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The Diary: 23rd - 29th January 2012

To help celebrate the end of what always feels like the longest month of the year, here’s your rundown of things to do.

Posted 23rd January 2012, 10:00am in Extra by Amy Rich
The Diary: 23rd - 29th January 2012 January feel like it’s dragging on forever? We share your pain. So to help celebrate the end of what always feels like the longest month of the year, here’s your rundown of things to do. Bored? Us? Never.

Monday 23rd JanuaryI Love Mondays, Moonlighting, 17 Greek Street, London W1D 4DR. Kick off the week with a hangover the next day (drinks are £1.50 so it’s highly likely), and get your fill of 90’s Britpop, indie and retro tunes from 10pm – 3.30am. Don’t worry, we’ve already put in a request for Pulp. Entry is £5 or £1 with an NUS card. 

Tuesday 24th JanuaryDamien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JD. Free. If you even feel a slight twinge of a headache coming on, don’t go and see this truly dotty collection of over 300 of Hirst’s spot paintings. You have been warned! 

Wednesday 25th JanuaryBurns Night Celebrations, in Edinburgh. Bored of the usual haggis and tatties to honour Scotland’s favourite poet? Don’t blame ya. So opt, instead, for a cupcake tribute to the man himself courtesy of Cuckoo’s Bakery, 150 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5DQ. The Burns cupcake features vanilla sponge filled with whisky custard and crowned with whisky buttercream. You’d better like whisky. 

Thursday 26th JanuaryTwo by Jim Cartwright at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Tickets from £12.50. Get to know the locals as you earwig on juicy conversations in this play set in a northern pub. Every Thursday after the performance, there’ll be pub quizzes, live music, or comedy. 

Friday 27th JanuaryTales of the Unexpected at Proud Camden from 7.30pm – 2.30am. Advance tickets / with flyer £5 or £10 without. A night like no other – expect fortune tellers, gothic clowns, magicians, and burlesque performances. Better than your average night out on the cider. 

Saturday 28th JanuaryJudy’s Affordable Vintage Fair rolls in to town at the Trinity Theatre, Norwich. Expect a stash of stalls selling vintage, re-worked and handmade goodies at purse-friendly prices. Get rummaging. 

Sunday 29th JanuaryPractical Intro to Film-Making at the Brighton Media Centre Film Studio, 10-5pm, 15-17 Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL. Full price £100, student and Talent Circle members £85. Fancy yourself as the next Shane Meadows? Do something about it on this course that includes tuition on screenwriting, storyboarding, and shooting plus much more to boot. You’ll hit the ground running. 

Image courtesy of Miss Karen over at Flickr.

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