Things To Do In London Today: Tuesday 23 July 2013

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Haifaa Al-Mansour, Wadjda, 2012

Listings

BLOOD: Today’s opportunity to donate blood is at Lambeth Town Hall. Free, see site for terms and conditions

VISUAL THEATRE: Mimetic Festival boasts a variety of cabaret and comedy offerings tonight, including biting wit in Service with a Sneer, satirical songs from Jonny and the Baptists, and a stressed out comedy courtesy of Interrupted. See website for full listings, until 27 July

100 NIGHTS OF COMEDY: Viv Groksop talks about doing 100 comedy gigs in 100 nights, at Stoke Newington Bookshop. £2.50, prebook, 6.30pm

WADJDA: Screening at Institute of Contemporary Arts tonight is Wadjda, a film telling the story of a small Saudi Arabian girl who refuses to be cowed into submission by a male-dominated society. Wadjda is also the first film to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, a country that has no cinemas. £10/£8, prebook, 6.30pm

ATTENTION: Witz author Joshua Cohen is talking about attention with Brian Dillion at the London Review Bookshop. £7, prebook, 7pm

GEEKERY: Camden's Black Heart is the setting for tonight's Geek Showoff, a quick-pace evening of talks on geeky subjects, tonight featuring Londonist editor M@ revealing some of London's lesser-known capital facts. Free (but charity donation encouraged), just turn up, 7pm

COMEDY: Free comedy at The Camden Head today with Uncle Henry’s Fantasy Hour. Line-up includes Damien Slash, Twins and Anna Morris. Free, just turn up, 7.30pm

ON THE SPOT: This sounds excellent. Beatboxer Beardyman is at the The Invisible Dot to create a brand new album in an hour, based on audience suggestions. £8, prebook, 7.45pm

PARADISE:LOVE: On their terrace, Oval Space screens PARADISE: Love tonight, a drama film about a European woman who seeks out African boys selling love on Kenya's beaches. £9/£7, prebook, 9pm

COMEDY: If you’re one of the 10m people who’ve viewed Rubberbandits’ song Horse Outside you might be interested to see them at Soho Theatre. Warning: they look terrifying. £10-£20, prebook, 9.30pm


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