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Photo: Fireworks at Alexandra Palace via The Guardian.

Remember, remember that Bonfire Night celebrations started this past Friday but there will be some going on until the actual 5th of November. The Guardian lists where you can go to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. Have a look here.

Screenshot from Internet Week Europe website.

Also, even if Internet Week is not next week, if you want to assist to any of the events you should book your tickets NOW. Go ahead and have a look at the itinerary, venues and speakers of this "week-long festival celebrating Europe's thriving Internet industry & community", clicking here.

Pau Sampera at Beach London via Beach London's Tumblr.

Finally this Thrusday 7th of November is the opening of Spanish illustrator Pau Sampera's Draw a Penis AND Run Away at Beach London. This exhibition will present a body of new painting and sculpture by Sampera, who has recently moved to, and has been working in, London.
Have a look at the expo details in the Facebook event.

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Image via The Typographic Circle.

The Typographic Circle presents: The Work of Dave in the Age of Digital Revolution. David Pearson studied at Central St Martins in London (1999–2002) before taking a job at Penguin Books as text designer and later, cover designer. He played a key role in the recent re-emergence of Penguin Books through projects such as the multi-million selling Great Ideas series, Penguin by Design and the Popular Classics series. You can book tickets for this Typographic Circle event here.

Image via The Book Club FB event.

Welcome to the funhouse! Play the fearsome twists on traditional fairground games, or get involved by putting on your own circus performance. Watch your self-perception twist in the Hall of Mirrors, or feel the fear of knowing somewhere behind you a clown giggles his way along through the horrible maze of The Book Club. To see the Facebook event, click here, to buy Tickets here.

Piccadilly Circus. Photo Fran Healy.

We are regulars now of this lovely salons at the Westminster Arts Reference LIbrary and we can fully recommend them. SALON No 10: A NIGHT IN OLD LONDON travels back to the city of a century ago for a very special evening. With extraordinary unseen images and in conversation, story and song will be the Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life, London ballad singer Henrietta Keeper and pianist and boxer David Power. More info here.

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Photo: Enough Said via The Standard.

Enough Said is on all UK cinemas (and our personal favourite) since this past Friday 18th, and besides the opportunity of watching one of the last performances of James Gandolfini, according to Peter Bradshaw critic in The Guardian, this movie is without any doubts an must see. "A romantic comedy that is romantic and funny and not simply an insult to the intelligence of all carbon-based life forms. Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said is a step up for this director, in whose previous work . . . She has created a thoroughly likable and genuinely funny film and its stars . . . are a revelation, singly and together. Like their director, they unassumingly but decidedly took it to the next level on this movie". Read full article in The Guardian. E.T.P.: 2' And watch the trailer here. E.T.P. 2'21''

Photo via The Independent.

Pop Art Design opens at the London’s Barbican next Tuesday 22 October.  This is an exhibition that aims to showcase for the first time the strong links that existed between the Pop Art movement and design. The Barbica exhibition will feature 200 pieces by over 70 artists and designers like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Blake, Achille Castiglioni, Charles and Ray Eames, among others. Read more in Barbican website. Full article in The Independent. E.T.P. 1'20''

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Kickstarter are coming to Central Saint Martins! If you are in London and you are a CSM student you definitely shouldn't miss this chance of getting to know this company the next Tuesday at 5pm. Kickstarter are an awesome company from New York. This company are full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of the general public. Since launching in 2009, 5 million people have pledged $822 million, funding 49,000 creative projects. Thousands of creative projects are raising funds on Kickstarter right now. CSM have 50 free places for students to attend first come first serve! More info in Suarts website.

Image via Tate Modern.

Making visible. This Wednesday 16th of October starts the Paul Klee exhibition at the Tate Modern Museum. Rediscover Klee’s extraordinary body of work and see it in a new light. Paintings, drawings and watercolours from collections around the world will be reunited and displayed alongside each other as the artist originally intended, often for the first time since Klee exhibited them himself. More info in the Tate website.

Image via The Shacklewell Arms Facebook event page.

Shacklewell Arts Fair. The Shacklewell Arms is holding its first Arts Fair on Saturday 19th October from 12.  The pub will be a hub of creativity, with local artists selling their goods.. There will prints for sale, as well as drawings, paintings, photographs, zines & many more.  We want to support artists in the area and hope to make it a regular event! There’ll be a DJ and the kitchen will be open serving good food. More info in the S.A. website.

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The 57th BFI London Film Festival starts this Wednesday. Have you booked your tickets yet? Click here to see the films in Official Competition, and here to see the full schedule and events info. If you watch a movie at the LFF and want to send us a mini post about it, please do so!

Image: Namasté via Lomography Spain.

If you are in Madrid this next Thursday 10th of October, you shouldn't miss the opening of our lomographers friends Susielomovitz y Mr. Eich's Namasté. This exhibition is the result of mixing their two passions: analogue photography and Bikram yoga. Have a look in Lomography Argensola Madrid.

Image via Hendricks.

From the 11th to 13th of October, HENDRICK'S CARNIVAL of KNOWLEDGE opens its doors to the curious citizens of London as part of the city's Cocktail Week. From the chemistry of cocktails or an anthology of gin, to some very interesting insights about how to die properly in a London way or some nonsense poetry, this carnival looks like the place to be next weekend. Wisdom of the most eye-opening variety will be provided by luminaries, visionaries and deviants such as The Idler Academy, Antique Beat & The Enlightenment Café; and for the stimulation of the taste-buds as well as the mind, HENDRICK's Parlour Bar will be open to the all from Noon till 10pm each day. Check the details in Hendrick's website.

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Image via ICA.

You have until the 6th of October to have a look at Gerald Cinamon: Collected work since 1958 at the ICA. A selection of designs by award-winning typographer and book designer Gerald (Jerry) Cinamon, who started working at Penguin in 1958. "The display reveals the influence of Swiss design on his work, which was unique and forward thinking during this period of popular book publishing. Cinamon produced work using bold colour and iconic typography creating signature works that defined his distinct style." More info in ICA website.

 Image: Cachetejack via Lomography UK.

This Thursday 3rd of October Lomography UK’s will be starting its First Thrusdays event in the Whitechapel Gallery, featuring work by Cachetejack, a Spanish illustration duo who have recently moved to London. They combine drawings, wood sculptures and fabric to create playful and humorous illustrations. Some of their clients include Anorak magazine, Don’t Panic and Computer Arts magazine. More info about this and other October lomoevents here.

Image via Cycle Love.

On your bike! From the 3rd to the 6th of October is all about bicycles in the Barbican Centre. The Festival includes an opening party at Hackney Downs Studios on the 4th October and all these movies. More info in Cycle Love website.

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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! 

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Next Monday 26 of August is a Bank Holiday. Don’t forget!

Photo: Notting Hill Carnival 2012 via BBC.

If by any chance you’ve never experienced Notting Hill Carnival, well this next weekend is your weekend! Here is how is described in the website: twenty miles of vibrant colourful costumes surround over 40 static sound systems, hundreds of Caribbean food stalls, over 40,000 volunteers and over 1 million Notting Hill carnival revellers. Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe, so miss out! More info here.

Image: The Book Club.

The Book Club presents its third annual Bookstock street festival this bank holiday Sunday, and it’s gone nautical: Bookstock-On-Sea – a celebration of the great British summer and all the fun of the seaside, with a fun-filled Shoreditch twist. Join the event in FB for the most up to date info and pop in to The Book Club before 6.30pm everyday to grab your priority entry wristbands.