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2026: LONDON's BOOKFAIR (July) CRAFT/ART FAIRs (May) AUTHORs/BOOKs (April) PLAY (March) linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyLDN: WANDSWORTH SOUTHWARK LAMBETH GREENWICH Camden Ealing Hackney Hammersmith/Fulham Islington Kensington/Chelsea Lewisham Tower Hamlets Westminster
(cont. til Aug 1, Sat, 3pm + 7.30pm) ASCEND FinboroughTheatre.co.uk STAIRS to take your SEAT for LRproductions.co.uk / Liz Richardson's IMPRESSIVE solo show, LOCAL: a moving, multimedia JOURNEY through MEMORIES and rural CUMBRIA A: £29, £27 (concession) L: Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Rd, SW10
July 24, Fri., 11-6 IN COLLABORATION with TheSpace.hu - LAST DAY for CENTRAL LONDON's "Towards the Centre - Hommage à Reigl" - 18 ARTISTS inc. HorvathLoczi.com, on 4th floor GALLERY near TRAFALGAR SQUARE L: Liszt Institute, 17-19 Cockspur St, London, SW1Y 5BL T: Charing Cross W: culture.hu/uk/london
July 4, Sat., 10am-10pm | July 5, Sun., 1pm-10pm | last entry: 9.30pm LAST WEEKEND to board LOGOS HOPE ship, docked in EAST LONDON, featuring WORLD's LARGEST floating BOOK FAIR, selling 5,000+ TITLES, for all ages A: £1 L: Excel London Waterfront, E16 1XL T: Custom House W: gbaships.org/en/logoshope
(cont. til May 17, Sun., 11am-6pm) THRICE-YEARLY DecorativeFair.com (with 90+ EXHIBITORS) wonderfully displays ANTIQUE art, furniture, lighting, textiles for INTERIOR DECORATION A: £10 / free after 4pm L: Evolution London, Chelsea Bridge Gate, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ W: instagram.com/decorativefair
(cont. til May 15, Fri, 9.30am-6pm | #LCW2026 til May 17, Sun) 300+ EVENTS for LondonCraftWeek.com inc. Illuminating Worlds: Light as Storytelling EXHIBITION of HAND-CRAFTED LAMPSHADES at ChristopherFarrCloth.com SHOWROOM, beside bus stop A: Free B: 11, 22 L: 585 Kings Rd, SW6 2EH T: Fulham Broadway
(cont. until May 10, Sun, 10-6) BEFORE LondonCraftWeek.com ... CERAMICS UNBOUND within HAMPSTEAD HEATH's AffordableArtFair.com, with 107 GALLERIES + FREE SHUTTLE BUS A: £16 (concs. £14) T: Hampstead L: Lower Fairground Site, NW3 1TH W: facebook.com/AffordableArtFair instagram.com/affordableartfairuk
Apr 29, Wed > May 3, Sun BOOK TALKS and GUIDED WALKS in five-day EALING BOOK FESTIVAL at uwl.ac.uk, questors.org.uk and pitzhanger.org.uk starting with AUTHORS JungChang.net and @anthonyhorowitz.com A: £15, £13 (u25, stud.) B: 65 T: South Ealing W: EalingBookFestival.com linktr.ee/ealingbookfestival
(cont. until Apr 19: Sat-Sun 3pm; Tue-Sat 7.30pm) "THE OLD LADIES," at FinboroughTheatre.co.uk, starring Catherine Cusack, Abigail Thaw and Julia Watson A: £33 £29 £25 + conc L: 118 Finborough Rd, SW10 9ED T: Earl's Court or West Brompton W: @finboroughtheatre.bsky.social instagram.com/oldladies2026
Mar 15, Sun, 12pm-6pm LewishamIrish.org.uk and BEXLEYHEATH's IrishCommunityServices.org amongst ORGANISATIONS taking part in PARADE, from GREEN PARK to TRAFALGAR SQUARE, for LONDON ST PATRICK's FESTIVAL A: Free T: Piccadilly Circus W: instagram.com/stpatsdayldn facebook.com/KerryAssociationLondon1
