Welcome to the ianVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Coronavirus: Events may be cancelled and venues closed at short notice, you are advised to check on their websites before making a trip.
Top events in London Today
A Christmas shopping fair in the usually private Portman Square Gardens
12pm to 8pm
Marylebone
This lecture explores the destruction of libraries, archives and other knowledge, from Babylonian times until now, and its implications for society today.
1pm to 2pm
Holborn
Explore the museum after-hours, grab a drink and do some Christmas shopping.
5pm to 6:30pm
Barbican
Step back in time and experience the House in true eighteenth-century style this winter.
5pm to 8pm
Trafalgar Square
Don't miss the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree.
6pm to :
Trafalgar Square
Online events / webinars
Jeanette Rosenberg shares tips and tricks for researching Jewish genealogy and family history.
2pm to 3pm
This paper questions some of the received views about the papacy’s attitude towards crusader violence against Jews.
5:30pm to 7pm
You are a loser. For psychoanalysis, this isn’t a personal slight, but an impersonal truth. So why have we come to fear losing?
7pm to 8pm
Join art historian Alexander Nemerov in an online authors talk about his book Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York.
7pm to 8:30pm
Learn about the influences, conception, and construction of Frederick Leightons magnificent Arab Hall.
7pm to 8pm
A panel of climate scientists, policymakers and activists will come together to review the successes and shortcomings of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
7:30pm to 9pm
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Free
Regarding Forests
Regarding Forests by artist Chrystel Lebas features large-scale photographs taken during her travels around the world.
11am to 4pm
Barbican
Closes today
Free
Shutters
This is the first indoor shutter exhibition of its kind, featuring the works from 25 of London’s most respected graffiti writers.
12pm to 7pm
Camden
Closes today
£12
Awavena
Emmy award-winning Lynette Wallworth’s 360° VR experience connects you with an Amazonian people who are ascending from the edge of extinction.
11am to 9:30pm
Barbican
Closing soon Sat, 4th December
Comprising 58 works, this show will be the first posthumous and largest exhibition of Kossoff’s paintings in a commercial setting to date.
10am to 6pm
Hanover Square
Closing soon Sat, 4th December
This two-day exhibition features photographic prints taken between May and September 2020 by five members of the Catching the Light Photography Group.
10am to 4pm
Winchmore Hill
Closing soon Sun, 5th December
Free
Festival of Print
The exhibition will highlight exciting new work from a wide sphere of contemporary printmaking practice, ranging from traditional techniques to experimental processes.
10:30am to 6:30pm
Bow
Closing soon Sun, 5th December
An exhibition of powerful visual art, music and writing by people in criminal justice settings, curated by artist Camille Walala and her sister Sarah Ihler-Meyer.
All Day
Southwark
Closing soon Sun, 5th December
Free
Liminal by ALO
Liminal features over 70 works created over the past three years by the London-based Italian artist ALO.
10am to 6pm
Chelsea
Closing soon Sun, 5th December
Over 500 contemporary miniature paintings and sculptures will be on display, from figurative to new and innovative artwork, in a pocket-sized format.
10am to 4pm
St James
Closing soon Sun, 5th December
The Southbank presents the most extensive exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s drawings ever shown in the UK.
11am to 7pm
Southwark
Closing soon Sun, 12th December
Walking tours of London - today
Follow the trail left by monks and monarchs, press barons and literary giants along the highway and down its twisting alleyways.
11am to 12:30pm
City of London£15.00
The Famous Square Mile
A walk that explores the very heart of the City – the most historic part of the capital.
11am to 1pm City of London£15.00
Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
This Magical Mystery Tour is a chance to “Imagine” Beatlemania and the Swinging 60s.
11am to 1pm Bloomsbury£15.00
Old Westminster Walking Tour
A guided walk around Westminster and get to see the hidden and ever so picturesque Georgian back streets where all the political salons are
2pm to 4pm Whitehall
