Free drop-in design session where visitors, inspired by artist Gayle Chong Kwan, imagine an invention for a future city and turn it into wearable head art from recycled packaging.
Meet Charlie the Chimney, the Chimney Lift character, for photo sessions with visitors during Battersea Power Station's October half-term.
Free, child-led sensory play session for children aged 0 to 3 and their parents or carers, working with open-ended materials.
Free drop-in session for families to build sculptures that move with air, exploring balance and motion through imaginative making.
Weekly Monday stay and play session for babies aged 0 to 18 months at Broadwaters Children's Centre in Tottenham.
Free screening of the film 'National Emergency Briefing' followed by a Q&A with Maja Maricevic and Angela Francis, part of Green Libraries Week.
Free family session led by musician Kemi Sulola in which children and families make songs from everyday objects as a soundtrack for the future city.
Free exhibition of polar and wildlife photographs by Sue Flood and Ian Dawson, with an accompanying book, at the Royal Geographical Society.
Free hands-on workshop for families to imagine and build mini models of public buildings of 2050 from recycled materials, led by Jahba Anan for RIBA Learning.
Free monthly dementia-friendly gallery tour led by specially trained V&A guides, designed for people living with early-stage dementia and their family and friends.
First London solo exhibition by Congolese-Canadian artist Moridja Kitenge Banza, with new paintings from her Chiromancie series.
Free public lecture by journalist Barbara Demick on how to make readers care about people whose names they can't pronounce, part of Gresham College's 'The Future of Journalism' series.
Blindboy Boatclub brings his award-winning live storytelling show, The Blindboy Podcast LIVE, to the Barbican on his biggest UK tour yet.
Free exhibition of never-before-seen E.M. Forster memorabilia and paintings by Jim Buckingham, the artist's nephew, on Forster's legacy of connection.
Free Monday group walk led by a volunteer leader, starting at Hornsey Vale Community Centre and looping around Stationers Park.
Free beginner making workshop introducing tools, materials, digital making and basic electronics at the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability.
Free drop-in design activities for families inspired by invention and reimagining our cities during the October half term at the V&A.
Free exhibition of the official Coronation Portrait of King Charles III by Dr Suan-Seh Foo, a Canadian provincial portrait, before it returns to Nova Scotia.
Free creative workshop led by Maryam Hashemi to work with plants, textiles, drawing, painting and stitching at the Horticulture Hub in Camden Town.
Free stand-up comedy night with rising UK stand-up stars and circuit favourites at the Notting Hill Arts Club.
Free monthly networking evening for property investors, developers and professionals in King's Cross, on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
Fireside chat with André Lacroix, CEO of Intertek, exploring his book 'Leadership with Soul' and the role of AI in leadership, part of the Technology Leader Speaker Series.
Free children's musical show of BBC Musical Storyland performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Young V&A, with hands-on creative activities for families.
Free practitioner-run DevSecOps London talk on building security into delivery pipelines for platform, SRE and application-security engineers.
Immersive family theatre show by KIT Theatre in which the V&A becomes part of the story, with puzzles and hands-on making, delivered in English and British Sign Language.
Auction of the Clive Richards collection of letters, documents and manuscripts relating to Horatio Nelson, with free public viewing.
Meet the author session where Dr William Ackah presents his book 'The Black PhD Experience' on the experiences of Black PhD students in the UK.
Free monthly networking evening for property investors, developers and professionals in the Waterloo area, held on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
Free public lecture by Dr Ranita Chatterjee on the global flows and shifting impacts of Indian cinema over almost a hundred years.
Free public event at the LSE marking the 20th anniversary of the Stern Review, with speakers Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh MP and Lord Nicholas Stern.
Over-18s night of hard rock, disco and psychedelic shoegaze with stand-up comedy to open, presented by DreamBagsJaguarShoes.
Free Halloween rave with Moshi, Monster High cosplay, music from happy hardcore to jungle and stalls at Brixton Jamm.
Free horology lecture by Justin Koullapis, editor of the Horological Journal, on the discoveries, disputes and personalities of the watch and clock world.
Free drop-in Open Studio workshop where families with children aged 5 to 14 design and make something together from a creative brief.
Drop-in family session of the Young V&A October Half Term festival to watch Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out and draw rockets and cheese creations.
Free lunchtime recital of Joseph Horovitz's Sonatina, a Poupel nocturne and Brahms's Clarinet Sonata, by Sarah Williamson and Simon Callaghan at the Shaw Library.
Free creative family day to write and decorate your own Roman-inspired poem at the London Mithraeum, part of the National Year of Reading 2026.
Free workshop for 11-14 year olds to make sustainable bird housing models with designer Christie Swallow, part of Young V&A's October Half Term festival.
Free drop-in morning for children aged 4 to 14 to print with seasonal vegetables, make a botanical scarecrow, go on an autumn plant hunt and collect seeds.
Children's workshop where a picture book inspires young inventors to design and build a solution to an environmental challenge.
Weekly free stand-up comedy night with professional comedians, BYOB and over-18s only, at Eagle Eats Bakery in Peckham.
Hands-on creativity festival for young people with the Family Design Challenge, Design Club for 11-14 year olds, a Wallace & Gromit screening and a Halloween clay workshop.
