By Charlotte Cox
Arty parties, multimedia festivals and edible painting pop-ups – this weekend, groove is in the art. Plus, check out London Fashion Weekend for 20% less with ELLE
NIGHTLIFE: Warehouse Project Opening Weekend
If you like your basslines big, your nights long and your DJs world-famous, then trust us: you’re going to like your Projects in a Warehouse. The cavernous Store Street warehouse in Manchester, to be specific. Because once again it’s home to this series of huge club nights from Friday right up until the New Year, welcoming the likes of Jamie XX, Skrillex, Annie Mac, Mark Ronson and (whisper it) New Order along the way. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: this weekend’s openers feature Groove Armada, MK and the mighty Seth Troxler behind the decks. Welcome back, WHP, we missed you.
25 Sept-1 Jan; from £25 Store St, Manchester M1 2GH thewarehouseproject.com
ART: Pancakes & Booze Art Show Never has a title given away what to expect from an event so entirely. There'll be pancakes – unlimited, all-you-can-eat ones at that. There'll be booze – in the form of beer, and more beer. And, most importantly, there'll be art – 50 emerging artists coming together for a massive east London warehouse exhibition/party featuring multimedia displays and live music. Although they had us at ‘unlimited pancakes’, to be fair.
24 Sept; £5 E1 Studio Spaces, Shoreditch, E1W 2BB pancakesandbooze.com
SHOPPING: London Fashion Weekend
London Fashion Week may be over but despair not! Because there are yet more super-stylish goings on at this, fashion’s biggest and best pop-up. Taking over the Saatchi Gallery this weekend, you’ll find shopping at exclusive prices from over 150 brands, as well as catwalk shows from LFW favourites Peter Pilotto, Issa and Henry Holland. What’s that? STILL want more? How about presentations and panel discussions with Natalie Massenet, Mary Katrantzou, David Downton, Bella Freud and Anya Hindmarch? Plus, ELLE Insiders receive a free glass of Scavi & Ray prosecco at the bar. Yep, thought that’d do it.
24-27 Sept; from £20 – to get 20% off, quote ‘ELLE’ at the checkout Saatchi Gallery, King’s Road, London SW3 londonfashionweekend.co.uk
EVENT: Art Social at the House of St Barnabas
If we told you that we’d just seen a four-metre-high inflatable teapot in Soho Square on our way to The Flower Appreciation Society, you might well wonder if we’d been smoking something floral while we were at it. But no, it all actually exists! And it’s just part of a week-long festival of performance and art thrown by homeless charity and members’ club House of St Barnabas. Other weird and wonderful highlights include edible and wearable art from artist Merike Etsna, a Tie Dye High Five workshop and an alternative silent disco in a hidden garden. Obviously.
Until 27 Sept; £10-15 1 Greek St, London W1D 4NQ, hosb.org.uk
FOOD: Egg Break
Please note that we are setting out to write this preview of new egg-themed Notting Hill restaurant Egg Break without the use of egg puns. Which is hard, when Soho House and Ennismore have teamed up to hatch (ooh, almost) an EXcellent farmhouse kitchen-style joint serving up EXceptional eggs Benedict and Florentine, filled brioche buns, small plates and salads. They’re also pros at surely the most EXacting egg of all: the ‘63 degrees’, poached to perfection in a warm water bath. All this, plus smoothies, shakes, cocktails… we just can’t get an oeuf. (What can we say? We cracked.)
Now open 30 Uxbridge Street, Notting Hill W8 7TA, eggbreak.com
FOOD: Eat Your Art
It's not unusual to hear food described as a work of art (well, unless you come for dinner at our house) but at this pop-up supper club, we mean it quite literally – as you'll be able to daub your three courses with edible paint to create your own munch-able masterpieces. FUN! It's all put on by hip foodie pop-up experts Christabel's, which means: 1. Your 'canvas' will taste great and 2. Your mum was wrong – it IS the done thing to play with your food.
30 Sept; £30, BYOB Secret N1 location, christabels.org
FILM: Life
When a film is based on the taking of THE iconic photographs of a young James Dean (you know the ones - slouching coolly around New York, leather jacket, cigarette in mouth), then you know it's going to look damn good. Doubly so when you find out it stars Dane DeHaan as the pre-stardom Dean, and Robert Pattinson as the Life magazine photographer with whom he comes to form a pivotal relationship. It's understated with a moody, too-cool-for-school air – just like James Dean himself.
Out 25 Sept; cinemas nationwide
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