Five-day theatre writing intensive led by SCRUM Theatre's Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu and Somebody Jones, where participants build a play set in a speculative world.
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.
Interactive educational show by Teach Rex using life-like dinosaur puppets to explore the anatomy and life of Tyrannosaurus rex, with a meet and greet.
Meet Charlie the Chimney, the Chimney Lift character, for photo sessions with visitors during Battersea Power Station's October half-term.
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 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.
Hands-on skincare and makeup masterclass by London Beauty Artists with theory, demonstration, practice and a free skin consultation.
Free drop-in session for families to build sculptures that move with air, exploring balance and motion through imaginative making.
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.
Screening of Marc Evans' Welsh language drama 'Effi o Blaenau' at the Barbican's Senior Community Cinema for cinema-goers aged 60 and over.
Free, child-led sensory play session for children aged 0 to 3 and their parents or carers, working with open-ended materials.
Workshop for 12-14 year olds that brings Shakespeare's The Tempest to life through activities and games on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stage.
Free screening of the film 'National Emergency Briefing' followed by a Q&A with Maja Maricevic and Angela Francis, part of Green Libraries Week.
Weekly Monday stay and play session for babies aged 0 to 18 months at Broadwaters Children's Centre in Tottenham.
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.
Free Monday group walk led by a volunteer leader, starting at Hornsey Vale Community Centre and looping around Stationers Park.
Magic lantern show by lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker recreating the magic of a Victorian Halloween with original glass slides and modern creations.
Weekly afternoon reggaeton fitness class for over-50s, part of the Haringey People Need Parks winter programme.
Practical workshop for aspiring actors and academics aged 17 to 19 to explore Shakespeare's Othello through activities and games.
Weekly 18+ Monday night of arcade games and student drinks at the underground arcade bar NQ64 in Shoreditch.
Weekly Sunday screening of a film at The Soho Hotel's screening room, followed by a three-course lunch at the hotel's Refuel restaurant.
Free intergenerational knitting and crochet gathering for beginners and experienced makers to share skills and stories.
Special evening at The London Archives, with Northeastern University London, about the life, work and music of Ignatius Sancho.
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.
Jay Park, the South Korean hip-hop artist behind 'MOMMAE', brings LNGSHOT to OVO Arena Wembley.
Roundtable with scholars on the legacies of the UN Decade for Women and the diversity of transnational feminist struggles, chaired by Dr SM Rodríguez.
Book talk by author Michelle Lovric and Dean Mark Oakley to celebrate the release of Lovric's novel The Puffin.
Live show by Ezra Furman, with special guest Dana Margolin, at Union Chapel in London.
Halloween edition of Neon Naked Life Drawing in which a model with UV-reactive body paint is sketched under blacklights by attendees using fluorescent art materials.
Networking evening for tech startup founders, aspiring co-founders and investors to find co-founders and strategic partners, run by Business Minds.
The 70th edition of the Ballon d'Or football awards ceremony, marking its 70th anniversary, held at the London Palladium Theatre.
Talk by fusion physicist Alan Costley on the race to commercialise nuclear fusion and whether the East and West should collaborate or compete.
Live show by American rapper Dave East at Outernet Live on Denmark Street.
Over-18s book club evening to discuss 'Wimmy Road Boyz' by Sufiyaan Salam at Morocco Bound Bermondsey.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, celebrating 15 years in the West End.
Over-18s roots reggae night with Chezidek, 'The Herbalist', and Irie Ites at The Jazz Cafe.
Heavy metal show by Beast In Black, with support from Sonata Arctica and Frozen Crown, at the O2 Forum Kentish Town.
Monday night stand-up show at Big Belly Bar with a free shot with every ticket.
Stand-up show by Andrew Mensah and Gbemi Oladipo at The Top Secret Comedy Club.
The brothers behind the UK's number one education podcast bring their show to Soho Theatre Walthamstow, with reminiscences about school days and tales from teachers, plus audience participation.
Jordan Fein's Olivier award-winning revival of Sondheim and Lapine's fairytale musical, with a mostly new cast, at the Noël Coward Theatre.
Weekly 18+ stand-up night from Soho Comedy Factory at The Coach House in Westminster, with shows every night of the week.
Blindboy Boatclub brings his award-winning live storytelling show, The Blindboy Podcast LIVE, to the Barbican on his biggest UK tour yet.
Award-winning live comedy show in which a cast of TV and radio performers improvise a new Jane Austen novel each night.
Joy Nesbitt's debut play, a gothic ghost story about ancestry and slavery, set across 1862 South Carolina and present-day Whitby.
Over-18s stand-up show by Ari Shaffir, his first headline shows in London, framed around the new comic's arrival in a town.
Stand-up show by Alex Franklin about kissing, romance, dating and being trans.
Stand-up show in which Sophie Duker and the audience troll masculinity, from hypermasculinity to the 'Would You Rather: Man or Bear?' question.
Halloween edition of MOTION, the weekly Monday student night of XOYO London, with Hip Hop, R&B, Trap, Afrobeats and Bashment.
