Top ten at the Southbank this week
Each week Annie from www.southbanklondon.com picks her top ten things to do on the Southbank.
1. Grotowski’s Last Performance. National Theatre. All Week. 9.30am – 11pm
Apocalypsis cum Figuris, in Photographs By Maurizio Buscarino. This free exhibition captures Grotowski’s last performance and his movement away from the theatre. Shot in 1979 in Milan, it is testament to an extraordinary feat of photography. 9.30am – 11pm Mon – Sat.
2. Shoot Nations 2009. gallery@oxo. Wed – Sun.
A free exhibition of the winners of a Global youth photography project with the theme ‘Growing Up in the 21st Century’.
3. Wendy Cop, Seamus Heaney and Guests. Southbank Centre. Tues.
For 80 years Faber and Faber have published poetry that has made history – Wendy Cope, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Daljit Nagra and Alice Oswald read from their works.
4. Rage. BFI Southbank. Fri- Sun
Sally Potter’s new film at BFI Southbank, offering a withering commentary on the worlds of fashion and the media.
5. Bonachela Dance Company. Southbank Centre. Fri-Sat
In a new dance collaboration with Italian composer Ezio Bosso, Rafael Bonachela delves into the world of signs and symbols that rule our everyday lives and spark our hidden memories.
6. The 4D Experience. London Eye. All Week.
A ticket for the London Eye now comes with the 4D experience, a mesmerizing film with wind, bubbles, snow and more!
7. Miss Julie. BFI Southbank. Sat. 4pm
Part of the Stage to Screen season, written in 1888, Strindberg’s study of class, sex and death was so radical that the work was not to be seen on the English stage until 1939.
8. Life Drawing Workshops. Topolski Century. Tues and Wed. 7-10pm
Life drawing workshops at Topolski Century are now twice weekly on Tuesday and Wednesday.
9. District 9. BFI IMAX. All Week.
Produced by Peter Jackson, see the new Alien flick on the biggest screen in the UK.
10. Leslie Caron in Conversation. BFI Southbank. Wed. 6.20pm
BFI welcomes the An American in Paris star to the stage to discuss her career.
For more details on any of the above visit www.southbanklondon.com
