Vout -O-Reenees is a wonderful member’s club, in the tradition and style of an old fashioned Soho drinking den. Hosted by founder Sophie Parkin, Dalston Ballet has been employed as its resident performance art company.
If you cant make that then: Sataurday 25th of May, Dalston Ballet will be performing at Rio Cinema as part of ‘At home with the Ludskis.’ Tickets and more info >
Our latest in the Tarot Series: Thanks to Winnie the Pouf, Rckay Rax, Belle, Matthew, Geraldine, Jasmin, Gar O’Dwyer and Richard T.
Pimlico Tarot… A Cabinet of all the talents: artists, performers dancers, musicians, writers… Come join us in the masquerade > http://www.houseofodwyer.com
rock paintings tradition begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India, which presently as a collection is the densest known concentration of rock art. In an area about 10 km2, there are about 800 rock shelters of which 500 contain paintings. They also depict earlist evidence of dance.
28,000–24,000 years ago:
oldest known pottery—used to make figurines rather than cooking or storage vessels (Venus of Dolní Věstonice).
11,000 years ago:
Earliest date recorded for construction of temenoi ceremonial structures at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, as possibly the oldest surviving proto-religious site on Earth.
8,000–5,000 years ago:
development of proto-writing in China, Southeast Europe (Vinca symbols) and West Asia. The earliest form of writing on our planet, called proto-cuneiform, was invented in Mesopotamia during the Late Uruk period, about 5200 [?] Proto-cuneiform consisted of pictographs–simple drawings of the subjects of the documents–and early symbols representing those ideas, drawn or pressed into puffy clay tablets, which were then fired in a hearth or baked in the sun.
A thrilling portrait of the wild freedoms enjoyed at the court of Charles II, focusing on the most notorious man of the age, the scandalous Earl of Rochester. Blazing Star is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.