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Destination Art

Amy Dempsey discussing Destination Art  on BBC Radio online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjds See also: www.destinationart.org More

Dogma

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow ...

Cirk La Putyka

International award-winning contemporary circus Forceful and funny, powerful and poetic, La Putyka explores Czech pub atmosphere with the glazed look of a sober pint… This vibrant, colourful show fuses acrobatics, dance, theatre, puppets and live music into original contemporary circus that wins awards. Cirk La Putyka website

Nathan Phillips, Sex You (I’m Gonna)

Beyond stand up, beyond improv, beyond sketch, there is Sex You (I’m Gonna). He’s tried to have sex live onstage with dozens of New York women. Now ‘the hilarious Nathan Phillips’ (TimeOut, NY) will attempt to seduce his first Scottish lass. Using an array of ingenious pick-up tactics in an intimate evening of comedy, one ...

Tobias Persson

‘One of the sharpest pencils in Swedish comedy’ Magnus Betnér, comedian ‘Thoughts that are likely to strike a chord…concisely and effectively put’ Steve Bennett, Chortle

flying monkey subverts the fascist aesthetic through its subversion of the male gaze. The political use of voiceover in flying monkey conforms to the subjugation of the individual in the face of the primacy of television. The prevalance of foreground obstructions in flying monkey masks the containment of visual pleasure. Through the poetic use of ...

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

“I am sure Cleese would be delighted and stunned if he encountered this current incarnation of his famous creation…” We’ve been working with FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE since their first European appearances at the the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008. Since then we’ve gone global and are touring almost constantly. Quite probably the best Fawlty ...

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Spencer Maybe, The Last Trilogy

Spencer Maybe, The Last Trilogy: A one-man comedy burlesque musical that also features film and 200 strippers cavorting against a backdrop of climate change crisis. It’s Get Real or Get Wasted… because climate change just got dirty! ‘So sexy it hurts’ TimeOut

Tenth Anniversary For Able2

TENTH ANNIVERSARY FOR ORGANISATION THAT’S ABLE2 DO PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING What do Madonna, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo di Caprio and Wayne Rooney have in common? Answer: They’ve all contributed to a Southampton organisation aimed at encouraging disabled people to realise that they are able2 do pretty much anything they put their minds to – and at ...

Embankment Comedy

Our first comedy gig at this venue, straight after the Edinburgh Festival, sold out immediately. Embankment Comedy appeared on our ‘swanky’ boat (says comedy site chortle.co.uk) for a series of random special gigs. Embankment Comedy is an alternative kind of event, from the type of comedians performing to the quality of the venue itself and ...

St Barnabas Launch Party

LIVE MUSIC VENUE OPENS IN EAST LONDON In a bid to kick back against the current economic climate and the recent decline in iconic music venues, St Barnabas Church in Bow is launching itself as the newest live music venue in East London. On 13 November, its first event will showcase the full potential of ...

Bethnal Green Country Fayre

Americana, Bluegrass and Much More! Saturday, 10 July 2010 13:00 – 23:00 The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL A festival of Americana and more organised by Siobhan Watts in association with Clubhouse Records Two stages of Live Music featuring the best bands from London’s Americana, Country, Bluegrass and Rockabilly Scene… ...

www.edge.org

www.edge.org “Praised by everyone from the Guardian, Prospect magazine, Wired, the New York Times and BBC Radio 4, Edge is an online collective of deep thinkers. Their contributors aren’t on the frontier, they are the frontier.” The Scotsman “Brilliant… a eureka moment at the edge of knowledge, as scientists ponder the imponderable. …  Visiting Edge ...

The Dirty Immigrant Collective

Negin Farsad presents… THE DIRTY IMMIGRANT COLLECTIVE The Dirty Immigrant Collective is an American stand-up show featuring outstanding comedians of the immigrant, minority or otherwise outcast variety. What they have in common is phenomenal quality. Expect biting political and religious satire as well as surreal whimsy and observational humour. “It doesn’t get much funnier than ...

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy

Negin Farsad presents… THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: A ROMANTIC COMEDY An American show that might just bring peace to the Middle East makes its European debut. ‘The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy’ tracks the notorious Middle Eastern Conflict back to a botched one-night stand at the 1948 Geneva Convention…

Moon Dog: Kate Roxburgh

MOON DOG – by Kate Roxburgh Armed with a surreal sense of reality, a degree in astrophysics and a banjo, Kate might be dangerous if she were an inch or two taller. As it is, she’s returning to Edinburgh with Schrödinger’s Cat and the European premiere of her solo outing: Moon Dog. And do ask ...

The Laughing Horse Free Festival

THE LAUGHING HORSE FREE FESTIVAL – putting the alternative back into the Fringe Boasting 280 free shows, most of them from well-known comedians, musicians and theatre companies who simply want to perform in front of a non-paying audience, The Laughing Horse Free Festival’s claim to be “putting the alternative back into the Fringe” seems good ...

Raif Adelberg at Doyle Devere

DOYLE DEVERE in association with HOLSTER PROJECTS 
present RAIF ADELBERG Part 1  ‘ALL I HAVE ARE MY DREAMS’ Raif Adelberg’s first ever London exhibition is a new body of work created specifically for Doyle Devere and features photographic images of models in clown make-up and draped in Stars and Stripes flags. The show’s opening night coincides ...

Book launch

Book launch for “Fantasy Artist’s Pocket Reference: Dragons and Fantasy Beasts” by Finlay Cowan at ArtRepublic at TomTom Gallery in Covent Garden. Organised and promoted by flying monkeys’ Gemma Resnick in conjunction with Forbidden Planet. Photography markwhitfieldphotography.com.

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Best breakfast

Sea Breeze Cafe, Leith Walk. Sun 9 August. Desperate Dan breakfast. £4.50.