MY FCP CULTURAL CALENDAR
SOPHIE CHURCHILL
SUMMARY: WHAT IS GOING ON WHEN? Art & Culture
Fashion Music & Theatre Awards & Events Sport & Lifestyle
AW15 Men’s FW TV Period Drama London Exhibits
Fashion and Textiles Ballet NYC Met Ball
Leading FW Walt Disney End of Festival
J A N M A Y S E P
AW15 Women’s FW Cinema Releases Award Ceremonies
Sporting Events Menswear FW Festival Season
Art Fairs Parisian Influence NFL Season
F E B J U N O C T
Nottingham FW Historical Culture Art&Culture
Flower Shows Religious Festivals Haute Couture
Remembrance Fashion Awards Opera and Jazz Focus
M A R J U L N O V
History of Fashion Shanghai Fashion Graphics
Sporting Events Designs Celebrated Music Festival Focus
Christmas in London New Technology Celebrating New Year
A P R A U G D E C
2015
JANUARY Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Tuesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
‘The Theory of Everything’ release date
4 V&A Horst exhibition finishes
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9 10 London short film festival (finishes 18th January) ICA & Hackney Picturehouse, London
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13 Constellations. Samuel J. Friedman.
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Florence Fashion Week. (finishes 16th Jan)
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Adventures of Black Square. Whitechapel Gallery. (finishes 15th April)
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19 20 Berlin Fashion Week AW15 Berlin Trade Shows (finishes 21st Jan)
21 22 Paris Men’s Fashion Week (finishes 25th Jan)
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24 Rubens and his legacy. (finishes 10th April)
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26 Paris Haute Couture (finishes 29th Jan)
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2015
FEBRUARY 1
Sunday
8
Monday
2 3 Barcelona Fashion Week (finishes 5th Feb)
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Tuesday
10
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4 5 6 7 ‘Indian Summer’ TV series Marlene Drumas- The Image as Burden begins Tate Modern ‘50 Shades of Grey’ release (finishes 10th May 11
12 13 Sargent- National Portrait Gallery (finishes 26th May)
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NY Fashion Week AW15 (finishes 19th Feb) 15
17 16 Staying Power : Photographs of Black British Experience ‘50s-’90s. V&A (finishes 24th May)
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22 Oscars 2015
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25 26 Milan Women’s Fashion Week (finishes 2nd March)
24 Brit Awards 2015
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20 London Fashion Week (finishes 25th Feb)
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Saturday
2015
MARCH 1
Sunday
Monday
2 MFW ends
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
4 5 6 Romeo and Juliet, Northern Ballet Grand theatre, Leeds Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style IWM London (finishes 31st August)
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11 CQ Nottingham India Fashion Week (finishes 15th March)
‘Poldark’ TV series begins
Friday
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7 Leonora Carrington Liverpool Tate
‘Still Alice’ release date 13 Format Photofestival, Derby
‘Suite Francaise’ released 15 Guy Bourdrin: Image Makrer. Ends
17 16 Skylight John Golden Theatre, NYC
48 Hours of Fashion Nottingham 22
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30 Sweeney Todd Coliseum, London (finishes 12th April)
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14 McQueen: Savage Beauty V&A (finishes 2nd August)
20 21 Revelations: Experiments in Photography Singing Freedom, Slave Lodge, Cape Town, South Africa (finishes April 30th 2017)
Mercedes- Benz Fashion Week Tokyo (16th-21st March
Tate Britain commisstion: Christina Mackie (finishes 18th Oct) 29 Krytton: Factory of the future’ ends
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Saturday
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27 28 Mercedes- Benz Fashion Week Russia (finishes 30th March)
Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art. British Museum
‘Cinderella’ Film released
2015
APRIL Sunday
5
Monday
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Tuesday
1
7 Shanghai Fashion Week (finihes 15th April)
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Wednesday
2
9
Thursday
Friday
3 4 ‘All of This Belongs to You’ (finihses 19th July)
10
Saturday
11
‘Secret 7’ Sommerset House (finishes 4th May)
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15 Shanghai FW Ends
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20 Fashion Revolution Day: Who Made My Clothes Sommerset House
21 The Audience Apollo theatre, London (finihses 25th July)
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25 24 2015 Story World Photography Awards Exhibition Pick Me Up Graphic (finishes 10th May) Arts Festival 2015 Sommerset House (finishes 4th May)
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30 29 Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness Whitechapel Gallery
26 27 Women Fashion of Power Design Museum (finishes 26th April)
‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ released
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2015
MAY Sunday
3
Monday
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10
Wednesday
Tuesday
6
MET Ball 2015, NYC
5 Unseen Emporium Ends Sommerset House
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12
13 Mueseums at Night (finihses 16th May)
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18 LSO in Trafalgar Square
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25
Star Wars at Madame Tusauds (finihses 31st Dec 2015)
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27 The London Photograph Fair Two People Place
Friday
1 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
7 8 Catlin Art Prize Londonnewcastle Project Space, Brick Lane
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Saturday
The Alice Look V&A Museum of Childhood (finihes 1st Mov) 9
15 16 14 Festival Asia Tobacco Dock, Wrapping Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist Imperial War Museum The House of Peroni (finishes 30th May 2016) Pop Up Store, The Boiler House, Brick Lane (finishes 10th June) 21
Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Corin Sworn Art15 Whitechapel Gallery Olympia London (finishes 23rd May)
Village Green Market (finihses Sunday 12th July) 24
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Thursday
28
22 23 Riviera Style : Resport & Swimwear since 1900 Fashion and Textiles Museum Shoes for Stars (finishes 29th Aug) Textiles Museum (finishes 29th Aug) 29
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Sleeping Beauty : American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera, NYC
Hope in Heels Battersea Park
2015
JUNE Sunday
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Monday
8
7
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Tuesday
9
3
Wednesday
10
4
Thursday
11 Isle of Wight Festival
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LFW -Menswear (13- 15th June)
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Royal Ascot Ascot Racecourse (finishes 20th June) 22
LFW Menswear contin.
