What's on in London on Saturday 4th January 2025

Top events happening London

Discovery Day: Twelfth Night celebration

The Christmas holiday in the UK now lasts only two days and three nights, but in Tudor England and Wales everyone stopped work for 12 whole days and had fun along with the religious celebrations. On the final night they …

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Starts at 1:00pm
£10
Southwark

Croydonopolis: The Greatest City That Never Was

Croydonopolis: The Greatest City That Never WasWill Noble, author of ‘Croydonopolis’ and editor of Londonist, discusses how Croydon’s reputation as a ‘concrete hell’ belies a truly remarkable town.

Starts at 2:30pm
£3

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Photography versus?Thatcher: The Photo Co-op Archive prints and objects, 1979 to 1986

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 …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 4th Jan Closing Soon
Free
Stockwell

Huang Po-Chih: Waves

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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
Free
Hayward Gallery, Southwark

Haegue Yang: Leap Year

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. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£19
Hayward Gallery, Southwark

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum It Will End in Tears

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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

The Imaginary Institution of India Art 1975–1998

The Imaginary Institution of India Art 1975–1998A 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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£21.50
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre

Birds: Brilliant and BizarreUnravel 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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£16.50
Natural History Museum, South Kensington

The Art of Sidney H. Sime, Master of Fantasy

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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£6
Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner

Making Poetry: Astra Papachristodoulou

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 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection

Showcasing over 300 rare prints from 140 photographers, this exhibition is a major presentation of twentieth and twenty-first century photography on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Selected from their collection of over 7,000 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£20
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

Serial Killer: The Exhibition

Serial Killer: The ExhibitionSerial Killer: The Exhibition in London explores the Serial Killer phenomenon from a historical, educational, and scientific perspective. Learn about the most notorious criminals in history, analyse how investigative techniques have evolved, discover over 1000 original artefacts, and explore reconstructed …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th Jan Closing Soon
£25
Southwark

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