The ianVisits guide to April's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
Wednesday 1st April
As well as setting these competing narratives into their wider context, this lecture will ask why the partisan memorialisation of religious atrocity in Ireland has proved so exceptionally durable.
6pm to 7pm
BarbicanMore London events on Wednesday 1st April
Thursday 2nd April
This talk by Pete Smith tells the story of his close and often fraught collaboration with a range of talented artists, and points to the detailed clues in their illustrations that a modern reader might easily miss.
2pm to 3pm City of London
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Saturday 4th April
Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine.
2pm to 5pm Tooting
£18.50
London Coffee Festival
An event for discerning coffee lovers and those working in the coffee scene.
All Day WhitechapelMore London events on Saturday 4th April
Sunday 5th April
Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon.
All Day Croydon
There will be extensive bus displays, heritage bus trips and a huge selection of trade stalls.
10am to 5pm Weybridge
Open days usually feature the restored engines in operation, a light railway trip, and walks around the Victorian buildings.
10:30am to 4pm Abbey Wood
A monthly opening of the Victorian museum of industrial testing equipment.
11am to 5pm SouthwarkMonthly open day at Gatton Park, the core 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown.
1pm to 5pm Reigate
£18.50
London Coffee Festival
An event for discerning coffee lovers and those working in the coffee scene.
All Day WhitechapelMore London events on Sunday 5th April
Monday 6th April
In this talk Dr Sheila Kanani combines the story of a pioneering woman astronomer, with an account of the science behind comets, asteroids and meteors. This talk will end with a demonstration of how to make a comet model using kitchen ingredients.
1pm to 2pm BarbicanMore London events on Monday 6th April
Tuesday 7th April
At the fifth anniversary of the Easter burglary in 2015, the biggest in English legal history, we explore the drama including local links and colourful twists in the story.
6:30pm to 7:30pm Holloway
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Wednesday 8th April
£14.00
Power UP evening sessions
Play your way through 160 consoles, hundreds of video games and five decades of gaming history.
5pm to 6pm South KensingtonFor one night only, comedy and consoles collide for an evening of laughs and levelling-up.
6:15pm to 10pm South KensingtonMore London events on Wednesday 8th April
Good Friday
A full-scale re-enactment of The Passion of Jesus, performed in the shadow of the National Gallery.
12pm to : Trafalgar SquareMore London events on Friday 10th April
Tuesday 14th April
£14.00
Power UP evening sessions
Play your way through 160 consoles, hundreds of video games and five decades of gaming history.
5pm to 6pm South KensingtonThe first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.
7pm to 8:30pm Southwark
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Wednesday 15th April
£14.00
Power UP evening sessions
Play your way through 160 consoles, hundreds of video games and five decades of gaming history.
5pm to 6pm South KensingtonMore London events on Wednesday 15th April
Thursday 16th April
Live screening in the cinema of a David Attenborough documentary and Q&A.
7:10pm to : Barbican
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Saturday 18th April
Monthly tour of the former Inland Revenue offices, now a artists workshop.
Starts at 1:15pm Strand
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Sunday 19th April
£17.95
MG and British Marques Day
Alongside the special MG displays there will be a whole host of British built vehicles, from the pre-war Alvis, Norton and Sunbeam right through to the latest Jaguar model.
10am to 5pm Weybridge
Hear from the Jewish Council of Racial Equality (JCORE) as they explore the identity of minority communities in Britain and the potential for building bridges between these communities in an increasingly fractured world.
2pm to 3:30pm Camden
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Tuesday 21st April
Ceremonial military guns will go bang bang at the Tower of London and Hyde Park to mark HM The Queen’s Birthday.
12pm to 1:30pm
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Wednesday 22nd April
Free
Critical Thinking
This talk will explain how to discern what and who to trust, how to know whether evidence is causation or just a correlation, and how to overcome the temptation to accept views that we agree with.
6pm to 7pm BarbicanMore London events on Wednesday 22nd April
Thursday 23rd April
£10.00
Malcolm McLaren
On the tenth anniversary of the death of Malcolm McLaren, writer and cultural commentator Paul Gorman will talk about the ‘late cultural iconoclast’.
7:30pm to : Highgate
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Friday 24th April
Celebrate the life and significant contributions of Mollie Hunte to the Black community with key speakers throughout the day.
9:30am to 4:30pm Clerkenwell
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Occasional open day of the eclectically designed home of artist, Stephen Wright.
10am to 5pm East Dulwich
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Sunday 26th April
Occasional open day in the walled garden that houses the Kilmorey Mausoleum.
10am to 3pm Twickenham
A monthly open day at a quirky transport museum housed in an old water pumping building.
10am to 4pm Enfield Town
Discover the history of the building and climb the 135 stairs for the best view of Hackney.
2pm to 4:30pm HackneyMore London events on Sunday 26th April
Monday 27th April
This lecture will present the endeavours of cosmologists and particle physicists, as they attempt to explain the fundamental nature of these mysterious dark components.
1pm to 2pm BarbicanMore London events on Monday 27th April
Tuesday 28th April
The lecture will focus on a number of equations and algorithms which are making a profound difference to the way that we live.
1pm to 2pm BarbicanMore London events on Tuesday 28th April
Thursday 30th April
Watch a showing of the 1964 film, Becket in Southwark Cathedral while lit by candlelight.
7pm to 10pm Southwark
