London & further afield | Iris Apfel, Folkestone Sandcastle Competition, Zanele Muholi
V&A Dinner and a Movie night, Folkestone Sandcastle competition, new art exhibitions
Fun things to do in London and Kent.
In London, V&A’s latest Dinner and a Movie session is inspired by their new exhibition NAOMI: In Fashion, and features the 2014 documentary Iris, about the late ridiculously stylish older woman, Iris Apfel. The evening includes a Q&A with ‘England’s most eccentric dresser’ Daniel Lismore on Iris’ legacy, and a three-course New York-themed dinner. On Sunday, June 23, tickets £68, 4.30pm to 9.45pm.
Folkestone Sandcastle Competition comes around again Sunday, July 14, for the 18th time. Entry is £10 per team, with money going to The Church Street Project - a creative counselling service for Folkestone kids. The day starts at 10am and there will be prizes and raffles. It’s some time away, but like any serious competition, you’ll need to train for it, as the creations are impressive.
Folkestone Live, the town’s inaugural Festival of theatre and comedy pops up Friday-Sunday July 12-14 at The Grand Burstin Hotel, and the Quarterhouse theatre. The festival sees around 27 stand-up, sketch, dance and family shows, among other genres, take over the venues across the weekend. Tickets start from £5.
Tate Britain's Now You See Us features more than 100 women artists from 1520 to 1920, who defied social expectations of the time to work as professional artists. Features the likes of Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffman, Julia Margaret Cameron and Gwen John, as well as artists only being rediscovered now. Starts May 29, running to October 13. Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG. Tickets £20.
Also in London, at Tate Modern, visual activist Zanele Muholi goes on exhibition from June 6. Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that told the stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa, and the exhibition features more than 300 of their snaps. Tickets £18.
