What's on in London on Wednesday 22nd February 2023

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

The ianVisits guide to cheap and free things to do in London on Wednesday 22nd February.

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Top events in London on Wed 22nd Feb 2023

Hands on with history

Free

Get hands on with medical history at a lunchtime handling session.

12pm to 2pm

Camden

Evening tours of the Kirkaldy's Testing Works

£8.68

Tour David Kirkaldy's world-famous Testing & Experimenting Works for a taster evening tour.

5pm to 8pm

Southwark

This lecture will consider Wren’s contributions to astronomy and how Wren’s appreciation of and contributions to art and design, and science and engineering, were fully integrated in his life and made him a polymath on a par with Leonardo da Vinci.

6pm to 7pm

Tower Hill

Can design make the world a better place?

£13.50

In a world brimming with brands devoted to production and consumption and a design industry in service to the brands, how can design make a difference in a world beset with crises?

6:30pm to 8:30pm

City of London

Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon

Free Artists for democracy: 1974 - 1977

An exhibition and archival display exploring the 1970s art and activism of the collective organisation Artists For Democracy.

12pm to 5pm

Clerkenwell

Closing soon Sat, 11th March

£3 St Mary le Strand Speaks! Sound and Light Installation

The Church’s gold apse and white-flowered, coffered, ceiling, will be flooded with exploratory light and reverberate to the sublime sound of George Frederic Handel.

2pm to 4pm

Strand

Closing soon Thu, 23rd February

Free Art on paper since 1960 - the Hamish Parker collection

From Lucian Freud to Kiki Smith, life drawing to minimalism and etching to collage, this exhibition spans an intriguing range of styles and techniques used in art on paper from 1960 to today.

10am to 5pm

Russell Square

Closing soon Sat, 25th February

£16 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Fly In League With The Night

Tate Britain celebrates the return of Yiadom-Boakye's 2020 major survey which was sadly cut short by lockdown

10am to 6pm

Pimlico

Closing soon Sun, 26th February

Free Soheila Sokhanvari - Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran.

11am to 7pm

Barbican

Closing soon Sun, 26th February

£25.30 Permissible Beauty

An immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace brings past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st century.

10am to 4pm

East Molesey

Closing soon Sun, 26th February

Free The Remnants by Anton Alvarez

An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez

8am to 6pm

City of London

Closing soon Tue, 28th February

Free The Lost Rhino

This virtual rhino will be roaming in a digital world within the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery as part of a new art exhibition from artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

10am to 5:50pm

South Kensington

Closing soon Tue, 28th February

£8.50 SKINT: Cost of Living Creations with W. Heath Robinson

The Cost of Living Crisis has the whole of England feeling like we're living in a madhouse so we’re looking back to the master of wacky solutions W. Heath Robinson himself!

10:30am to 5:30pm

New Oxford Street

Closing soon Wed, 1st March

£13.13 To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts and the Supernatural

This exhibition examines Dickens’s interest in the paranormal, his ‘hankering after ghosts’, and how he became a master ghost story teller publishing over 20 spooky tales.