Texan teen Bliss (Ellen Page, Juno) is totally over the beauty pageants her mum drags her to, so she dyes her hair blue and officially bows out of the cute speeches and prom dresses clique. Searching for a passion to live for, Bliss encounters some girls from the local roller derby team, and is smitten. Co-starring director Drew as Smashley Simpson and Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven – check out the roller girls' name tags! - Whip It will make your heart race as you cheer for Bliss' self-discovery in sport and romance, and the team's success! Plus, live on the South Bank, a roller-derby extravaganza with London's finest skate girls whipping up our pre-screening excitement. Just before the screening we will have presentation of our BEVFF 2010 Festival Awards.

From Eva Luckes and Edith Cavell at the London Hospital, to politics with Annie Besant, philanthropy with Mary Hughes and Miriam Moses and the modern creativity of Monica Ali and Tracey Emin.

What better way to speed up summer's arrival than an indoor summer picnic, complete with lifelike grass, trees and sunshine; light therapy experts Lumie, have provided Café du Pique-Nique with SAD treatment bright light boxes.

It is 1882. You are a seventeen year-old girl and you have just discovered your deceased mother is still alive and living in America. You set off to find her and meet: a) an artist with an opium addiction b) a depressed Socialist preaching free love c) a hypochondriac debutante d) a cattle rustler whose four husbands have all mysteriously disappeared e) Oscar Wilde f) your mother or g) all of the above. Wherever you go, you seem to be the only one in the room not wearing a corset and things become curiouser and curiouser along the way.

Bringing new meaning to bashing the bishop, the clue is in the title. This is ChessBoxing. Opponents thrash each other in the ring then attack each other on the board. Top of the Bill will be a massive heavyweight challenge with Sergio "The Phoenix" Leveque facing up against London's favourite Dutchman, Hubert "The Wardrobe" Van Melick. The Wardrobe's nickname stems from his imposing 6ft4in frame while Sergio is a true fighting Phoenix - his early boxing career was cut short by a terrible motorcycling accident. Sergio defied specialists who told him he would never walk again and now stands tall as a potential ChessBoxing champion of Europe. The winner of this bout earns the right to progress in the European Championship finals.

The new fifth member, Duncan, sets about saving the world from them. Party is about small minds tackling big issues - China, sex trafficking, cycle lanes, unfair trade coffee, whether to call the party 'The Friendly Party' or 'Gladios', and when, exactly, they should break to eat a cake.

Where good girls & boys go bad & bad boys & girls go wild! With TV monitors playing delinquent exploitation clips! Go Go girls grind & unwind all evening! Dancefloor podiums for you to give the Go Go girls a run for their money! Strange 60s Burlesque from Trixie Malicious & Fancy Chance! Plus the band every one is screaming for…Garage surf stars ‘French Kissing’ play live and 50s & 60s sleazy listening, Garage R'&'R , 60s R&B and Novelty songs from DJ Dead & Showboats!

A while ago, a friend of a friend of a friend of the band wrote: “Individually the members bring a love of blues, indie, dance and epic soundscape music and manage to contain all these influences without ever becoming a copy of them… The Do or Dies have a long history of making music but have now really found their sound in the new EP These Modern Times. They take a little of what's new and a little of the tried and tested and use them to create a unique sound, each song brimming with passions and invention.” We pretty much think that sums it up!

This fantastical new project consists of a re-working of ‘World on a Wire', Rainer Werner Fassbinder's television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye's science fiction novel, ‘Simulacron 3'. To mark the dimensional, space-time shift phenomenon due to occur that night ‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3' is a live teleportation of Fassbinder's anti-hero from The New Orpheum Theatre, a fictional cinema, to the magnificent, art deco auditorium of the Rio Cinema in Dalston. Travelling through degrees of fiction and temporality, he will materialise into three time machines, three body doubles, collapsing, colliding and forever reproduced. The performance incorporates a specially commissioned film by LA based artist Damon Packard, CCTV footage, animations, a Fassbinder Chorus Line and a Greek chorus.

One of the folkiest all dayers going, with a host of LDN's best folk artists strumming it up at The Old Queen's head for Mother's Day.

Hot on the heels of London Fashion Week, Ten Gales are set to illustrate the artsy side of fashion at its best. I'm a particular fan of Cherry Hurren's 'Cherry Dolls' and Momoko's momocreatura, inspired by fairy tales, folk tales, and ancient mythologies. She combines her Japanese aesthetic and European culture to create her uncanny fantasy world, have a look; http://www.momocreatura.com

Although varied widely in both style and substance, the pieces are inspired by the space in which they are performed, exploring the extent to which space dictates performance and vice versa. Live music and a vibrant atmosphere are delicately intertwined with subtle and intimate conversation. The audience are both participants and voyeurs as the boundaries of performance begin to blur. The aim of the circuit project is to develop a simple and engaging new medium that allows the work of new writers and directors to be seen. Expect a relaxed evening of live music, live performance and live drinking.

International singing sensation and purr-fect post, post post-modern showgirl Meow Meow descends upon Soho Theatre in her long-awaited London debut. A wild journey of obsessive love songs, tired old tricks, and gorgeous suicide ditties, Meow Meow navigates the uncharted territory between Weimar era wit, 1930's Shanghai show tunes, 60's French pop, and post-punk hilarity, creating a parody of glitz and high art that defies categorization. Accompanied by Emmy award-winning Lance Horne on piano.

Bring along clean clothes in good nick ready to swap for your new dream outfit. And as if the joy of rummaging weren't enough, there will be five-minute manicures, a raffish raffle and free tea and cake for every swapper. Remember swap karma: bring something lovely and you'll go home with something you love.

The Henningham Family Press collaborate with three very different artists to take a sideways look at British life through that great article of social comment: the poster. As well as performing in their own unique styles, musician Darren Hayman, comedian Jo Neary, and master printer Murray Macauley will each performance-publish a brand new poster on the night. Around these special performances, the streets of a transformed venue will be lined with interactions and diversions to get involved with. Use special maps to navigate from the village pub to the allotment, cinema, bookshop and back again. Take part in the quiz and games; try printing, stampmaking, knitting and book-craft. Use your special issue ration book at the Great Cake Escape bakery and the store. There will be a choice of mini-talks put on at the Universettee, the invitational mobile armchair lecture series on cult topics: a flexible syllabus that reflects those taking part, expect anything from Zizek, through Liberian history to Roots Manuva. We present a screening of Sister Corita The Screening Printing Nun, a short documentary about inspirational artist and educator Corita Kent who used printing to comfort and empower during the social upheavals of the 60s and 70s. There will be an accompanying short cookery-class style lecture and recreation of a Sister Corita print by Murray Macauley.