All events on Wednesday April 30
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- Susanna & the Magical Orchestra
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7:30pm) @ The Luminaire
- Giveaway
- Norwegian songstress Susanna K. Wallumrod teams up with keyboardist Morten Qvenild to create hauntingly beautiful music. Alongside the duo's original compositions, Susanna works an eclectic... View details »
- Film
- SCI-FI-LONDON 7 Film Festival
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Apollo West End Cinema More times »
- Forget cheesily brandishing your lightsaber at yet another Lucasfilm screening and head instead to SCI-FI-LONDON 7, the indie underground of sci-fi and fantasy film. Proceedings... View details »
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- Laurie Anderson
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7:45pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Barbican bite08 series. Featuring innovative electronic grooves, powerful... View details »
- Music: Global
- Very Be Careful
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7pm–1am) @ Cargo
- As part of London's La Linea festival of Latin music, Very Be Careful bring cumbia and vallenato into the 21st century. The Caribbean-by-way-of-LA group expound... View details »
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- Time to Build on the Green Belt?
- Wednesday 30 Apr (6:30–8:30pm) @ The Building Centre
- For its latest debate, spiked addresses the current housing crisis. Excepting the wealthy and the very lucky, everyone knows the difficulty of getting that first... View details »
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- Amora
- Wednesday 30 Apr (1pm–midnight) @ Amora More times »
- Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
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- Hibiscus
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–2:30 & 6:30–10pm) @ Hibiscus More times »
- In just a month, chef-proprietor Claude Bosi has taken London's restaurant world by storm. With the relocation of his two Michelin stars from Ludlow to... View details »
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- Billingsgate Market
- Wednesday 30 Apr (4am) @ Billingsgate Market More times »
- Free
- Fans of cod and plaice, or finer fishy delicacies, should prepare for a treat. Despite mainly serving the restaurant and retail trades, Billingsgate Market is... View details »
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- Skateboard at the Southbank Centre
- Wednesday 30 Apr (8–11am) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- For a rather serene moment of skateboarding, set the alarm early and cruise on down to the Southbank in the early hours of the morning.... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Wednesday 30 Apr (9am–2pm) @ Wimbledon Village Stables More times »
- For city-bound equestrians missing their early-morning ride and novice ponyphiles alike, Wimbledon has more to offer than Wombles. Even if you have a penchant for... View details »
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- Café on the Hill
- Wednesday 30 Apr (8am–10pm) @ Cafe on the Hill More times »
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like a less pretentious Hampstead,... View details »
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- Furnace
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace More times »
- Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
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- For Your Eyes Only
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Imperial War Museum Park More times »
- Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.... View details »
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- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–5pm) @ Fashion and Textile Museum More times »
- Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine fashion. The collection looks... View details »
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- Blood on Paper
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range from large-scale installations to... View details »
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- Kite Flying on Hampstead Heath
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Hampstead Heath More times »
- Free
- Rosy up those cheeks on the Heath for a return to classic weekend pursuits. Kites plus mates usually equals fun, so strafe unwitting passers-by with... View details »
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- Elizabethan Flagons
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
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- 1001 Inventions
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–5pm) @ Croydon Clocktower More times »
- Free
- Croydon isn't exactly top-of-mind when it comes to visiting museums, but this free exhibition at the town's exhibition gallery aims to challenge that. With a... View details »
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- Jazz in London
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Free
- Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
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- The Camden Town Group
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
- Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the borough during the early... View details »
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- Yoga Club
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Cafe 1001 More times »
- For those incapable of leaving the confines of Spitalfields and Brick Lane, sneak into 1001 to hone your breathing technique — or just writhe around... View details »
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- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for its instantly classic cover... View details »
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- The ALI Folio
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
- Free
- Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of mystique still surrounds the... View details »
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- Parkour
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Westminster Academy More times »
- Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
- Art
- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
- It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively — exhibited together. The... View details »
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- Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
- Wednesday 30 Apr (9am–11pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators" aren't from around here,... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Skin + Bones
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Somerset House More times »
- Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's newest space, the Embankment... View details »
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- Richard Rogers & Architects
