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Adult Learners' Week 2013

Step up and change your life with Second Chance Plus

Tuesday 21 May, 2.30 – 4.00pm

Presentation & Information session

Thinking about taking a step up in your life? Second Chance PLUS can help you source practical, affordable, industry focused HND (Higher National Diploma) courses. Courses are open to everyone and include Business Management, Fashion & Textiles, Hospitality, Health and Social Care, Interactive Media, Photography and more, all geared to the needs of top employers.

Come along to this event to find out how Second Chance PLUS can help you achieve your success.

Admission Free. Opportunity for Networking. To book a place, email: bip@westminster.gov.uk or telephone 020 7641 5250.

 

BIP Event:

Leadership in Business, How to improve to increase profits

Workshop with Iayn G. Clark, Director at International Strategic Management

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 6.00 to 8.00pm

This seminar will focus on leadership skills in determining a company’s success.  It will include practical exercises to help you to become better leader in business and increase profits.

You do not have to be a CEO or Managing Director of a business to get benefit from this evening’s event. If you

• Know the business or organisation you are in could do better
• Have tried many different strategies but to no avail
• Feel frustrated with the lack of results
• Wish to be more successful but never seem to succeed

then this evening’s event is for you.

 Admission Free. Opportunity for Networking

Book via Eventbrite or telephone 020 7641 5250 / email: bip@westminster.gov.uk

BIP Enterprise Club

with Guest Speaker Justine Fisher, Owner and Creative Director of Madfishmedia

Thursday 23 May 2013, 5.00 to 7.00pm

In partnership with Portobello Business Centre, Westminster Libraries’ Business Information Points are delighted to host the monthly meeting of the BIP Enterprise Club.

Madfishmedia is a consultancy offering high quality, sensible budget video production to SMEs and entrepreneurs who understand the importance of video as a marketing tool. Also specialising in Social Media PR strategy and training, MFM works with clients to build their USP and niche in an increasingly competitive market place.

Come along to make new contacts, share experience and get expert advice!

Admission Free. Opportunity for Networking

Book via Eventbrite or telephone 020 7641 5250 / email: bip@westminster.gov.uk

Book Launch:

Sammie Miller, by Sonya Dunkley

Saturday 25 May, 7.00 - 10.00pm

Plus Special guest acoustic performance by Mikel Ameen

To RSVP send names to: africadf@aol.com

RealDeal Theatre Returns With Popcorn Saturday!

Entry dates: 20 to 26 May 2013

Performance: 29 June 2013

Yes, we’re looking for scripts again – this time five 10 to 15 minute plays inspired by the movies! From Bollywood to Hollywood, UFA to Elstree, silent film to stereoscopic, anything goes, as long as it is related to cinema! 

RealDeal Theatre will choose the scripts and give each script to a professional director. Script-in-hand semi-staged performances will take place on the evening of Saturday 29 June 2013 at Westminster Reference Library in the heart of London’s West End.

If you want to submit a script for Popcorn Saturday and for further information please email scripts@realdealtheatre.org.uk. NB Scripts will not be accepted outside official entry dates – 20th May to 26th May 2013.

YNR Productions present...

Telemachus 'In The Evening' Album Launch Party

Wednesday 29 May, doors open 7.00pm

FREE

Telemachus with guests Mr Thing, Jehst, Jareth, El Crisis * more... An evening of eclectic electronic and acoustic music to celebrate the release of Telemachus's highly anticipated debut album.

"A masterfully soothing, analgesic beat odyssey." **** Mojo

"The one to buy!" **** Q

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Telemachus showcases tracks from the album with a host of special guest vocalists and musicians, each one a legend in their own right and master of their chosen craft. A truly one-off live performance combining electronic and acoustic elements for a unique interpretation of this epic debut longplayer.

 

Salon No. 5: (M)apping London

Thursday 30 May, 6:30pm

Maps and history may be the means by which we make best sense of and navigate the city but aren't both part fact and part fable?

London's long life has often been mapped, and, more recently 'apped' but even the most geographically accurate of these representations are only a snapshot of a particular time or a particular viewpoint.

Salon No 5: (M)apping London brings together two London writers, Rachel Litchenstein and Matt Brown, to present their own unique picture-memory-stories of the capital.

Matt Brown is the editor of The Londonist, London's pre-eminent city guide. An obsessive historian and archivist of the culture of the capital, he has written over 5,000 articles about all aspects of London life.

Rachel Litchenstein is a writer, artist, archivist and historian. Her first book, "Rodinsky’s Room", co-written with Iain Sinclair, began as a personal quest and evolved into a compelling psycho-geographical adventure. "Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden" is the second in a trilogy of non-fiction works exploring different London streets.

A soundtrack for the city will be provided by The Clerkenwell Kid.

Admission:

£4/6 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222239

£8 on the door (please note: previous Salons have sold out in advance)

The Museum of Soho, in association with Westminster Reference Library, presents:

Remembering Revudeville at The Windmill Theatre

6 June 2013, 7.00pm

An illustrated talk by Maurice Poole, with special guest Jill Millard Shapiro, a former windmill Girl.

FREE but space limited - to book a place please email ASAP: referencelibrarywc2@westminster.gov.uk

 

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