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Pexava Salsa
Last Thursday Monthly
Gil and Shelley’s Pexava Salsa Social, with international championship competitors and professional teachers and performers. Salsa lessons, shows, club dancing and more!
The last Thursday of the month, your salsa weekend starts early! Experience an amazing central salsa venue with great salsa people.
Fantastic, spacious wooden dancefloor, special touches provided by dancers for dancers, the best salsa DJs on rotation, regular shows, cheap soft drinks.
19.15-20.15 Intermediate/Advanced class: with Gil & Shelley (please note: classes are suitable for experienced salsa dancers only; please see our Pexava website for our beginners courses in other locations).
20.15-23.30 Salsa Social: Dance your socks off on a wonderful floor with lovely people! Shows at 22.30 for “Showtime events”.
Tickets: £8 on the door including free class.
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Carablanca Tango Club
Spring/Summer
19.30 - 00.00
Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club. The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers.
The dance evening is an Argentine milonga, preceded by a class. There are also classes for beginners in a separate room. Music is traditional Argentine tango, milonga and vals, played in tandas with cortinas by guest DJs.
TICKETS: price £10 for a class or dancing, £12 for both, paid on entry.
Simultaneously
Wed 22 May 2013, 19.30
Russian wrier, performer and director Priit Ruttas in the English premiere of Yevgeni Grishkovets astonishing one-man show.
Yevgeni Grishkovets is an exceptional Russian writer, dramatist, actor and theatre director, who gained prominence among Moscow audiences in the late 90s and has greatly influenced contemporary Russian theatre and literature. A Monodrama, Simultaneously is perhaps Grishkovets’ most complex work, as it seems to lack any kind of concept that can be explained in words.
At the beginning of the play, the protagonist tries to convey a very important message, only to realize by the end of the performance that the message he wants to communicate is not communicable at all, at least not by verbal means. This play has no conventional narrative structure - for some, it may not seem have a plot or a message at all. Rather, it conveys a feeling and can be understood if we liberate ourselves from the notion of rational consciousness and pay close attention to the myriad shades of emotions that arise from within us at every moment.
Writer: Yevgeni Grishkovets
Director: Priit Ruttas
Translation: Elo Masing
Designers: Peeter Krosmann and Milda Lembertaite
Tickets £10 (plus booking fee). Doors 19.00
MusicUpClose - Session 6
Wed 22 May 2013, 19.30
MusicUpClose - Session 6
Collision Course
Presenter: Tom Hammond
A project devised by sound collective, Simon Callaghan and Conway Hall , in collaboration with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
MusicUpClose is an innovative series of performing events based at London's Conway Hall. Professional musicians and postgraduate students from Trinity Laban help to illuminate not only specific pieces of classical music, but also the way in which they think about music and performing.
Why not have a look at our all new Presenters Gallery to see all those presenting this series?
Acclaimed performers from sound collective are joined by the talented students of Trinity Laban Conservatoire to perform two works that are as different as they are magnificent: Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Trumpets and Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll. Tom Hammond, Artistic Director of sound collective, will introduce the works and as always help to generate a discussion between the performers and the audience. Those who were at our performance of Beethoven Symphony 5 last year won’t forget that experience in a hurry, and this time we also predict an unusual performance that will live long in the memory.
Tickets are priced at £10 a session on the door or in advance.
English Chamber Choir
Sun 26 May, 18.30
Conductor: Guy Protheroe
Pianists: Simon Callaghan & Hiro Takenouchi
- Schubert: Ständchen D920
- Schubert: Gebet D815
- Schubert: Marches Caractéristiques D968b
- Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes Op.52
- Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine Op.11
- Fauré: Madrigal Op.35
- Britten: Gloriana Op.53: Choral Dances
- Sellars: Kissing Songs
The English Chamber Choir celebrates its Fortieth Anniversary in 2012. For nearly four decades, the English Chamber Choir, and its conductor Guy Protheroe, have been at the forefront of the English choral tradition and London’s musical life. One of the best known and busiest groups of its size, the Choir prides itself on the variety of its repertoire and the diversity of its engagements.
£9 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30. Start 18.30
Sunday Lecture - Rebels, Infidels and Troublemakers
Sun 26 May 2013, 11.00
Rebels, Infidels and Troublemakers: the life, times and contents of Bishopsgate Library
What was the ‘battle of the books’ and why did the Institute lock away one archive item from the public fearing it may cause revolution?
Bishopsgate Library is home to the library and archives of numerous radicals and troublemakers, including infidel Charles Bradlaugh, blasphemer George Jacob Holyoake and a wealth of other collections documenting people and organisations who dared to challenge the status quo.
Join Library and Archives Manager Stefan Dickers to explore the stories that lie behind many of the collections on the shelves at Bishopsgate Library and explore the themes of London, labour, co-operation, freethought and protest. Stefan qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005. Previous to this, Stefan worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library. He is also secretary of the Archives and Resources Committee of the Society for the Study of Labour History and the oral history consortium Britain at Work, 1945-1995. Stefan is also co-founder of the Network of Radical Libraries and Archives (NORLA), Chair of the Socialist History Society and Co-Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Free Tea & Coffee will be available.
Widows Might
Wed 29 May 2013, 19.30
An evening of stories, anecdotes, poems and songs exploring the nature of widowhood. Written and compiled by Pat Holden
Performed by Pat Holden, Chris Savage King, Debbie Yearsley, and guests.
Uplifting and surprisingly funny
In aid of:
Widows for Peace and Democracy: 'Our vision is to see, in all countries where widowhood is an issue, particularly in areas of conflict, federations of widows’ associations, which will ensure that widows’ voices are heard by their governments, so that every widow is protected by law from discrimination, violence and abuse, and can enjoy her full human rights as an equal and valuable member of society.'
Tickets £10 (plus booking fee). Doors 19.00
The School of Life: Michael Pollan - What makes us full?
29 May 2013
What makes us full?
What did you eat for lunch today? Chances are many of us ate some kind of mass product from a packet at our desks. We might feel full up for a while. But with every factory-processed mouthful we pop, are we denying ourselves something more existentially fulfilling?
Tonight the food writer Michael Pollan will give his manifesto for why we and how we should take back control of that fundamental part of our wellbeing, pleasure and creativity: the art of eating well.
Pollan’s latest book is Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. It tells the experience of apprenticing himself to master cooks. With them he learned how to use the basic elements of fire, earth, air and water to transform simple ingredients into wonderful food to eat. Tonight he’ll share the practical attitudes and strategies he learnt from cooks about creating sustenance for the soul.
Pollan will be in conversation with William Leith, the author of the funny and moving memoir about his own food addiction, The Hungry Years. Together they’ll discuss what it really means to be full.
Tickets £22
