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Event Puddle: 20-22 Aug 2010
20 Aug 2010
By: Milkman

Bringing Up Baby
Go crash someone called Tony's 50th birthday late night screening at the Rio! 1938 movie starring (the rather wonderful) Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Saturday 23.30. £7
Motionhouse at Watch This Space Festival
Dance Theatre company Motionhouse are ending their week-long stay at the National Theatre's outdoor festival with two pieces:
The Chaser - Friday, 18.45. Saturday, 16.30 and 18.45. Sunday 13.30 and 14.30.
Underground - Friday and Saturday, 21.00. FREE
The Face
Reminder of party that promises to be proper fabulous. "The modern generation of New Romantics". Ooh er.
The Green Carnation. Friday, midnight. £5
Ladyfest Ten Fundraiser
This year heralds the tenth anniversary of Ladyfest grassroots feminist festival Action. Get yourself to this fundraiser hosted by DIY Womp/Storm in a Teacup at The George Tavern - don't we all want to have our cake and eat it??? Exhibition, performance and PARTY.

Saturday 18.00-02.30. £4 (get on the guestlist)
Shore Leave Summer Special
Nautical themed part-ay at the Shacklewell Arms.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Rakes, Harlots, Flaneurs and Bon Vivants! The Gas lamps are litten, the footlights polished to a shine, and the bar stocked with rotgut and wine. The stage is shot with greasepaint and glitter and the chatter of pretty girls to tattoo’d boys in sailors hats and stripes tumbles in excited arabesques among the Turkish tobacco smoke and the reels of drunken gypsy guitarists…..
is what they say.
Saturday, 21.00-03.00. £7
A Day At the Beach
Say what? Pop-up beach in Whitechapel?? With a literary theme???Alright then. Bring a book, a deckchair, maybe some mates and pretend like it's still summer. Activities include:
literary volleyball, where teams of writers with contrary agendas battle it out on a paper ‘court’; a snack bar purveying books, magazines and fanzines with a seaside aroma; a rack of magically transportative postcards; crafted crustaceans; a rockpool of authors’ epigraphs; a crop of vhs seaweed; art publication sandcastles, and beachcombing for holiday novels.
Whitechapel Gallery. Sunday 13.00-17.00. FREE

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