2008 in Review: Cultural Outings

[tamaranth]

Better late than never ...

By type (going by the tickets I have!)
♫ Classical Concerts: 11 (not including free lunchtime concerts at Kettle's Yard / ARU)
Θ Theatre: 8
♦ Film: 7
ℑ Exhibitions: 7
♪ Opera: 4
⊗ Gigs or similar: 4
SF Conventions: 3
Parks / Places: 3

List, with some linked reviews, below the cut: I let a lot -- especially some of the really good things -- fade to memory, unblogged. (Though not un-scribbled in notebook.) I'd like to post more reviews this year.
January:
Θ 11th -- Avenue Q -- Noel Coward Theatre, London
♫ 13th -- ??? -- Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, Dome, Brighton
ℑ 18th -- Seduced -- Barbican Gallery, London
♫ 31st -- Mussorgsky / Beethoven / Sibelius -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
February:
1st -- Maritime Museum, Greenwich
⊗ 17th -- Screaming Banshee Aircrew -- Bull and Gate, London
♫ 21st -- Beethoven -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
Θ 22nd -- Bacchae -- Royal Holloway, Epsom
23rd -- Picocon -- Imperial College, London
♦ 27th -- Sweeney Todd -- Odeon, Camden
♪ 28th -- Lucia di lammermoor (Donizetti) -- ENO, London
ℑ 29th -- Laughing in a Foreign Language -- Hayward Gallery, London
March:
21st - 24th -- Orbital (Eastercon) -- Heathrow
April:
ℑ 1st -- Russian Paintings (Royal Academy, London) and Philharmonia concert
Θ 5th -- Lysistrata -- The Hawth, Crawley
♫ 10th -- Strauss / Beethoven -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
12th -- Eden Project, Cornwall (More photos here and here).
♪ 13th -- Ainadamar (Golijov) -- Barbican, London
⊗ 16th -- Tiger Lillies, 7 Deadly Sins -- New Players Theatre, London
♫ 17th -- Mozart / Beethoven -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
♪ 19th -- Anna Bolena (Donizetti) -- English Touring Opera, The Hawth, Crawley
26th -- Museum of Garden History, London (photos here, here, here)
May:
♫ 22nd -- The Elements (Vaughan Williams) -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
♦ 24th -- Iron Man -- Odeon, Camden
June:
ℑ 11th -- Tim Walker: Photography -- Design Museum, London
♫ 11th -- Andreas Scholl & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, RFH, London
♦ 20th -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- Cineworld, ?Crawley
July:
♫ 8th -- Bach -- Greenwich Baroque, Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
⊗ 28th -- Rogues' Gallery -- Barbican, London
August:
ℑ 3rd -- Hadrian: Empire and Conflict -- British Museum, London
♦ 6th -- The Dark Knight -- Odeon, Tunbridge Wells
♦ 8th -- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor -- Cineworld, Crawley
ℑ 10th -- Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture -- Hayward Gallery, London (More photos: here and here)
Θ 14th -- Revenger's Tragedy -- Olivier Theatre, London
♦ 23rd -- Hellboy 2 -- Odeon, Camden
ℑ 25th -- Tutankhamun -- O2, London
September:
⊗ 12th -- Cherry Ghost / Manic Street Preachers -- RFH, London
♫ 28th -- Beethoven / Berlioz -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
October:
♫ 2nd -- Mozart, Brahms, Sibelius -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
♪ 8th -- The Barber of Seville (Rossini) -- ENO, London
11th - 12th -- Newcon, Northampton
Θ 25th -- Wyrd Sisters -- The Hawth, Crawley
⊗ 26th -- Mitch Benn and the Distractions -- The Hawth, Crawley
Θ 29th -- The Pillowman -- ADC, Cambridge
November:
♫ 8th -- Beethoven, Strauss, +1 -- West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
♦ 13th -- Quantum of Solace -- Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
ℑ 22nd -- Cildo Meireles -- Tate Modern, London
Θ 28th -- Theseus and the Minotaur: the Panto -- ADC / Footlights, Cambridge
♫ 30th -- Study afternoon on Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto -- RFH, London
♫ 30th -- Rachmaninoff / Tchaikovsky -- Philharmonia, RFH, London
December:
18th -- Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent
23rd -- Shepreth Wildlife Park, nr Cambridge

Comments

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Shepreth Wildlife Park is Culture, though I can't see the Beethoven and stuff at West Rd.

D'you want to add Gonzo (http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema_home_date.aspx?eventId=g443ou%40camb) to the 2009 list. It looks interesting and contains a homeopathic dose of Johnny Depp. (Now, what would that do if homeopathy works?)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Have no ticket for the West Rd concert so had omitted! Omission corrected ...

Yes, up for Gonzo! Any dose of Depp is a good dose!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's a lot of culture. Am now slightly awed...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Ah, but how much of it is still encapsulated in scribbled notes somewhere?
Coming soon: reading, 2008.