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Wednesday 8 October 2014 in London

By | Published on Thursday 2 October 2014

Tracey Emin

And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

ART: Tracey Emin – The Last Great Adventure Is You | White Cube Gallery | 8 Oct – 16 Nov (pictured)
It’s easy to take a shallow reading of pre-Eminent (see what I did there?) artist Tracey E’s work, yet here she still is, as present and anti-relevant as ever, and represented in her first show at Bermondsey’s White Cube in five years. Featuring bronze casts and placques, gouaches, paintings, neon creations and her famed large-scale embroidery, ‘The Last Great Adventure Is You’ is, says Emin, a contemplation of “rites of passage, of time and age, and the simple realisation that we are always alone”. Details and tickets here.

DANCE: New Adventures – Lord Of The Flies | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 8-11 Oct
This ballet adaptation of William Goulding’s novelette from dance maestro Matthew Bourne – him of all-male ‘Swan Lake’ fame – moves the ‘kids gone wild’ story of Ralph, Jack, Piggy et al from a desert island to an empty theatre, with a cast of muscular adult dancers posing as the book’s bunch of abandoned schoolboys. Which is always fun. Details and tickets here.

FILM: BFI London Film Festival | various locations | 8-19 Oct
So this is it, the big one. The big, massive, film-based one. The LFF. London. Film. Festival. Starting with a red carpet gala screening of the highly-anticipated ‘Imitation Game’ (aka the one with Benedict Cumbersquatch playing computing genius Alan Turing); it kinds of goes without saying that this year’s programme covers both movies by dyed-in-the-wool Brit directors – like Mike Leigh’s Timothy Spall-starring painter biopic ‘Mr Turner’, or ‘Dreams Of A Life’ filmmaker Carol Morley’s new feature ‘The Falling’ – AND the best in A-list and fringe cinema from all over the world. Details and tickets here.



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