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DANNY ROBINS' EVENTS GUIDE: 21ST OCTOBER 2010
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|11:57 UK time, Thursday, 21 October 2010
Close Encounters at the Royal Albert Hall 25th - 31st Oct
Do you believe in UFOs? Have you ever met one? Are you one? If you can answer yes to any of these questions then you should definitely check out Close Encounters at the Royal Albert Hall next week.
It's a week of events about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. There are talks from Ufology experts and scientists - including a talk about some of the UFO files released by the government. There are screenings of UFO-related films ET, Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Barbarella. There's stuff for kids, like the chance to create your own moon crater, and there will be a crashed UFO spacecraft on the steps of the Royal Albert Hall (courtesy of Royal College of Art students).
Appropriately for The Royal Albert Hall, there's also space-themed music and there's an exhibition of photographs of planets and the solar system. There's even alien-themed food and drink.
The talks sound the most interesting thing to me but the whole thing should be quite fun. Hopefully it'll draw its fair share of crazed UFO-enthusiasts and people in costume.
Something for people who are a bit arty now. October is Big Draw Month organised by the Campaign For Drawing. There are loads of events across the country aimed at getting people drawing, sketching and doodling.
In Newcastle a group of artists called Set of Drawers - get it? - are doing an exhibition at Northern Stage theatre based around the theme of 'Northernness' which kicks off on Fri 22nd. On Sat 30th they've got a 'Drink and Draw' event where you are encouraged to mix alcohol, pencils and paper.
On Saturday 23rd in Bradford at Bradford 1 Gallery , they're doing a thing where you can spray on a virtual graffiti wall and then see your work go live on a big screen.
In Kirkcaldy in Scotland on the 30th, at the Kingdom of Adventure games and comic book shop, they're doing communal comic creating - everyone draws a page of a comic and then passes it their left for the next person to continue.
In London, there's two days of events this weekend (Fri 22nd - Sat 23rd) between London Bridge and Tower Bridge in the form of the Big Draw Festival, including 'walk and draw' tours around some famous and interesting sites, a battle of newspaper cartoonists to see who can draw the funniest banner and loads of other stuff where you can get involved and draw either on your own or in groups.
How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
Now, surely all of us have at some point asked ourselves would we survive in the event of a zombie apocalypse? Thankfully, at last, someone is here to provide us with the basic survival knowledge we almost certainly lack.
You may possibly have spotted a book in bookshops recently called Dr Dale's Zombie Dictionary - The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive. Now the author of the book, a certain Dr Dale Seslick - a 'zombology expert' who may be a fictional character himself - has taken the book on tour. The show, How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse, takes the form of a seminar, teaching it's audience how to survive in the unfortunate event that their town is attacked by a plague of the undead - including such tips as effective weapon usage, the safest places to go, the secrets of repopulation and, perhaps most importantly, interpretive dance and the undead. All of the information they pass on has apparently been drawn from extensive research on Wikipedia and from Zombie films.
The seminar finishes with a simulation of a zombie attack to see how well you've learnt.
The show is largely improvised depending on the 'zombie education needs' of its audience and was at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009 and this summer in a 'Reloaded' version, where it got some good reviews. The tour takes in various UK dates this month. They're in Nelson tonight (21st), Letchworth on the 22nd, the Riverside in London on 23rd, Manchester on 26th and Chorley on 28th. A good warm up for Halloween perhaps?
There are also some more dates in November. Take a look at their website for details.
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