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FOOD & DRINK Systems and Secrets Drinks are available in the Cromwell Road Entrance, The Friday 26 January Sackler Courtyard and in The John Madejski Garden (weather 18.30 – 22.00 permitting). Food and drinks will be served in the Café until 21.00. Signs and symbols have always B D played an important role in human Connectivity Algorithm London College of Communication communication, from the ALSO ON TONIGHT Grand Entrance, Cromwell Road Fashion, Room 40 development of diplomacy, to the Join Playdate Office at this Explore a series of provocative and waging of war. Unlock the science interactive relay station, which will interactive projects from MA Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion of codes and ciphers to discover Until 18 February 2018 explore wartime semaphore - the Interaction Design Communication alternative languages and the Sponsored by American Express Shutter Telegraphs that were once at the London College of secret messages embedded in our dotted on the prominent hillsides Communication. Tonight the Opera: Passion, Power and Politics culture and artifacts. Join us as we of the south of England. Answer a projects on display will examine Until 25 February 2018 question how emoji help us series of intuitive questions and four interpretations of code: In collaboration with the Royal communicate in the digital age, spin the shutter rotations to create universal codes that cross Opera House learn the body language secrets your very own a geometric code. boundaries of time and space, Sponsored by Societe Generale hidden in our dance floor moves What message will you create? secret codes that obfuscate or and interrogate the effects of playdateoffice.com protect something; algorithmic Winnie-the-Pooh: computer coding, as we interpret @playdate_office codes that move ideas and Exploring a Classic the world around us and uncover information through processes; Until 8 April 2018 what it all means. C unknown codes that are out of Talisman and Amulets reach or are undiscovered. In The Woods: All events are free and places are Trees in Photography designated on a first-come, first- Islamic Middle East, Room 42 int-des.com Until 22 April 2018 served basis, unless stated The Jameel Gallery @intdescom otherwise. Filming and 19.00 photography will take place at this Join Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam as E KEEP IN TOUCH event. she explores the visible and Symbols to Move invisible power of words and signs, The Raphael Cartoons, Room 48a vam.ac.uk/fridaylate Please note, if the Museum reaches Visit vam.ac.uk/signup and both secular and religious, in the 19.30, 21.00 capacity we will allow access on a subscribe to our e-newsletters Middle East. Learn about the V&A’s Join Language of Dance one-in, one-out basis. featuring exhibitions, events and collection of talismans and choreographer in this creative special offers. #FridayLate amulets housed in the Jameel dance workshop, which transforms Gallery of Islamic Art, exploring symbols into movement. Uncover Victoriaandalbertmuseum A their significance and social this unique alphabet of abstract context. Behnaz will take us on a cyphers used by dancers across the @V_and_A DJ Sammseed Grand Entrance, Cromwell Road visual journey, looking at how globe. Learn how to translate and @vamuseum Join South London based DJ talismans and divinatory sciences interpret the symbols to discover Sammseed (Touching Bass and are used within contemporary new moves on the dance floor, View photos of Friday Late on flickr. Scene + Heard) in the V&A Grand Middle East. Asking us to imagine creating your own shapes and com/photos/fridaylate Entrance as he mixes a timeless what place they hold in modern unique patterns. journey through Spiritual Jazz, household ritual beliefs and what lodc.org Broken Beats and all the Funky talisman might look like in the joints in-between. future. soundcloud.com/sammseed @sammseed K J

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