What's on in London on Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Top events happening London

Lindley Live - Digging for Victory: How to Feed the Nation

Discover how the RHS led the Dig for Victory campaign during World War Two, with a free 15 minute show and tell. This week we explore the pamphlets and photography which helped to feed a nation at war, and encouraged …

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1:15pm to 1:30pm
Free
Pimlico

Reading Stories in Stone: Historic Graffiti in English Churches

Historic graffiti often found on the walls of medieval churches. Have you ever seen scratches on an old wall and wondered what they mean? Historic graffiti, often found on the walls of medieval churches, serve as a fascinating time capsule …

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2:00pm to 3:00pm
Free
City of London

Mary Neal and the suffragettes who saved Morris dancing - a Camden story

Historian and author, Kathy Atherton, tells the surprising story of how the Esperance Girls’ Club, formed in the slums of Camden by two leaders of the militant ‘suffragette’ movement, saved the dances of the countryside from extinction. The Esperance dancers …

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Starts at 6:00pm
Free
Farringdon

Lindley Late - Urban Gardening Club: Creating Your Houseplant Haven

How can you create an indoor green sanctuary? Join our houseplant experts as they explore the highs and lows of indoor gardening, and share their experiences and advice to help you achieve your houseplant haven. We will be talking about …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
£10
Pimlico

The undesirables

Hear from author Sarah Wise as she launches her latest book, The Undesirables, which explores the history of the incarceration of people labelled with a new diagnosis – moral imbecility – and therefore deemed ‘undesirable’ by the state.  Book description Through the early twentieth …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
Free
LSE Library, Holborn

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Falmouth University Exhibition: 24 Hours in Bethnal Green

Documentary and Editorial BA Students from Falmouth University will be making Oxford House their home for a week leading up to their annual photography exhibition. Students will be documenting the hidden life of Bethnal Green over the course of a …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 26th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
West Norwood

When Marianne and Britannia Meet

An exhibition marking the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France. Tracing the history of the Entente Cordiale agreements and their global repercussions, the exhibition brings together for the first time, or reunites, archives of great historical …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 27th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
South Kensington

Zheng Bo: Bamboo as Method

A large scale new commission from Hong-Kong based artist Zheng Bo, transforming Somerset House’s courtyard into a bamboo garden. This site specific and participatory installation creates a place for contemplation and serves as a reminder of the restorative qualities of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Somerset House, Strand

1001 Days in London

London is a vast, complex and continually evolving city: It has an extraordinary history, global communities and cultures, and an apparently limitless supply of creative ingenuity. This exhibition at gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, is street photographer Steve Hollingshead’s attempt to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Hampton Court Palace Tulip Festival

UPDATE – closing date brought forward to 29th April 2024. Be astonished as over 100,000 tulip bulbs erupt in colour in one of the UK’s biggest display of planted tulips. Now open seven days a week, celebrate the start of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£29
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey

The Cult of Beauty

This exhibition explores notions of beauty across time and cultures. Around the world, beauty is constantly seen as an ideal worthy of going to great lengths to achieve. But what are the driving forces that lead us to believe in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Umbro 100: Sportswear x Fashion

Over the last century, sportswear has evolved from its functional, athletic, and sporting roots to become the daily uniform for billions of people around the world. Founded in 1924, the British company Umbro has been central to this revolution. Today …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

The Pillars of Our Latex House

The Pillars of Our Latex House: A thanks to the gutta-percha tree and to those who keep it. As one of the first pilots in the Artcast4D project, artist, Tendayi Vine explores the identity of the gutta-percha tree – as …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Brentford

When Forms Come Alive

Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth. Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th May 2024 Closing Soon
£21
Hayward Gallery, Southwark

Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s

A rich diversity of artistic approaches existed in Brazil in the decades around the mid-twentieth century, after the first modernist wave had settled. This exhibition finds conversations between various forms of abstraction, symbolism and figuration that were circulating and interacting …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

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