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	Evening Talks & Events - April 2008 All events are free except where indicated. To book ticketed events call 020 7306 0055.

April	Thursday 3 April 2008, 19:00 Film Special Screening: The Man Who Knew Too Much Dir. Alfred Hitchcock,1934 (75 mins) In an evening celebrating the British cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, film historian Sandra Shevey introduces a screening of his 1934 film classic, The Man Who Knew Too Much. Following the screening Sandra Shevey will play excerpts from a rare and unpublished audio interview with the director, which she did in Hollywood in 1972. In the interview Hitchcock talks about Location, technique and the lurid London subtext, which characterises many of his films. Free

April	Friday 4 April 2008, 18:30 Music Live Music Now!: The Virtuoso Violin Simon Hewitt-Jones and David Worswick (violins) present a thrilling cross-section of the last three centuries of virtuoso violin music by master musicians such as Paganini, Wieniawski, Sarasate and many more. Free

April	Friday 4 April 2008, 19:00 Performance The Other People: Live Portraits Subverting the portrait tradition of immortality through art, live artists Anton Hampton, Greg McLaren and Gemma Brockis offer a series of 'Live Portraits' - real encounters with living people. The Other People: Live Portraits launches a series of events at the Gallery and other London locations. For further information please visit www.theotherpeople.org Event commences in Ondaatje Wing Theatre 19.00 [14.00 on 5 April] Free

April	Thursday 10 April 2008, 19:00 Vanity Fair Exhibition Tour Lipspeaking Event Curators Terence Pepper and Magda Keaney introduce this seminal exhibition, which features both vintage and contemporary images from Vanity Fair magazine. Free but tour tickets required and available on the night, from 17.00, on a first come, first served basis, in addition to a timed exhibition ticket.

April	Thursday 10 April 2008, 19:00 Film Jake Auerbach Film Season: Frank Auerbach: To the Studio Dir. Hannah Rothschild, 2005 (55mins) This second film in the Jake Auerbach film season is an intimate portrait of the filmmaker's father, the celebrated painter Frank Auerbach. Free

April	Friday 11 April 2008, 18:30 Music Brass Collective Brass ten-piece music by Derek Bourgeouis (Concerto Grosso Op. 61) and Hans Werner Henze (Ragtimes and Habaneras), conducted by Richard Ward. Free

April	Thursday 17 April 2008, 19:00 John Hayes Lecture: Professor Lisa Jardine 'Not the only fruit': Seventeenth-Century Portraits of the Princes of Orange Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, explores the inventive use of orange (the colour and the fruit) in portraits of the Dutch Stadholders, whose nobility depended upon their tenuous connection to the French principality of Orange. Supported by Lowell Libson Ltd. Tickets: £6/£4 concessions and Gallery Supporters Book online

April	Friday 18 April 2008, 18:30 Music Killer Shrimp Jazz ensemble led by Ed Jones (soprano/ tenor saxophones/ bass clarinet/ composer), Damon Brown (trumpet/ flugelhorn/ vocals/ composer), Ben Hazleton (double bass) and Troy Miller (drums). Free

April	Friday 25 April 2008, 18:30 Music Anima String Quartet Comprised of former principals and players from the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Hallé and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras, Anima present a programme of music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge. Free

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