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Tuesday 12 November 2013 in London

By TW Editorial | Published on Wednesday 6 November 2013

TODAY IN LONDON comedienne Ria Lina, modern British artists Gillian Carnegie and Tomma Abts, one-time ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award winner Alexis Dubus and daring Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus feature in the following TW-recommended events…

ART: Painting Now – Five Contemporary Artists, Tate Britain, 12 Nov – 9 Feb 2014
The Tate shows off interlocking modern work by Turner Prize-winning abstractionist Tomma Abts, still-life/landscape painter Gillian Carnegie, creator of elaborate natural/artificial tableaux Simon Ling, aesthete and fine artist Lucy McKenzie, and sculptural painter Catherine Story. Details and tickets here.

COMEDY: Ria Lina – Thpethial, Leicester Square Theatre, 12-14 Nov (pictured)
Plain-speaking Ria Lina, who herself has Asperger’s, riffs light-heartedly on the significance and meaning of “special”, side-stepping PC gibberish and enlivening her views by singing them and using ‘visual aids’. Details and tickets here.

COMEDY: A Joke Too Far – Stand Up For Burma, Hackney Picturehouse, 12 Nov
Showing that one really can’t put a price on justice, pro-freedom comedians Richard Herring, Naz Osmanoglu and ThreeWeeks Editor’s Award-winner Alexis Dubus (and additional TBA acts) ‘do it’ for Amnesty International, who’ll be taking 100% of tonight’s totally reasonably £12.50 cost-of-admission. Details and tickets here.

DANCE: Wim Vandekeybus – booty Looting, Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre), 12-13 Nov
‘booty Looting’ is a UK premiere c/o Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, known for his fast, instinctive, combatant style. Tonight he scripts six dancers’ moves through tales of destruction, distortion and death by Xerox machine. Details and tickets here.