What's on in London on Saturday 27th April 2024

Top events happening London

Chelsea Physic Garden Plant Festival

The Chelsea Physic Garden will have over 30 stalls selling plants, which gives you both a chance to buy a plant and to visit the Physic Garden for free. Choose from succulents in decorative pots, outdoor plants or houseplants – …

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10:00am to 5:00pm
Free
Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea

W.A.S.D

If you’re committed to playing PC, console or tabletop games; it’s for you. If you like quirky indie games; it’s for you. If you’re a developer of games; it’s for you. If you want to study games; it’s for you. …

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10:00am to 6:00pm
£22
Whitechapel

Quaggy Quilters Exhibition

An exhibition of quilts to celebrate this SE London quilting group’s 25th anniversary. An exhibition of quilts made by a group of quilters based in SE London. The venue is the Grade II listed St Margaret’s Church. There will be …

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10:30am to 4:00pm
£4.00
Lewisham

An Evening with Rough Trade Books

The counter-cultural publishing house presents an evening of eclectic authors, artists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Sheena Patel and Musa Okwonga. Bringing together some of the most exciting talent in literature, music and art, this evening of culture curated by …

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Starts at 7:30pm
£28.50
Southbank Centre, Southwark

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

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

Sony World Photography Awards 2024 Exhibition

The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition returns to Somerset House this April, bringing extraordinary images – from luscious landscapes to impressive architecture, striking street shots to moving documentary projects – to an iconic location. The various presentations will showcase photographs …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 6th May 2024 Closing Soon
£15
Strand

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