Tue 9 April, 2013 The Culturist London’s cultural highlights this APRIL April is showering us with a host of highbrow cultural pickings. This month we're looking to Venice for our art fill, Paris for our trend fill, and London for everything inbetween. Some of the world's best chefs will be cooking up a gastronomical storm in Wapping (Noma, included), there's a new theatre on the South Bank, Somerset House is hosting the 2013 World Photo Awards and Sundance is coming for the second time around. All coffee breaks should be taken at the new Monocle café. Enjoy! BOOK NOW: Venice Biennale Venice Biennale: the event on everybody's lips. Expect to see everyone from moneyed collectors on super yachts to the young trendy set at the glittering artistic playground. The headline exhibition will, for the first time, showcase young "post-internet" talent – including Brits James Richards, Ed Atkins and Helen Marten – while the international pavillions will host newbie countries Kosovo, The Maldives and Kuwait among others. For some glass-clinking fun, search for the No. 8 pop up. June 1 – November 24 Full 2-day ticket €30 THEATRE: The Shed at National Theatre If you've passed over Waterloo Bridge recently, you'll have noticed a bright red shack on the South Bank. This is The Shed, the temporary, younger sister to the National Theatre that will host experimental, adventurous and up-and-coming theatre for the next year. The repertoire will open with Table, a story of one family that spans 115 years, followed by a production about a bullet-catching magician and, later, a play about the Occupy Movement by Tim Price. April 9 – February 2014, tickets £12 and £20 South Bank, SE1 9PX FILM: Sundance London The second edition of Sundance London is on its way, with a new UK programme on top of the independent American films fresh from Utah. See Steve Coogan as notorious nightclub owner and King of Soho, Paul Raymond, in The Look of Love, or go for something grittier such as The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, a tale of two boys left alone for summer in the Brooklyn Projects. Real film buffs should head for panel discussions on score, comedy and screenwriting. April 26 – 28, tickets for individual screenings from £14 The O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX FOOD: The Lab Gastro whizzes will want to get involved in The Lab. Hosted by Gizzi Erskine, a line up of top chefs will be serving up dishes that push gastronomical boundaries and Alvin Leung's Sex on the Beach dish at Bo London is just the start of it. Alvin will be making an appearance alongside the Young Turks, Tony Conigliaro, Danny Bowien from Mission Chinese Streetfood, Daniel Doherty of Duck & Waffle and Brazil's Alex Atala, to name a few. Top of our list? Lars Williams' Noma Flavour Test. Tickets for the event have sold out, but we have a special code for 50 Urban Junkies readers to purchase here. April 25 – 27, £75 Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk, E1W 2SF PHOTOGRAPHY: Sony World Photo Awards Exhibition See snapshots of the world in 2012 at the annual Sony World Photo Awards Exhibition. The shortlisted entries will be on display with areas covering fashion, culture, travel, wildlife, landscape, portraitures, current affairs and more. Expect to see everything from the Fung Shun fire dragon dance in China to India's colourful Holi festival. April 26 – May 12, £7.50 Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA BOOK: Pucci More a piece of art than a fashion book, Pucci celebrates the Italian prince of prints who dressed everyone from Jackie Kennedy to Kylie Minogue. We want all four cover designs, please. From £44.99 CAFÉ: The Monocle CafÉ Monocle continues with its impending world takeover. After the success of its café in Tokyo, the global affairs magazine is set to open up shop in Marylebone. Sip on coffee at the high counter, go for post-work prosecco on the pavement tables or nip in for all-day snacks which include the Monocle Toasty. As expected, everything from the awnings to the monogrammed takeaway bags has the Monocle stamp of cutting design. Opens April 15 18 Chiltern Street, W1U 7QA TRAVEL: Paris We're getting ourselves to Paris toute suite. In between the opening of the first Karl Lagerfeld store in St Germain and the latest burger offerings at monochrome diner Paris New York (yes, the burger bomb is spreading), there's also a Keith Haring exhibition (pictured) at the Musée d'Art Moderne and the Electric, a new cultural centre which houses a live music space, lounge bar and club. We'll also be stopping by Colette to get ourselves one of these. Keith Haring, The Political Line April 19 – August 18, €11 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris by JC LIKE SHARE FORWARD PREVIOUS EDITION (c) 2013 Urban Junkies. All rights reserved. Reproductions of any portion of this website only with our express permission. Urban Junkies is a free daily mailer. All listings and features are editorial: We do not receive any payment from venues, artists or promoters. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of information listed but we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions.