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Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

A book fair with a difference! Come and discover the REAL pulp fiction. Thousands of vintage paperbacks and magazines from the glory days of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s - a time when book and magazine covers were VERY different to the dull, tame covers of today… This was a time when publishers paid skilled...

Delve deeper into the personal histories, collections and themes that make up The Wiener Library’s current temporary exhibition on the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Co-curators Dr.

By the end of World War II, millions of people had been murdered or displaced by war and genocide. Families and communities were torn apart. Many were missing, and some people’s fates remain unclear to this day.

By the end of World War II, millions of people had been murdered or displaced by war and genocide. Families and communities were torn apart. Many were missing, and some people’s fates remain unclear to this day.

“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime, I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem.

In honour of Fred Zinnemann’s birth month and as part of The Wiener Library’s Fate Unknown exhibition series, we are pleased to host a free screening of Zinnemann’s The Search (1948). The screening will be accompanied by a talk from renowned expert on Zinnemann’s work, Professor J. E.

Leslie (Lázár) Kleinman was born on 29th May 1929 in Ambud, a small village near Satu Mare in Romania, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had four brothers and three sisters and his father was a Rabbi. The family’s peaceful world was first disrupted when Hungary occupied this area in 1940.

In 1950, Alan Burgess’s BBC radio play, The Greatest Detective Story in History, gave unprecedented and moving insight into the work of the International Tracing Service (ITS), particularly with regard to its efforts to find missing children after the Second World War.

Witnessing the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust had a profound effect on the military forces that liberated Nazi concentration camps. Dr.

The film Two Emperors and a Queen (2015) by Vesna Lukic traces the journey of the ’Kladovo transport’: a large group of about 1200 Jewish refugees from central Europe whose illegal attempt to flee Nazi persecution in 1939 via the river Danube, fatally ended in Serbia in 1941/42.

12:30 to 17:30 from Tuesday to Saturday

MFest brings together Muslims and non-Muslims to celebrate the richness and plurality of Muslim cultures, and explore contemporary Muslim thought through the breadth of its heritage, politics, and communities.

Heather Small - The Voice of M People Plus Sam Lavery. Artists performing: Heather Small.: Tickets avaiable.

- 24th April, 6.30pm -- Women, Power & Revolution -- This event will see an exceptional panel of inspiring women discuss the topic of women, power and revolution and what revolution means to them today.

Visitors to St Pancras International from 19 March 2018 will see a unique display of bespoke doggy dream homes designed by celebrities, renowned architects, artists and designers.

The Pauline Quirke Academy is a weekend performing arts school providing tuition for children and young people aged 4-18 and the newest Academy is opening in Islington! Join us for our FREE OPEN DAY!

2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba or "catastrophe”.

The question of the whats and the hows underpins all the things in Robin Elliott’s songs: what is being said, and how?

THE UK’s BIGGEST SLIME POP UP IS COMING TO LONDON 5TH-6TH MAY 2018! Want to learn how to make slime? Or simply wish to poke, crunch and squeeze anything oddly satisfying? Well, now’s your chance. SLIME LONDON is a brand new pop-up experience dedicated entirely to all things Slime.

Open to attend Dance Well is Akademi’s 3-year community participation project funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.

East meets West musical fusion. A soulful rhythmic blend of inspirational wisdom and sacred devotional music. All is sound: from the vibration of Creation to the sounds we speak, whisper and think.

Learn principles for living that come from yogic teachings and ancient wisdom, including mantra meditations and breakthrough relationships tools that will help you shift out of negative emotional patterns you may face in your relationships. Open to everyone.

Join us for an entertaining talk when Professor Matthew Leigh introduces his research on elements of freemasonry in early 18th century European comic dramas.

Come and visit us after hours and learn more about the symbols of Freemasonry. For centuries symbols have been used to represent ideas or qualities and they are universally used in modern life.

Blues Caravan 2018..........featuring Bernard Allison, Vanja Sky and Mike Zito This is no ordinary club tour.......this is the Blues Caravan 2018.

