The holidays are near and the first week of December 2011 features big 'family style' group shows and events.  RCA students open their studios to the public and there are screenings or performances every day this week. Don't miss Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova - presenting a series of screenings and workshops with artists and activists, Saturday, December 3, through Sunday, December 11. Have a great week!

Tuesday:
+ Screening: "Premiere of Jordan Baseman’s film Green Lady and the launch of the publication 1973" at Matt's Gallery

Thursday:
+ Screening: "OFFSITE SCREENING: Joaquim Jordà's Numax Presenta…(1980, 105 min)" at Gasworks
+ Performance: Alexandra Bachzetsis "A Piece Danced Alone" at Chisenhale

Friday:
+ Screening: "Wilhelm Sasnal Shorts" The screening will be introduced by Assistant Curator Emily Butler. at Whitechapel Gallery

Saturday:
+ Screening: "Bodies Assembling" Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists. at Auto Italia

Sunday:
+ Screening: "Bodies Assembling" at Auto Italia

Tuesday:
+ Conference: "Seminar Series: Art Writing is an Anthology of Examples" at Whitechapel Gallery

Tuesday, November 29

Screening: "Architecture on Film: Mur Murs / Get Out of the Car" at Barbican Art Gallery
City: Silk Street, Standard: £8.50 online (£10.50 otherwise), AF Members: £7.50 online (£8.50 otherwise), Concessions: £7.50, 7pm

+ Screening: "Premiere of Jordan Baseman’s film Green Lady and the launch of the publication 1973" at Matt's Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 42-44 Copperfield Road, Genesis Cinema, 93, 7-9pm

Preview: Catarina Cipriano, Dione Roach, Elevine Lillebuen, Enrica Casentini, Italia Rossi, Maxim Dewald, sound-scapes by Petra Lundawerk "The Printers Paradise" curated by Sonora Group, at Ground Floor Left
Hackney: Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, 6-11pm

Preview: PIPPA CONNOLLY and NINNA BOHN PEDERSEN at SSE Space
Camden: 40, 34 Store Street, 6-9pm

Wednesday, November 30

Performance: "Clare Gasson: Living with Make: Art in the Archive" at South London Gallery
Southwark: 65 Peckham Road, £5/£3 conc, 7pm

Thursday, December 1

Preview: Anais Tondeur, Andrew Krasnow, Charlie Franklin, Darragh O’Callaghan, David Marron, Jacek Wankowski, Katharine Dowson, Luke Jerram, Michal Macku, Rachel Gadsden, Shelley James, Susan Aldworth, Suzanne Anker, William Utermohlen "Trauma" at GV Art
Westminster: 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, 6-9pm

Open Studio: "RCA Student Work-in-Progress Show" at Royal College of Art
Kensington and Chelsea: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, 10am-5.30pm

+ Screening: "OFFSITE SCREENING: Joaquim Jordà's Numax Presenta…(1980, 105 min)" at Gasworks
Lambeth: 155 Vauxhall Street, At Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, 6-9pm

Performance: "mapping the global future" at Peckham Space (University of the Arts)
Southwark: 89 89 Peckham High Street , free, 5-7pm

Book launch: "12 Prints Exhibition / Reinventing Screenprinting Book Launch" at Print Club London
Tower Hamlets: 241 Brick Lane, rsvp@printclublondon.com, 6:30-9:30pm

+ Performance: Alexandra Bachzetsis "A Piece Danced Alone" at Chisenhale
Tower Hamlets: 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, Tickets are £5 (£4 students) and are available in advance from wegottickets.com, 7:30pm

Closing reception: "20//20 @ BGWMC Closing Night Party" curated by 20//20 at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
Tower Hamlets: 42-44 POLLARD ROW, Pay what you can!, 6pm - 1am

Lecture: "Achim Borchardt-Hume on Wilhelm Sasnal" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Advanced Bookings are now closed; a limited number of tickets will be available on the doors up to 30 minutes in advance. If you are a BSL user please email bsl@whitechapelgallery.org., 7pm

Preview: Simon Mathers "The Patterns Of Fur And Themes of Still and Running Water" at MOT International
Hackney: 8 Andrews Road, Unit 54, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Karim Noureldin "RSIM" curated by Olga Ovenden, Pierre d’Alancaisez at Waterside Contemporary
Hackney: 2 Clunbury St, Free, 7-9pm

Preview: Hannah Devereux, James Seow., Jonathan Montague, Sam Llewellyn- Jones, Sean Michael Pearce "De/fault Space, Volume II" curated by Lucy Armah, Tarini Malik, and Emmeline Rodman at Ground Floor Left
Hackney: Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, 7-late

Preview: Lucy May "PP3: Three Hundred Pounds of Heavenly Joy" at WW Gallery
Hackney: 30 Queensdown Road, Free Mulled Wine & Lollipops for early birds! (6 - 7.30pm at 30 Queensdown Road; 7.30 – 9pm at Three Sisters Pub), 6-9pm

Friday, December 2

Preview: Julien Ottavi + Jenny Pickett "Dislocated Flesh" at Tenderpixel
Westminster: 10 Cecil Court, 6-8pm

+ Screening: "Wilhelm Sasnal Shorts" The screening will be introduced by Assistant Curator Emily Butler. at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 1pm

Saturday, December 3

Book launch: Andro Semeiko "Lily of Blythenhale" at Acme Studios
Tower Hamlets: 44 Bonner Rd, 3-5pm

Screening: Benedict Drew, Beth Collar, Chooc Ly Tan, Rebecca Lennon, Rob Lye at SSE Space
Camden: 40, 34 Store Street, 7:30pm

+ Screening: "Bodies Assembling" Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists. at Auto Italia
Lewisham: 434-452 Old Kent Road, 7pm

Preview: Ally Clarke, Caroline Richardson, Christopher Clack, Colin Burns, Harvey Bradley, Henry Shelton, Janet Roberts, Jonathan Evens, Joy Rousell Stone, Mark Lewis, Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska, Peter Webb, Valerie Dean at Tokarska Gallery
Waltham Forest: 163 Forest Rd, 6-9pm

Sunday, December 4

Tour: "Take Us to Your Mural: Mychael Barratt on Mile End Road Mural" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 3pm

Screening: "A Banquet For Diggers" Paella banquet and screening of Hector Castells Matutano's film, Diggers at SSE Space
Camden: 40, 34 Store Street, 7:30pm

+ Screening: "Bodies Assembling" at Auto Italia
Lewisham: 434-452 Old Kent Road, 4pm, 7pm

Tuesday, December 6

+ Conference: "Seminar Series: Art Writing is an Anthology of Examples" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, £10/£8 conc. Tickets by application (see below for details)., 11am

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