The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H OAH
www.thebloomsbury.com
Box Office: 020 7388 8822
Queen Of Nations Beauty Pageant 2007
5.30pm 27th July 2007
TRANNY QUEEN OF THE WORLD'S QUEEN OF NATION is a beauty contest for feminine lady boys, cross dressers, drag queens, transsexuals, transvestites. This beauty pageant is a platform for transgender women to express themselves as talented, intelligent, and creative individuals, instead of the negative view they attract as sex objects. We are leading a campaign of acceptance, tolerance and admiration as beautiful, talented and creative women of this new era. The Friday night of 27th July is a glamourous celebration of all the contestants parading in introduction wear, national costumes, swim wear and evening gowns. The contestants are current/past winners, runner ups and award winners of different gay and transgender beauty pageants from all over the world, representing their chosen countries,they will be cat fighting for the tittle QUEEN OF NATIONS and the various awards. Tickets: £15
Little Me
28 August 7.30pm
29 August 7.30pm
30 August 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Following their recent re-launch and successful production of Fiddler on the Roof, NYMT are proud to present a sassy and lively production of Neil Simon’s darkly comic musical. This raucous story, with its tongue firmly in its cheek, recounts the rise and fall in the fortunes of Belle Schlumpfert, rags to riches heroine who suffers from monstrous bad luck. Although it was first performed in 1977, Little Me shares qualities with many of the new works emerging from Broadway in the last two years.
Ripe for a revival, NYMT are excited to present the first London outing of this hilarious piece for some time. Tickets £14, £12 concessions
Guy Clark
20 September 8pm
Guy Clark is a folk icon, creating masterful, poignant melodies and insightful lyrics that speak to the heart. Tough, bare-boned and dryly sentimental, his beautiful songs reflect the man himself and display an old-fashioned masculinity that emphasizes honesty, integrity and carefully chosen words, rather than bluster and pomp. His recordings are full of craggy, wistful story-songs, and his plainspoken delivery lends itself to his persona. A number of Clark’s songs were hits for other
artists such as Johnny Cash, David Allen Coe, Ricky Skaggs, George Strait, Vince Gill, The Highwaymen, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett and Jimmy Buffet. Tickets £21 (This event has unallocated seating)
British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Box Office: 020 7323 8181
Inhuman Traffic: the business of the slave trade
Until 6 April 2008 (room 69a)
This small exhibition explores how the Transatlantic Slave Trade functioned. It covers more than 500 years, including the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807. It features resistance leaders including Toussaint l'Ouverture, Olaudah Equiano and Nanny of the Maroons, and their continuing legacy of the struggle to end enslavement. Admission free
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
19 July – 21 October
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan features some of the most beautiful Japanese art-crafts produced during the past fifty years including ceramics, textiles, lacquer, metal, wood, bamboo, glass and dolls. The exhibition presents works by members of the Japan Art Crafts Association (Nihon Kogeikai), many of them designated ‘Living National Treasures’ in Japan, a title conferred by the Japanese government on exemplary individuals who carry on Japanese traditions. Crafting Beauty will demonstrate how the beauty, skill and modernity found in these contemporary pieces draws on the strength of traditional crafts skills. Admission £5, concessions available
The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ
Tel. 020 7841 3600
www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Hogarth's Children
Thursday 29 March until Sunday 1 July 2007
The lower-ground floor of the Museum houses the Temporary Exhibition Gallery.
William Hogarth is most frequently associated with incisive social satire as seen in works such as his Rake’s Progress, and his devotion to the Foundling Hospital may seem surprising. This exhibition examines the little known charitable aspect of Hogarth's character. Hogarth was involved as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital from the beginning. He served as an active member of the Court of Governors as well as of the General Committee. He supported the Hospital by designing the children's uniforms and the Foundling Hospital seal, acting as a foster parent for foundlings and even volunteering to inspect the conditions of the homes of wetnurses hired by the institution. Hogarth's Children is a chance for further insight into the motivations and passions of a dynamic and remarkable man.
Thursday lunchtime concerts starting at 1.10pm.
Sponsored by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, this series of lunchtime concerts by New London Orchestra Young Performers is a chance to enjoy forty-minute recitals by a new generation of artists.
Thursday 19 July
The Agon Piano Trio perform with violin, cello and piano
Thursday 16 August
Tom Cockett and the Senesino Players perform music by some of the Baroque Masters.
Free with Museum admission (£5 adults, £4 concessions, children under 16 and Foundling Pass holders free of charge),
Rokeby Gallery, 37 Store Street, WC1E 7BS
Tel: 020 7168 9942
www.rokebygallery.com
Allison Schulnik – No Luck
27.06.2007 – 31.07.2007
Rokeby will present LA based painter, Allison Schulnik's first solo exhibition in the UK. Within thickly sculpted oil paint Allison Schulnik presents moments that mix historical fact with blatant fiction. Majestic dramas and compositions embody the spirit of the macabre in a Shakespearian brand of love, death and farce providing the viewer with a haunting sense of foreboding combined with compassion and expectation.
Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7EX
Tel: 020 7307 5060
www.drillhall.co.uk
The Drill Hall and Blow the Fuse Jazz Club:
Summer jazz ball with the Ladies Excuse Me Dance Orchestra
Saturday 7 July at 7.30pm
Waltz, cha cha and quickstep to latin and swing dance classics from Frank Sinatra to Ella Fitzgerald. Dress 'fabuloso', take your partners and come dancing at the only Summer Ball to be seen at. Tickets £12 / £10 concessions