LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 7-13 January 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. January 8th. Rational Rec. The Rational Review of 2007. Bethnal  
Green Working Men?s Club, London.

2. January 9th. LUX EVENT: A Night for the Themersons. British  
Library, London.

3. January 12th. Sarah Beddington. Bloomberg Space, London.





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1.
Tuesday 8th January, 8pm.
Rational Rec. The Rational Review of 2007
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
Doors open 8pm, first act 8.30pm £5 on the door. www.rationalrec.org.uk

This year, the Rational Review teams up with Alli Beddoes, curator of  
the Autonomous Series at Campbell Works earlier in 2007, to bring you  
Rational Review of 2007: YouTube.

Alli Beddoes and Cecilia Wee co-chair a panel: Giorgio Sadotti ?  
British artist; Lisa Le Feuvre ? writer and Curator of Contemporary  
Art at the National Maritime Museum, London; Russell Herron -  
artist/writer and ex-manager of ICA bookshop - chose their favourite,  
most compelling YouTube clips of 2007 and we invite you to do the same.

To take part in the debate, email your favourite You Tube clip from  
2007 to cecilia at rationalrec.org.uk by Monday 7th January 2008. Even if  
you?re unable to make it along on Tuesday 8th January, we?d still love  
to receive your nominations!

Felicity Mukherjee, independent PR consultant, creates a unique  
audience evaluation exercise ?Quantifying Rational Recreation?.  
Felicity has presented in various art contexts including [space]  
gallery, Artsadmin and Bonkersfest!

To complete the evening, John White, treasured UK experimental  
composer and performer, plays some new and recent works for piano and  
lo-fi electronics.




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2.
Thursday 9th January 6.30pm
LUX EVENT: A Night for the Themersons
The Conference Centre, The British Library,  London NW1 2DB
Tickets £6.00 (concessions £4)

An evening celebrating the lives and work of Franciszka and Stefan  
Themerson, and the Anglo-Polish publication of a DVD of their surviving
films (1937-1945), introduced by Nick Wadley.
featuring:

The Adventures of a Good Citizen. Warsaw, 1937
the only surviving film from their years in Poland.

Jasia Reichardt, Making ends meet in the 1930s
a talk about their films and books for children.

Calling Mr Smith, London, 1942-3
a  film exposing the destruction of Polish culture by the Nazis
made for the Polish government-in-exile

Klara Kopcinska, Always and never in exile
a view of the Themersons from Poland

The Eye and the Ear, London 1944-5
an experimental film sponsored by the Polish Film Unit in London

The Adventures of Peddy Bottom, Gaberbocchus Press, 1954
a story for children by Stefan Themerson, illustrated by Franciszka
  readings from the book by Jan Potworowski and Jill Fell

Victoria Szymanska, pilot for a documentary film.

Part of the Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant  
Garde 1900 ? 1937 exhibition and to mark the launch of the new LUX DVD  
- The Films of Stefan and Franciska Themerson.





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3.
Saturday 12th January
Sarah Beddington
BLOOMBERG SPACE 50 Finsbury Square, EC2A 1HD
Open Jan 12 - Feb 23, 2008. Tue-Sat 11-6
Free admission.

Places of Laughter and of Crying is a solo exhibition of new film and  
video works by Sarah Beddington. She constructs meticulously framed  
compositions that explore the relationship between movement and  
stillness, repetition and the single moment.