London Children’s Ballet returns to the West End with a ballet based on Oscar Wilde’s witty novella. Set in the roaring 20s, The Canterville Ghost is performed by an all-child cast and set to the music of a live orchestra. Sir Simon Canterville has haunted his ancestral home successfully for centuries.

70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly commissioned score by Gary Crosby.

Inspired by the kings of swing: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr, The Tap Pack brings a new, exhilarating energy to a timeless style.

To celebrate the release of The Mozartists’ Mozart in London on Signum Classics we have joined with Gramophone Magazine to host an exclusive London pre-release event with Ian Page, the conductor and artistic director of Classical Opera and The Mozartists.

For one night only, Barefoot Wine is opening the House of Sole, a daring destination designed to celebrate the quirks that make us unique.

The European Premiere of The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly is an honest representation of the challenges all relationships can endure, no matter the sexuality. It looks at two women on a small fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico and what makes their relationship tick.

A care home in Islington is inviting local people to visit the home to join in its celebrations for Care Home Open Day. On Friday 20th April, from 12pm-4pm, the Care UK team at Muriel Street care home on Muriel Street will be opening the doors to the care home for a free family-friendly event.

Sadler’s Wells Associate Company, English National Ballet, returns with a programme of neo-classical ballet with an American accent from three generations of choreographers.

The award-winning duo Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have collaborated together since 2005 and have created works for Lyon Opera Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

DeNada Dance Theatre comes to Sadler’s Wells with a new production following a guest appearance in a Wild Card evening last autumn. Boldly approaching the erotic themes within the story, TORO is a gender-fluid, Hispanic interpretation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

After its premiere in Autumn 2017, BalletBoyz returns with the unique project: four pieces created in just 14 days.

Breakin’ Convention is back and celebrating its 15th year with another incredible line-up of acts from around the world and around the corner, including highlights from the past 14 years.

Choreographer and writer Lin Hwai-min’s new work takes inspiration from the legendary words of the Portuguese sailors in the 16th century, as they spotted the verdant land that would one day be known as Taiwan: “Formosa!” (“Beautiful!

Burrows and Fargion return to Sadler’s Wells with Any Table Any Room, a new work welcoming four local artists to join them on stage: Seke Chimutengwende, Tanja Erhart, Jacky Lansley and Alesandra Seutin. How possible is community? How do we retain our autonomy while being in a group?

After bringing Sadler’s Wells a succession of story-ballets, including the South Bank Sky Arts Dance Award-winning 1984 and the critically acclaimed Casanova, Northern Ballet returns with Jane Eyre.

Visit Yamaha Music London, the world-famous music shop in Wardour Street, Soho London during May 2018 and get a closer look at some of Yamaha’s most exciting innovations.

Le Dame Art Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by ritualistic water painter Stevens Vaughn. Please, don’t miss the unique opportunity to meet the artist, Thursday 15th March 6.30 to 9 pm.

MF ROBOTS + support. Artists performing: MF ROBOTS .: Tickets avaiable.

Every Tuesday at the historic Nell of Old Drury, we bring you the hottest pro acts on the circuit and TV names trying out new, fresh material in the heart of Covent Garden. It’s in our cozy upstairs room and the bar is open till late.

Directed by JMK 2017 award winner Josh Roche (My Name Is Rachel Corrie), this poetic and unflinching production is an extraordinary mix of drama and performance poetry set in an Essex school which tells the story of four young people who are forced into adulthood.

Join the Royal College of Physicians for a special free lecture, part of the season marking its 500th anniversary, reflecting on the history and future of medicine, society and health. In this event, Dr Nneka Nwokolo focuses on the advances made in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of HIV over recent years.

Join the Royal College of Physicians for a special event exploring the role of contemporary portraiture and the college’s remarkable art collection.

A mini festival that celebrates classic vehicles, fashion, design, music and food all for £5. Vehicles that thrill and fabulous “threads for less” are available by the boot load as the Classic Car Boot Sale parks up in Granary Square, King’s Cross, London on 28th and 29th April 2018.

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.