond Street. Admission free.
A solo show by emerging Japanese artist Yuko Nasu, presenting a series of imaginary portraits which capture a unique personal vision that fuses the artist's native Japanese culture with a contemporary British lifestyle. The works explore issues of identity, perception and recognition, but then what doesn't!.



Exhibition - Chosen by Holly
British Landscape Photography show at Liberty department store - an offsite project from the photographers gallery.
'A beautiful viewing experience'
A celebration of our recent move to the soho neighbourhood has resulted in a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery and Liberty, a store synonymous with style. British Landscape Photography shows the work of eleven contemporary artists represented by Print Sales at The Photographers’ Gallery.
The landscape has provided inspiration for all of these artists yet they have each approached the subject with a unique and individual vision, resulting in a diverse look at our environment.

Theatre - Chosen by Marion
King Lear at Young Vic
Pete Postlethwaite, loved for his work on stage and screen, takes on Shakespeare's greatest role.
A daughter's love is spurned/ A family ripped apart/A country disintegrating.
.. yadda yadda, you get the idea!




Festival - chosen by Richard
National Review of Live Art
Wed 11 Feb – Sun 15 Feb, Glasgow, Scotland
It’s time to welcome our community together again from across the globe to celebrate the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland. Once more, an exciting and eclectic mix of seasoned international artists, mid career artists with new ground breaking works, Elevator artists (appearing perhaps for the very first time at a major festival) and you the audience all get to rub shoulders, exchange stories, business cards, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Be it your first visit or an annual migration, enter with an open mind and enjoy.

Installation - Chosen by Alison
Etiquette at Cafe Oto
10am until 5pm, daily
Etiquette is a half-hour experience for two people in a public space. There is no-one watching - other people in the cafe or bar are not aware of it. You wear headphones which tell you what to say to each other, or to use one of the objects positioned to the side. There is a kind of magic involved - for it to work you just need to listen and respond accordingly. Some say it's good to do this with someone you know, someone to share this with. Others say it works well with a stranger.



Featured Season - Chosen by Marion
Stanley Kubrick Season at BFI Southbank
13 february - 25 March 2009
We celebrate an enigmatic monolith of modern cinema with a two-part retrospective, which includes an extended run of Barry Lyndon.To accompany the season there is an installation by acclaimed British artists Jane & Louise Wilson, based on an unfinished Kubrick project about the Holocaust, in the BFI Southbank Gallery

Weekend fun - chosen by Sam
Duckie Bexhill Weekender
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea
£15 (includes coach trip there and back)
still a few tickets left
Come on down to Bexhill and enjoy a posh performance and dance event for St. Valentine's Day where you can bring your swoonie, your straight mates, your mum, and your nan. This night is for an unusually mixed audience of over 60's and the younger Duckie fraternity. Looking at real romance - across the ages, across sexualities, over the years. This whimsical quintessentially English night of wooing will warm your heart and help you fall in love.

Guests of honour on the Saturday will be 100 local Bexhill OAP's

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