Unearth Travel Blog

Turner Prize - A Retrospective 1984-2006
Tate Britain, 2 October – 6 January, £11 (Late at Tate - Friday - £5.50)

The Turner Prize is responsible for bringing contemporary British Art into the limelight and transforming unfamiliar artists into established names. This is a definitive Turner Prize exhibition, featuring works by all the winning artists since it began in 1984. Key works include Gilbert & George’s ‘Drunk with God’, Antony Gormley’s ‘Testing a World View’ and Damien Hirst’s ‘Mother and Child Divided’. However, probably the most notorious entry ever is missing – Tracy Emin’s ‘Bed’ as it didn’t win. Turner Prize – A Retrospective, is the highlight of this autumn’s art Scene and should not be missed.

Macbeth
Gielgud Theatre, Ends 1st December, From £36

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest and fear-filled tragedies, an anatomy of the relationship between ambition and corruption. This production brings back together esteemed director Rupert Goold with Patrick Stewart after their highly acclaimed RSC production of The Tempest. The reviews have been fantastic, even claiming that this is the ‘Greatest Performance’ of Patrick Stewart’s career.

A Sporting Weekend

This weekend is a sporting dream. Amazing!

• Australia vs England - Rugby World Cup Quarter Final – Saturday 14:00
• Amir Khan vs Scott Lawton – Commonwealth Lightweight Title – Saturday 22:00
• Chinese Grand Prix – Will Lewis Hamilton become World Champion? – Sunday 11:30

Later with Jools Holland
BBC Television Studio, October - December, Free

Later with Jools Holland is one of the BBC’s most popular television programmes and hardest to get tickets for. To get hold of tickets you need to apply by phone - 0870 9011227 – before 5pm on 4th October and decide which date (23 October, 06 November, 20 November, 27 November, 4 December) you would like to enter into the lottery for.

Film Night: The Lost World (1925)
Grant Museum of Zoology, 11 October, 6pm, Free (+ Glass of Wine)

“A must-see event for dino-fans and cinema-buffs alike. The original monster movie, this 1925 classic was the forerunner of King Kong and Jurassic Park. At the time, it was one of the most expensive films ever made and took six times longer to produce than any other. Audiences were stunned by the pioneering special-effects that brought to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of dinosaurs surviving in the Amazon. Nearly all copies of this silent film were destroyed when “talkies” came along, but recently a copy was found in Prague and was used to reinstate this masterpiece to its former glory.”

if.comedy Awards
Garrick Theatre, Sundays in October, £10-20

The if.comedy award’s panel has scoured the Edinburgh Festival and chosen the cream of the crop for the Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards Season 2007. Including the 2007 Award winner, the hilarious goat-kissing Brendon Burns alongside his fellow nominees Andrew Lawrence, Andrew Maxwell, Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio Roadshow and Pappy’s Fun Club as well as the budding Best Newcomer Award winner, Tom Basden. Top class comedy!

National Brass Band Championships
Roayl Albert Hall, 20 October, 10:00am, £12-35

Get ‘In the Mood’ to watch bands from around the country compete in the Royal Albert Hall to become the National Brass Band Champions.

Weapons of Mass Communication: War Posters
Imperial War Museum, 4 October – 30 March 2008, Free

The exhibition explores the influence of advertising and publicity on government propaganda and policy from the First Wold War to the Iraq War Demonstrations.
The exhibition takes us through history from the iconic First World War recruitment poster to the Cold war anti-era: Vietnam, Nuclear Weapons and War. Along the way we are shown how the Second World War values, ideologies and visions of society including the ethnically pure new order of Germany and the visions of past, present and future British morality were conveyed through propaganda.

‘Popular Painting’ from Kinshasa
Tate Modern, 24 March 2007 – 1 March 2008

A small exhibition featuring just eight paintings by a group of five artists collectively known as the ‘School of Popular Painting’ from Kinshassa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The artists depict themes and images that derive from popular culture and everyday life, engaging with the social and political situation in their local communities such as international aid, conflict, sexuality and cultural tourism.

Origin: The London Craft Fair
Somerset House, 2-14 October, £7

Origin brings together over 300 of the most innovative and influential international designer-makers. It is a rare opportunity to meet the makers, buy their work or commission a one-off piece of contemporary craft.