What's on in London on Sunday 24th November 2024

Top events happening London

Stir Up Sunday

The day when it is traditional to make the Christmas Pudding — assuming you don’t just buy one from the supermarket. Traditionally, families gather together in the kitchen of their homes to mix and steam Christmas pudding on Stir-up Sunday. …

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Start time to be confirmed
Free

Free entry to Hampton Court Palace gardens

The world-famous gardens of Hampton Court Palace include 60 acres of spectacular formal gardens and 750 acres (304 hectares) of parkland, all set within a loop of the River Thames. The gardens are home to a record-breaking grape vine, three …

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10:00am to 4:00pm
Free
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey

The London Gem & Mineral Show

The London Gem & Mineral Show is back and packed with fascinating highlights for geology enthusiasts, families, and anyone intrigued by the science of Earth’s treasures. This event is an immersive experience featuring rare fossils, stunning crystals, hands-on demonstrations, and …

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10:00am to 4:30am
£10.25
Esher

Chelsea Physic Garden Christmas Fair 2024

Browse over 100 stalls at this annual fair. Each day they’ll be running a raffle for the chance to win a hamper of Christmas food. Money raised from the Christmas Fair supports Chelsea Physic Garden in its mission to connect …

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10:00am to 4:00pm
£8
Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea

Dulwich College Christmas Fair

Annual Christmas fair held in the grounds of Dulwich College. The Friends of Dulwich College will be hosting the event in the iconic Barry Buildings, cloisters and courtyards. Father Christmas will be paying us a visit and there will be …

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10:30am to 3:30pm
£5
Dulwich

Monthly open day at The 1940s Experience

A WW2-era history attraction that’s open to the public once a month. What was once the WW2 operational headquarters of the United States Air Force 8th Fighter Command is today home to The 1940s Experience. The site offers rooms showing …

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10:30am to 4:00pm
£6
Watford

Danish Christmas Fair

Danish YWCA in London once again invites you to the Danish Christmas Market on November 23rd – 24th 2024. The market is a well-established tradition at the YWCA, bringing together around 2,000 people every year at our house in Hampstead …

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11:00am to 4:00pm
£2
Hampstead

Swedish Church's Christmas fair

Come and enjoy the traditional atmosphere with Swedish food and handcrafts. There will be gingerbread, delicatessen, glassware, homemade glogg, textiles, food & sweets, candles & Christmas cards and much more. This year they will be hosting the fair both outside …

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11:30am to 5:00pm
£3
Marylebone

Winter Open Studios 2024

Cockpit’s Winter Open Studios returns with a chance to meet and shop direct from over 175 artist-makers across two weekends in November (21-24 November in Bloomsbury and 29 November-1 December in Deptford).? Cockpit is an award-winning social enterprise and has …

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12:00pm to 6:00pm
£10
Clerkenwell

Monthly opening of St Augustine's Tower

Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine’s Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. It’s an old church clock tower, so expect lots of narrow winding stairs, several floors to rest, an old …

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2:00pm to 4:30pm
Free
Hackney

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Seven Pavilions of Love

This series of work is inspired by the Haft Paykar (The Seven Beauties), a romantic allegorical poem of the medieval period written by Persian poet Ni??m? Ganjav? in 1197. The 1995 English translation by Julie Scott Meisami, referred to by …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Kings Cross

Portals: An Exhibition by Artists with Experience of Homelessness & Poverty

The exhibition will be open to the public over two days and highlights the voices, stories and talents of artists with experience of homelessness and poverty. This collaborative, multimedia exhibition represents a passage to new spaces, be it through doorways, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

Samuel Nnorom: Multitude or Minority

Following the artist being named the inaugural winner of M&C Saatchi Group Art for Change Prize in 2022, Saatchi Gallery, M&C Saatchi Group and Tiwani Contemporary are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the emerging Nigerian artist …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

The Walls Between Us

“Home is a place, a site in which we live… an idea, an imaginary that is imbued with feelings of belonging, desire and intimacy…of violence, fear and alienation” (Home, Blunt & Dowling). The Walls Between Us, explores the complex notion …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 25th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston

An exhibition celebrating the very best of art and literature by the Bloomsbury group, with works for sale alongside loans from the collection at Charleston, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The Bloomsbury group was a circle of …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 26th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Sotheby's, New Oxford Street

Journey to the West: Art by Kaler Q Huang

Journey to the West presents a new series of paintings weaving together archival images of the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War, literary references, and biblical stories. Paintings on silk, porcelain sculptures and watercolour studies question how labour …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 27th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

Camden Highline WIP

Camden Highline WIP offers a behind-the-scenes look at the charity transforming a disused railway line into a new urban green space for London, through the lens of local documentary photographer, Paul Romans. Paul is a local photographer who been following …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 28th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

The Black Dog: Crypt Residency

In British folklore, the Black Dog acts as a revenant: resurfacing again and again throughout our history. The Dog appears in many forms, categorised by folklorist Theo Brown as: The Barguest, a shapeshifter, ominous and belligerent, often connected with burial-sites …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 30th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023

This exhibition explores the evolution of London’s Tube system and the iconic London Underground map over 160 years. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see and purchase hand-drawn and annotated manuscripts by Harry Beck on the 50th anniversary of …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 30th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Chelsea

In Focus: The Flying Nightingales

This exhibition tells the stories of the ordinary women, trained in the nursing style of Florence Nightingale, who were thrust into the arena of war during D-Day. During the War, the Royal Air Force Air Ambulance Unit – dubbed the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 30th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
£12
Florence Nightingale Museum, Southwark

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