Wednesday 19 February (7pm & 9pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly

Every now and again, fashion and art engage in a dalliance. Tanya Ling is more qualified than most to comment on how the two genres can coalesce. Since before launching her label a year ago, she made a living as a fashion illustrator and her debut collection was an art installation on Cork Street, curated by Brit artist Gary Hume. Encouraged by the ICA, Ling has now joined up with some like-minded designers in an effort to bring this point of intersection -- where fashion and art pal up -- to an audience outside the usual fashion arena.

NB: The evening will include collection presentations as well as conceptual video screenings. Artists involved in the project include Rob Davis (digital artist), Thomas Lindner (sound architect) and Haris Ladopoulos (sound artist). The after-show party features the Hey Ladies DJ collective and DJ Erol Alkan (Trash at The End).

Thursday 20 February (6pm)

@ Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, SW7 (020.7590.4273) Tube: Sloane Square

Israeli artist, Ori Gersht, never stays in one place for too long, and the notion of the journey (be it literal or metaphorical) lies at the heart of his artwork. Across the media of photography and video, Gersht creates images relating to his own personal history, while also touching on a more universal sense of memory, place and the passing of time. For the series, White Noise (2000), for example, he shot a series of photographs through the window of a train on a journey between Krakow, Auschwitz and Belzec in Poland. While the mid-winter landscape was transformed through motion into semi-abstracted, blurs of colour and light, the great weight of history along this path always remained as a constant, and melancholic undercurrent. For his recent exhibition at CRG Gallery in New York, he continued this contradiction between the history of place and its reality with a series of evocative photographs and video pieces shot in various locations around the troubled West Bank area in Israel. Here, images depict expanses of deserts, settlements, and scorched earth, saturated with intense colour and concentrated detail. The last few years have seen recognition for the artist, with critically acclaimed exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and gallery shows in London, New York and Los Angeles.

NB: The talk will take place in Lecture Theatre 1 and Gersht will be on hand at 5:45pm to greet people at the main entrance of the college.

Thursday 20 February (7pm)

@ Institut Francais, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.073.1354) Tube: South Kensington

Are you afraid of heights? Being up high is not about the fear of falling, but the temptation to step off, that queasy, shaky-knee fear. Don't freak-out, but it's bad enough to be a tightrope walker, let alone one who's walked the Twin Towers... EIGHT TIMES! We don't know about you, but our hands are sweaty just thinking about it. In August 1974, a quarter mile up, one hour to complete eight passes, and arrested after, Philippe Petit -- no relation to Manu -- tightrope-walked the Twin Towers. His memoir, To Reach the Clouds is a testimony to the dodgy, human spirit and the nerve of blaggery! An artist-in-residence at NYC's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Petit will be speaking about his book and adventures. In a week that's already seen a global protest inspired by the ghost of the Twin Towers, perhaps it's best to celebrate it in another way. You know he can walk the walk, now let's see if he can talk the talk.

NB: While we are mentionning the above, check out Gelatin's (an Austrian artist collective) The B-Thing -- a one-person balcony that they created pre 9/11 on the 91st floor of Tower 1.

Giveaway: We have one copy of To Reach the Clouds to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked subscriber who can tell us in what year the WTC was completed.

Thursday 20 February (7:30pm)

@ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo

It's probably fair to call Michael Nyman the foremost modern British composer. His continual evolution has kept him at the vanguard of modern music since the sixties and his collaborations with Peter Greenaway in the seventies and more recently with Jane Campion on The Piano have brought his soundtracks to vast audiences. The refreshing thing about Nyman though, is his steadfast belief in the practical application of music, he's worked on projects as diverse as scores for computer games and the launch of a high speed rail link. Thursday's event sees Nyman premiere Sangam, a collaboration with Indian musicians U Shrinivas and Rajan and Sajan Misra. Expect a fusion of musical styles, experimentation of form and the humour and deftness of touch that makes Nyman's music so compelling to so many.

Thursday 20 February (8pm - 1am)

@ Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens St., EC1 (020.7837.6419) Tube: Angel

Electronic wizard and master sampler, Amon Tobin is best known for his genre-defying records -- embracing drum and bass, hip-hop and breakbeat, weaving in jazz and orchestral samples, thus creating some crazy, warped soundscapes. As a DJ, he's equally hard to classify but we can tell you that these rare forays onto the decks are well worth catching. The Electrowerkz could be the perfect dark, lurid, mysterious setting to catch the man -- tonight with support from that other genre-defying electronic whizzkid Si Begg and images by Eikon. Just do not miss this!

NB: Tickets can be purchased by calling Stargreen (020.7734.8932) or the Electrowerkz Box Office (020 7837 6419).

Giveaway: We have three copies of Amon Tobin's latest CD and his single "Verbal" to give away . They'll go to three randomly picked subscribers who can tell us the name of his latest full-length CD.

Friday 21 February

@ Various cinemas all over London

When Mexican director Carlos Reygadas applied for film school, they turned him down. So impressed by the short film he'd sent them, the tutors admitted there was nothing they could teach him! Luckily for them, Japon, his debut film, has been showered with accolades including The Guardian New Director's Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Film Festival and was runner up for last year's Camera d'Or in Cannes. It's a work of extraordinary vision, almost biblical in tone -- centering on an unnamed man (intent on suicide who arrives in a Mexican village) and his relationship with an old woman who gives him shelter. It's hard not to mention the much discussed renaissance in Mexican/South American films, however Japon is meditative in style and has none of the commercial/pop promo influences of Amores Perros and City of God. It has a more Tarkovsky feel, someone whom Reygades sites as an influence. Very much a tragic tale and not always easy viewing, it closes with a simply unforgettable tracking shot of devastation that is well worth the wait. Beautifully filmed throughout, sensitive and cruel, this is without doubt a directorial tour de force. Hey, who needs film school?!