(cont. until Jan 25, Sun, 11am-5pm) LondonArtFair.co.uk RETURNS to ISLINGTON with 100 GALLERIES + "ENCOUNTERS", SPONSORS + PARTNERS, inc. MUSEUM + DESTINATION partners: NationalTrust.org.uk and VisitTampaBay.com L: Business Design Centre, London, N1 0QH T: Angel W: instagram.com/londonartfair #LAF26
(cont. until Dec 6, Sat, 2.30pm & 7.30pm) BEFORE reading "THE WEIR," from NickHernBooks.co.uk (NHB), catch TheWeirPlay.com STORYTELLERS at HaroldPinterTheatre.co.uk A: from £22, book: £10.99 B: 9 12 23 88 139 159 453 L: 6 Panton St, SW1 T: Piccadilly Circus W: #TheWeirPlay @nickhernbooks.bsky.social
Nov 14, Fri, 7.15pm > Nov 21, Fri, 7pm WEEK-LONG "EARL'S COURT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" / FilmEarlsCourt.com SCREENINGS at SohoScreeningRooms.co.uk (14/11), TroubadourLondon.com (18/11) + SaintCuthbert.org (21/11). Also, Electric White City (17/11) + Kensington Central Library (20/11) W: #eciff
(continues until Nov 9, Sun, 11-6pm) WimbledonArtFair.com at WimbledonArtStudios.co.uk offers FREE ENTRY to SEVERAL FLOORS of VARIOUS-SIZED STUDIOS showing WIDE RANGE of ART B: 44, 77, 270, 493 L: 10 Riverside Yard, London, SW17 0BB T: Tooting Broadway #WimbledonArtFair facebook.com/wimbledonartfair
(cont. until Nov 6, Thu, 9.30am-5pm) EXCEL.london hosts WTM.com, with NUMEROUS Tourism Orgs (eg ANDALUCIA.org, ITALIA.it) plus TRENDFEST (food, etc) T: Custom House (Elizabeth Line and DLR) L: 1 Western Gateway, E16 1XL W: #WTMLDN threads.com/@wtmlondon instagram.com/wtmlondon facebook.com/wtmlondon
VERY IMPRESSED with wide-ranging age groups participating in the AAF: established artists; graduates + children. Also, the fact that FIVE Seoul galleries (ArtIACO.com + Gallery Cube Seoul [both pictured], Gallery Millcreek, GalleryTableau.com + MookjiArt.com) had travelled all the way from Korea!
(cont. til Oct 19, Sun, 10-6) FREE SHUTTLE BUS to/from AffordableArtFair.com (charity partner: TheChildrensTrust.org.uk) hosting 114 GALLERIES from 17 COUNTRIES + Kids' Creative Corner at BATTERSEA PARK's EvolutionLondon.com T (for bus): Sloane Square L: SW11 4NJ W: instagram.com/affordableartfairuk
Oct, 14, Tue, online bids until 3pm-5.30pm WINTER AUCTION with 518 LOTS for ART ON A POSTCARD at BombFactory.org.uk B: 18 27 L: 206 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 6JQ W: facebook.com/ArtonaPostcard instagram.com/artonapostcard linktr.ee/artonapostcard Register/bid: uk.givergy.com/WinterAuction2025 #aoap
Oct 11, Sat, 11-6 > Oct 12, Sun, 11-6 ArtistsOpenHouse.co.uk across WANDSWORTH reveals 200 ARTISTS. Find two of them, Sarah and Rosi, at THE GREEN ROOM (opp. tube station) L: 253 Wimbledon Park Road, SW19 6NW W: instagram.com/sarah_donlan instagram.com/rosigarciadelrio instagram.com/artistsopenhouse
Oct 8, Wed. > Oct 19, Sun. BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL with SCREENINGS at 20 UK VENUES, inc. SouthbankCentre.co.uk, Rambert.org.uk, PrinceCharlesCinema.com, MyVue.com, ICA.art, Curzon.com A: £13-£18, £10-£12 (conc.), etc. L: BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX N: 020 7928 3232 (10am-9.30pm) W: bfi.org.uk/lff #LFF
