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Untitled Documenthttp://view.email.visitlondon.com/?j=fe9f15727767057e71&m=fe9a15707461007c7c...Page 2 of 704/03/2011Art and Design with Roger Dean and Storm ThorgesonBritish Music Experience, 7 April 2011The internationally renowned designers, video makers and photographers RogerDean and Storm Thorgeson come together to discuss their careers and the workwhich has shaped the visual identity of bands such Pink Floyd, Yes, Pendulum, Asiaand Muse. This is part of Visual Identity, which explores the iconic imagery of rockand pop music from the perspective of the artists who created it. Encompassing allaspects of visual identity in music, including its role, impact and production, guestswill have a rare opportunity to listen to and question the photographers and graphicdesigners who have shaped the visual landscape of music. For more informationcontact Claudia Parker on Claudia.Parker@aegworldwide.co.ukWitness: Women War ArtistsImperial War Museum London, from 9 April 2011Focusing on work by women war artists from the First World War to the Kosovoconflict, the display highlights the Museum's outstanding art collection as it exploresartists' response to conflict - as eyewitnesses, participants, commentators and asofficially commissioned recorders. Witness: Women War Artists illuminates both theconstraints and possibilities offered to female artists in war time and offers a uniqueopportunity to revisit key moments in the last century of Britain's history of war andconflict through a largely unexplored perspective. Featured artists will including AnnaAiry, one of the first women officially commissioned during the First World War,Dame Laura Knight RA, Linda Kitson and Frauke Eigen. For more informationcontact Laura Wilkinson on 020 7091 3039 / lwilkinson@iwm.org.ukInteractive Operations RoomHMS Belfast, 11-25 April 2011HMS Belfast could once be controlled from the Operations Room, the nerve centreand brain of the entire ship. Visitors can now imagine exactly what this would havebeen like as the Operations Room is updated with exciting interactives. The roomalso boasts a new simulated radar which plots other ship's positions, based on thereal-life Pony Express exercise of 1961 which involved 60 warships, 20,000 navalpersonnel and 6,000 US, British and Australian troops off North Borneo in the SouthChina Sea. For more information contact Laura Wilkinson on 020 7091 3039 /lwilkinson@iwm.org.ukTalk: Your Very Loving MadelineThe British Postal Museum & Archive, 21 April 2011Follow the postal history trail of a love story spanning the Victorian and Edwardianeras, pieced together by collector Dane Garrod. Madeline Clifton, widowed at 32 andleft with 32 children, later met and married a man 10 years her junior. The story thatfollows takes in military conflicts, overseas travel and relations with the high societyof the time through a series of letters, diaries, photographs, telegrams and cards. Formore information contact Jenny Karlsson on 020 7239 2574 /jenny.karlsson@postalheritage.org.ukLee Valley White Water Centre Opening22 April 2011Be one of the first to ride the rapids at Lee Valley White Water Centre as we openthe floodgates for the first time! Alternatively, pop down with the family and watch allof the fun taking place on the water, enjoying a hot drink and snack from our café.For more information contact Jackie Tolland on 01992 709 933 /jtolland@leevalleypark.org.ukExhibitionsThe QueueWimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, April 2011The latest exhibition from Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, The Queue, exploresthe traditions and history of the Wimbledon Queue and offers visitors an intriguinginsight into the queuing experience.Queueing has long been established as a particularly British trait, and nowhere isthis more exemplary than in the Wimbledon Queue. For well over a century,Wimbledon has attracted more spectators than it can accommodate. Queues started