Fish slapping and swallows carrying coconuts? It could only be Monty Python!
Iain M Banks, poetry and ping pong.
Includes a short story competition.
A history of London in song and poetry, coming to Leicester Square Theatre.
Three days of Mexican film and festivity.
A variety of London artists on display featuring abstract art, taxidermy, and dark humour aplenty.
Everyone from Boris Johnson to Buzz Aldrin gets the sandy treatment.
Visit the foundry where Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were cast.
The controversial researcher talks about booze and fags down the pub.
Paintings capturing London Underground stations and London between the wars.
It might mean you sleep through Open House Weekend but heck, it's amazing.
Not everyone's caught up in the positive mood.
Arts-heavy exhibition looking at the role of medicine, surgery and exercise in sport.
Who to save, the scoundrel genius or the virtuous nobody?
Lord Nelson gets a new tricorn.
If only the real thing had been built this way.
Free Olympic events, family fun, Africa Fashion Week, Global Beats, origami dinosaurs and Exhibition Road Show.
It's not just athletes who are inspired by the Games.
Reminisce on the Diamond Jubilee through a set of energetic paintings.
Sketches of London, by its residents, in a free exhibition.
Exuberance and uninhibited joy in an original gay African-American musical.
Alan Davies, Nina Conti, Paul Sinha, the perfect film and Camden Fringe among this week's gigs.
Three works by different artists explore the inevitability of death.
Songs which truly reflect London during the Olympics.
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