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Quick mention before it's all over of The Oxford C.S. Lewis Society hosting a two-day international colloquium on C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra with performances (June 26/27) of Donald Swann's (of Flanders and Swann the musical revue satirists) practically unperformed 1964 opera. Spot on BBC Radio 3's Music Matters (37 min into programme) plus as always other goodies (Leonard Bernstein) in the ear bag.

Kurt Weill's 1936 musical Johnny Johnson receives a rare outing every Sunday afternoon until July 12 at Sadlers Wells.
Weill's Lost in the Stars has a staged reading at the South Bank (June 23 and 24)
Ornette Coleman's curatorship of the Meltdown festival continues there as well.

Twitterers take on Ulysses
Nightwaves discussion on whether James Joyce's epic 20th century classic novel Ulysses is an elitist literary tome or the true novel for the common man. And a preview spot on Gay Icons (National Portrait Gallery, July 2)
Jake Arnott on Joe Meek (of the Telstar film)

Revealed: The 15 people who will define the future of arts in Britain - I was 9 and a half but the dimensions didn't fit the page. Not to mention the chap who was 21 and seven eigths...
A new generation of architects forge a fresh approach to planning for the 21st century
Society set up to offer support to designers whose work has been demolished

Richard Wentworth's new sculpture show Boule to Braid opens at the Lisson Gallery June 24
And artist Conrad Shawcross somewhere mid-stream. His first solo show New York show Control is currently at New York's Location One.

A crowd gathers as MPs'expenses claims prove surprise web hit
MPs even claimed for Second Life
Live like an MP! Win a completely free floating duck house!

Iraq war inquiry could reveal secrets, lies and the rush to war. But it will all be held in secret and conducted by those responsible for it all in the first place. Mud, mud, glorious mud nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. But they'll always be the whitewash. Don't forget the Shout!
For the Iranian-born comedian Shappi Khorsandi, the current turmoil in Tehran brings back poignant memories

ICA Films releases this week the two disc DVD box set of Luis Buñuel’s masterpiece of erotica Belle De Jour and Portuguese centenarian director Manoel de Oliveira’s imagined sequel Belle Toujours- the first film of his to see the light of a cinema let alone that of a DVD in the UK for over 15 years!