More Bang Reading Slam Fundraiser, this Friday 24th February

To celebrate the launch of her new novel Body Temperature and Rising, author KD Grace and co-sponsors the Fannies Rule Groups (headed up by Sarah Berry) will be presenting the More Bang Reading Slam at Sh! Women's Erotic Emporium on Portobello Road this Friday.

As well as KD Grace and Sarah Berry, other authors reading on the night include Kay Jaybee, Lexie Bay, Lucy Felthouse, The Dragon King's Daughter, Liz Coldwell, Scarlett French, Annie Player, Janine Ashbless, Ernesto Sarezale, Katie Walsch, Lynn Mann and Meg Phillips.

If you'd like to also read at the event, come armed with five minutes of "filth and fun" in order to participate on the night. There will also be raffles and giveaways, fizz and cupcakes but mostly fun and sexy readings!

Tickets cost £5 for guests and participants, with all proceeds going to the Sexual Advice Association charity.

Spaces are limited, so please email shop@sh-womenstore.com to book a place. Guys are welcome as guests of women.

More Bang Reading Slam
6.30pm for a 7pm start, Friday 24th February 2012
Sh! Women's Erotic Emporium
Unit 4
253 Portobello Road
W11 1LR

An Audience with Steven Berkoff at The Tabernacle, Saturday 11th February

Actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff - best known for his performance at General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy - will be providing a talk on his life and work at a fundraiser for the charity Equal People next Saturday, 11th February 2012.

The evening will also feature professional performances of poetry and song, in celebration of Valentine's Day, by the charity's service users as well as celebrating the work undertaken by Equal People members as part of a new social enterprise.

Mr Berkoff is equally well known for his other villainous roles, including as Lt. Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop, and Adolf Hitler in the epic mini-series War and Remembrance. After having studied drama and mime in London and Paris, he formed the London Theatre Group in 1968. Among the many adaptations Mr Berkoff as created for the stage, directed and toured with are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon after Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. He has also directed and toured with productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (playing the title role), Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome.

Equal People is a charity that provides a range of services for people with learning difficulties, as well as to their families and carers. The charity encourages community participation and contribution, fights inequality and provides high quality individualised support that is flexible, responsive and reliable.

Tickets for the evening cost £15 (£12.50 concessions) and can be booked online at http://www.tabernaclew11.com/whats-on/eventdetails/11-feb-12-an-audience-with-steven-berkoff-tabernacle/.

An Audience with Steven Berkoff
7.30pm - 9pm, Saturday 11th February 2012
(light refreshments from 6.30pm)
The Tabernacle
Powis Square
North Kensington
W11 2AY