The best things to do this coming week on your line.
Wednesday-Stand!@Arnhem Gallery
Thursday-High Arctic@National Maritime Museum
Friday-District 45@Deptford Deli
Saturday-Shoreditch Festival@ Regent’s Canal
Sunday- The Stuff of Nightmares@V&A Museum of Childhood
Monday- Does my bum look big in this?@Ashcroft theatre
Tuesday-Fringes: Images from the Street@Blackline Tattoo parlour
Stand!@Arnhem Gallery
‘STAND !’ – Zigaboo Modeliste + The Coalminers
When: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Where: Arnhem Gallery, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG
Price: £17.50
Joseph Zigaboo Modeliste, founder and drummer of the New Orleans 60’s funk group ‘The Meters’ is coming to London and will be performing his only UK date in Croydon this Wednesday. He will be playing classics by ‘The Meters’ as well as his own songs. Joining him will be ‘The Coalminers’, a London based band, dedicated to New Orleans Soul and Funk.
High Artic at National Maritime Museum
High Arctic@ National Maritime Museum
When: July 14th
Where: National Maritime Museum, Romney Rd, London, SE10 9NF
Price: £6.50, concessions £5 and children £4.50
The first show in the temporary exhibitions gallery of the museum’s new Sammy Ofer Wing is ‘High Arctic’, a collaboration between United Visual Artists (UVA) and climate change charity Cape Farewell. The show consists of an installation that employs sound, light and sculptural form to create an immersive, shifting, abstracted landscape inspired by an expedition made by UVA’s Matt Clark with Cape Farewell to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Thousands of columns fill the space, each representing a glacier in Svalbard, while a soundscape weaves the voices of arctic explorers over the centuries with contemporary poetry.
Deptford train station is just a small part of the town's rich history
District 45@ Deptford Deli
District 45: A Historical walking tour of Deptford
When: Fridays and Saturdays throughout July
Where: Meet outside at 10.30am (Fridays and Saturdays), Deptford Deli, 4 Tanners Hill, London, SE8 4JP
Price: £10, concessions £8
Sean Patterson leads this three-hour historical walk around Deptford, reading notes from Charles Booth’s 1902 ‘poverty map’, part of his socio-economic study of Victorian London. Walkers are invited to recite relevant literature. Meet outside 4 Tanners Hill, SE8 4PJ. Booking essential.
The festival is in it's 10th year
Shoreditch Festival@ Regent’s Canal
When: Saturday/Sunday
Where: Regent’s Canal and beyond. N1 + E8
Price: Free
In it’s tenth year, Shoreditch Festival takes to East London’s waterways this summer. Shoreditch Trust is presenting a free programme of performance, entertainment, and exploration in spaces alongside the Regent’s Canal. Experience the best of East London across 3km of the historic Regent’s Canal with live music on three stages, a floating stage, street dance, boat trips, a floating forest, food markets and much more.
This exhibition could give you nightmares
The Stuff of Nightmares@ V&A Museum of Childhood
When: Until Feb 26th 2012
Where: V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
Price: Free
An exhibition exploring the darker side of traditional fairytales. In an installation created with the help of local school children and based on the Brothers Grimm tale ‘Fundevogel’, the gallery is transformed into a forest in which sculptures by Jemima Brown, paintings by Ruth Weinburg and canvases inspired by objects in the collection, created by Core Arts, are displayed. There’s also a ‘police line-up’ of suspicious- and gruesome-looking toys.
Comedy has received rave reviews
Does my bum look big in this?@ Ashcroft theatre
When: July 18th-21st
Where: Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG
Price: £18, concessions £15
A story that’s somewhere between Mrs Henderson Presents and The Full Monty, Does My Bum Look Big In This? tells the story of Diane Diamante, the owner of a failing seaside theatre and her plans to rescue its fortunes by staging an all-male nude review. The action spans the several days of rehearsals for the show, right up to the big reveal-all finale.
The four boys that Diamante hires for the job are a diverse bunch. The good-looking narcissistic one; the nerdy shy one; a stocky football fan, and the, er, well let’s just say “he has a nice personality…”
Street photos on view
Fringes: Images from the Street@ Blackline Tattoo parlour
When: Until July 22nd
Where: Blackline Tattoo Parlour, 80 Atlantic Rd, London, SW9 8PX
Price: Free
A collaboration between 22 international photographers who share an interest in street photography and met via Flikr. Taking place during the London Street Photography Festival, the show, which includes work by Ambra Vernuccio, Maureen Mumford Smith and others, offers a record of everyday life around the world. Each photographer discloses a unique perspective on everyday life and contemporary society, in all seasons, moods and situations.
Words: Myozen Ingram-Peters and Barsha Gurung