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
- Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To appropriately honour his career,... View details »
- Art
- The Street
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Street Project Base More times »
- Free
- They may navigate us through our lives, but have you ever considered London's streets as the context for artistic interrogation? Over the next 12 months,... View details »
- Art
- Sacred
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Chelsea Theatre More times »
- Sacred, the Chelsea Theatre's festival of live arts, puts the swing back into King's Road. The eclectic ensemble of show-stoppers and crowd-enticers includes the mesmerising... View details »
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- China Design Now
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Celebrating China's return to the graphic-art world stage, China Design Now embarks on a three-part journey along the country's coastline. The cities examined — Shenzhen,... View details »
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- The Regent
- Wednesday 30 Apr (12:30–11pm) @ The Regent More times »
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub 'n boozer. Since its... View details »
- Film
- Children of Glory
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Various locations More times »
- With the Russian FSB flexing its muscles once again under Putin, Krisztina Goda's gripping Cold War-era drama bristles with prescience as it recounts the story... View details »
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- Into The Hoods
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ The Novello Theatre More times »
- ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two lost children in a... View details »
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- Listening Post
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
- Free
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Pollock's Toy Museum More times »
- Evoke dusty memories of bygone days with a visit to Pollock's Toy Museum, nestled in the heart of Fitzrovia. Comprised of two conjoined 18th- and... View details »
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- Daniel Pflumm
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- Berlin is home and muse to some of Europe's most intriguing visual artists, including Geneva-born Daniel Pflumm. A keen musician and techno fan, Pflumm has... View details »
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- Jerwood Contemporary Painters
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Jerwood Space More times »
- Free
- For its second annual exhibition, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation asked three well-respected artists and academics to choose 20 promising recent art-school graduates. Each of the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7pm) @ National Theatre More times »
- When writer Joan Didion's husband died suddenly at the end of 2003, in the midst of their only daughter's hospitalisation with an unknown, life-threatening illness,... View details »
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- Riceboy Sleeps
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Agency Gallery More times »
- Free
- Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy Sleeps, a joint effort... View details »
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- Dorm
- Wednesday 30 Apr (9am–5pm) @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery More times »
- Free
- Taking into consideration that a significant portion of life is realized within the confines of one's bedroom, Dorm is a photographic study exploring both the... View details »
- Art
- Nour el Huda Awad
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ The Cochrane Theatre More times »
- Free
- Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features a sequence of kiln-formed... View details »
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- Liliane Lijn
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
- Free
- Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using light, sound and movement... View details »
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- Ryan Gander
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
- Free
- Some may spend their gap year soul-searching (that is, aimlessly wandering the globe or lolling about in a drunken stupor). But when Ryan Gander took... View details »
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- Steve McCurry
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11:30am–4:30pm) @ Magnum Print Room More times »
- Free
- Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the minds of countless viewers... View details »
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- Bob and Roberta Smith
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ Hales Gallery More times »
- Free
- Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection of witty, barbed slogans... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Testing the Echo
- Wednesday 30 Apr (8pm) @ The Tricycle Theatre More times »
- Out of Joint presents David Edgar's sharp, politically brave play, Testing the Echo. The story unfolds at an English-language school, where teacher Emma is challenged... View details »
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- Alison Jackson
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Hamiltons Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and our obsession with celebrity;... View details »
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- Lee Ufan
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Lisson Gallery More times »
- Free
- Korean painter, sculptor and philosopher Lee Ufan first came into prominence in the late '60s as one of the key players of the avant-garde Mono-ha... View details »
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- War & Peace
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Hampstead Theatre More times »
- Get lost in the drama of the Bezukhovs and Bolkonskys with Shared Experience's stage adaptation of Tolstoy's magnum opus. Adapted by playwright Helen Edmundson, the... View details »
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- Bearing Witness
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–5pm) @ Idea Generation Gallery More times »
- Free
- The brand-new Idea Generation Gallery launches with a hard-hitting exhibition of photojournalism from Iraq's front lines. It's been five years since the invasion, and 125... View details »
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- Footprints in the Sand
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7:45pm) @ Oval House More times »
- The Oval House's double bill, directed by Helena Bell, comprises two plays that explore the new beginnings of immigrants. Oladipo Agboluaje's For One Night Only... View details »
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- Brick Lane Bike Polo
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7pm) @ Brick Lane Polo More times »
