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    Walking in My Mind © Yayoi Kasuma

    Walking in my Mind Final week of this mind-delving exhibition

     
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    Liberty 'Prints Charming' Exhibition Celebration of Liberty's iconic fabric designs

     
  • Deloitte Ignite 09

    Sep 4-6, Royal Opera House

    A Time Out-curated weekend festival designed to champion innovation in the arts and bring new audiences into the Royal Opera House

  • Time Out Eating & Drinking Awards 2009

    Critics' Choice

    Our nominations for the best new restaurants and bars in London have just been announced. Check out the shortlist and vote for your favourites

Today

  • Margaret Atwood

    Books & Poetry

    Wed Sep 2, St James's Piccadilly

    Margaret Atwood launches her new novel 'The Year of the Flood' with an unusual all-star literary event to raise funds for the RSPB/Birdlife International....

  • BBC PROMS Xenakis

    Critics' Choice

    Classical

    Wed Sep 2, Royal Albert Hall

    BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson, with Leigh Melrose (baritone), Colin Currie, percussion. Xenakis's 'Nomos, gamma'; Rachmaninov's 'The Isle of...

  • In Her Room

    Alternative Nightlife

    Wed Sep 2, 40 WiNKS

    Exciting erotic life drawing evening where sketchers can enter the various striking rooms of boutique hotel 40 Winks and encounter a number of tableaux...

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This week

  • Kings Place Festival

    Music

    Sep 4-6, Kings Place

    Festival of music across different genres boasts 100 concerts in three days, plus kids workshops and spoken word events. Tickets cost just £4.50 if booked...

  • E17 Art Trail

    Art

    Sep 5-13

    More than 150 exhibitions and events in the Walthamstow/E17 area. Download a trail guide from the website: www.e17arttrail.co.uk.

  • Liberty

    FREE

    Around Town

    Sat Sep 5, Trafalgar Square

    The UK's largest disability rights festival includes street arts, music, comedy, cabaret, children's activities and stalls, including aerial dance from Blue...

  • The Pitmen Painters

    Critics' Choice

    Theatre

    Until Jan 17 2010, National Theatre, Lyttelton

    When Lee Hall turned 'Billy Elliot' the film into a musical, he was careful to pay attention to the miners and their grievances. Now he puts them centre...

  • Pestival

    FREE

    Festivals

    Sep 4-6, Southbank Centre

    Festival of performance, talks and visual art celebrating 'insects in art and the art of being an insect'. There are events for adults and children, most of...

  • Shoot Canary Wharf

    Around Town

    Sat Sep 5, West India Quay Cineworld

    Get together a team of two to four people and, following a briefing at which maps will be distributed, head off to solve the clues and photograph them (each...

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Outbreak and Undercover: Exhibiting World War II in London

Like many teenage boys, I was fascinated by World War II. I collected Airfix models, was obsessed with anything produced by Pat Reid, especially the ' Escape From Colditz ' board game,...
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  • Outdoor London

    Time Out's handy guide to everything you can do outdoors this summer - and all year round - including eating and drinking, festivals, open-air film screenings and theatre, and swimming

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  • London festivals 2009

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