What's on in London on Sunday 6th October 2024

Top events happening London

Lambeth Open Studios

Artists and crafts people across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Visitors will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and exhibition spaces for a unique personal insight into the …

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10:00am to 6:00pm
Free

Japan Matsuri 2024

An annual festival of Japanese culture and food held in Trafalgar Square. Since its inception in 2009, Japan Matsuri has grown from a small cultural event to a full-blown festival that attracts thousands of visitors every year. Originally held in …

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10:00am to 7:00pm
Free
Trafalgar Square, Trafalgar Square

Apple Day

Fulham Palace welcomes guests to enjoy a variety of apple-themed activities, entertainment and treats. Join the Palace’s garden team for guided tours of the historic walled garden and orchard. Discover and sample the unique heritage apple varieties grown at Fulham …

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11:00am to 6:00pm
£3
Fulham Palace, Fulham

Monthly open day at Shirley Windmill

One of only four windmills open to the public in Greater London, Shirley Windmill is a Tower Mill, built in 1854 by Richard Alwen to replace an earlier (1808) timber post-mill on this site, lost by fire. It ceased working …

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12:00pm to 5:00pm
Free
Croydon

Hampstead Heath conker championships

The world famous, world record-breaking Hampstead Heath Conker Championships at the Parliament Hill Bandstand. The Championships will include the all-important conker competition (age categories for under 8s, 8-12s, 13-17s and adults), culminating in the final face-offs in front of the …

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12:30pm to 2:00pm
Free
Kentish Town

Ethical Matters: Public Art and Resistance in the City

What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? In this Ethical Matters talk, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter explores public art, citizenship, and the city today. His book, ‘Monumental Graffiti’ unpacks today’s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as …

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3:00pm to 4:30pm
£10
Holborn

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Absolut Warhol: The Other Half

This exhibition features the works of five diverse artists from various creative disciplines, who have been given the opportunity to showcase their work in the Saatchi Gallery. Inspired by a newly discovered Andy Warhol painting featured on the 2024 Limited …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

Vanessa Bell (1879 -1961) was one of the leading artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group, the avant-garde community of artists, writers and philosophers who pioneered literary and artistic modernism in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. This focused …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£17
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

New life: Rembrandt and children

Discover an intimate drawing of a sleeping child, the first work by Rembrandt to be added to the British Museum collection for decades. The drawing by the renowned 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt had been in private collections for over 200 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography

For centuries, portraiture has played a vital role in shaping the public’s perception of the Royal Family. Over the past 100 years, no artistic medium has had a greater impact on the royal image than photography. Royal Portraits: A Century …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£19
The King's Gallery, Whitehall

Root & Branch - the origins of the Probation Service

Did you know the forerunner of the modern Probation Service was set up in the police courts of Victorian London with a donation of just five shillings? You can learn about this and much more about the foundation and development …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 8th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House, Moorgate

Congregation, a choral installation, by Es Devlin

Over the past four months, Es Devlin has been making large scale chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who have experienced forced displacement from their homelands. The drawings will be presented as a monumental projection-mapped tiered structure within the …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 9th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Strand

Michael Ormerod: Vanishing Point

The first exhibition on this unique photographer for almost 20 years. Michael Ormerod (1947-1991) was a British photographer with a distinctive and powerful voice, whose career was tragically cut short on August 7th 1991 in a road accident on his …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 9th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

The Art of the Game

An exhibition of luxury chess sets. The blurb sayth: "The Art of the Games how cases not only these stunning chess sets but also includes a selection of paintings and drawings by participating artists, including Sophie Matisse – great-granddaughter of …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 12th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Marylebone

20 Behind The Boosh '20'

Celebrating 20 years from when The Mighty Boosh first appeared on TV with intimate unseen photographs by Dave Brown. "It’s been a while since I showed some Behind The Boosh pics to the UK fans! It’s gonna be great to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Islington

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1920

This ambitious group show charts women’s road to being recognised as professional artists, a 400-year journey which paved the way for future generations and established what it meant to be a woman in the British art world. The exhibition covers …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Tate Britain, Pimlico

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