- Free
- Thanks to the invention of bike polo, carefully groomed horses are no longer a prerequisite for a quick chukka. There may be fewer fair-bonneted young... View details »
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- Mat Collishaw
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–5pm) @ Spring Projects More times »
- Free
- For Deliverance, multimedia artist Mat Collishaw creates and deconstructs disaster scenes through a method of high-contrast, split-second projection. Collishaw applies coats of phosphorescent paint to... View details »
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- Luke Kendall
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–midnight) @ Beach Blanket Babylon Shoreditch More times »
- Free
- Luke Kendall shifts his focus from the dainty creatures of the Lepidopterist art collective to a more engaged study of humanity. The Great Sparrow Campaign... View details »
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- Running Late
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
- Free
- Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up or portraits of bad... View details »
- Art
- SEEN
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ The Amuti Gallery & Bookshop More times »
- Free
- New Yorker Richard Mirando, aka SEEN, returns to London with his most recent torrent of spray-paint creations. Here he exchanges his usual canvas, the New... View details »
- Art
- Front of House
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–6pm) @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- The title of the Parasol Unit's new collaborative exhibition refers, on the surface, to public spaces in theatres and concert halls. But its deeper purpose... View details »
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- Ken Currie
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10–6pm) @ Flowers East More times »
- Free
- Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques, this collection also comments... View details »
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- Censorship as a Creative Force
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Barbican Centre More times »
- Exploring the creation of art in the face of domineering regimes, Censorship as a Creative Force is the Barbican's latest film series, presented in association... View details »
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- The City
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
- If you're in the mood for social decay, morally repugnant characters and simmering violence, head to Royal Court Theatre, where Martin Crimp's The City takes... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–11:30pm) @ Haozhan More times »
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey to find decent food,... View details »
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- Rob Ryan
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–6pm) @ Tatty Devine More times »
- Free
- Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for Vogue, a Christmas window... View details »
- Film
- London Palestine Film Festival
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Barbican Centre More times »
- This year's fortnight-long showcase comprises nearly 50 films, from art shorts — including a 15-minute piece by Turner Prize nominee Mona Hatoum — to political... View details »
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- Dex Club
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–midnight) @ Dex Club More times »
- Dex Club in Brixton is London's newest private members' club, featuring eight DJ-friendly hotel rooms, quality British dining, a spectacular '20s-style main space and a... View details »
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- King Lear
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Shakespeare's Globe More times »
- Shakespeare's most tragic of tragedies was in the limelight last year with the RSC's production starring Sir Ian McKellen. For the Globe's version, highly regarded... View details »
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- Bikram Yoga
- Wednesday 30 Apr (6:45am–9pm) @ Bikram Yoga City More times »
- Until the advent of Bikram, yoga was associated mostly with unlawful bending and the ubiquitous "om". Now, the modern twist on the ancient technique has,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Wednesday 30 Apr (7am–11pm) @ Fox & Anchor More times »
- Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the street — has just... View details »
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- Amazing Butterflies
- Wednesday 30 Apr (10am–3:15pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
- Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send most people into paroxysms... View details »
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- Spring Renaissance
- Wednesday 30 Apr (11am–7pm) @ Covent Garden Market Piazza More times »
- Free
- The bizarre weather may suggest the contrary, but spring has definitely sprung. To celebrate, Covent Garden Market is hosting this festival of all things green,... View details »
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- Salt Yard
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–11pm) @ Salt Yard More times »
- It's not easy to garner favourable comparisons to London tapas giants Fino and Barrafina, but the diminutive Salt Yard pulls off this Goliath-sized task. The... View details »
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- Hide and Seek
- Wednesday 30 Apr (8pm) @ Blue Elephant Theatre More times »
- Tal Jakubowiczova is both playwright and director for this physical-theatre performance by the Shift Theatre ensemble. The piece follows a woman who, scavenging about in... View details »
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- Aaya
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–midnight) @ Aaya More times »
- Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz, the restaurant wants to... View details »
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- Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Brunello More times »
- If carrying equipment and provisions on public transport seems like too much perspiration for a weekend's picnic, then the Brunello restaurant's new selection of hampers... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Wednesday 30 Apr @ Finsbury Leisure Centre More times »
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that," now you can prove... View details »
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- Cha Cha Moon
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–11pm) @ Cha Cha Moon More times »
- Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba Eathai) at this Malay-Chinese... View details »
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- Quo Vadis
- Wednesday 30 Apr (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis More times »
- Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
