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Great Gorilla Run
City of London, 22 September
London Goes Ape! On Saturday, 1000 runners will don their Gorilla Suits, stock up on bananas and take on the 7km course around the City of London. Unsurprisingly, the event is being organised by The Gorilla Foundation, a registered charity whose aim is to protect the remaining 700 mountain gorillas left in the wild, so: come down, have a laugh and save this amazing species.
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Sake Evening – British Museum
British Museum, 5 October, £15
The British Museum is hosting a sake evening in conjunction with its new exhibtion “Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan”. Here, you will learn about sake, listen to talks as well as experience live Japanese music. The exhibition “will demonstrate how the beauty, skill and modernity found in these contemporary pieces draws on the strength of traditional crafts skills”.
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Take a View – Landscape Photographer of the Year 2007
National Theatre, Until October 15th, Free
The UK’s Landscape Photographer of the Year award highlights the best of the British Isles. The imagery in this exhibition is amazing, with each piece capturing a different aspect of the dramatic, colourful and idyllic land we love. To tie in with the exhibition, Charlie Waite - doyen of British landscape art, is giving three informal talks (20 September, 21 September, 12 October - Free) amongst the works and will discuss the mental and aesthetic process behind identifying and executing a potential landscape photograph.
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Canary Wharf Jazz Festival
Canary Wharf, 19-23 September, Free
“This inaugural Canary Wharf Jazz Festival is solely dedicated to the innovative musical genre of Jazz, and will be presenting ten bands over a series of seven concerts, featuring a host of talented young musicians who are at the cutting edge of UK jazz today. This new festival aims to provide a platform for the most promising up and coming jazz musicians - the rising stars who will be regulars on the jazz scene for years to come.”
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Olivier Films on the Fly Tower
National Theatre, Fly-tower, 19-23 September
Laurence Olivier is considered by many to be the twentieth century’s greatest actor. Now there is chance for fans to re-live whilst the unfamiliar experience for the first time a selection of Olivier’s world-renowed films projected onto the National Theatre fly tower: Rebecca (19 Sept), The Prince and the Showgirl (20 Sept), Henry V (21 Sept), Wuthering Heights (22 Sept), and Hamlet (23 September).
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London Freewheel
Embankment, 23 September, Free
Although all places for the cycling part of the event have been filled, the organisers are keen for people to come to the Freewheel Festival in St. James’ Park where you can have a gentle picnic before marvelling at the Cycling Circus, cycling acrobats and face painters. You can also try your hand at riding some rather more unusual bikes, learn about bike maintenance or have a professional sports massage.
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Little Black Dress Exhibition
Harrods, Georgian Restaurant, Fourth Floor - Free
Harrods pays homage to the “LBD”. It shows off some of the most spectacular and famous LBDs since Coco Channel’s first in 1926. If you feel flush you can even buy a made to measure copy of the infamous Liz Hurley, Versace, gold safety pin one for a mere £10,690.
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Landmarks of New York
RIBA, 6 September – 3 October
Learn more about some of the architectural wonders of New York. A grid-structure, much like the layout of the city, is the setting for 81 photographs of iconic edifices such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Chrysler Building and the Statue of Liberty accompanied by text-based details about them.
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The Body of Colour
Tate Modern, Ends 23 September
Hélio Oiticica was one of the most innovative Brazilian artists of his generation. Focussing on Oiticica’s uncompromising use of colour, central to his practice, the exhibition includes works from several key series from 1995 onwards, some of which have not been seen by the public for more than thirty years.
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Amjad Ali Khan
Southbank Centre, September 21, £9-30
“Amjad Ali Khan is the undisputed master of the sarod, an ancient Indian classical instrument similar to the lute and second only to the sitar in it’s importance in Indian classical music. The sixth-generation sarod player in his family, he has had a successful career spanning over 40 years and continues to be one of India’s leading classical musicians. In this performance he sets out to examine the themes of love and peace, in a celebration of the relationship between India and England. He is accompanied by Rashid Mustafa on tabla.”
