| Monday 8 March to
Tuesday 13 April various venues, London including Riverside Studios, Hammersmith; Empire Cinema, Leicester Square; Barbican Centre; British Film Institute, Belvedere Road, Southbank; Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road. tickets: (see venue) Click on the Kinoteka calendar for more detailed information |
Kinoteka the 8th Polish Film Festiwal A showcase of contemporary film-making, illuminating documentaries, innovative shorts, animations, plus on-stage discussions with directors and actors. • The showings include the winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Polish Film Festival, Borys Lankosz’s Reverse, Michal Rosa’s Scratch, Jacek Boruch’s All That I Love, Bartek Konopka’s Oscar shortlisted Rabbit a la Berlin, Xawery Zulawski’s Snow White, Russian Red, Marcin Wrona’s My Flesh My Blood, Pawel Borowski’s Zero and Katarzyna Roslaniec’s tale of teens selling their bodies for material goods in Mall Girls. • A retrospective of Polish cinema’s famous director and actor Roman Polanski with early films featuring the music of jazz pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda whose music is most closely associated with Polanski’s Knife In The Water, Cul-de-sac, Rosemary’s Baby and Dance with the Vampires. |
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| Monday 22 March at
8.15 pm The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley tickets: 01293 553636 (Hawth box office) |
Koshka Conservatoire trained Russian fiddlers Oleg Pomonarev (formerly of Gypsy band Loyko) and Lev Atlas (principal viola with Scottish Opera) and gifted acoustic guitarist Nigel Clark met in Glasgow and honed their style playing at the city's intimate Russian Café Cossachok. From these roots they have developed a dazzling, enthralling sound, drawing on their love of gypsy, classical, folk, and hot-club. As a trio Koshka now stand at the cutting edge of gypsy string music, taking it to increasingly dizzy heights of invention and creativity. |
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| continuing till 5 April
2010 Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall Bankside, London SE1 9TG free entry, exhibition open from 10 am nearest station London Bridge (Thameslink), tube Southwark (Jubilee Line) or Mansion House (District and Circle Line – cross south by the Millennium Bridge)
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Miroslaw Balka Polish
artist Miroslaw Balka has been given in The Unilever Series commission for the Turbine
Hall from October to April next year. |
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| Monday 29 March at 8
pm Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, Holborn, London WC2A 2HT tickets: 0844 412 4300 (box office) or book on-line |
Ballet Russes – Encounters Continuing to celebrate the centenary of the Ballets Russes, this year Sadler's Wells and English National Ballet have come together to present a unique opportunity to see an evening of dance performed by both professional companies and community groups. The programme includes English National Ballet's Faun(e), by David Dawson, featured in the 2009 Ballets Russes season. The evening will also include associate artist Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight which was applauded by critics and audiences alike when it premiered at Sadler's Wells as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev in 2009. |
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