What's on in London on Friday 20th September 2024

Top events happening London

Getting Them Home: The Flying Nightingales

Dr Emily Mayhew tells the remarkable story of the Flying Nightingales, a group of nurses who flew across the Channel to help evacuate injured soldiers from the beaches of Normandy. The D-Day landings are rightly seen as a huge success …

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12:00pm to 1:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Cycleways, maps and routes Transport for London

Meet the team behind Transport for London’s digital experience and award-winning TfL Go app. ‘Cycleways, maps and routes’ is an exhibition and design tour exploring how data and design are used to develop digital features for cycling in London.

2:00pm to 6:00pm
Free
South Kensington

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Sign Painting Studio with artist Peter Liversidge

The Sign Painting Studio is a working studio at the RCN where the artist keeps the same hours as the institution, painting signs and sharing information with visitors to the space on Cavendish Square. For one week, visitors to the …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 20th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Harley Street

Homelessness: Reframed

Presented in collaboration with Prince William’s Homewards programme and Eleven Eleven Foundation this exhibition brings to life the breadth and complexities of homelessness across the country and give people an opportunity to engage with, and better understand, the stories of …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 20th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Peter Hedegaard | 1960s & 1970s screenprints

Rocket presents a mini-retrospective of Screenprints that celebrates the collaboration between the artist Peter Hedegaard and his wife Isolde who together produced over 50 editions from 1965 to 1976. Peter Hedegaard (1929-2008) was born in Copenhagen but came to England …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 21st Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Hackney

Raise the Roof

See new creative works that unpack narratives of gender, race and imperialism at 66 Portland Place. Opened in 1934, when the modern architectural profession was being forged, RIBA’s Grade II* listed home can tell us a lot about the values …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 21st Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Regent Street

Hudood: Rethinking boundaries

The exhibition introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of "Boundaries" as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the SWANA region. Delving into the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 21st Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
SOAS Gallery, Euston

Wallace Sewell & Fred Ingrams Exhibition

Discover the artist whose colourful paintings have inspired this season’s new Wallace Sewell A/W2024 scarf collection. The in-store launch will display original paintings by Fred Ingrams alongside the new textiles, detailing the creative process of its design team. Wallace Sewell …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 21st Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Farringdon

Hawksmoor6

This exhibition shows photohgraphs of six Hawksmoor churches that have survived over the past 300 years, in sharp contrast to so many of Christopher Wren’s masterpieces which have been lost. A new film for the exhibition includes an interview with …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 21st Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Michael Rosen: The Illustrators

Michael Rosen’s children’s writing has delighted generations – and this exhibition journeys through his life and career via a selection of original illustrations from his books. The exhibition features work by 14 artists across a wide range of mediums including …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 22nd Sep 2024 Closing Soon
£6
Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner

Art Without Heroes: Mingei

This is the most wide-ranging exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement that developed in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. With works including ceramics, woodwork, paper, toys, textiles, photography and film, the exhibition will incorporate …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 22nd Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

An exhibition about an architectural style developed in the 1940s and adopted after independence by India and Ghana as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture. In the late 1940s, British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 22nd Sep 2024 Closing Soon
£14
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

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