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Sunday 1 January 2012 - Monday 31 December 2012
A Room for London is a major new collaboration between Artangel and Living Architecture, in association with Southbank Centre.
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Hayward Gallery Concrete
Wednesday 28 March 2012 - Sunday 3 June 2012
See a free exhibition by Nicki Rolls, an artist who is interested in how film and video can convey an experience of a particular moment in time.
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The Front Room at QEH
Sounds From A Room: Amadou & Mariam
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Having performed together for over 30 years, the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam play a one-off gig in A Room for London.
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The Clore Ballroom
Friday 25 May 2012
Come along for an evening of new games, each one created by artists and designers working with Southbank artists-in-residence Hide&Seek.
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Hayward Gallery
'Barnacled Beasts' Children's Workshop
Saturday 26 May 2012 - Saturday 26 May 2012
Zombie Collective help you create your own creature of the deep, from Kraken to Sea Sirens.
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Royal Festival Hall
The Arqiva British Academy Television Awards
Sunday 27 May 2012
Mingle with the stars on the red carpet at the most prestigious night in the television calendar - the live and exclusive British Academy Television Award hosted by Dara O'Briain.
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Hayward Gallery
'Make Your Own Mini Armada' Children's Workshop
Saturday 2 June 2012 - Saturday 2 June 2012
Zombie Collective are building miniature wooden boats which they would like you to come and decorate with your very own colourful crests, superb sails and fabulous flags to build your very own mini fleet.
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The Clore Ballroom
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Join artist Laura X Carle and contribute to a huge corgi sculpture on The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall as we celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Monday 11 June 2012 - Tuesday 12 June 2012
Lucy + Jorge Orta lead a two-day workshop on Cloud Architecture.
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Hayward Project Space Back
Monday 11 June 2012 - Tuesday 12 June 2012
Aleksandra Mir presents a 45-minute lecture on two people with an unlikely but beautiful connection - the legendary rock star Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991) and Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka (b 1928).
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Hayward 5 Sculpture Court
Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics
Monday 11 June 2012 - Sunday 17 June 2012
Fritz Haeg will organise and lead a drop-in centre for classes, demonstrations, seminars, talks, and workshops related to GLBT homemaking, inspired by the program of 'home economics' developed in the 19th century to educate young women in domestic duties.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Monday 11 June 2012
Meschac Gaba's work explores the cultural and economic repercussions of colonialism in current exchanges between Africa and the West.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Monday 11 June 2012 - Wednesday 13 June 2012
Using food as a medium for trust and intimacy among strangers, each of these three evening events features a meal cooked by Lee Mingwei for five participants and himself.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Just what is it that makes today's public spaces so different, so appealing...
Monday 11 June 2012
In this talk, artist Bob and Roberta Smith joins journalist Anna Minton to discuss the importance of public space both physically and intellectually.
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Hayward Gallery
Tuesday 12 June 2012 - Sunday 5 August 2012
Invisible Art brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden.
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Purcell Room
Still Being: a conversation about time in art
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Celebrated artist Antony Gormley talks with critic and writer Michael Newman, Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Theoretical and practical explorations of space
Tuesday 12 June 2012 - Thursday 14 June 2012
In these one-day intensive courses, you can explore the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space?
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Choreographies: reception and production of the visual
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Using some of his choreographies as study cases, French dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy addresses notions of spectatorship, and the reception and production of the visual within contemporary choreography.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) lead a three-day course of conversations and considerations on time and timeliness.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) present two related lectures on the subject of time: 'On the Qualities of Time' and 'Two or Three Things We Know About the Future'.
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