(cont. til Oct 2, Thu) TheExhibitionistHotel.com hosts YulaStudio.com, KatVandalArt.com, AnnaMurphyArt.com, etc, for 12th ArtGeminiPrize.com EXHIBITION: 30+ ceramics, oils, photos, sculptures... T: South Kensington W: instagram.com/artgeminiprize instagram.com/the_exhibitionist_hotel #ArtGeminiPrize
(cont. til Sep 28, Sun, 11-5) BritishArtFair.co.uk brings DOZENS of GALLERIES (viewable across THREE LARGE SaatchiGallery.com FLOORS) to CHELSEA for FOUR DAYS A: £25, £22 conc. B: 11 19 22 211 319 L: British Art Fair, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, SW3 4RY T: Sloane Sq W: instagram.com/britishartfair
Sep 21, Sun, 11am-5pm ON LAST DAY OF 18th ShoreditchDesignTriangle.com, SIT UPON HIGHGATE HIGH BARSTOOL (AT SHOREDITCH's TamartDesign.com LOUNGE BAR) TO VIEW SHORT FILM B: 135, 205 L: Tamart, WAX, 4 Garden Walk, EC2A 3EQ T: Old Street W: instagram.com/tamart.designs instagram.com/shoreditchdt #SDT25
Sep 19, Fri, 9.30-5.30pm LAST DAY OF, "FOCUS/25 ON DESIGN," WITH TOURS AND EVENTS, PLUS POP-UPS AND 100+ DESIGN SHOWROOMS, FEATURING INTERIORS AND DECORATIVE BRANDS FROM UK, ITALY, FRANCE, ETC. B: C3 L: Design Centre, Lots Rd, London, SW10 0XE T: Imperial Wharf W: dcch.co.uk linktr.ee/designcentrech
Weds, from Sep 3, 7.30pm-10.30pm NEW VENUE FOR WEEKLY CEROC DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER's inc.) A: £12 before 9pm, £10 after B: 46, 214 L: Edith Neville School, Purchese Street entrance, NW1 1RW T: St. Pancras W: ceroc.com EdithNeville.camden.sch.uk facebook.com/CerocLondon instagram.com/ceroclondon
Aug 31, Sun, 9am-6pm > Sep 1, Mon, 9am-5pm ENJOY TWO-DAY TRADE EVENT, THE JEWELLERY SHOW @jewelleryshowuk.bsky.social L: Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd, London, W14 T: Kensington Olympia W: TheJewelleryShow.co.uk linkedin.com/company/the-jewellery-show facebook.com/jewelleryshowuk #JewelleryShowUK
Jul 18, Fri, 12-8pm > Jul 20, Sun, 11-4pm FluxExhibition.com CONTINUES AT BombFactory.org.uk -- 70 ARTISTS, INC. BATEY (APPLES/ORBS), CGAYAS (LANDSCAPES) + LI (PHOTOGRAPHY) A: Free B: 113 139 189 205 274 L: 206 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 6JQ T: Baker Street W: bateyart.com cgayas.com plipictures.com
July 12, Sat, 10am-6pm WHITNEY HOUSTON TRIBUTE, more ENTERTAINMENT + SHOPS at SUMMER FESTIVAL, near NEW WETHERSPOON PUB in FULHAM A: Free B: 14 28 211 295 306 L: North End Rd Market, SW6 1NW Walham Green, 472 Fulham Rd, SW6 1BY T: Fulham Broadway W: lbhf.gov.uk/ner-summer-festival jdwetherspoon.com
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June 19, Thu, 4.45pm for 6.15pm ESSEX's TURN, AS VITALITY BLAST TWENTY20 CRICKET LEAGUE CONTINUES AT LORD's, AGAINST MIDDLESEX (WITH BATTER, KANE WILLIAMSON, FROM NEW ZEALAND) A: £38, £29 (u25), £7 (u16) B: 13, 113, 139, 189 L: Lord's Cricket Ground, London, NW8 8QN T: St John's Wood W: lords.org
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