The ianVisits guide to cheap and free things to do in London on Saturday 8th May.
Top events in London on Sat 8th May 2021
Visit the garden surrounding the centre designed by world-famous Dutch Landscape Architect Piet Oudolf.
11am to 3:30pm
Belmont

Online events / webinars
Joanna Banham, freelance curator, lecturer and writer, will explore the history and production of Morris’s wallpaper.
3pm to :

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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
The first major survey of one of the most important painters working today

10am to 6pm
Pimlico
Ends on Sun 9th May
£14
Freud & Pandemic
This topical exhibition explores the similarities between Freud’s experience of the Spanish Flu and 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on mental health and the response by psychoanalysts.
10:30am to 5pm
Hampstead
Ends on Sun 9th May
The first exhibition to trace the history of photography as told through depictions of nature, revealing how the subject led to key advancements in the medium, from its very beginnings in 1840 to present day.

11am to 6pm
Dulwich
Ends on Sun 9th May
Free
Forest on Fire
The exhibition features a series of bronze-cast animal pelts and abstract, carved stone animal heads, supported by stone basins.
10am to 6pm
Forest Hill
Ends on Sat 15th May
The visual impact of Noël Coward’s life and work is celebrated in this major exhibition.
10:30am to 5pm
City of London
Ends on Sun 16th May
This exhibition explores a century of refugee experiences, from Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews and the Kindertransport, to the Calais Jungle and the treacherous Mediterranean crossings

10am to 6pm
Southwark
Ends on Mon 24th May
In this exhibition, a suggestion of haunting, or ghostliness, is manifested in a different way.
10am to 5:45pm
Mayfair
Ends on Sat 5th June
The Royal Society of Sculptors is showcasing the work of Naomi Blake FRBS with an outdoor exhibition on the sculpture terrace.

All Day
South Kensington
Ends on Sun 6th June
Explore some of the world's richest habitats, see fascinating animal behaviour and get to know some extraordinary species.

11am to 5:50pm
South Kensington
Ends on Sun 6th June
The exhibition presents a select sampling of Koraïchi’s works in different media created during this past year of global crisis.

12:30pm to 5:30pm
Clerkenwell
Ends on Sat 12th June
Regular Events - Saturday 8th May 2021
See a machine over 150 years old pull apart a piece of iron from end-to-end and celebrate the vision of a forgotten hero of engineering science.


Walking tours of London on Saturday 8th May 2021
£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


£15.00
Old Camden Town
A regular guided walk around the canals and heritage of Camden town.


£15.00
The Beatles Walks
A guided walk around the heart of Abbey Road looking out for Beatles memorabilia.


The London of a life steeped in equal measures of pleasure, controversy and disdain...


£15.00
Disastrous London
Bloody, Flaming, Poxy London. Plague, Fire & Revolution. The Black Death. Churchyards brimming with bodies. The harvest of Death. The zombie apocalypse – but for real.


£15.00
Ghosts of the Old City
At night the ancient City is deserted. And eerie. Explore its shadowy back streets and dimly lit alleys.

