What's on in London on Wednesday 1st January 2025
Top events happening London
New Year's Day paradeMore than 8,000 performers, representing 20 nations, will fill the West End with culture, colour, entertainment, and music. The route runs from Piccadilly to Parliament Square, via Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. You are recommended to arrive early (by …
Starts at 11:00amFree
More than 8,000 performers, representing 20 nations, will fill the West End with culture, colour, entertainment, and music. The route runs from Piccadilly to Parliament Square, via Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. You are recommended to arrive early (by …
New Year's Whistle-Up
Hundreds of trains across the UK will sound their horns and whistles at noon on New Years Day to mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway.
11:55am to 12:05pmFreeNorth Weald
Hundreds of trains across the UK will sound their horns and whistles at noon on New Years Day to mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway.
Ten exhibitions that are closing soon
Winter Wonderbrands
Feeling nostalgic for Christmas presents past? Visit our Time Tunnel to unwrap the gift of memory this winter! Explore your favourite classic and contemporary household packaging, toys, magazines, wartime ephemera, technology, travel, fashion and royal souvenirs. Take a stroll through …
Exhibition ends on Thursday 2nd Jan Closing Soon£10Notting Hill
Feeling nostalgic for Christmas presents past? Visit our Time Tunnel to unwrap the gift of memory this winter! Explore your favourite classic and contemporary household packaging, toys, magazines, wartime ephemera, technology, travel, fashion and royal souvenirs. Take a stroll through …
Tom Stoddart – LegacyAn exhibition by the award winning photojournalist show casing twenty-five images from across his legendary career. — In a career punctuated with awards, not all his work was in war zones, catastrophes or crises. He photographed royals, prime ministers, world …
Exhibition ends on Thursday 2nd Jan Closing SoonFreeMayfair
An exhibition by the award winning photojournalist show casing twenty-five images from across his legendary career. — In a career punctuated with awards, not all his work was in war zones, catastrophes or crises. He photographed royals, prime ministers, world …
Photography versus?Thatcher: The Photo Co-op Archive prints and objects, 1979 to 1986Photography versus Thatcher: The Photo Co-op Archive, prints and objects, 1979 to 1986 – Photofusion’s origin story tells the story of the early years of the Photo Co-op, the founding organisation which later grew into Photofusion. This exhibition features vintage …
Exhibition ends on Saturday 4th Jan Closing SoonFreeStockwell
Photography versus Thatcher: The Photo Co-op Archive, prints and objects, 1979 to 1986 – Photofusion’s origin story tells the story of the early years of the Photo Co-op, the founding organisation which later grew into Photofusion. This exhibition features vintage …
Huang Po-Chih: WavesTaiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia. — Drawing upon his family heritage – particularly his mother’s experiences as a garment worker in …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing SoonFreeHayward Gallery, Southwark
Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia. — Drawing upon his family heritage – particularly his mother’s experiences as a garment worker in …
Haegue Yang: Leap YearA world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions. — Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range of media – from paper collage to performative sculpture and immense sensorial installations. …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon£19Hayward Gallery, Southwark
A world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions. — Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range of media – from paper collage to performative sculpture and immense sensorial installations. …
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum It Will End in TearsIn her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings. Enter a world of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s creation in ‘It Will …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing SoonFreeBarbican Arts Centre, Barbican
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings. Enter a world of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s creation in ‘It Will …
The Imaginary Institution of India Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years. Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India’s history: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon£21.50Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years. Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India’s history: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of …
Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre
Unravel the epic story of birds, discover the secrets to their success and learn some of their surprising and often shocking tactics for survival. Birds are the soundtrack to our mornings, they soar through our skies and swoop around our …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon£16.50Natural History Museum, South Kensington
Unravel the epic story of birds, discover the secrets to their success and learn some of their surprising and often shocking tactics for survival. Birds are the soundtrack to our mornings, they soar through our skies and swoop around our …
The Art of Sidney H. Sime, Master of FantasySidney Sime was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist. He was born in 1867 in Manchester to a poor family. He worked in the coal mines as a boy, then for a linen draper and a barber, before taking up sign …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon£6Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner
Sidney Sime was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist. He was born in 1867 in Manchester to a poor family. He worked in the coal mines as a boy, then for a linen draper and a barber, before taking up sign …
Making Poetry: Astra PapachristodoulouExplore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared participatory experiences, and present alternative ways for poetry to exist today. New commissions as …
Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing SoonFreeSouthwark
Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared participatory experiences, and present alternative ways for poetry to exist today. New commissions as …