But what if you were only told about the coolest and most selective events that were happening in your city and others across the UK? The ‘must attend’, ‘where were you when….’ events that you always here about but never know where or when they are.

With this keeping us up at night, Nissan teamed up with Vice magazine and created 100% UrbanGuide on NetVibes and it is this sexy little number that is going to make you the most popular person at any function.

100% UrbanGuide is the definitive urban bible, spreading the gospel on the best events, exhibitions bars and parties happening across some of the UK’S liveliest cities. Check out reviews, view photos and video, read blogs, post comments and interactive with a community who understand that socialising is for life and not just Christmas.

Why not head over now and find loads of excuses for a new wardrobe.

Then you could have Socialitis. This rare disease only affects the most sociable of people, specifically those who enjoy going out to cool events in their city, then have the compulsive obsessive need to blog about what they got up to on a blog site. These suffers are often called bloggers and if any of this sounds like you, please don’t worry, help is here.

100% UrbanGuide and Vice have teamed up to give seven bloggers from seven UK cities the opportunity to get help. You’ll be prescribed with a monkey (that’s £500) and a Nissan QASHQAI (with a driver) to spend the next 3 months blogging about the coolest events in your city.

The blogger who shows the most promise will receive therapy writing for The Guardian and Viceland websites, plus land a regular gig as lead correspondent for 100% UrbanGuide.

Visit viceland.com immediately where friends are waiting to hear your story.

The Starr Auditorium on Friday evening at Tate Modern was jam packed with an audience keen to hear The Wooster Collective talk about Street art, ‘A World View’.

Discussing street art from around the globe, The Wooster Collective used Banksy, Space Invader, Roadsworth and Mark Jenkins as excellent examples. Favorites had the crowd laughing included a piece by Josua Allen Harris and rather a strange collection of an urban problem facing us all, The Spinkle Brigade.

The talk revolved around the basics of street art; having a point of view, dedication, personal and intimate and surprise and delight. The talk concluded with two main points; Street Art is only successful when it has a dialogue, even if only with one person and its need by all to unify ‘ugly’ spaces before the ‘gentification’ of urban areas.

A fascinating talk which is to be followed Friday 25th July at 6.30-7.30 by a talk from Street Artist Pure Evil and art critic JJ Charlesworth on ‘Collecting Street Art’. Not to be missed!

An energetic audience greeted the artists Brad Downey and Mustafa Hulusi first of several Street Art talks sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI at Tate Modern.

Discussing the history of fly posting in London during the 1980’s, Mustafa gave a humorous and personal insight into a decade when regions of London where controlled by fly poster ‘gangs’. An artist in his own right, Mustafa recalled his early days as a student and his first fly poster evenings though to the fall of the fly poster activity due to a change in society and the gentrification of urban streets.

Brad Downey showcased several ‘inspiring’ street art films, including ‘Spontaneous Sculpture’, shot on 35mm by a friend over a four hour period, ‘On/Off’ showing how he managed to ‘urban-hack’ thirty Parisian shop fronts, and a work in progress which showed Brad setting fire to a CCTV camera.

The audience presented a series of challenging questions to the panel, including why one of the presenters was actually at the talk to why Brad Downey doesn’t make it his agenda to set fire to every CCTV in London, Brad responded with ‘Why don’t you? Why does it have to be me to do that?’

If the rest of the Street Art talks are anything like this then we are in for a massive treat. Make some time for these talks, roll on Friday 18th July when Tate Modern present ‘A World View’ at 18.30-19.30.

With east London being notorious for having some of the UK’s best street art, Nissan QASHQAI and Tate Modern have teamed up together to give you an exclusive free tour of the area.

Running on various weekends throughout July and August, Tate Modern and Nissan QASHQAI are giving you the chance to take part in a series of driving and cycling tours throughout the various streets housing these exclusive pieces.

To take part in Driving Tours, simply register using the form below and let us do the rest. Confirmation details will be sent to you once we have processed your application. For the cycling tours, simply turn up on the day and register at the Nissan Information Tunnel.

DRIVING TOUR DETAILS

Visitors can turn up at any time between 10AM and 4.30PM and should meet at the Nissan Information Tunnel outside Tate Modern. Pick up and drop off will be from Tate Modern and the tours will take approximately two hours; the walking tour takes one hour and the drive to and from Tate Modern takes half an hour each way. View the map to see an overview of the route.

REGISTRATION FORM

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Sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI, ‘The History of Street Art’ takes place at Tate Modern on Friday 1st August 2008 at 18.30–19.30.

Sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI, Tate Modern brings the art and artists to life with free screenings in the Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium on August the 16th and 17th.

The rise of the art form has also seen an explosion in documentaries exploring this emerging movement. Tate Modern has selected a wide range of documentaries that showcase, explore and discuss the subject, countries and styles developing within the street art scene allowing us valuable insight and a complete picture of what is happening across the globe.

The screenings are divided over two days with day one featuring the ‘World wide’ programme - highlighting films that explore the new and old school artists and street art as a world culture. Day two features the ‘City style’ programme including films that look at specific city scenes, their history, development and style of street art and graffiti capitals including Amsterdam, Paris and Melbourne.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience some of the most inspiring Street Art documentaries this summer, free and only at Tate Modern.