Hands-on pasta masterclass for two at the Jamie Oliver Cookery School, where you make fresh pasta and a sauce to serve with it.
Hands-on family workshop where children and adults explore Shakespeare's Macbeth through activities and games on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stage.
Free exhibition at Swedenborg House exploring the relationship between landscape, imagination and visionary states, with works by William Blake, F H Evans and Francis Oliver Finch.
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.
First London solo exhibition by Congolese-Canadian artist Moridja Kitenge Banza, with new paintings from her Chiromancie series.
Free drop-in design activities for families inspired by invention and reimagining our cities during the October half term at the V&A.
Three-hour hands-on cider making session at Hiver's Cider House in Bermondsey, where you press the juice, taste British ciders and take home bottles to fill.
Family festival with hands-on activities, shows and tours inspired by the 'Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep' exhibition.
Stand-up comedy night for two at Leicester Square Comedy Club, sold as a gift voucher valid for 12 months.
Weekly Argentine steak menu at Alfonsina on Mondays, with a free glass of Malbec with each steak, grilled over charcoal.
Exhibition of over 160 works by artists including Monet, Matisse and Picasso, depicting the French Riviera from the 1870s to the 1960s.
Exhibition exploring the enduring influence of René Magritte on contemporary art, featuring his works alongside pieces by over forty other artists.
A comprehensive exhibition spanning 2,000 years of Korean art and history, featuring works from the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
First solo museum show in Europe by painter Salman Toor, featuring his vivid scenes of queer South Asian life.
Exhibition of 250 portraits by Tim Walker of LGBTQ+ activists, artists, actors and allies, reimagining queer history through the lens of Tudor portraiture.
Exhibition by Autumn Knight exploring the act of complaining through installations and performances at the ICA.
A spooky Halloween trail with illuminated trees, ghoulish installations, fire performers and actors at Kew Gardens.
Annual international contemporary dance festival across London venues with live performances, talks and screenings, featuring works by Mamela Nyamza and Cie Omar Rajeh.
A major exhibition of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the National Gallery, focusing on his depiction of love and social interaction in Paris from the 1860s to the 1880s.
A newly commissioned film and immersive installation by Jenkin van Zyl, exploring themes of desire, self-preservation and the blurring of original and copy within a decaying cryonics facility.
Retrospective exhibition of the work of stage and set designer Es Devlin at the Design Museum, celebrating her 30-year creative practice.
Exhibition of William Eggleston's colour and black-and-white photographs, featuring his pioneering dye-transfer prints and early work.
Free exhibition of recent acquisitions from the V&A's contemporary metalwork collection, with work by metalsmiths from around the world.
Exhibition of 100 new award-winning nature photography images on light panels, marking the sixty-second year of the competition.
Exhibition with more than 30 works by Frida Kahlo, her personal objects and over 200 pieces by artists she inspired, exploring how she became a global icon.
Hands-on exhibition with more than 200 real specimens of prehistoric marine reptiles, from ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs to mosasaurs and marine crocodiles.
Free screening of Saodat Ismailova's short film 'Melted Into the Sun', a meditation on memory, perception and the mystic Al-Muqannaʿ.
Free exhibition of mid-twentieth-century royal garments from the Najd region of Saudi Arabia, embellished with metal-wrapped thread, at The Jameel Gallery.
Installation by Uzbek artist Aziza Kadyri that uses a bespoke AI model to generate contemporary suzani embroidery motifs, exploring the intersection of AI, art and craft.
The Natural History Museum's first mixed reality experience, where visitors wear HoloLens 2 headsets to explore eight future ecosystems.
Black History Month group show exploring Blackness through the historical, contemporary, mythical and urban, with art from the diaspora across many disciplines.
Behind-the-scenes walking tour of the Old Royal Naval College, the UK's number one heritage filming location, revealing the spots used in Bridgerton, The Crown and other period dramas.
Free exhibition of artworks by people in criminal justice settings, curated by the Parental Imprisonment Collective for the 2026 Koestler Awards.
A self-guided audio walking tour exploring the East End streets where working people fought back and won, covering nine historical landmarks.
English National Opera's UK staging of Du Yun's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera-theatre work about modern slavery and human trafficking.
Olivier Award-winning musical about a lost bear from Peru who finds a home with the Brown family in London, with music by Tom Fletcher.
The Regent's Park production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera, with Sam Ryder as Jesus and guest stars Matt Bomer, Rob Brydon and Reece Shearsmith as King Herod.
Revival of Clifford Odets' 1930s play about a violinist who is tempted to become a professional boxer, with Josh O'Connor, directed by Sam Yates.
Arcola production of Ibsen's play about the famous architect Halvard Solness, adapted by David Edgar and directed by Mehmet Ergen.
First British show of Elsa Schiaparelli, with her Surrealist collaborations with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, at the V&A.
Spooky, family-friendly guided tour of the Globe Theatre that brings to life the ghosts and spirits of Shakespeare's most chilling plays.