Free live music session by Apes Cuttin' Shapes at Starlane Pizza Bar on Cody Road.
A free service at St Paul's Cathedral marking the tenth anniversary of AtaLoss and launching the Bereavement Matters season of remembrance and support.
Over-18s Friday night of vinyl house, disco, funk, jazz, soul and hip-hop by Istanbul selector DJ STYLE-IST at Moonrays.
Free drop-in late-night night of film, performance, installation, a DJ set and a workshop exploring the eerie and surreal in contemporary design.
Halloween-themed market with UK book and handmade vendors, a live DJ set, a coffee week and the museum's temporary exhibition 'After the Fire'.
An insightful talk exploring the history of witch hunts and the real lives of those affected, presented by Jessica Nelson at The National Archives.
Free presentation on the forensic investigation of firearms offences, covering internal, external and terminal ballistics.
Free exhibition of rare documents from The London Archives, including the 1327 royal charter, exploring the period that shaped the City of London.
Over-18s Halloween party with football shirts and zombie costumes, free entry, free fake blood and a free drink for dressers.
Free Black History Month night of music and dance with Nzinga Dance, guest selectors and a reggae history photo exhibition, honouring Hackney's reggae era.
Free drop-in afternoon making workshop for young creatives at the V&A South Kensington, led by artists Sebastian Chaumeton and Shanti Bell.
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Free women's cycling ride to Osterley Park, with a 09:45 meet-up at Ealing Town Hall for all levels.
Free information lecture on spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening, followed by a Community Hour.
Free drop-in Halloween mini-festival for children aged six and over and their families, with pick-and-choose spooky activities.
Free one-day street show of pre-1905 vintage cars on a closed stretch of Pall Mall, previewing the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
Monthly free open day at Little Holland House, a Grade II listed house in Carshalton decorated by hand by the craftsman Frank Dickinson.
Free monthly open day to see the recently restored, nearly 300-year-old Hogarth Stair and Great Hall at St Barts Hospital.
Free weekly wellbeing walk led by volunteer walk leaders around Alexandra Park, held on Mondays at the bottom gates.
Free interactive session exploring the mysteries of human anatomy at the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Free lecture on John Constable's figure drawing and painting, especially his work at the Royal Academy's life drawing class.
Free public lecture at LSE on the sovereign climate transition, drawing on the TPI Centre's 2026 report and the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
Geotechnical Engineering Proceedings lecture by Dr Benoît Jones on nearly 20 years of monitoring data from the Heathrow Terminal 4 concourse tunnel.
Co-learning day for young people aged 18-25 from Lambeth on plants, urban greening and community organising at the South London Botanical Institute.
Technical lecture by Matt Hubble on sprayed concrete lining tunnelling beneath operational London Underground infrastructure, with case studies and a Q&A.
Free talk led by Dr Kiran Sahota about the roles played by Indian women during the Second World War at the National Army Museum.
Multi-screen film installation by Sir John Akomfrah on the global migration of people, nature and disease after the Columbian Exchange.
Diwali Festival of Lights celebration at Harrods with a one-night-only exterior light display, plus in-store activations, live music, tea tastings and masterclasses.
Author-illustrator Alex T Smith presents his new children's book 'J. Algernon Pickle' with a draw-a-long activity for children aged 7 and over.
Free storytelling workshop for children aged 4 to 7 with storyteller Vanessa Woolf, in which they solve mysteries with Little Miss Marple and the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters.
Monthly open day at the London Sewing Machine Museum, with its collection of more than 600 machines, on the first Saturday of every month.
Free Saturday open day at The Clockworks, south London's museum of electrical clocks.
Free screening of a special cut of the documentary 'Generative' followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and the V&A's digital art curator.
Free 18+ R&B party with 90s and 2000s classics, neo soul and modern R&B, with a free Buzzballs giveaway before midnight.
Free public talk by Dr Amara Thornton and Dr Debbie Challis on tracing women in archaeological records at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
Free Be Inspired lecture by mountaineer Rosemary Brown, from her book, on nine women mountaineers with peaks named in their honour.
Free lunchtime concert by The Damian Bresnan Latin Quartet presenting his debut album 'Llar' at The Jazz Social, the EFG London Jazz Festival's pop-up venue.
Free public lecture by Professor Ann Heilmann on the posthumous speculation about the gender of military surgeon James Barry, part of Gresham College's LGBTQ history series.
Europe's leading Risk, GRC, Security and RegTech expo with five content stages, workshops, breakout sessions and live demos.
Free lunchtime jazz concert by the London ensemble FIBI, blending jazz, soul, gospel and R&B, at The Jazz Social, the EFG London Jazz Festival pop-up.
Free two-day expo on packaging innovation and e-commerce technology for online retailers, with more than 50 hours of educational content.
Ceremonial reopening of the historic wooden Temple Bar gates, the old boundary marker between the City of London and Westminster.
Free social afternoon of live music from SAHRA and favourite records from across the decades for older people, part of The Jazz Social.
London's leading product sourcing and business show for white and private label, with over 300 exhibitors and seminars across two days.
Free two-day business expo and conference for organisations expanding overseas, with over 50 seminars and more than 100 exhibitors.
