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Image: Documentary screenshot via Barbican website.

The London Nobody Knows. Part of Urban Wandering: Film and the London Landscape at the Barbican, there will be a rare screening of a precious document that reveals the underside of London in 1967. As the Barbican website states, James Mason acts as our guide to covert parts of the city, showing us places which, at that time, had survived the bulldozer. Street markets, entertainers and the homeless are seen as the camera tours locations such as the Bedford Theatre in Camden Town, the men’s toilets at Holborn station and Chapel Market. I've seen fragments of this documentary and it looks amazing, definitely a must seen. More info here, and the rest of the Urban Wandering program here.

Part of Festival of Neighbourhood Festival and London Wonderground, the Southbank Center presents the London Swing Dance Society promising 'a night of scintillating jazz, cool swing, hot jive and scorching rock'n'roll. The evening kicks off with beginners and intermediate lindy hop classes from 7.45pm to 8.30pm. Features a live band, swing DJs and a vintage dance cabaret'. More info here.

Photo by Maja Daniels & Anne Hovad Fisher: Life and play (working title), Night Contact's Grant Winners via Night Contact website.

Night Contact. This Friday 27th of September Contact Editions with the support of the Arts Council England, invite us to witness a variety of indoor and outdoor projections that will pop up across a range of venues in Dalston, East London, beaming out inspiring artworks for one night only. Night Contact aims to support and promote contemporary image making in an innovative, multidisciplinary and collaborative way. Also, there will be stalls, music, food and drink. Sounds interesting right? Read more info in Night Contact's website and see you Friday at Gillette Square! 

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Photos: The Procrastinator (some) Times. On the second one you can see one of my favorite illustrations called "Perv".

We visited Jean Jullien's exhibition La Plage, on Beach London the opening day and we found fresh fish (nice touch!), fresh ginger beer, and a really nice series of limited-edition prints that in a humorous way portrait that one thing that must of us are not going to experience in the next 8 months: beach life. More info about La Plage here.


Also, this past Wednesday we head down to the Southbank Centre to see Limbo and we absolutely loved it. The performers were absolutely awesome and personally, I really enjoyed the music. Nice old-days feeling show that you should definitely see, even it you can only buy the 'cheap' tickets. The venue is small enough to be able to have a good view of everything from pretty much everywhere, just be a bit earlier to chose your sits.  For specific details have a look at our To Do List. We have no photos because cameras were not allowed.

 Photo: Tate Liverpool & The Procrastinator (some) Times.

Finally, in our Weekly Procrastination we visited the Tate Liverpool that is presenting over a hundred works from their collection in a very interesting way. The DLA Piper Series: Constellations explores connections between major works including Barbara Kruger, Marina Abramovic, Jonas Mekas, Man Ray, Picasso, Christo and Francis Alys, across art history, arranging them in nine ‘constellations’. This exhibition on two floors of the gallery, "offer a fresh way of viewing and understanding artworks through correspondences rather than chronological narrative". If you happen to be in Liverpool I think is worth a visit. More info here.

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Image: London Stories via Battersea Arts Centre

London 1-on-1-on-1. Over 8 million people live in London. People to whom we share a great number of everyday activities, from queuing (a personal favorite) to being oddly close, pretending not to be oddly close, in the Tube's rush hour. The Battersea Arts Centre, invite us to explore a warren of candle-lit rooms and encounter real-life stories told by the people who lived them. Each story, from the moving to the bizarre or comical, will be told to an audience of just two. You will share every experience 1-on-1-on-1 with the storyteller and an audience member you may never have met before. Book tickets, watch the trailer and read a little bit more about this peculiar London Stories here.

Photo: Clean Bandits via Tate website.

BP Saturdays: Loud Tate. The next Saturday 21st you can get down to Tate Britain for a free action-packed day of art, music and fashion, exploring the idea of contrast between the past and present, inspired by the new chronological display at Tate Britain. There will be workships, tutorials, and live performance from Clean Bandit, Amplify Dot and Hackney Colliery Band. More info in the Tate Britain website.

 Photo via Limbo website.

If you fancy to "witness heart-stopping illusions, mind-bending manoeuvres, breathtaking dance moves and thrilling live music from a coterie of highly skilled international performers. A festive celebration of otherworldly proportions, welcome to the greatest party ever between heaven and hell." LIMBO, the new production from the creative producers of 2012 hit show Cantina, will be in London Wonderground until the 29th of September. This was part of our Weekly Procrastination this week and we were fascinated. There's some serious stuff going on in Limbo. And the music is just perfect! Don't miss out. Info and tickets here.

Photo: Endless Stair via LDF website.

Finally, London Design Festival started this 14th of September and it's massive this year. From exhibitions, creative installations to collaborations and dinner parties. The photo above is Endless Stair, a visually and architecturally astonishing installation and one of the highlights of this September’s Festival, go and have a look from 13 September – 10 October 2013 on the lawn in front of the Tate Modern. Design is everywhere, but specially here.

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Our friends from Archeology Project invite us to their first live event: a video excavation of the Barbican Centre as part of Hack the Barbican. Become an explorer and record the collective memory of the largest performing arts centre in Europe, all you need is a phone with camera. Sounds good right. This will take place the next Friday 30th and Saturday 31st of August and you can just drop in or register here.

Hack the Barbican is also featuring a whole bunch of other activities to enjoy, like Haiku writing, narrating the Barbican, Pecha-Kucha performances, poetry hack and sounds installations. Have a look at the program for next week and remember that this Hack the Barbican's last week, don't miss out!

Photo: Tim Mitchell via Southbank Centre website

It's almost the last week of Southbank Centre's Festival of Neighborhood too, and there are still plenty of things to enjoy during this next week, but specially on Sunday it will take place the central piece of this finale: the Southbanquet. An invitation to share an alfresco meal of ethically sourced food to mark the end of summer on the terrace overlooking the Thames. The meal is cooked by Thomas Hunt, former River Cottage chef, founder of the eco-collective The Forgotten Feast and official chef of Feeding the 5000. There will be banquet-related workshops during the whole weekend and the weather, so far, promises no rain. Win!