CULTURE CALENDAR

Avatar: The Way of Water

14 December, various locations

It’s been 13 years since James Cameron’s “Avatar” revolutionised the film landscape and topped the history-making box office charts. Now, the long-awaited sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” is finally about to flow into theatres on 14 December. The sequel tells the story of the Sully family — Jake, Neytiri, and their children — as

their land becomes torn apart. Per an official synopsis, the Sully family endures danger, battles to death, and tragedy throughout the film. The couple is displaced from their homes and flees to Metkayina’s Waterworld, which disrupts tribal politics. Cameron directs the feature and produces alongside Jon Landau. Original stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana reprise their respective roles as Jake and Neytiri, with Sigourney Weaver also returning.

Daniel Sloss: CAN’T

13 December – mts Hall

CAN’T is the all-new, 12th solo show by Scotland’s international comedy superstar. Daniel’s previous ground-breaking, global smash-hits include ‘HUBRiS’ (the world’s biggest solo comedy touring show for most of 2021 as reported in Pollstar) and ‘X’ (his acclaimed tour de force about sexual assault. It toured non-stop for 300 performances over 17 months around the globe, all throughout Europe, the UK, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan and even packing a Moscow arena (becoming Russia’s biggest-ever English language comedy show and creating a sensation with a joke about the importance of sex education – not a taboo subject in Putin’s Russia – an illegal one.). The film ‘X’ is on HBO in USA and Canada and is the first UK comedy special with a UK premiere in cinemas, with its nationwide release at Vue.

LAIBACH

20 December – mts Hall

One of the most provocative and popular groups from the area of the former Yugoslavia, well known to everyone, the cult Slovenian band Lisnnh will perform again in front of the Belgrade audience, after exactly three years at the same place in mts Hall. The band will hold a concert as part of the Love Is Still Alive tour, where it presents the project

of the same name, which will be available soon on vinyl and CD. The group will present selected tracks from their recently released albums, including some older songs from their upcoming projects and a set of Laibach classics, spanning from the early 80s to the present day.

Corbusier Le Grand Midi

Cohen and Benton 5183 rsd

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects. Decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.

Conversations With Friends

Sally Rooney 1336 rsd

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix

Mick Wall 1943 rsd

Famous for playing the guitar with his teeth and lighting his instrument on fire, Hendrix’s innovative and experimental sound won over UK rock royalty and legions of US fans. But there was a dark side to Hendrix, he would become angry and violent after days of mixing alcohol and illicit drugs. Tragically in 1970, he was found dead in a London flat. The real reason behind his death is still disputed. Hendrix managed to change music forever in just four years. With access to key members of Jimi’s circle, critically acclaimed writer Mick Wall will deliver an explosive and celebratory biography offering fans a chance to see the real Hendrix and learn the truth behind his untimely death.

Kissinger: 1923-1968 - The Idealist

Niall Ferguson 2470 rsd

In this remarkable new book, the first of two volumes, Niall Ferguson has created an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger’s world and a paradigm-shifting reappraisal of the man. Only through knowledge of Kissinger’s early life (as a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, a poor immigrant in New York, a GI at the Battle of the Bulge, an interrogator of Nazis, and a student of history at Harvard) can we understand his debt to the philosophy of idealism.

The Nordic Cookbook

Magnus Nilsson 4535 rsd

Organized by food type, The Nordic Cookbook covers every type of Nordic dish including meat, fish, vegetables, bread, pastries and desserts. These recipes are achievable for home cooks of all abilities and are accompanied by narrative texts on Nordic culinary history, ingredients and techniques including smoking and home preserving. Additional essays explore classic dishes made for special occasions and key seasonal events, such as the Midsummer feast. The Nordic Cookbook joins Phaidon’s national cuisine series, which includes Mexico, India, Thailand, Peru and others, and is the most comprehensive source of home cooking from the Nordic countries.

Picasso And Paper

Ann Dumas, Emilia Philippot, William H. Robinson 5345 rsd

Pablo Picasso’s often experimental and at times revolutionary use of paper is the subject of this major study, published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (25 January - 13 April 2020) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (24 May - 23 August 2020). With reproductions of more than 300 works of art and additional texts by Violette Andres, Stephen Coppel, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Johan Popelard and Claustre Rafart Planas, this sumptuous study reveals the myriad ways in which Picasso’s genius seized the potential of paper at different stages throughout his career.