Alternative Stuff to do this Week in London

For our full months event recommendations see our London Events page and Regular Events page also – if we’re missing something (your own event or someone else’s) let us know!

As ever below the first run of events extracted and pasted from our London Events you’ll find the same for this week from our Regular Events page – special shout this week for a great line-up on Panel Borders – which covers those ongoing weekly and monthly happenings…

Enjoy and have a great week!

13th	Monday	TALK	Conway Hall Ethical Society & London Fortean Society presents LONDON STONE: MYSTERY AND MYTH… “John Clark, for many years curator of the medieval collections at the Museum of London and now ‘Curator Emeritus’, has long been interested in the interplay between history, archaeology and legend in the story of London, from the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth to the burial of Boadicea under King’s Cross station. In this talk he investigates the ‘real’ story of London Stone, in Cannon Street, and the way in which myths have developed around it in the last 150 years.” 7.30-9pm. Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, WC1R 4RL
15th	Wednesday	BOOKS	TOM LLOYD signs STRANGER OF TEMPEST at Forbidden Planet! 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR. 6 – 7pm.
*	*	GIG	WOLF PARADE @ SCALA! K-X-P supporting. Update: Sold Out. Need a bunch to go with? The London Indie Music Meet-up are heading along!	The Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, Kings Cross
17th	Friday	BOOKS	WOMEN IN FANTASY @Waterstones Piccadilly – featuring Ilka Tampe, Rebecca Levine and Zen Cho! This event is free but please contact the store on 02078512400 or piccadilly@waterstones.com to reserve your place. Waterstones, 203/206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD
*	*	THEATRE	SH*T-FACED SHAKESPEARE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE! 17th Jun – 10th Jul 2016 – “Shit-Faced Shakespeare by the legendary Magnificent Bastard Productions is the hilarious combination of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely shit-faced cast member. Side-splitting, raucous and completely interactive, the show has already entertained over 45,000 eager theatre goers across the UK and America. Having successfully completed multiple sell-out runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe festivals, Shit-Faced Shakespeare is headed to the the Southbank Centre with their final London performances of their adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.” Part of the Udderbelly Festival – Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
18th	Saturday	BOOKS	* CARABAS SPECIAL RECOMMEND * INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK! Throughout the country support your Independents, this week and every week! There’s special deals to be had during this week though so check them out. Also check out our YA / Kids Jan-Jun 2016 New Books page for our recommends with HIVE links to support your local independent!
*	*	COMICS	CECAF – Crouch End Comics Arts Festival – 2016! “The third Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF) will take place at the Earl Haig Hall, Crouch End, London on June 18th, 2016. The show will host the best and brightest cartoonists and independent publishers currently active in the UK comic scene.” Exhibitors include: Wallis Eates, Mike Medaglia, Rachael Ball, Avery Hill, Richy Chandler, Darrell Thorpe, Francesca Cassavetti, Roger Langridge, Douglas Noble, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Cliodhna Lyons, Zoom Rockman, Breakdown Press, Amber Hsu, Karen Rubins, Danny Noble, Matt Boyce, Paul Rainey, Craig Conlan, Claude TC, Sarah Gordon, Sally Anne Hickman, Oliver Lambden, Broken Frontier Six to watch, David Baillie, Limehouse press, Backward Burds, One Beat Zines
*	*	FILM	Only 9 days late for international BILL AND TED DAY, but the Prince Charles are showing BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE! The Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY

Tue, Wed	Panel Borders – Radio: Comics – Resonance FM – The UK’s weekly radio show on comics! 8pm, repeated 9am on Wednesday. This Week: Alex Fitch talks to Will Volley about his new Myriad graphic novel The Opportunity and adapting Romeo and Juliet, and An Inspector Calls for Classical Comics. Also Mike French and Karl Brown discuss their illustrated novel An Android Awakes which mixes short stories and comics to create a hybrid between text and sequential art. * Read more on The Opportunity on our March 2016 Book Recommends page *
Tue	Liars’ League – Storytelling… The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, W1G 0PP – Writers write stories, actors read them – you get to enjoy!
Wed	Capers! Gosh Superhero discussion – Social / Love of: Comics – GOSH COMICS, 1 Berwick St, Soho, W1F 0DR – Monthly meet-up to explore and celebrate the world of super-heroes. – This month: Chris Claremont’s Mutant Massacre/Fall Of The Mutants/Inferno!