28 Milan FW Menswear offical ending
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17 Paloma Faith The O2 (finishes 7th July) 24 Barbara Hepworth Tate Britain (finihses 25th Oct)
30 29 Wimbledon London Tennis Championships, Wimbledon, London (finishes 12th July) Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
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Friday
5 6 Chestertons Polo in the Park (finihses 7th June)
Saturday
12
13 Trooping the Colour: Shoes : Pleasure and Pain The Queen’s Birthday Parade V&A Horse Guards Parade (finishes 31st Jan) 19
20 Milan FW- Menswear (finihses 23rd June)
25 Paris FW- Menswear (finishes 28th June)
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2015
JULY Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Celine designer Johnny Coca debuts at Mulberry (from 2nd- 18th July)
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1 2 Audrey Hepburn: Portraitsof an icon National Portrait Gallery
3 Wireless Festival Finsbury Park (finishes 5th July)
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11
Saturday
5 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show Hapmton Court Palace
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7 Haute Couture - Paris (finishes 10th July)
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10 Hyper Japan (finishes 12th July)
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14 NY FW Menswear (finishes July 16th)
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16 Lovebox The O2, London (finishes 18th July)
17 18 Bailey’s Stardust Scottish National Portrait Gallery (finishes 19th July) BBC Proms 2015 (finishes 12th Sept)
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Notting Hill Carnival, Notting Hill, London Eid Festival London 26 27 Buckingham Palace Summer Opening (finishes 27th Sept)
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25 Architects Festival Various Venues (finishes 26th July)
2015
AUGUST Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
London Mela Festival, Asian food and culture celebrated, London Date TBC
Eastern Electrics Hatfield House
2 3 Prudential Ride London Bike ride around London
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6 Wilderness Cornbury Park (finishes 9th Aug)
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17 16 Designs of the Year Ends Design Museum, Tower Bridge
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London Triathlon ExCel Centre
8 Visions Festival Various Hackney venues
15 Red Bull Air Race, World Championships Royal Ascot Racecourse
21 22 Latin American Art of the 20th Century Museum of Latin America, Buenes Aires, Argetnina EuroHockey Championships (finishes 30th Aug)
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Saturday
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29 South West Four Clapham Common
Leeds Festival Bramham Park (finishes 30th Aug)
2015
SEPTEMBER Sunday
6
Monday
7
1
Tuesday
8
2
Wednesday
9
Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival 2015 13
3
Thursday
10 Bestival Festival Isle Of White
4
Friday
11
5
Saturday
12
New York Fashion Week SS16 14 What is Luxury? V&A
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17 New York FW ends
18 London FW SS16
19 London Design Festival London (finishes 27th Sept)
Rugby World Cup 2015 begins 20
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22 London FW ends
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Milan FW ends
Paris FW begins
25 24 Milan FW SS16 Ceramics in the City Geffrye Museum, Haggerston
Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, USA (finishes May 31st)
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2015
OCTOBER Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Restaurant Festival, London, Duration of October
Thursday
1 Paris FW SS16
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9
Friday
3
4 Jets vs Dolphins NFL London
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7 Paris FW ends
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11 Diwali in London, Festival of lights
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14 Frieze Art Fair 2015 Regents Park (finishes 17th Oct)
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18 19 Making Music Modern : Design for eye and ear MOMA, NY, America (finishes 1st Nov)
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Saturday
10 Africa on the Square Trafalgur Square, London
16 17 Andy Warhol Peterborough Museum Geneologies of the Contemporary, (finishes 31st Jan) Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janerio, Brazil (finishes 31st Dec)
2015
NOVEMBER 1
Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
Dover St Market Haymarket 8
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10
Remembrance Day London
Ancient Luxury from Berthouville Getty Villa, LA, America (finishes 17th Aug)
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London Jazz Festival 2015 (finishes 22nd Nov)
17 15 16 18 Beauty By Design : Fashioning the Renaisaance Scottish National Portrait Gallery (finishes 3rd May) Jonas Kaufmann, Various venues around Europe (finishes June 27th)
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23 British Fashion Awards
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Julia Margaret Cameron V&A (finishes 14th Feb)
2015
DECEMBER Sunday
Monday
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Tuesday
2
Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
5
‘Winter Wonderland’, over Christmas period Hyde Park
6 7 International Technology Conference, Qatar, USA
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25 26 Christmas Day- Queen’s Speech
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31 New Year’s Eve Fireworkds display, Central London
Chanukah in the Square Trafalgar Square
Saturday